How To Back-UP Contacts, Settings, etc?

[atdhe]

i just bought the iPhone...please someone tell me how do i send my contacts from my PC to iPhone....atdhe_15@hotmail.com....pllsssss

[amiroo79]

I just unlocked my iphone so I can use it with my TMobile SIM card that also had all my contacts on it. But, I don't see any of my contacts.

Question: if all my contacts are on my SIM card, why can't it see them??? Unless it deleted them. Which I would be pretty upset about.

Someone please let me know as I am now without my contacts...

[theone77]

Originally Posted by atdhe

i just bought the iPhone...please someone tell me how do i send my contacts from my PC to iPhone....atdhe_15@hotmail.com....pllsssss

ur contacts should be saved on ur outlook and just sync the contacts using ur itunes while ur iphone is sync and thats it

[Voo]

Actually, according to iTunes help files, iTunes does NOT back up your contacts for you when it syncs your phone. Why not? Because Apple assumes you're using Outlook or something like it for mail and that all your contacts are already stored nice and neat for syncing to a new phone.

However, fear not, for the 3G uses a SIM card, so you'd be able to pull that out and put it in your new phone if your current one suffers any extreme problems and needs replacing.

[m3sport]

I just jailbroke my 2g phone using pwnd 2.1 app and now my contacts/ telephone numbers are gone! I tried sync'in with itunes and I just get my contacts from my mac, which are different from my cell numbers. Am I SOL?

[Voo]

Originally Posted by m3sport

I just jailbroke my 2g phone using pwnd 2.1 app and now my contacts/ telephone numbers are gone! I tried sync'in with itunes and I just get my contacts from my mac, which are different from my cell numbers. Am I SOL?

Does the 2g phone use a SIM card? If so, your contacts should be stored there. Unless jailbreaking it fucked up something major.

[wevek]

could someone explain how to view this directory (/private/var/root/Library/) from windows xp ? thanks.

[m3sport]

Originally Posted by Voo

Does the 2g phone use a SIM card? If so, your contacts should be stored there. Unless jailbreaking it fucked up something major.

True, but how do I access the the SIM?

TIA

[Cusca]

the iphone does not read the contacts from the sim by itself, if you are jailbroken there is a app called iSim that helps u import the contacts from the sim to your phone but i don`t know if it`s free or if it works cuz i never tried it

[drsfinest72]

okay. im still confused. i dont use any contacts on my pc such as "outlook...etc" so whats the only way to do this then? btw im using the iphone 3G