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Contacts

Importing, exporting, and sharing contacts

If you have contacts stored in vCard format on an SD card, USB storage, or SIM (depending on your model of phone), you can import them into Contacts on your phone. You can export contacts in vCard format onto an SD card or USB storage, to back them up to a computer or other device. And you can send a contact via email.

Import contacts from your SIM card

Your service provider may store some contacts on your SIM card, such as customer care and voicemail numbers. You may also have stored contacts on the SIM card if you’re moving it from another phone. You can add some or all of these contacts to the Contacts application.

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Press Menu  and touch Import/Export.
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Touch Import from SIM.

A list of the contacts on the SIM appears.

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Touch & hold a contact and touch Import in the menu that opens. Or press Menu  and touch Import all.

Import contacts from your SD card or USB storage

You can copy individual or group contacts in vCard format onto your SD card or USB storage and then import them into one of your accounts on the phone. See Connecting to a computer via USB for details about copying files from your computer.

You may also have contacts stored on an SD card from another device. Refer to your phone’s owners’ guide for details about working with SD cards.

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Press Menu  and touch Import/Export.
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Touch Import from SD card or Import from USB storage (depending on your model of phone).
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If you have more than one vCard file on the SD card or USB storage, touch the option to import a single contact file, multiple contact files, or all of the contact files.

The contacts are imported.

Export contacts to your SD card or USB storage

You can export all of the contacts on your phone to your SD card or USB storage, as a group vCard file. You can then copy this file to a computer or another device that can work with files in this format, such as an address book application. See Connecting to a computer via USB.

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Press Menu  and touch Import/Export.
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Touch Export to SD card or Export to USB storage (depending on your model of phone).
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Touch OK to confirm.

Contacts creates a file with the .vcf extension on your SD card or USB storage. This file contains all of your contacts.

Share a contact

You can share a contact with someone by emailing it to them in vCard format.

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Press Menu  and touch Share.

A Gmail compose message screen opens, with the contact attached as a vCard (.vcf) file.

Address, write, and send the email, as described in Composing and sending a message.

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