Hi,
I have a 6600 and want to backup the contacts on it to my PC not memory card. I can send photos to my PC via its bluetooth receiver, but whenever I 'mark all' contatcs and press send it only lets me do it by e-mail. I have FE explorer installed on the phone does this help?
I managed to backup the phone to the mem card which produced an .arc file and I have no idea (neither does windows) on how to open it.
Thanks in advance guys,
-Mike B
Try the freeware Contacs Transfer app from here: http://personal.inet.fi/private/riihimaki/s60/ or SmartvCard from www.symbianware.com
Why not use the free PCsuite software that comes with the phone, that backsup everything on the phone and will also sychronise it with your PIM if you want.
Wirelessly posted (Nokia6600/1.0 (3.42.1) SymbianOS/7.0s Series60/2.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0)
This is what i am also doing. Pc suite is good enough. I have other issue:with 2.800 contacts the 6600 is very slow on finding typing or searching. Any ideas?
TheSpecialBoy wrote:Wirelessly posted (Nokia6600/1.0 (3.42.1) SymbianOS/7.0s Series60/2.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0)This is what i am also doing. Pc suite is good enough. I have other issue:with 2.800 contacts the 6600 is very slow on finding typing or searching. Any ideas?
Wow... that's a lot of contacts!!! Looks like u cannot use over 90% of phones in market which has limitations in number of entries now.
If your contact list is so long, try not to use any thumbnails as these takes up resources. In addition, try leaving it in your phone memory instead of MMC.
For contacts with only 1 phone number (ie. no other details) and infrequently used, you can save them on your SIM card instead. That should reduce the main contact list by a few hundred entries. You can switch to SIM directory if needed.
As your contact list is big, your phone will need more memory to work with it. Avoid installing SW into your phone memory, especially SW like Photographer.
Lastly, remove contacts that your don't use often.
Hope these help!!!
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You can just use the built-in backup option on the 6600. Go to Menu\Extras\Memory.
Click Options\Backup.
That's it.
You can backup to your MMC, not just your contacts, but all the calendar, notes, etc.
deQue wrote:You can just use the built-in backup option on the 6600. Go to Menu\Extras\Memory.
Click Options\Backup.That's it.
You can backup to your MMC, not just your contacts, but all the calendar, notes, etc.
does this actually work; all your contacts are backed up?
Unregistered01 wrote:does this actually work; all your contacts are backed up?
Heeelp!!! please.
I've used the "Memory" apps backup & restore on several different phones, and the restore does restore also contacts, messages, settings, etc. (which means that the backup backs those up, too).
Unregistered01 wrote:aha!! i tried it and it didn't work. no calendar, no contacts. everything else i think. i know 'cause after i scanned the memory and it said contacts: 0 B; calendar: 0 BHeeelp!!! please.
Hmm.. I'm not sure about this since I haven't tried this myself. however I think I might know why you don't see your contacts in memory scan.
you see,when you choose to store for example messages to your MMC,it copies your existing messages to a same catalogue as on the phone,but with another station-prefix.. it also continues to store them in there..
On the other hand,backup only makes an "image" of what is there at the present time and copies it into a bundle ( a file stored in your MMC) It doesn't change the memory in use,and your new contacts will in the future still be stored in the phone memory.. 😉 Hope I managed to explain this so it is easy to be understood.. 😊
cheers Raygun
TheSpecialBoy wrote:Wirelessly posted (Nokia6600/1.0 (3.42.1) SymbianOS/7.0s Series60/2.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0)This is what i am also doing. Pc suite is good enough. I have other issue:with 2.800 contacts the 6600 is very slow on finding typing or searching. Any ideas?
One more thing that you could try is sorting your contacts in groups.. When the number of contacts is so high,I would recommend using many,precise groups..
Example: instead of using just :family,friends,work
try: close family,far family,friends from work,friends from the club,girls,boys, work office,work project 1,work project 2,etc...it might narrow it down a bit...
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try to use this program it will back up all the contact list only then u can send it to ur computer by bluetooth