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Tim Lamb wrote:
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Demian writes
On 08/11/2020 16:58, Tim Lamb wrote:
Follow up to the previously discussed Vodafone outage.
After nearly 2 weeks Vf grudgingly admitted there had been an issue
without giving any details. This came in the form, Great news, our
engineers have fixed the fault at your postcode.
Followed 25 minutes later with a second mail admitting they had
failed so to do:-)
Another *great news* mail this morning! We'll see. They didn't say
but I guess the outage was restricted to 3g.
Either way, it has forced me to try getting to grips with a less
basic phone. The first disappointment was that having fitted the SIM
from my old Alcatel, the contacts list was not accessible!

Go into Contacts, bring up the menu from the = thingy (top left
corner), choose Settings then Import from the Manage contacts section,
then Import contacts from SIM card. The SIM card contacts are listed
with the boxes ticked. Choose Import.

Manage contacts not on the list! I can enter them by hand!



Where were contacts stored on your old phone? In ye old days, all contacts
were stored on the SIM card but as phones got smarter, they started
recording contacts in the phones own memory rather than the SIM as then
they could store a lot more info.

Your old phone may have been doing this. If you put the sim back into it
there may be an option to copy contacts to SIM. If you do this you will
get get basic name and numbers copied to the SIM that should then transfer
with the SIM to your new phone.

They were on my sim card for the last but one phone. I assume they would
still be there despite the Alcatel interval?

I can go back and check although re-assembling sims is a pain.

--
Tim Lamb