Alcatel 8000A, 8000D Contacts importing, exporting and sharing, Displaying contacts, Accounts

3.3.6Contacts importing, exporting and sharing

This phone enables you to import contacts from SIM card/microSD card and export contacts to a microSD card which can then be used to back up your information.

From Contacts screen, touch Menu icon to open options menu, touch Import/export, then select Import from SIM card, Export to SIM card, Import from storage, Export to storage or Share visible contacts.

To import/export a single contact from/to SIM card, choose an account and target SIM card(s), select the contact you want to import/export, and touch the icon √ to confirm.

To import/export all contacts from/to SIM card, choose target SIM card(s), select All and touch the icon √ to confirm.

You can share a single contact or contacts with others by sending the contact's vCard to them via Bluetooth, Gmail, etc.

Touch a contact you want to share, touch Menu icon and Share from contact details screen, then select the application to perform this action.

3.3.7Displaying contacts

You can configure which group of contacts, for each account, you want to display in the Contacts list. Touch Menu icon and touch Contacts to display from contacts list screen, then you can choose contacts to display.

Touch Menu icon and Settings, you can sort list by the given name or family name, as well as view contact names as given/family name first.

3.3.8Joining/Separating contacts

To avoid duplication, you can add any new contact information to existing contacts in a single action.

Touch the contact which you want to add information to, touch Menu icon and touch Edit, then touch Menu icon again and touch Join.

At this time, you are required to select the contact whose information you want to join with the first contact. The information from the second contact is added to the first one, and the second contact will no longer be displayed in the Contacts list.

To separate contact information, touch the contact whose information you want to separate, touch Menu icon and touch Edit, then touch Menu icon again and touch Separate, touch OK to confirm.

3.3.9Accounts

Turn on/off the sync & Auto-sync

Touch the Auto-sync app data to turn on/off all accounts' auto-sync. When activated, all changes to information on the phone or online will be automatically synchronized to each other. Touch an account and mark/ unmark the checkbox to control whether applications or services data can be transmitted.

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