Hi All,
I'm sure this has been asked before so I apologise for repeating the question, but please can anyone tell me how I can syncronize or save my SMS's from my XDAII to my desktop PC so I don't loose them when I upgrade the Rom or do a hard reset.
I cannot believe they did not think about including this functionality, my old PDA running windows CE 1.0 was able to do it so why O2/Microsoft didn't think people would want to be able to do this is beyond me!
I have figured out if you copy the Messaging folder you get som of the sent sms's as *.mpb files which you can open in notepad but this is really an acceptable solution and I only seem to be able to see the sent SMS's not the received ones.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
JK
SMS SAVING
I have the same desire. I need a practical easy solution too!
SMS SAVING
I have the same desire. I need a practical easy solution too!
Try the Jeyo for Outlook.... It's great
you can use Sprite Backup 3.0 ang backup only SMS.
Jeyo Mobile Companion could be a good choice
Hello
try this link it has some info which could help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=55630#55630
Regards.
Othman
Hi, guys, I am a new user at this forum, which I found most useful for a WM-newbie like like me and thank you all for that. I bought my 9100 a while ago and am still experiencing some difficulties in setting it up.
I have been searching through the menus to find a way to delete all my contacts at once. Since I could not find any way to do this and was not willing to do a hard reset just to fix it, the first time I deleted them all one by one...and I had quite a lot of entries back then
Could anyone help me solve this problem in a more sophisticated way? I am about to delete contacts soon and I would rather hard-reset the device, than go through the same procedure ever again.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hi,
install the attached CAB to your pocket pc and softreset, now you will find new options in contacts menu "select all" and "delete seleted"
hope this is what you want.
regards
This was exactly what I needed! Thanks a lot, mate! I appreciate it
Now the stylus is marking the contacts like a mouse would on a PC. I wonder why this opition is not a preset one and has to be installed additionally?! :roll:
Anyway, you've been of great assistance. I will seriosly reconsider the hard reset now
Best of luck!
:wink:
Hi...I am afraid this will not solve yr problem.There are 2 ways 2 do it...
1) Use the default File Explorer & rename "pim" to "pim1" & reboot.All PIM Data will be deleted inclusive of all the Tasks & Calendar Entries.
2) Use Pocket Informant...as in addition to above..it allows u to beam all the contacts in one shot.
ammar said:
Hi,
install the attached CAB to your pocket pc and softreset, now you will find new options in contacts menu "select all" and "delete seleted"
hope this is what you want.
regards
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I have been looking for this for a long time.
Thank you!
Or when it is connected via activesync, open outlook and delete all the contacts there it will sync with the phone and delete the ones on the phone at te same time..... :roll:
Believe me, guys, Ammar's .cab file does the job and it's fine by me. Would strongly recommend it!
Dear Group, Father Christmas has come early this year and bought me a Wizard in the guise of a o2 XDA Mini s. Or rather, as is the way with married folk, i bought it myself for dear wife to give to me lol. Now, given that its a gift i've only looked at it briefly but from what i have seen i like it a lot. I've got my Vodafone SIM working on it and i've managed to connect to my encrypted WI-FI router, so it's a good start!
Now, i currently have a nice little Samsung mobile which i tend to use more for texting.
I've discovered how to export all my contacts to Outlook, so i imagine i can then import them into the Wizard no problem.
But,,, how do i get all my text messages into the Wizard?
I've managed to export the texts from the Samsung to my PC in .CSV format which opens with Excel. But, will i be able to import that file into the Wizard, and if not, how can i achieve it?
All help appreciated.
Many Thanks
How did you do the export.
ya you need a file called , PPCBckpContacts
I am at work so i would not be able to upload for you, but i am sure that someone could do this for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279925&highlight=active+sync
found it for you!
Thank you!
This backs up SMS messages as well?
no but you can get SMSBackup and it works great, have it on mine!!
Edit
I am too good for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=283080
Absolutely brilliant! THANKS!
Of course there is a catch ... the ZIP file on the site appears to be corrupted. (sigh)
Hey,
is it possible to import sms/text-messages from my old nokia phone to the Touch HD? I've managed to import the contacts from the old phone to outlook, but can't find a way to do the same with the text messages.
I would be greatful for any help!
Regards,
Bacardi Man
I used a program called EASY HELPER on my xda2i to transfer text and contacts between two similar handsets. Worked ok, ALTHOUGH text only backs up INBOX. sent, drafts etc... are populated but by empty files you have to just delete anyway.
If easy helper is supported in 6.1 then it might work for you, don't forget to search for other 3rd party sms backup and restore programs which could be equally helpful.
....IB a n e
Well on the Nokia side you could give the new NCC 2.0 beta http://www.nokia.com/A41013626 a try, but I think even 1.0 in the latest current Phone Suite could export SMS. My N95 is currently with Nokia, so I cannot test it for you (Export function w/o phone is greyed out). Re-Importing a common export file format back into WinMobile should not be a great deal.
I have exporter all Contacts and messages from my Nokia phone using Nokia PC suite. All this data now is stored in one single *.nbu file.
So you mean there is a program, which can extract the messages from this file and transfer them to an WM6.1 based PDA?
Can PC Suite only export nbu file format? Doubt any other program can read that. No option there to choose csv or text format at least?
Bacardi Man said:
Hey,
is it possible to import sms/text-messages from my old nokia phone to the Touch HD? I've managed to import the contacts from the old phone to outlook, but can't find a way to do the same with the text messages.
I would be greatful for any help!
Regards,
Bacardi Man
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Ok, let me think about it:
you may be able to send your text messages from the nokia phone vie bluetooth to your HD (if your Nokia supports sending more messages than one at a time, that would be the easyest way )
every phone and it software stores text messages in a different format and way. so normaly, its not possible to load those on another phone. some programs can store and save those messages as text files. but on the other hand, you would not be able to get those text files on your HD stored as real sms again. so the best thing would be bluetooth. just send those messages over and ypur HD will get them and know that its an sms (did the same with my contacts, just sended them via bluetooth )
My colleague says NCC can in fact export to csv format. From that format it should be possible to import into WinMobile. If only I would remember if this WM5 software HTC SMSBackup in this old post of mine http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1053322&postcount=2 can import csv? If you wanna give it a try, install for WinMobile 6.x as a cab is different now:
1. Change the ".zip" extension to ".rar"
2. extract 00CAB300.001
3. rename to "00CAB300.001.exe"
4. copy to phone and use
simple answer: use pimbackup - i moved everything from my trinity. you can find it by searching on XDA, it is simply perfect.
pzucchel said:
simple answer: use pimbackup - i moved everything from my trinity. you can find it by searching on XDA, it is simply perfect.
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Does it also work for SE devices such as the W800i?
Monsieur zucchel, the topic here is syncing Nokia to WinMobile No simple answer yet
Lucas0511 said:
Monsieur zucchel, the topic here is syncing Nokia to WinMobile No simple answer yet
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Hi Lucas, my apologies. i thought it was a windows mobile device....
Bienvenue, PIMBackup is indeed a fine WinMobile solution.
But is there also a solution to port contacts from sony Ericcson devices to the HD?
Asking that cos I own a W800i.
Well, one nice feature of SE phones is the capability to copy all phone contacts to SIM card. Then you put the SIM in your other phone, and voila. Just a quick fix, a better way would be to export contacts to a export data file like .csv, and then import that one into WinMobile with the free PIMBackup http://www.dotfred.net/ Give the free http://www.fjsoft.at/en/ MyPhoneExplorer a try, it was always my favourite SE contacts and SMS sync software.
Really good news as I am already using MyPhoneExplorer.
Will give it a try on monday when the HD should arrive.
The problem with the SIM Card is that there is only a storage capacitiy for 150 numbers (not even contacts) so this option wont work for me.
The option of using bluetooth sounds really interesting. But how can I send a sms via Bluetooth. In the options menue of the messages menue there is no possibility to do that, altough both phones support bluetooth.
Since I still can't find an option to send my sms via bluetooth from one phone to the other, I tried exporting them into .csv format, which worked fine.
Now I have the problem that both, your program Lucas, and PPCPIMBackup don't recognize this format.
Any suggestions?
Studied the PIMBackup since I dont use it. Its backups are stored in a .pib file, which actually is just a .zip file which you can decompress. It will reveal a number of .csv files, for the different types of data in your Touch HD. I would then assume that you can copy the contacts from your Nokia .csv file into the PIMBackup .csv with contacts, using Excel which can read and write .csv. Do the same for SMS. Unfortunately not a one-click solution, but transfering PIM data over operating systems is still a pain - when it comes to SMS. Contacts of course can be transfered via Outlook, or a online account which both of your devices can access.
If you like to explore further, I think Jeyo Mobile Extender was a software that allowed you to put all your SMS into Outlook as messages, from where you could copy them. But I never got it to run fully under Outlook 2007, and development has stopped.
Good luck!
@lucas:
Your solution would be great, but in fact the pib-file does not contain many csv-files, instead it contains one single pbm-file, which can't be decompressed.
Well then, I am close to giving up . Did you use a .pib file that you filled with some life, i.e. at least one item (contact, sms) for each PIM menu item on your WinMobile device? An empty .pib file out of the box would certainly contain no csv's. If there is still only a pbm file after decompress then the PIMBackup programmer has not updated his manual.
Other than that, maybe someone else would like to step in... Time for a Bacardi I'd say...
Hey, im new to this site and i just had my HTC HD2 go completely unresponsive. The touch screen doesnt work, and i have contacts that i inputed and did not copy to my SIM card as a back up. My question is, does anyone know where this folder/file is located on the phone? i have access to my phone via my computer but it won sync my contacts with outlook. im trying to get these numbers before i have to return my phone back to TMO for the HD7 they are sending me. any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
contacts
no one knows how to do this? any help is greatly appreciated thanks
For contacts you want the pim.vol file found in devices root memory.
Few threads on this if you do a search.
I have used WM device emulator to load a pim.vol before & then use apropriate tools to export to CSV or what ever format you require to import to other devices/applications.
You can also try using MyMobiler (link in my Sig) & perhaps try waking your device up without using endcall key can help work around unresponsive screen issues ...