This is how contacts are exported to the sim all entries are broken down in to individual numbers and any labels you give them will be lost and your sim will only stor so many numbers - depends on the limit on the sim card.
If you use a computer to synchronise your contacts they would be preserved there - for example if you sync to Microsoft Outlook or Windows Live Mail. The sim card does not have the capacity to store the numbers the way you have changed them - obviously this is a limitation of the sim card as it was not originally designed to store numbers the way you want them to be stored. Larry & Flax GD (Guide Dog) & Elliot RGD (Retired Guide Dog) London, UK Multiple Installer http://ninite.com Flash Updater http://updateflash.org/ Impartial info on Android & IOS http://www.blindtechsupport.net/ -----Original Message----- From: talks-boun...@talksusers.com [mailto:talks-boun...@talksusers.com] On Behalf Of Hans Pauli Sundstein Sent: 17 September 2011 17:11 To: Talks Mailing List Subject: Re: [Talks] question about copying contacts to sim card Hi. I have never been able to do it otherwise on any of the phone's, that i have had in my life, but if you have a memorycard in your phone, you can do what you are asking for. Best wishes Hans Pauli. -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: alex wallis Dato: 17. september 2011 17:46 Til: talks@talksusers.com Emne: [Talks] question about copying contacts to sim card Hi list. I am wondering if someone knows what might be going on with the following problem. I am copying contacts from my phone to my sim card. the copying appears to go OK, however when I brows to my sim directory, I find all my contacts there, but in several cases where I have multiple numbers for a contact, the sim card has created individual entries for each number. so for example, lets say I have a contact called john smith, who has two numbers, there will be two contacts called john smith. also, even more annoying, in the phone book stored on my phone, where I do have multiple numbers for contacts, I usually rename the fields so that for example one might be called work mobile, and another might be called personal mobile. this information has not been copied to the sim card, so using our john smith example again, in both contacts called john smith it just says telephone and gives a different number in each, and it hasn't preserved the different labels for the numbers. this will make my contacts annoying to sort out, as on a lot of them I have home and mobile numbers stored in one card, and also numbers for there wives and partners all of which has just been scrambled by the sim. luckily I still have the original in phone memory, but I would like to know why the copy of my phone book on the sim is so scrambled and how I can get the information copied correctly. Many thanks for your help, Alex. _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/
