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Saving contacts from Nokia 3650 to Qtek s100

Does anyone knows how to copy contacts with multiple mobile nbrs from the nokia 3650 to the outlook ? without missing numbers after transfer...

Yeah, I had the same problem (3650->s100). I don't think outlook can save more than one mobile number, I am afraid the only solution is to do it by hand (that's what I did).

I had the same problem.
You can send your contacts one by one via bluetooth, multiple numbers and birthdays are accepted.
Percebeste compatriota?

Contacts from 3650 to s100
Go to http://www.symbianware.com/index.php?pl=n3650
1. Download the trial version of SmartvCard then...
2. Install it on your 3650
3. Open SmartvCard then backup ALL your contacts. (Something like: Export All Contacts--> Save to File) SmartvCard will make a single .vcf file on a directory (depending on where you would like to save it) containing ALL your 3650 contacts.
4. Open a file explorer on your 3650 then go to the directory where you saved the .vcf file then send it to your s100 via bluetooth.
Hope that works for you.
Also, you might want to save the contacts.cdb in the C:\System\Data folder of your 3650 in case you revert to a series 60 phone again . The contacts.cdb file contains ALL your contacts. You can't just copy-paste the file using any file explorer utility.. To copy it to another location, do this:
1. On your 3650, go to the icon named "Memory Card" (I forgot if it's in the Extras or Tools folder)
2. Once located, open the Memory Card application
3. Choose Options>Backup Memory Card. This will back up your ALL your phone's files on E:\Backup\backup.arc. While this is doing the backup...
4. DO THIS AS FAST AS YOU CAN...Open your file explorer then navigate to C:\System\Data then locate the contacts.cdb file.. COPY it then paste it on another location (preferably on your MMC)
5. You have successfully copied the contacts.cdb file.. you can now store this on a safe place so you can restore it on another series 60 phone in case you buy one again
*to restore the contacts.cdb, follow steps 1 to 3 first then just paste it to overwrite the existing contacts.cdb
Goodluck

BACKING UP CONTACTS

Is there any better way to backup contacts list rather then Microsoft Outlook?
I've seen a lot of different softwares around.
I just want some advice of an application that runs ok on 9100 and keeps my contacts safe.
By the way, the worst thing about using windows is that you KNOW that some day it will crash and you will have to format the device. It's dismissable.

I agree with you. I would love something that was able to export contacts to an XML file (and sms to a series of text files) just so I didn't have to pretty much relie on having access to a windows box.

Enjoy!!........... http://www.jeyo.com/companion.asp

As has been mentioned before, in the root directory of My Device there is a file named pim.vol. With Calendar/Contacts/Tasks not running copy this file to another location such as your storage card (don't move it!). Voila! There's your backup. No muss, no fuss.
Good luck!

Tref said:
As has been mentioned before, in the root directory of My Device there is a file named pim.vol. With Calendar/Contacts/Tasks not running copy this file to another location such as your storage card (don't move it!). Voila! There's your backup. No muss, no fuss.
Good luck!
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I was wondering how to back up my contacts too. Thanks for the info!

You're welcome, I was just passing on what I also learned here.
Another thing I do is to use outlook to save an exported copy of my contacts as a .pst file on my PC. I don't sync my pda with my PC but I do periodically allow a sync to take place during which I set up the connection to "replace what is on the PC with what is on the device". After doing so I export the contacts to the pst file, somewhere on my PC and then delete all contacts in Outlook (it's not my primary email app). By deleting them I don't have to worry about hackers getting into them, and I'm then prepared for the next time I want to sync them for the purpose of backing them up.
Then I save copies of both the pim.vol and .pst files to a storage card that I keep locked up.

So i just need to save the pim.vol . And if something happens and i need to format my device i only need to put the replace pim.vol and all my contacts tasks and calendar will be restored, its correct
thanks

i use Shozu ( www.shozu.com ) lets me upload my photos right to Flickr, and as a bonus backs up my contacts. woo hoo

shozu looks good, however the wizard doesn appear in the list of compatible phones? What is the way round this?

How do you use the PIM file as a backup? I recently hard reset and then tried to copy the PIM file from my storage card back into the memory of the 8125 and I kept getting an error message that stated that either the file was in use or memory was not sufficient.
any thoughts?

u can use this contacts backup tool from buzzdev.net

Hammered said:
How do you use the PIM file as a backup? I recently hard reset and then tried to copy the PIM file from my storage card back into the memory of the 8125 and I kept getting an error message that stated that either the file was in use or memory was not sufficient.
any thoughts?
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Rename the pim.vol to pim.vo and copy and paste backed up pim.vol - it works :wink:

meschle said:
Rename the pim.vol to pim.vo and copy and paste backed up pim.vol - it works :wink:
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Sir, Where do I find pim.vol, I don't understand how to go in root please help me.

save contacts onto sd card? how

hi people,
is there a way to save the contacts onto a sd card?

Tell us why you want to do that, probably we can get you a definate answer.
You can save contacts by means of backing up your phone, whch can be done with various software which can make an exe into your SD card. This exe can then be used to restore your phone (and contact)
Try Spb Backup, Sprite Backup
If you are trying to... ok, just tell us why you want to do that. I can go on and on and one.
In general, you can't store your contacts on your SD just like that.

at now my computer doesn't work and i am sitting in a internet cafe, so i can't sync my contacts with my PC. The other problem is, that i will send my prophet in the next days to repair the speaker in it.
have you got an idea how to seve the contacts??

Get Activesync and download SPB Backup and install on this internet cafe. Use SPB Backup to backup your stuff into your SD card, it ought to backup your contacts as well. Keep the SD card. Once you got your phone back, just execute the EXE file by SPB Backup, it will restore everything of your phone including theme, programs, settings, contacts, calendars.. etc.

You can also use the tool I'm gonna post below
It saves all your contacts to one file on your SD-Card.
Havn't tried to restore a backup file though..
BTW The file came from some PDAmobiz package.

hanmin the owner of the internetcafe doesnt allow me to install activesync or anything else.
mccune thank you very much. i'll give a try. thx again.

Don't bother with all that, I had the same problem in that I had to return my phone.
levenum, offered me the solution
"As for backing up contacts, there is a simple and painless way that doesn't require any installation.
In the built in file explorer select "show all files" option. Then in the root of the device you will see a file named 'pim.vol'. Just copy that to your SD."
If the phone says it can not copy as part of the file is locked, rename it first and then copy it, I don't why you can rename but not copy if it is locked, but it works.
When you transfer it back onto the phone it might not let you overwrite the original saying it is locked again. Just rename and then copy your file to the phone, you will need to soft reboot for the contacts to show.

serhataga said:
hanmin the owner of the internetcafe doesnt allow me to install activesync or anything else.
mccune thank you very much. i'll give a try. thx again.
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HAve you got a pendrive with BT? put it on the internet cafe and try to do everything with BT. Not! find a friend with Internet and download Jeyo Mobile, you can make with this tool a backup of your contacts to your sim or from your sim to your device.

the software that mccune has posted works fine. also the hint of NewSPV is great. ofcourse you can save your contacts to SIM but than you have by one contact if it has more than one number or adress more entries on the SIM of that person instead of one outlook contact.
thank you all for your replies.
problem's solved now

I must apologise, I thought that the software from mccune was the terrible one I had that demanded net framework 2.
I have just tried it and it is great. I have had a problem from day one with Outlook and Activesync, in that they would not sync and I kept getting 'Synchronzation Error'.
I just ran this bit of software, and it somehow just fixed my 'Synchronzation Error', all contacts loaded to Outlook.
Thanks

Since the file - pim.vol stores the Contacts database which is located at the Root Directory.. Copy it and Save it on your Storage Card using the BUILT IN FILE EXPLORER ( won't work on third party File Explorers like Resco and Total Commander etc.. )
Now you got a backup of your Contacts on your Storage Card, or for security purposes, you may copy them and save it on your PC..
To restore..
Just rename the current pim.vol on the device to any file name ( ex. pim.vol1 or pim.volx ) then copy the pim.vol you have just save to your Storage Card using again the BUILT IN FILE EXPLORER
Reboot device and it is restored. See no ActiveSync involved? :lol:
Goodluck.. and just to make sure, try this before sending your Prophet for repair but i am pretty sure it would work.

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Since the file - pim.vol stores the Contacts database which is located at the Root Directory.. Copy it and Save it on your Storage Card using the BUILT IN FILE EXPLORER ( won't work on third party File Explorers like Resco and Total Commander etc.. )
Now you got a backup of your Contacts on your Storage Card, or for security purposes, you may copy them and save it on your PC..
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I was wondering if anyone was going to mention that. I do this every so often with my Wizard, works great no extra software needed.

NewSPV said:
In the built in file explorer select "show all files" option. Then in the root of the device you will see a file named 'pim.vol'. Just copy that to your SD."
If the phone says it can not copy as part of the file is locked, rename it first and then copy it, I don't why you can rename but not copy if it is locked, but it works.
When you transfer it back onto the phone it might not let you overwrite the original saying it is locked again. Just rename and then copy your file to the phone, you will need to soft reboot for the contacts to show.
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This worked for me, but I have heard that it is not a reliable way to backup if you are going to reflash the device in between backing up and restoring. Can anyone confirm this? I hard reset to get back a blank phone, and then restored this file, and it worked, but I think I need to use a real backup method before reflashing the phone with a newer WM, since pim.vol might be an unrecognized format to the new WM.

I managed to backup the pim file then put it back into another device got the contacts on it cool. I renamed the original to pin but cannot delete it how can I delete it.

I'm sorry but the software that mccune posted doesn't run the setup on my windows! Can anyone help here!

the file works on windows mobile platform. it is not meant for windows.

does synching backup my contacts

Hello
Does synching my XDA Exec backup my contacts? in case it does and if i lose my contacts(my not using my xda for a month) then how do i copy the backup on my pc to my xda?

set up outlook as your email software and select contacts in active sync make sure to check outlook contacts so see if all the contats are there
or read the help in active sync

Dude,
I asked similar Q a while ago - just backup "pim.vol" in your windows folder I think it is . . that's your contacts file.

thanks for the reply little_rock
how do i backup "pim.vol" ?

xda_guy said:
thanks for the reply little_rock
how do i backup "pim.vol" ?
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It's far easier /safer to use the desktop outlook to do the backup.
Alternatively, you can also check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=30893&d=1160987030 ; also see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279925

yeah or just use resco file explorer and cop y it to another folder somewhere

thanks for the replies
i have copied the pim.vol to my SD card, what information does it contain, i guess if my phone crashes i just need to copy the pim.vol on the SD card into the root directory, correct? why is it a hiddenen file?
what is SKTools 3.0

Pim.vol has got all of ur pim files like contacts, calender appointments,To do items etc.....

thanks niket

[Q] Can't find vcf file sent via bluetooth S2 to S4

I backed-up my contacts from an S2 via export contacts to SD Card (S2 doesnt have an SD Card) and it saved it as 00001.vcf. I bluetoothed the file to my S4. Yes i can find it if i go to settings>bluetooth received files but i cannot find it using file manager or my PC. Now i want to delete the file in my S4 but i cant find it and there is no option to delete it in settings>bluetooth. And no its not in the bluetooth folder, its like its there somewhere in the phone but i cant find it. Any help?

Me too
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I backed-up my contacts from an S2 via export contacts to SD Card (S2 doesnt have an SD Card) and it saved it as 00001.vcf. I bluetoothed the file to my S4. Yes i can find it if i go to settings>bluetooth received files but i cannot find it using file manager or my PC. Now i want to delete the file in my S4 but i cant find it and there is no option to delete it in settings>bluetooth. And no its not in the bluetooth folder, its like its there somewhere in the phone but i cant find it. Any help?
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did you find it finally or what, i have the same problem.
Help me please

guys have you found any solution ?
I've S4 with Android 4.3 but this issue is still open for me ... I can't find VCF files received via btooth and they don't appear at all in the file system !!

I guess nobody can answer this problem yet. darn it.

Same issue on my side: I cannot find on the file systems the VCF files received via bluetooth.
However, they have been automatically added to my address book !

i was installing new rom in xperia c so i first exported contacts to sd card then sent via bluetooth to my samsung s5
afte new installation i wanted the vcf file but cldnt locate it in download folder or n e where else
i can c the file in bluetooth transfer history but it dsnt show its location
i want the file what should i do?

SOLVED!!!!!
KhaosGX said:
I backed-up my contacts from an S2 via export contacts to SD Card (S2 doesnt have an SD Card) and it saved it as 00001.vcf. I bluetoothed the file to my S4. Yes i can find it if i go to settings>bluetooth received files but i cannot find it using file manager or my PC. Now i want to delete the file in my S4 but i cant find it and there is no option to delete it in settings>bluetooth. And no its not in the bluetooth folder, its like its there somewhere in the phone but i cant find it. Any help?
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SOLVED!!!!!!!!!
Use notepad or any other text editor and create a blank VCF file having the same name you put for the first VCF file that you transferred via bluetooth.
Then transfer that blank VCF file to your device via bluetooth. You should no longer have that problem!!!
So, since you saved the VCF file as 00001.vcf, make sure the blank one is 00001.vcf