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Transfering Contacts and Messages from Nokia 6500 Classic to HTC Sensation XL - How to?

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newsmartphoner

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After searching the forums and around the internet I cannot really find a way to transfer contacts between my type of phone and an Andriod system. I have read that one could use the export function to save the contacts as a Vcard file and then export them to Outlook. However, my phone does not have an export function. I can only use Nokia Ovi Suite to download the contacts and messages. I can use a simple data connection for photos, but contacts and messages and calandar items do not appear this way.

Is there a way, there must be, to transfer the contacts and messages and calandar events to my new HTC Andriod phone?

I would really like to see a how to that is clear, tested and works and if someone can give me some details I will write more detailed instuctions on what I did to make it work step by step, but for now I am clueless.
 
Thanks for this, but none of them are going to work.

1. My phone, although has bluetooth, I think, cannot select all the contacts to send, there is no check box, this phone is quite old. The 3600 C came out I think in like 2007 or 2008, there is no easy way to copy contacts. There is no business card function on this phone that I know of. I have checked everywhere for it. As I said, there is no export function.

2. I have no idea how to use this method. Though as it says I need to download Kies, but I am worried if it does not work the first time, as it says, everything will be messed up.

3. Ovi Suite to Outlook? Really? Seems another third party software is involved. But may work well.

But I am wondering has anyone actually used these other than perhaps the author of this on the other site? It would be nice to hear some positive things that these methods actually work and what are the idiosyncrasies of it all...
 
I am the author of that on the site LOL. I can guarantee they all work. I am actually a ranked poster at the Nokia Official forums, so I kind of have experience with these questions and all.

As for the Ovi Suite to Outlook, that was actually the main purpose of why PC Suite exists (and eventually evolved to Ovi Suite), to be able to sync to Outlook for the business clients.

I actually did it for my sister, who was using a 5310 xpressmusic (using s40v5 OS from Nokia, just like your 6500C) before she transferred to a Galaxy Fit. Synced her phone via Ovi Suite to Outlook, then synced from Outlook to Kies to Fit. Worked well.
 
LOL Chan, I guess I need to stick my foot in my mouth eh?! Glad you have experience, and glad to find someone who has actually done it and used it and even wrote the dang software! haha.

I have backed up my contacts from the Nokia phone to my PC using PC Suite, I had to go find a copy of it, and then I copied it as a vcs file, will that work? So I have to copy that vcs file to outlook first then and then I can probably even use google aps to transfer to the new phone no? Or use Kies? You wrote that software no?

Ovi Suite doesn't work, I tried it. The files that it creates are not outlook friendly, unless I am not looking in the right place. But I find PC Suite actually did have an export function. so I now have that vcs file, but am unsure how to go from there. Use Kies I guess, I need to download it and try.
 
I was able to transfer SMS & contacts over from a Nokia E71 to an Incredible S using the included "Transfer" app on the HTC. All I needed to do was enable bluetooth, and follow the wizard-style dialog. After that was done, I use HTC Sync to sync between Outlook and the phone.

My calendar is on a separate Exchange account, so no issues there.
 
I didn't upload anything to Outlook. In Ovi Suite's settings menu, for the contacts, calendar, etc, there is a tickbox there for "sync to Outlook". You just need to check those. Then plug in your old phone and sync to Ovi Suite. It will automatically sync all three places (Outlook, Ovi, phone). Now you have all your data on Ovi.

Rergarding Kies, you can't use it because you're using HTC. You need HTCSync. I only noticed you were using HTC now, I seemed to have missed that. As dosbox says, some HTC units apparently have that Transfer app.
 
I'm confused.. I already backed up my data to PC Suite and also to OVI Suite, but I never backed up anything to outlook yet. And I am afraid to do that because I do not want to mix my phone contacts with my outlook contacts, is there anyway around it?
 
Oh so you already have separate Outlook contacts you don't want to mix? That's a bit tricky indeed.

Have you tried using the HTC Transfer app thedosbox was talking about? He claims it works on Nokias.
 
newsmartphoner said:
I'm confused.. I already backed up my data to PC Suite and also to OVI Suite, but I never backed up anything to outlook yet. And I am afraid to do that because I do not want to mix my phone contacts with my outlook contacts, is there anyway around it?
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Use the HTC "Transfer" app. No need to use PC Suite or OVI Suite. It will give you a list of phones it recognizes, then walk you through the process of connecting via bluetooth and copy everything over. It will however delete any contacts and messages already on the Sensation.

http://www.htc.com/help/www/howto_iframe.aspx?id=92948&type=1&p_id=432
 
hi guys, yep, I have other contacts in outlook, like 2000 of them, that I do not want synced to the phone, those are mostly email accounts, and if I mix them together, oh lordy what a mess.

Well I have installed the HTC Sync program, but it is asking me to connect to outlook. What HTC transfer ap are you referring to? HTC Sync? It won't work because it will connect to outlook. Bluetooth I am not familar with using, my pc is supposedly supposed to have bluetooth but it is not working. I have nothing else in sensation, it's a new phone I haven't started using it yet because I am waiting for my 3G service to activate and I want to get my contacts on the phone first.
 
Ok I am trying out bluetooth but running into problems..

old phone, no place to say discoverable.
new phone, paired but not connected, how to get them to connect to each other. The website, HTC Sensation? XL How-tos - Transferring contacts from your old phone, is not complete, something seems missing on how to get the phones to connect to each other. Once I set it up there was no box to check contacts on the XL, actually once bluetooth was set up it just did nothing, what is the next step?
 
Yep, that is what I did originally, the settings are correct, but the htc phone is telling me that they are paried by not connected. And even if I do get it connected I am not sure how to get the contacts data from the nokia phone.. but first things first, they see each other but are not connected only paired.
 
Ok I seem was successful in transfering a file via "share" on the HTC phone to the Nokia phone. But I cannot figure out how to share something or send something from the Nokia phone to the HTC phone...
 
I don't really know much about the HTC Transfer app.

There is another way actually that I learned only after I already made that post in the other forum. However it will make you go through cloud if that's alright with you. Using Ovi Suite, you can sync it to Windows Live if I remember correctly, selecting Windows Calendar and Windows Contacts instead of Outlook. Using Windows Live, you can sync that to a Hotmail account which you can sync to your phone.

Another method going through cloud is uploading the csv file from PC Suite to your Gmail account, and that will automatically sync the contacts to your phone.
 
This is not about the HTC side of things, this is about the Nokia side of things. I can send to Nokia via HTC, but I cannot send to HTC via Nokia, in the Nokia phone there is no option to send anything out in my older phone, which is really strange.

I want to keep this as simple as possible, it seems the bluetooth way is possible, only that for some reason the Nokia phone cannot send anything...
 
Ok well, here is the latest, after awhile of trying this is what I finally had to do. I remembered I have a Nokia C5-00 phone, which is about 2-3 years newer than the 3600C. So using Ovi Suite I transfered everything from there to the C5. Then I fiddled with it for awhile and found it has an export for vcf files. So after some tinkering I was able to get the HTC phone to accept the Nokia C5. HTC is not very easy to find out where message files come into the phone, you have to open up messages by tapping the top and then dragging down the menu of all the recieved messages, and if you do not do it within the time frame the bluetooth discoverable is open, which is only 120 seconds and then transfer will fail. So after about 5 attempts I finally got it working.

Now, big question. I have all these new vcf files on my HTC, but how to get them into the phone's contact area? Right now they are sitting in the bluetooth received folder, do I have to one by one now move them to the contact list in HTC? I found there is a mesasge that asks me how I want to handle the files, but it seems I hvae to move them one by one, by tapping the back button on the HTC phone, is there any way of moving them in mass to the people contact list in phone? I have over 400 contacts, of course tapping and going back is much easier than typing all that data in again, but isn't there a way to select all and then move them to the contact list folder?
 
Because the 6500c has very limited functionality. In essence, its what people refer to as "dumb phones" as opposed to smart phones like Android, iOS, Windows or Symbian. So its always a PITA to really get those things working outside the normal phone call, sms, games, calendar, music workings.

EDIT: Just saw your new post. In HTC's contact app (I think its called People?) Press the menu button>import/export(should be somewhere there)>then select import from SD card. It will ask you whether you want to save the contacts to your Google account or phone. Saving it to Google account will sync the contacts to the primary Gmail account which you used to activate the phone with if you are connected to the internet. It will sync any new changes as well making the Google Contacts up to date. This is good since if you buy a new phone in the future, you can just activate it with the same Google Account and all contacts will automatically be downloaded without trouble.

Saving it to phone contact, well, makes it not sync.
 
Hi Chan, indeed the Nokia 6500C is sort of a dumb phone.

The contacts are already sitting on my HTC phone in the bluetooth folder as mentioned above, I wonder if you saw my previous post? This phone has no SD card, it is 16GB and that's it, no expansion. My questions is how to get all of those contacts out of the bluetooth folder on the HTC phone into "People"? I can select one by one, but with over 400 contacts, that will take awhile, is there a function that can select all and move all to the People folder so to speak? Or do you mean that I need to connect HTC Sync to the PC, download the vcf files that are already on the HTC phone to the PC, then move them back to the phone via Google? Wow what a run around to get them there in that case, they are already on the phone, haha.

So perhaps I need to create a google gmail account just for my mobile phone so that the contacts can be synced with this and of course in the future.

Chan by chance are you living in Asia? I wonder because you are replying at the same time I am, and I am in Asia. Happy Chinese New Year!
 
Kung Hei Fat Choi!. LOL.

The 16GB storage is the SD storage.

If you would look at the file manager, the internal storage is SD, and the external SD is well, external SD. Just do the import from SD.
 
恭禧發財! :-)

I'm confused... No idea how to do what you mention..

And some other questions, after doing an HTC sync, where does it put everything? I looked in documents and there is a folder, but nothing is in it. And HTC sync is annoying because for people it will only sync it to outlook, which you know already I can't do as it will mix contacts together. It makes no mention of gmail... I am really confused on how to get these vcf files to my people easily and then sync them before or after to google mail so that I can sync them in the future to there. It only lists outlook...
 
newsmartphoner said:
恭禧發財! :-)

I'm confused... No idea how to do what you mention..

And some other questions, after doing an HTC sync, where does it put everything? I looked in documents and there is a folder, but nothing is in it. And HTC sync is annoying because for people it will only sync it to outlook, which you know already I can't do as it will mix contacts together. It makes no mention of gmail... I am really confused on how to get these vcf files to my people easily and then sync them before or after to google mail so that I can sync them in the future to there. It only lists outlook...
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re: HTC transfer - once the phones were connected, nothing needed to be done on the Nokia. All of my contacts and messages were copied in one go. However, I don't have a 6500C to replicate what you're doing.

re: sync of contacts to gmail - you don't do this via a PC. Just enable your gmail account to sync contacts. Menu > Settings > Accounts & Sync > Google > Sync Contacts
 
The vcf files are in your mass storage right? Just go to the people app>menu>import/export>import from sd. Doesn't matter if you don't have an SD card because the internal mass storage is named "sd" in the Android system.
 
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