How to save SELECTED contacts to sim card?

[AliWonder]

I've seen some threads on here about copying ALL your contacts to the sim card, but I have 100's of contacts as the phone has synched all of my Google contacts' email addresses. I don't want all of my email addresses on the sim card! Can anyone tell me how I can save ONLY the contacts with phone numbers? I tried ticking a few of them and selecting 'save to sim' (or something like that), but then I could not see how to view them? When I click on Contacts it doesn't give me the option to view those on the sim, so I don't even know if they copied across ok.

Also, when I save a new contact, the option to save to the sim acrd is not there; does anyone know why, or how I can save new contacts to the sim?

Thanks.

[CameronT]

@AliWonder, maybe a silly question, but you definitely have your SIM card in the phone, right? It's not loose or not being detected etc?

[AliWonder]

Hi @CameronT - yes of course the SIM is in the phone; I wouldn't be able to use it otherwise; how would I make calls, send sms etc?...! 🙂

In any event I have now started another - related-  thread - about the fact that I cannot actually see some of my contacts that are clearly in the phone. If I set the filter to show 'contacts with phone numbers only' about half of my main contacts vanish - & all of them have phone numbers! I have to set the filter to show everything in order to see these key contacts - this means my contact list is clogged up with 100's of email addresses from Google that I don't need to be in there.

The whole contacts / filter thing on this phone seems to be a complete mess!

Thanks for your efforts to help - apart from this contacts issue I love the phone!

[CameronT]

@AliWonder Haha no worries, just had to check :). I'm at a loss to be honest. Your phone is behaving in a way I've not seen before. In case you're experiencing some kind of corruption in your contacts app, have you tried running a software repair?

[AliWonder]

Thanks, I will try this - the phone is brand new though!

The whole contacts thing is driving me crazy. I have now filtered to show every single contact that I have in the whole universe - all my email accounts; Whatsapp; messenger etc. But there are still loads of contacts that are clearly in the phone somewhere - as they appear in my sms list with a name & some even have a photo - yet they are invisible to the contacts list; they are simply not there! Where are these contacts? When I try to add them as new contacts I get asked if I want to merge them - but I cannot see them anywhere in the phone except in the sms conversation I have been having with them!

[CameronT]

@AliWonder

Do you have the box ticked that says "Show online contacts"? If so, untick that

[AliWonder]

Thanks - this is the only box that is unticked! 😞

[CameronT]

@AliWonder,

This is so peculiar. Try the software repair and let me know if there's any change.

[AliWonder]

Thanks @CameronT - sorry where is the software repair? Wont this delete everything off the phone?

[CameronT]

@AliWonder.

Here's how to do a software repair. It does delete your data yes, so make sure you back it up first.

[AliWonder]

Thanks very much for all of your help on this. To be honest I can't face having to set the phone up again - restroring from back-up never brings everything back. I think I'm just going to manually add all the contacts that are missing from the contacts list, by copying them from my old phone! It'll take a while but seems easiest!

Thanks