I have created a backup using the ActiveSync backup utility followed by a hard reset. When I try to restore the .stg file i get the following message. 'Restore cannot be completed successfully. The selected backup file was created from a different type of mobile device. Am I missing something when I run either the backup or restore to cause thie error
You need to place the backup.stg file in the pda 's profile folder e.g (Using windows xp)Open explorer and put the file in
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Application Data\Microsoft\ActiveSync\Profiles\pocket_pc\
Hope this helps.
Make sure you have the Regional setting the same as what you have backup.
Use Sprite Backup,,, its great :wink:
I have the regional setting the same as the backup and the backup file is in the correct folder
if you changed rom version between the backup and restore it could be that
personaly i had some issues once because i took another timezone well it were still gmt+1 but the city's they listed were different then i changed it to the one i used when i did the backup and all was well
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In the end of the process it sais Unable to read from file "\Windows\lic\lsoma.db" and the backup ends up being not successfull as I'm not able to run the backup executable file to restore the unit. Please help.
I had that error when spb backup was only partly installed i.e. I had reset my device and just made a lnk to the program. I think it may throw up that error if the program is intalled on the storage card too. Have you been messing with memaid or deleting startup links? - that can mess up spb backup.
I have just upgraded my V1606 to WM6 and reinstalled SpashID but my database was corrupt (both on device and desktop).
I have recovered a backup copy (from an SPB Backup of the WM5 ROM) and want to restore to the device.
The problem is the .vol files reside in the Databases folder and I can't overwrite the new files created in here from the reinstall with the ones from the backup?
How can I access the Databases folder to replace these files?
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
Hi all
Recently my laptop was reloaded and Sprite Backup was not included. I still had the program on my Touch but could not backup on my pc. I have now removed sprite from my phone, and reloaded the files from the CD which came with my purchase.
The program loaded sucessfully on my pc and phone (or so it said) but the following problems are now encountered:
Firstly when I choose the Icon on my phone the spinning loading icon appears but then disappears again and nothing happens;
When I try to backup via the pc the following happens:
- an error message on phone with the heading "Localizer" and the text "Error (1) - loadstring failed for 65288", then phone switches off after pressing the X on the message and after restart the message (under heading "Sprite Backup") appears: "Invalid command line parameter".
I have tried to re-do the processs to no avail, can someone please help me as I cannot backup my phone currently. Also please note that I have 2 Sprite Backup icons (one with a (1)) which do not disappear after program removal.
Please help someone?
delete all files and registry keys belonging to sprite backup
do not try to keep any settings of your sprite backup installations
delete sprite backup folder under \storage card\program files and if there is from under \program files
all necessary files will be installed, so do not think of keeping of any extra useful files from older versions (or backup them to somewehere else before installation)
delete spriteres.dll from wherever it exists ( \windows, \program files\sprite backup, etc)
reinstall
all will be ok
Just recently my device decided to fail and only a hard reset could get it back to life again. No problem I thought - weekly automated backups with Sprite Backup - will be back in a few minutes, just loosing a few days of activity.
Sadly the restore of my most recent backup failed as one of the registry hives seems corrupt and nothing is restored, except the files :-(. So I had to find my latest working backup (which I all keep) which is about 4 months old and restored the device to that state. A start at least...
Now how to get my text messages back from the latest backup? None of the options I found (renaming the original, messing with registry settings of HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Mapi, Mortscript in Startup folder) have worked for me - the original seems to stay no matter what I did.
So I decided to more closely observe how Sprite Backup does the trick and I found a time-window to exploit for my purposes - here is how:
- unpack the latest cemail.vol from the backupfile via Sprite Explorer
- wonder about its size (and cryptic content) -> packed?
- try out usual packers, starting with tar -> rename to cemail.vol.tar -> success (!)
- get cemail.vol in original form
- copy to root folder of device with name cemail.volx
- restore device with a failing backup file (select to restore only cemail.vol) and leave it connected to PC
- observe (via remote connected PC) that reboot after initial settings (so in the actual restore phase) has no cemail.vol in the root folder
- rename the previously copied cemail.volx to cemail.vol
- restore fails (leaving the cemail.volc - tar compressed cemail.vol behind) but cemail.vol is now the one I want
- reboot
- report that Restore failed
- but have cemail.vol that I wanted
- external Backup of SMS
- restore external backup to original folder
- done
To continue where I left off - so what if you need some settings that are inside the corrupted registry hive? I spent hours of searching and trying to dump the corrupt hive to something readable and finally found one tool that works reasonably well. You find it at MSDN here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ce_base/arc...registry-hives-and-cedb-database-volumes.aspx
While rgucomp.exe simply hogs the CPU forever and produces no output, above tool at least delivers some output you can re-use. For my hive it seems to come to a loop-like situation as well (you need to Ctrl-C to end it) but the output until ending with "Finished registry walk" is delivering all you may need. It looks like:
Code:
hKey=0x00000EA9 hNext=0x00000E5F [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\QuickApp] hSubKey=0x00000000 hVal=0x00000EC3
hVal=0x00000EC3 hNext=0x00000EC2 "1"="{6D48AB52-635C-4c6a-8508-9D32A0F07863}"
hVal=0x00000EC2 hNext=0x00000EC1 "2"="{2ABD8635-9808-4c4c-943B-8173B805FD40}"
hVal=0x00000EC1 hNext=0x00000EC0 "3"="{0D519EC6-315A-4693-AF1B-B2DA865AC1C7}"
hVal=0x00000EC0 hNext=0x00000EBF "4"="{69E9215B-91B0-461b-A3B6-165EBA32DAE1}"
hVal=0x00000EBF hNext=0x00000000 "5"="{B7A5E609-3E46-442d-8D32-65926EDA6795}"
So you can copy / paste to another file for later use. Datatypes are correctly identified in usual rgu syntax.
Hi!
On LG G2 I created a backup file from setting - backup and restore - create backup. Then I copied a .lbf file to my computer and factory reset my phone.
After reset I copied backup file from computer to phone and run restore. Everything went well, except contacts/sms. error is "FAILED".
Question: How do I get my contacts from .lbf file? If I extract this file with 7zip i get a file contacts2.db but I can't open it. Tried with notepad, MS access.
Any suggestion would be great.
Probably I'm not the only one with this problem, so this is the solution:
Insall DB browser for sqllite, import contacts2.db and execute this command:
select display_name,n.normalized_number from view_contacts as c, view_phone_lookup as n where c.name_raw_contact_id=n.raw_contact_id
This will show you all names with proper phone numbers. Now you can copy-paste to excel/notepad :good: