SIM Manager is a product whereby a person can manage the phone numbers on a mobile phones SIM card through the use of a PC. SIM Manager is very easy to understand and use.

USING SIM MANAGER

 

The first use of SIM Manager will ask you to select the serial port where the SIM Manager is connected. If you know the port click on it, if you are not sure click "auto detect" and the program will automatically find the port for you.

After starting SIM Manager and selecting the Phone Book Button, the main data screen appears. Start by reading in the numbers from your SIM card by clicking on the icon. After reading in the names and numbers, they will be displayed in a simple 3 column spreadsheet style layout - names on the left & numbers on the right, refer to figure 1.

  Figure 1. Layout of SIM Manager screen.
 

To change an entry in the list simply double click on the phone entry and edit the contact details or number.

After making changes to your phone book, you may like to save a copy as a file on your harddisk. Once happy with these changes, click on the icon to transfer the updated details back to the SIM.

Toolbars in SIM Manager screen:

 

	Create a new phone book.		Redo the last “undone” action.
	Open a phonebook from disk or hard drive.		Read phone books from the SIM card.
	Save a phone book to disk or hard drive.		Write phone books to the SIM card.
	Cut a selection to the clipboard.		Add a number to a current phone book.
	Copy a selection to the clipboard.		Edit selected entry in a phone book.
	Paste the clipboard to a phone book.		Delete selected entries from a phone book.
	Undo the last action.		Move selected entries within a phone book.

  Figure 2. Icons on the SIM Manager screen.

Other functions carried out by SIM Manager:


 Figure 3. The tools menu.

 

Below is a short explanation of each of the functions SIM Manager is able to perform:

•  READ

Once the SIM card is inserted in the SIM card reader click the "read" icon. Instantly all the numbers stored in the mobile phones SIM card will be displayed in an easy to read format on the PC screen (refer figure 1).

• ADD

Click on the "add" icon and type the name and number you wish to include, it will be instantly displayed in the phone book.

• MODIFY

Click on the "modify" icon, or double click on the name & number you wish to modify. Edit the name or number and it will be instantly updated with the new information.

• DELETE

Highlight the phone book entry / entries you wish to delete, either click on the "delete" icon or delete on the keyboard, and the entry will be instantly removed.

• MOVE

Highlight the entry / entries you wish to move. Click the "move" icon then type in the location you wish to move it to. It will be in its new position instantly.

• SORT

In tools on the toolbar tab, click sort (see figure 3). You can choose from either a desired section or the entire phone book to be sorted into alphabetical order.

• INTERNATIONALISE

Once the SIM card is inserted in the SIM card reader click the "read" icon. Instantly all the numbers stored in the mobile phones SIM card will be displayed in an easy to read format on the PC screen (refer figure 1).

Figure 4. Internationalise function

 

In the tools menu choose preferences (refer figure 3). Choose the "country codes" tab. Input the relevant information. I.e. IDD prefix, country code, area code, number you wish to exempt from the internationalise function (i.e. 1800, 013 etc...)- click OK. Go back to the "tools" menu and click internationalise. Instantly the chosen phone numbers are arranged for international dialing (see figure 4).

• SAVE

With SIM Manager a person can save as many phone books from as many SIM cards as they wish (refer figure 4). Therefore in a family situation everyone can save their mobile contacts with the one package. The phone book can be saved to either a disk, CD ROM or on the hard drive.p>
Figure 4. Example of saved phonebooks.

 

• CREATING A NEW PHONE BOOK

Click on the "new" icon. A new empty phone book will be created. To add new numbers do so by the normal "add" functions. To save the phone book click on "save as" and type the name (e.g. John phonebook; Lisa phonebook in figure 5).

• OPENING A SAVED PHONE BOOK

To open a previously saved phone book, click on the open icon. If you know the filename type it in the "file:" space. If you need to search for a file, click on the "..." button.

• SAVING A PHONE BOOK

If you have saved a phone book in SIM Manager and wish to write the saved phone book into the SIM card, you will need to copy it from the saved phone book file & paste it into the ADN column of the SIM Manager to write it into the SIM card. ADN stands for "abbreviated dialing numbers".

To save a phone book from an already existing SIM card, you will need to copy the numbers in the ADN file that appear when "read" is pressed, and paste them to a new phone book page. Save this phone book with any title as described in the "SAVE" section.

• WRITE

Once the phone book has been updated with all necessary changes and additions, click on the "write" icon, and the SIM card will be updated. Remove the cardholder from the card reader, and then place the SIM card back into the mobile - the updated phone is now ready to use.

• THE STATUS BAR

The status bar located at the bottom of the phone book window gives information about the current phone book.

OTHER BENEFITS:

SIM Manager has two major benefits on top of Managing the phonebook. These are:

1. SMS TEXT MESSAGING
 

In the "SMS book" a person has the ability to read and write SMS text messages to and from the SIM card contained within the mobile phone. Rather than keying the message in on the phone, simply type as many messages as the SIM card will hold (usually 15 maximum) on the PC, write them to the SIM card and send them all from the phone.

2. SIM SECURITY
 

There are a number of functions that can be carried out through the use of the security manager. Firstly a person needs to select read from security menu. Something similar to this screen will be displayed.

The State column indicates that the pin is OK (enabled), OK (disabled) or blocked. The attempts remaining column indicates how many more incorrect attempts can be made at presenting the pin or unblock pin before it will lock.

Through this function the pin code number can be enabled, disabled, changed, blocked or unblocked.