BlackBerry® Storm™

[OfficeManager68]

I would appreciate any help. When I go to my contacts there is no option to save to my sim, only to look at what is on my sim-nothing.

Thank you.

[JSanders Resident Expert]

Sure there is. 

Open your Address Book. 

Open a Contact. 

Scroll your cursor over a phone number entry.

Press Menu > Copy to SIM Phone Book.

[OfficeManager68]

OK thank you very much. Now with that being said....can anyone tell me why there is not an option to save your whole address book to your sim?

[JSanders Resident Expert]

Why? I don't know.

I suspect that is because it is simply not the way to go. All you can copy is one phone number per contact, at a time. The SIM does not hold addresses, email addresses, etc. Just a painfully limited thing in the first place.

Now, if you would share what your end need is, we might be able to help you a bit further. Like, are you changing BlackBerrys, to another phone? You just want your phone numbers in another place as a safetly precaution?

[OfficeManager68]

Yes, more as a safety precaution. I sync my phone to my desktop everyday for Outlook Calendar and Contacts so I know it's on that but recently I lost all my personal phone numbers on my personal Motorola ATT phone because it died and I hadn't saved the contacts to the sim. I guess the best thing to do is to set up Outlook on my personal laptop and sync to that so I have it all there as well.

I just think that with the technology we have today and it's 2009, man on the moon, etc... now there should be features on phones that are not there, they make things too complicated and it doesn't have to be. Like for instance sometimes what they call something or where they put it under what menu just doesn't seem user friendly, simple or fast.

I appreciate your help!

[JSanders Resident Expert]

Do your Outlook sync and take the time to do a backup in Desktop Manager.

You won't care a flip about the SIM card if it get's burned or stolen along with the phone, does no you good.

Sync and Backup. 

[mike_coreit]

Is there a way to extract each phone number and add it to the sim automatically?

[JSanders Resident Expert]

Yes, it is a tedious process, but it was explained earlier in this two year old thread.

And, as was also stated further down in the thread, if you'd offer your end-need (are you switching smartphones, just want a backup, what?) there might be a better and simpler, less time-consuming solution.

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JSanders wrote:

Sure there is. 

Open your Address Book. 

Open a Contact. 

Scroll your cursor over a phone number entry.

Press Menu > Copy to SIM Phone Book.

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[mike_coreit]

I don't see anything about it being automatic and only involving sim contacts, it seems to go off topic a bit.

[JSanders Resident Expert]

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mike_coreit wrote:

I don't see anything about it being automatic and only involving sim contacts, it seems to go off topic a bit.

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In that case, no it is not automatic.

And I don't know what you mean by "only involving sim contacts"...  what else are looking for?

SIM cards allow ONLY one number per name on the SIM card.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding what it is you need... and that's one reason I asked you what your "end need" is for this. There might be a better solution if I knew what you were doing with the data. (that's also up there in what you refer to the "off topic" stuff.   )