Don't understand....

seven-day-weekend

Hi, my husband left his mobile phone out in the rain and now it won't work.

I put his PAYG SIM card into a little phone I was given free and have never really used, and whose SIM card has expired. The phone works OK but his contact list has changed. I think it is the contact list that was originally on the phone I have put the card into. Certainly the entry for 'This Phone' is the number of the phone I have put the card into, and not my husband's usual number.

Seems most strange to me - can anyone help, or am I going mad???

(Please be gentle with me, I'm a child of the 60s and know virtually nothing about mobile phones!).

matttye

If the contacts on his phone were saved on the phone rather than on the SIM card, the contacts won't appear in the new phone. You would need to copy the contacts from his old phone to the SIM card for that to work, which doesn't seem possible.

I would put the phone in with a bag of uncooked rice for 2-3 days and then try turning it on again.

seven-day-weekend

Ah right! Think I understand.

The phone will turn on and off now, we have taken it apart and are drying everything out, but thanks for your advice, will try it.

Thanks again!

SnowTiger

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Hi, my husband left his mobile phone out in the rain and now it won't work.

I put his PAYG SIM card into a little phone I was given free and have never really used, and whose SIM card has expired. The phone works OK but his contact list has changed. I think it is the contact list that was originally on the phone I have put the card into. Certainly the entry for 'This Phone' is the number of the phone I have put the card into, and not my husband's usual number.

Seems most strange to me - can anyone help, or am I going mad???

(Please be gentle with me, I'm a child of the 60s and know virtually nothing about mobile phones!).

You can usually store contact details (address book entries) on to the SIM card or the phone.

I'd guess that both of you saved them to the phone, which is why you're now seeing a list of your contacts when you put OH's SIM in to your old phone.

As your husband's phone isn't working now, he's (probably) lost the contact details stored on it.

seven-day-weekend

How do I know whether I have saved them onto the SIM or the phone and what can I do about changing them over? I have a NOKIA 610 and he has an ORANGE RIO (if it ever works again!) The 'little ' phone is a SAMSUNG GT-E1080i.

Buzby

By using the Copy to SIM function - there is not much space on the SIM so you may be limited to 200 numbers.

dealer_wins

I can sometimes be a good thing to "lose" all your contacts and have to re-enter them.

I find that at I never use at least half my lost contacts LOL

seven-day-weekend

Buzby wrote: »

By using the Copy to SIM function - there is not much space on the SIM so you may be limited to 200 numbers.

Oh we only have about thirty each! Thanks for the reply

seven-day-weekend

dealer_wins wrote: »

I can sometimes be a good thing to "lose" all your contacts and have to re-enter them.

I find that at I never use at least half my lost contacts LOL

Agreed - my husband has a contact on his phone who was someone we gave a lift to five years ago :rotfl: (He kept him because the person had a Coutts Bank Account,;) ).

cookie365

The information that you can save on a sim is pretty crude. Most modern phones save contact info to the phone itself to get round the limitations.

If you're using an Android phone then it also (I assume you can turn this off) saves the contact info to the google account so you can restore it to a new Android phone using the same account.

I'd guess Blackindowpple phones do something similar.

seven-day-weekend

Thanks to everyone - his phone seems fine this morning and he has kept his contacts

Sorry cookie, didn't understand your post but thanks anyway