Upgrading your BBM to version 7 or above complete with your contacts (old)

You have to follow these steps to make sure you won't miss any contact after upgrading your BBM or upgrading your mobile phone:

1. You need to create BB ID. To create an ID, you need a valid email for indentificate abour your self.
2. Before updating your BBM you need to backup your contats localy to Micro SD Card.
3. Update/upgrade your Blackberry ID application (required reboot).
4. Update/upgrade your Blackberry Application World (required reboot).
5. You may update/upgrade your BBM to version 7 (required reboot).
6. After a new BBM version 7, it will restore your contacts and make your contacts backup into Blackberry cloud. 

 Note:

BBM version 7 does not have backup function, your backup stored in Blackberry cloud using Blackberry ID.

After replacing your Blackberry Device with a new one, you just need to configure your Blackberry ID using your Blackberry ID i.e your email address. 

Note:

You need to upgrade your BBM to version 7 to avoid lossing contacts, or (if your device does not support version 7) make a backup to Micro SD Card, then try to restore your contacts before updating BBM to version 7.