How to Transfer Contacts from Nokia to Android Phone

or Tablet
BY ANDROID FILE TRANSFER FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Bought an Android phone or tablet and want to transfer the contacts on your old
Nokia phone (running Symbian or Windows Phone) to the Android device? You
are in the right place! In this tutorial Ill introduce 6 methods to export contacts
from Nokia to Android phone or tablet, which is super useful if you want to
switch from Nokia to Android.

Method 1: How to Transfer Contacts from Nokia to Android Phone

or Tablet with MobileTrans
Applies to Nokia Symbian phones
MobileTrans is an easy-to-use phone to phone transfer software for iOS,
Android and Nokia Symbian users to transfer contacts, photos, music, videos,
messages, call history, apps and more between two phones, e.g. transferring
contacts from iPhone to iPad, transferring apps from old Android to new Android,
transferring music from iPhone to Android, etc. with only 1 click.
After downloading the phone transfer MobileTrans for Windows or MobileTrans
for Mac, install and run it on your computer.
Here are steps guiding you to export contacts from Nokia to Android with
MobileTrans:
1.

Connect both your Nokia Symbian phone and your Android phone or tablet
to the computer;

2.

When both the two devices are found by the software, the data types that
are supported to transfer from your Nokia to Android will be available to
select in the middle. Tick the checkbox before Contacts if you want to
copy contacts from Nokia to Android.

3.

Click Start Copy to start send contacts from Nokia to Android. After a
short while, all the contacts on your Nokia should be available on your
Android device.

Method 2: How to Sync Contacts from Nokia to Android Using

Nokia Suite and Android File Transfer
Applies to non-Lumia Nokia phones.

Nokia Suite and Nokia PC Suite are both Nokia-official sync software for
Nokia users to transfer content (like contacts, photos, music, calendar, tasks,
notes, bookmarks and Web feeds) between PC and Nokia phones, create
backups and restore from backups with ease. Nokia Suite is developed for the
latest no-Lumia Nokia phones, such as the Asha series. If you are using an older
Nokia model, download the Nokia PC Suite.
If you are not sure which one to download, see the list of compatible devices of
Nokia Suite and the compatible list for Nokia PC Suite.
In this method, well take Nokia Suite as an example.
Android File Transfer (MobileGo for Android) is a professional Android PC suite
for Android users to sync and backup Android phones and tablets. Data including
text messages (SMS), contacts, apps, music, photos and videos are supported to
transfer from one Android to another Android, and between Android and PC. In
the following method, well use the feature of importing contacts from Windows
Address Books to Android to make transfer Nokia contacts to Android possible.
Here are the steps:
Note: To be able to sync contacts between Nokia phone and Windows PC, the
contacts need to be stored in the phones memory instead of the SIM card. If
your contacts are stored on the SIM card, copy them to the phone.
1.

Download, install and launch Nokia Suite on your PC;

2.

Go Tools > Options on the menu bar to open the Options window;

3.

Click Contacts on the left sidebar;

4.

Select the Windows Contacts option under the Sync with Contacts
Application on the right panel and then click the OK button on in the
bottom-right corner.

5.

Connect your Nokia phone to your PC;

6.

Upon the discovery of the phone by Nokia Suite, click the contacts icon
(the second one) on the top navigation bar, or the Contacts square to
enter Contacts windows;

7.

Click Sync contacts in the phone area to start to sync the Nokia phone
contacts with Windows Contacts;

8.

Once the contact sync is complete, download and install Android File
Transfer;

9.

Launch Android File Transfer and connect your Android phone or tablet to
your PC;

10. When the Android device is found by the software, click your device name
under the Devices and select Contacts on the left sidebar;
11. In the Contacts window, go Import/Export > Import contacts from
computer > from Windows Address Book on the top navigation bar;
12. In the pop-up Import Contacts click Import.
After a short while, all the contact in your Windows Contacts will appear in your
Android device.

Method 3: How to Export Contacts from Nokia to Android Using

Nokia Suite, NBU Explorer and Android File Transfer
Applies to non-Lumia Nokia phones.
NBU Explorer is an open-source Nokia NBU, NBF, NFB, NFC and ARC backup file
parser, extractor and viewer. It can be used to check the content in your Nokias
backup file created with Nokia Suite, Nokia PC Suite, and Nokia Ovi Suite and
extract the content completely or selectively to your computer without restoring
your Nokia phone. Its especially useful if you just want to find some lost data on
your phone instead of restoring your phone from an out-of-date backup.
1. Download and install Nokia Suite, NBU Explorer and Android File Transfer
(MobileGo for Android) on your computer;
2. Connect your Nokia phone to your PC with the USB cable given when you buy
the phone and then run Nokia Suite;
3. Go Tools > Backup on the menu bar to create a backup of your Nokia
content, if you want to extract contacts from previous Nokia backup, simply
jump to step 4;
4. Launch NBU Explorer, go File > Open to browse and open the .nbu backup
file created by Nokia Suite;
5. Highlight Contacts under the File content tab, then click File > Export
Selected File(s) or Folder and choose a location to save the output .vcf files to
your computer;
6. Run Android File Transfer (MobileGo for Android) and connect the Android
phone or tablet with your computer;

7. When the Android device is successfully connected to Android File Transfer,

select the device and then choose Contacts on the left column;
8. Click Import/Export > Import contacts from computer > from vCard file
on the top navigation bar to import the saved .vcf files in step 5 to your Android
device.
Soon, all the contacts on your Nokia phone will be found on your Android phone
or tablet.

Method 4: How to Copy Contacts from Nokia to Android Using

Android File Transfer and the Nokia Phone
Works for Nokia phones with S60 3rd edition OS:
Nokia 5700 Nokia 6110 Nokia 6120 Nokia 6121 Nokia 6124 Nokia 6700
Nokia 6290 Nokia E51 Nokia E63 Nokia E66 Nokia E71 Nokia E90
Communicator Nokia N76 Nokia N81 Nokia N81 8GB Nokia N82 Nokia N95
Nokia N95 8GB Nokia 5320 Nokia 5630 Nokia 5730 Nokia 6210 Nokia
6220 Nokia 6650 fold Nokia 6710 Navigator Nokia 6720 Nokia 6730 Nokia
6760 Slide Nokia 6790 Surge Nokia C5 Nokia E52 Nokia E55 Nokia E72
Nokia E73 Nokia E75 Nokia E5 Nokia N78 Nokia N79 Nokia N85 Nokia
N86 8MP Nokia N9
1. Press Contact, then Options > Mark/Unmark > Mark All on your Nokia
Phone;
2. Go Options > Copy > To Memory Card;
3. Select Yes if you see Remove existing contacts from memory card?, (if
there is no such messages, pass the step), then all the contacts on your Nokia
phone will be saved as contact-name.vcf files to the SD card;
4. Connect your Nokia phone with computer. When the computer finds the Nokia
phone, select Mass Storage;
5. Copy all the .vcf files in the directory /sdcard/Other/Contact/ to a folder of
your computer;
6. Connect your Android phone or tablet with the computer and run Android File
Transfer (MobileGo for Android);

7. When the name of the Android device displays on the sidebar of the software,
click it and then Contacts in the expanded menu;
8. On the top navigation bar, go Import/Export > Import contacts from
computer > from vCard file to browse the.vcf contact files saved to computer
in the step 5 to import them to your Android device.
In a moment, you can find all the contacts previously on your Nokia phone on
your Android device.

Method 5: How to Transfer Contacts from Nokia Lumia to Android

Using Android File Transfer and Outlook
Applies to all the Nokia Lumia phones that runs Window Phone 8 or Windows
Phone 7.
As we all know, all the contacts on your Nokia Lumia phone will be backed up
automatically to your Microsoft account. In this method, Ill introduce how to
export your Nokia Lumia contacts from your online Outlook (also known as
Windows Live Mail) to your computer, then import to the Office suite Outlook
software on your computer, and finally sync to an Android phone or tablet.
Just follow the steps:

Backup Nokia Lumia contacts to computer

1. Visit https://www.outlook.com/ and login with your Windows account;
2. Click the white downward arrow icon just beside the Outlook logo on the
upper right corner;
3. From the 4 square navigation icons, select the second one People.
If you visit https://people.live.com/, you can directly access the People
interface.
4. Tick the checkbox All if you want to back up all the Nokia Lumia contacts.
Select the people that you want one by one if you dont want to export all the
contacts;
5. Click Manage > Export on the top menu bar, and all the selected contacts
will be saved as a WLMContacts.csv file to your computer;

6. Open the WLMContacts.csv file saved in step 5 with Excel;

7. Click File > Save As;
8. In the Save As dialog, select CSV (Comma delimited) (*.csv) from the
drop-down menu of Save as type:, and then click Save.
9. Click Yes if asked to replace or overwrite the existing file;
10. Click Yes if asked to keep the CSV format;
11. Close Excel.

Import Nokia Contacts to Outlook software

12. Launch Outlook software, select Contacts and click File;
13. Select Open & Export and click Import/Export;
14. In the window that opens, select Import from another program or file and
click Next;
15. Highlight Comma Separated Values and click Next;
16. Click the Browse button and select the WLMContacts.csv file, and then
click OK;
Note: You can select some additional options to replace, duplicate, or do not
import duplicated contacts.
17. In the next window highlight your Contacts folder and click Next;
18. Click Finish in the window that opens.

Import Nokia Contacts from Outlook to Android with Android File Transfer
18. Start Android File Transfer (MobileGo for Android), and connect your Android
phone or tablet to your computer with the USB cable given when you buy the
device. Also, you can scan the QR code given with the MobileGo app to get your
device connected with the software via Wifi.
19. After the Android device is connected, click the name of the device and then
highlight Contacts in the left column of the software.
20. Click Import/Export icon and select Import contacts from computer >
from Outlook 2003/2007/2010/2013 to start to import your Nokia contacts to
Android.

Method 6: How to Send Contacts from Nokia to Android with

Contacts Backup app and Android File Transfer

Applies to Nokia Lumia running Window Phone 8 OS

Back up Nokia contacts to computer with Contacts Backup app

1. Connect the Nokia Lumia phone to the same Wifi network with your computer;
2. Install the Contacts Backup app on your Nokia Lumia;
3. Open the Contacts Backup app and turn on the corresponding switch to
Backup contacts from: either Hotmail or Google;
4. Tap the Backup button in the bottom;
5. Tap Download;
6. In your browser of your computer, visit the link given in the app;
7. A zip file named wp contacts backup will be saved to your computer;
8. Unzip the zip file with 7-Zip or any other unzip tools and youll get .vcf files of
your Nokia Lumia contacts;

Import Nokia contacts to Android with Android File Transfer

9. Follow the step 6 to 8 in method 3 to import the .vcf files to your Android
phone to tablet using Android File Transfer.
There are still other methods to transfer contacts from Nokia to Android phone
or tablet besides the above 6 ones. If you have any other methods, or you have
any questions or suggestions about the 6 ways of transferring contacts from
Nokia to Android, feel free to comment below.