I dont know if this topic was posted before. I done searching but i founf nothing. Well if there is.sorry then . HAHA
How can i Backup a contact togather with files? Cuz i already backup my device and when my computer was formated and returned my backup the contact isn't in the backup. my contact was erased becouse the microsoft outlook was formated also.
Thanks
(I guess this topic will make another trouble like before)
not sure if it can be don with activesync backup
but maybe spirit backup or xbackup can do it
otherwise you can export contacts and such from outlook on the pc and save it somewhere on a disk or cd or something
or you can use permant save in settings on the xda
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I just upgraded to the latest ROM's supplied by O2 (3.17.03), and now active sync says my backup was made with the wrong version of software.
Is there any way to get the data back on to my XDA? In particular my contacts, as they will be the hardest to replace?
If not, is it possible to go back to the old ROM? (the radio ROM upgrade warned not to downgrade roms)
ActiveSync backup can be only restored to the same ROM. The best way to backup contacts is to use Outlook. Yes, you can flash your ROM back to the previous version, restore the contacts, backup them to Outlook, flash the new ROM then sync with Outlook to get the contacts list
there ma ybe another way
So i was about to download the old ROM updates from http://www.sourceo2.com/O2_Developers/Devices/O2_Xda/xda_ROM_Archive.htm
When i read the readme on that page. It says that active sync can only restore to a device with exactly the same partnership/device ID. It says you must delete the existing partnership and recreate it.
So i have done that, and a resotre is currently in progress (restoring a full backup from an old rom, to the new rom version of my walaby).
I will post back in 10 minutes when it has finished to let everyone know what has/hasnt been restored.
check for reginal settings.
In case it was changes to customize your device before upgrage - change them now from default.
it is not recommended to restore after ROM upgrade, tho...
restore not reccomended
I suppose i can understand why, but in any case i dont use outlook. So i cant see me having much choice...
Btw, does anyone know of software to sync the XDA to mozilla (preferable under linux too!)
backup to SD card
Out of curiosity, the pdf i read regarding the upgrade said you can back up to a SD card too.
Is this any different to backing up via ActiveSync? Is it any less risky to restore such a backup after an upgrade?
Up to my information, it has the same issue ... SD backup can't be restored to a different ROM version.
http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/
sync with
evolution
cynce
Looks good... anyone tried to sync with Mozilla Thunderbird??
Restore worked
So the restore seems to have worked... kind of...
The thing runs, but the old sms messages are only in the index, and i cant seem to delete them or view them.
The new programs from the upgrade dont seem to be here, though they could be lying around in a folder somwhere i havent looked.
My Fiitaly install works, though the input method occasinaly tries to be the transcriber even though it shouldnt be.
All in all, its usable, but when i have time i will be finding a copy of outlook just to back up the contacts and then flashing the ROM again and installing everything else again.
A note to anyone else who might be trying the same thing, all your notes etc can be backed up just by activesync synchronising your XDA mydocuments with a sub-folder of your pc's mydocuments. Then hopefully outlook can do the contacts and appointments. Dunno what you'd have to do if you wanted to save your sms messages or call log or anything
Results
Well, instead od studying for my exams (yup, just like me to do this) I installed Outlook, synchronised the XDA, flashed it again, synchronised it again, installed my software and it seems to be pretty good!
Lost my sms messages, but thats no problem to me.
2 things that are odd:
I had to add a shortcut to notes.exe in the start menu because it didnt exist
Also, i cannot create new accounts, ie gprs email ones. Of course, this would only be useful if the new ROM supports encrypted IMAP connections. Does it? Is there a free (or maybe cheap) third party solution that does?
Hi all,
got a QTEK S110, which is great. Recently done a backup, but when I then tried after a hard reset to restore, it could not, as it said it was for a different device!?!?!
Now I know this is not the case, so does anyone have any ideas what I can do.
I have also done a bit of messing about, and done different backups of my newly reset pda. This time it allows me to restore, but then stops and says some files could not be copied, because they could be in use, and to make sure all programs are shut. The only one open is Activesync, which I then shut And it says that it is all finished, but all my contacts along with other stuff has not been restored.
Activesync seems to be a bit lame. Is there another program I can use to restore the activesync backups?
Nick B
Hi Nick !
Had the same problem restoring with activesync. The backup i made was with country setting to "German - Austria" but the default after hard resetting the qtek is different so activesync quits restoring.
Solution:
After resetting your qtek set the country setting (Start/Settings/System/Country Settings) to the country you had set while you made the backup. The try the restore with activesync.
Good Luck,
Gerhard
Contacts & Calendar are somewhat problematic with backups. Next time use Sprite or another third-party product for backup/restore.
Now to solve the open programs try to boot in safemode. There are several programs to achieve this. I believe sbp pocket plus is one of them. Also you can try to empty the windows\startup folder. Just move the shortcuts somewhere else, especially poutlook.lnk is a suspicious one. I must say I never tried this myself when I had simular probs, at that time I didn't knew to much of the PPC.
Last resort try to synchronize with your desktop, this should give you the contacts & calendar data, which I think is most important at the moment. The other data will come from your AS backup.
Regards, M
i got a new iMate sp5m but the problem is tht i sold off my iMate jam with which i had taken my contacts backup through x backup and now since the sp5m doesnt have a restore option nor does it have x backup how do i open the file compactflashbackuppim since it doesnt have any extension and how do i open it/import its contents in outlook or is there any other procedure ?
could anyone help me with a solution or a link regarding this..??
Hello,
The only way i could think of is, take your friend' device that has xBackup and restore yours. Syncronize to outlook on pc and export it out!
If you have no personal contacts or dont mind me checking them, mail your backup file to me and i will try to do it for ya when free..
Regards
Carty..
Well thanks for the help offered..but i got it sorted out by taking a friends 02 mini and getting it to sync my file with outlook and then got the data on my new phone..
Carty said:
Hello,
The only way i could think of is, take your friend' device that has xBackup and restore yours. Syncronize to outlook on pc and export it out!
If you have no personal contacts or dont mind me checking them, mail your backup file to me and i will try to do it for ya when free..
Regards
Carty..
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would u be so kind and help me with tis operatiion under my lost qtek 2020i/
i also have backuppim of xVBackup/ but i have no idea how to restore it/
thank you
Carty said:
Hello,
The only way i could think of is, take your friend' device that has xBackup and restore yours. Syncronize to outlook on pc and export it out!
If you have no personal contacts or dont mind me checking them, mail your backup file to me and i will try to do it for ya when free..
Regards
Carty..
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would u be so kind and help me with tis operatiion under my lost qtek 2020i/
i also have backuppim of xVBackup/ but i have no idea how to restore it/
thank you
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Denis/
Best regards
i got a new iMate jamin but the problem is tht i sold off my iMate jam with which i had taken my contacts backup through x backup and now since the jamin doesnt have a restore option nor does it have x backup how do i open the file compactflashbackuppim since it doesnt have any extension and how do i open it/import its contents in outlook or is there any other procedure ?
thank u
sincerely
k dakroub
Look at http://pocketpcmag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16922 - there is a tool called xBackup extract from "Menneisyys".
Restoring backup file CompactFlashBackupPim
Dear Sir
I got a new iMate JASJAM but the problem is that I sold off my iMate JAM with which I had taken my contacts backup through x backup and now since the JASJAM doesn’t have a restore option or does it have x backup how do I open the file compactflashbackuppim since it doesn’t have any extension and how do I open it/import its contents in outlook or is there any other procedure?
Best regards,
Faisal Majeed
trouble in reading back up file
My I-mate pocket PC got damaged but i managed to copy backup file. How to open and look at all those contacts saved in backup file. The file is compactflashbackuppim
How do i get them back... they are not in outlook... are they somewhere on the phone still... can i get them back? i haven't reseted...
it's not really my phone but i'm the one who did it...
found a pim.vol on the device... it has 420 kb... it's quite big? any clue?
samov said:
How do i get them back... they are not in outlook... are they somewhere on the phone still... can i get them back? i haven't reseted...
it's not really my phone but i'm the one who did it...
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A little more info could be helpful... I've had simaler problems...
~What are you syncing with? Activesync, SyncML or ?
~What are you syncing to? Exchange, Outlook via USB or ?
~Are you Syncing OTA?
~What OS? WM5 or WM6?
~Are there copies of the Contacts on a PC that you sync with?
PS: Knowing this info will really help to resolve your problem
ok.... sorry about the lacking info...
1. Outlook was not installed... so no transfer to my pc.
2. Using Activesync and i deleted the partenership.
3. I'm on wm6.
4. No copies anywhere... only copy was in the phone.
Found a thread which mentioned "pim.vol" file (420 kb)... i managed to extract it from the phone... but i don't know what to do with it...
There's a program called PIM backup, which is used for backing up all the things on your phone like contacts, messages, calender entries etc.
The default is to create a *.pib though...
Try here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705
I've got mine scheduled to backup everything on a weekly basis to my storage card, so if it all goes belly up I have something to restore from. I suggest you do the same ;-)
I wanted to know at what format are contacts synced to my PC ?
I want to create a backup for my contacts but I dont use outlook, so whats the alternative ?
Thanks.
Use PIMbackup on your phone to back up your contacts, then save the file it makes on your PC or memory card. Or use MS Myphone.
PIM backup does have some problems working with Win 6.5 (I know, have been there). I suggest either Sprite backup or SPB Backup instead.
WB
Hmm okay thanks for the reply.
Im going to look for SPB right now/
i'm using myphone and I dont have any backup with pim or spb...sadly, myphone stopped working for my account...so I just can see my 400 contacts in webpage but I cant sync my phone after rom flash.
so...i'm very angry, and i dont know how to copy 400 contacts from myphone web page to my pc and after to my hd2.
the error is at step 4\6: "unexpected error. try again". I tried all i could do (changed rom, changed myphone build..).
tnx a lot
alexleon said:
i'm using myphone and I dont have any backup with pim or spb...sadly, myphone stopped working for my account...so I just can see my 400 contacts in webpage but I cant sync my phone after rom flash.
so...i'm very angry, and i dont know how to copy 400 contacts from myphone web page to my pc and after to my hd2.
the error is at step 4\6: "unexpected error. try again". I tried all i could do (changed rom, changed myphone build..).
tnx a lot
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What did Microsoft support say about that?
I've been lucky enough to never have any problems with PIM backup on 6.5. SOrry if I gave a bad suggestion