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Contacts saved to sim???
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No, they are saved to the phone, AFAIK, the only way to back them up is through iTunes, I do not thin kyou can move them to the Sim, unless AT&T has a way to do it over bluetooth.
No, for some reason, contacts are saved on the iPhone and not the sim. You can import contacts from the sim from your prior phone, but there's no way to put contacts on the iPhone sim.
Not if you sync'ed to your iTunes first. If you didn't sync and you did a restore then whatever ones that were added after your last sync will be gone.
No, because you do a backup before the restore. The backup contains contacts. It's also a good idea to sync your contacts to Address Book or Outlook.
Edit: Or MobileMe. I tend to not like paying for things, if I don't have to.
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There used to be a way if you have a jailbroken iPhone. Not sure if you still can.
I know AT&T can put them on your sim for you, just make sure that the store you go to has the correct cable for their machine they use.
I know AT&T can put them on your sim for you, just make sure that the store you go to has the correct cable for their machine they use.
Don't know if you used this, but I was searching for information on it myself and came across your post. Supposedly it spams your contacts, so don't use it! See this:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/748226/
Any other way to upload your contacts from your iphone to your simcard?
Maybe a jailbroken app out there that does that simple function.
I dont trust these website to upload all my personal info to.
Maybe a jailbroken app out there that does that simple function.
I dont trust these website to upload all my personal info to.
Uh, you can't load contacts to a sim card on the iPhone. They're stored on the iPhone itself.
I've been searching for a way to do this (actually was trying to help someone in another thread who lost their computer and wants to update). Funambol is one way. Google sync and of course, MobileMe (but I refuse to pay). However, I've heard that both don't sync perfectly, but maybe that's old news.
I know that you cant do it and that they're saved on the iphone.
Just looking for a hack thru cydia or some other program that would allow something like that.
I dont want to bother with mobileMe either.
Whats up with funambol and google sync?
Just looking for a hack thru cydia or some other program that would allow something like that.
I dont want to bother with mobileMe either.
Whats up with funambol and google sync?
I've not heard of any hack.
Funambol and Google Sync supposedly lose some of the information from your contacts. I guess if all you have are the names and phone numbers, they're probably okay. But from what I've read not all of the fields that you might use in the Contacts correspond to either of those programs. Maybe they've fixed it by now. Also the pictures for contacts might get lost, but that's fairly easy to fix. I was going to try Funambol, but it says they can use the info from my contacts for marketing, so I'm still thinking about it.
Interesting.
Thanks for the feedback.
I know that most regural cellphones just use name and phone numbers stored on the simcard.
So if you have a picture attached or home address, email addresses, homepage, Instant messenger screenname and tons of other stuff you can add to a contact name probably wont copy over.
As long as if you have more than 1 phone number for a specific contact copys I'd be happy without all the other details.
Just the phone numbers would do.
Any way to sync it thru outlook and save it somewhere maybe?
Thanks for the feedback.
I know that most regural cellphones just use name and phone numbers stored on the simcard.
So if you have a picture attached or home address, email addresses, homepage, Instant messenger screenname and tons of other stuff you can add to a contact name probably wont copy over.
As long as if you have more than 1 phone number for a specific contact copys I'd be happy without all the other details.
Just the phone numbers would do.
Any way to sync it thru outlook and save it somewhere maybe?
Well, of course you can sync to Outlook or Address Book, but this is for the guys who either lost their computer or had their computer crash or something (and weren't smart enough to backup). I have my contacts synced to Outlook and I have backups. You see people come on this site all the time who didn't backup or sync though. So, some way for them to get their contacts off the iPhone would be nice.
I hear you.
Its not for us safe and prepared for the worst type of guys
I looked at the 3rd party stuff more closely. They can only store the data, and can't use it to spam. So, my only other problem is that you have to enter your phone number to join this. IDKY they need that.
I wonder why? That would seem like a very useful app to have and most people would easily pay $0.99 for it (or if it was free everyone would have it and they could put ads on and make lots of money that way).
I'm not sure. It was developed by Makayama. Here's the original link: http://www.makayama.com/iphonesim.html
They want 12.95 for it though. I figured it had to be jailbroke. Oh well. I'm going to see if I can develop something then, if it's possible.