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How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:11:22 GMT

I've seen some threads on here about copying ALL your contacts to the sim card, but I have 100's of contacts as the phone has synched all of my Google contacts' email addresses. I don't want all of my email addresses on the sim card! Can anyone tell me how I can save ONLY the contacts with phone numbers? I tried ticking a few of them and selecting 'save to sim' (or something like that), but then I could not see how to view them? When I click on Contacts it doesn't give me the option to view those on the sim, so I don't even know if they copied across ok.

Also, when I save a new contact, the option to save to the sim acrd is not there; does anyone know why, or how I can save new contacts to the sim?

Thanks.

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

Uliwooly — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:40:09 GMT

@AliWonder

It will sync everything that you have on your phone, you might need to find a third party app that allow you to do just that.

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

CameronT — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:45:22 GMT

@AliWonder,

Try going to your contacts, tap the 3 dots, then go to "Filter". Tick "Contacts with phone numbers only" and untick everything else.

Then, when you go to "Export contacts" it should display only contacts that have phone numbers.

Because the data transfer from SIM is very slow, Android will not display contacts directly from SIM cards anymore. They have to be copied to the internal memory.

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:53:11 GMT

Thanks both. It seems there isn't really a way of saving only selected contacts to the SIM card. Maybe the best thing is to wait till I've got the memory card & save all the contacts to that (my last phone was an Xperia S & had no memeory card so I'm just used to saving to ghe SIM as back up!)...

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

CameronT — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:39:49 GMT

@AliWonder, So you are trying to save individual contacts to your Google back up, not to the SIM card? Sorry, I think I misunderstood your query.

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:56:37 GMT

Thanks. I am trying to save selected contacts to the SIM card.

The whole business of contacts in this phone is doing my head in to be honest! I set the filter to show 'only contacts with phone numbers' so that it doesn't bring up all 500 of my Google email contacts (!), but now when I manually add a contact - to the phone only, no back-up - who only has a phone number; the contact is not visible unless I filter to show the Google account etc & almost all my contacts! I do not understand why:

1) The 'contacts with phone numbers only' filter doesn't seem to work;

2) Why I cannot save selected contacts to the SIM card and also filter so I can view these?

I also have another query about contacts. The phone doesn't seem to allow me to type in a new number to an sms message unless it is in my contacts? Do I really have to add every single person I sms to my contacts in order to message them? Some of these are just one-off messages; it's a pain to have to add all of these to my contacts list! Am I doing something wrong here? On my old Xperia S I could simply type the phone numnber into the 'To' box, but this phone won't allow me to send the message if I do this.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

CameronT — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:35:23 GMT

@AliWonder,

Hmm, the functionality works exactly as I described above on my handset. I am able to select individual contacts to transfer. I have a feeling this might be to regional differences in the firmware if you are unable to do this. If that's the case, uliwooly will be right and you'll have to use a third party app.

As to your other query, you definitely should not have to add a contact in order to text them. What SMS app are you using?

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:48:11 GMT

Thanks @CameronT I'm using the sms app that comes with the phone.

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

CameronT — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:37:19 GMT

@AliWonder,

When you start typing a number in your new text, what happens?

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:24:46 GMT

Hi @CameronT - it allows me to type the number but then the 'send' arrow is disabled so I cannot send the message.

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

CameronT — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 02:39:44 GMT

@AliWonder, maybe a silly question, but you definitely have your SIM card in the phone, right? It's not loose or not being detected etc?

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:11:39 GMT

Hi @CameronT - yes of course the SIM is in the phone; I wouldn't be able to use it otherwise; how would I make calls, send sms etc?...! 🙂

In any event I have now started another - related- thread - about the fact that I cannot actually see some of my contacts that are clearly in the phone. If I set the filter to show 'contacts with phone numbers only' about half of my main contacts vanish - & all of them have phone numbers! I have to set the filter to show everything in order to see these key contacts - this means my contact list is clogged up with 100's of email addresses from Google that I don't need to be in there.

The whole contacts / filter thing on this phone seems to be a complete mess!

Thanks for your efforts to help - apart from this contacts issue I love the phone!

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

CameronT — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:58:39 GMT

@AliWonder Haha no worries, just had to check :). I'm at a loss to be honest. Your phone is behaving in a way I've not seen before. In case you're experiencing some kind of corruption in your contacts app, have you tried running a software repair?

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:31:42 GMT

Thanks, I will try this - the phone is brand new though!

The whole contacts thing is driving me crazy. I have now filtered to show every single contact that I have in the whole universe - all my email accounts; Whatsapp; messenger etc. But there are still loads of contacts that are clearly in the phone somewhere - as they appear in my sms list with a name & some even have a photo - yet they are invisible to the contacts list; they are simply not there! Where are these contacts? When I try to add them as new contacts I get asked if I want to merge them - but I cannot see them anywhere in the phone except in the sms conversation I have been having with them!

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

CameronT — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:39:21 GMT

@AliWonder

Do you have the box ticked that says "Show online contacts"? If so, untick that

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 11:17:13 GMT

Thanks - this is the only box that is unticked! 😞

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

CameronT — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:13:21 GMT

@AliWonder,

This is so peculiar. Try the software repair and let me know if there's any change.

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:12:54 GMT

Thanks @CameronT - sorry where is the software repair? Wont this delete everything off the phone?

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

CameronT — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 23:35:45 GMT

@AliWonder.

Here's how to do a software repair. It does delete your data yes, so make sure you back it up first.

Re: How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

AliWonder — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 15:22:23 GMT

Thanks very much for all of your help on this. To be honest I can't face having to set the phone up again - restroring from back-up never brings everything back. I think I'm just going to manually add all the contacts that are missing from the contacts list, by copying them from my old phone! It'll take a while but seems easiest!

Thanks