Microsoft closes My Phone service (transfer contacts to Android device)

The corporation sends service shutdown notifications to service users, with which it was possible to store and synchronize their contacts, SMS, calendar, favorites, photos, videos, music, documents from their winmo6 device, as well as to find a stolen / lost phone.

In early August, contacts, calendar entries, SMS and photos will be transferred to the Windows Live SkyDrive servers. Access to the data will be available under the old LiveID account. The remaining data will be available until October 6. After that they will be unavailable. The service site will be closed. Microsoft will keep the data for another year and within this time it will undertake to send you a data disc when requested.

I started using this service at the time when the days of Windows Mobile were already numbered. She served me well at the time of the sale of the old men ASUS P526. The fact is that I did not have time to pump out my contacts from the phone and, heading for a meeting with the buyer, I filled in the contact information on My Phone.
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For a long time (about a year) contacts lain on Microsoft servers. And so the service closes. Alas, it does not allow in any way to obtain its data in a form suitable for import into other systems. Redmond developers simply did not anticipate such a task. I don’t know what WM6 perspectives were drawn by him in his dreams, but this is exactly the case: the only way to get your contacts out of the service without having a wm-communicator is to copy them as text from the browser. So I went.

Having learned about the closure of the service, I decided to finally return the old contacts to my phone (on Android). The case actually turned out to be quite simple. The scheme was as follows:

Contacts -> Gmail -> Sync -> Androfon

In total, about 200 contacts were stored there in a simple format (name, phone number). I carefully copied them all into a text file and using the AutoCorrect tool brought them into CSV format. After that, I checked the result uniformity and deleted contacts that I no longer needed.

It turned out that in this form, in principle, Gmail is ready to eat contacts, but is not ready to understand where the phone number in the imported data is. Imports of contacts took place, but they turned out to be without phones (the numbers were in the notes).

I don’t remember which way, but quickly enough, I figured out how to help Gmail recognize phone numbers. It was necessary just to write in the beginning of the file the names of the fields that were imported. Option "name; gmail phone number did not understand (more precisely, only the name understood). Then I tried to name the fields in English and it all went well. The final file looked like this:

name;phone
;+79091234567
;+79091234567
...
;+79091234567

The import went without any problems, when synchronizing Android, it regularly sucked all contacts via the Internet. Everything about everything took about 25 minutes.

Mission completed. Goodbye WinMobile! Now we are in the calculation.