I ran my spb backup and now have 1 extra email that I can't account for.
My gmail account is no longer listed in the messaging area either.
Anyone know how to get rid of the phantom email?
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on further research the phone sees the missing gmail account but it's not displaying in messaging. Is there an area in the registry to remove this entry?
I have the same issue, phone can see the gmail account, but it does not show in messaging
I searched my phone's file & reg system and couldnt find anything.. anyone know?
I found some registry settings for gmail, but if I delete them, they just come back after a re-set. If I find anything I will post it here.
from what i can tell it happens when you restore old messages with the new rom version. the only way i was able to get it to go away was to do a hard reset and not restore the text messages.
I am in the same boat with my gmail account after updating to 6.1
Has anyone figured anything out? I have tried everything with the registry and looking though the My Device/Windows/Messages folder, but I haven't had any luck.
I think it has something to do with the cemail file in the windows folder.
Can someone please please help?
There is a program called FixUnreadCount floating around either here or ppcgeeks. I will link to it if I find it otherwise search for it. This usually fixes that problem.
Try searching for the file that ryanbg mentioned on www.pdaphonehome.com under the 6700 forums. I had that issue with my XV-6700 and that program cleared it up.
tried it.. did not work. The file was floating right here on xda..
I now have two phantom e-mail accounts. I'm on a Diamond and used sprite backup, but the problems seem very similar. I'm almost out of ways to write gmail.. Still noone with any clue?
I eventually had to do a hard reset, it was the only way to fix it.
The error isn't in the registry but in the outlook database. I restored the system databases. What I figured happened is that my newly configured email account didn't have the same UID as it did before I created the ROM. So, Outlook has no way to clear the records in that database for that email account that no longer exists. Windows CE or wm5 used to allow you access to those databases, but I don't see anything under Settings for it now. I'm sure there are other programs out there that would work, but you probably took the easiest route. You can do your restore again, just don't restore the system or "other" databases.
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I just installed the new i-Mate ROM onto my 8125. Everything was going well until I opened Pocket Outlook to read my email and the account was missing from the list! I rebooted, it did not come back. I then went to re-create the account and it told me I couldn't use the name for the account because it was being used by another. But when I go to accounts, it's not listed there. Has anyone had this happen to them? Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.
had same problem;
solution HARD RESET.
Sorry
and deconfigured BT and wifi connections ?¿?
Regards
the file;cemail.vol is corupted and it cannot be deleted belive me i tried
here is what todo;
backup your machine
hard reset then restore it minus the mail folders and the cemail.vol file
that way you only lose settings from the mail folders. better than lose everthing.more informatio hereabout this problem;http://msmobiles.com/f/viewtopic.php?t=7091&sid=5f3039a90fbac525e018ee2bab2e03a4
Thanks guys. I ended up just hard resetting the device and re-creating the mailbox. I think part of it may have had to do with running some of my Cingular Extended ROM CAB files after creating the mailbox. It's been fine since, was a little more selective with the CABs I installed.
I set up one of my email accounts on the MDA which worked fine, then started playing with RegistryWizard (http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=39725). I made several tweaks, but I think this is what may have caused the problem:
6. Use different email address in MSN
Registry: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Pocket MSN
Key: AutoDomain (string)
Value: @hotmail.com (default)
Delete key to use any email address
After I checked this option and rebooted, I deleted the email account in “Messaging”. That is a rather strange sequence of actions, and I messed up something in the process, as after this I started receiving strange messages in my “Text Messages” account (which I cannot delete). The messages are always from “701” (whatever that means). The “To” field shows my phone number, and the body of the message shows the email address of the account that I deleted. The messages do not come to the email account because I deleted it, but they somehow still show up as txt messages.
I looked in the “Messaging” options – the account is not mentioned anywhere anymore, but the messages still come in. Even hard reset did not correct this. When I look in the registry after hard reset, the “@hotmail.com” value is back there (if it was ever gone, I never checked).
I tried searching for the deleted email address with Total Commander, and it does not find anything. Although I am not sure I am doing the search correctly. I search for “myrealbox” or “s-eugene” (which are both parts of my email address), but the Total Commander does not let me put anything into “Containing text:” field, so I may be missing some values in the registry.
I wonder where the device still keeps that email address. I have a backup of my data from before I ever started playing with the registry, but I wanted to avoid restoring it if possible because my current version of appointments and contacts is newer than the backup. Plus, if hard reset did not take care of the problem, will restoring the backup do that?
Hope somebody has some further ideas on how to delete the email account completely. Thank you.
I'm the last person that would probably be able to help, but because you metion text messages, I wonder if you have inadvertantly changed something for msn messenger? It has an option to receive messages as sms in one of the options screens.
Well, there is a checkbox under "MSN Options - SMS" called "If my data connection is temporarily unavailable, use SMS to keep my messages and contacts up-to-date." I do not entirely understand what it means, frankly, but the box is unchecked, anyway.
I guess my pointed question is: what could have screwed up my settings so much that even hard reset does not help eliminate this email account? Yes, I fooled around with registry, but I thought hard reset returns the registry to the original state?
I did not burn a new ROM on it. There is a miniSD card in the device, and there is some information left on it from before the hard reset, but I can't imagine that that can affect things this way.
Any ideas, anyone?
Hello,
I've searched the board several times since months and haven't found a solution to my problem yet.
My problem is as follows:
I have my Wizard (O2 Germany, so Xda mini S) since february (in fact it is the third one, O2 support changed it two times because the stylus didn't lock anymore after few weeks of use... have to change it again...).
And few months ago, I tried Sprite Backup, what I am using since then. Although it worked well, one thing is annoying: sometimes after hard reset and restore of only my mail database (cemail.vol, the only thing I really need to be backed up), the Messaging app doesn't show mail accounts anymore, but when I try to create new ones with the same names, it says, that the accounts already exist. So I created new accounts with different names, as many other users did, how I could read here. They co-exist and take memory.
Interesting thing: the Spb Diary messaging program can see the old accounts, and so it is also possible to delete the messages, that are still there in the old accounts. It can take a long time and many clicks (taps), because you can delete only one message at once, but it is better than nothing. One problem persists: Spb Diary can't delete the accounts themselves.
Therefore I am searching for a way to extract only my SMS messages (eMail is not important, I have it all on PC), start with an empty mail database (hard reset) and restore only the SMS messages into that new database.
The only program I have found so far, that really looked well for the first moment, is Jeyo Mobile Extender (or Companion). It backups the SMS Messages to PC, but not all of them. Messages in subfolders are ignored (I have subfolders for delivery notifications, call missed notifications and so on). And the restore doesn't work as expected. The date of the messages gets messed up, long messages (>160 charactes) get cut, and even the sender/receiver of the messages can get flipped.
But it must be possible to write a program, that fits my needs, I think (by the way: what is going on with the developers of WM2005? Backing up messages from mobile device to desktop is ESSENTIAL!!! Why isn't such a feature included?).
And because I am sure that I am not the only one with this problems hoping for a solution, I could imagine that someone already has written such a tool.
So, please, if anyone knows a tool or a different solution (editing mail database, removing everything except SMS messages...), PLEASE, help me!
Thank you very much in advance!
Yeaa im also really looking for a soultion to this, i Recently got a Windows Mobile device and i really wanna just be able to transfer my Series 60 Messages in Text format now.. to my Pocket PC's Messaging.
I can't believe nobody has made an app to backup and restore SMS's despite the growing number of people who need just sucha an app.
Except for Kai's, I don't think there is anything out there that does the job.
I hope SPB includes an option in the future to backup specific accounts only, because it is by far the best messaging backup app I have used till date.
leepriestenator said:
I can't believe nobody has made an app to backup and restore SMS's despite the growing number of people who need just sucha an app.
Except for Kai's, I don't think there is anything out there that does the job.
I hope SPB includes an option in the future to backup specific accounts only, because it is by far the best messaging backup app I have used till date.
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jeyo has. works fine
jeyo is crappy piece of ****. better than nothing, but doesn't back up all messages, no self-created subfolders, no dupe-check, shows error message on ppc on every connect...
you will find out, when it is most important to you, believe me!
Hi guys - I think I got a little carried-away cleaning up my storage card, and must have deleted one of my inbox's for comcast.net. Now when I try to readd my pop3 comcast account (which is NOT listed in the "messaging, accounts" folder list, my 8525 pops up a box saying "That name is already assigned to another account. Enger a unique name and try again." There is no account listed at all for "Comcast." The only account I have is for Xpress Mail.
I search the registry for everything I think could work. No luck. Comcast even shows up on my Today screen, when I have Messaging as a Today item. I can't open the Comcast messages, when I click on the "Comcast" reference, though... Nothing happens.
Can anyone assist? Please no hard-reset!
Thanks,
Mitch
I had the same problem. The phantom mailbox is in a mail database somewhere, not the registry, and I used some utility or other to delete it. Sorry to be so vaugue but I did find enough clues to work it out by searching these forums.
mailbox DB
OK - well thanks for the reply - that at least gives me a place to start looking.
thanks again.
There is another solution if you use a backup program with selective restore, just hard reset, restore backup except for mail settings, then redo mail manually.
Or, if you synced with activesync after deleting whatever it is, it may still be in the recycle bin on your pc. Don't know if this would be any good, but maybe worth looking.
Good luck
Here you are:
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/in...ndowsce_system_databases&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
This was the article that gave me the clues. You have to be careful of course. I dug around in these folders/db's and deleted references to the phantom mailbox.
Good luck
I've had to have my 8525 replaced via warranty exchange. Before switching out units I did a SPB backup of the 1st unit and after moving the battery and sim card to the new unit did a backup restore. For some reason the restore didn't properly set up the email accounts I had on the original unit (they don't show up on the messaging list) . So I've had to go into the new unit and set up my pop email accounts, but I am not able to use the existing names for the email accounts since apparantly there is something setup in the registry referring to the original account's names, etc. I am even showing a message for one of the original accounts showing up on my today screen. Is there a procedure for 'wiping' out the original email settings via a registry editor or some other option?
This seems to have been a bit of an issue with Spb backup. When it happened to me, the only way around it was to hard reset, then restore selectively from backup ie everything EXCEPT mail. Then setup email again.
Like you, when I tried to do it the 'normal' way, it kept telling me that the name 'hotmail' was already in use etc.
I think they are trying to fix this as it's a bit annoying when you lose sms messages etc. And it doesn't seem to affect everyone.
Try it. Hope it works for you.
I seem to remember somebody saying that if you did the restore twice, it would work. I never tested it, but I'm pretty sure I saw it mentioned a few weeks ago.
If you haven't already completed setting them up manually, you might want to give it a shot and report back here as to whether or not it worked.