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Re: Blasted Contacts App

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On 31/01/2026 18:37, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>> Steve Hayes wrote:
>>
>>> There also might be one in your phone, another on the SIM, and yet
>>> another in Gmail contacts.
>>
>> Contacts stored in SIMs?  How last century ...
> 
>    Well, mobile providers tend to put *their* contacts on their SIMs! :-)
> (And the 'local' emergency number. And ...)
> 
>    And I used it in the 'dumb'/'feature' phone era to move contacts
> between phones (because the phones did not have a standard export/import
> functionality) and, trust me, that was in *this* centurty! :-)
> 
>    I'm afraid my main SIM still has some ten or so functional 'contact'
> numbers on it.

I only use the SIM for contacts (as I've done since my first phone in 
1995). I guess I've done that because of lack of a backup then (as 
you've noted), and it was easy to transfer to a new phone. Well, until 
the SIM size changed, that is!

Also, I've always assumed that the phone is more likely to fail than the 
SIM, so in the absence of a backup the SIM method was safer. Nowadays 
though, I rarely use my cellphone for anything, and I have no backup for 
two reasons. Firstly, it isn't necessary with the very limited usage and 
what I need is stored on my laptop (which is backed up regularly). 
Secondly, I can't see a way to backup the contacts info without using 
the internet and going through Google or Xiaomi cloud storage first, and 
I don't use cloud storage for anything. The phone isn't rootable so the 
contacts folder isn't accessible for transfer to a computer via USB. 
Maybe droidkit or shizuku could get to it, but Google seems to be intent 
on locking the data folders down as much as possible.

-- 
Jeff

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