New phone, new poll

[ciphergoth]

I have got a Nokia N82. It is shiny. I haven't got the GPS to work yet though.

And I've got to transfer across all my contacts. By hand AFAICT. So now's a good time to make sure they're all up to date!

[Poll #1213234]

Update: I've now factory-wiped the original phone and given it to lilithmagna, so I don't need tips on how to sync the address books thanks :-) I've saved a copy of the old address book in case of emergencies, but the only way I've got to extract numbers from it is a hex dump...

Comments

[andrewducker]

Transfer them all by hand?

I use GooSync.Com - which syncs the contacts to an online repository - allowed me to recover when my last phone died...

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

When I upgraded my N70 to an N95 i noted the n95 had a utility for just this purposes.

It sent a app via bluetooth to the N70 so allow the to phones to chatter and sync all the data.

Shame it didn't try to update the Apps I'd installed...

Goosync sounds interesting - but I'd rather use one of my own servers as repo for such data than provide google with even more personal data - they have quite enough for me already. (It's not so much I dont' trust them - I'm becoming accutely aware of how much data they could have - and I don't trust the US court system).

[shevek.livejournal.com]

While you're at it, look at gsmpb from gsmutils or gsmlib. It works for me on most phones.

#!/bin/sh
gsmpb -s /dev/rfcomm0 -d ~/.phonebook.SM -p SM
sleep 5 # to let the phone reset itself
gsmpb -s /dev/rfcomm0 -d ~/.phonebook.ME -p ME

Then you can swap the arguments around somewhat. This seems not to work for multiple numbers per entry as in my Nokia 6310i, it only gets one of them. On the other hand, the Sony T610 exported numbers as Name/M and Name/H so there were no collisions.

I have a corresponding script using gsmsendsms which reads ~/.phonebook.* to send SMS from the laptop.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

What they all said, there are usually many ways. I haven't tried a new Nokia (but since I'm about to get either the N78 or the N82, haven't decided which ... why did you pick *that* one?) I will be going through this myself in a month.

For my SonyEricsson's, I installed Outlook just long enough to sync from old phone to PC, remove old phone sync software, install new phone sync software and sync back to phone. For other recent phone, just used bluetooth or infra-red to send all contacts (as vCards I think) and they showed up in the message inbox on the other phone and when I clicked on the attached file it asked "import all contacts?" and I said yes and they all appeared (though many of the "home" numbers appeared as "business" numbers for some reason).

Yep, a quick search has someone copying their .vcf file (vCard export of contacts from their old phone) to the N82 using Nokia PC Suite.

What was your old phone and do you still have it?

Also, I copied entries from old phone memory to SIM memory (very restricted number of entries) and then moved SIM across and copied from SIM to new phone memory and that was another way of transferring data ...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

why did you pick *that* one?

Almost at random - I was about to leave Orange for T-Mobile and they offered me that cheap, I took it because it has HSDPA and WiFi.