How to copy my contacts from my phone to my sim card?

Anonymous
2014-02-11T09:31:44+00:00

This is really irritating.My window phone 520 is going worse.There are alot of problems with it.I have finally thought of reseting it.But the problem is that i cannot afford losing my contacts.Is there any way of copying my contacts to my sim card? So that after reseting i can have them back when i insert my sim card after the whole reset process? Please help me out of this...

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Anonymous
2014-02-11T10:11:55+00:00

Your contacts are always synced to your Microsoft Account in the cloud. You can verify this on your PC: https://contacts.live.com

To answer your question, there is no export to SIM function. You can export contacts (if you still need to) from the mentioned site though by choosing Manage > Export.

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Vijayasimha BR 550 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2014-02-11T10:14:19+00:00

There is no way to put the contacts from your phone to SIM card. I can suggest a few alternatives though.

  1. Go to contacts.live.com. Login using your windowsphone account. All your phone contacts must be stored here.
  2. There is this app called TRANSFER MY DATA in the store under the section called APPS BY NOKIA. That app allows you to transfer contacts through Bluetooth to other phones.

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Anonymous
2014-02-19T10:31:04+00:00

Er No! I look at my Microsoft account and there is nothing about the contacts that are in my Win 8 phone that seem to be sucked up from the various sim cards that have been in it.

Guesss what I dont want my face book life in my phone or visa versa.

Just how do I do **** that was simple on old phones and is now imbloodypossible with 'smart' phones.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-03-20T14:08:06+00:00

    It doesn't matter where you bought the phone or that it was SIM free. Many prepaid phones like pay as you go phones are privately branded to a carrier...and has the carrier's version of OS on it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-03-20T13:51:19+00:00

    OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer

    Carrier = cellphone carrier (ie, AT&T, Verizon, TMobile, etc)

    If you've got a Pay As You Go phone, it is most likely privately branded to a carrier. The carrier most likely modified the version of the windows phone OS, so the carrier that privately branded the phone is the entity to whom you should direct your complaints.

    Thanks for clarifying. However I bought my phone SIM free (from Amazon as I said) so no carrier involved I guess. Presumably therefore the features that Entegy has on his Lumia 520 would have been removed by either Nokia or Windows so that Amazon could sell it on cheaper?

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