transfer contacts to SIM card

Anonymous
2011-03-08T04:59:54+00:00

How do I transfer, or copy, contacts from the phone to the SIM card?

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Anonymous
2011-03-08T09:08:09+00:00

In Windows Phone7 There is no option for transfer contacts to SIM Card.

Its only possible in privious version of windows phone like 6.5 & lower version.

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Anonymous
2011-03-13T11:31:08+00:00

Hi,

After signing in on the phone, you will be able to sync contacts to and from Windows Live. Any time you add a contact to your phone, you can store it on Windows Live. Plus, any contacts imported from a SIM card are backed up too. You can manage contacts on Windows Live contacts from their PC at contacts.live.com.

Thanks for your contribution to the forums!

Nuria S.

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Anonymous
2013-05-27T20:20:11+00:00

Are your contacts not at contacts.live.com where you can sync them with any 'phone that lets you set up a Hotmail account? (Certainly any Android 'phone or iPhone - or, worst case, any 'phone with a browser should let you view them.)

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-10-27T13:15:25+00:00

    Howdy. I spent all day yesterday trying to reply to this, but the reply box wouldn't load. If I was paranoid I'd swear Microsoft was out to get me!

    Yes you certainly would expect that the contacts would still be on the SIM, but I promise you they're not. I am certain that they were on the SIM when I put it in the phone because my last phone died when the touch screen stopped working and I couldn't retrieve anything that wasn't on the SIM, but luckily most of my contacts were on it. I assumed they would still be there and only found out that they're not when I put it into the new phone.

    As to the reason I opened two accounts... well it's a long and boring story of my brain getting more and more addled over the course of several days as I tried to figure out how to do this seemingly simple thing. When I typed Windows Live into Google lots of different things came up: Hotmail; Outlook; Messenger... After much downloading of pointless things I signed up for a Hotmail account but the screenshot didn't look anything like the one in the YouTube tutorial about how to transfer contacts and then it turned out I already had one but it hadn't been activated, so now I have two. They do seem to be different though; in the settings menu on my Windows phone the first account only offers the option to sync emails, whereas the second one has the option to sync contacts, calender and tasks, but as I used the same email and password for both of them I don't know which one I'm signing into... it is most perplexing.

    The account that my phone is associated with is a Gmail account and I tried for at least half a day to find my contacts in that, but it only has emails, no phone numbers, unless they are very well hidden, which is certainly possible. The new Gmail setting has loads of completely unnecessary pages and options and I don't know or care what most of them are for.

    I appreciate that you are trying to help. I feel like a total dunce and if you could explain to me how this works you would have my sternal gratitude!

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