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Backup manager

Hello,
I have a Qtek 9100 running on WM 5.0. The problem is I can't perform a backup right now. All the backup managers I've tried either don't work on WM 5.0 or want to save the backup file directly in the internal memory. And as I don't have enough space to store the backup file in the internal memory I am stuck.
I am planning to buy a miniSD card in 2-3 months so this option is ruled out for now.
Is there a backup manager that lets you write the backup file directly on your PC?
Regards,

Sprite's backup thingy backs up to PC, or to the device if you perform it on the device itself.

Not on Windows Mobile 5.

Weird - then how have I been doing it?
You do need the beta
http://spritesoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1836
There's another non-beta one:
http://www.sunnysoft.cz/en_clanek.php?clanekid=51
Which I haven't tried

SK Tools does backup on WM5 devices and much more.
s-k-tools.com

sk tools 2.3.16 trial
Hello,
I tried the trial version of SKtools and it says that for windows mobile 2005 the option of complete system backup is temporary disabled.
How can you backup?
Regards
Marcus

I had experimental 2.3.15, wich worked, bu it
was missing list of all apps, installed before SKTools.
It was hard to uninstall some of them.
Try here:
s-k-tools.com/downloads.html

Restore Contacts

I,
i've recently upgraded my Prophet to ShadoW_1.0_TE WM6 Rom from my official WM5 Rom.
I've backup files made with sunnysoft backup manager, but now i cant restore them.
From my backup file i only choose PIM Data. I dont get any error, but when device restarts i cant open CONTACTS. Even creating a new one, nothing..
Does anybody have any ideias how to get my contacts back ?
Thanks

Same problem here.
Have backed up contacts using SPB software. Contacts wont even open now.
Does anyone know where contacts file is located in WM6 ?..
Hope someone can help us

Do you have SPB Diary ?
I've installed SPB Diary and my contacts appear there.
Still working on it

Solved
Problem Solved: (if you have contacts in outlook)
Re-install Outlook from Vista, sync, voilá.

Sprite Backup - Restore help

OKay... perhaps someone can save me from having to reinstall from scratch - searching did not give me the answer.
Accidentally deleted all my contacts from the diamond after having had to reinstall my PC (and outlook)
I thought to myself, well, I've got SpriteBackup, right? (been running Sprite Backup regularly, excluding the Internal Storage but doing everything else.) - I'll do a restore.
It's a German O2 original ROM, I made no changes to it since the backup a few days ago. The only difference OUGHT to have been the missing contacts.
Executed the backup from Internal Storage, it ran without error, and immediately after the final soft reset I get the message that a few programs (changescreen, s2u, ...) can't be started because either a component is missing or the certificate is invalid (paraphrased German error msg)
It turns out NO Program I've installed myself will launch. Not even those I merely copied over and that normally run without an installer.
I tried factory defaults and running the restore again, with the same results -NONE of my programs work anymore and it doesn't matter if I installed them in the Programs or on Internal Storage
Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a way to fix it without a complete reinstall (which I would absolutely hate to have to do)?
Thanks in advance,
Verrath

Solved.
I needed to run the restore from the application rather than calling the .exe, and set the restore options to "replace" rather than "merge", which seems to be the default.

Ah! I had the same problem.
The new Sprite backup has added functionality to make upgrading of ROM easier (great news for those ROM-flashers here!) so instead of overwriting all your system files with old ones it'll do a 'merge'.
You can do a hard-reset, then run the .exe file and choose to do a "Level 1" and "Merge". This should fix your problem.
If it doesn't, then you'll have to run the Sprite Backup application (Which I presume is stored on your Internal memory), Go to "Settings" -> "Restore", and choose "Replace" instead of "Merge". Now go back to main menu, choose restore, choose the backup file and it should work this time.

Updating ROM to 1.66 backup ??

hi, im about to update to the latest ROM 1.66 and have started backing up my data. ive copied my contacts onto the SIM but how do i export all my text messages, if i try to copy onto SIM they are too big so i need to export somehow ?? many thanks in advance

andi1977dog said:
hi, im about to update to the latest ROM 1.66 and have started backing up my data. ive copied my contacts onto the SIM but how do i export all my text messages, if i try to copy onto SIM they are too big so i need to export somehow ?? many thanks in advance
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Use a free program called PIM backup. It will backup and restore all emails, txt, contacts, etc.

Or use the build in option 'Microsoft My Phone', but you need a live account for this (msn). Works great though!

You can also use apps such as SPB Backup.
SPB Backup will infact backup the entire system for you including everything you may have installed.

thanks !
loads of good suggestions.

Audio Oblivion said:
You can also use apps such as SPB Backup.
SPB Backup will infact backup the entire system for you including everything you may have installed.
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Sorry, you cannot use SPB Backup and backup to a different ROM, you will get errors.

HELP restoring contacts in phonebook! =((

Hello,
I have just made a format of my X10i. So, reinstalled the latest italian firmware (R2BA026) and restored all my data. I took the occasion of this format to change my microSDHC upgrading to a 16GB Class10, too.
Now I have an huge problem with the phonebook: if I restore my contacts through the Backup software application by Sony Ericsson, the contacts are all successfully restored. But... when I restart the phone, I don't found them anymore!
I tried with three different backups but with the same result. I also tried to use the Sony Ericsson Sync application but instead of downloading the backupped data on the phone, the X10 did the upload to the server, without downloading any backupped contact from the SE server.
How can I do? Any idea to solve this?
Thanks!!

Is data sync off during the restore period?
Sent from my rooted 026 X10i using swype via Xda

Uhm I just used the Sony Ericsson Backup and restore application wich comes with latest firmwares.

The new Sony backup program that comes with the lastest firmwares doesn't backup sync'd contacts. You would need to use the Gmail contact sync to restore your contacts I believe.

bud i had the exact same problem, for 2 days they would jus keep dissapering, after a bit of messinng around i found that if i left the google sync ticked in settings/data sync, they stayed as they should, dont kno why it started to do this after the update but.... it worked
hope that helped

Just solved! Here how I did:
1) Restore contacts from backup made with Sony Ericsson Backup application;
2) Backup contacts from the phonebook to SD card;
3) Restore contacts from this latest backup (wich has nothing to do with the original backup).
Now it works fine, finally!