Getting contacts from one phone to another?

Transitioning from Nokia 6200 to Motorola V3 Razr.

Have 200-plus contacts in Nokia phone that are in phone's memory, not on the
SIM card. Have had no luck finding sync. software that will recognize my
phone, so have no backups.

Is there a way to get the contacts onto the SIM card? Then when I transfer
the card to the V3, contacts will come along, presumably.

The Nokia has IR port.

Other ideas?

Thanks,
--
John English
T-Mobile
Mac OS X 10.3.9

In article <0001HW.C1B8D060026D11CDF02845B0@news.readfreenews .net>,
John E. <incognito@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Transitioning from Nokia 6200 to Motorola V3 Razr.
>
> Have 200-plus contacts in Nokia phone that are in phone's memory, not on the
> SIM card. Have had no luck finding sync. software that will recognize my
> phone, so have no backups.
>
> Is there a way to get the contacts onto the SIM card? Then when I transfer
> the card to the V3, contacts will come along, presumably.
>
> The Nokia has IR port.

The options in preferred order are:

sync old phone to Mac using Bluetooth and iSync, then new phone to Mac

transmit from old to new phone via sync/file transfer etc
(try http://www.idexpress.fi/en/gsm/simexpress.html)

copy on old phone to SIM card (usually somewhere in contacts or
settings, then on new phone from SIM card to phone

Bluetooth is preferrable to IR if you have it, cable preferrable to IR
usually.

HTH or at least gets you started.

Marc

--
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Thus spake Marc Heusser:

> The options in preferred order are:
>
> sync old phone to Mac using Bluetooth and iSync, then new phone to Mac

No BlueTooth. iSync can't see phone via IR. This would be a great option. Any
idea how to get iSync to see it?

(BTW, 3 applications [OnSync, SIM Express (aka ID Express), MegaCellX]
establish communication with the phone [display model and firmware version],
but can download no contact info. I presume that these apps use a generic
driver for this phone [none of these apps have a specific driver for this
model] and it doesn't work, fully.)

> transmit from old to new phone via sync/file transfer etc
> (try http://www.idexpress.fi/en/gsm/simexpress.html )

See above.

> copy on old phone to SIM card (usually somewhere in contacts or settings,
> then on new phone from SIM card to phone

Can't see any option for this on Nokia. Any assistance from someone who knows
otherwise...?

> Bluetooth is preferrable to IR if you have it, cable preferrable to IR
> usually.

I think communication with the phone is the problem...

> HTH or at least gets you started.

Thanks, Marc. Will report any success.

> Marc
--
John English

John E. <incognito@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Transitioning from Nokia 6200 to Motorola V3 Razr.
>
> Have 200-plus contacts in Nokia phone that are in phone's memory, not on the
> SIM card. Have had no luck finding sync. software that will recognize my
> phone, so have no backups.
>
> Is there a way to get the contacts onto the SIM card? Then when I transfer
> the card to the V3, contacts will come along, presumably.
>
> The Nokia has IR port.
>
> Other ideas?

On my old Nokia there was an item in the phone's menus that did exactly
that, no computer involved, is yours not the same? If you're lacking
space on the SIM, why not transfer any info on the SIM to the new
phone's memory, erase the SIM, replace the cleared SIM in the old phone
and then copy the old phone's memory contents to the SIM, rinse and
repeat.

Failing that, your phone network provider may be able to upload your
data from your old phone, then download to the new one for you; my
network did that for me some years ago.

--
^Ï^

In article <0001HW.C1B95530028C327BF02845B0@news.readfreenews .net>,
John E. <incognito@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > The options in preferred order are:
> >
> > sync old phone to Mac using Bluetooth and iSync, then new phone to Mac
>
> No BlueTooth. iSync can't see phone via IR. This would be a great option. Any
> idea how to get iSync to see it?

I use an application called PhoneDirector with my Verizon 6256i to
communicate with my Mac via Bluetooth. It works quite well. It's a
little pricey for your needs at 30 Euros, but it will see and
communicate with a Nokia 62xx series phone. iSync will not.

sd

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:51:11 +0000, snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe)
wrote:

>John E. <incognito@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Transitioning from Nokia 6200 to Motorola V3 Razr.
>>
>> Have 200-plus contacts in Nokia phone that are in phone's memory, not on the
>> SIM card. Have had no luck finding sync. software that will recognize my
>> phone, so have no backups.
>>
>> Is there a way to get the contacts onto the SIM card? Then when I transfer
>> the card to the V3, contacts will come along, presumably.
>>
>> The Nokia has IR port.
>>
>> Other ideas?
Does your carrier offer backup service? I use that with Verizon.