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Hi,
Need to know as to how to transfer contacts from my Nokia 6600 to MDA II. I tried all Forums but couldn't find a solution for the same. Should we do it manually or do we have a tool to do the same.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Crownu
sync both with outlook would prob work
I used PC Suite for Nokia 6600 to Sync it with Outlook, and the end result was disgusting all i got was my Outlook contacts getting added to my Nokia I had to manually delete them all over again. I repeat, Is there a way to transfer my Phone contacts from Nokia 6600 to my MDA II.
I did this some few years back and cannot remember exactly and I can't re-try it now.
From my memory in my head, Sync the Nokia with PC (not outlook, just normal sync) is step 1, and I think you search the Nokia directories, you should able to see your contacts are all in *.VCF format or somehow it could be exported to *.vcf format.
Copy all this *.vcf files to your hardisk.
You can either double click on this *.vcf files one by one in
1. PC and it goes to your outlook which you can sync with PPC later or
2. PPC and it goes to Contact.
Hope my memory is still correct. Good Luck.
Something which I never tried, Infra-red or Bluetooth the 2 device directly?
As Rudegar suggested, did some R&D and was finally able to transfer them All.....Yippeeeeeeeeee > I had a Question here, which takes precedence when we Sync up the MDA, the Outlook contacts or the Phone contacts. For e.g., I delete a contact from my Phone and do a Sync, will it get deleted from Outlook or will be re-instated from Outlook????? or do we have a setting wherein we can choose what to do???? Any thoughts folks.....
crownu said:
As Rudegar suggested, did some R&D and was finally able to transfer them All.....Yippeeeeeeeeee > I had a Question here, which takes precedence when we Sync up the MDA, the Outlook contacts or the Phone contacts. For e.g., I delete a contact from my Phone and do a Sync, will it get deleted from Outlook or will be re-instated from Outlook????? or do we have a setting wherein we can choose what to do???? Any thoughts folks.....
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For PPC Phone, which Contact to keep can be set on both PPC & PC. Make sure both side is the same. Else both will get confused.
Hello friends .
Can somebody please clarify how to do this :
I have about more than 1100 contacts on my Sony Ericsson P1i phone and many of them has a second or third Mobile Phones under same contact.
When I transfer these to HTC Touch Pro (or any WM device) only 1 of the Mobile phones is transferred.
The same thing applies to other fields too , if the person has 3 home numbers only 1 or 2 of them get stored under outlook.
Can you please explain if there is a work around for this . Or maybe any 3rd party software ?
Thanks
YG
How are you transferring them? Are you using Outlook or some other method?
Well since I have around 1100 contacts , I guess it would be difficult to tranfer them 1 by 1 by bluetooth.
However, even if I did that , The 2nd and 3rd mobile phones get lost during transfer.
I'm guessing that the best way would be that I transfer all contacts from P1i to PC by using SE P1i's syncronising tool PC SUITE to Microsoft Outlook.
I did that already but all of the second mobile phones were already lost.... I thought of correcting them on Outlook but I could not find a way to rename fields on Outlook.
I'm OK with Outlook, or I also OK with another 3rd party software .
Any ideas please ?
Hi,
I've the same thing. You need to use "Float Mobile agent":
http://fma.sourceforge.net/
Sync it with your SonyEricsson phone to have all the contacts in the computer. Then export the contacts from the float interface into outlook and sync Touch Pro with ActiveSync.
You should now have all these contacts in your touch pro
vitalyb said:
Hi,
I've the same thing. You need to use "Float Mobile agent":
http://fma.sourceforge.net/
Sync it with your SonyEricsson phone to have all the contacts in the computer. Then export the contacts from the float interface into outlook and sync Touch Pro with ActiveSync.
You should now have all these contacts in your touch pro
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Wow ,,,,,, My mouth is already watering I can't wait to test it )))
EDIT : I downloaded the program ans installed it. However when I connect the Sony Ericsson P1, it's reading my contacts 1 person per telephone number.
This means If I have for example Michael A . It creates 3 entries for Michael A if he has 3 phones. it should be 1 only, I have also signed in the forum but each forum is protected by Password, so I can't view Outlook SYNC problems forum. How do I write my contacts to Outlook ?
I had that problem previously. Which is why I have more than one listing for people who have more than one cellphone. E.g. John Smith-Globe and John Smith-Smart.
It was the only way I can easily transfer my contacts between phones without any problems. So I've been doing that for as long as I can remember.
You can't have more than 1 mobile number per contact with WM so you will have to change the name of your contacts that have more than one number otherwise you will lose them.
It sucks but it is the only way and I do not think any software will do this for you.
Cheers
Can't Microsoft imagine that a person might have 2 more more cell phones ??
How stupid is that ???
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...I have also signed in the forum but each forum is protected by Password, so I can't view Outlook SYNC problems forum. How do I write my contacts to Outlook ?
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Hi again,
The password is "fma". It isn't secret, it is just top stop the spammers.
Ask your questions there, they are sure to help.
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Hi again,
The password is "fma". It isn't secret, it is just top stop the spammers.
Ask your questions there, they are sure to help.
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Thanks for the reply
However this FMA only allows me to have 1 telephone number for each contact. No matter if work phone or mobile phone, so I have multiple entries if my contact has multiple numbers. I can not see all numbers under same contact.
What do I have to do ? Is yours like this as well ?
do you have the latest outlook ? (2007? or something?) I had no problems converting p990i>TP with newest pc suite, outlook 2007 and activesync...
I'm sure you have errors in your vontacts that you have not noticed yet.
See your contacts and see if any of your contacts have 2 or more mobile phone numbers stored.
Or maybe by chance all your contacts have only one mobile phone
Now I'm almost sure it's impossible to do , I wish somebody could prove me wrong...
If I might just add, there is one other way you transfer your contacts from your P1 to your windows mobile device. Setup yourself a Mail2Web Account up, and then grab activesync software for your phone. Then synchronize your contacts with the online exchange and then you have a handy backup of all 1100 contacts. I personally would hate to lose them, this just gives you the extra assurance. I'm not certain if the P1 has, but it takes the hassle out of migrating. This method can also be used when upgrading your ROM.
-N
novakry said:
If I might just add, there is one other way you transfer your contacts from your P1 to your windows mobile device. Setup yourself a Mail2Web Account up, and then grab activesync software for your phone. Then synchronize your contacts with the online exchange and then you have a handy backup of all 1100 contacts. I personally would hate to lose them, this just gives you the extra assurance. I'm not certain if the P1 has, but it takes the hassle out of migrating. This method can also be used when upgrading your ROM.
-N
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Hi Thanks but Sont Ericsson guys really gave a thought on that subject.
I can back up-copy all or seperate contacts , on PC , on Micro SD card
So I have no worries on that
contact issue
i hav same prob. i transferred cont from my n73 to htc touch, it was working well. unfortunately after install some third party application, i don't know which one, it see only 1 number lost all other numbers. any solution pls..
I also have a P1i and I bought the Touch Pro 1 month ago. But I am still using the P1i!! I didn't even tried to import the contacts yet, because the Touch Pro is very buggy to use daily.
doublecheese said:
I'm sure you have errors in your vontacts that you have not noticed yet.
Now I'm almost sure it's impossible to do , I wish somebody could prove me wrong...
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Problem is the way contacts r stored in WM......no matter, which evr method, u use to sync or transfer contacts, bt WM will nt store more than 1 Mobile number per contact....
i recently shifted frm P990i to Touch Pro n faced same prob.....got 1158 contacts wth at least 400 of thm wth double mobile no.s ....
chk out following link for more info -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2866562#post2866562
P.S. - I also wish sumone cud prove both u n me wrong or Microsoft wakes up n realizes tht people can n do have more than 1 Mobile connections
Hello All,
I have read the beginners guide and searched. Didn't find an answered so posting my problem.
I recently bought the HTC Touch Pro. Before that I had a SE k610i. So I transferred my contacts into the sim and then when I plugged the sim into the HTC TP, i asked it to copy to my contacts.
What I then saw was all my contacts were severely messed up. such as ;lastname;firstname\1 and so on. Obviously on k610i I had saved 2-3 numbers for each person so I can understand the \1 or \2 but the rest is unbelievable.
Can someone please guide me how to correct this because I'm unable to locate a setting to change in the HTC TP.
Thanks
Vivek
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Hello All,
I have read the beginners guide and searched. Didn't find an answered so posting my problem.
I recently bought the HTC Touch Pro. Before that I had a SE k610i. So I transferred my contacts into the sim and then when I plugged the sim into the HTC TP, i asked it to copy to my contacts.
What I then saw was all my contacts were severely messed up. such as ;lastname;firstname\1 and so on. Obviously on k610i I had saved 2-3 numbers for each person so I can understand the \1 or \2 but the rest is unbelievable.
Can someone please guide me how to correct this because I'm unable to locate a setting to change in the HTC TP.
Thanks
Vivek
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Its how a SE phone saves the contacts.. I don't think you can do anything now besides syncing it back to Outlook and then ammend from there.
Or maybe you could sync your SE phone to Outlook. Verify that the first name, last name, and contact details are correct. If they are in the wrong order to begin with, means you have keyed in wrongly on your SE phone. If its ok in Outlook, then just sync it back to your PPC.
And I would suggest use Outloook as a base to sync all your phones.. Its much cleaner that way.
Yep, thats just how SE does things. It did the same thing on my Motorolas, and on my Samsungs...
Migrating contacts between SE and Touch Pro
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Yep, thats just how SE does things. It did the same thing on my Motorolas, and on my Samsungs...
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i totally disagree with tht......i owned a SE P990i before Touch Pro and problems arising bcos of migration of contacts is bcos of Touch Pro or to put it better, Windows Mobile platform.......
WM 6 allows only 1 number entry as Mobile, hence if u have more than 2 numbers stored as Mobile in SE phone, only 1 will be transferred.....no matter which way u use.....
WM 6.0 allows only Mobile Number to be used as text messaging number....only work arnd is to save othr mobile number as work, dial it and frm call history, send sms.......
to Sync contacts between SE and Touch Pro, best way is to sync SE contacts with Outlook (select options in Outlook to store contacts as First Name, Last name or vice versa depending on ur choice) and same way, it wil be uploaded in Touch Pro.......
another thng is,, with SE, you can select Custom folder in Outlook to be synced, but Touch Pro uses default folder of Outlook (Active Profile)......so be carefull
~
Kingjack
Current - Touch Pro - ROMeOS 1.22
X - SE P990i
XX - N 70
XXX - Nokia 6270
Thank you all for your comments.
Well I had a k610i and there was no sync option on it atleast that I know off. And anyways I don't like sync with outlook. I like to keep my email contacts and the phone contacts seperate. I don't want to have a 3rd issue develop here.....
So anyways I have realised that one way or the other I would need to edit all of them one by one to correct them on my HTC. Also, on my k610i the contacts were saved properly but HTC see's contacts very differently. So what I plan to do is take a contacts backup using PIMbackup. Once its in CSV format, I'll modify it there and restore it back rather than doing it from outlook or on the phone directly.
I wish there was an easy way such as a setting where one could choose how to display the contact names and numbers. Something I really feel HTC Touch Pro lacks.
Anyways hopefully for future users of HTC Touch Pro, there will be someone intelligent enough to create a software/global settings that would allow one to do this on the phone....
thank you once again
Regards
vivek
I had the same issue afew years back when i dropped my P900i.
as Kingjack mentioned it's becuase WM platform as well as Microsft outlook way of saving contacts is not the best (or let's say the flexible) way. SE is much more flexible and better...
however, Callingrohit needs to make his new TP usable and loaded with his contatcs..
a few years back i did it as follows: (it's a long way but effective).
- Have a software to backup contacts from your SE and save it as CSV or XLS file.
- from your outlook, save contacts as CSV or xls also.
- Manually compare the columns/format of both files, and try to manupilate the SE.CSV to look like the outlook one.
- import the new SE.CSV into outlook contacts.
now you should have all your contacts in outlook, then you can easily use the Active sync with your TP.
hope this is not too complicated.
Sorry Vivek, i didn't read your last message...
seems that you already figured it out by yourself ... ;-)
Discussed the same prob on Symbian forum -
http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37784&start=100&sid=c0d5ae68fa4412adce277da7e4c6fe69
I guess, the best way i fugured out till now is to sync using Outlook and then edit each contact having multiple mobil fields....
i will try method suggested by hatemd also
ne one has any idea, if someone is working on improving the contacts native form on WM or any other application which allows multiple mobile numbers
I migrate myself from k610i to TPro. There's a great piece of soft for SE phones (MyPhoneExplorer) - I used this to sync SE with Outlook and then Outlook with HTC via ActiveSync. It went ok.
Hatemd said:
I had the same issue afew years back when i dropped my P900i.
as Kingjack mentioned it's becuase WM platform as well as Microsft outlook way of saving contacts is not the best (or let's say the flexible) way. SE is much more flexible and better...
however, Callingrohit needs to make his new TP usable and loaded with his contatcs..
a few years back i did it as follows: (it's a long way but effective).
- Have a software to backup contacts from your SE and save it as CSV or XLS file.
- from your outlook, save contacts as CSV or xls also.
- Manually compare the columns/format of both files, and try to manupilate the SE.CSV to look like the outlook one.
- import the new SE.CSV into outlook contacts.
now you should have all your contacts in outlook, then you can easily use the Active sync with your TP.
hope this is not too complicated.
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No problem Hatemd. Thank you for your reply. Also, thanks to kingjack.
Finally I gave up and found that editing the CSV file is too much work as compared to editing contact fields via outlook. So I have finally sync the contacts of my HTC into a new general profile of outlook (no email address configured) and then edited all my contacts and sync'd them back onto my HTC. Now I'm able to see them correctly. ...finally
But then I realised the SIM contacts are also visible under my HTC contacts menu and so deleted all the SIM contacts as they were still in the bad format as it came from the SE k610i.
I'm going to use MyPhoneExplorer for SE as suggested by _rav. Thank you for that didn't know it existed. I'll use it and convert my SE contacts properly too...
But now my main concern is I would always like to have a backup of all my HTC contacts in my SIM card too but the moment I copy even a single contact into the SIM card, it starts showing up under the contacts menu and then I have duplicate contacts which is kinda distracting and annoying.
Is there a tweak or some setting to avoid the SIM contacts from being visible in the HTC contacts menu but at the same time allowing me to copy all the HTC contacts into the SIM card.
Thanks
Vivek
Don't know about the tweak, but anyway you'll still face a problem if you save serveal numbers/details for each name.
this won't be applicable for SIM cards.
Hello,
I had a Nokia 6620 and I synced all the contacts with my laptop running Vista through Nokia PC Suite. I have a folder named "Contacts" in Vista now, which is also linked to the Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail is supposed to be the updated version of Outlook Express. When I opened Windows Mobile Device Center to sync all the contacts and calendar items to my HTC Fuze, the options to sync my contacts and calendar are disabled. Am I doing something wrong here? How do I sync all the data, which was stored on my Vista system by Nokia PC Suite, with my HTC Fuze, without opening a Windows account? Is there any other application I can use for this, other than Windows Mobile Device Center?
Thanks,
Keith
I am really stuck with all my contacts in Windows "Contacts" folder and not being able to sync them with my HTC Fuze. I would really appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction or help me out. Thanks.
Now I could be way off here so apologies if that is the case. I think WMDC only deals with Outlook (not Outlook Express). If that is the case then try importing your contacts into Outlook and then re-setting up your sync settings. That might help.
Another thing to consider is to go into Activesync on your device and then options. Look at what it thinks it is syncing. If contacts are already set to sync with something, then uncheck this and run the WMDC connections wizard again. You may find that this time you can select the contacts folder this time.
As I said, I could be way off as I am not a computer guru by any stretch of the imagination. All the best.
Sorry, 1 more thought. You may want to try and uninstal Nokia PC suite-it could be that WMDC sees the contacts being synced with Nokia PC suite and thus wont allow it to sync with your HTC. If you do unistall just remember to back up your contacts etc otherwise you could end up loosing them all. Not good me thinks!
Nokia Suite maintains its own database which is independent of Outlook's. Both can reside on the PC without conflict, however, the OP needs to have the data (Contatcs/Tasks/Notes/Cal, etc) in Outlook to sync to WM devices.
@incisivekeith
Easiest way to deal with this is:
Export out of the PC Suite to csv format (comma separated)
Import into Outlook
Sync with addressbook in outlook (combine records)
Sync with phone using active sync
Thank you everyone for your responses, but I have been struggling with another major issue here now. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I was not able to select contacts and other data in Windows MObile Device Center, so I unstalled WMDC as well as the device driver update. I restarted my system and when I installed both the WMDC driver update and WMDC istself, my system doesn't recognize my Fuze anymore. Not only that, I don't have many options in WMDC now, and, the WMDC window doesn't open most of the times. I have tried uninstalling both of them again, installing their versions from Microsoft's Web site, but to no avail. So now, I have the following problems:
1. I don't have functioning WMDC
2. When I connect my Fuze, it is not recognized, although the system makes a sound that there is something connected on the USB port
3. Vista has Windows Mail, not Outlook or Outlook Express
In response to suggestions about Activesync, I just learned that Activesync is installable only on XP, not Vista. I have been struggling with these issues since today morning. This shouldn't be this difficult, after all.
I will try connecting my Nokia 6620 to my system and try to export the contacts to csv format. When I opened Nokia PC Suite without connecting my Nokia phone, the contacts list showed empty on the Suite, maybe because it doesn't store them on the system, and pulls them out only from the phone? I will find that out too.
If someone can, please let me know how to unistall WMDC properly and reinstall it so that it functions the way it did the first time. Are there any other free software to accomplish this? All the help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Connect Fuze to WMDC
Start - Settings - Connections - USB to PC
If the "Enable adv..." is checked, uncheck or vice versa
tyguy said:
Start - Settings - Connections - USB to PC
If the "Enable adv..." is checked, uncheck or vice versa
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Thanks, that somehow helped, I am not sure how, but it did. When I cheched that option off, it again recognized my Fuze as a new device and installed the driver and WMDC, which works fine now, but still doesn't allow me to select contacts, calendar items, etc.
I followed a method here: http://manish.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/importing-contacts-to-windows-mobile-without-ms-outlook/
That method imported all data, with all contacts named "Unknown" and missing the details (phone numbers, address, etc.) of most of the contacts. So, I installed Outlook 2007 and tried to import the csv file in Outlook, but it gave me an error saying its translator was not able to read the csv file (the clipping of the error is attached). I have the following questions now:
1. How do I overcome the importing error
2. How do I sync contacts from Nokia phone directly into Outlook instead of Windows Mail, so that I can have the contacts in Outlook and then, I can just sync Outlook and Fuze.
3. Or, is there a way to have the contacts synced between Windows Mail and Outlook?
Again, thanks for all the help.
@incisivekeith
Haven't had a Nokia for some time but AFAIK the latest PhoneSuite allows you a full sync with outlook.
CSV can be tricky because it may fail at custom fields. Check the CSV file using Excel if you have all headers.
Worst case - take a deep breath and read what google has to say ...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...k&btnG=Google+Search&aq=1&oq=import+csv+file+
OP, do you have OL installed? Otherwise, get OL and setup your Nokia PC Suite to sync with OL, then you can bring your contact & calendar from the Nokia into OL, then sync to your WM device thereafter. If you are not going to have OL soon, then dump your Nokia contacts onto the SIM and drop the SIM into the WM, but you still need to find a way to "scrub" the data.
Almost the same reply but putting the contacts on the SIM usually truncates add info like long names and multi phone entries. Through outlook would be the best and easiest way IMO.
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Almost the same reply but putting the contacts on the SIM usually truncates add info like long names and multi phone entries. Through outlook would be the best and easiest way IMO.
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Agreed, hence the "scrub" I threw that in b/c it appears the OP doesn't have OL readily available.
PHEW , finally!! It took me the whole day to just figure this out, and now I am thinking why I didn't think about this earlier. But I know why, probably because I didn't want to install Outlook just for the purpose of syncing. Anyway, tyguy, you were right that there should be/was a provision in Nokia PC Suite to sync that contacts with Outlook. I had checked all the settings, but I was checking the settings with Windows Mail chosen, I could find that I could choose Outlook only when I decided to create new settings. I synced Nokia phone to Outlook and then Outlook to my Fuze. Almost all the contacts and calendar items are as they are on my Nokia phone, so I am extremely happy. Some of the contacts, very few, are missing the phone numbers, but I can do that manually for that less a number of contacts. Thank you everyone for helping me out. I really appreciate it.
I remember I had to do a lot of work to solve this, and now I want my E90 back, cause all issues of this bad phone. It is not "safe": does not always ring the alarm, appointments gestion is very very bad, contacts sucks.
I have now the trial version of outlook, now it is over on 31/01 and I have no idea hot to do. I can' t syncronize anymore cause I will not pay for Outlook.
The reality is: wm sucks, i' m waiting for android.
PS: I saved contacts then copied one by one in outlook.
(forgive my english)
alessio
incisivekeith said:
PHEW , finally!! It took me whole day to just figure this out, and now I am thinking why I didn't think about this earlier. But I know why, probably because I didn't want to install Outlook just for the purpose of syncing. Anyway, tyguy, you were right that there should be/was a provision in Nokia PC Suite to sync that contacts with Outlook. I had checked all the settings, but I was checking the settings with Windows Mail chosen, I could find that I could choose Outlook only when I decided to create new settings. I synced Nokia phone to Outlook and then Outlook to my Fuze. Almost all the contacts and calendar items are as they are on my Nokia phone, so I am extremely happy. Some of the contacts, very few, are missing the phone numbers, but I can do that manually for that less a number of contacts. Thank you everyone for helping me out. I really appreciate it.
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And well, WM contacts only support 1 mobile number. Lots of contacts i have to register twice! It sucks!
hi all I have a HTC Surround using WP7 version 7390. Can anyone tell me how to back up my contacts (phone numbers) to SIM card or to pc. I am planning to reset the phone and I do not want to lost them.
Thanks
As far as I know you can't copy to the sim. However you can sync your live account and then download the list of contacts from live.com so you can keep a backup.
You cannot copy to SIM, only from SIM.
That being said, the phone emphasizes the use of the cloud (Windows Live, Gmail, etc. etc.). Your contacts should be automatically syncing to the main Windows Live ID on your phone already. So when you reset, just use the same ID to sign in and the contacts will be restored.
Thank you very much I will try to syc it with my live account. I konow it keeps the email accounts but I am not sure it will keep the numbers anyway I will try it thank you again
Hi all,
I've a problem. Touch of my HD2 doesn't work and i have Wp7 on the phone.
I haven't a Live account, then my contacts are not syncronized in cloud.
Can i have back my contacts without using my phone?
P.s. Only the touch of HD2 doesn't work.