Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Export Contacts to a SIM Card in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

Copying contacts list to a SIM card is one of the ways to backup your contacts or to move your contacts to another phone with ease. But, you have to remember that since a SIM card has a limited storage therefore you will probably not be able to copy all of your contacts to a single SIM card. In addition, the SIM card also only lets you to add a single phone number and a single name for a single contact therefore if a contact that you're going to copy to the SIM card has multiple phone numbers or names then only the phone number or the name that have been set as the default preferences that will be copied to the SIM card, and if the contact has another additional information, e.g: email address, address, etc then these information won't be copied to the SIM card.

How to export contacts to a SIM card?
You can copy contacts from your phone storage or other accounts(e.g: Google account or Samsung account) to the inserted SIM card by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
4. Tap Contacts.
5. Tap Import/export.
6. Tap Export to SIM card. FYI, this option only available if you have inserted a SIM card into your phone.
7. Select the required contacts you want to export to the inserted SIM card, or tap Select all to select all contacts.
8. Tap Done button.
9. A window will appear to warn you that some information within the contacts might be lost when they're copied to the SIM card.
10. Tap OK button to continue exporting selected contacts to the SIM card.
11. The selected contacts will be copied to the SIM card.

As a note, if you own S5 with other model number and don't have the option to export contacts to SIM card then you can alternatively do so by using a third-party app from the Play Store that has the ability to transfer contacts to the SIM card.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Import Contacts From SIM Card in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

For some reason, you will probably need to copy contacts within a SIM card to your phone, for instance when you have a new phone and need to copy contacts that you have saved in a SIM card or when you want to get more options for your contacts. As we all know, when you save your contacts in SIM card, you're only allowed to add a single phone number and a single name for a single contact, but if you save your contacts in the phone storage then you will get more options for your contacts, such as: you can add multiple phone numbers for a single contact, add other additional contact's information, add photo to contacts, etc.

How to import SIM Card contacts to the device storage?
Basically, you can copy your SIM card contacts to your phone storage or other accounts, e.g: Google account or Samsung account. But, as the example, we'll try to import SIM card contacts to the phone storage by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
4. Tap Contacts.
5. Tap Import/export.
6. Tap Import from SIM card. FYI, this option only available if you have inserted a SIM card to your phone.
7. Tap Device to import SIM card contacts to your phone storage.
8. Select the required SIM card contacts you want to import, or tap Select all to select all SIM card contacts.
9. Tap Done button.
10. All selected SIM card contacts will be copied to your phone storage.

As a note, since the steps above is written based on my SM-G900H, if you have a S5 with other model number and don't have the option to import SIM card contacts, then you can alternatively copy your SIM card contacts to your phone storage or other accounts by using a third-party app from the Play Store that has the ability to copy SIM card contacts.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Clear Contact's Default Preferences in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

Marking an entry within a contact as the default preferences will help your phone to know which the primary entry that should be used if the contact has multiple entries in a field, e.g: phone number, name or email address. However, for some reason, you may want to clear the default preferences of an entry within a contact, for instance if you have accidentally marked a wrong entry as the default preferences.

How to remove the default preferences of an entry within a contact?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact.
4. Long tap the entry that has been set as the default preferences (e,g: phone number or email address) and then select Clear default.
5. The default preferences of the selected entry has been cleared and the checkmark will be removed.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Mark Contact's Default Preferences in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

When you have a contact that has multiple entries in a field or when you have linked contacts so that it has multiple entries in a field(e.g: name, phone number or email address) then you can set one of the entries in that field as the default. The entry within a contact that has been set as the default preferences will be used automatically when you use it in other apps, for instance when you're going to send a message to a contact that has multiple phone numbers then the stock Messaging app will automatically use the default phone number as the recipient.


How to set the default preferences of a contact?
To make it easier, as the example, we'll try to set the default phone number in a contact that has multiple phone numbers by using three different methods as you can see below.

Method #1: From the Contacts app

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact.
4. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Mark as default.
5. Tap the required phone number you want to set as the default. The radio button next to the phone number will turn green when it's selected.
6. If needed, you can also set default preferences for another fields (name or email address) here.
7. Tap Save button to save the changes.
8. The selected phone number has been set as the default and will have a checkmark .

Method #2: From the Contacts app

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact.
4. Long tap the required phone number you want to set as the default and then select Mark as default.
5. The selected phone number has been set as the default and will have a checkmark .

Method #3: From the Messaging app
This method lets you easily set the default phone number when you're going to send a message to a contact that has multiple phone numbers.

1. Open the stock Messaging app.
2. Tap to compose a new message.
3. Tap to select contact. If the contact has multiple phone numbers, you can set one of them as the default by checking the box next to Remember this choice and then tap the required phone number.
4. The selected phone number will be set as the default and will be used as the message recipient.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Unlink Contacts in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

One of the ways that can be done to avoid the Contacts app displays duplicate contacts when you have chosen to display all contacts from all sources or accounts is by linking the same contacts so that they will be displayed as a single entry in the Contacts app. Aside from linking contacts, if needed, you can also separate a contact from linked contacts so that the contact will be displayed as a separate entry in the Contacts app, for instance when you have accidentally linked a wrong contact.


How to separate linked contacts?
You can unlink a contact from linked contacts to display the contact as an individual entry by using these following methods:

Method #1

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact you want to separate.
4. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Unlink contacts.
5. Tap next to the required entry you want to separate.
6. Tap OK button to confirm separation.
7. The selected contact has been separated.

Method #2

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact you want to separate.
4. Tap in the Connected via section.
5. Tap next to the required entry you want to separate.
6. Tap OK button to confirm separation.
7. The selected contact has been separated.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Link Contacts in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

As we all know that the stock Contacts app allows you to display or sync contacts from other sources or accounts, e.g: Facebook account, Google account, etc. Therefore, when you have synced contacts with those accounts, you will probably face a situation where you have a single contact whose the information are saved in the different locations, for instance a contact named Robert that has an entry with phone number stored in the phone memory and another entry with email address stored in the Google account. To avoid the Contacts app displays duplicate contacts, you can link those contacts so that the app will display them as a single contact but the information is still kept separate in the different locations.

How to link contacts?
You can merge multiple contacts into a single one by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Links contacts.
4. The device will show you all of contacts that can be joined. By default, the contacts are sorted by the name. If needed, you can change how the contacts will be sorted by tapping the box in the right side of the Sort by option and then select from the following options:
• Name: select this option to sort contacts by their names so that all contacts with the same name will be listed in a single section.
• Phone number: select this option to sort contacts by their phone numbers so that all contacts with the same phone number will be listed in a single section.
• Email address: select this option to sort contacts by their email addresses so that all contacts with the same email address will be listed in a single section.
5. Select the required contacts you want to join.
6. Tap Done button.
7. The selected contacts within the same section have been joined into a single contact. As the example, if the contacts are sorted by the name then all selected contacts with the same name will be joined into a single contact.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Sort Contacts in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

The stock Contacts app lets you sort your contacts list alphabetically, either by the first name or the last name. Sorting contacts list with the proper method will be able to help you to quickly and easily find the required contact. If needed, you can also change the way the Contacts app to display the contacts' names, either display contacts by the first name first or by the last name first.

How to sort your contacts list?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Tap Contacts.
4. To change how the contacts will be sorted, tap Sort by and then select from the following options:
• Given name: select this option if you'd like to sort your contacts list alphabetically by the given name or the first name.
• Family name: select this option if you'd like to sort your contacts list alphabetically by the family name or the last name.
5. To change how the contacts will be displayed, tap Display contacts by and then select from the following options:
• Given name first: select this option if you'd like to display the contact's name in your contacts list by the first name first.
• Family name first: select this option if you'd like to display the contact's name in your contacts list by the last name first.
6. Press the Back key twice to go back to your contacts list and you'll see your contacts list will be sorted and displayed based on your selection.