Migrating SMS + contacts from SPV C500 to MDA Vari

[Guest Swampie]

Any suggestions how to migrate my SMS and contacts from my SPV C500 to my new MDA Vario in the least troublesome way (preferably avoiding Outlook as my Outlook contacts are work contacts, and my mobile contacts are personal).

Thanks

[Guest st3ph3n]

Any suggestions how to migrate my SMS and contacts from my SPV C500 to my new MDA Vario in the least troublesome way (preferably avoiding Outlook as my Outlook contacts are work contacts, and my mobile contacts are personal).

Thanks

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Backup your outlook contacts to a second contacts folder then use activesync and outlook to migrate them. Then restore the status quo and change activesync to not sync contacts. 2 minutes and dead easy.

Doing it without outlook involves much faffing about I think.

[Guest Swampie]

Done it your way and it worked perfectly.

That still leaves the SMS's to be transferred though. Any suggestions about that?

Thanks

[Guest Swampie]

In the end I discovered Jeyo Mobile Extender for Outlook. This allowed me to download all the SMS messages from my phone into an Outlook folder, and then copy them onto the new device.

They have a copy on their website which gives you a 15 day trial. :) Plenty of time to transfer the SMSs!

One thing to note - when copying from PC to phone, remember that it copies the currently selected SMS, so you need to select all if you want them all copied. I kept thinking it wasn't working!

[Guest DeejUK]

In the end I discovered Jeyo Mobile Extender for Outlook.  This allowed me to download all the SMS messages from my phone into an Outlook folder, and then copy them onto the new device.

They have a copy on their website which gives you a 15 day trial. :)  Plenty of time to transfer the SMSs!

One thing to note - when copying from PC to phone, remember that it copies the currently selected SMS, so you need to select all if you want them all copied.  I kept thinking it wasn't working!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've given this a go, but it won't copy *all* my SMS's from my phone - the most it's got to is 1,100, then it stops. Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

Other than that, it seems like a great piece of software.

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

Do you really need all 1100 sms's?!

If you really think you do you could copy the first 1100 over, delete them, then copy the rest in a second batch...