QUOTE(howiseveryone @ Sep 29 2008, 12:39 AM)
me using celcom and yes, it's a 3g card. very strange - i have hundreds of contacts in my sim card and can be viewed by 2 other phones (just tested) but yet, unable to see anything in my p1i. it's definitely a phone OS issue - not sim card. dono how to solve this. any1 can help??

adrive,
i think i've found a workaround for this (for now) - i put my SIM back onto my old SE phone and cable connect it to my laptop. using Floats mobile agent, I deleted all my SIM contacts - SIM empty now. Then, i put SIM back onto my P1i - it reads my SIM pretty quickly and show as empty. I, then, copy from my phone Contacts to SIM in small batches of 8-10 contacts - occasionally, it'll give me errors but just continue where it droppped off - meaning you'll have to constantly check (View SIM conatcts folder) to see where it stopped and then go back to phoone contact to continue copying. You will be able to see your sim contacts even from the 1st copy without delays. After finish copy everything, you can check your sim again - all there and loads very fast.
BUT if you restart your phone and view your sim contact folder again, it'll say "reading from SIM" again and take about 2-3 minutes to load and display all your sim contacts. it's a long wait but at least, now, it will display your sim contacts. after the 1st time long wait, the subsequent view of your sim contacts would be fast - normal. everytime you off/on your phone - the same few min delay to display sim contacts for the 1st time. I have off/on my phone 2x oredi and it continues to display my contacts :-) i'll live with this.
OR you can try the advise from this link -
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=159919i tried but didn't work for me. only the delete and re-copy of contacts worked. :-)
hope this helps.