Cell phone issues.

[ohwordd]

Here is my situation;
At the beginning of summer I bought a samsung glyde for verizon wireless.
A few weeks ago it broke completely in half, separating the keyboard and the screen. The keyboard lights up whenever a call is received but the screen is completely dead. I got insurance on it and a new one is in the mail.

Here is my problem;
I need my contacts from that phone, because I have no other backup and there are numbers in there that I will have a very hard time getting back. So I plugged the half of my phone that is still alive into my computer and saw if QPST could still access everything on it. After a few moments of searching I came across a file called phbk. I opened it up in a text editor and found all my contacts along with a bunch of random characters. So this is obviously my phonebook.

The only problem is a firmware update was released for my phone on August 1st, and I hadn't gone into Verizon to get it yet. I'm assuming the new one in the mail, WILL have the firmware update.

What I need to know is, do you guys think there is a chance of bricking if I flash the phonebook file from an older firmware version, onto my new phone?

[mahfood1990]

Well, if you don't want to risk bricking, open that phone book file and add the numbers into your new phone manually, if that is an option.

[ohwordd]

It's an option but that's 150+ contacts I don't want to manually type into my phone.

[mahfood1990]

Originally Posted by ohwordd

It's an option but that's 150+ contacts I don't want to manually type into my phone.

I see, so you should wait for someone else to response
But how about adding it using the PC software that came with your phone(I believe most phones have this), it should make things faster as you'll just have to copy-paste and not type them again.

[Demonchild]

I don't know if Verizon does but..

With some phones (Like the T-Mobile Sidekicks), everything is synced between your phone and their servers. When you insert your SIM, and get both unlocked, the phone will download the data from the servers.

You can always try inserting your SIM card in the new phone and see if contacts were actually stored there. Or you can finger on the broken phone and try backing up the phonebook to your SIM Card.

[.:BioHazard:.]

I always save everything on both the phone and sim because of this reason. 5 of my newer phones have broke, what's wrong on quality on todays phones? Right now I'm using one of my 3510i:s, I got about 15 of those and not a single one have ever broken while all my newer SE w***i, k***i and Nokia N90,N93 have broken rather quick. I want a n96 when they come to Sweden but I don't know if I'll buy one cause all my other newer phones have broken so quick :/. They really need to improve the quality on newer cellphones.

[ohwordd]

Verizon doesn't have SIM cards.

[jdm0830]

im sure there is some sort of method of backing up to your pc with verizon software.
Juan