How to import your contacts on Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7)

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How to import your contacts to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7)

We will see in this tutorial how import your contacts to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7). Contacts are a very important feature of your smartphone.

This is why you may want to import them from another device to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7), to make maximum use of the features offered by contacts.

We will see how to import contacts to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7) from another device on the one hand, from your Google account located in the 'Cloud' on the other hand, from CSV files editable with a spreadsheet like Excel, and finally files in VCF format or vCard files.

Import your contacts from another device to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7)

To import contacts from another device, you must first have saved them on your SIM card or an SD card. We invite you to refer to our tutorial on contact backups to do this. Once this backup has been made, you will need to put the SIM or SD card in your new Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7). Once this is done, you must go to the category Contacts of your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7). In this menu, you can then press the ‘Settings’ key, located at the bottom right of your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7). An ‘Import’ option from the SIM card or Memory card will then be available to you, press it depending on your backup mode.

Follow the on-screen instructions and your contacts will be imported to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7).

Import your contacts from Google Cloud to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7)

It is a little known option but very interesting when you know how to handle it: import your contacts from the Cloud to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7). To do this, you must go to the ‘Settings’ menu, accessible from the home screen of your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7), then to ‘Account and Synchronization’. Once there, click on your Google account.

This will open a new window which will allow you to check the synchronization of contacts, emails and calendars.

Choose what you want to activate.

Import your contacts from a CSV file to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7)

If your files are in a CSV file, then to import them to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7), you will need to import them into your Gmail account. Once in your Gmail account, click on 'Contacts' above the compose email button. Then click on 'More actions' and finally on 'Import'. Choose the file from which you wish to import your contacts, and validate. Once the operation is finished, you can synchronize any Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7) with your Gmail account as mentioned in the previous paragraph.

Import your contacts with a VCF file to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7)

One last option to import your contacts to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7) is to use VCF files. This option will allow you, with CSV files, to share your contact lists from your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7) as well. As in the first paragraph of this article, go to the ‘Import/Export’ section of the ‘Contacts’ folder of your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7). From there, click on ‘Import’ then choose the VCF format. Once you have validated the operation and selected the source VCF file, you can import all your contacts to your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7). Conversely, you can export contacts to make a backup on your Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 (4.7).

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