How to transfer contacts from android to android with sim card

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Before you start

This guide will show you how to retrieve your contacts from your Google account if your last phone was a smartphone. If your last phone was a non smartphone, you can copy your contacts from the SIM card. Jump to step 9 in this guide to copy your contacts from your SIM card. NOTICE: SCREEN IMAGES MAY DIFFER FROM YOUR ACTUAL DEVICE.

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Select Apps

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Scroll to and select Settings

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Scroll to and select Google

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Select your account

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Make sure Contacts is selected

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Select Sync now

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Your contacts from Google will now be synced to your smartphone

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To copy your contacts from the SIM card, return to the Home screen and select Contacts

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Select the Menu button

Note: The Menu button may be placed elsewhere on your screen or your device.

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Select Import/Export

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Select Import from SIM card

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Select your Google account

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Check the Select all checkbox

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Your contacts will be saved to your Google account and saved to your phone the next time Google is synced.

This free application enables you to manage your contacts on SIM cards and phones.

It supports:
1. copy contacts from Android phone to a SIM card
2. copy contacts from a SIM card to Android phone
3. export contacts to a file in vcard format on Android phone
4. import contacts from a vcard file, or by scanning a qrcode
5. edit contacts on SIM card.
It supports dual sim card phones.

Limitation:
1. It is for phones with Android v5.x or higher.
2. When copying to a SIM card, not all characters might be copied due to limitations of SIM card.
3. Please don't delete any contacts before you've verified that the contacts have been successfully copied to your sim card, preferable after rebooting your Android phone.

Q: Why does it need INTERNET permission?
A: This is a free app, we need ads to support our work. You may choose our paid version which is ads free and doesn't need Internet permission.

We don't send any of your contacts anywhere outside your phone, so your contact information is safe in any circumstance! Your privacy is our highest priority!

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Last Update date : Mar 14. 2022

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If you need to quickly transfer phone numbers from one device to another - exporting them to the storage on your SIM card is an effective way - however, only phone numbers and names will be transferred to a SIM card. Any addresses, email addresses or other information will stay on the device. 

You won't be able to add any details to contacts that are stored on a SIM card, so importing them to your device or Google/Samsung accounts will allow you to add photos, email addresses and other information to each contact. 

The step-by-step guides in the dropdowns below are organised by operating system.

Android Version 4.1 - 4.3.1 (Jellybean) Click to Expand

1 From the Home screen, tap Contacts. Alternatively, if Contacts icon is not available on your Home screen, tap Apps. Then tap Contacts on the Apps page.

2 Press the Menu key, then tap Import/Export.

3 Select Import from SIM card

4 Tap Device to copy all your contacts from SIM to your device. You may opt to save contacts to other options available as well. You will then see a progress at the top left side of the notification bar that your contacts are being copied.

Android Version 4.4 - 6.1 (Kit-Kat - Marshmallow) Click to Expand

1 From Home screen, tap Contacts. Alternatively, if Contacts icon is not available on your Home screen, tap Apps, then tap Contacts on the Apps page.

2 Tap on the 3 dots in the top right hand corner(or MORE) button

5 Tap Import/export contacts.

6 Select an action, either to Import from device storage or Export to device storage.

7 A prompt will then appear, choose new location of contacts being copied.

Android Version 7.0 and 8.0 + (Nougat and Oreo ) Click to Expand

2 Select the 3 dot menu button and then select Settings

3 Select Import/Export to see the options to move contacts.

4 To save contacts to the SIM card, select Export

5 Select where to save the contacts (in this example SIM card)

6 Select the contacts to copy overAnd then select DONE to finish

Android Version 9.0 (Pie) Click to Expand

1 Head into the

2 Tap on

3 Select Manage contacts

4 Tap on Import/export contacts

5 Select Export

6 Select SIM card > tap on the contact numbers you would like to export then tap on Done once complete. To export the contacts to your SIM card, tap on Export.

Android Version 10.0 and above Click to Expand

1 Head into the

2 Tap on

2 Select Import or export contacts

4 Tap on Export

5 Select SIM card then tap on Export

6 Choose a contact to export to your SIM card then tap on Done

7 Read through the popup message then tap on OK

8 Once the contact has been exported to your SIM Card tap on OK

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