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Author Topic: Transferring contacts between cell phones from different manufacturers Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-08-2006 04:22 PM                        IIRC, there was a thread recently about backing up your contacts from your cell phone. How about if you have to transfer contacts from one manufacturer's phone to a different one? In this case, I have to transfer my contacts from a Nokia 6230 to a Motorola i760 because my company switched to Nextel. Is there a universal file/data format for cell phones? Both phones know categories like home, work, cell, fax, etc., but do they store them in the same format and can those data be transferred from one phone to the next? I tried simply loading the SIM card into the new phone and reading the data off the card. The older account is not active anymore, but that has nothing to do with the SIM memory. But the Motorola asked for a "special number". It is not the old SIM's PIN, I already tried that. So if that doesn't work, I want to look into PC programs which can be used to backup and/or upload the data to the new phone.  |  IP: Logged Jason M Miller Master Film Handler Posts: 284 From: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 03-08-2006 11:25 PM                     You will need a data cable for both phones to do this Try this: First use Nokia PC Suite to back up your phone book then use Motorola Phonebook Manager to upload it too the new phone. You may have to format the list that is pulled from your nokia to upload it to the moto phone.. Good luck  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-09-2006 01:53 AM                        I have the Nokia PC Suite, but none of the cables yet. Have you tired it yourself? Do theese programs export the information to either a text file or a common format from which it can then be imported to the other phone?  |  IP: Logged Robert Burtcher Expert Film Handler Posts: 194 From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Registered: Jun 2005 posted 03-09-2006 03:04 AM                     I have no clue if either data suite supports it, but your best bet is to export your contacts from the Nokia suite in a Comma Separated Values (*.csv) file, and have the Motorola suite import that.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-09-2006 11:03 AM                        It doesn't look like the Nokia program does have that option. Apparently, it saves all data in a .nfb file which looks like it is a proprietary Nokia file format. A program like data pilot might be what is needed, but I don't want to spend $50+ just for that job.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-09-2006 11:24 AM                     I don't about the Nokia 6230 and Motorola i760, but some phones can sync with applications like Microsoft Outlook.  |  IP: Logged Jason M Miller Master Film Handler Posts: 284 From: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 03-09-2006 11:25 AM                     I have never done it, but you may want to try these solutions: firt try right clicking on the file and going to "Open With.." and then select notepad or wordpad and see if it is just a txt file with a weird file extention or you can try this NFB Converter  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-09-2006 01:33 PM                        Thanks for that link. Apparently, the Motorola application only knows .mdb as a file format. Now I would need a program which converts the text file created by that program to .mdb. I think that's the Access file format. There might be a program out there which does that. I will see once I get the cables to hook up the phones to the PC.  |  IP: Logged Jason M Miller Master Film Handler Posts: 284 From: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 03-10-2006 02:09 PM                     Try this Access Help  |  IP: Logged

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