Samsung SGH-X700: Which PC Software Exports Contacts to Android

Antonio NEMCD Author

Published Jul 30, 2014 · 5 min

It was finally time to upgrade my trusty old Samsung SGH-X700 feature phone and move its phonebook over to a new Android smartphone.

The aging Samsung SGH-X700 feature phone whose phonebook needed to be rescued.

The most valuable data stored inside the X700 was a phonebook with more than a hundred contacts. Re-typing every number by hand sounded miserable, yet extracting contacts on a modern Windows 7 PC turned into an unexpected quest – I honestly did not expect that much hassle from Samsung.

First, I went to Samsung’s official support portal, entered the SGH-X700 model name, and the page happily suggested downloading Samsung Kies to connect the phone to a PC.

Samsung’s SGH-X700 support page recommending Samsung Kies alongside a New PC Studio CSV FAQ.

Nice, I thought: a 2005 handset still getting official software support. I downloaded the 72 MB installer, set it up, and plugged in the phone. Kies immediately popped up a message saying the device is not supported and told me to install Samsung Kies 3 instead.

Fair enough, I downloaded Kies 3 as well, even though its own download table explicitly stated it was built for “smartphones/tablets starting with Galaxy Note III (Android OS 4.3 or higher)”.

The Kies vs. Kies 3 download notice: neither version actually covers legacy feature phones.

Unsurprisingly, as soon as Kies 3 finished installing, it also reported that my SGH-X700 is not supported.

Then I remembered keeping an old Samsung_PC_Studio_313_HA4.exe installer in my local archives from back when I originally synced the phone. I dug it out and launched setup, only to discover that Samsung PC Studio 3 refuses to run on Windows 7.

Triple facepalm after striking out with three official Samsung utilities in a row.

I tried installing Samsung PC Studio 3 in Windows XP compatibility mode: the installer completed, yet the app crashed immediately on launch. Still determined not to re-enter over a hundred contacts manually, I kept digging.

Eventually I found scattered mentions of New PC Studio supposedly working under Windows 7. Tracking down the official New_PC_Studio_1.5.1.10064_2.exe build was tricky, but I finally grabbed it. Once installed, it barely held together – as long as I stayed strictly inside the Phonebook section without clicking other tabs that threw errors, it actually read the phone.

I managed to export the entire phonebook into a .csv file, cleaned up the spreadsheet columns manually, and imported the file into the Gmail address book synced with my Android phone. Mission accomplished: Android immediately pulled in all phone numbers and contact photos, ready for calling :-)

Which Samsung Utility Actually Works with the SGH-X700

The confusion comes from Samsung swapping several generations of desktop suites across completely different phone platforms while leaving outdated Kies links on older product pages:

• Samsung Kies: intended for early Android devices (up to Galaxy Note II / Galaxy S4) and select Bada/TouchWiz phones – it does not recognize the legacy Agere/Swift platform inside the SGH-X700.
• Samsung Kies 3: strictly for Galaxy Note III and newer devices running Android 4.3 or higher, making it useless for classic feature phones.
• Samsung PC Studio 3: the original XP-era companion suite for the X700, which commonly crashes at startup on Windows 7 and newer 64-bit systems even under compatibility mode.
• New PC Studio (1.5.1.10064_2): Samsung’s transitional suite with Windows 7 support – the one utility that can still pull the SGH-X700 phonebook if you avoid its media and firmware modules.

How to Clean the Exported CSV for Google Contacts & Android

To prevent scrambled non-ASCII characters or misplaced phone columns when importing into Gmail, check the exported spreadsheet before uploading:

1. Drivers and permissions: install New PC Studio as Administrator (use Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode if the wizard stalls) and use a real USB data cable rather than a charge-only cord.
2. Keep an untouched backup: export contacts from both phone memory and the SIM card to .csv and duplicate the raw file before editing.
3. Fix encoding and delimiters: older Samsung utilities on localized Windows builds often write CSV files in legacy Windows-1251 or ANSI encoding with semicolons (;) instead of commas – open the file in a plain-text editor such as Notepad++ and re-save it as UTF-8 with comma separators.
4. Match Google Contacts headers: export one dummy entry from Google Contacts in Google CSV format first, then paste your cleaned names and phone numbers into the matching columns.
5. Sync to Android: import the edited CSV into Gmail / Google Contacts, let your Android handset sync, and merge any duplicates automatically.