Import Contacts from SIM simply does nothing!

Hi All, I have new iphone 3g, and want to import my contacts from my old Orange SIM (the contacts have all been copied to SIM). I enter the SIM and select "Import from SIM" in the settings --> Calendar, Contacts etc section. The message says "Importing contacts" but then nothing! Nothing in my contacts, no failure messages, nothing!
Someone please help, I cat sync my old phone with outlook either. DISPAIR!

Some people have reported that it can take a little bit for the iPhone to translate and update your contact list.
Give it about an hour and check back to see if they have updated.

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Contacts.
The contact information on the SIM is imported to iPhone. If you have Contacts
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iPhone_UserGuide.pdf

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Hi Rammohan,
Thanks for the effort!
But I don't need to use GUI upload because my functionality does not require to fetch data from presentation server.
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Hello FoxFifth.
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Import Contacts from emails like hotmail, gmail,...

Do you kno wany functions atht permit to import contacts from
main emails (yahoo.com, hotmail, gmail, ...) if the user accepts to
give his user and password .
it is used to send invitations to diffrent users. A lot of
sites begin to use that, it is completely viral and I found scripts
for .net, c++, php, vb, .. but not for ColdFusion.
It is comletely actaul to have this fucntion available since
concurrent use it and I don't find any way to do it in Coldfusion
except by using cfx_http5 but is does not use the API of the emails
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design, the cfx_http5 function has to be corrected each time).
I think it could help a lot of users to have this function
available for Cold Fusion.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it isn't possible, I was
just mentioning that you might want to consider another option,
giving the user a bit more control.
I haven't seen any CF based solutions for what you are
describing, but If you've found scripts in c++, consider turning
that into cfx_tag. If you can find a Java based solution, that
might be easier to integrate by installing the class/jar file and
using cfobject.
Screen scraping is probably the only option unless the target
service provides an easily consumable source such as XML or through
an API. In the case of a Yahoo Premium account, you can export
contact information, such as to a CSV. You may also have to develop
the authentication mechanism which might require the use of an API
key along with some encryption mechanism (usually MD5) to encode
the api key, userid, and password to obtain an authentication
token.
As far as "MySpace is doing it", there might be some behind
the scenes agreements that have been worked out both from a
technical as well as a legal aspect. I would suggest that you
contact each service that you are planning on supporting with this
feature directly. The response you get back should give you a
pretty clear indication on what is allowed, assuming you can get
past the "Customer Support" screeners.
You mentioned that what you are attempting is temporary in
nature, but can the user be 100% convinced that it is temporary?
Unless the user has 100% access to your system to verify that the
information hasn't been kept in a log or database, they can't be
sure. Case in point, Disney is a well respected company but
recently one of their employees was caught in an Identity Theft
Scheme. (
http://www.identitytheft911-newdimensionsfcu.com/alerts/alert.ext?sp=996)
A user's permission doesn't mean that you haven't violated
the services "TOS" . While there are coding applications in other
langages that can perform email harvesting, that doesn't
necessarily mean that they are legal just because they exist.
Here's an excerpt from the Yahoo Developer docs on the Mail
API (
http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/docs/html/index.html)
. Item 2, while it specifically states "User Data", the
contents of the address book could be easily construed as user
data.
1. You must use the Browser Based Authentication API to
enable access to the user's Yahoo! account through your
Application.
2. You may not use the Yahoo! Mail Web Service API to mine or
scrape user data from the user's Yahoo! account.
3. You may not use the Yahoo! Mail Web Service API to
recreate a mimicked version of Yahoo! Mail on your site.
4. You may not use the Yahoo! Mail Web Service API to display
the user's Yahoo! account information in a third party email
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