Sim Card Backups

[Anon_F]

Are their mobile phone sim card readers?
I ask as all my contacts are now on my sim card.
The inbuilt memory on my mobile had a malfunction & o2 put all on the sim card
And want to back them up so i dont loose any.

I see that their are ones for memory cards, but any just for sim cards?
And could i back them up to the pc or an other device??

And yes i may have asked this question before!
But as i have the flu be kind to me.

 

[Ian]

Yep, you can pick one up for about a fiver (e.g. this one) .

Alternatively, your phone shop may back them up for free. If you've got a phone>PC cable then you should also be able to sync it for free.

Which phone do you have, as you may be able to do it youself?

 

[Anon_F]

Yes i do have a usb cable & sync software on the pc!
Think i may look in to this a bit more before i go and buy something!!!
The phones a nokia c3-01.

Cheers for the advice Ian.

And V_R knows i'm a complete duffer when it comes to mobiles!

 

[Ian]

If you've got the cable and sync software, just back it up using that - free and easy

 

[Anon_F]

will have a go at doing it later.
thanks for your help Ian.

 

[V_R]

And V_R knows i'm a complete duffer when it comes to mobiles!

Ha ha, no worries, thats why i'm here!


Best way these days is to sync your contacts via your email? (Gmail?)

Thats what i do, all my contacts are on my Gmail account, i log in via the phone and they appear on my phone, sorted. Any changes i make either on the phone or via Gmail are synced in real time both ways.

Thats the best way to do it, if you can, that way it doesn't matter if you loose the phone, change phones etc. They are always there and always up to date.

These days you can also store more information for each contact that way. (Contact pictures, email, other numbers, address' etc)

Storing your contacts on the phone or sim is old school.

 

[Anon_F]

I managed after a while to get all to work.
have now printed a copy of all my contact numbers for safe keeping.
A big thank you Ian.
And yet again to V_R.

A very happy man now.