Transferring Data Guide

Transferring content from another device

Select Menu > Tools > Switch.

With the Transfer application, you can transfer content from a compatible Nokia device to another one using Bluetooth connectivity or infrared. The type of content that can be transferred depends on the phone model. If you transfer data from your previous phone, the phone may require you to insert the SIM card. Your mobile phone does not need a SIM card when transferring data.

If the other device supports synchronisation, you can also synchronise data between the other device and your mobile phone. For more information on compatible devices, contact your dealer, operator, or service provider.

Using a Bluetooth or infrared connection, you can synchronise, for example, your calendar and contact entries between the two devices. The phone allows you to select the categories of data that you wish to move.

Because device models are designed differently, there may be differences in the way they handle data transfer. For example, your device allows you to enter a great deal of contact information for each contact. Another device model may only allow a few details per contact. If you synchronise contact information between these two devices, some of the data may be transferred to an incorrect field, and some data may not be transferred at all.

Note: All changes made to a device since the previous synchronisation are copied to the other device. This means that if you have deleted some information from a device, that information is also deleted from the other device during synchronisation.

Bluetooth transfer

To transfer data to your device:

Select Menu > Tools > Switch.
Select Transfer data to begin data transfer.
Select Via Bluetooth. Both devices must support the selected connection type.
Activate Bluetooth in your other device, and select Continue in your mobile phone to start searching for devices with active Bluetooth connectivity.
Select Stop in your mobile phone after it has found your other device.
Select your other device from the list. Enter a passcode (1 to 16 digits) on your device, and select OK. The passcode is used only once to confirm this connection.
Enter the passcode on your other device, and select OK. The devices are now paired. For more information on pairing devices, see your mobile phone User Guide.
Tip: For some phone models, the Transfer data application is sent to your other device as a message. To install Transfer data on your other device, open the message, and follow the instructions on the display.
From your device, select the content you want to transfer from your other device, and select OK when you have chosen all content types you want to transfer.

Content is copied from the memory of the other device to the corresponding location in your device. Copying time depends on the amount of data to be transferred.

The necessary steps for data transfer may vary depending on your device, and whether you have interrupted data transfer earlier. The items that you can transfer vary depending on the other device.

Tip: Bluetooth connectivity is much faster than infrared. Its use is recommended whenever you have the choice.

Infrared transfer

Select Menu > Tools > Switch.
Select Transfer data to begin data transfer.
Select Via Infrared. Both devices must support the selected connection type.
Activate infrared in the other phone (for more details, see the other phone’s user guide) and press Continue. Wait a few seconds until an infrared connection is established.
From your device, select the content you want to transfer from your other device by scrolling the list and pressing the joystick, and select OK when you have chosen all content types you want to transfer.

Transferring telephone numbers using a SIM card

You can copy all or some of the phone numbers on a GSM phone to your device. Duplicate contacts will be created if the same contact already exists on your device. These duplicate contacts can be deleted manually afterwards.

To copy telephone numbers using a SIM card:

Copy the numbers you wish to move from another GSM phone to the SIM card, following the instructions provided in the user guide of the phone.
Move the SIM card to your mobile phone.
On the device, select Menu > Contacts > Options > SIM contacts > SIM directory to open the SIM directory.
Mark the contacts you want to copy, or select Mark all to copy all contacts.
Select Options > Copy to Contacts.

Select Options > SIM contacts > SIM directory to see the names and numbers stored on the SIM card.

In SIM directory you can add, edit, or copy numbers to Contacts, and you can make calls.

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