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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / August 2005Erase SIM Card Phone Book Entries on Razr V3
The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my old Noki SIM card to my new Razr V3 yesterday. It unfortunately doubled th number of entries (made 1 phone book entry for each contac detail..cell, home, fax, etc). I'd rather just erase the address boo and import my own via mobile phone tools. The only problem is I can' erase the current address book, presumably because it's on the SIM. Cingular phone support couldn't help and referred me to MotoSupport. MotoSupport told me they couldn't help & that I'd have to delete one a a time. Has anyone been able to erase the phone book all at once? Thanks, -Adam (Note: Clear & factory reset via the initial setup menu don't do it : The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my old Nokia : SIM card to my new Razr V3 yesterday. It unfortunately doubled the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] : a time. Has anyone been able to erase the phone book all at once? : Thanks, Since you have MPT (Motorola Phone Tools) you can do that (select & delete multiple entries) otherwise NO you have to delete them individually. - - ô¿ô¬ > The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my old Nokia > SIM card to my new Razr V3 yesterday. It unfortunately doubled the > number of entries (made 1 phone book entry for each contact You can set your phone to only show one listing for each caller in the phone phonebook. phonebook-menu-setup-view primary contacts. When you highlight a name, use right/left arrow, it changes the icon, indicating the work/mobile/home, and leaves that one as the one that shows as the primary number. If you "select" or "view, then you can scroll up and down through the multiple entries for that name, showing the number and the text description of that entry. From there, menu allows you to set one as the primary. > detail..cell, home, fax, etc). I'd rather just erase the address book > and import my own via mobile phone tools. The only problem is I can't > erase the current address book, presumably because it's on the SIM. No. It's different, but still there. I started out by putting my contacts on the SIM, because I thought that was sensible, and it let me change phones with no effort. But the SIM doesn't store the extra values like home/work/fax, just names and numbers, and it even truncates some names. I used MPT load all of the entries to my PC. I made some adjustments and cleanup there. Then I deleted all of the entries in the phone, set MPT to create new entries in the phone rather than the SIM, and loaded them to the phone again. Under Mobile-phone, options, you can select a filter. Maybe you have filtered off either SIM or phone.  Signature--- Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5 >> The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my old Nokia >> SIM card to my new Razr V3 yesterday. It unfortunately doubled the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >the text description of that entry. From there, menu allows you to set one >as the primary. !!!!!!!!! This has been posted many times as maybe the biggest complaint about the RAZR. I use MPT to get everything from Outlook and it was a huge PITA to scroll through each one. Thanks so much for the solution! Now, a page down key would be a nice enhancement. > This has been posted many times as maybe the biggest complaint about > the RAZR. I use MPT to get everything from Outlook and it was a huge > PITA to scroll through each one. > Thanks so much for the solution! > Now, a page down key would be a nice enhancement. Another thing that would be nice is the ability to find more than just the first letter. My Nokia would go to "T", and then "TH". The Motorola goes to "T" and then "H", instead, so I have to scroll through the Ts. Signature--- Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5 >> Now, a page down key would be a nice enhancement. > >Another thing that would be nice is the ability to find more than just the >first letter. My Nokia would go to "T", and then "TH". The Motorola goes >to "T" and then "H", instead, so I have to scroll through the Ts. Tip: If you have a lot of T's, and the number is in the last half of the T's, jump to U (next letter), and then scroll up. SignatureBest regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES: John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular> Thanks for your helpful post! I managed to delete everything from th SIM using mpt, and I've started the process of updating the phone base address book. For some reason a number of contacts aren't sync'ing t the phone, so I've taken to manual entry. Oh well, entering 25 i better than 225! Motorola has a lot to learn from Nokia about phone usability. Mayb I've just been spoiled having a familiar, intuitive Nokia UI on ever phone I've owned since '99. But I think Moto could improve a fe things we've all highlighted here. -Adam dold@XReXXErase.usenet.us.com Wrote: > > The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my ol > Nokia [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > --- > Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122. >Motorola has a lot to learn from Nokia about phone usability. Maybe >I've just been spoiled having a familiar, intuitive Nokia UI on every >phone I've owned since '99. But I think Moto could improve a few >things we've all highlighted here. Different strokes: I personally prefer the Motorola UI (on the V551) to Nokia. I likewise prefer the Sony Ericsson UI to Nokia. SignatureBest regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES: John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular> > Thanks for your helpful post! I managed to delete everything from the > SIM using mpt, and I've started the process of updating the phone based > address book. For some reason a number of contacts aren't sync'ing to > the phone, so I've taken to manual entry. Oh well, entering 25 is > better than 225! In the phonebook, I scrolled to the bottom and found a box unchecked on the entries that weren't synchronizing. I did a 'select all', and the rest of them were synced. I don't know why they weren't checked initially. There was an option elsewhere to synchronize all verses synchronize selected, and I had chosen "all"... The other thing that should work is to select and copy the contacts, if it doesn't choose to synchronize them. --- Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5 |
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