Transferring files off old phone

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danielwd

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#146876 1-Jun-2014 10:14

Hopefully someone can help me, I've spent ages on this.

So I have a Sony Ericsson K500i phone. It didn't come with a USB cable or software suite. It does have infrared.

Suggestions online were to get a compatible USB cable which I managed to source and had shipped from Hong Kong.
Plugging the USB cable in does nothing. The cable is installed and detected but it cannot detect the phone.
I gave up on that working.

I have an infrared receiver dongle from a remote control that came with my tv capture card.
I thought if I could somehow get that working to receive files using the phone's infrared, but my searches for some kind of software to make this work have turned up nothing.

Any suggestions? I'm out of ideas!

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andrewNZ

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#1057454 1-Jun-2014 11:45

Easy way, take it to your mobile providers store and ask them if they can help. They're usually pretty good.

jonb

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#1059225 4-Jun-2014 15:50

It's fine to put a micro sim into a normal sized sim slot, just make sure the pins are aligned with the correct part of the sim card. I've been using that for the past month in SonyEricsson W800 phone with no issues. Then you can try and email pictures etc.

It is also likely that the pictures and videos are all saved on to the Sony memory stick card, not the phone memory itself. In which case you can get a memory stick to SD card converter.