Is there an app that allows you to export your contacts to sim?
I started writing one based off the source so you would have an additional button in the contacts to Export Contacts instead of just Import them, but the emulator has no support for the SIM so I can't verify that it worked. I had since deleted it.
I was wondering if anyone had written anything like this yet?
I read somwhere the contact app in hero could do that.. but i cant test because im not going to hero untill its juicy and stable
MortICi said:
Is there an app that allows you to export your contacts to sim?
I started writing one based off the source so you would have an additional button in the contacts to Export Contacts instead of just Import them, but the emulator has no support for the SIM so I can't verify that it worked. I had since deleted it.
I was wondering if anyone had written anything like this yet?
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Yeah, as far as I know (unfortunately) there is no way to go from the G1 to the SIM, only the other way around.
However, if you're on a T-Mobile SIM card, what I have heard yet never tried was using the new T-Mobile app called "Mobile Backup." It saves all the contacts and other misc. things from your phone onto a web server with your T-Mobile account. You can then transfer anything on this Mobile Backup to another T-Mobile phone. So what might be worth a shot is to transfer everything onto a phone that supports writing to the SIM card, and then put it back on the G1.
Personally, Gmail works great at this
I have JACHero 2.6.3 and i just checked the contact app to see if there was an export to sim option, but sadly, only import. Sorry.
lukekirstein said:
Yeah, as far as I know (unfortunately) there is no way to go from the G1 to the SIM, only the other way around.
However, if you're on a T-Mobile SIM card, what I have heard yet never tried was using the new T-Mobile app called "Mobile Backup." It saves all the contacts and other misc. things from your phone onto a web server with your T-Mobile account. You can then transfer anything on this Mobile Backup to another T-Mobile phone. So what might be worth a shot is to transfer everything onto a phone that supports writing to the SIM card, and then put it back on the G1.
Personally, Gmail works great at this
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The mobile backup works pretty well. If you have access to M$ Exchange you could always have all of your contacts back up to that (Or google contacts for that matter)
There are 2 ways you can do it. Buy one of those usb sim reader...$5 at Fry's or in Hero.
SIM Card Backup
I have an HTC HD2 running Android 2.3 with the rom build on a Nexus One. As with every rom I have flashed before, i loose all my contacts and messages. I want to put my contacts on my SIM card rather than my 4g microSD card which is now full. Searching the Android (Google Play) Store there have been no apps that have been able to help me with this.
Any suggestions?
make sure you are using google sync. i have flashed too many roms to count and never has google sync failed me. if you log onto your gmail from a computer you will see your contacts saved there, if not you need to make sure you choose to sync contacts in the settings menu on your phone.
if you dont like this option for whatever reason than just get a bigger sd card or transfer files to your computer
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So I had this problem with several sim managers, but I'm currently using the latest one from HTC. I have 150 some odd contacts on my sim card. I'm trying to copy over all contacts from sim to contact list in the phone. But when I view them in Sim Manager, it only shows part of my list of contacts. About 60 or so. I can refresh the list all day, reboot the phone...but I can never get it to view all the contacts. If I remove my sim, and insert it in any other phone (have tried with Nokia e61 and blackberry curve) I can view all the contacts just fine on the sim card. But I'm trying to copy all of them to my Tilt, and for some reason it won't let me see them.
Has anyone had this problem or know of any fix? Thanks in advance!
No idea what the problem is but try this SIM Manager still prefer it over the new versions give it a shot....
I'll give it a try...I BELIEVE I've tried that one already... its the manager where you just have options to copy to contacts, copy to sim, delete from either...you cant actually see the sim phone book in edit form right? I think it didn't work with that previously, but I'll try anything!
I am gonna be selling my G1 and I need to save the current contacts to my sim. Is there a way to do that yet? And if not, is there a place on the net where I can view my contacts so I can manually enter them into my next phone?
EDIT: n/m i see google mail has my contacts... but is there a way to export to sim or no?
not that i know of, depending on the phone your going to buy it may have sync software with it that can import them.
I don't know about cupcake but if your on hero it gives the option.
At this moment you Can Not export.
I cant see this feature implemented since it syncs with google.
Importing i can understand, maybe coming from a non-android platform phone.
Exporting, you can sync your outlook with google, google with outlook and go from there.
I'm sure there are sites.
None come to mind right now.
Edit: Try goosync
I am having problems with my contacts. Thread here. Not making a lot of progress.
One suggestion I read somewhere was to delete my contacts from the SIM. But the Contact management software on the phone only allows copy to/from the SIM.
Anyone know how to delete contacts from the SIM on a Captivate?
ewingr said:
Anyone know how to delete contacts from the SIM on a Captivate?
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I couldn't find way to delete all the contacts from SIM card all together. I've deleted them one by one.
Go to 'Contacts', here you'll see contacts marked with small sigh of SIM card. Hold you finger on the contact for 2-3 seconds. A pop-up menu will apper. The menu contains 'Delete' item. Choose it and the contact will be deleted from the SIM card.
I put the SIM in an older (Symbian) phone. That permitted wholesale deletion of the contacts.
Thanks for the tip. I put it back in my WinMo phone to delete them.
Tempting to make a wise crack
So far, the only thing I've found is "Contact Remover" on the market. I tried it after reading a post by Kak and android forums.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ca...contacts-sim-text-messaging-contact-list.html
Like he says, you can't "organize" it based on sim or phone, but your sim card contacts will always be listed 1st.
So if you have
John
John
John
The 1st two will likely be from your sim card. I would export your contacts first, just in case and maybe double check their order by displaying both phone and sim contacts. It's not perfect, but it made it a heck of a lot easier than individually deleting!
According to the manual (yes I read it), it states you can Copy contacts from Phone to SIM or vice versa.
But following their steps doesn't give the option to copy (p68 in manual).
Yes there is an option to import/export the contacts; they allow you to import/export to your SD card.
But when you want to import/export to your SIM card, they give it a fancy shmancy name; they call it 'Copying' your contacts. Very clever of them!
But I can't see this option yet on my I9000. Can you?
TIA
I have the option there: contacts/menu/more/copy contacts and there are 2 options: sim to phone and phone to sim
I have the option, but it does not apeear to work.
Mikulec said:
I have the option there: contacts/menu/more/copy contacts and there are 2 options: sim to phone and phone to sim
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Well this is a bit of a bummer.
What version phone do you have?
I have the French version. (Using English language)
My menu options are as follows:
contacts/menu/more/accounts, send e-mail, Import/export, Settings, Send via bluetooth
Nothing about Copy.
OK I am making some progress here.
I have figured out why I didn't have the option.
I keep my phone in 'Flight mode' most of the time.
In Flight mode, you DON'T have the option to copy your contacts to SIM.
A silly thing to do in my opinion (have the feature disabled in flight mode).
BUT, there's more.
When you do copy your contacts to SIM, you lose almost everything.
The only thing that is copied is the name and tel number. That's it!
You lose your Groups, and any other details in your contact cards.
I don't have pics attached yet, but I'll bet you lose them too.
Bummer!
Has anyone here exported their contacts to their SD card, wiped out their phone contacts, then imported from their SD card to see if *everything*
was imported faithfully? Groups, details, pics etc.?
TIA
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OK I am making some progress here.
I have figured out why I didn't have the option.
I keep my phone in 'Flight mode' most of the time.
In Flight mode, you DON'T have the option to copy your contacts to SIM.
A silly thing to do in my opinion (have the feature disabled in flight mode).
BUT, there's more.
When you do copy your contacts to SIM, you lose almost everything.
The only thing that is copied is the name and tel number. That's it!
You lose your Groups, and any other details in your contact cards.
I don't have pics attached yet, but I'll bet you lose them too.
Bummer!
Has anyone here exported their contacts to their SD card, wiped out their phone contacts, then imported from their SD card to see if *everything*
was imported faithfully? Groups, details, pics etc.?
TIA
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When the SIM technology was invented there was only phone numbers around. =)
It's not about Galaxy S. It's about SIM technology. Most of them can only store 64 kb or 128 kb. So we can say that SIM phone book is for emergencies only.
ferhatcan said:
When the SIM technology was invented there was only phone numbers around. =)
It's not about Galaxy S. It's about SIM technology. Most of them can only store 64 kb or 128 kb. So we can say that SIM phone book is for emergencies only.
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OK thanks! I'm quite new with mobile phones, so I'm still learning a lot of the basics.
I just thought that what we have with computers etc. translates immediately to smartphones. They are smart phones right and not just a regular cell phone?
I have a Pocket PC from circa 2004 that does more than this new I9000!
I knew it. It's definitely possible. What you may ask? Well, here's the thing, me and my friend had a bet, I told him that the entire population of China CAN FIT in Singapore. All you got to do is BELIEVE in yourself.
But seriously, I would not want to use the SIM for main contacts. What I personally do is to just make "VIP" contacts in the SIM, those that I really need, just in case I had to put it in a cheap phone (or an expensive one without memory).
What this phone has is the SYNC with your Google account. Excellent stuff. Sync your contacts, mail, and calendar without having to pay for anything.
Same thing on Apple iPhone's MobileMe solution would cost you a good $99/year.
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But seriously, I would not want to use the SIM for main contacts. What I personally do is to just make "VIP" contacts in the SIM, those that I really need, just in case I had to put it in a cheap phone (or an expensive one without memory).
What this phone has is the SYNC with your Google account. Excellent stuff. Sync your contacts, mail, and calendar without having to pay for anything.
Same thing on Apple iPhone's MobileMe solution would cost you a good $99/year.
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Thanks Opethian. I'm just going to have to get used to this phone's limitations and also its goodies. There's a lot of stuff I haven't even begun to explore yet.
I'm just starting with the basic stuff for me. I'm not too pleased that this phone (probably most?) doesn't have contact subfolders. But I'll get used to it I suppose.
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I'm not too pleased that this phone (probably most?) doesn't have contact subfolders. But I'll get used to it I suppose.
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Happy to help here bro, as much as I can if possible.
Can you advise on what you mean by contact subfolders? Do you mean creating "groups" of contacts?
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... Can you advise on what you mean by contact subfolders? Do you mean creating "groups" of contacts?
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Not really.
What I mean is having inside the "Friends" folder another folder that says perhaps,
"Golf Buddies" or "Tennis Buddies" etc.
Having them out on their own in the first screen of Groups can get messy very quickly.
It would also be nice to have an option to start the Contacts app in Groups mode, rather than viewing all of your Contacts together.
I have my contacts set up on Google. Is there a way to remove all Contacts on my Sim Card to remove old and outdated stuff and Mass Export all my Google Contacts to it?
Thanks
I should had looked for Apps 1st,I found App to do this.
RonH54 said:
I should had looked for Apps 1st,I found App to do this.
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Since the thread is now here it would be nice if you shared that info for anyone else that might be interested.
For the future, you can do this without an app. Simply go into the menu while in Contacts, select Display Options, turn off everything except SIM Card so that only the contacts on the SIM are displayed, then just click Delete, Select All, and get rid of them. Then go back to Display Options and turn on the ones you want.
Why would you want them on your sim card?
Sent from my Captivate
MikeyMike01 said:
Why would you want them on your sim card?
Sent from my Captivate
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I didn't, they were there from previous phones where I had used the SIM as a backup. Unfortunately, when you copy contacts to the SIM you lose their original formatting and the SIM splits contacts with more than one number into individual contacts making them useless for exporting. Better to just keep the SIM clear and backup your contacts via Google or, as I do, via Android Manager, which I use to sync to Outlook.
RonH54 said:
I should had looked for Apps 1st,I found App to do this.
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Contacts2Sim App
Miami_Son said:
Since the thread is now here it would be nice if you shared that info for anyone else that might be interested.
For the future, you can do this without an app. Simply go into the menu while in Contacts, select Display Options, turn off everything except SIM Card so that only the contacts on the SIM are displayed, then just click Delete, Select All, and get rid of them. Then go back to Display Options and turn on the ones you want.
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Thanks. I knew there was a way to do this but never had seen.