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How to Backup a SIM Card

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Iwanted to know how I could backup all of the phone numbers on my cellphone. I searched the internet for products that would do this task. Ifound a few devices that ran anywhere from $25-$70 plus shipping andhandling. I decided to put off buying one of the devises until I coulddo some more research on what I was buying. I mentioned this situationto a co-worker (Mike G.), and he told be that I didn’t have to spend adime if I could get a hold of an older Nokia cell phone. Just my luck Ihad an old Nokia phone in my closet that was about 4 years old and wasnot being used. Read on to see how easy this task is. Besides backingup your SIM card you can also copy numbers from one SIM card to anotherand merge numbers from multiple SIM cards.

Step1
Install the SIM card that you want to copy or backup into the older Nokia cell phone.
Step2
Turn on your old Nokia cell phone and press “contact” in the lower right corner
Step3
Scroll down till you see “copy” on the menu
Step4
Scroll down till you see “copy From SIM card to phone”
Step5
Follow the prompts till all the numbers from the SIM card are copied to the phone
Step6
Now turn off the phone and insert the destination SIM card.
Step7
Repeat steps 2-3
Step8
Scroll down till you see “copy From phone card to SIM”
Step9

Follow the prompts till all the numbers from the phone card are copied to the destination SIM

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