Cell Phone Question

[MaggieD]

I just got a new cell phone. The dumb kind. On my other dumb phone, my contacts were saved to my SIM card. I inserted the same SIM card into the new phone, and the numbers in the Contacts list are older ones I used before I got the last phone. I tried to enter one of the current numbers that should have been in my Contacts list but weren't into the new phone. It wouldn't let me, telling me "that contact is already listed." But it's not there. WTF?

Anyone know where these mystery Contacts might be found? Anyone have that problem when getting a new phone? Thanks.

 

[Mycroft]

Different storage formats?

I don't know.

Perhaps a search online for your particular problem...on your particular phone...will give more information.

 

[SmokeAndMirrors]

Try putting the SIM back in your old phone, going into settings, and seeing if there is a way you can manually back everything up to your SIM card. You may want to try main settings, and also contacts settings if it has its own unique preferences.

Without knowing what model it is, or at least more precisely where it is on the smart/dumb continuum, that's about all I can tell ya.

Do you know the model? Is it "brick phone" dumb, or smarter than that? The kinds of issues it could potentially be are very difference depending on that.

 

[Rainman05]

Is your new phone decoded?

As in, if you have a card from provider X, and you now have a phone from provider Y, the sim card from X may not work properly in a Y provided phone. And you need to have it decoded to support that sim card.