Just wanting to know the location of where the contacts are stored when theyre on the phone?
For example, the text messages are stored in Windows > Messaging.
Thanks
Where are the contacts stored
all PIM data (contacts, appointments, tasks) are stored in the file 'pim.vol' which is located in the root entry.
Wolfgang
How to Manually Backup your Contacts, Appointments and Task or the PIM in WM2005?
Look here:
http://buzzdev.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=45
you also can use Sunnysoft Backup Manager to save all your data. You only have to rename the pim.vol to something else before restoring the data.
Wolfgang
presumably cemail.vol is the mail, will this work as well?
Flubster
Flubster,
if you can copy the file to another place it should work also.
Wolfgang
Just to say cemail.vol cannot be copied via file manager, resco file manager or windows. Any other way to get this file?
Flubster
OK, I wanted to backup the SMS's which was the main reason I wanted to backup the cemail.vol file. In the end I used the BackupSMS from a dopod WM2005 extended ROM and that worked fine
Flubster
I finally got over error 85010014 and 85010017 and sku112.cab (no resolved yet, help welcome) I finally managed to connect AS 4.1 and have JJ synch my files, contacts, tasks, notes, etc. However, as I browse the files I noticed that on the PC WM_User_MyDocuments folder, all files (except pdf) had the pocket suffix. i.e. psw, pxl, etc. I tried the Advanced tools/Edit File Covnversion Settings to find out that there is no way to select XLS (PC) -> pxk (PPC) and pxl-> XLS, nor is ther DOC -> psw and psw -> doc. All I have is psw to rtf and vice versa. On excel it only allows pxl ->pxl. It gets worse! I copied a xls file to the WM_User diretory to see if it would convert? Nope, it sybched without conversion, putting a 0.6MB XLS file on my JJ! I can open it on my JJ, but when I tried on WM_UserMy documents directory, guess what? Yeah installer pops up asking for SKU112.CAB!
This is a disgrace!
Anybody fixed this already?
Is there a folder somewhere that has contacts stored in it? It might be in some code or it might not, just looking for a way to send a file of contacts through email. I have SPB and know the other ways, but really want to find a folder with the information in it. Does it exist? Thank you.
Ok found it. it's pim.vol in the My Device folder. can't do much with it as it's basically read-only and cant even delete it. so copyin and pasting won't work as the original folder can't be written over or deleted. sure there is a workaround somehow...
If you sync with a computer, you can export everything to either individual VCF files through Outlook and then zip them all together, or export as a list of comma separated values. Not sure of the best way to do it phone-only, though.
Hello need help in backing up my contacts into Excel or CSV file.
I've seen some threads here but there were no solutions
i tried downloading PIM backup application but I was not able to run it on WM6.1 since it was maybe an EXE file.
hope someone can help me with this
thanks and godbless
Download PIMBackup from here:
http://www.dotfred.net/default.htm
You have to extract the PPCPimBackupV2.8_wm2005.zip, copy the PPCPimBackup.exe to the internal storage of your diamond and start it. This should work - it works for me.
sync with computer. The contacts will be transferred to ms outlook. Then you can export by ms outlook.
I just installed Android Gingerbread (SD-card) and now I want to copy all my contacts from Windows Mobile 6.5 to Android. Is there an easy way to do this )if any)?
Hope you understand my question and thanks for answering!
If you use Outlook you can extract the contacts data base as I think a. Vcf and then load it into your gmail account then sync your phone with gmail
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If you have your contacts in out look try this http://sourceforge.net/projects/googlesyncmod/files/
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many ways to accomplish this...
first, back up your contacts (and anything else you fancy) using "pimbackup" on windows mobile. if any of the following options goes wrong, simply restore using the back up you just made with pimbackup.
now, ONE of the following options should work:
1. on windows mobile, set up an activesync with google's servers. once the activesync is established, your contacts SHOULD automatically upload to google's servers. this is useful because you are migrating to android, which is tightly integrated with your google account. when you will finish setting up your android with your google account, your contacts will download automatically in a few minutes...and you're done!
2. on windows mobile, use "sprite migrate". this nifty little tool will extract your contacts and sms messages into a file on your sd card. then, transfer the file to your desktop/laptop. on the PC, install the PC component of sprite migrate and feed it the file you just threw from your sd card. tell it to prepare a file for android. this will spit out another file which you can copy back on to your sd card. inside android, install the android component of sprite migrate and import the file you created on your PC. done!
3. use the outlook related options as suggested by others above if you are already integrated with outlook!
Easiest way is to just save your address book to your SIM card then import in Android
Easiest way is enable Google Sync on WinMo 6.5, google for instructions on how to...
It will copy contacts automatically to your google account and sync them back as soon as you link your google account with Android..
Mafioso said:
Easiest way is enable Google Sync on WinMo 6.5, google for instructions on how to...
It will copy contacts automatically to your google account and sync them back as soon as you link your google account with Android..
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I agree, this is the easiest way.
Just synchronize with google account.
w/o Gmail
If you no matter what do not want to rely on Google/Gmail services (for obvious privacy reasons):
Several users mentioned sprite migrate, but unfortunately the software's been discontinued since Oct/2011.
OTOH you can export your contacts:
using the built-in Outlook export. It gets quickly tedious I'm told because you have to process them individually (bleh). This creates a vCard file for each contact.
export using PIMbackup. The procedure is documented about everywhere on the forums, just use search. Important is to UNCHECK compression (and of course, check the "contacts" box earlier on). The resulting pib file is actually a renamed ZIP archive, you can open it with 7-zip regardless of its extension.
I'll assume you know how to transfer files in and out from your SD card.
Now within the pib/zip file, there's a .csc file, which is a comma-separated value "spreadsheet". Extract it from the archive.
You will now export (demux) this .csc into multiple .vcf (vCard) files.
The tool I found is http://homebrew.binaervarianz.de/in...ts-and-SMS-from-WindowsMobile-to-Android.html
Extract "PIM2vcard.pl" from the "PIM2vcard.tar.gz" archive into the same directory as before.
It uses Perl (a general-purpose scripting language) to achieve this. I recommend using Strawberry Perl for its simplicty of installation.
Fire it up using the "portableshell.bat" shortcut.
Then, enter the commands (replace with your own values):
Code:
CD /D "C:\EXTRACT\htc"
notepad contacts_20120418.csc
In notepad, click "File > Save As...". In the dialog, leave the default filename (contacts_20120418.csc.txt) and navigate to your working directory using the treeview on the left. In the Encoding drop-down box, select "UTF-8". Click Save, then quit Notepad.
Back to the Perl command prompt, enter these commands:
Code:
MKDIR vcf
perl PIM2vcard.pl contacts_20120418.csc.txt
When the script ends, you shall find the resulting files in the vcf subdirectory.
Copy them into your SD card / internal storage.
Finally, use the Contacts applet in Android to import the vcf files.
There are known issues:
1. Problems if you have contacts with non Latin chars [use encode_qp?]
2. Problems with multiline fields (such as home address) [fix CSV beforehand]
Note: Maybe some benevolent soul can whip up an excel macro or a website to perform all steps automatically?
Another alternative is importing the csv (*.csm.txt) into Windows Live Mail (mapping fields, which is a boring task) and then export to .vcf.
These features are available from the Import/Export ribbon toolbar buttons.
Also, the import process sometimes silently chokes, so it's not such a reliable solution either.
For migrating your SMS messages, I recommend the dedicated PimBackup SMS Importer to Android application by -emandt-.
An interesting alternative is http://piemaster.net/tools/winmo-android-sms-converter/ (Python 2.x, open-source). It seems to take the .pib in and churn out a fat .xml containing SMS's and importable into SMS Backup & Restore. However, I haven't tested it.
Edit: checked it out, it doesn't seem to process contacts.
ActiveSync with Gmail
GregoRA0 said:
I agree, this is the easiest way.
Just synchronize with google account.
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What to do if you already have an activesync connection with Outlook? It says you have to disengage that connection first and then sync this new (google) account. Problem is, once you uncheck it, it says it's gonna remove all contacts imported from Outlook!
Have a look at second program "Contact Backup CSV Import" HERE
Also do a search for PIM Backup as has some info in that thread on transferring contacts & sms ...