What is going on here exactly?
You can Import/Export phone contacts from/to the SD card (sdcard folder).
This means that the contacts are going to/coming from the internal SD card, not your external SD card, if you have one.
Where are they coming from if you export them to the SD card?
Are they coming from Internal Phone Storage?
What is exported exactly? Just the names and tel. numbers, or all of the contact info you have entered (tel. no., e-mail, pics, notes, home addresses, etc.)?
If you delete all your phone entries and then Import from the SD card, will ALL the contact info come back faithfully, or will you be missing any info?
Has anyone here ever tried this?
A few more questions. Where does the SIM enter into this picture?
Is any phone contact data stored on the SIM card?
I heard before that you can transfer contact data onto SIM cards and take them with you to other phones.
I don't see an option to transfer contacts onto the SIM card with the SGS.
I had a Blue Earth recently that allowed this.
The manual says there is a way to copy contacts to your SIM card, but it mentions selecting 'a contact', not your entire contact list.
I also can't find this feature on my phone anymore (I did once).
TIA
MarkI9000 said:
What is going on here exactly?
You can Import/Export phone contacts from/to the SD card (sdcard folder).
This means that the contacts are going to/coming from the internal SD card, not your external SD card, if you have one.
Where are they coming from if you export them to the SD card?
Are they coming from Internal Phone Storage?
What is exported exactly? Just the names and tel. numbers, or all of the contact info you have entered (tel. no., e-mail, pics, notes, home addresses, etc.)?
If you delete all your phone entries and then Import from the SD card, will ALL the contact info come back faithfully, or will you be missing any info?
Has anyone here ever tried this?
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Anyone?
Thanks!
A few more questions. Where does the SIM enter into this picture?
Is any phone contact data stored on the SIM card?...
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I figured out the SIM card questions.
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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.
Hi guys. I have copied my contacts from my SIM card to the phone. However, the phone now shows both contacts from SIM card and phone, meaning duplicates of contacts.
Is there anyway to just view the contacts from either the phone or the SIM card?
With my wm6 tornado, that setting was hidden with phone network settings such as divert calls, call waiting etc.
rugal_einstein said:
Hi guys. I have copied my contacts from my SIM card to the phone. However, the phone now shows both contacts from SIM card and phone, meaning duplicates of contacts.
Is there anyway to just view the contacts from either the phone or the SIM card?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=400562
Thx a lot for the help guys
My email account seems to automatically delete old message, which annoys me. Does the phone save sms as well as emails on the sim card?
I get the message that my sim card is full when I receive a new message.
How can I make it save all messages on the phone memory?
Thanks
Phone saves messages in its own memory, not on sim card. It can't save email on sim card I think. Try to change accounts settings. I have messages in phone until i delete it manually.
weird, it always wants me to delete messages because my sim card is supposedly full...
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?
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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!
My phone is a rooted unlocked ATT Atrix HD. I do not have any account set up for my contacts because I am not syncing my contacts with anything like Google or ATT. I just want to store contacts on the phone and call them. Right now, I have only the default Contacts app that came with it. When I import contacts with vcards from the external sdcard, they get stored on the internal sdcard. When I try to add a new one on the phone, it stores only on the sim card. I don't want store them on the sim card because I have to switch sims when I travel. When I go to Contacts/People > Settings > Contact Storage > Contact storage account, I have only sim card as the option.
Is there a way to store new contacts on the sdcard?
Must I create an account to store contacts? If I must, can I make up a fake account and sync it with something like Thunderbird on my computer?
Also, I saw a
/system/app/ContactsProvider.apk
Is this making Contacts app to insist on syncing with an account and not letting me store on sdcard? Should I delete it?
Thank you.
Open your contact apk and go to settings and choose export to storage and done. Same way to import them back from storage.
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Open your contact apk and go to settings and choose export to storage and done. Same way to import them back from storage.
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Well, it does not help me. Before I can export, I have to store new contacts first. It would store only on the sim. Then it will export only a vcf file for all contacts. I want to be able to write to an sdcard.