
This may have several benefits such as performance and enable extra features.Ģ. Optionally you can now move these phone numbers and text messages onto your phone memory.

Your contacts and SMS messages should now appear on your new phone. Put your new SIM card back into your new phone.Copy any SMS text messages you would like to keep from your phone memory to SIM card memory.On the Viewty, this menu item was under “Contact Settings > Copy > Handset to USIM”. Most phones should have this functionality so explore the menus (or documentation) to find it. Copy your contacts from the phone memory onto the SIM card memory.Take your new SIM card and place it into your old phone.If you are moving from an unlocked phone: The key is to use a SIM card which is acceptable to both phones.ġ. The exact procedure depends on whether you are using a locked phone or not. You can use a SIM card to transfer contacts and SMS messages between phones. The default behaviour is usually to save the phone numbers and text messages on the phone itself, however it may depend on how your phone was set up and configured. Phone numbers and SMS text messages can be saved in one of two places: on the phone itself or on a SIM card. How do I transfer my phone book and SMS text messages via a SIM card? There are two ways to transfer numbers from your old phone to your new phone which will save you a lot of time: Not only would this have been tedious and time-consuming, it also gives a lot of potential for errors to be introduced when inputting the numbers into the new phone – only to be discovered later when you end up calling a complete stranger and you’ve lost your original phone book! When I recently went through the whole process of upgrading my phone and switching network (I moved from my LG Viewty KU990 on O2 to a shiny new HTC Desire on T-Mobile) my network gave me what seemed to be the standard piece of advice: to copy contacts over one by one onto my new phone. Those things you’ll have to transfer separately (ideally before you use your PAC code as your old SIM card will get disabled). However using a PAC code will not help you to transfer things such as any phone numbers or text messages that you want to keep. Using a PAC code it is very easy to move (or “port” in mobile lingo) your number from your old network onto your new network and new SIM card. When you change mobile network, you’ll get a new SIM card.


Ken’s Tech Tips explores some of the easier ways to do it.

If you’ve just bought a new phone, you don’t need to copy every single phone number over from your old phone manually.
