How to add 'contacts' to 'groups'

[Anonymous]

I am a new smartphone user with a Galaxy Y.

I have a load of contacts from my earlier phone and want to start building groups, like Family etc. I cannot find a way of moving or adding a current contact to a group.

There must be a way rather than adding them again into the group!

Thanks

[MI5]

In your contacts app, click groups at top of page then select the group name from the list, then add to group. You can chose to add new or select from phone.

[Anonymous]

Yes I have tried that. I get a 'search contacts' window but whatever I do it does not come up with any of my contacts, even if I start adding a name. I would expect it to list ones that match or start to mach my input

[MI5]

Have you got a + symbol top right of screen?

[Anonymous]

There is a small + in an image of the contact, i touch this and I get back to as decribed above, not a list of contact which I would sort of assume.

[Anonymous]

... and it's towards top Left.

[MI5]

Differences between software I guess as mine is top right, but, if I click this symbol I get a box which says " add new or add from phone" Strangely if I use search it fails to find any matches also. Where are your contacts stored as I think they have to be on phone not SIM card?

[Anonymous]

Yes, they are all on the SIM card, is there an easy way to copy them to the phone?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Using Kies I removed them from SIM and added them to phone and now it works fine. I can also use Kies to assign them to groups, much faster than using the phone.  Thanks for your help and pointers! Brian

[MI5]

No problem.... Happy to help.