How to back-up my mobile phone address book via Bluetooth or otherwise?

[O. Sinclair]

On 04/01/2011 16:50, Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Sinclair and Everybody.
>
> Thanks for your reply, Sinclair, to this question.
>
>>> At present I still do not manage to copy the phone numbers and
>>> addresses from my mobile to my laptop via an external usb Bluethooth
>>> dongle.
>
> A few minutes ago, I tried to carry out your suggestion:
>> The only application I am aware of that works reasonably ok with mobile
>> phones, linux and bluetooth/usb is Wammu. It is in the repos and there is
>> also a PPA for it I believe.
>
> Via the regular repos, I have installed Wammu and dependencies. But
> the result is the same: communication with the phone via the USB
> dongle, but still no access to the address book. A feed back I get
> when trying to retrieve my phone book contacts via the laptop, is
> something like "your phone does not support this function". A more
> detailed debugging report you can find via this link:
> http://rainbowgathering.eu/wammu.pdf
>
> When trying to export the contacts from the phone via bluetooth to the
> laptop, I get again a feedback like "failed connection". The software
> in my mobile does not deliver any debugging report :-)
>
> Any other suggestion: either via Wammu or via BlueDevil or via any
> other package and method?
> Thanks, respectfully yours,
>
Have you tried connecting the phone using the 2 different "languages" 
suggested by Wammu?

Did you also try usb cable (if you have a such to your phone)? In my 
experience this still works better than bluetooth in many cases.