Transfering Contacts

Mint Sauce

So I'm more than likely going to get a new Lumia in the next week or two, quite possibly a 630 or even a higher spec if O2 drop their prices again.

However the problem is, is transferring all my contacts. Before I got a smart phone I would just transfer from my old phone to sim card, and sim card to new phone. Because of what ever the sim card was set up, it couldn't always take the full name of a contact, and people with more than one number would appear as two entries on the new phone.

Now I know phone shops say they will transfer contacts for you, but due to the amount of information held on the smartphones, I fear similar as if I was doing as above, with emails/addresses being lost, and linked contacts being split.

So basically, can contacts be uploaded to Zune (cant find the feature my self), and/or is there a way from transferring the contacts backed up on 'My Windows Phone' online, to the new phone, and will upgrading from a 7.8 phone to a 8.0/1 effect this transfer or will Zune/My Windows Phone have difficulty recognising my new phone?

Czarcasm

If your contacts are synchronized with your Outlook account online, then just signing in on the new phone when you're setting it up, will download your contacts to your new phone.

Mint Sauce

Czarcasm wrote: »

If your contacts are synchronized with your Outlook account online, then just signing in on the new phone when you're setting it up, will download your contacts to your new phone.

That simple? Cool. Along with emails/addresses/FB/twitter etc etc?

liamog

Pretty much, some of your linked contacts will need to rejoined.

Czarcasm

Mint Sauce wrote: »

That simple? Cool. Along with emails/addresses/FB/twitter etc etc?

Well any contact information you have will be synchronized, including email, FB, Twitter, Skype, Gmail...

You can also link contact details for contacts that have different numbers stored in different accounts, so for example you could have a contacts work details in your Outlook account, and their personal details in your Gmail account, and they'll appear as two separate contacts, but you can link their separate entries to make one single entry.

theothernt

Mint Sauce wrote: »

That simple? Cool. Along with emails/addresses/FB/twitter etc etc?

If you have an Outlook or Gmail account, it's a lot easier to manage (cleanup, delete, remove duplicates, etc) the contacts from there as opposed to doing it on your phone.

If you get a new phone, it's worth spending the 30 minutes cleaning up your contacts - then hopefully you'll never have to do it again

Mint Sauce

So being playing about with this. Updated a good few of my contacts on my outlook account on my laptop. Linked several contacts. Etc Etc.

So how do I now synchronize this to my phone. Currently trying to do this on my Lumia 800 to see if the current contacts update to the changes I made on online, but no luck so far. Nearest I can find to Outlook on the phone is hotmail. Do I need a app, or just go to outlook mobile?

Czarcasm

Mint Sauce wrote: »

So being playing about with this. Updated a good few of my contacts on my outlook account on my laptop. Linked several contacts. Etc Etc.

So how do I now synchronize this to my phone. Currently trying to do this on my Lumia 800 to see if the current contacts update to the changes I made on online, but no luck so far. Nearest I can find to Outlook on the phone is hotmail. Do I need a app, or just go to outlook mobile?

Your contacts should sync over the air. Have you set up a Microsoft account on the phone? I know that when I was setting up my old Nokia N8 phone and it asked for a Hotmail address, I was able to put in my Outlook.com address, and my contacts were all downloaded.

One thing I did find though that was quite annoying (although advantageous in another way), was that when my son changed some of his profile details on Skype, it automatically changed his details on my phone, and I couldn't for the life of me change his details because they were dependent on him changing them back (he had our home phone landline number in as his mobile number, and this over-rides the Outlook details, and there's no way to set one number as the default number for a contact).

Mint Sauce

Czarcasm wrote: »

Your contacts should sync over the air. Have you set up a Microsoft account on the phone? I know that when I was setting up my old Nokia N8 phone and it asked for a Hotmail address, I was able to put in my Outlook.com address, and my contacts were all downloaded.

One thing I did find though that was quite annoying (although advantageous in another way), was that when my son changed some of his profile details on Skype, it automatically changed his details on my phone, and I couldn't for the life of me change his details because they were dependent on him changing them back (he had our home phone landline number in as his mobile number, and this over-rides the Outlook details, and there's no way to set one number as the default number for a contact).

I think that was the problem. Had my hotmail set up on my phone, but not outlook. Syncing as I type.

Thanks.