On Wednesday, May 01, 2013 05:50:48 PM [email protected] wrote:
> 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.
Hi,
The only way I have found to connect Linux to an android device is via Blue
Tooth,
It works fairly well.
Gerald
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