topic Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC in Z Series

Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Shudder1 — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:07:30 GMT

I've just got a new Z5.

My old LG phone is damaged, so I can't install the Experia Transfer Software onto it, which is requied to move contacts directly from one phone to another.

However, I do have all my contacts backed up on my PC. But I cannot find a way of moving them onto the Z5.

I have downloaded the Sony PC Companion software, but can only see options for moving data from the Z5 onto my PC, not the other way around.

Can anyone help?

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Samuel1 — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:09:37 GMT

How are the contacts backed up on your computer? As a backup file or saved to the Outlook contact list for example? If you synchronized the phone to your Google account the contacts are saved there, a thing which I find very handy as you always have them available even if something happens to your phone.

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Shudder1 — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:16:05 GMT

Some of my more recent contacts are backed up to my Google account, but not all of them.

On my PC I have the full contacts list as VCF files

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Hampus — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:49:58 GMT

One thing that you can do, is to move this .vcf-file to your phone and then import the contacts from the Contacts app (Contacts > Menu button > Import contacts).

Otherwise, you can import the .vcf-file directly on your Gmail account from the computer:
https://www.google.com/contacts/
Press More > Import > Choose the .vcf-file > Import.

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Shudder1 — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:12:20 GMT

Great, that first option seems to have worked thanks! Only issue is there doesn't seem to be an option to 'select all' - but even if I have to check every box individually it's still an improvement

Thanks for the swift advice

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Hampus — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:47:39 GMT

How do you mean by "select all"? Glad to hear that it's working.

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Rumen — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:55:59 GMT

On Xperias there is no option to select all contacts from .vcf file in import. You have to tab/accept on every one contact.

Last time I do it that way, I click over 400 times to import them. I broke my finger

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Hampus — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:45:03 GMT

You mean that you have one contact for each .vcf-file and not all contacts in one .vcf-file? Then I understand that you need to do many clicks. Some devices may export all the contacts to separate .vcf-files, but if you export the contacts with an Xperia-phone all the contacts will be included in one .vcf-file.

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Rumen — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:33:03 GMT

No, all contacts was in one .vcf file. I sent them from Nokia N8 to Z5c via bluetooth, and surprise was that I must to do a lot of clicks.
Same thing with Nokia E52 to Z3 again via bluetooth. I make many many clicks.
I think the best way is to send contacts to Gmail account, if you don't make a software change in this issue. Then only sync new phone.

Regards,

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Hampus — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:28:37 GMT

As far as I know, both Nokia N8 and E52 uses Symbian as operating system (just like our older phones Sony Ericsson Vivaz and Satio). The Symbian OS could not handle one big vCard-file with multiple contacts and therefore, when you exported or sent the contacts they where created as individual .vcf-files.

If I send contacts via Bluetooth from Sony Ericsson Vivaz to Xperia Z5 for example, all the contacts will be individual .vcf-files which I need to mark separately while importing in the Contacts app. But thanks for your feedback, I will forward it internally.

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

Rumen — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:45:24 GMT

Hmmm, the phones do not give me a much of info when make the file. I only remember that says "prepares file". It's was a month ago.

May be you are right.

Re: Moving Saved Contacts from PC

EvelynDavis — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:51:45 GMT

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