Merging Contacts using Content Manager
This tutorial will explain how to use the Content Manager to combine two contact lists
together. Content Manager does not support merging of content pack files (“.UCP” file
extension). This means if you have a contact list that is in this format you will be required to
open it in Content Manager and resave it as a Phonebook file (“.PBB” file extension).
You can do this by double clicking on the “.UCP” content pack file which will automatically open
the Content Manager. Once the contact list is visible, navigate to “Contacts” and click “Save
phone book as…”. In the example below you will notice that the .pbb file is being saved as
“Contact List 1”. This naming scheme will help you differentiate the phonebook files when
merging later on.
Once the two contact lists are in the correct phonebook “.pbb” format you can now start the
merging process.
1. Open Content Manager and navigate to “Contacts” and click “Open phone book...”. A
browsing window will appear in which you will select the “Contact List 1.pbb”
phonebook file and then click “Open”.
2. When Contact List 1 is viewable in the Content Manager, navigate to “Contacts” and
click “Merge phone books”. A browsing window will appear in which you will select the
second contact list that will merge with Contact List 1. This second phonebook file is
labeled “Contact List 2” in the example below to prevent confusion.
3. Once you have clicked “Open”, Contact List 2 will merge with Contact List 1 and all of
the contacts will now be viewable within Content Manager. A quick way to identify that
all of the contacts have been added is too check the total number of contacts at the
bottom left corner of the screen (circled in red). This number should equal the total
amount of contacts between both lists.
4. In order to save this new combined contact list, navigate to “File” and click “Save UME
backup…”. A window will appear that will allow you to save a Backup folder for use with
the Cellebrite UME36pro. Saving the Backup folder to a USB Flash Drive will enable you
to transfer the combined contact list to a phone using the “Restore” function on the
UME36pro.