How do SIM cards work?

[FXB]

All of my contacts and personal information is on my phone. Now my phone is falling apart (literally) How can I transfer all of my data onto the SIM card so I can put it on my next phone?

Thanks

 

[ganzey]

All of my contacts and personal information is on my phone. Now my phone is falling apart (literally) How can I transfer all of my data onto the SIM card so I can put it on my next phone?

Thanks

i always thought it saved them on the sim card, and you would simply put it in the new phone and they would be there

 

[FXB]

Well you are right but... I don't have a SIM card in my phone right now. So I need to transfer everything from the internal memory to the SIM card.

 

[Shane]

From what im aware,all the sim holds is your contacts & Messages,The rest of your stuff will be on your phones memory and you would need to transfer your old stuff by a cable from your old phone to the Pc...then from the Pc to your new phone.

Thats how its always worked for me anyway.

 

[Intel_man]

It really depends if your phone is a smartphone or not. The smartphones might store them on a SD card rather than the traditional method of the SIM card.

 

[Troncoso]

Well you are right but... I don't have a SIM card in my phone right now. So I need to transfer everything from the internal memory to the SIM card.

If your phone doesn't already have a SIM card, are you sure it's able to take one?

 

[CrayonMuncher]

Actually most modern phones store contacts on internal memory, by that i mean anything color with a camera, i believe the sim can only hold around 90 contacts where the internal memory can hold a lot more.
What i do on my k800i (and previous phones) is go to contacts and choose the option copy contacts to sim, then there all there.

 

[Tayl]

Actually most modern phones store contacts on internal memory, by that i mean anything color with a camera, i believe the sim can only hold around 90 contacts where the internal memory can hold a lot more.
What i do on my k800i (and previous phones) is go to contacts and choose the option copy contacts to sim, then there all there.

Similar concept for me and my phone too.

While actually within the contacts on my mobile phone, if I press the menu button for the contacts there's a setting that can import or export my contacts to or from my SIM or SD card.

 

[dellxps420]

All of my contacts and personal information is on my phone. Now my phone is falling apart (literally) How can I transfer all of my data onto the SIM card so I can put it on my next phone?

Thanks

what phone have you got mate ?

 

[FXB]

From what im aware,all the sim holds is your contacts & Messages,The rest of your stuff will be on your phones memory and you would need to transfer your old stuff by a cable from your old phone to the Pc...then from the Pc to your new phone.
Thats how its always worked for me anyway.

Well the Palm software for the centro does not support Windows 7.

If your phone doesn't already have a SIM card, are you sure it's able to take one?

Yes my phone has a SIM card slot and a microSD slot

what phone have you got mate ?

Palm Centro

 

[dellxps420]

Well the Palm software for the centro does not support Windows 7.

Yes my phone has a SIM card slot and a microSD slot

Palm Centro

im not to sure on the palm but im pretty sure you can do that from the phone unlike the iPhone you have to do it off the computer very long process

 

[FXB]

I just tried what Tayl and Innercx posted without any luck. I would have to e-mail all the contact info one by one and I don't have a data plan. I started transferring my contact info on my mac when I got it but I use my new windows desktop as my main rig. I don't have any of the microsoft suite at the moment.

 

[Geoff]

The SIM card can only hold very limited information. If you store contact there, usually all you can store is their name and phone number. If you have other information such as additional phone numbers, e-mail address, contact picture, notes, etc., that gets stored internally. Messages are stored internally as well, I've never heard of those being stored on a SIM.

When you get a new phone on the same carrier usually they will just swap the SIM card to your new phone.

 

[FXB]

When you get a new phone on the same carrier usually they will just swap the SIM card to your new phone.

I'm getting a used cell phone and I don't have a SIM card in my current phone.

 

[Tayl]

If I recall correctly the Palm Centro has an SD card slot. Why not just pick up a cheap SD card (You can pick up a 1gig one for next to a couple of coins if you're strapped for cash) and copy them onto the SD. Then simply pop that into your new phone and voila.

 

[Geoff]

I'm getting a used cell phone and I don't have a SIM card in my current phone.

Only certain carriers use SIM cards, what carrier do you currently have? Are you sure the used cell phone is compatible on your carriers network?

 

[Troncoso]

Only certain carriers use SIM cards, what carrier do you currently have? Are you sure the used cell phone is compatible on your carriers network?

Yeah that. If you have verizon they offer backup assistant. You don't even have to go through a computer to recover your contacts.

 

[FXB]

If I recall correctly the Palm Centro has an SD card slot. Why not just pick up a cheap SD card (You can pick up a 1gig one for next to a couple of coins if you're strapped for cash) and copy them onto the SD. Then simply pop that into your new phone and voila.

The palm centro uses micro SD but my next phone would have to use micro sd as well and I haven't figured out what phone to get.

Only certain carriers use SIM cards, what carrier do you currently have? Are you sure the used cell phone is compatible on your carriers network?

I have Bell (Canada) I will get a phone compatible with my network or I will get an unlocked phone.

 

[Tayl]

The palm centro uses micro SD but my next phone would have to use micro sd as well and I haven't figured out what phone to get. I have Bell (Canada) I will get a phone compatible with my network or I will get an unlocked phone.

You'll find that most, if not all mobile phones now come with micro SD slots.

 

[FXB]

Not the iPhone