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How to move contacts to new phone without Google account? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by solrize@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world
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I don't have a google account and don't want one and really prefer to not upload my contacts to someone else's server as a matter of principle. I have a personal nextcloud server so could use that if it helps, but it's not clear that it does.

I tried exporting the old contacts as a .vcf file and importing the .vcf to the new phone, and that MOSTLY worked, but it seems to have lost the labels on the phone numbers. E.g. my entry for XYZ Bank had separate phone numbers for payments, credit card, and so on. Those got transferred to the new phone as home, mobile, work. I.e. .vcf doesn't seem to handle custom labels.

Is there some kind of workaround? The vcf scheme seems like about the best, except for the issue of losing the contact labels.

To complicate matters a bit, I've been using the new phone for a couple weeks now, so I have added or edited some contacts on it. That means if I do another transfer, I'd prefer to not wipe out the contacts database on the new phone, though if that is unavoidable I guess I can survive.

Old phone is Android 7 and new phone is Android 13 if that matters. I haven't examined the .vcf file in an editor but I guess I should try that.

Thanks for any advice.

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[โ€“] TheCreeperFace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing it's contacts as in phone numbers so sim card save them all there and move it to the new phone

[โ€“] solrize@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah it might be that, though I thought sim card contact save had some pretty severe capacity limitations. Anyway the vcf transferred the names and phone numbers, but not the descriptions of the phone numbers, which were important. I'll see if I can get the SMS export program to stop crashing.

It's annoying that afaict, no mobile phone contacts app has been nearly as good as the HP 100LX PDA app from the 1990s. Meh.