Transferring contacts to new mobile phone

[2Margaret]

I have an 'ancient' Nokia mobile phone which seems to be on the way out (dim screen). I only use pay and go - when I get a new p&g phone from a different network, how do I transfer the contacts other than re-entering them individually? I don't have any cables to connect the phone to anything.

[Hopkirk]

You sit there laboriously entering each one into the new phone, using the keypad.

(You will of course make at least one mistake, but won't realise until the worst possible moment)

[SpikeyBush]

If your contacts are on the SIM then they can be easily copied. Indeed the shop where you got your new handset from should have been able to do it. Meteor did that for me when I told Vodafone they were too expensive.

But if your contacts are saved on your old handset then break out the notepad and pen. And keep the written log in case your new phone is pinched, dropped in the drink or run over by a tractor.

[ummmm]

You can transfer your contacts from phone memory to sim memory.

[ummmm]

My OH has a really old Nokia....and my up to date'ish one works the same. Go to contacts...settings....memory in use....select phone or sim.

[SpikeyBush]

I think the memory available on a SIM card is not as big as the phone memory. I remember years ago trying to save a new contact, and was greeted with the message 'SIM memory full. Save to phone memory instead?'

There weren't even that many contacts saved on the SIM. But this was a while ago, maybe more modern cards have a bigger memory.

[missprim]

I recently bought a new phone and had to go on a different network. You have to get a code ( can't remember what it's called ) and give that to the new network if you want to keep the same number then I think that number goes on your new sim card but the numbers don't and if you put your old sim in your new phone it won't accept it. Having said all this I have to say I think that is what happened. I know I had to put each number in individually and I hadn't written all the numbers down so I've lost some.

[ummmm]

Well I suggest you get another Nokia. I've never had a problem saving the numbers to sim and putting in a new Nokia.

[2Margaret]

Thank you all! Will check if the shop can help - if not I'll resort to pen and paper (not a bad idea anyway to keep a paper list).

[Hopkirk]

Well worth keeping a written record - I dropped my phone down a portaloo once.