sim only stores Name & Phone Number and nothing else?

[thatdrewguy]

I think I just deleted a bunch of phone numbers, addresses, notes, and email addresses from my phone. I've had numbers both in the sim and the phone's memory so I thought I'd do a thorough phone clean up and move everything to the sim. After moving all the phone memory entries to the sim, the smart person that I am, I decided to delete all entries in the phone memory. Now when I list my phone directory, all I get is the person's name and one phone number (probably the defaut number) and I've lost work, cell, email and address entries. Did I like totally screw up? I thought the sim saved everything.

[Telekom]

Originally posted by thatdrewguy
I think I just deleted a bunch of phone numbers, addresses, notes, and email addresses from my phone. I've had numbers both in the sim and the phone's memory so I thought I'd do a thorough phone clean up and move everything to the sim. After moving all the phone memory entries to the sim, the smart person that I am, I decided to delete all entries in the phone memory. Now when I list my phone directory, all I get is the person's name and one phone number (probably the defaut number) and I've lost work, cell, email and address entries. Did I like totally screw up? I thought the sim saved everything.

Ya gotta read up! Only name and phone number are saved on the SIM. It's always been this way. Just one phone number.

[thatdrewguy]

Now you tell me....after I deleted everything. Well I got everything re-entered in the phone's memory. I have the PCSuite software and DKU-5 cable but I couldn't figure out how to transfer my phone/address book directly from Outlook. I ended up beaming each contact by infrared from an ipaq. I'll know better next time.

[DarrenJ]

at least you had them on your iPaq otherwise you'd be SOL. Maybe if they make larger than 32kb SIM cards then phones will allow a capability to store more than just name and number.

[PinoyCellphone]

Originally posted by DarrenJ
at least you had them on your iPaq otherwise you'd be SOL. Maybe if they make larger than 32kb SIM cards then phones will allow a capability to store more than just name and number.

ive been using a 64KB sim for almost 6months from now, and it still stores single contact number for a for every contact. and thats the default number

[dragon208]

i think the sim also saves the group calling also i believe. If u saved ur contacts as FAMILY or whatever and u copy it from phoen to sim memory.. and then u copy it back to phone when u put ur sim in a new phone, it'll recognize if it's family caller group or whatever..

Cause I think it works for meh on my 7250! =)

[Telekom]

Originally posted by dragon208
i think the sim also saves the group calling also i believe. If u saved ur contacts as FAMILY or whatever and u copy it from phoen to sim memory.. and then u copy it back to phone when u put ur sim in a new phone, it'll recognize if it's family caller group or whatever..

Cause I think it works for meh on my 7250! =)

Aren't caller groups stored in the phone?

[evan_silbert]

Caller groups are in the phone but some phones can manage to have a caller group of sim contacts without copying them.


The main reason I can think of for having 1name/1number per entry on the sim is for universal compatibility- all phones take it but their internal options differ vastly...

[[MDS]]

i thought that if you have multiple numbers for one name, when you copied that to the sim, it would create an entry for each number....

ie: John: Home tel, Work TEL.... when you copy the sim will be like John Home tel and another John with work tel... thats what my t68i did, but i am not sure on nokia...

[evan_silbert]

I think it probably depends on the phone. To be sure, I would copy them individually by hand and name them in some standard format:

Name/M
Name/H
Name/W etc...

[TXLady]

Originally posted by thatdrewguy
Now you tell me....after I deleted everything. Well I got everything re-entered in the phone's memory. I have the PCSuite software and DKU-5 cable but I couldn't figure out how to transfer my phone/address book directly from Outlook. I ended up beaming each contact by infrared from an ipaq. I'll know better next time.

If you're using PCSuite, you can sync the phone to a contact list in Outlook (I believe others may be supported but I use Outlook). Also, content copier can be used to copy data between two phones or to back it up on a PC.

I don't have the cable, I do my sync and backup to the PC using the IR.