From: Jeff@invalid.invalid
On 31/01/2026 18:37, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Andy Burns 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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