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Lost new contacts after Active Sync,need help.

i have not sync my phone with PC since last 2 months,and when i connect my phone today with PC,screen pop-up and there were 3 options.
1) do you want to combine contacts from pc to device
2)do you want to remove contacts from device and sync with outlook
3) donot do anything at this time.
so i press option 1
And now i lost my new contacts from my device which i have added in last 2 months.
i can only see contacts which i had in my outlook.
is there any way i can do undo or something so i can get my contacts back in my device?
Plz help if someone knows?
PLz,PLZ.

No. No undo for deleted contacts after synchronization with Outlook.

Junner2003 said:
No. No undo for deleted contacts after synchronization with Outlook.
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thanks,
one more thing
i still have pim volume in my device,i tried to read it with MS Excel & MS Word pad,but its giving me all symbols,i cant read it,Any idea on that??
And do you guys think that pim volume now i have on my device still has old contacts after active sync??
Thanks one more time in advance.

desisatguru said:
thanks,
one more thing
i still have pim volume in my device,i tried to read it with MS Excel & MS Word pad,but its giving me all symbols,i cant read it,Any idea on that??
And do you guys think that pim volume now i have on my device still has old contacts after active sync??
Thanks one more time in advance.
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the pim.vol cannot be read through conventional means (i.e. MS office) i remember a program that u can get to read it i dont remember the name though
whatever is on your phone is whats gonna be in the pim file

How To Stop Sync Old Contacts

Using active sync it's sending older contacts to my phone which i do not want on there (this was when i previously used a nokia and sync'ed them).
How do i go about deleting old contacts on my PC, to ensure they are not transferred when sync'ing?

kevinsmbuk said:
Using active sync it's sending older contacts to my phone which i do not want on there (this was when i previously used a nokia and sync'ed them).
How do i go about deleting old contacts on my PC, to ensure they are not transferred when sync'ing?
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Delete your olders contacts from whatever programme they are in. i.e. if they are on MS Outlook, delete them, or Hotmail...delete them

Fallen Spartan said:
Delete your olders contacts from whatever programme they are in. i.e. if they are on MS Outlook, delete them, or Hotmail...delete them
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I have so many not sure which one holds them! i tried outlook but apparently i have no contacts! i didnt know whether there was a folder i could explore on my pc to manually go through and delete them?

deanoyouno said:
my mate had this problem, what he done was when deleting the contacts he pushed the back of the battery in with great force, i thought it was a joke at first but iti actually worked
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Yeah... no.

How to bulk remove contacts?

Hey just got the phone today. Ive got my phone synced to the pc fine. Although i cant see how in outlook etc to manage my contacts. I knowi t copyed them over but i dont know how to choose what goes over.
But thats not the problem. The problem is taht i set up msn on it and i stupidly synced my contacts with the emails and now i have around 400 email adresses in my contact list that i want to remove and am unsure how. Ive been looking for the folder its self on the phone also with no luck, but i shall keep probing away.
Thanks, newby error i know
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the option in windows live to "store windows live contacts in your mobile phone cvontact list" is ticked and greyed out so im not sure what to do bout this.

8igdave said:
Hey just got the phone today. Ive got my phone synced to the pc fine. Although i cant see how in outlook etc to manage my contacts. I knowi t copyed them over but i dont know how to choose what goes over.
But thats not the problem. The problem is taht i set up msn on it and i stupidly synced my contacts with the emails and now i have around 400 email adresses in my contact list that i want to remove and am unsure how. Ive been looking for the folder its self on the phone also with no luck, but i shall keep probing away.
Thanks, newby error i know
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the option in windows live to "store windows live contacts in your mobile phone cvontact list" is ticked and greyed out so im not sure what to do bout this.
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this fine little tool might help you out
http://www.sugata.eu/products/pocketoutlook-eraser/
There's no way to select contacts for sync AFAIK, but you can create multiple contact lists in outlook, and only the primary one will be synced.

6Fg8 said:
this fine little tool might help you out
http://www.sugata.eu/products/pocketoutlook-eraser/
There's no way to select contacts for sync AFAIK, but you can create multiple contact lists in outlook, and only the primary one will be synced.
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Cheers mate! Did the job perfectly, erased all the emails and not the numbers
Now all i gota do is get orange to finaly activate my phone, sigh. Why cant things ever just work eh? Wait 24 hours for a text suposidly... never came lol.

Syncing PIM to desktop

Hey this may be a stupid question but I did a search and I can't find an answer.
I have just upgraded to a new version of windows (7 Ultimate) and I want to copy all my PIM details back to my computer from my HD2.
I have set up a sync relationship same as I have done 1000 times before after a hard reset but for some reason all the information will not download to my computer.
It starts a sync but then stops and tells me that appointments failed to download.
Anyone able to guide me in the right direction?
Thanks

Have you completed setting up your MS outlook? it wont sync until outlook has been setup .

samsamuel said:
Have you completed setting up your MS outlook? it wont sync until outlook has been setup .
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I had yes, but now I have an even bigger problem.
It wiped my device.
Then to make things worse I went to myphone to get everything back and it wiped that as well.
Not happy.
Anyone know how to extract the info from the windows.old folder that it left when I upgraded.

Piemole said:
I had yes, but now I have an even bigger problem.
It wiped my device.
Then to make things worse I went to myphone to get everything back and it wiped that as well.
Not happy.
Anyone know how to extract the info from the windows.old folder that it left when I upgraded.
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Hi,
when you say that it wiped the devices, was like a hardware reset or did it did give you get the error stating that all the synchoronisable data on your phone would be deleted? I had that when I first tried to synchornise on Windows 7. I turned out that I cannot sync Tasks at all to either Outlook or Google and it deleted all synchonisable data (and the message it showed told me that would happen, which was helpful in an annoyingw way). I'm afarid I cannot now remember if it delete all my synchorinisable data on my computer too. Have you tried restoring your MyPhone files from the online Archive. This worked perfectly for me when all my synchrionisable data on my device was removed. Of coutrse if all data from your phone was deleted and not just the synchronisable data then I'm afraid I do know how to help (I'm guessing data will be in an OutLook folder for synchronisable data but you said "all data was deleted).
I hope this does help you.
Regards.

cMMY69 said:
Hi,
when you say that it wiped the devices, was like a hardware reset or did it did give you get the error stating that all the synchoronisable data on your phone would be deleted? I had that when I first tried to synchornise on Windows 7. I turned out that I cannot sync Tasks at all to either Outlook or Google and it deleted all synchonisable data (and the message it showed told me that would happen, which was helpful in an annoyingw way). I'm afarid I cannot now remember if it delete all my synchorinisable data on my computer too. Have you tried restoring your MyPhone files from the online Archive. This worked perfectly for me when all my synchrionisable data on my device was removed. Of coutrse if all data from your phone was deleted and not just the synchronisable data then I'm afraid I do know how to help (I'm guessing data will be in an OutLook folder for synchronisable data but you said "all data was deleted).
I hope this does help you.
Regards.
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It deleted all the PIM data on the device and myphone, luckily I just figured out how to import the pst file from my old outlook back in so I managed to save it.
Thanks guys for your help though.
Close shave

Piemole said:
It deleted all the PIM data on the device and myphone, luckily I just figured out how to import the pst file from my old outlook back in so I managed to save it.
Thanks guys for your help though.
Close shave
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Glad you got it sorted.

HTC suddenly doesn't sync Outlook calendar?!

HTC sync suddenly started creating duplicates in the phone calendar (there were no duplicates in Outlook). So, I deleted the Calendar Storage on the phone, planning to resynchronize the calendar from Outlook.
But, now, HTC Sync suddenly won't synchronize any of my events, the calendar on the phone is completely empty. It says that it's synchronizing, but it just doesn't. WHAT THE HECK?
HTC sync has never worked terribly well, but I'm getting tired of this piece of GARBAGE.

Update: I think solved the problem. I deleted the phone profile, recreated it and it seems to sync now (my calendar data is back on my phone, anyway).
HTC Sync doesn't include a built-in way to delete a phone profile, so to delete it manually:
1. close HTC Sync if it's running
2. delete the folder C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\HTC (on Vista or Win7, it's C:\Users...)
3. Start HTC sync, re-establish the connection to your phone and synchronize it
Hopefully this helps someone who is as fed up as I am with the way the phones manage PIM data these days.
Seriously, Microsoft Pocket PC and ActiveSync actually worked very well. Calendar and contact data management and sync is piss-poor on today's phones.

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epp_b said:
Update: I think solved the problem. I deleted the phone profile, recreated it and it seems to sync now (my calendar data is back on my phone, anyway).
HTC Sync doesn't include a built-in way to delete a phone profile, so to delete it manually:
1. close HTC Sync if it's running
2. delete the folder C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\HTC (on Vista or Win7, it's C:\Users...)
3. Start HTC sync, re-establish the connection to your phone and synchronize it
Hopefully this helps someone who is as fed up as I am with the way the phones manage PIM data these days.
Seriously, Microsoft Pocket PC and ActiveSync actually worked very well. Calendar and contact data management and sync is piss-poor on today's phones.
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Dude.... You saved me so much headache. This fixed it for me. I was searching everywhere on how to fix this stupid problem!! Thank you so much for posting this!! Anybody else having problems with this. These steps work perfect!!

Dirtyfrank26 said:
Dude.... You saved me so much headache. This fixed it for me. I was searching everywhere on how to fix this stupid problem!! Thank you so much for posting this!! Anybody else having problems with this. These steps work perfect!!
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epp_b said:
Update: I think solved the problem. I deleted the phone profile, recreated it and it seems to sync now (my calendar data is back on my phone, anyway).
HTC Sync doesn't include a built-in way to delete a phone profile, so to delete it manually:
1. close HTC Sync if it's running
2. delete the folder C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\HTC (on Vista or Win7, it's C:\Users...)
3. Start HTC sync, re-establish the connection to your phone and synchronize it
Hopefully this helps someone who is as fed up as I am with the way the phones manage PIM data these days.
Seriously, Microsoft Pocket PC and ActiveSync actually worked very well. Calendar and contact data management and sync is piss-poor on today's phones.
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:good::good::good:
Thanks a lot. Worked for me too.
Win7 path I used: C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\HTC

Thanks for the solution.. I was turning nut trying to find out hwat happened... I started to think that my PST was corrupt...
In my case the NON sync was for the contacts folder, I dont use calendar... I followed these instructions and worked like a charm...
Btw, this is also applyable for all HTC models using HTC sync... I own a Sensation.
Thanks!

Calender Issues
epp_b said:
HTC sync suddenly started creating duplicates in the phone calendar (there were no duplicates in Outlook). So, I deleted the Calendar Storage on the phone, planning to resynchronize the calendar from Outlook.
But, now, HTC Sync suddenly won't synchronize any of my events, the calendar on the phone is completely empty. It says that it's synchronizing, but it just doesn't. WHAT THE HECK?
HTC sync has never worked terribly well, but I'm getting tired of this piece of GARBAGE.
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On my Droid RAZR, the calender was set to show the phone calender. Entries I made on my phone were no longer synching to google calender. I had to change the phone settings to only show the google calender. Then manually move my phone entries into google calender. This happened after the update some time in February, but I only noticed recently. It was a pain to go back and find all the entries that were on the phone and not on google. With the phone set to not show the phone calender, my calender entries now do go to the google calender and show up on my other devices and online.
Another issue is that all of my appointments changed times with the Spring daylight savings time taking place. I had to change my Google Calender to use daylight savings time. This didn't fix my phone calender though. Then check that my phone was set to use daylight savings time which it was. Don't know when this change happened as I was an original Droid owner, then bought into the Droid RAZR, and all of a sudden in 2013 my calender changes times on me. Must have something to do with an Android time setting that changed. For now I'm putting the time in the name of the calender entry so I know if Google screws it up later.
One would think that they would triple check that calender entries are not modified by doing a phone software update. I give them -1 star for Jelly Bean updates. Horrible.