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help please - I need to recover deleted contacts

I formated my PC and all contacts are gone. when I plugged in my wizard I I was so stupid and checked the option to sync contacts without setting the options(by default its set to make changes on the pocket PC). So, all my contacts are gone.
Is there any way to restore them ?
I have WM6 underground.
thank you

wow... that was really dumb.
(i did that too before)
if you were using wm6... wm6 uses windows live messenger. if you were using windows live messenger it syncs contacts to their server. if your contacts were synced they should be somewhere in your msn contacts. log in to hotmail and look at your contact list and see if they are still there.
if they are DON'T SYNC IT
it will erase the ones on msn if you do. but at least you still have them.

hiimcliff said:
wow... that was really dumb.
(i did that too before)
if you were using wm6... wm6 uses windows live messenger. if you were using windows live messenger it syncs contacts to their server. if your contacts were synced they should be somewhere in your msn contacts. log in to hotmail and look at your contact list and see if they are still there.
if they are DON'T SYNC IT
it will erase the ones on msn if you do. but at least you still have them.
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Thanx ofr the quick reply, yes I checked the msn server but no luck ...
after syncing, all it remained on my phone is live messenger contacts they weren't deleted at all.
I think they are gone ... and im in deep trouble

hbushi said:
Thanx ofr the quick reply, yes I checked the msn server but no luck ...
after syncing, all it remained on my phone is live messenger contacts they weren't deleted at all.
I think they are gone ... and im in deep trouble
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yeah that happened to me. but fortunately i sync everything with everything so it was somewhere i just had to look. if you've ever used yahoo go! then it synced with yahoo and everything is in yahoo. if you use thunderbird it is synced with thunderbird. just check everything you use that has an address book.
good luck

Thank you very much hiimcliff for all advices,
I know that I have a full backup in some cd from previous blueangel...but question how to retreive contacts ... :S

hbushi said:
Thank you very much hiimcliff for all advices,
I know that I have a full backup in some cd from previous blueangel...but question how to retreive contacts ... :S
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Hi hbushi,
It will depend on the way they are stored on your backup cd. If you have the pim.vol, then there is hope...
Cheers,
.Fred

syncing contacts on vario 2 without buying outlook for vista

On my old phone (Nokia) i could sync my contacts into Windows address book on my laptop. Now I've got the Vario2 and vista on my laptop the sync will only let me download my contacts into microsoft outlook- which I don't have and do not want to pay loads more money. How do i back my contacts up or get outlook free

I recently found a program called "PIM Backup". It allows you to back the data up to a file which you can then copy off.
Try looking here or off a similar thread for the download link -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705&highlight=pim+backup

Sync With WAB + Calendar Plug in for O.E.
soozyq said:
On my old phone (Nokia) i could sync my contacts into Windows address book on my laptop. Now I've got the Vario2 and vista on my laptop the sync will only let me download my contacts into microsoft outlook- which I don't have and do not want to pay loads more money. How do i back my contacts up or get outlook free
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Hi.
Have a similar problem
Using Outlook Express for Email and instead of MS Office / Outlook we use Open Office [its free ]
Found a link to connect O.E. YET to try it, but it is ...
http://www.reunion.com/site-root/download_reunionforoutlook.jsp
Also if you know of a calendar plugin for O.E., please post it

i use Jeyo Mobile Companion, brilliant for backing up contacts, sending SMS via pc.
Its different to some others in the fact that you compile the sms as you would an email but it sends it via the phone, so no internet connection needed.
Its brill at work, save "un-cradling" then reply/send sms then cradle, its all done with a swift alt-tab. heh

Alternative to ActiveSync
I haven't (yet) tried it but there is a project called FinchSync (http://www.finchsync.com) which claims: "FinchSync is a tool for synchronizing contacts, appointments and tasks from Mozilla email and calendar products with a Pocket PC or SmartPhone."
If anyone has any hands on experience with this program I for one would be interested to hear about it...?

you could set up a mail2web account which is push email and has a outlook style web based interface allowing you to sync everything contacts,calendar and tasks Did i mention its FREE. www.mail2web.com

soozyq said:
On my old phone (Nokia) i could sync my contacts into Windows address book on my laptop. Now I've got the Vario2 and vista on my laptop the sync will only let me download my contacts into microsoft outlook- which I don't have and do not want to pay loads more money. How do i back my contacts up or get outlook free
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Hi.
Found 2 more , 'am going to try them out today & 2morow.
Incase you are interested in giving them a shot also, the programes are :
[1] Mobile Master : http://www.mobile-master.com/ you can download it on cnet.com alsoo
[2] Funambol http://www.funambol.com/opensource/
Please Note : I haven't tried them as yet, so please take all required BackUp, etc.
Cheers.

You're using Vista? The WMDC will let you Sync your phone with your Vista Contacts - no problem - infact you should now also be able to Sync your mail with Windows Mail and if memory serves your calendar with Windows calander - all things that with XP you had to have Outlook to do!
EDIT
Sorry - seem to have spoken to soon. The beta version of WMDC allowed for Syncing with those programs - I always use Outlook so I haven't even really looked at those settings since - it appears that it was something they supported in the Beta and dropped from the final edition which is quite unfortunate! (probably just trying to sell more copies of outlook). A free work around might be to use Microsoft Live Mail e-mail client (Not Windows Mail) and then install the windows live messenger and set it up to sync your contact details with Live Messenger and then the Live Mail client should then have a synced version of your contacts - just another idea - sorry bout that!

Outlook Email issue

I can not get my Outlook Email to sync or operate at all. I don't know how to attach my hotmail account to this. Can anyone help? I was unable to find any solutions in this forum.

I'm very new to pc phones & data access (have had my AT&T wireless data and 8525 less than 2 wks.) and I recall having to do a little poking around to attach my hotmail account. But, what I did to get things working initially was to go to http://mobile.msn.com, enter my username/email address and password, and then hit the 'Hotmail' link whilst signed in to see my hotmail email.

Thanks Jefson, but on the device under Messaging, you can view Text, MMS, and Outlook Email accounts. This is the method I want to view my emails because it provides a little more options in sending and receiving emails rather than going to the mobile MSN account through the IE browser on the phone. Thanks though

I should add more information on my phone. I have a Tytn phone and I just recently upgraded to the Dopod version of WM 6. It's great so far, but just the Outlook Email is giving me problems. I was able to sync this with ActiveSync and my hotmail account on WM 5..???

outlook - contacts sync
I have the same problem. Using active sync I can sync everything apart form my contacts - (Im guessing this is because contacts are sync'd through outlook which is also not working). I took my HERMES to the orange shop where I baught it and they said to download a newer version of active sync. Although I cannot find active-sync for download anywhere.

Do you sync to a company server or is it only to your local PC?

hot mail
if you install msn it will ask you if you want to associate your mail account also
click yes
hey presto
off you go

rwcozens - I sync to a local PC, my own laptop
blowfeld - Is MSN avaliable to download to non USA users? Where do I get it from?
thanks
scot

Here you go.

msn
its actualy the windows live that comes with the schaps 54b rom
initialising that will set up the contacts and email for hotmail
it works in uk

mobile messenger / mobile msn live ??
I have not found a place to download windows live or messenger that will allow me to transfer my contacts from my HERMES to messenger/hotmail. Can someone post a link to the appropriate download?
thanks
Scot

Great stuff!!! Just what i was looking for and nicely set out too love the the today page !!!!!

Can't sync my contacts

hi,
i'm an newbie and have a problem with my xda mini.
I don't get the contacts synched with my pc.
Active Sync says its synching contacts. But when
I'm opening Outlook Express it won't show any of them.
Is there a posibility to download the Adress-Database
directly?
Thanks.

Contacts will not be sync with Outlook Express.... Do you have MS Outlook installed, if yes then it will available there....
Hope this helps....
Maharishi

thanks - i see. is there another possibility to get the contacts. f.e. with some freeware program?

hi, you have a legal copy of outlook 2000 bundled with your magician... everyone has...

got the xda second hand

i think only outlook can syn with your mini

okay thank you guys.

[Q] How to export contacts to Windows Live Mail

Dear friends.
First of all, I'm sorry, I'm pretty sure that this item has been answered several times, but I have to ask you once more.
How to export my contacts to my PC, in the Windows live Mail (for Windows 7) ?
If anyone please ...
Thanks in advance

i have the same problem!

if you have windows live installed on your phone, you can go to start, select Contacts icon, ......select (don't edit) a contact and the last option is add to windows live.
This is how far i've comme, it works only one by onen, ( I tried selecting them all but the phone only syncs the first entry).... if I get more infos, i'm going to post them

You can also sync them by adding your hotmail account as an exchange account