Backup and copy SIM Cards

22 08 2009

Did you know that your phone can copy a SIM card’s contacts?
All you need to do is copy the SIM Card to the phone, insert the new SIM Card and copy the contact from the phone to the SIM Card. I’ve just swapped from Vodafone to 2degrees and this made it easy for me on a Nokia 1200 & 1110i (though should work on any Nokia):

  1. with your old Vodfone SIM card in the phone
  2. goto: Menu / Contacts / Copy / From SIM to Phone / All [and choose keep existing, this means they'll stay on the old sim]
  3. turn off when it has finished
  4. insert new 2degrees SIM card, turn on
  5. goto: Menu / Contacts / Copy / From Phone to SIM / All [ and choose delete existing, this means they'll be deleted off of the phone so you don't have two copies]

Hope this helps