Someone called me, and I didn't have that number, I wanted to save it to existing contact, but when I clicked on save to existing contact, none of my sim contacts appeared. There wasn't a way to get to it either. I load all my contacts directly from my sim. Is there a way to move sim contacts to phone? or save current number to existing sim contact?
any good app to manage and sync phone contacts?
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I just did a fresh backup of my phone contacts to my SIM and discovered that it doesn't pull any "name" for contacts that have no first and last name but that are instead just a company name only.
Is there a way for me to fix this? If not, how might I go about editing just the contact entry on the SIM itself so that I can correct manually?
Good day, dashers!
Situation:
Someone sends me a text message.
I click on their number and add them as a SIM contact.
Problem:
When I go my picture folder and try to associate a pic with the contact, the contact doesn't appear in the pick-list.
If I go find them in Contacts, associating a pic or an icon with that contact isn't an option.
Any ideas?
Should I save them as Outlook contacts instead of SIM contacts? Won't that upload them to my work Exchange address book when I sync up at the office?
Thanks in advance!
-GoJ
Contact needs to be on phone memory not sim
Thank you for half-way answering my question! {/light-hearted sarcasm}
It is possible to move them to phone memory now that they are SIM contacts?
When I open Contacts, am I only seeing SIM contacts, then, or all contacts?
What am I seeing when I click on a picture and try to assign it to a contact?
-GoJ
Don't have my Dash available but i always use Dopod SIM Manager to copy sim to phone.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487920
The viewing of SIM contacts, phone contacts, will depend on settings, i think as default you see both if you just want to see phone after copy you can use XDA SIM Show Hide
Hope that helps
Thanks stylez.
Hmmm...when I try to save a contact my only choices are Outlook, SIM, or Windows Live.
"Phone" is not an option.
Ghost of Jaco said:
Thanks stylez.
Hmmm...when I try to save a contact my only choices are Outlook, SIM, or Windows Live.
"Phone" is not an option.
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Save to sim copy to phone with the above sim manager
Thanks again!
It actually is Save to Sim, go to Sim Manager, open choice then Save to Contacts.
Open Contacts, open THAT Contact, and then it can be edited to include a picture and much more. After that I've been deleting the SIM contact to save space.
Thanks again, stylez!
Contact must to be on phone not sim, transfer them first and it will work
if u jus choose outlook option insted of sim then u dont need to go through copying it to phone... for showing n hiding sim contacts open setting - phone- call options- show hide sim contacts
Ghost of Jaco said:
Good day, dashers!
Situation:
Someone sends me a text message.
I click on their number and add them as a SIM contact.
Problem:
When I go my picture folder and try to associate a pic with the contact, the contact doesn't appear in the pick-list.
If I go find them in Contacts, associating a pic or an icon with that contact isn't an option.
Any ideas?
Should I save them as Outlook contacts instead of SIM contacts? Won't that upload them to my work Exchange address book when I sync up at the office?
Thanks in advance!
-GoJ
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if u dont want them to b uploaded then u can open active sycn-menu-option and remove the contact option...it will not sync or download contacts with pc.. gud luck
Hi, if i go into people all my contact are there how they should be but if i go in to messages & search all my contacts are duplicated, its a right pain when its showing 2 of everyone. When i go to people & view, only my google contacts have a green tick by them, even if i just tick sim contacts its still the same. The only way around it for me is to delete all my phone contacts & just use the sim ones but id rather use google as i can add photo's to the contacts.
is there a way around this ?
Are you sure its duplication and not simply showing you each number you have for a contact. E.g. you have say dad in your contacts and have stored his home, mobile and email address. This example would list dad 3 times in messaging but each would have a different number or address.
If this isn't it I did find my contacts got messy and deleted everything from phone and sim and now store and maintain my contact in gmail ONLY.
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Are you sure its duplication and not simply showing you each number you have for a contact. E.g. you have say dad in your contacts and have stored his home, mobile and email address. This example would list dad 3 times in messaging but each would have a different number or address.
If this isn't it I did find my contacts got messy and deleted everything from phone and sim and now store and maintain my contact in gmail ONLY.
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Yeh they are definitely duplicated, i like to keep my contacts as simple as possible i dont want e mail addresses or anything on there just my contacts. it looks like this.
(photo) other: allan 0187 ******
(sim) phone numbers: allan 0187 ******
(photo) other: david 0163 ******
(sim) phone numbers: david 0163 ******
its showing the sim even though ive not got it ticked in the view option. I know i could delete the sim contacts & it would look ok but thats not something i want to do as the battery is not the best on the desire & with the contacts on the sim ive always got that option to use someones else's phone in an emergency
Ah I understand what you mean. Must be a software bug then perhaps. All I can suggest is to get a payg sim store all your contacts to it and shove it under the back cover then just use google contacts only. Sorry I cant be of more help.
i imported the sim contacts, but didnt link them with my facebook contacts. So i reimported my sim contacts and linked them to my facebook contacts.
now i have duplicate imported sim contacts.to confirm this is an issue i tried clicking the "import sim contacts" button again and yea, it did import another set of duplicates.
Is there any easy way to clean up your contacts list? I cant find anything in settings.
I did this aswell, if you are importing SIM contacts then i assume you have only just set it up so the easiest thing i found was to reset to back to factory default. Only need to set up your accounts again but doesnt take long.
Whenever I sync my phone contacts after flashing a new ROM I get many duplicates. For example contact 1 will only appear once in my people list but it's synced to two phone contact entries. I'm talking purely about phone contacts and not google contacts.
I want to keep them on my phone as opposed to Google or the sim because I travel a lot and use different sim cards in different countries so it's easier for all my contacts to be on the phone.
Why might I be getting duplicates on most of my contacts and what can I do to stop this happening. I'm guessing it's something to do with backing up but I might be wrong.
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xybadog said:
Whenever I sync my phone contacts after flashing a new ROM I get many duplicates. For example contact 1 will only appear once in my people list but it's synced to two phone contact entries. I'm talking purely about phone contacts and not google contacts.
I want to keep them on my phone as opposed to Google or the sim because I travel a lot and use different sim cards in different countries so it's easier for all my contacts to be on the phone.
Why might I be getting duplicates on most of my contacts and what can I do to stop this happening. I'm guessing it's something to do with backing up but I might be wrong.
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To detect and delete/merge duplicate contacts, one may think to login to google account. Find the option of "find and merge duplicate contacts" under contacts. May be taking long time, seems to be simple and useful. Try.
Maybe those contacts have their phone numbers shared in their public Google profile.
Are both phone contacts of the same type?
I think that Google also backups up phone contacts if you activated that service. Not the same as syncing to a Google Contact.
You can also export contact as vcard (contact.vcf).
I don't use google service so that's how i do :
In contact, menu, import/export and export contacts to SD.
When you need it, import contacts from SD.