Replace or merge contacts on your wireless service provider's contact backup server

To perform this task, you will need to sign up for your wireless service provider's contact backup service and you must have backed up your SIM card phone book to your wireless service provider's contact backup server. When you insert a new SIM card in your BlackBerry smartphone, you can choose to replace or merge that SIM card's phone book with the contacts that you have backed up on your wireless service provider's contact backup server.

  1. Insert a new SIM card into your smartphone or switch your SIM card.
  2. On the home screen, click the Contacts icon.
  3. When prompted to sign up for contact backup service, select Yes.
    • To replace your SIM card phone book with the contacts you backed up to your wireless service provider's contact backup server, click Delete.
    • To merge your SIM card phone book with the contacts you backed up to your wireless service provider's contact backup server, click Do Not Delete.
  4. Click Next.
Parent topic: Contact list options