In trinity, when you copy contacts from sim to phone, u only see phone contacts. So you can edit and save more information under contacts stored on phone. However, in Kaiser, when you enter sim card, all sim contacts are already shown under contacts and sim contacts have limited editing. So in case you copy contacts from sim to phone, it makes it double in conatcs, showing two entries, one saved on phone and one on sim.
Is it possible to view only phone stored contacts without actually deleting contatcs from sim. I want original contacts to be stored on the sim. But copy of them should be in phone with extended informations like 2nd numbers, address, emails etc. But how to avoid two enteries? How to switch sim contacs off in "Contacts"???
I tried finding any solution but :-(.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
So I had all contacts on the sim copied to the phone.
Which meant I had everybody in my contact list twice.
I thought I'd solve this so yesterday I updated my outlook contact list and made it nice and clean.
I assumed the phone would just update with the new data from outlook and I deleted all numbers from my phone (oops), it appears the phone has the 'leading' contacts list so now it deleted all my outlook contacts as well.
Is there any way to restore this data or do I have to find all the numbers again and put them in the phone again so that I don't lose it all again when syncing?
Grtz!
ed-oorklep said:
So I had all contacts on the sim copied to the phone.
Which meant I had everybody in my contact list twice.
I thought I'd solve this so yesterday I updated my outlook contact list and made it nice and clean.
I assumed the phone would just update with the new data from outlook and I deleted all numbers from my phone (oops), it appears the phone has the 'leading' contacts list so now it deleted all my outlook contacts as well.
Is there any way to restore this data or do I have to find all the numbers again and put them in the phone again so that I don't lose it all again when syncing?
Grtz!
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OOPS indeed! If you delete everything on your SIM and delete everything on your phone and then sync with your PC (which hopefully has ALL your contacts still), then the PC will put everything back on your phone. I always delete all contacts on my SIM. I don't see the point in having any contacts there. After all, all contacts/appointments etc. are always backed up on the PC. It may be worth backing up whatever is left on your phone with PIM backup or similar first though.
Good luck.
Hi
I have just reset my Raphael and as usual forgot to back up the sim contacts properly. lol
What software is best for installing on my memory card or laptop to back up contacts and re-organise/tidy them all.
My contacts are a mess on the sim and need to be imported to some software before I wipe the SIM clear again.
PPCBckpContacts.exe
its free
back up SIM, Contacts, Appointments, Tasks
http://www.mediafire.com/?8zpby1ytwe4
Once download it to your phone just click to run the software. It doesnt run the installation process but if you go to your Phone programs you will see the icon there.
I have been using PIM backup for years, its a free file and backsup everything you want it to. I usually save all my data to my storage card and set that as the default folder. This way when I hard reset, everythings still on my memory card.
how can I simply back up my phone contacts or simcard contacts to my computer?
just in case my phone crashes, or I lose my contacts by accident
so yeah how can I back up my contacts to my pc, so i can recover them to my phone later or at least view the numbers on my pc for manual backup
so its not possible or something? lol
Go into your root directory, and copy PIM.vol into your sd card...everytime you format the phone copy and paste the PIM.vol back into the root directory. It should overwrite all of your contacts information.
Phone>via ActiveSync>PC (Outlook) From here export Contacts as a file. Deposit somewhere safe.
If both phone (including SIM) and PC are fu**d up, you're still able to get back all contacts next time.
Import file in Outlook>Activesync> Phone.
Success!
quetzalquatl said:
Phone>via ActiveSync>PC (Outlook) From here export Contacts as a file. Deposit somewhere safe.
If both phone (including SIM) and PC are fu**d up, you're still able to get back all contacts next time.
Import file in Outlook>Activesync> Phone.
Success!
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you can olso use pim packup, i use it every time i flash a new rom
My way is the easiest.
I just use http://sn1-p3.myphone.microsoft.com/
For me PIMbackup48 is the easiest way as you can schedule it, and it can create a backup file anywhere on the sd card. I usually keep 10 days of these small backups.
Don't restore a PIM backup if you use Active sync. Arghh.
Or if you do, don't get the PIM backup to do contcts and calendar and tasks or anything else ActiveSync can do for you.
I use ActiveSync and before doing a hard restart I backed up using PPCPimBackup too.
ActiveSync restored all my contacts, calendar events, tasks etc. Then when I restored using PPCPimBackup before I realised what was happening, I had 2 of every contact and calendar events (Birthdays, reoccuring events, holidays, the lot) on my phone, and then as Actvsync did its job, I had two of everything on my computer too.
So now I will use PPCPIMBackup to do SMS messages etc and the stuff ActiveSync doesn't do, and let ActiveSync do what it does best.
(I was able to recover though. I had a backup of my Outlook contacts in a PST file, so I deleted them all, when there were none, I reimported them to Outlook, ActiveSync put them on the phone, for the Calendar events, I searched and sorted by creation date and was able to pull all the duplicates out that way).
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Go into your root directory, and copy PIM.vol into your sd card...everytime you format the phone copy and paste the PIM.vol back into the root directory. It should overwrite all of your contacts information.
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Good. any way for sms messages like this in a file ?
I ported my contacts onto my SGS by putting my sim card into my old phone and copying my contacts to sim.
I then copied the contacts to my SGS phone. In "Contacts" I can choose to view contacts from phone only, but if I try to forward a text to a contact I am shown the contacts from the phone and the sim card which means that with the exception of new contacts there are two copies of every contact.
Is there any method of deleting all sim card contacts en block, or do I have to delete each one individually, I have over 100 contacts so it will take a long time.
Thanks in advance for any help.