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Help to export *.csv to ma contacts

Hi! i am just a new user of a qtek s100 phone(the greek jam). Before s100, i had a Nokia 6630 phone. While i had n6630, i wanted to backup ma contacts and i did it. i back up ma contacts with a symbian program (n6630=symbian system) called contacts manager. Contact manager created an *.csv file with ma contacts in there.
Now i have the s100, i cant find a way,program etc to export ma contacts from the *.csv file to ma device.
is there an application for PPC that can import the *.csv file to ma contacts??
PLZ any info Will Help A Lot!!! Confused Confused

mega sorry for the double posting but i am in real neeed! i must find as soon as possible an application or a way to make outlook read ma *.csv file!
emm how about opening the *.csv file i have now copy the contacts and paste them in another *.csv file? whould that work?? how will i do sth like that??

I don't know if you can import from CSV file, but what if you use your old phone to import them to your sim and use Sim manager to import them to your new phone?

Import Symbian Contacts to WM5 device
JuNiOr_Gr said:
Hi! i am just a new user of a qtek s100 phone(the greek jam). Before s100, i had a Nokia 6630 phone. While i had n6630, i wanted to backup ma contacts and i did it. i back up ma contacts with a symbian program (n6630=symbian system) called contacts manager. Contact manager created an *.csv file with ma contacts in there.
Now i have the s100, i cant find a way,program etc to export ma contacts from the *.csv file to ma device.
is there an application for PPC that can import the *.csv file to ma contacts??
PLZ any info Will Help A Lot!!! Confused Confused
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Hi JuNiOr_Gr, I guess my reply is too late for you, my friend, but I will post my solution on importing all the contacts to a WM5 device anyways. And perhaps, it will be much of use for others who face the same problem.
Unfortunately Outlook import/synchronizing did not work for my ex-Nokia 6680. The PPCBckpContacts, svCard, Contacts Transfer programs did not help me at all; only hours of waisted time.
What I did was accidentally found and suprisingly it worked well while I was trying to fall in sleep (ha-ha-ha) .
On your Symbian device, create an e-mail account with whatever settings. Next, go to your contacts list, select all, and... select the options menu "send by e-mail". Symbian will prepare a *.vcf file for each contact and then attach all of them to your newly created e-mail message. Please be patient if you have many contacts as I did; the process takes some time and my phone needed approximately 5 minutes to process all 300 contacts. When you have e-mail message ready, waiting for the e-mail address and subject, close it by saving to Drafts Folder.
Now, go to your file manager (I used Smart File Manager), and search for all *.vcf file in your "Mail" folder (it could be on C: or E: drives, depending were you keep your messages). After the program found your all *.vcf contact files, select them all and send it through Bluetooth to your WM5 device. All you have to do is just press "Save All" on your WM5 device several times, but it is much more easier than adding all contacts by hand, right?!
FYI, I did little different then written above, because all messages were saved on MMC. So I took it out and put in my PC card reader, searched and separated all *.vcf files to a separate folder. Copied the created folder back to MMC, put the MMC back in the phone, and with FileMan sent everything via Bluetooth to my HTC TyTN.
Now I have all the contacts in place, without any losses.
Cheers to you all!!!

Importing Contacts K750i>VPA

Hi,
I have a Sony K750i and I want to import my contacts into my new phone, VPA 1605/Compact III.
The problem I face is that when I transfer from my contacts on my sim (using the VPA's built in sim manger) it creates the contacts as single entries into my contact list, for all the different classes of contacts. IE Mobile/Home/Office etc etc.
It lists my contacts as:
Mr XYZ/m
Mr XYZ/h
Mr XYZ/o
This is a pain and not much use to me.
I can however beam my contacts one by one using Infrared. It transfers the contact as a .vcf and retains the format. But that's real slow when you have lots of contacts.
I also tried bluetooth and could not transfer contacts from K750i>VPA, but could transfer contacts from VPA>K750i. hmmm? Weird! Is there a problem with bluetooth when transfering contacts?
Surely there must be a way of transfering my contacts into the VPA and keep the correct format?
Does anyone else have this problem?
What about a third party phone manager that sits on a PC and can transfer contacts?
I'm at a loss on this one.
TIA

Try Mobile Master Professional, www.mobile-master.com. It can sync the K750i with Outlook and then you can sync Outlook with your Pocket PC.

i copied all my contacts from k750i as vcf files (using fma phone manager software) then added all contacts into a zip file, sent zip file to tytn, unzipped file on tytn and saved to contacts.
that way you can get all of your contacts across in one go! simple!
hope it helps!

Thank You
Thank you for your help.
I can't find the Contacts folder on the VPA Phone.
Using the inbuilt file manager.
TIA

not sure about your phone, but on the tytn it asks if you want to save to contacts when you unzip...

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Hmm I get the picture..now! lol
But how do I get rid of the contacts I don't want that was created by the importing of the sim.
Apart from deleting them one at time.
I have found a couple of database editors, but can't find one for WM5
Grrrrrrrrr
EDIT - SOLUTION! :idea:
delete the pim.vol at the root and soft reset your phone. This creates a blank contacts database file. Pim.vol also stores your Appointments, so if you delete it you will loose those as well.
Hope this helps someone.
Thanks to all that helped. :lol:

bigshape said:
i copied all my contacts from k750i as vcf files (using fma phone manager software) then added all contacts into a zip file, sent zip file to tytn, unzipped file on tytn and saved to contacts.
that way you can get all of your contacts across in one go! simple!
hope it helps!
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it need to click on every VCF file - in a case of hundrets of contacts this would be inconvenient.
but I have found solution to synchronize W800i / K750i / D750i into Windows Mobile on Pocket PC without using Outlook, little tricky but working:
1. export Phone Book with free software MyPhoneExplorer to one CSV file
2. change header (first line) of CSV from:
Code:
"Title","First name","Last name","Mobile","Home","Work","Fax","Other","Street","Postcode","City","State","Country","Info","E-mail","Web","Company","Birthday"
to
Code:
"Title","First name","Last name","Mobile Phone","Home Phone","Business Phone","Business Fax","Home Phone 2","Home Street","Home Postal Code","Home City","Home State","Home Country","Notes","E-mail Address","Web Page","Company","Birthday"
3. rename changed CSV file to: contacts_20081003.csc (date is unimportant, but you must retain format: contacts_RRRRMMDD.csc)
4. pack it with zero compression to ZIP format
5. change ZIP's extension to *.PIB
6. download free PIM Backup 2.8 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705
7. run this PIM Backup from PDA, select "Restore" and select created *.pib file
8. in CSV import settings set "," as delimiter and additionaly map "Last name" to "Name"
should work

Doesn't work for me!
Hi,
I tried tester2's method on my HTC Touch diamond 2, it seems very logical but the HTC doen't seem to comply with it; I get a lot of posts with no names! So when I open any of the posts it has a phone number etc, but I cant get the name part to work. It seems the mapping doesnt work correctly althought i did map "Name" to "Last Name".
Any ideas?
Thanx, N/

Possible to import messages from old phone?

Hey,
is it possible to import sms/text-messages from my old nokia phone to the Touch HD? I've managed to import the contacts from the old phone to outlook, but can't find a way to do the same with the text messages.
I would be greatful for any help!
Regards,
Bacardi Man

I used a program called EASY HELPER on my xda2i to transfer text and contacts between two similar handsets. Worked ok, ALTHOUGH text only backs up INBOX. sent, drafts etc... are populated but by empty files you have to just delete anyway.
If easy helper is supported in 6.1 then it might work for you, don't forget to search for other 3rd party sms backup and restore programs which could be equally helpful.
....IB a n e

Well on the Nokia side you could give the new NCC 2.0 beta http://www.nokia.com/A41013626 a try, but I think even 1.0 in the latest current Phone Suite could export SMS. My N95 is currently with Nokia, so I cannot test it for you (Export function w/o phone is greyed out). Re-Importing a common export file format back into WinMobile should not be a great deal.

I have exporter all Contacts and messages from my Nokia phone using Nokia PC suite. All this data now is stored in one single *.nbu file.
So you mean there is a program, which can extract the messages from this file and transfer them to an WM6.1 based PDA?

Can PC Suite only export nbu file format? Doubt any other program can read that. No option there to choose csv or text format at least?

Bacardi Man said:
Hey,
is it possible to import sms/text-messages from my old nokia phone to the Touch HD? I've managed to import the contacts from the old phone to outlook, but can't find a way to do the same with the text messages.
I would be greatful for any help!
Regards,
Bacardi Man
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Ok, let me think about it:
you may be able to send your text messages from the nokia phone vie bluetooth to your HD (if your Nokia supports sending more messages than one at a time, that would be the easyest way )
every phone and it software stores text messages in a different format and way. so normaly, its not possible to load those on another phone. some programs can store and save those messages as text files. but on the other hand, you would not be able to get those text files on your HD stored as real sms again. so the best thing would be bluetooth. just send those messages over and ypur HD will get them and know that its an sms (did the same with my contacts, just sended them via bluetooth )

My colleague says NCC can in fact export to csv format. From that format it should be possible to import into WinMobile. If only I would remember if this WM5 software HTC SMSBackup in this old post of mine http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1053322&postcount=2 can import csv? If you wanna give it a try, install for WinMobile 6.x as a cab is different now:
1. Change the ".zip" extension to ".rar"
2. extract 00CAB300.001
3. rename to "00CAB300.001.exe"
4. copy to phone and use

simple answer: use pimbackup - i moved everything from my trinity. you can find it by searching on XDA, it is simply perfect.

pzucchel said:
simple answer: use pimbackup - i moved everything from my trinity. you can find it by searching on XDA, it is simply perfect.
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Does it also work for SE devices such as the W800i?

Monsieur zucchel, the topic here is syncing Nokia to WinMobile No simple answer yet

Lucas0511 said:
Monsieur zucchel, the topic here is syncing Nokia to WinMobile No simple answer yet
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Hi Lucas, my apologies. i thought it was a windows mobile device....

Bienvenue, PIMBackup is indeed a fine WinMobile solution.

But is there also a solution to port contacts from sony Ericcson devices to the HD?
Asking that cos I own a W800i.

Well, one nice feature of SE phones is the capability to copy all phone contacts to SIM card. Then you put the SIM in your other phone, and voila. Just a quick fix, a better way would be to export contacts to a export data file like .csv, and then import that one into WinMobile with the free PIMBackup http://www.dotfred.net/ Give the free http://www.fjsoft.at/en/ MyPhoneExplorer a try, it was always my favourite SE contacts and SMS sync software.

Really good news as I am already using MyPhoneExplorer.
Will give it a try on monday when the HD should arrive.
The problem with the SIM Card is that there is only a storage capacitiy for 150 numbers (not even contacts) so this option wont work for me.

The option of using bluetooth sounds really interesting. But how can I send a sms via Bluetooth. In the options menue of the messages menue there is no possibility to do that, altough both phones support bluetooth.

Since I still can't find an option to send my sms via bluetooth from one phone to the other, I tried exporting them into .csv format, which worked fine.
Now I have the problem that both, your program Lucas, and PPCPIMBackup don't recognize this format.
Any suggestions?

Studied the PIMBackup since I dont use it. Its backups are stored in a .pib file, which actually is just a .zip file which you can decompress. It will reveal a number of .csv files, for the different types of data in your Touch HD. I would then assume that you can copy the contacts from your Nokia .csv file into the PIMBackup .csv with contacts, using Excel which can read and write .csv. Do the same for SMS. Unfortunately not a one-click solution, but transfering PIM data over operating systems is still a pain - when it comes to SMS. Contacts of course can be transfered via Outlook, or a online account which both of your devices can access.
If you like to explore further, I think Jeyo Mobile Extender was a software that allowed you to put all your SMS into Outlook as messages, from where you could copy them. But I never got it to run fully under Outlook 2007, and development has stopped.
Good luck!

@lucas:
Your solution would be great, but in fact the pib-file does not contain many csv-files, instead it contains one single pbm-file, which can't be decompressed.

Well then, I am close to giving up . Did you use a .pib file that you filled with some life, i.e. at least one item (contact, sms) for each PIM menu item on your WinMobile device? An empty .pib file out of the box would certainly contain no csv's. If there is still only a pbm file after decompress then the PIMBackup programmer has not updated his manual.
Other than that, maybe someone else would like to step in... Time for a Bacardi I'd say...

Topaz contacts folder !

hi all
iam new in here
and iam trying to find whrer is the folder that my contacts are stored in
as i want to copy past them into my device but i just donot know where to put them

mohamed2900 said:
hi all
iam new in here
and iam trying to find whrer is the folder that my contacts are stored in
as i want to copy past them into my device but i just donot know where to put them
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You need PIM backup or MS MyPhone for contacts.
There is no Contacts folder.

You also can use Jeyo Mobile Companion 2.0

thx guys for replaying
i got my contacts from my old n73 to my pc
no is there any programe that can just copy them to my contacts on htc?

mohamed2900 said:
thx guys for replaying
i got my contacts from my old n73 to my pc
no is there any programe that can just copy them to my contacts on htc?
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you got them to your PC, how? Should be reverse to get to your new phone.
You can sync them through ms exchange and active sync, you can sync them through ms exchange and google, you can sync them through MS My Phone.
Perhaps you need to understand your device better as this is a basic transfer.

maybe you didn't get me right
my n73 is broken now
but i have my contacts on my pc as .vcf files
now i wanna know how to sync them to my htc
u need to know that i got a proplem with my office so i cant use it
iam asking for any alternative programe that can do it
or any way to do it manually
and yes iam a begginer but iam here to learn

any one here?

mohamed2900 said:
maybe you didn't get me right
my n73 is broken now
but i have my contacts on my pc as .vcf files
now i wanna know how to sync them to my htc
u need to know that i got a proplem with my office so i cant use it
iam asking for any alternative programe that can do it
or any way to do it manually
and yes iam a begginer but iam here to learn
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I know of no way to convert your .vcf files back to your device without outlook.
What I would suggest is to download program called My Phone, create an account and manually enter your contacts on the website, so for future use, you can sync through the program to any WM device.
Sorry I can't be of more assistance.

thx man
but if i installed office 2003
would i be able to do it?
and if yes please tell me how

I don't know if this can help:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/Import_vCards_to_Outlook_Contacts_60353_p/

thx man i will give it a shot

mohamed2900 said:
thx man
but if i installed office 2003
would i be able to do it?
and if yes please tell me how
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You can import it with outlook by going to File\Import (I think) and select the file type vcf, or use a softrware like vCard Import/Export.
There are programs (BitPim) that can convert the vcf to delimited text, etc.
Also, I believe gmail can import a vcf file, then you can set up your google as an exchange server (Set up new mail with m.google.com as your server, domain can be anything you want.)
You must have all of your contacts in 1 vcf file. I believe there is a DOS command that can merge multiple vcf files but I don't remember what it is.
Hope this helps.

[Q] Syncronising Contact List via Microsoft My Phone

Hi there..
I'm going to ask you very simple question.
Is there a way to import contact list to android via Microsoft My Phone service?
I have more than 200 contacts in my contact list.
Its easy thing to do but kind'a waste of time..
How do the starters import their list for the very first time?
NOT: I also tried to syncronize my SD android via pimbackup data. I had it done once but the syncronisation thing.. i couldnt find where i should do it.
Just a newbie question
Thank You

I found no way to sync my android with myphone... sorry

Outlook exchange is easiest way for me. MyPhone is a WinMo application/service (Microsoft), and so won't run on android.
Can also use gmail, m:IQ (no idea, just read it somewhere else), myBackup (Again, just read it). Also search market for "contacts" will produce many apps to back them up to SD card.
Hope This Helps.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630146
try that, it imports into google

Richy99 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630146
try that, it imports into google
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That is what i couldnt success!
4. The extracted file should be BACKUP.CSC. Simply change the extension to .CSV and import the file to your gmail account.
All your contacts can now be imported to your phone through gmail
But how? There is no import/file upload menu in our gmal settings
That is where im stuck!
- just follow the instructions given in the phone's contact menu.