How do I transfer my contacts from old phone?

[waruwaru]

I don't know about others, but I am finding that it is too much trouble for simple tasks which mobile phones from 5 years ago handled better. Are we going backwards?

Yeah, too bad the bluetooth thing didn't work...

I was able to pull my contacts out of a BlackJackII (WM6) using DotFred's PIMBackup in csv format (non-binary, non compressed, unzip the output). Gmail was able to import the csv. I did very little editing afterwards
http://www.dotfred.net/default.htm

Others had luck with TBExport (didn't run on my BJ)
http://freewareppc.com/database/thun...tsexport.shtml

[inportb]

I don't know about others, but I am finding that it is too much trouble for simple tasks which mobile phones from 5 years ago handled better. Are we going backwards?

I don't know about you, but copying contacts to SIM takes less than a minute and importing contacts from SIM is just as fast. That's what I did five years ago and it's as easy now.

[RockLoi]

I don't know about you, but copying contacts to SIM takes less than a minute and importing contacts from SIM is just as fast. That's what I did five years ago and it's as easy now.

Yeah, but as I had to change networks my old SIM will not work in my G1 and vice versa.

I'm really struggling with this too, I've always used bluetooth to transfer, and my contacts are solely on my Sony Ericsson K750i.

I'm gonna see if any of my older phones lying around are unblocked to all networks so I can bluetooth my contacts to my T-mobile SIM in that phone, that's the best I can come up with right now!

[Craig]

Yeah this is pretty bad. I can't think of the last time I had to manually transfer a contact. I'm in the same boat, got a Hero but moved network, so the old sim won't run in the new phone, and vice-versa

I'm at a bit of a loss as to how Android got out the door with such bad bluetooth facilities!

[Plumbing108]

Your post is highly informative. I appreciate your efforts.

[androiddeveloper1987]

Try using MobileGo software!

[Antya]

VeryAndroid Contacts Backup is a smart andriod contacts backup and managment software. It not only can copy and backup contacts on Android phone to computer, but also works perfectly in restoring contacts from computer to any android phone directly.

It can help you:
- Copy and backup contacts from Android to computer.
- Export and transfer contacts from Android as vCard file, CSV file or TXT file.
- Restore contacts to android phone any time.
- Transfer contacts to android from other phones(iPhone, Windows Mobile, Nokia, Blackberry etc).
- Set or change contact picture and contact ringtone on PC.
- Manage contacts easily on computer.

Info: http://www.veryandroid.com/contacts-backup.html
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[Tord]

Android phone have the menu to import contacts from vcf format.

[ToddCarey]

I purchased the software can solve your problem on this site, it's very good. And also very simple to use.

[365socialmedia]

there are a lot of methods for contact transferring like PC Suite and with Bluetooth and so on