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How to Import Contacts on TCL 305i?
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Aug 9, 2024
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Welcome! In front of me is a TCL 305i and today I will show you how you can import your contacts
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from the SIM card to the device. So to get started you will want to open up the standalone contacts
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application like this one. From here we're going to tap on the three dots and then we're going to
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select settings, import export and select allow and allow. And here we have the option copy
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contacts from. So here you can select whatever you want. For the purpose of this I did save from
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the SIM card so that's what I'm going to be selecting. My SIM card which won't be displayed
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as SIM card will be displayed as the carrier that it's from. So for this one it's a Virgin Mobile
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and select next. It will ask you where you want to import those contacts to. You have again a
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couple options. Though the options right here are limited for you there is a chance you will have
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more. So it's showing me phone, internal shared storage or SD card. I can import them to either
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one of those. There is usually another option which would be your Google account. I believe
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there is no account logged in or if there is I guess maybe I just can't import it to the account
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and whatever case may be. If you have Google account that's great you can import it to that
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if you want to and if you don't have it while your device does have actual like Google account
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logged in and then it will just mean that it doesn't support importing contacts to a Google
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account. Anyway select where you want to import those contacts to. I'm going to stick with the
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phone and then we can select next. In this case it's going to display all the contacts that are
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on the chosen location which is the SIM card for me and you can select all of them if you want to
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I believe this is going to be the button. Yep it's the one between like the check mark and search
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You can click on that and it will select all of the contacts. Maybe you want most of them but not
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all. You could still utilize that and then deselect contacts that you don't want and then click on the
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check mark. This will then automatically import all the selected contacts to your device or
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whatever you have chosen to import them to. And in this device it does show you contacts from your
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SIM card and from for instance the phone at the same time. So you can see we have a SIM card icon
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with a one. This is just a tray number for the SIM card. So it is displaying them. If I were to take
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out the card those contacts would disappear with that icon. Oh well the ones without it would stay
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on the phone. And anyway that is how you import your contacts. Now the benefit of importing your
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contacts to your device even though they're being displayed right here in a way twice would be that
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contacts that are stored on your phone actually have the ability to have additional information
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like for instance when you have a contact you can assign if this is a work contact, home
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mobile, stuff like that. Along with for instance things like date of birth and addresses and
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additional notes. Well contacts stored on the SIM card do not have those options
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And additionally contacts stored on the phone do have the option to have contact photos assigned
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to them while the ones on the SIM card do not. And the thing that you see right here these kind
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of like images those are just letters as you can probably see. So T, S, I. So they just have a flashy
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way of showing the first letter of the contact and that's about it. So there we go. And one more thing
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And one more thing to add to this. If you want to have these contacts visible but don't want to
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maybe have duplicates visible like this with the ones being pulled from your SIM card you could
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utilize a contacts by Google which I don't think this device comes with because this is the only
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contacts but you can download it from Play Store. So contacts by Google will allow you to choose
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where the contacts are being displayed from removing the contacts that are from other locations
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than the one that you have chosen to display. So that will keep your contacts a little bit cleaner
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Anyway with that being said hopefully you found this very helpful and if you did don't forget to hit like, subscribe and thanks for watching
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