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!
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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.
i recently flashed my rom to v3.0 Sleuth. well now my contacts are just the ones i have on my sim. before i had pictures on them now i cant add pictures to them. and if i do i get two of the same contacts but one with picture and the other with out. any eay to fix this or do i just have to live with it that way?
streetknight said:
i recently flashed my rom to v3.0 Sleuth. well now my contacts are just the ones i have on my sim. before i had pictures on them now i cant add pictures to them. and if i do i get two of the same contacts but one with picture and the other with out. any eay to fix this or do i just have to live with it that way?
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Just guessing here -
The Sim card does not hold pictures - only the names and phone numbers.
When you save items to the sim and they are on your phone as well you wll display duplicates.
So - when you add pictures you are actually adding to the PHONE not the SIM so you are duplicating the information - you will want to remove the one on your SIM?
Bill
SIM contacts will ONLY allow the Name and Phone Number thats about it anything else like Photos, addresses, e-mail, etc. can ONLY be done on Phone Contacts, use SIM Manager in your programs and copy all contacts to your phone, if you don't want to see duplicates of contacts, use KaiserTweak or Advanced Configuration and adjust it to NOT show SIM contacts. But remember when a contact is added it will save to your phone not sim so you will need to make sure if you want to keep it you change it in both.
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!
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.
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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
MarkI9000 said:
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.
How can i tell where my contacts are saved?
When i first got my phone I synced my phone with my outlook contact on my pc. Now when i want to add a contact using my phone it's asking me if i want to save the contact to either my phone or my sim card. I would like to keep things consistent and save it in the same place as the rest of my contacts. So does anyone know how to find out where my current contacts are saved?
Thanks.
PeePeeHead said:
How can i tell where my contacts are saved?
When i first got my phone I synced my phone with my outlook contact on my pc. Now when i want to add a contact using my phone it's asking me if i want to save the contact to either my phone or my sim card. I would like to keep things consistent and save it in the same place as the rest of my contacts. So does anyone know how to find out where my current contacts are saved?
Thanks.
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Good questions, I don't have the answer but I'd like to know. I have a similar thread that no one has answered yet.
BTW, when I go to add a new contact I don't get your options!
My choices are:
1. Phone
2. Google mail
That is very strange. I'd like to get SIM card as an option.
If you want to know where your contacts are saved then go to your contacts, click the settings button, go to display options and from there you will be able to select what contacts to view, sim, phone and google. Click on one to view and that way you will know where they are all saved.
No idea why you cant have sim contacts mark, maybe your sim is full??
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Cicinho said:
If you want to know where your contacts are saved then go to your contacts, click the settings button, go to display options and from there you will be able to select what contacts to view, sim, phone and google. Click on one to view and that way you will know where they are all saved.
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First of all, if you have your phone set up as I do,
Settings/Wireless Networks/Flight mode, 99% of the time, then you won't see SIM card as an option when you go into Contacts/Settings/Display.
This is one of many deficiencies of the SGS. I hope they change this in the next upgrade.
No idea why you cant have sim contacts mark, maybe your sim is full??
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See above.
Furthermore, having just experimented with the SIM card setting now, it is quite 'limited'. It will only save the name, tel. number and e-mail address of your contacts, nothing else. You lose pics, home addresses, groups, and any other fields that you added etc.
But back to my original question.
How can you find the folder/files that the contacts are stored in on your phone?
Also, if you export your phone contacts to your SD card and then delete your phone contacts, will importing the contacts from your SD card bring EVERYTHING back faithfully? No lost pics, home addresses, groups etc.?
Has anyone here tried this?
TIA