Monday, June 28, 2010

Transfer contacts from Iphone to SE-W300

I have my Iphone sent to factory for hardware checking via warranty. So, in the mean time waiting my Iphone to be returned, I wouldn't have a phone to use. Thus I turn to use the old Sony Ericsson W300, which even its own software PC Suite cannot be configured and connected via my laptop. Anyway, thanks for the drivers shared by others that I can download and install into my laptop.

Before I turn the Iphone off, it had been back-up via Itunes, to my Vista Contact, in format of ".contact". In fact, I transfered all .contact into my laptop of XP, and XP unable to read the contacts. I tried to export all .contact to Vcard and transfer in XP, but still unable to read it all, because most of my contacts are in chinese names (both simplified and traditional type).

Here I share out the way I'd done to restore my contacts into my W300.

I downloaded and installed the Windows Live Mail in my XP laptop, because Live Mail able to read the import all the .contact files. Then I export the contacts from the Live Mail as Vcard format. at this point all chinese filenames of my Vcard is preserved.

Afterward, I linked the W300 with my laptop via bluetooth connection. And sent the Vcard files to my W300 via blueetooth. But the limitation is 26 Vcards per transaction as I found so far.

Of course, I have some other problem as some numbers fall in incompatible categories (in Vcard category, there's no phone number called as "Iphone" as stored in Iphone contact, etc) had lost, end up with contacts with just name but no number to call to. Therefore, some checking or modification work needed to be done before back-up the contact via itune to Vista's windows contact. Else, Outlook or other supported Contact Manager may solve this problem too. Please share more if you really have this.

Good luck!