I have notice that some of my friends in Facebook and Twitter lost their phones this season and posts on their walls. I am deeply sad knowing that many of them lost their phones during the Christmas season; however that is not the focal point of this article. I have lost my phone also before when I was in grade school and had difficulty in retrieving numbers from classmates and teachers. So from that day onward I looked out for ways on how I can safely save all my contacts so that every time I change phones, it will be easy for me to move contacts from phone to phone. Way back my grade school days, it is very hard and expensive to have high capacity sim cards. I was very dependent with the capacity of sim cards when it comes to saving contacts and messages. It was very very limited and very hard to use. You have to choose where to save the messages and contacts (Sim 1 or Sim 2). My first phone was Philips Savvy and few months after I had Nokia 3210. Ways back then I receive 10-15 texts per day, so I have to erase txt so that I can read new messages. Some messages are worth saving for, so I often save text messages. Cutting the story short, I got hooked with texting and saving messages. From 3210, I moved to Nokia 3310, Nokia 3530, Nokia N81, Samsung S5233T, Nokia E5, Blackberry 8520, MyPhone A818 (android), iPhone 3gs, and currently iPhone 4s. Transition from phone to another phone is hard. I have to transfer this, that and etc. As time goes by, I found apps and certain ways on how to preserve contacts and messages. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to save 2000 plus contacts from grade school up to now. Well I’m just lazy to delete contacts, don’t worry I’ll do cleaning if I have time. Anyways, here’s my ways on how to transfer contacts from phone to phone through different modes using suites, 3rd party apps. I don't own a windows phone (Sorry). I use combination of apps and tutorials so credits to the owners of the applications. Without your apps this tutorial would be impossible. Stay genius and awesome! J (Sorry I can’t directly cite the websites and persons whom I got the technique, tutorials are scattered thru the net so I don’t know who is the first one who posted the tutorials) The cloud that I use to save my contacts is “Google Contacts”. This also saves the calendar and emails. Thanks Google for this. We love you for this J (so register with google for an email account so that you can sync your google account to your phone). Our main goal is to sync all your contacts to Google Sync, because when you sync all to your google account, you can do live editing of all your contacts when you signed in via browser and everytime you will make changes in your phone, it will update automatically to your cloud and updates all the devices contacts once it is connected to the internet. Nokia to Google Sync **as of now I am not using this method anymore because I don’t have my nokia e5. The last time I tried this was last May of this year. 1. Download the official pc suite from the Nokia Website. (http://www.nokia.com/global/support/nokia-pc-suite/) 2. Connect your phone with cable, bluetooth or infrared. Go to the ‘Contacts’ application 3. At the ‘Contacts’ application, select the contacts you want to sync or just select all then export (located on File à then export. It’s better if you have a dedicated folder for it so that you won’t be confused. 4. You have the option to save weather .csv or .vcf format. Choose vcf. 5. After you exported all your selected contacts, you can sync it all to google sync. Sign in your account to google, then go to the contacts page. Then click ‘more’ then ‘import’. Select all the contacts from the folder. 6. Voila. You synced your nokia contacts to google sync. Blackberry (8520) to Google sync via iPhone **as of now I am not using this method anymore because I don’t have my blackberry 8520. The last time I tried this was last August of this year. 1. Before you can sync directly from your blackberry to google sync in my blackberry 8520 but now they updated the OS so I cannot sync it directly to google sync. So this is my own way on how you can sync your old blackberry contacts to google sync via iphone or idevice. In this you need to install an app called “InTouchApp” which is a multiplatform contacts sync app that automagically sync your device contacts to their cloud to the syncs it to your other device. Here’s my little convo with them in twitter dated July 11, 2013. Here’s their website: http://www.intouchapp.com/ *picture on the gallery on the bottom of the post* Word of advice, for it to be free you have to link only the 2 device to your itouchapp account. I linked my Blackberry and iPhone for this. Worked flawless. 2. Have the app installed in both devices. Do the sync first in the blackberry (to itouchapp server), then the iphone (iphone to itouchapp server then itouch app server to iphone). Have the iphone synced in your google sync or outlook so that you can find and merge the duplicates and voila you synced your blackberry contacts to your iphone and google sync vice versa J iPhone to Google Sync (vice versa) Simply go to this website. https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/138740?hl=en vCard to iCloud You can also import via icloud. If you have vcard, just sign in to icloud.com and input your username and password. I don’t know how many it can import at the same time, I don’t use this method. Google Sync to Android (vice versa) Don’t have to worry, it will sync by itself. Just sign in your contacts account or email to the Accounts and Settings and your good to go. Just have a stable internet. Android to Nokia (Symbian) to Google Sync 1. Android only produces one .vcf for all the contacts your selected if you are exporting thru the contacts app of the phone. For you to be able to import it to nokia you have to use a command prompt app to generate separate vcf files for you to be able to import all contacts. Use VCFSplitter (http://www.dm9.se/?p=4) . There’s a ‘readme’ text inside, of course you need to read it :) 2. After doing the instructions and managed to make separate vcf files. You can import it to you nokia suite by connecting your phone to the pc, selecting the vcf files and you’re done. 3. If you want to sync your nokia contacts to your android directly, you have to generate a single vcf file so that you don’t have to pick one by one the contacts you want to sync. Visit http://www.creativeworld9.com/2011/04/how-to-combine-all-vcf-files-to-single.html and it will show you how to combine all vcf files to a single vcf file. 4. After generating a single vcf file, you can import it to your android phone and sync it to google sync. Easy breezy. :) Here are my methods on how to sync from phone to phone. Hope you learn something from this. I’ll update this post if I found something interesting on the net that is useful. Thanks for reading :) If you’re going to make or copy something from this post, please do cite me, copy the link, or the website indicated in the post. Thank you. :) REMINDERS! For all iPhone Users: for security reasons in case someone stole your iphone, activate the 'Erase Data' option on your iphone, it will erase all the data on your iphone in case of 10 failed passcode attempts. For all users: Instead of using simple passcodes, you can also use longer passcodes. Also if someone stole your device from you, do change all the passwords of all apps that has sign in feature on it specially the one's that have your credit card account linked. Strong Passwords contains numbers and letters that are not associated in any of your known info(birthdays, favorite number, anniversary number, cellphone number and likes). and lastly, SYNC ALWAYS YOUR DATA TO YOUR PC in case of emergency. :)
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