MOVE YOUR BBM CONTACTS WITHOUT RESENDING FRIEND REQUESTS

So you have a BlackBerry smartphone with a whole lots of BlackBerry Messenger contacts, and you want to move your contacts from the old device to the new one without having to manually re-send a BBM request to all your Friends?



BlackBerry Messenger offers a Backup Management feature that makes this Transfer very easy.

HOW TO BACKUP YOUR CONTACT FROM YOUR CURRENT PHONE

Open BBM on your current phone, hit the menu button and scroll down to Options. Follow these steps:

Options > Backup Management > Back Up

Then Select Back up files locally > Select Auto save , then hit “Back up Now” > Save file to Media Card.

HOW TO RESTORE YOUR CONTACT TO YOUR NEW PHONE

On your new blackberry device, insert your media card, setup your BlackBerry service, and launch BlackBerry Messenger. Use the Menu button to find Options and follow these steps:

Options > Backup Management > Restore

Then Select Restore using a backup file from media card > Select File , Just Scroll down till you see a file named in the format "BBM-(12-03-23).con" This is actually the date the Back up was done, Choose the latest file and this will be restored to your BBM.