BlackBerry® Curve™

[dhehashat]

hi, i have a problem that i have bought blackberry 8520.i want to switch my contacts from my old mobile samsung star s5230 to blackberry 8520.i have shifted my contacts from samsung to my laptop but i am unable to transfer from laptop to blackberry.i have tried to send some contacts to blackberry from laptop but blackberry doesnot show it.please let me know how can  i do it.i have also downloaded blackberry desktop software but i dont know how to shift contacts from laptop to blackberry.

[sdgardne]

Hello!

Since you didn't reveal how the data is now stored on your Laptop (e.g., Excel? Ascii? CSV?), there's no way to do anything but guess. So, what I'll give you is what you can do with data in various formats...I've no idea what format you have it in nor how you'd therefore need to reformat it to make it usable.

To directly import data into a BB:

• KB04312 Create and synchronize with an ASCII export file
  KB11194 How to import contacts from an CSV file to the BlackBerry device

Or, as long as you use a compatible desktop PIM:

• KB12268 Applications supported by BlackBerry Desktop Software for Windows for synchronization

then, get your data into the desktop PIM. Then, configure the BB to sync with the PIM:

• KB17022 How to configure organizer applications for synchronization using BlackBerry Desktop Manager

Good luck and let us know!