Devices News, Tutorials - Written by Mikey Bee on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 11:30 - 5 Comments
Nokia 5800: Copying Contacts from phone memory to SIM card
The Nokia 5800 is a great touchscreen device and comes with a host of ways to share infomation and contacts. Looking for a way to copy all your Contacts from the phone to the SIM card in one easy step? Join us, as we show you how to copy Contacts from your Nokia 5800 memory to the SIM card?
By default the Nokia 5800 saves all contacts to the Phone memory. However, there may be occasions when you want to switch it to your SIM card memory instead. To change this go to Options>Settings>Default Saving Memory and choose where you want your contacts to be saved to.
If you already have contacts in the phone memory and want to copy them over to the SIM card, there is no direct button to move these over. However, there is a workaround and it’s a relatively straightforward one to carry out.
Go to Contacts on your Nokia 5800 and then choose Options and find Mark/Unmark. Select Mark All and you’ll find a tick is placed against each of your contacts. Now, go back to Options and choose Copy from the menu. A dialogue box will pop up asking if you wish to send the selected contacts to your SIM card. Press OK and you’ll find they will be moved over.
Once you’ve copied all your contacts to the SIM card you’ll find that all entries now appear twice in the Contacts folder. This is because, by default, it shows the contents of both the phone and SIM card memories. To change this go to Options>Settings>Contacts to Display and choose which version you’d like to see.
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Spent all day trying to do this. Found this site and in less than a minute, all done…Great… Thanks..
James
I found when i wanted to copy my contact to the sim, I was faced with memory full all the time
after much playing about i totally wiped the 250 number’s that save on my sim during the time i’ve own my 5800 (4+ months)
contacts>settings … >Contacts to display> change to “sim memory ~from~ phone memory” then mark all and delete sim card contact
after changing back to the phone memory with all my resync number’s from ovi online, i was able to copy all the contacts to the sim
Just my 2 cent
Hope it help
merry xmas
alex
it is nice ….good
lin
James..your feedbac helps a lot…THANKS Man!
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Super helpful – thank you!