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wazabi
Jul 18th, 2008, 01:40 AM
Took me 10 mins to find this trick, but do this... if you have an old card and put to the phone.

iPhone 3G menu > Mail/Calendar/Contacts > Import SIM contacts >SIM import
rayray27
Jul 18th, 2008, 01:49 AM
Nice to see that they added this function. On the 2G iPhone you had to download an app to copy contacts from your sim.
Nutchos
Jul 18th, 2008, 02:09 AM
christ... I spent an hour doing it manually a few days ago.

Although, mine were in a rogers sim (fido iphone) not sure if it'd have still worked.
Makaveli the Don
Jul 18th, 2008, 02:22 AM
...are you kidding me?

DAMMIT. And I decide to come on here after I re-enter all my contacts.

CRAP!

Nice piece of advice, this deserves a bump.
Paolo
Jul 18th, 2008, 08:24 AM
This post also deserves a "RTFM"
wazabi
Jul 18th, 2008, 08:55 AM
took me a while to find this... lol

thanks for the bump haa
matkun
Jul 18th, 2008, 09:58 AM
I did this first thing, but it only worked partially. It imported about half the contacts, the others it did not :(
wazabi
Jul 26th, 2008, 09:11 PM
Well.. here's another one for ppl...

how would you export a contact from iphone to the sim card?

i know you can do itunes + contacts sync but a feature of contact on iphone to sim card seems to be missing...
BrianJai
Jul 27th, 2008, 11:20 AM
christ... I spent an hour doing it manually a few days ago.

Although, mine were in a rogers sim (fido iphone) not sure if it'd have still worked.

ya i think mine wil be the same if i get iphone... my sim card is fido and i think i wil be lookin forward to a rogers iphone :S how wil taht work then =/
wazabi
Jul 28th, 2008, 12:03 AM
It would be the same thing.. if you got your iphone from rogers... but you have a fido sim card it should work... but i would imagine that you will have to activate your rogers a/c and not your fido since your contract is with fido. if you got it from fido and you have a fido card, you can use your old card as you tell them you want to use your old card. Or alternatively just switch your fido # to a rogers# and use that sim card.

ya i think mine wil be the same if i get iphone... my sim card is fido and i think i wil be lookin forward to a rogers iphone :S how wil taht work then =/
ClubberLang
Jul 28th, 2008, 12:09 AM
my nokia n95 did it automatically. :P
Paolo
Jul 28th, 2008, 08:06 AM
ya i think mine wil be the same if i get iphone... my sim card is fido and i think i wil be lookin forward to a rogers iphone :S how wil taht work then =/

borrow an unlocked phone and copy your fido sim contacts to a rogers sim, easy as pie, problem solved. not sure why no one else though of this