Hopefully somebody else will find this useful; I made some notes at the time detailing how I transferred my data across.
I'll try and keep this page updated wih info:
http://users.ninja.org.uk/~jonathan/9000i_to_9210.html
Briefly, the summary of 2 weeks of conversation with Nokia UK
technical support (me telling them things to try!) came up with the
following:
To import using the PC software:
- You can only import both CONTACTS.TXT and CALENDAR.TXT at
the same time. If you only try CONTACTS.TXT, it does not work. (I
did not try only CALENDAR.TXT)
- You *must* have at least one To-Do list entry in your
CALENDAR.TXT, otherwise the software won't work. (You can elect
not to import any To-Do list items, however they must be there)
- Be warned that the PC software *loses information*. For example, if you
have a contact with eight telephone numbers, e.g. "1", "2", ... to "8",
and import this contact, you will be left with only four numbers for this
person. In my case these seemed to be "1", "2", "5" and "6". Nokia UK
seemed to think that Nokia Finland weren't going to worry about this, and
probably wouldn't fix it.
The only other way of transferring information is to use a 9110 phone. I
managed to track one down, and did the following:
- Back up old contacts from 9110 (you don't want to upset your friend who
lent you the phone!)
- Delete all 9110 contacts, then use 9110 PC Suite to import your
CONTACTS.TXT from your 9000i. (this works perfectly)
- Use PC Suite to import these contacts to the 9110
- Place the 9110 and 9210 within IR sight of each other, and use Data
Mover on the 9210 to transfer your contacts
- Restore the 9110 to its previous state
- Go through each and every contact entry on your 9210, converting
"Tel (PCN)" to "Tel GSM ()". Yes, this is tedious!
- Go through each and every contact, changing Tel (Private) to Tel
(Phone) where necessary. No, there is no way of automatically
telling when it is necessary.
Nokia also recommended using Pumatech's Outlook synchronisation
software, but I could not get it to work:
- It is designed for Outlook 97, not 2000 and certainly not XP.
- It crashed with an "unknown error" when I tried to import anything into
Outlook
- Outlook has no support for more than about 3 telephone numbers
per person, and certainly has no support for named telephone
numbers e.g. "Tel (Business)" or "Tel (Billing)" etc. I was less than
confident that the Pumatech Intellisync software would have solved this.
> Daan
HTH!
I think I'm going to put the above information on a web page
somewhere, actually. There must be plenty of other people with
similar troubles...
I'll let you know when I get it online.
Have a good 2002!
Regards,
Jonathan
>
> [email][email protected][/email] wrote:
>
> > You can use "Upgrade Software" plug-in for PC Suite. It is for N9110
> > to N9210 import but it can be used also for N9000 to N9210 import.
> > Export Contacts and Calendar form N9000i to PC. The use Upgrade
> > Software module in PC Suite. Contacts.txt will be imported without
> > problems, in the header of the Calendar file exported from N9000i you
> > will first have to change the protocol number from 3.0 to 4.0:
> > [FILE-PROTOCOL] 4.0 The you can import also Calendar.txt file
> >
> > All other files must be transferred onto PC using File transfer (this
> > will convert them from GEOS into PC format) and them transfer them
> > again onto N9210 (this will convert them form PC to EPOC format). Petr
> > Vesely
> >
> > : I have a comunicator 9210. How do I copy my
> > : 9000i data to my new 9210? I can't find
> > : any information on this. I was advised to look
> > : on this forum for a tool to convert the data
> > : (contacts etc.) All the info that I can
> > : find is about migrating from 9110 to 9120.
> > : Please
> > : help!
>