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HUGE S56 problem, please help
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Posted by: natekalushner

ok so i powered my phone down and apon powerup i discovered that my entire address book was deleted!!!! how can this happen? i called siemens and they told me to go get a new phone and that they've never hear of this happening. does anyone have any ideas on how i could go about trying to retrive the addressbook?

thanks in advance,
Nate

Posted by: carsmovies

So you entered all your contacts on your addressbook only? Don't know why it happened to you but next time entire all your contacts onto your sim card first.

Posted by: natekalushner

i have my contacts on the SIM card but only one number per name... all the people who had several numbers under them are gone.

Nate

Posted by: jerseyfreeze

The S56 has an address book and a phone book. The AB lets you store multiple phone numbers per contact, while the PB only lets you store one number per name. Maybe that's the problem?

-Jason

Posted by: mrdeucie

This is the first time I've heard this.

Posted by: natekalushner

As far as I know this is the first and only time anyone has ever heard of this. Today I went to bestbuy and exchanged the phone for another unit. hopefully this was just a fluke. Maybe a static charge messed something up when I was powering up the phone. im just going to use the SIM phonebook exclusively from now on.

Nate

Posted by: mbranscum

You can also syncronize with Outlook. I recently had to replace one that had a faulty keyboard and it took about 10 seconds to resync the new one.

Posted by: Alex_de_Large

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Originally posted by mrdeucie
This is the first time I've heard this.

Not to sound like an ***, but did you read the manual? It's set forth pretty clearly in there...

Good luck!

Posted by: mrdeucie

Quote:

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Not to sound like an ***, but did you read the manual? It's set forth pretty clearly in there...

Good luck!

Maybe you weren't sure what I was referring to, but I meant that this is the first time I have heard that the phone automatically deleted the addressbook. That is listed in the user's manual?

Posted by: Alex_de_Large

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Originally posted by mrdeucie
Maybe you weren't sure what I was referring to, but I meant that this is the first time I have heard that the phone automatically deleted the addressbook. That is listed in the user's manual?

No, that is obviously not in the manual :-) I was referring to the phonebook v. addressbook issue. I, unfortunately, have no idea why your handset did what it did.

My best advice is to sync your phone with a computer ona regular basis. I treat it like any other data source: back up, back up, back up!

Good luck!

AdL

Posted by: mrdeucie

Quote:

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
No, that is obviously not in the manual :-) I was referring to the phonebook v. addressbook issue. I, unfortunately, have no idea why your handset did what it did.

My best advice is to sync your phone with a computer ona regular basis. I treat it like any other data source: back up, back up, back up!

Good luck!

AdL

I haven't lost my addressbook with the phone yet, but the original poster did.

Posted by: raptor118

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Originally posted by jerseyfreeze
The S56 has an address book and a phone book. The AB lets you store multiple phone numbers per contact, while the PB only lets you store one number per name. Maybe that's the problem?

-Jason

I'm thinking about getting the SL-56 because of the ability to store addresses. Does the SL56 dial from the PB only, or can you dial numbers stored in the AB? I've read that you can sync with Outlook. Can it also sync with other applications, like a Palm addressbook?

Thanks in advance for any info.

Posted by: carsmovies

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Originally posted by raptor118
I'm thinking about getting the SL-56 because of the ability to store addresses. Does the SL56 dial from the PB only, or can you dial numbers stored in the AB? I've read that you can sync with Outlook. Can it also sync with other applications, like a Palm addressbook?

Thanks in advance for any info.

You can make either phonebook or addressbook as your default. It can sinc with outlook only.