SIM Card in Different Phones

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eracode

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#63845 3-Jul-2010 01:47

I recently got a Galaxy S, moving from a Nokia 5800 XM. When I moved the SIM card from the Nokia to the GS, the contacts were pretty jumbled. They had been fine in a Symbian environment but it seemed that did not gel with an Android OS so I sorted them all out into a tidy set-up on the new phone.

If I temporarily put the card back into the Nokia, will the Nokia/Symbian system make any changes to the contacts set-up i.e. when I move the card back again from Nokia into the GS, will they be jumbled again? This may be a dumb question but I'm not sure how this all works.

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#347459 3-Jul-2010 09:01

eracode: I recently got a Galaxy S, moving from a Nokia 5800 XM. When I moved the SIM card from the Nokia to the GS, the contacts were pretty jumbled. They had been fine in a Symbian environment but it seemed that did not gel with an Android OS so I sorted them all out into a tidy set-up on the new phone.

If I temporarily put the card back into the Nokia, will the Nokia/Symbian system make any changes to the contacts set-up i.e. when I move the card back again from Nokia into the GS, will they be jumbled again? This may be a dumb question but I'm not sure how this all works.

With an Android phone, I found the best approach was to not change the SIM at all. Instead, I set up a "phone" group on the gmail account I want to use with any of my Android phones and let that sync with the new phone when I login. No organisation required after the initial setup. The only list I sync with the phone is "phone". I do not want everyone I've ever emailed loaded into my phone.

Because this works with any Android phone, I've even gone to the trouble of loading an image into the contacts for each person or organisation. I only have to do it once, then it just follows me from phone to phone.

This way, you don't have to have any numbers on your SIM at all.....they are backed up and always available for any new Android phone via your gmail account.

Like a SIM contact list in the cloud.

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#347601 4-Jul-2010 02:59

Linuxluver:
eracode: I recently got a Galaxy S, moving from a Nokia 5800 XM. When I moved the SIM card from the Nokia to the GS, the contacts were pretty jumbled. They had been fine in a Symbian environment but it seemed that did not gel with an Android OS so I sorted them all out into a tidy set-up on the new phone.

If I temporarily put the card back into the Nokia, will the Nokia/Symbian system make any changes to the contacts set-up i.e. when I move the card back again from Nokia into the GS, will they be jumbled again? This may be a dumb question but I'm not sure how this all works.

With an Android phone, I found the best approach was to not change the SIM at all. Instead, I set up a "phone" group on the gmail account I want to use with any of my Android phones and let that sync with the new phone when I login. No organisation required after the initial setup. The only list I sync with the phone is "phone". I do not want everyone I've ever emailed loaded into my phone.

Because this works with any Android phone, I've even gone to the trouble of loading an image into the contacts for each person or organisation. I only have to do it once, then it just follows me from phone to phone.

This way, you don't have to have any numbers on your SIM at all.....they are backed up and always available for any new Android phone via your gmail account.

Like a SIM contact list in the cloud.

Thanks but that doesn't really answer my question - I just want to know whether the Nokia will write anything or change anything on the SIM card when I put the card back into it after sorting the contacts on an Android phone?

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