BlackBerry Smartphones phone book

Hi all

My Blackberry 8120 comes by mail, now I'm at a point where I need to transfer all my contacts from my old cell (Motorola Razr) I had for 3 years.

Note: I use the prepaid T-Mobile service.

Thank you all, Lilbreez

Hi and welcome to the Forums!

A few things to discuss... so bear with me...

(1) contrary to others how things, RIM does not provide desktop PIM. Others force you to use their PIM and only their PIM. RIM provides a driving software that works as a bridge between your PIM and the BB. See this compatible PIM KB:

  • KB12268 Applications supported by BlackBerry Desktop Manager to synchronize

(2) RIM provides a device switch Wizard to migrate from another SmartPhone to a BB... but only for compatible devices. See this KB:

  • KB05459 How to use the switch device Wizard to switch to another smartphone to a BlackBerry smartphone

(3) If your old phone is not compatible with the wizard, then RIM more offers the possibility to import ASCII and CSV files. See this KB:

  • KB04312 Create and synchronize with an ASCII export file
    KB11194 How to import contacts from a CSV file to the BlackBerry
  • Sorry, but RIM does no research on how to get your data from your old device and in ASCII format or CSV... it is a function of your old device.

So your choice is, IMO, to continue to use a desktop PIM for your data (and you should, IMO)... then choose a compatible PIM (from above). Then download your data from your old device and the PIM Office. Next, configure the BB to sync with the PIM:

  • KB17022 How to configure applications to Organizer for synchronization using BlackBerry Desktop Manager

Good luck and let us know!

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