How to import all contacts from Nokia phone to Android phones
Are you upgrading from a simple Nokia Phone to an Android phone? Learn how to import all your contacts from Symbian Nokia phone to your new Android smartphone.
I recently wanted to sync all my contacts in a symbian based Nokia phone to my new Nexus 4 Android phone. Since there was no quick and easy ways to directly from Nokia to Android phone, I had to go through this work around.
Let us see how to get all your contacts from your Nokia to Android phone. The process involve few steps:
1. Export all contacts from Nokia phone to vCard format files, using Nokia Suite.
2. Combine all our vCard files into a single file (since Google Contacts does not allow bulk import)
3. Import all contacts to your Google Contacts
4. Sync your Android phone with your Google account, if it is not configured to auto sync.Export contacts from Nokia phone
The easiest way to export contacts from Nokia phone is by using the Nokia Suite software. It is the official software from Nokia to perform various tasks on a range of Nokia phones, including backup and restore, import and export, manage contacts, send messages and so on. If you don't have the Nokia Suite, you can download it from the official site.
Manage contacts using Nokia PC Suite Software
To export contacts using Nokia PC Suite, open the software and connect to your Nokia phone through Bluetooth or using cable. Once connected, follow the steps below:
1. Open the Contacts section
2. Click on "All" in the left panel
3. Select all contacts in the middle panel (You may click on any one contact and then press Ctrl + A. Or, you can use the mouse to multi select contacts)
3. Select File menu and select "Export contacts". You will be prompted to select a folder to export all your contacts as .vcf files.Combine multiple .vcf files into a single file
When you use the export option to export all your contacts from Nokia, each contact will be saved as a separate .vcf file. However, when you try to import them into Google, you will have to do it one file at a time. If you have a lot of contacts, importing vCards one at a time will be a time consuming job. Google does not provide a bulk import option yet to import all your contacts at a time.
The workaround is, combine all of your .vcf files into a single file. If you are using a Windows PC, you can use the COPY command to copy all of the VCF files into a single file.
Steps:
- Open the command prompt in Windows
- Navigate to the folder in which all of your .vcf files are located
- Run the following command:
COPY *.VCF combined.VCF
The above command will copy all VCF files into a single file called 'combined.VCF'. Now, you can import this single file (which contains all your contacts) into your Google contacts list.
(If you have .csv files, you can do the same to combine them all into a single .csv file. Just use the command "copy *.csv combined.csv".)Import all contacts to Google Contacts
Once you have all of your contacts into a single contacts file, you can import them all into Google.
- Go to https://www.google.com/contacts/
- Scroll down to the bottom on the leftbar and click on "Import Contacts".
- When prompted to select a .csv file or vCard file, choose the combined.VCF file you created in the previous step.
- Click on "Import" after selecting the file.
It will start the import process. Depending on the size of your contacts list, it may take a while to complete the import process.
Sync your Google contacts with Android phone
Once you have all your contacts in your Google Contacts list, you can get them all in your Android phone. To do this, make sure you have added your Google Account to your Android device and also sync the Google account on the phone.
To add your Google account in the Android phone, go to the "Settings" and look under "Accounts". If your Google account is not listed there, click on "Add Account" and proceed through the wizard.How to sync Google account in Android phone
If you have connected your Google account with your phone, you can enable automatic sync or manually sync anytime. You can sync various data including contacts, app data, calendar, photos and so on.
To sync the data from your Google account, follow the below steps in your Android phone:
- Go to "Settings"
- Scroll down to "Accounts"
- Click on "Google" under Accounts
- It will show your Google Account name and the sync status. Click on the Account name to configure the sync settings. To sync all your contacts or import all contacts from Google account, check the option "Contacts" in the Sync settings.
Once you Sync your contacts from Google account, go to your Phone contacts. You will see all your Google contacts that have phone numbers attached to it.
There are many other ways to import all of your contacts from Nokia phones to Android phones, but this is one of the easiest and most reliable ways to get them all to your Android phone.
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Thank you for these tips. I followed your tutorial and was able to export and import all of my contacts and phone numbers from a Nokia phone to Google and then to the Android phone.