Broken Phone - Anyway to retrieve contacts?

Michael Van Der Harst wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have an LG2000 i believe with cingular service. The screen portion
> of my phone will not work and thus I can't see my contacts or hear
> other ends of calls. Is there any way to extract the contacts off of
> the phone?
>
> Mike

yeah, if you save contacts to SIM card, like I do, you can swap the card
into another Cingular phone, and you are good to go

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Mike>>Have you called/checked with your nearest Cingular retailer?? If
they can't, I believe you are screwed. My first choice is to alway use
my SIMS card for my contacts. On my last phone, I had them on both. But
that seemed too redundant, since going through my list, I'd see two of
everything. But I prefer the SIMS, for the very reason of phone failure,
or damage, like when I dropped my very first one, an Ericcson in ocean
water at the beach>>>OUCH>LOL.

Mike:

Take it to a Cingular store. They may be able to copy all the
contacts by following the "Menu Tree" to save to the SIM. If that
doesn't work, there is the possibility of using a cable to backup your
contacts to a computer, then copying to the SIM. You shouldn't need a
new SIM if only the screen has failed.






On 2 Mar 2007 14:20:34 -0800, "Michael Van Der Harst"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hey,
>
>I have an LG2000 i believe with cingular service. The screen portion
>of my phone will not work and thus I can't see my contacts or hear
>other ends of calls. Is there any way to extract the contacts off of
>the phone?
>
>Mike

[email protected] wrote:
> On Mar 4, 12:32 pm, "betrtimes@green acres.farm"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Michael Van Der Harst wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>
>>> I have an LG2000 i believe with cingular service. The screen portion
>>> of my phone will not work and thus I can't see my contacts or hear
>>> other ends of calls. Is there any way to extract the contacts off of
>>> the phone?
>>
>>> Mike
>>
>> yeah, if you save contacts to SIM card, like I do, you can swap the
>> card into another Cingular phone, and you are good to go
>
>
>
> Well, yes you are good to go as far as your contacts go. But to be
> able to make calls with that copied SIMS card, you first have to call
> the provider on 611 or whatever, to have that new card activated.

who said you need a NEW card?

put old card, WITH CONTACTS in it, in new phone, and away you go

betrtimes>You had the most common sense approach yet. Stick the original
SIMS card in a new phone. Doesn't have to be an expensive phone. But as
I just recalled, the poster said that the contacts were not on the SIMS,
but in the phone. Something I pointed out that I would never have done,
for the very reason of what happened. No the poster is screwed, not
being able to read the contacts. Nor can the poster take your very good
advice.