Copying contacts from E100 to C500???

[Guest rickyjohn]

Trying to assist my wife in copying here contacts from her E100 to my C500. Can't seem to do it via infra red (there is only an option on E100 to receive a beam, or can send 1 contact at a time), and there are too many to swap via the SIM card.

Surely there must be an easy way??

Ta in advance?

[Guest ferret]

Have you tried ContactWiz (available on the Orange update from the phone), or maybe good old Outlook?

[Guest fozzie]

Why not just use ActiveSync. Sync contacts from E100 then sync with C500. No manual copying required.

[Guest Zahid]

...or what about the 'Back Up' facility via GPRS?

Simply back up with the sim in the E100, then pop it into the C500, log in with the same details, and use the Restore function

[Guest Dr Who]

Do NOT use the backup via GPRS. You can backup the data AND you can then restore to your C500 but you will no longer be able to sync your new phone with Outlook via activesync!!!

Could always copy your contacts to SIM and swap the SIM card and copy them back.

ContactWiz is only for Nokia phone import.

Activesync would be easiest.

[Guest Beansol]

I am having a similar problem copying from my E200 to C500 but my company PC which I synchronise with has its rights locked and I cannot install activesync 3.7.1.

Can you synchronise two smartphones? (by bluetooth maybe?)

[Guest Dr Who]

Haven't seen anything that would allow you to synchronise two phones :-(

[Guest Beansol]

Can you choose the storage card to hold the outlook info? :roll: :?:

[Guest Dr Who]

That would be FAR too easy. If it's just contacts you could copy those to the SIM and scoot them about and I guess if somebody could tell you what the files associated with Outlook on the phone are called then you could copy the files onto your storage card.

I would get the administrator to install 3.7.1 on your work PC.......

[Guest rickyjohn]

Bit of a long story....

Well I couldn't use ActiveSync for the E100 for 2 reasons - the E100 is my wifes work phone and has all her work contacts on it (she's off work at moment) and wants to copy accross contacts to her own C500. She hasn't got the sync cable/cradle at hand. Secondly, even if she did have it at hand, I have set up my own C500 to sync with our home outlook which have my contacts on, so she couldn't sync her C500 with our outlook anyway.

Basically, can't believe that the C500 has the facility to import contacts from another phone but not another SPV - barmy! Basically I had to manually copy to SIM on her E100 and then from SIM to phone on her C500. Bearing in mind she has 300+ contacts and a sim with 90 max contacts = pain in the preverbial.

[Guest fozzie]

........even if she did have it at hand, I have set up my own C500 to sync with our home outlook which have my contacts on, so she couldn't sync her C500 with our outlook anyway.

There's your problem - "our Outlook". You should have seperate Outlook instances set up. That way, you can keep seperate address books, contacts etc and sync your own phones independently. Piece of cake :)

[Guest Dr Who]

Should have used the new SIM card you get with the C500 - holds more than 90 contacts I think!

[Guest yorgl]

Do NOT use the backup via GPRS. You can backup the data AND you can then restore to your C500 but you will no longer be able to sync your new phone with Outlook via activesync!!!

Could always copy your contacts to SIM and swap the SIM card and copy them back.

ContactWiz is only for Nokia phone import.

Activesync would be easiest.

is there another way (program) to sync with outlook in this case

or do i need to enter again all contacts within outlook?

[Guest Dr Who]

Not sure of your request, yorgl. If you mean you have used Orange restore to return contacts to your phone and can no longer sync via activesync (if this is still the case - this was discovered 3 months ago but I am guessing it hasn't been addressed) then the only way is to re-enter your contacts in Outlook, reset (clear storage) your phone - !!!removes ALL data and settings!!! and then use activesync to sync back onto your phone. The incompatability of the Orange restore data only extends to the items you have restored and try and activesync - in other words you could Orange restore your contacts data and then use ONLY Orange backup to save them and NOT have them in Outlook at all but still use activesync to sync your Calendar entries, etc. Bit confusing, I know.