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Posted by: NateCohen

Posting this in the main Cingular forum

Posted by: cingtd

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Originally Posted by NateCohen

I had a Motorola Slvr L6, and I had ALL my numbers saved on my simcard. My question is, when I get my new phone, will my numbers be available on my new simcard, or am I going to have to add all my numbers again. You would think your phone book would be saved in the system if it was saved on the simcard.

If you keep your existing SIM card you just swap it to your new phone. If you activate a new SIM, just insert your old SIM in the new phone and transfer your address book from SIM to phone memory. Then insert your new SIM and transfer from phone memory to the new SIM. If that is too difficult, you could take to a retail store and have data transferred directly from SIM to SIM.

Posted by: NateCohen

But my Slvr was stolen, that's why I got a new phone.

Posted by: efparri

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Originally Posted by NateCohen

If you get a new phone from the same carrier, you will use your old SIM card. If you get a new SIM card with the same carrier, you can put your old SIM card into the new phone, copy the phone numbers to the phone memory from the old SIM card and from the new phone memory to the new SIM card if you desired. Copying numbers from phone memory to SIM cards cause all contacts to have just one phone number. So if you have three numbers for John, there would be three Johns in your SIM card listings. You would have to go to the individual entry to dial the number from the phone book.

Many of the specialized features of the phone book will only work with numbers stored in phone memory. These features include voice dial, photo ID, caller groups, individualized ringtones, email addresses, birthdays and street addresses.

What system are you talking about? All phone books are local regardless of whether they are on a SIM card or in phone memory.

Posted by: bodeh6

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Originally Posted by NateCohen

But my Slvr was stolen, that's why I got a new phone.

Well you should have mentioned that in your first post.

Sorry but Cingular does not save the contacts in their "system". The SIM card store 8, 16, 32, or 64k worth of information depending on your SIM. It is just like a memory card. If you lose your digital camera with memory card in it, you will not be able to recover your pics. Same with the contacts on your SIM.