It’s a pain to transfer contacts from a Nokia phone to an Android or non-nokia phone – After a lot of tinkering with my Nokia’s Ovi contact’s site, I was able to transfer my contacts with a little bit of simple hacking/text-manipulation. These steps are pretty easy and you’ll have no problem following this tutorial – regardless of your computer usage skill.

Nokia makes it very easy to transfer phone contacts to another Nokia phone. But it’s a nightmare to transfer contacts from Nokia to android phone or any other phone for that matter.

Onto the tutorial now.

1- First of all, you need to register at Nokia’s Ovi site (if you haven’t registered already). The Ovi site’s contacts section will let you upload/synchronise contacts from your phone to their server. Go to http://www.ovi.com/ and follow the registration process.

2- After registration, and verifying your phone number ,  Download the Nokia Ovi suite application and install it on your PC.

3- Now connect your nokia phone with your PC and launch the Ovi suite application and sign in with the ovi account that you registered in step 2.

4- From the top menu in the ovi application, go to sync and choose the option to sync your contacts. This will upload your phone’s contacts to nokia’s servers.

5- Unfortunately, there is no easy or direct way of importing these contacts to a file so now – once again go to http://www.ovi.com/ and login with your account.

6- Go to the contacts section and you should see all phone’s contacts listed there as they were uploaded from the Ovi Suite application in step 4.

7- Make sure you set the contacts to show in ‘list’ format by clicking on the ‘list’ button at the bottom of the contacts page on OVI website’s contact page. As shown in image below

8- Now click in the very first cell at the very top – so as to select the first contact in the list (as shown in image)

9- Now press and hold the ‘Shift’ key and at the very bottom most contact in the list, click again. This way you will select all the contacts displayed on that page in the list.

10- Press ctrl+C to copy the selected contacts and open Notepad or any text editor where you’ll paste the copied contacts in raw form. In the text editor/notepad, Press ctrl+v and you’ll see all the contacts copied in the format as shown in screenshot below.

11- Copy all the contacts from the rest of the list’s pages on Ovi site. Now save this list from the text editor/notepad and name it something like ‘myContacts.txt’. Make sure that each individual contact is separated like shown in the screenshot above. Every contact must have ONLY ONE phone number (sorry but in the next steps, the import won’t work if any contact has more than one phone number listed below them – delete any secondary phone numbers from the ‘myContacts.txt’)

12- Now we just need to style and format this list in proper CSV (comma separated format) so that we can upload the CSV formatted contacts to Google Contacts (and ultimately to your android phone). We need a slightly advanced text editor for formatting the contacts in myContacts.txt into CSV format.

13- Download notepad++ from the download page on http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ and install it. Now open the ‘myContacts.txt’ file in notepad++.

14- In notepad++ , once the myContacts.txt file is opened.  Go to ‘View’ (from top menu) and from the drop down menu, click ‘Show Symbol’ and from the subsequent menu check ‘Show end of line’. (This option will now make the editor show the ‘end of line’ characters in the text , that are normally invisible). You should see the contacts like as shown in the image below.

15 – With the new-line special characters visible, we’ll now start formatting this list to CSV format. the ‘CR LF’ characters just show that the line ends here and new line begins after it, it’s only relevant for the styling we are going to do in the next step.

16 – Now for CSV format, what we want to do is to make all the contact names and numbers wrapped quotations like “Friend Johin”,”03451234567″. For this, we use some intelligent find-and-replace to replace the CRLF like symbols with quotation marks, this way, if you have hundreds of contacts in your myContacts.txt, you can format all those hundreds of records in 3,4 steps like we are going to do in the following steps

17- In notepad++, press ctrl+H to get the find-and-replace window. In that window,  ‘in FIND WHAT: write ‘/r/n/r/n’ and in the replace field, write ‘ “/r/n’ , as shown below – and press REPLACE ALL .  Now to for double assurance, in FIND WHAT field, write ‘/r/n /r/n’ (notice there is a space between the first /r/n and the the second /r/n and press REPLACE ALL again.

18- You should get something like this now, notice the ” quotations at the end of the telephone numbers for each contact.

19- Since we have to achieve formatting like “Lara Shyalot”,”03441256882″ .. i.e. both the name and number separated by a comma and each of the name and number blocks wrapped in quoation marks, we continue our find-and-replace work. Press ctrl+h again to get the find and replace screen and then in FIND WHAT field type ‘\r\n’ and in Replace WITH field, type ‘\r\n” ‘ and press replace all. – You should get something like tis, notice the new quotation marks added in front of contact names now

20- Now we want to insert a comma b/w the name and number of each contact, so we replace the CR LF (/r/n) symbols with a comma. press ctrl+h again and in FIND WHAT field, type ‘”\r\n’(notice the quotation mark right before \r\n, its important) and replace with ‘xyzxyz’. press replace-all button and you’ll get something like

20(b)- now to insert the comma b/w a name and number of each contact, replace ‘/r/n’ with a quotation mark, followed by a comma i.e. ‘ “, ‘  as shown below

21- We still have to put ending quotation mark at the end of each phone number, so now we replace the xyzxyz string with a quotation mark followed by /r/n , as shown below – and you should get something like below.

22- Notice how there is a missing quotation mark at the very start of the file and there is an extra quotation mark at the very bottom of file. (if we have such extra/missing symbols), our CSV file won’t be accepted by google, so lets fix that and also at the very top add the title of each of these two columns. The end result should look like as below

22(b)- Now open a blank sheet inside MS Excel (spreadsheet) and import this myContacts.txt -  (by clicking on Data > From TEXT ) and choosing the myContacts.txt file. Import this file (choose to use the quotation mark ” and comma , as the delimeter. once imported. If  you did all steps fine, you should see two columns in the spreadsheet (Name, Phone) – and all your contacts will be listed here.

23(c)- Now save this excel spreadsheet as .csv file (comma separated values), Name it something like myContacts.csv

23- That’s it!   Now lets save this file and then go to Google Contacts  http://www.google.com/contacts (login with your gmail account there) – We will now import the CSV formatted file (myContacts.csv) of our nokia contacts into Google Contacts.

24- Inside the Google Contact main-page, click the ‘import’ button on the top-right. Select the newly created csv file and click upload. – Don’t forget to add a userfriendly name for this group of contacts in your google-contacts.

25- Voila, thats it, so now you know how to import nokia contacts into android and google contacts.

Part two of this tutorial will show how you can directly download your google contacts directly into your android phone.

If you used to search the web for a 3GP version of your favorite video so that you could enjoy some high quality movies on your mobile phone, your search is over. No you won’t have to ask others to compress a video for your mobile phone because at the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to compress any of your favorite video or movie to a high quality .3GP format movie yourself.

If you regularly watch videos on your mobile phone, you already know how pixelated and badly compressed most of those movies look. With this tutorial, we’ll follow some steps, use a nice compression software, and tune up a few things so that you’ll get videos with the the highest quality possible, and even that with a minor increase in the file size.

In order to compress the movie, first you’ll be needing this very nice audio/video compression tool called Super © video converter, to download it go here and you’ll see a very lengthy page, go to the very end of the page and you’ll see a link saying “start downloading Super (C)”, click on that link and you’ll be forward to a final page, where you can download the program (Yes, I know the download is a little awkward, but thats how the Super (C) wants people to go through their pages before they’re able to get a download).

After you’re done with downloading the setup for Super C video converter and install it. During the installation process, you might get a few messages just ignore them.

Once Super C is installed, open it up (if you’re on vista, you might need to right click on the icon and run it as an administrator). Super C will check some requirements that it needs, whatever message it gives, just press ok (as normally any current PC is ok to run Super C, unless you want to compress huge videos as then you’ll need more RAM and CPU power).

Since we’ll be compressing our videos to 3GP format, select “3GP” as the output format, MPEG4 as the video codec and AAC LC as the Audio codec just as shown in the pictur below.

After choosing the right options, now we have to select the video options. If you’re using a phone like Sony Ericsson’s K750, W700, W800, W810, W550 etc, then select the 176:144 “Video Scale Size” from the Video row, 25 frames per second, with 250 kbps bitrate.

If you’re using Sony Ericsson’s K790, K800, K810, K850, W850, W900 etc then because of the large screen and powerful mobile cpu you can choose 240:320 “Video Scale Size” (which’ll give you far superior video quality (as you can see from the top image of this post)). Same 25 frames/sec video speed and choose a bitrate of 450 kbps for the video, just like as shown in the screenshot below.

The next step is to select some nice audio options so that you can enjoy a good audio experience along with he nicely compressed 3GP video. Choose 22050 as the sampling frequency, 2 Channels and choose the bitrate to 96 kbps (if you’re using K750, W700, W800, W810 etc you can also choose 64kbps audio quality if you are going to compress very long videos like movies for example, it’ll save your mobile videos from lagging). Select the options as shown in the screenshot below.

After choosing these options, now all you have to do is to select your favorite movie or video, and get it encoded by Super C. To select the media file that you want to encode, (1) right click on the area below OUTPUT, as shown in the following image, and (2) click on “Add Multimedia Files”.  A browse window should open up and now just locate and select the required video file.

Now you’ll see the video file in the list. In my case I’m compressing Alizee’s La Isla Bonita (very famous video of this hot and nice singer). After the video is in the list just click on “Encode (Active Files)”. Make sure the video is ticked in the list just like as shown below.

Now give Super C a little time to compress your video. The compression doesn’t take very long, time-taken depends on the video size and the compression options. After the compression process is done, your compressed 3GP file will be stored in C:/Program Files/eRight Software/Super/Output directory.

As you can see by the status bar screenshot below, Super C has compressed a 49MB file to a nice and neat, high quality 13MB 3GP file (320:240 version),

i’ve followed the 320:240 size as I wanted this video for my Sony Ericsson K790. For the 176:144 video phones like K750, W700, W800, W810 etc, the size of the compressed 3GP video file will be much smaller.

The end product will look something like this:

I hope you’d love the end product  This 3GP video is now worth watching over your cell phone over and over again. Oh and do comment about how you found this post, and of course, how hot do you think Alizee is?

You’ll be needing a flashing program (XS++ v3.1 in this case), a DCU-60 cable (the USB cable that you got with your phone) & the two flash files (Main + FS). So first

1. Get the flashing program, XS++ v3.1 from here (go to the applications folder to get it)
2. If you own a K790, K800 or K810, get its flash files (Main + FS) from here (go to the Firmware folder and select the subfolder for your specific phone. No download the MAIN and FS files. In my case I chose K790_R6BC002_FS_America_2_RED52.rar & K790_R6BC002_Main_generic_EV_RED52.rar . Notice the difference in the two files, one is FS and the other is Main, both FS & Main should be the same version (R6BC002 in this case) and both files are CID52 (see? the files end with RED52).If you own a K750/W800, you can get you FS file from here and Main file from here directly. If you own some other model of Sony Ericsson, you’ll have to google search for its FS & MAIN files.
3. Extract the FS & Main files to a temporary folder if they are compressed

Next we’ll start the flashing process by starting XS++, just extract the XS++ file that you downloaded earlier. Click on the ‘connect’ button, then turn off your phone and press the  while keep pressing the ‘c’ button on ur phone connect the cable. XS++ should detect your phone now and you’ll see a screen like this:

If XS++ is unable to detect your phone, don’t worry, google search for USB flash drivers for your specific phone and try again then.

Once your phone is detected by XS++, its time to select the FS & Main files in XS++, then select your phone model from the dropdown box below, tick ‘flash Main firmware’, ‘flash file system’ & ‘customize file system’ and click the ‘Flash’ button.

After that, wait patiently till XS++ flashes your MAIN and FS files one by one. XS++ will finalize the flashing in the end. Just DO NOT unplug the phone or turn off the PC before XS++ asks you to do so.

After XS++ asks you to disconnect your phone, do so and take out your batter, put it back in and switch on the phone.

You are now a happy owner of a reflashed fresh sony ericsson phone. Hope this guide helps you out in your quest.