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How to upload contacts to your Verizon Phone

***UPDATE: Please see my com­ment and step 11 about log­ging into the site to make the script work — should solve those “Run­time” errors that peo­ple are hav­ing***
Here’s the sce­nario:
You have a phone with Ver­i­zon, and you have 1,000 con­tacts in your address book. Per­haps you’ve had a pre­vi­ous Ver­i­zon phone, but you’ve never backed up your con­tacts from that phone — but you DO have your con­tacts on your com­puter and want to get them into your phone. I’m here to tell you that YES, it can be done, I promise. What this does is turn your Fire­fox web browser into an input robot that fills out the stu­pid lit­tle man­ual input forms on Ver­i­zon auto­mat­i­cally, over and over, using a CSV file as the input source.
Here are the steps:

1. First, you need to acti­vate Verizon’s Backup Ser­vice — this allows you to down­load con­tacts FROM (yes from) your phone, as well as MANUALLY type in con­tacts TO your phone (don’t panic, just keep reading)
2. You’ll need to make a text file list of your con­tacts or address book. It must be saved in CSV (comma sep­a­rated val­ues) for­mat. I found that Address Book Exporter does the best job of cre­at­ing a file — but it’s tab-delimited, so you need to import it into some­thing like Excel and then re-save it. Win­dows peo­ple need to get from their address book to CSV on their own.
3. Now, for the magic. You’ll need to use Fire­fox Web Browser. Now, go to Add-ons in Fire­fox and search for “iMacros” … this will get you the Add-on by iOpus. Huz­zah! Install that.
4. Now, open the side win­dow that iMacros offers. You’ll see a list of “sam­ple” scripts. Pick one, doesn’t mat­ter which, right click it and rename it “Ver­i­zon Auto Phone Import.iim“
5. Now, with that script selected, click the “Edit” tab at the bot­tom, and click the but­ton “Edit Macro“
6. High­light the entire screen that pops up and delete the con­tents. Then put the fol­low­ing text in:

   '=======Start here, cut this line=========
   VERSION BUILD=3700331
   'Uses a Windows script to submit several datasets to a website, e. g. for filling an online database
   'Adapted from original sample code -- now logs into Verizon Backup Assistant and imports a spreadsheet
   TAB T=1
   TAB CLOSEALLOTHERS
   URL GOTO=https://backupassistant.vzw.com/mb/do/privileged/addressbook/prepare?skininfo=110
   ' Specify input file (if !COL variables are used, IIM automatically assume a CSV format of the input file
   'CSV = Comma Separated Values in each line of the file
   CMDLINE !DATASOURCE addressbookforverizon.csv
   'Number of columns in the CSV file. This must be accurate!
   '====================
   ' SET THIS TO THE NUMBER OF COLUMNS IN YOUR CSV FILE
   '====================
   SET !DATASOURCE_COLUMNS 13
   'Increase the current position in the file with each loop
   SET !DATASOURCE_LINE {{!LOOP}}
   ' Fill web form
   'Click the "Add Contact" Link
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:AddContact
   '===============================================
   ' EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINES ONLY IF YOU HAVE TO
   ' Change the "COL" values to correspond to your CSV file.  For example, if
   ' the first COLUMN of your CSV is Last Name, and the second COLUMN is First Name
   ' then change the first line to end with {{!COL2}}
   ' and the second line to {{!COL1}}
   '===============================================
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT ATTR=NAME:firstName CONTENT={{!COL1}}
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT ATTR=NAME:lastName CONTENT={{!COL2}}
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT ATTR=NAME:mobile CONTENT={{!COL9}}
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT ATTR=NAME:mobile2 CONTENT={{!COL10}}
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT ATTR=NAME:home CONTENT={{!COL7}}
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT ATTR=NAME:work CONTENT={{!COL6}}
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT ATTR=NAME:fax CONTENT={{!COL11}}
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT ATTR=NAME:email CONTENT={{!COL3}}
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:TEXT ATTR=NAME:email2 CONTENT={{!COL4}}
   TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:IMAGE FORM=NAME:contactForm ATTR=NAME:_save_&&SRC:https://backupassistant.vzw.com/mb/images/skin.110/buttons/save.gif
   '========= end here, cut this line ======================
   

   WARNING!!! The last line of code in that included text is very long and ends in “save.gif” … you should prob­a­bly copy the script code from the source of this web­page, rather than from the dis­play page, which might be cut off

7. Now, you need to under­stand that your CSV may not line up its columns like mine — so you may need to edit the script. First, find the place where you edit the num­ber of columns and change that to the num­ber of columns that have data in your spread­sheet. Next, edit the last lines so each field lines up with the right col­umn.
   So, for exam­ple, if your CSV is Last Name, First Name … then you’ll need to change the “first­name” line to end with {{!COL2}}, and change the “last­name” to {{!COL1}} and so on.

8. NOW … save the file and click the “Options” but­ton in the iOpus window
9. Click “Paths” and make note of where Data­sources are saved. In your Finder or File Explorer, save your CSV into that direc­tory — but save it with the name “addressbookforverizon.csv” in that directory.
10. My advice would be to test this with a 1 or 2 line CSV file first, to ensure that all the data is going into the right fields. Once you’ve seen it work­ing — put in the real file with 1,000 con­tacts in it.
11. UPDATE: Before you run the script, you need to be man­u­ally logged into Verizon’s site — this script WILL NOT log in for you (that would be bad). So first, go to http://backupassistant.vzw.com and log in — that’s all, doesn’t mat­ter what screen you’re on after that, just log in.
12. Ok, ready? Click the “Play” tab, and click “Play (Loop)” — you might need to set the Max value to your line count in the CSV file (e.g. 1000) — now watch the robot upload data into your Ver­i­zon account.
13. Once it’s com­plete, go to the applet on your phone, select update — and presto — you now have 1,000 con­tacts ON YOUR VERIZON PHONE

SPECIAL NOTE:
You may run the script, get one entry and then see noth­ing else. That’s because your CSV was saved by Microsoft Excel with extra new­lines and hid­den char­ac­ters in it. Try sav­ing it as MS-DOS Comma-Separated (.csv) instead … that will keep the out­put clean.