If you are a Nokia fan, you know how difficult to move to another platform. For years, those magical devices gave us a great service. But according to the today situation, you have no option but move to Android or may be iOS. When you are moving, one of the major problems you will face is how to move contact list.
In Symbian OS there was no universal way to sync your contact in cross platform version. True, you can sync them using PC suite, but it will work only with another Symbian device. There are several applications which is letting you to sync contact online, but none work for me in a smooth manner.
You can copy all your contact to SIM card and move them to new phone, but unfortunately there you can store limited number of contacts. Other than that it supports only phone numbers, not other related details.
Finally I tried very basic old school way or migrating contact from a Symbian phone to Android and it worked like magic. If you have the same problem, here is what you should do step by step.
Process of Contact Migration
- Go to contacts in your Symbian phone.
- Go to options and Mark all the contacts.
- Then go to options -> Create backup -> Phone to memory card.
- This will create vCard in your memory card one per contact.
- You can find those vCards in others -> Contacts in your memory card.
- Move the contact folder in to android phone memory card.
- Then open People app in Android phone, go to options -> Import/export -> import from storage
- It will search for vCards in your SD card and offer you three options to import one vCard, slected vCards or all vCards.
- Click OK to proceed and all the contacts will be successfully imported to people widget.
- You can see the same contact list when you open the phone application as well.
This process is simple and you don’t even have to install any application on your Android phone or Symbian phone. Once you import contact to your Android phone, I’m pretty sure that you will never have to face such a trouble to migrate contact since all of them are synced with your Google account. Even if you move to another Android phone you can easily get them from Google account. To be on the safe side, keep your contact folder as well with all the vCards in it.
Tags: #Android #Symbian