had a vodafone nokia phone and just got a new model so took simcard out of old phone and put it in new phone but my old text messages are not on my new phone,any idea why not or how i can get them back ?i thought they were on my sim card but i cant see them on new phone thanks so much

Messages aren't stored on your SIM. They will still be on your old phone. Whether you can transfer them, depends on what your new phone is.
If its another Nokia, you have lots of options including the phone switch / copy phone option built into the phone.

thanx prking,so do i need to put sim back in to old phone and look for a copy function when i select a message,i presume im looking to copy the messages from the phone memory to the sim memory is that correct
both phones are nokia,s not sure which models atm

You could copy to the SIM but you will lose a lot of the information that way.
If you let us know the model numbers we can give more specific help.

thank you the old phone is a nokia 5500d sport and the new one is a nokia 6303i classic if that means anything to you thanks