Address book won't show contacts

Hi, You can import phone data from a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card to the address book application on your BlackBerry smartphone.
Contacts in the address book can be saved to the SIM card individually. You cannot import data from the address book to the SIM card.
To import a single contact, complete the following steps:
1)On the BlackBerry smartphone Home screen, open the Address Book.
2) Display the menu and select SIM Phone Book. The SIM phone book is loaded.
3) Select the contact you want to import, then select Add to Address Book.
4) In the New Address screen, add any additional information.
Import all contacts, complete the following steps:
1) On the BlackBerry smartphone Home screen, open the Address Book.
2) Display the menu and select SIM Phone Book. The SIM phone book is loaded.
3) Display the menu and select Copy All To Address Book.
4) Go back to the Address Book and make sure all the entries are displayed.
After adding information to ddress book you can able to veiw contact list, I hope this information will be helpfull.

Sounds like your contacts are stored on your SIM card and need to bo copied to blackberry memory - Goto address boo/ Options/ SIM contacts/ Copy all to address Book.

Yes, the blackberry and SIM memory are different.

You will need to copy all contacts onto the BB memory to make full use of its features.

You can do this by going to address book /Options/ SIM Contacts and Copy All to address book.

Most phone have settings to display, only sim contacts or only phone contacts or both

the user manual explains it and it is available in the following link

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/200810/20081030012522500/att_a867_eternity_ug.pdf


Address Book Settings
1. Touch ➔ Address Book ➔ Address Book Settings.
2. Touch any of the following options to activate a function:
• My Business Card: attaches a user created virtual business card
as an attachment to outgoing messages.
• Save New Contacts to: defines the destination for new contact
entries (Phone or SIM Card) (page 95).
• View Contacts from: to filter the display of current Address Book
entries. Options include: All, Phone, or SIM Card (page 91).
• Own Number: to display your current phone number (page 93).
• Fixed Dial Contacts: assigns phone numbers as FDN entries
(page 93).
• Used Space: displays the memory storage allocation (total available
and remaining) within both your Phone, SIM card, and FDN list
(page 97).

Hope this helps !!!

have you tried going to the setup wizard. There under device setup just choose the Import Sim Card Contacts. Then it will run and you sim card contacts should be transfered to your phone. 

Your SIM Card is like a floppy disk, so if you want to permanently add those people from your sim card to your Blackberry - you need to copy from the SIM into the BB Address Book. Otherwise they will be on the SIM Address Book, and you can always go look them up - but they are not saved on the BB itself.

BB: To access your cell phone address book:

1. Scroll to select the ADDRESS BOOK icon and press [Trackwheel] to select.
2. Press [Trackwheel] again to access the Menu screen for the address book.
3. Scroll to select the SIM PHONE BOOK and press [Trackwheel] to select.
4. system should say LOADING SIM PHONE BOOK.
5. Then if you select the menu - you should have an option to COPY ALL TO ADDRESS BOOK, select YES so it will copy whats on the SIM to the BB Memory..

This will start the download process to read the contacts stored on your SIM card which were copied from your cell phone.

I assume that if you cannot remember your password or pin and have got to this point, then you may not have any other options and will lose any contacts, music, pictures and anything that you had saved on your phone, this will not effect your memory card (If you have one inserted, or your SIM card (Which should NOT be inserted during the reset anyway.)

WARNING!!!!!!!! This will reset your phone back to the factory settings.

( Remove the battery and take the sim card out. Power-up the phone, you will see the insert SIM screen. Type in *2767*3855# like you are making a call, press send.
After you enter the code it will take a few seconds ( you should get text saying not to do anything and that it will reset when its done. ) The phone will automatically restart. Shut the phone back off, then put your SIM card back in and power your phone back on. That's it, your done.)

Remember that it WILL DELETE EVERYTHING off of your phone, so i HIGHLY recommend after the reset and for future purposes that you save everything off of your phone and upload ALL your contacts to your SIM or memory card. to do that:
COPY Phone to SIM:
1. open up the address book
2. options
3. OPTION 13: COPY TO SIM ..or.. OPTION 14: MOVE TO SIM
(NOTE: OPTION 13: COPY TO SIM will produce multiple copies, showing PHONE and SIM contacts (both be displayed in your address book list.) To fix this: you will have to open the address book settings, "View Contacts from" : SIM or Phone.)

COPY Phone to Memory Card:
1. open up "My Stuff"
2. options
3. option 4: copy folder
4. Copy to: Memory Card

Hope this helps.
JD

This is typically caused by a filter being applied in the address book. Open you address book, press the BB menu button, and select filter. Once you are in the filter options, make sure that all check boxes are unchecked, then exit back out.

This may not be the cause of everyone's issue, but it may be a solution to some of the problems.

Another thing to check is if the contact are actually in the "Sim Phone Book" opposed to the regular address book. Open your address book, press the BB menu key, and select "Sim Phone Book". After doing this, you may see all of your contact in there and you should be able to copy the contacts to the BB.

1. From the standby screen (the first screen when you open your phone), go to the menu.
2. Scroll to the address book and press select.
3. Scroll to the address you wish to copy (or any address if you want to copy all of them) and press the menu key.
4. Go down to copy and press select.
5. Select "Entries" to copy just that one entry or "All to SIM" if you want to copy all your addresses to your SIM card, or "All to Phone" if you want to copy them all to your phone.
6. Select Merge or Override. Merge will combine any addresses that are already on your card with the ones you are now copying, Override will replace anything that is already there with the ones you are now copying. Be careful in deciding which you want to do since Override will delete anything previously saved and merge will duplicate any that were already saved and are being saved again.