Erase SIM Card Phone Book Entries on Razr V3

The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my old Nokia SIM card to my new Razr V3 yesterday. It unfortunately doubled the number of entries (made 1 phone book entry for each contact detail..cell, home, fax, etc). I'd rather just erase the address book and import my own via mobile phone tools. The only problem is I can't erase the current address book, presumably because it's on the SIM. Cingular phone support couldn't help and referred me to MotoSupport. MotoSupport told me they couldn't help & that I'd have to delete one at a time. Has anyone been able to erase the phone book all at once?
Thanks,

-Adam
(Note: Clear & factory reset via the initial setup menu don't do it)

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"the_adman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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: The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my old Nokia
: SIM card to my new Razr V3 yesterday. It unfortunately doubled the
: number of entries (made 1 phone book entry for each contact
: detail..cell, home, fax, etc). I'd rather just erase the address book
: and import my own via mobile phone tools. The only problem is I can't
: erase the current address book, presumably because it's on the SIM.
: Cingular phone support couldn't help and referred me to MotoSupport.
: MotoSupport told me they couldn't help & that I'd have to delete one at
: a time. Has anyone been able to erase the phone book all at once?
: Thanks,
:
Since you have MPT (Motorola Phone Tools) you can do that (select & delete
multiple entries) otherwise NO you have to delete them individually.
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the_adman <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my old Nokia
> SIM card to my new Razr V3 yesterday. It unfortunately doubled the
> number of entries (made 1 phone book entry for each contact

You can set your phone to only show one listing for each caller in the
phone phonebook. phonebook-menu-setup-view primary contacts.
When you highlight a name, use right/left arrow, it changes the icon,
indicating the work/mobile/home, and leaves that one as the one that shows
as the primary number. If you "select" or "view, then you can scroll up
and down through the multiple entries for that name, showing the number and
the text description of that entry. From there, menu allows you to set one
as the primary.

> detail..cell, home, fax, etc). I'd rather just erase the address book
> and import my own via mobile phone tools. The only problem is I can't
> erase the current address book, presumably because it's on the SIM.

No. It's different, but still there. I started out by putting my contacts
on the SIM, because I thought that was sensible, and it let me change
phones with no effort. But the SIM doesn't store the extra values like
home/work/fax, just names and numbers, and it even truncates some names.

I used MPT load all of the entries to my PC. I made some adjustments and
cleanup there. Then I deleted all of the entries in the phone, set MPT to
create new entries in the phone rather than the SIM, and loaded them to the
phone again. Under Mobile-phone, options, you can select a filter. Maybe
you have filtered off either SIM or phone.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:43:12 +0000 (UTC),
[email protected] wrote:

>the_adman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my old Nokia
>> SIM card to my new Razr V3 yesterday. It unfortunately doubled the
>> number of entries (made 1 phone book entry for each contact
>
>You can set your phone to only show one listing for each caller in the
>phone phonebook. phonebook-menu-setup-view primary contacts.
>When you highlight a name, use right/left arrow, it changes the icon,
>indicating the work/mobile/home, and leaves that one as the one that shows
>as the primary number. If you "select" or "view, then you can scroll up
>and down through the multiple entries for that name, showing the number and
>the text description of that entry. From there, menu allows you to set one
>as the primary.

!!!!!!!!!

This has been posted many times as maybe the biggest complaint about
the RAZR. I use MPT to get everything from Outlook and it was a huge
PITA to scroll through each one.

Thanks so much for the solution!

Now, a page down key would be a nice enhancement.

[email protected] wrote:

> This has been posted many times as maybe the biggest complaint about
> the RAZR. I use MPT to get everything from Outlook and it was a huge
> PITA to scroll through each one.

> Thanks so much for the solution!

> Now, a page down key would be a nice enhancement.

Another thing that would be nice is the ability to find more than just the
first letter. My Nokia would go to "T", and then "TH". The Motorola goes
to "T" and then "H", instead, so I have to scroll through the Ts.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5

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In <[email protected]> on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 17:29:50 +0000 (UTC),
[email protected] wrote:

>[email protected] wrote:

>> Now, a page down key would be a nice enhancement.
>
>Another thing that would be nice is the ability to find more than just the
>first letter. My Nokia would go to "T", and then "TH". The Motorola goes
>to "T" and then "H", instead, so I have to scroll through the Ts.

Tip: If you have a lot of T's, and the number is in the last half of the T's,
jump to U (next letter), and then scroll up.

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John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

Thanks for your helpful post! I managed to delete everything from the SIM using mpt, and I've started the process of updating the phone based address book. For some reason a number of contacts aren't sync'ing to the phone, so I've taken to manual entry. Oh well, entering 25 is better than 225!

Motorola has a lot to learn from Nokia about phone usability. Maybe I've just been spoiled having a familiar, intuitive Nokia UI on every phone I've owned since '99. But I think Moto could improve a few things we've all highlighted here.

-Adam

Originally Posted by [email protected]

the_adman <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Cingular rep nicely ported phone number entries from my old Nokia
> SIM card to my new Razr V3 yesterday. It unfortunately doubled the
> number of entries (made 1 phone book entry for each contact

You can set your phone to only show one listing for each caller in the
phone phonebook. phonebook-menu-setup-view primary contacts.
When you highlight a name, use right/left arrow, it changes the icon,
indicating the work/mobile/home, and leaves that one as the one that shows
as the primary number. If you "select" or "view, then you can scroll up
and down through the multiple entries for that name, showing the number and
the text description of that entry. From there, menu allows you to set one
as the primary.

> detail..cell, home, fax, etc). I'd rather just erase the address book
> and import my own via mobile phone tools. The only problem is I can't
> erase the current address book, presumably because it's on the SIM.

No. It's different, but still there. I started out by putting my contacts
on the SIM, because I thought that was sensible, and it let me change
phones with no effort. But the SIM doesn't store the extra values like
home/work/fax, just names and numbers, and it even truncates some names.

I used MPT load all of the entries to my PC. I made some adjustments and
cleanup there. Then I deleted all of the entries in the phone, set MPT to
create new entries in the phone rather than the SIM, and loaded them to the
phone again. Under Mobile-phone, options, you can select a filter. Maybe
you have filtered off either SIM or phone.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5

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In <[email protected]> on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:40:57
-0500, the_adman <[email protected]> wrote:

>Motorola has a lot to learn from Nokia about phone usability. Maybe
>I've just been spoiled having a familiar, intuitive Nokia UI on every
>phone I've owned since '99. But I think Moto could improve a few
>things we've all highlighted here.

Different strokes: I personally prefer the Motorola UI (on the V551) to
Nokia. I likewise prefer the Sony Ericsson UI to Nokia.

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Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

the_adman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for your helpful post! I managed to delete everything from the
> SIM using mpt, and I've started the process of updating the phone based
> address book. For some reason a number of contacts aren't sync'ing to
> the phone, so I've taken to manual entry. Oh well, entering 25 is
> better than 225!

In the phonebook, I scrolled to the bottom and found a box unchecked on the
entries that weren't synchronizing. I did a 'select all', and the rest of
them were synced. I don't know why they weren't checked initially.

There was an option elsewhere to synchronize all verses synchronize
selected, and I had chosen "all"...

The other thing that should work is to select and copy the contacts, if it
doesn't choose to synchronize them.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5