I'm about to get a tmobile wing next week. I want to transfer all my text messages and contacts from the mda to the wing. I've looked up how to do it using pimbackup. I have more questins though, does that program backup and restore the text messages it its original format(include name, time, date) or is it like a word document?
it recovers in the original form/format
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hi Guys!
I've bought an i-mate jasjar, and I'm selling a nokia n70.
Now the problem is how can i pass the sms from the nokia to the universal...
I don't know how i can do it. The extraction of the text is not a problem, thanks to nokia suite. I thinked that maybe some of you know how i can edit a .txt file and save it with a certain extension to make it readable for the ppc.
Or maybe i can "hack" a backup of the sms editing the text, the date of the sms and other information, but I don't know how to do it.
someone can help me?
PS i also thinked to create some email with the text and sincronize it with outlook, but the email must be "sent" from the autor of the sms and have to have the date of the sms.
PPS sorry for my english
Wouldnt it be easier to type them out on your shiny new thumb-keyboard?? test your WPM skills?
You have a choice of notes, MS Pocket Word, or messaging including email or SMS...
;-)
I know i can do it, but i don't want to make it in this way. I would like to have the possibility to read all my sms in the message board of the pda, I would like to backup all the messages in one file with sunnysoft backup manager and not to have the backup plus the folder of the txt messages...
I know I can solve the problem in a lot of ways, but I'm a little "perfectionist"
Is one of the ways I wrote possible to make?
or is there another similar way?
Vijay? Buzz??
ehm what? i don't know those programs...
Hi Man....
Try Message Saver or Message Storer on N70...extract all SMS in text format and copy it to yr Jasjar.Only thing is that u won't be getting in Inbox..but u will get the full details...viz who had sent,time amd the full SMS..seperated with the dots or dashes...
Secondly connect yr N70 to PC vi PC Suite..use file manager option and open the messages...copy them in text format with details and pass them on to yr jasjar
Thirdly u can try using Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian Phones
I hope this helps
thank you for your suggestion, but i think i didn't explain me. The problem is not how to take out the text of the message form the sms, for this i can use the nokia suite.
I've already tried Oxygen Mobile Phone (I had the oppisite problem when I passed from the alpine to the n70 and x51v - a big big mistake), and it didn't work. Well, to say the true, i didn't remember if Oxygen can convert the sms into email or not, but the computer where it was is, for the moment, a little "detroyed"...
Damn, if I would know how the sms function on windows mobile (are in only one file, one file per sms, two or more files for every sms...) and the registry keys or other things i could put it manually by myself...
For me it's ok also the indication of how to hack a backup of the message with sunnysoft backup manager or sprite backup...
ok I have an idea: I'll do a copy of the folder windows after an Hr, then i'll do a copy of the same folder after I've received an sms. The problem is that I can't copy the folder because a lot of files are in usa. What can i do?
had the same problem moving from Nokia9500 to M5000.
Just put another, say, pay-as-you-go SIM in the Nokia and forward your messages to the SIM number for your jasjar. End of sorry story!
I can do it also in this way, but it will be nothing more than the solution of the txt file...
it can be a way...
but i would like to solve this problem. With the alpine i had the same problem, and i solved by searching the file of the sms on the nokia, open it with word and edit it with the notepad.
Now, I don't think I'm the first with this problem. So there must be a guy who know what file do I have to take and edit....
searching on this forum I've found a post of vijay wich says that the sms and the other stuff are in the file cemail.vol
But he don't says how to modify or copy it: it is a system file, and if i try to copy it wm says that this file is in use...
Someone can help me?
@philtech44
I've understood only now that you were summoning vijay and buzz
Hi,
i'm getting a replacement MDA Vario later today (3.26am here), and want to backup all my text messages, before i give this one back, and hopefully restore them to the new MDA i get.
I've used spb backup, to do a backup, but nothing under it shows it backs up the text messages, extracting using their tool doesn't show anything either!
is there anyway to back up my text messages? does anyone know where the text messages are stored?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Shaiboy_UK
Jeyo Mobile Extender plugs into Outlook to back up SMS. Excellent program.
cdrider said:
Jeyo Mobile Extender plugs into Outlook to back up SMS. Excellent program.
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I tried the program today also, works perfect!
After my Vario II gradually slowed to a halt and stopped receiving calls or sending text messages, I finally had to admit defeat and do a hard reset (not bad going though, I managed 4 months without hard resetting)
I am now going through the long process of getting everything back the way I like it (I stupidly didn't have a backup program installed!). I am sure I found a registry tweak to store, by default, all of my SMS text messages to my storage card and looking at the contents of my card, I do have a folder which seems to agree with this as it does look like it is full of my most recent SMS messages, but I can not, despite searching for a few hours, find the tweak to do this again.
Can anyone help? I have found something about temporary internet files but nothing about SMS/text messages.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I am just bumping this in the hopes that someone may be browsing who knows the answer .. I shall keep my fingers crossed. Thanks.
first post virgin
One I usually do when I want to preserve my SMS messages is use SPB backup, and select just the emails/messages to be backed up, this will back em up to the memory card as an exe.
when your happy with your new "build" on your phone simply run the exe and the messages are back.
Hope that helps?
Thanks for that Craig. I will give SPB Backup a go, it really would make sense for me to install a backup program, it would have made the recent hard reset less painful as far as reinstalling stuff was concerned
I am still interested in knowing where the registry entry is for the sms storage location because I would like to be able to access the various messages I appear to have on my storage card ... I can't for the life of me remember how I managed to change the location to get them on there in the first place, it was several months ago and I have't bothered to save the post/webpage I got the info from .. silly me!
Thanks
Check out Jeyo mobile extender for outlook, everytime you sync with your ppc via activesync and outlook it will back up your sms to outlook.
Not quite the same, but efficasoft Mobile express will allow you to send messages from your PC through a connector when the PPC is connected to active sync.
You can see your messages in the softwares in box, and export them to a text file thus backing them up but you cant import them back into the phone unfortunatly
I'm about to get a tmobile wing next week. I want to transfer all my text messages and contacts from the mda to the wing. I've looked up how to do it using pimbackup. I have more questins though, does that program backup and restore the text messages it its original format(include name, time, date) or is it like a word document?
I have just flashed to Dutty's 3.9 ROM and restored all my contacts initially with sprite backup, it did not seem to identify my new sms's with the caller ID saved in the phone untill i go furthur into TF3D which takes a long time to load, anyone have an idea on how to fix this? I tried searrching but cant seem to come up with anything!
i have subsequently deleted the contacts and restored them from the myphone service, still no luck....
edit: update from myphone seems to have cured the problem for new messages
however my messages tab is very slow to load, when wanting to reply to a message, also anyone know how to get it to go to the original windows reply window rather than the one from TF3D?
Amaster said:
I have just flashed to Dutty's 3.9 ROM and restored all my contacts initially with sprite backup, it did not seem to identify my new sms's with the caller ID saved in the phone untill i go furthur into TF3D which takes a long time to load, anyone have an idea on how to fix this? I tried searrching but cant seem to come up with anything!
i have subsequently deleted the contacts and restored them from the myphone service, still no luck....
edit: update from myphone seems to have cured the problem for new messages
however my messages tab is very slow to load, when wanting to reply to a message, also anyone know how to get it to go to the original windows reply window rather than the one from TF3D?
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I used to face a similar problem like yours, but I've used activesync instead, and all incoming text messages/calls aren't recognized. At the time I solved the problem simply by flashing the phone with another rom (I've tried several roms and I think my phone is quite picky, there are quite a lot of roms in which it can't identify incoming texts and calls).
I am also using the original windows window for texts and here's what i did:
* hide the manila sms tab
* replace the right softkey button on the home tab to direct it to the windows default sms window. This can be done through a registry editor:
1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila in registry
2. If you don't have a String entry called LandscapeMenuRSKPath, add it.
3. Edit the value of LandscapeMenuRSKPath to read: \windows\tmail.exe
4. If you don't have a String entry called LandscapeMenuRSKText, add it.
5. Edit the LandscapeMenuRSKText value to read: SMS
6. If you don't have a string called LandscapeMenuRSKArguments, add it.
7. Edit the value of LandscapeMenuRSKArguments to read: -service "SMS"
That's it.
Amaster said:
I have just flashed to Dutty's 3.9 ROM and restored all my contacts initially with sprite backup, it did not seem to identify my new sms's with the caller ID saved in the phone untill i go furthur into TF3D which takes a long time to load, anyone have an idea on how to fix this? I tried searrching but cant seem to come up with anything!
i have subsequently deleted the contacts and restored them from the myphone service, still no luck....
edit: update from myphone seems to have cured the problem for new messages
however my messages tab is very slow to load, when wanting to reply to a message, also anyone know how to get it to go to the original windows reply window rather than the one from TF3D?
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What ROM did you make the backup in Sprite from? Also, did you only backup your contacts with it? If not, did you do a level 1 merge when you restored it?