Export contacts from Nokia to Blackberry

After my post about Exploring contacts from Blackberry to Nokia got couple of queries on how to transfer contacts the other way around, Nokia to Blackberry.

I found it quite easy to transfer contacts to BB from an Nokia,
1. Connect your phone using the USB cable and start Nokia PC Suite
2. Go to Contacts, Select all contacts or press Ctrl+A
3. Now click on the selected contacts and drag it to your desktop, this will save your contacts as VCF file (Vcard file)
4. Now open Outlook and drag and drop the above VCF file into your contacts
5. Once you have contacts in Outlook, you can sync your blackberry with outlook using BB Desktop Manager, this will update all your contacts on to your blackberry device.

Devices used for this task:
Blackberry 8300 with BB Desktop Manager 4.2.2.12
Nokia N73 with Nokia PC Suite 7.0.8.2

Restore Nokia 5310 to Factory settings

Restore factory settings for Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone

To restore the phone back to factory conditions, select
Menu > Settings > Rest. factory sett.

and from thefollowing options:

● Restore settings only — to reset all preferencesettings without deleting any personal data

● Restore all — to reset all preference settings anddelete all personal data, such as contacts, messages,media files and activation keys

Phone will prompt for Security Code: default code is 12345

enter the code, phone will reset and restart

Internet via Nokia as Modem with Airtel

Getting an Internet connection using your mobile phone as a modem. Its “easiest” as internet connection gets activated instantly. You need to have a mobile phone that has data connectivity to PC or Laptop & data cable to connect that. Airtel offers four tariff plans to choose from:
399 plan: Rs.399/Month, 100MB Transfer,10 paisa for extra 10kbs.
599 plan: Rs.599/Month, 1 GB Transfer, 10 paisa for extra 10kbs.
799 plan: Rs.799/Month, 1.5 GB Transfer, 10 paisa for extra 10kbs.
140 plan: Rs.140/week, Unlimited usage.

140 plan is best, since it has unlimited usage & cheap compare to other plans. It will become Rs.560 if you use it for a month. All plans will come with speed up to 40kbps.Just call customer care at 121 to avail this service.

Activate Mobile Office by SMS
(this works in metro, when I tried from an small town in MP, it didn't work, you need to get it activated by calling 121)
Type MO and send it to 6123
With in 2 minutes, your Mobile Office will be activated; default plan will be 140/week, which will be billed to your monthly bill
If you want to deactivate it, then at the end of the 6 day send an SMS with
MO CMCL to 222

Set your laptop ready
Check whether modem drivers for your phone are installed. Normally this will come with your phone’s PC Suite. Installing PC Suite will install all required drivers.
Check whether your phone could be used as modem or not. (Call 121 from your Airtel mobile)
Procedure to setup a connection to dial-up your Mobile as modem.
Goto “Start–>Control Panel”
Click on “Network & Internet Connections”
Under header “Pick a task” click on “Create a connection to the network at your workspace”.
Now you will get “New Connection Wizard dialog box, select “Dial-up connection” & click next.
Dialog will ask for “Connection Name”, give whatever you would like to. I had given “airtelgprs”.
It asks for “Phone Number”, enter number as “*99***1#”
If you want select to put a shortcut on desktop (Preferred) & finish setup.
Now you will see a shortcut saying “Airtel GPRS” (In my case) on desktop. Make sure you installed your phone drivers & connect your phone. Double click the icon on desktop, leave blank “User name” & “Password” fields & click “Dial”. One message will pop-up to confirm its connected.
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When you change your mobile, you need to add the Mobile Office settings to your mobile again, that you can do it by just sending an SMS.
From your new phone on Airtel network, SMS MO and send it to 52567
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Error Message:
Unable to connect to Internet and while configuring new network connection
"Connect Using Dialup Modem - Disabled (Why?) "
Here is the solution for this problem - http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/09/connect-using-dialup-modem-disabled-why.html
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Memory Full problem in Nokia N73

I have an Nokia N73. I started to get this message "Memory is full, clear some memory" when checked the memory details, it had only 149kb of free space, I tried to clear all my SMS, Photos, Videos but still couldn't make some memory.
Strange Nokia N73 software does't show up where the memory has been used, about 44MB is shown as being used, but the list which the phone shows, doesn't add up to 44MB.
After spending few nights with my phone was able to resolve it. I had to remove few application which I had installed on my phone and forgot about it.
To remove application do this:
Go to Menu -> Tools -> Appl. Mgr and remove those application which are installed on Phone Memory which you do not require, this will free up your phone memory.

I was able to recover 34MB of memory, now I am able to receive SMS and add Contacts.

Cheers ;-)

There is always an better /polite way of telling that you don't like such n such thing, don't be too harsh, it hurts ;_-

Export contacts from Blackberry to Nokia

I had to transfer contacts from an Blackberry (BB) to an Nokia

I tried to copy the address book in BB to SIM card and transfer them to the Nokia, but that option is not available in BB, its only the other way from SIM to address book.

Nokia PC Suite doesn't have an option to import CSV, XLS file either.

After little bit of research on the web, got an simple solution which works :-)

As the BB contacts are synced with Outlook, I had to export the contacts to VCF file

"Export Outlook 2003 Contacts as vCards"
Microsoft does not offer an 'Export as vCard' function in Outlook 2003 (simply dragging and dropping contacts into a Desktop folder results in .msg files), there is a workaround:
Select all contacts in Outlook
Click Actions -> Forward vCard
Select all of the attached vcf files in the resulting email message and drag to a folder on your Desktop, or simply send the email to yourself.
That's it - the vcf files are ready.

Now open Nokia PC Suite, connect Nokia 6300 to the USB port
Open Phone Browser and go to Contacts
Now Copy and Paste the VCF files in earlier step to the Contacts folder.

Problem I faces is, duplicate contacts are not overwritten, one more contact is added, thus causing duplication of contacts, so deleted all contacts from Nokia phone and copied all BB contacts.

Just copy and paste works mate... ;-)