Guide: Export your contacts to .CSV on Pre and Pixi

[RUSH]

Wow, sometime it does take you awhile to see a post. Glad I did see this one though. Good looking out. ;-)

[JohnnyPre]

... Just a reminder ... There is a patch for that for those of you who Preware.

[nate812]

Originally Posted by tpd15

Note, for AT&T you substitute a * for the 2nd #, ie:
Use #*66623# then Send then follow the prompts.

Thank you SO much. The patch stopped working for me and couldn't get the Sprint code to work for my AT&T.

[nate812]

Originally Posted by nate812

Thank you SO much. The patch stopped working for me and couldn't get the Sprint code to work for my AT&T.

Looks like I spoke too soon. It errored out stating that if could not create the temporary file.

[nate812]

Originally Posted by nate812

Looks like I spoke too soon. It errored out stating that if could not create the temporary file.

Ahhhh although it errors out it still creates the export file w/ can be imported into Outlook. Does not export contact images however.

[skigs]

had same problem.....did you ever find a solution to this?

[licotto]

Originally Posted by bsiegel

Just an FYI, you can also use my 'Send All Contacts via Email' patch as written up here to get all your contacts in vCard format - no USB connection required:

http://www.precentral.net/how-export...contacts-patch

--Brandon

Work this angle, it's faster, easier & less worrisome...IMO...

[dyun1dyun1]

Originally Posted by badhairguy

I just tried this and it only exports the 1st contact in my list.

I did also, when I opened up the file with Outlook (default). Just for kicks, I went ahead and imported into my Gmail, and all my contacts came over.

[xover15]

I was getting an error exporting out of Cellebrite at the sprint store and with the ##66623# method. When I checked my PmMigration.cvf file it only had 6 contacts. It was my first six so i checked the 7th contact and it had an alternate name that I deleted. You could probably just delete the contact all together too. Anyway, everything exported fine after that.

Hope that helps someone.

[1palmclapping]

Has anyone figured out how to export the contact pictures/photos into a vcf file? Many of my Google contacts have the contact pictures. They did not export into the vcf file.

[rah0218]

Originally Posted by xover15

I was getting an error exporting out of Cellebrite at the sprint store and with the ##66623# method. When I checked my PmMigration.cvf file it only had 6 contacts. It was my first six so i checked the 7th contact and it had an alternate name that I deleted. You could probably just delete the contact all together too. Anyway, everything exported fine after that.

Hope that helps someone.

I also opened the vcf file and saw that it stopped after 5 contacts. I looked at my sixth contact and it had three linked profiles... I unlinked them and then ran the process again, this time without any errors.
Good luck getting your contacts into your next phone.
Original day one Pre owner... moving to Motorola Photon.
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[Tetenterre]

Originally Posted by Dan_Vivian

Is there a way to do this on O2 UK? Would be really useful!

A couple of years down the line, but:

1. Open the dialler
2. Key in #*66623# and hit the "dial" (green handset) icon
3. A new card comes up: hit the <CellBrite Export> button
4. Follow instructions to connect your Pre to the USB port of your computer as a USB drive
5. Enable the viewing of hidden files/folders, and navigate to the ".temp" folder
6. Your contacts are in the file called PmMigration.vcf
7. Copy this file to your computer, then import it to your Google contacts or some other email client that permits .VCF import

You can them merge it with your Google contacts before, if required, exporting a .CSV file from there.

As our Pres become useless, I hope this is helpful.

[sribkcont]

Originally Posted by tpd15

Note, for AT&T you substitute a * for the 2nd #, ie:
Use #*66623# then Send then follow the prompts.

Thanks! it helped.

[ChrisRoach]

Anyone know if there is a similar way to export notes, calendar, todo items from the palm profile side of the phone?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the palm profile only includes these four: Contacts, Calendar, Todo, Notes. All others are either part of app data or synced with a third party account(Yahoo!, Google, etc).

Photos & Music are not backed up anywhere unless you do so manually.

[Atif]

This method is great, but it doesn't save/export the ID photos with each contact...right?

Is there a way to export/save those also?