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How to edit the phonebook on x40?

 
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SpookyUK
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:14 pm    Post subject: How to edit the phonebook on x40? Reply with quote

Hi,

I have a 540 that works well with my Blackberry for hands-free calling. However, due to a security restriction imposed by my IT department I can't transfer the phonebook to my TomTom, fair enough.

I can't see any way of editing the phonebook directly on the TomTom. Is there a file I can edit on my SD card so I can put some numbers in manually?

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can go to this link for a spreadsheet to complete and save your data in a contacts.txt file that goes in a contacts folder on your unit.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Or simply use NotePad to create the text file for your device in the following format:

"Grandad/H","01253456789","DEFAULT"
"Grandad/M","07931456789","DEFAULT"
"Heather/M","07502456789","DEFAULT"
"Alder Jillian/H","01253456789","DEFAULT"
"Alder Jillian/W","01253456789","DEFAULT"
"Alder Jillian/M","07976456789","DEFAULT"
"Alder Mike/M","07710456789","DEFAULT"

/H denotes Home
/M denotes Mobile
/W denotes Work

- Mike
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dhn wrote:
You can go to this link for a spreadsheet to complete and save your data in a contacts.txt file that goes in a contacts folder on your unit.


Anyone trying this, do please note that dhn's instructions are correct.

The spreadsheet itself still has instructions to put the final "contacts.txt" file onto the root of your TomTom's storage, but every TomTom I've got and every backup I've got of all my devices has the contacts.txt file in the "contacts" folder, NOT in the root directory......
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