i have looked on this site and i cannot find any info on how to back up only the gprs settings to sd card can anyone help i did see stuff about extracting settings from cab files but dont know where the cab files are or what to do with them if i found them thank you all
Look under settings/pemanent save, if you want to save your connection settings to non volatile ram that wont be lost during hard reset. I have no idea how to get those settings to sd card though.
i must be doing something wrong
did not seem to work i had everything working good but then it said somthing about back up being corrupt so i did a hard reset and used my backup from sd card but then when windows came on the tool bars colours were messed up so i did a hard reset and installed windows corp and all was good but now i want to get all of the o2 pay monthly settings back so i was going to use my back up even though the colours are messed up and somehow save my settings then install windows corp and bring back my connection settings ,,,,,,, sorry its a bit of a long way round
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I now have an SD card so I'm going to rebuild my xda2 system with my preferred applications. Some of these can go on to the SD card and I know that some must go in to main memory.
Can I save settings for programs like Pocket Informant and Battery Pack Pro and use them in the new system? If so, how?
for pocketinformant at least the settings are stored under my documents, so it should automatically be restored when you sync again.
Surur
Thanks for your answer Surur I'm a bit closer to taking the plunge, I've just identified that file in my backups.
I know this has happened to people before but ive tried searching at work and now tried searching at home... couldnt find anything.
Today... I was using my 8125 ... I changed themes... you know cingular windows default... just the ones that came with my phone.
Somehow there is nothing on my miniSD... if I go to settings then to memory it shows it has 50 megs taken up... which is what I had before.. but still .... no data there
can someone PLEASE point me in the right direction.
I had some important files on there
Thank you to all that can help
T.
Don't panic, if its showing you there's 50 still used up chances are your files are still there.
What file manager software are you using? If you are using the integrated File Explorer make sure you have it set to view hidden files. Same with Resco File Explorer.
If you are trying to find your files from a specific application such as Notes, Pocket Word, etc. make sure its set to view All Folders at the top and not a specific one.
If all else fails buy a card reader and try to get the files off of your home computer. I would advise you not to leave your SD card in your 8125 till then.
Actually this appears to be more common than we would like to admin with the Wizard. You will most likely have to use a file recovery application on your compter using a card reader to make your files visible again. Not sure why but the Wizard just seems to at random hide all your stuff.
files are not hidden.
I guess im going to have to get card reader.
I don't mean hidden in the sense of a simple file attribute. You are going to have to get a disk recovery program to get your stuff back.
I have also had this happen.
It SEEMS to only occur during a soft reset, so if I plan on resetting the phone, I remove the card first, and don't reinsert until it is done rebooting. that seems to have stopped the problem for me at least.
Very unpleasant problem to say the least!
well I used a program called 'Driverescue' on the card?
is it supposed to be fat1 or fat2 (this made no sense to me) I know a lot about different file systems but have no idea which my card is... fat1 found nothing. I have yet to try fat2.
Anyone know of any good programs (hopefully freeware) to find my data
Thanks for everyones input on this matter.
T
no one knows of any good programs?
I've posted a few software titles that I used to recover my files....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=46295&highlight=
I had all the files disapear, so I took the card out and reinserted it and it was fine.
Apologies if this has been posted before but cant find it in the search...
1) On soft reset, I loose sms messages, even if I have closed "Text Messages" with any of the 3rd party "close" button programs.
2) On soft reset, I lose BT338 GPS connectivity, have to remove the device and port then re add - have read on here that you need to uncheck secure connection, I've tried it with both checked, and unchecked and still fails
3) On soft reset, whatever background image I have dissapears, but a portion is left behind in the drop down window.
4) Im with Orange, which of the cabs in the Extended ROM can I delete and still be able to use the phone.
5) When using Sprite Backup It does not back up either calendar or contacts, even though I have Personal Databases checked (or if it does, it doesnt restore them)
I dont want a load of Orange bloatware using up the memory, just enough for phone, gprs connection and WiFi to work.
Getting quite used to doing hard resets now, had issue over the weekend with one app causing Picture viewer to lock up!
Many thanks from a grateful Newbie!
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4) Im with Orange, which of the cabs in the Extended ROM can I delete and still be able to use the phone.
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Once you have flashed your phone and done the reset afterwards, letting the customisations install they are no longer of any use to you until you do a hard reset, at which point the ROM will reload and the customisations with it.
If you use backup software after you delete the entire contents of your ExtendedROM you won't lose a thing.
Have you got the right version of Sprite? I think the latest is 5.1?
If you have no luck with it, give SPB a try. I've used it on my Alpine and Uni with great success.
Have you tried flashing with the latest ROM for the other problems? I'm on the latest Orange ROM and so far things seem to be working fine with SMS, desktop and BT pairing.
Thanks,
Sprite is 5.1.0 Build 1417 - downloaded last friday
ROM version seem to be same as yours, 1.30.90WWE 02/24/06 so I guess thats most upto date Orange ROM (had device just under 3 weeks)
Grr @ self for not reading sig !
Another thing to try is the Qtek ROMs? Assuming you're unlocked of course.
Good Luck with it =)
Im not brave enough to unlock it
I absolutley adore the beast, and its spot on for what i need, just wish I could resolve the minor issues that whilst not spoil the use of it, nevertheless are annoying. BT338 gets hot fix in seconds, but takes me 5 mins to un pair then reapir the blasted BT connection
Going back to the extended ROM, what I meant was do I need all the cab files that are in there to use the phone, as in can I remove some, then Hard reset and have a smaller number actually load up.
I dont use the Orange today screen for one, and given that there is only 25Mb of usable program memory out of 50, I'm wondering how much of that is caused by TSR orange code that can be removed at build
EDIT: had a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/vie...0&postorder=asc&highlight=reg+tweaks&start=25 but still non the wiser (someone listed the Orange FR cabs)
There is an easy way to do this that doesn't require unlocking the ExtROM, which you have to do to be able to delete anything in there.
When you hard reset, tap the screen, sync the touchscreen, cut and paste, then Windows loads up.
Right after that it will give you 3 seconds before loading the contents of the ExtROM. If you hit the reset pin during that three seconds it won't load anything in there.
You can then browse to it with a decent file manager and install the .CABs by hand.
But, don't be afraid of unlocking, it takes one program and two registry edits. Gives you 10MB of space to play with too.
Ah, my fault, read som much about unlocking that I thought you meant the sim card.
Yip, I've run the ExtRom unlocker and found out how to look inside
Not really that bothered about storage on the device, more about having a nice trim OS so that i have more program space as the kernel is smaller
Thanks again
Ive got a XDA exec from O2 and this installs a theme and features specific to O2 is there anyway to remove these safely and are there any advantages to doing this.
You can just switch to another theme. You can also safely uninstall the other O2 programs such as task manager & the today plugin; I did and I've had no problems.
P.S. Are you the UnseenMenace from OCForums?
I am the very same
I just brought the device with the hope of putting Linux on it, but thats not really viable at this time
So how do I remove these settings and if I require them are they easy enough to get back
I don't know how easy they are to get back, but if you use a program to make a backup then that should do it. Also, I don't know much about how this works but if you need them back then their CABs might be located in the extended ROM (see the sticky for info about that).
As for how to actually remove them, you can remove the skin just by choosing another in Start > Settings > Personal > Today. You can remove the O2 installed programs by going to Start > Settings > System > Remove Programs. It's a while since I did this so I can't remember exactly which are installed by O2, I know there's a task manager and there might be an activeUI - both of which can be removed without problem. Basically when I got mine I removed anything that looked like it was remotely to do with O2 and I have had no problems.
The best way really is to hard reset and do a corporate install!
Hi, a friend of mine used my eight weeks old HD2 accidentally as a seat cushion and now my display glass is broken. This is pretty sad. The phone boots up normal and the display lights up and functions but I can’t use the touchscreen, no input is possible
I can’t enter my pin or switch to active sync, so I see no way to get my contacts, calendar and notes. There are some really important things on this phone and my last backup is a month old.
Is there a way to force an active sync connection or any other way to read out the internal memory?
Some help would be really great, I am a bit desperate here.
Ok, just searched the forum and still didn't find an answer. There are severel other threads regarding a non functioning digitizer, but everyone wants to do a hard reset, not a backup
Is it some way possible to still save (backup) my data from the internal memory without the touch input? Maybe with a gold card? Can't be that HTC has no way to read out the internal memory.
HTC told me that the repair process includes a hard reset and all my data will be gone.
It's really annoying, the display is still readable and I could write down all my notes and calendar events, when I had a way to navigate the UI.
Does no one have a clue?
I know this may not help you as its a bit late in coming - but if you remove the microsd card then the default action when you plug your usb cable in is activesync so you may be able to get something out of your broken hd2...
I too have a broken screen and was able to get my contacts and take a full reg backup using CERegEditor.. I only wish now i had installed MyMobiler remote control prior to the screen brake it would have made life much easier...
And no i cant install it now as the damm prompt for unknown publisher is wanting a screen press.
again if only i had disabled that too using the reg hack id be sorted...
"With a registry editor go to HKLM \ Security \ Policies \ Policies \ 0000101a and change the value to "1". This will disable warnings."
cheers
Laldie
laldie said:
I know this may not help you as its a bit late in coming - but if you remove the microsd card then the default action when you plug your usb cable in is activesync so you may be able to get something out of your broken hd2...
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Thanks for the great tip!! You saved my day!