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Copying All Contacts Possible?
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Posted by: datacrime

hi everyone,
my dad got a new blackberry, and he needs to update his contacts from is old BB(7100 rogers) is there a freeware program that can do this or can the blackberry already do this and i am missing somthing. There are too many contacts to save to the sim.

thanks in advance.

Posted by: Cosmic Fur

As an addition to this, I'm wondering how to transfer all my contacts from my phone (which has bluetooth & infrared) to my 7230, without resorting to swapping SIMs.

Posted by: TotalDistinction

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Originally Posted by datacrime

hi everyone,
my dad got a new blackberry, and he needs to update his contacts from is old BB(7100 rogers) is there a freeware program that can do this or can the blackberry already do this and i am missing somthing. There are too many contacts to save to the sim.

thanks in advance.

I hope I get this right...this should be straightforward as I've done something similar when I went from my 7750 to my 7250.

1. Using the Blackberry Desktop Manager, connect your old Blackberry and open the Backup and Restore app. Use the backup function to backup your old BB to a file on your hard drive (remember where you placed it for step 2 below)
2. Connect the new BB and with BB Desktop Manager, use the Backup and Restore App to restore the data from the file that you backed up from step 1 above.

That will restore your contacts, emails, apps, etc.

Hope this helps.

BTW, if it's strictly for contacts that you are concerned with and not emails, BB apps, etc., then you can also follow the steps in the post below.

Posted by: TotalDistinction

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Originally Posted by Cosmic Fur

As an addition to this, I'm wondering how to transfer all my contacts from my phone (which has bluetooth & infrared) to my 7230, without resorting to swapping SIMs.

You didn't say which phone you are coming from (if it were another BB, you could follow my steps in my previous post above).

I've found that the easiest way to transfer contacts between phones is to sync your "old" phone with Outlook on your desktop. Now that the contacts are in Outlook, use Blackberry Desktop Manager to sync your contacts with Outlook to get them into your BB.

Posted by: datacrime

if i do this will it replace my new contacts on my new phone, or just add to the list of contacts? i need the contacts on my new BB as well. Thanks

Posted by: TotalDistinction

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Originally Posted by datacrime

if i do this will it replace my new contacts on my new phone, or just add to the list of contacts? i need the contacts on my new BB as well. Thanks

It will overwrite your contacts on your new BB. The best approach would be to do the Outlook method as mentioned in my previous post.

Posted by: datacrime

worked like a charm thanks for the info!!

Posted by: TotalDistinction

glad to hear it worked out for ya.