I don't think Android backs your SIM contact list to Google without your say-so. (That might be a potential privacy issue.)
When I make a new contact (on my HTC desire), it gives me the choice of storing the new contact on the SIM, on the phone, or on Google (I assume one can connect to a different cloud service if they wish). If any of your contacts are on the SIM, you will need to move them off before you change to a new SIM. I moved all my contacts off my SIM manually years ago and I never looked back. In interest of keeping this thread on topic (linux), does anyone know of decent linux software that can synchronise with a droid? I'm thinking about locally stored contact data, SIM card data, calendars and text messages... Cheers. Darren. From: Chris Barnes <[email protected]> To: William Bennett <[email protected]> Cc: slug <[email protected]> Date: 01/05/2013 04:34 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] On switching ISPs. Sent by: [email protected] For a moment I thought I'd been subscribed to an Android support mailing list.... My guess as to what you are asking is do you need to save the phone contacts from your old sim card before turfing it? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Its a bit hard to say but generally Android likes to chuck all your contacts up to the cloud meaning they should already be on the phone when the new sim card is installed. You can probably check this by launching Gmail in the web browser on your computer and check your Contacts. If you see the contacts that were on your sim card in your Gmail contacts list then you shouldn't need to copy them from the old sim card. Hope that helps and sorry I cant be more specific. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:13 PM, William Bennett <[email protected]>wrote: > Wishing to switch ISP. > Have other ISPs SIM, with instructions to activate it. > There's no mention of the phone list on/in my old SIM. > Have I to save it somewhere? > It's an HTC Velocity. > > Any help, > > William Bennett. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Kind Regards, Christopher Barnes e. [email protected] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
