Comments on: Import Contacts From Palm Desktop To Iphone

By: Joeie

Joeie — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:05:38 +0000

Surprinislgy well-written and informative for a free online article.

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:32:55 +0000

I am having the same problem that Frank had, where the fields are shorter so a lot of my info. was cut off. Has anyone found a solution to this, or a different device that is a better solution?

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:15:56 +0000

I, too am a mac person. All my palm data is stored on my computer but my phone was lost so I got an iphone and clueless as to how to transfer data. Any help appreciated. Thanks

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:18:05 +0000

I am a Mac person, everyone on this site sounds as if they are all PC (windows) people…

Hello to all you successful converts. I just got my iPhone4 and would like to transfer contacts and memos plus the to-do files just as all of you have done…one difference, I am a MAC person. Please offer some guidance. I have exported my addresses onto a vCard and e-mailed it to myself. I have yet to go further. Do I need to make fields on the iPhone to accept the format from my PalmCentro? My Memos has 47 different entries which within each there is lots of information (some w/lists etc).
HELP PLEASE.
Thank you in advance

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:03:53 +0000

By: Manny

Manny — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:14:12 +0000

Sorry, NO data was lost.

By: Manny

Manny — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:50:18 +0000

This works perfectly. The only hangup I had was that my gmail app didn’t know what to do with the VCF file. I needed to use the native Mail app to open the attachment.

All of the custom fields were added as text in the ‘notes’ field, so data was lost.

Thank you Peter!

By: Manny

Manny — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:51:12 +0000

Following advice from other sites, but before reading the posts here, I semi-successfully transferred contact and calendar data from my Treo 680 to my new iPhone 4S. This was route I took:

1. Using HotSync, sync Treo to Outlook 2007 via Bluetooth (required for Win7). Must choose the option to Sync with Outlook.
2. Connect iPhone to PC and launch iTunes.
3. Under Devices, select the iPhone, go to Info and check Sync Contacts with Outlook, and Sync Calendars with Outlook.
4. Click the Sync button.

Over 2,300 contacts and 2 months of calendar data transferred in about 5 minutes. Any Notes attached to Contacts were brought over completely, some as long as 22 lines.
BUT…
no custom fields were transferred. I defines fields such as “Account” and “Hours” on the Treo, and this information was lost.

I will try Peter’s VCF solution tonight. Seems to be the easiest of all the methods I seen yet.

By: Oddedi

Oddedi — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:46:58 +0000

I read here about transfering the address book from Palm ( mine is Clio) to iphone. My problem is that I need to transfer also the notes attached to a lot of my names. How to do so? without the notes I can not use the iphone as a stand a lone.
Thanks

By: AJ - in FL

AJ - in FL — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:37:49 +0000

Peter – AMAZING!!!! Talk about fast & easy! Ctrl-A, export & e-mail. (If you have some there, it can merge if you want or overwrite.) How foolishly easy. Far faster & easier than they could do at the Sprint stores. (To their defense, 4S is new to them & Apple doesn’t let them work on it.)

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!! (214 contacts properly imported!)