In the Connected folder, you can see all phones and smart card readers connected to your PC. When you launch MOBILedit! your phone will be detected by the MOBILedit! automatically within several seconds.

If you can't see any connected device, check out MOBILedit! Settings. You can use Wizard to detect your phone. Also make sure your phone is supported. List of phones supported by the most recent version is here (requires internet).


Save and Export
To save data from your phone click on the name of device in the Device tree and then click on the Save/Export button in main toolbar. Data will be stored into a file with .med extension.


Backup
Backup is a useful function to save valuable data like contacts and SMS messages from your phone and SIM card. If you lose your phone, you still have your contacts safely stored in MOBILedit! There are three ways how to make backup of your connected device:

Select a device and then just click on the Backup button in main toolbar.

Click on the name of device in the Device tree and then in menu Device select Backup.

Right click on the name of device in the Device tree and select Backup from the menu.

After you click on Backup, new window will appear, where you can select specific data (e.g. Phonebook, SMS, Files) you want to store. When the Backup is done, you'll see a summary window with all results and the Backup of your connected device will be created in folder Backups.