Memories, What is Store Where

[Dan wall]

There are 3 memories on my phone, SIMM card, SD card, and Internal memory.
Can anyone tell me what is store where. For example if I send my phone away for repair, is the contacts stored on the SIMM or SD card?

 

[Rukbat]

Contacts can be phone or account contacts. Account contacts are stored on Google's server. Phone contacts can be stored on the SIM card or in internal memory, your choice.

Most of everything else is either in internal SD card or external SD card. (Internal "memory" is the memory that apps run in, nothing is stored there after an app finishes running. SD is storage, not memory, in Android terms, and data is stored in storage.

As for your contacts, export them to your SD card and remove the card from the phone. Then you'll have them backed up. If you entered all your contacts under your account (<whatever@gmail.com, usually), you can back that up from the GMail page on the web if you want, but syncing any other phone to that account will sync all those contacts automatically,

 

[Dan wall]

The reason I asked the question, there does not seem to be any choice of where they are stored or backed up on my Galaxy Ace VE GT-S5839i. I noted that the internal memory was almost full when I purchased it with pre-installed apps and the downloads have gone on to the SD Memory.

 

[Dan wall]

Seems no one can answer this fully, I put a lot of time in getting my contacts correct, how do I back up my contacts if I send the phone away for repair? Is it on the SD card? There are no facilities to export to the SD card.

 

[ayush29k]

There is an option in the contacts settings to export to sd card.
You can also sync the contacts with your google account.

 

[PaulS]

I use an app called Mobile BackupII which creates a contacts txt file on the SD card.This can then be copied to another media for a double back-up

 

[22618047]

I have a Galaxy Ace SGH-G600. I am told that my phone memory is full. I put in a 16 GB micro SD card weeks ago and find that I cannot put the apps on the micro card, WHY!. I have deleted ALL my phone records and now I am able to receive messages but i am under the impression that 90% of that apps on my phone are taking up valuable phone space. Am I right.