New phone, old contacts

hi there have just bought a new Nokia, the sim card was transferred from the old phone but I can't find my contacts. Please can you help.

16-Mar-2008 06:57 PM
eyjy123 wrote:
hi there have just bought a new Nokia, the sim card was transferred from the old phone but I can't find my contacts. Please can you help.
Which phone you have ? You must have saved all the contacts in phone memory of the old phone. That is the reason you dont see the contacts in the new phone.
You can do:
1) Insert the SIM card in the old phone . Take a backup of the old phone using PC suite.
2) Transfer the SIM to the new phone and restore the backup.
You should be able see all the data of the old phone including Images, video clips, contacts, messages.
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