I have created a backup using the ActiveSync backup utility followed by a hard reset. When I try to restore the .stg file i get the following message. 'Restore cannot be completed successfully. The selected backup file was created from a different type of mobile device. Am I missing something when I run either the backup or restore to cause thie error
You need to place the backup.stg file in the pda 's profile folder e.g (Using windows xp)Open explorer and put the file in
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx\Application Data\Microsoft\ActiveSync\Profiles\pocket_pc\
Hope this helps.
Make sure you have the Regional setting the same as what you have backup.
Use Sprite Backup,,, its great :wink:
I have the regional setting the same as the backup and the backup file is in the correct folder
if you changed rom version between the backup and restore it could be that
personaly i had some issues once because i took another timezone well it were still gmt+1 but the city's they listed were different then i changed it to the one i used when i did the backup and all was well
In the end of the process it sais Unable to read from file "\Windows\lic\lsoma.db" and the backup ends up being not successfull as I'm not able to run the backup executable file to restore the unit. Please help.
I had that error when spb backup was only partly installed i.e. I had reset my device and just made a lnk to the program. I think it may throw up that error if the program is intalled on the storage card too. Have you been messing with memaid or deleting startup links? - that can mess up spb backup.
Hi,
first af all I would like to say that i'm not a developer!I just build a little app
to facilitate our every day life.
Then I would like to say that i won't be responsible on any damage that little app could do.
So I made a little App to backup and restore your cemail.vol (containing your SMS or text messages) easily.
It's based on mortscript app (which is very very great).
Installations Steps:
-Unzip B&R on your Ppc (Internal Memory or Storage card As you want)
-Run "MortScript-4.0-PPC.cab" (install it in internal memory or storage card should work for both)
-And at least run "Back&Restore.mscr"
You'll be prompted if you want to backup or restore
and then you'll be prompted again if you want to restart your device or no.
As the backup or restore work at the starting of the device if you know what you are doing I suggest to reply yes, otherwise nothing will backuped or restored.
For those who are interested in this is the source of this little app:
Code:
errorlevel ("warn")
Choice( "SMS B&R","Restore or Backup","Backup","Restore" )
Case( 1 )
Startup = Regread ("hklm" , "System\Explorer\Shell Folders" , "Startup")
back = "XCopy \cemail.vol , ""\Storage Card"" , 1"
delb = "delete " & "(""" & Startup &"\backup.mscr"")"
delete (Startup &"\restore.mscr")
delete (Startup &"\backup.mscr")
WriteFile( Startup & "\backup.mscr" , back & "^CR^^LF^" & delb ,1 )
Case( 2 )
Startup = Regread ("hklm" , "System\Explorer\Shell Folders" , "Startup")
rest = "XCopy ""\Storage Card\cemail.vol"" , \ , 1"
delr = "delete " & "(""" & Startup &"\restore.mscr"")"
delete (Startup &"\backup.mscr")
delete (Startup &"\restore.mscr")
WriteFile( Startup & "\restore.mscr" , rest & "^CR^^LF^" & delr ,1 )
Case( 0 )
Message( "Cancel" )
Exit
EndChoice
Choice ("Reset", "Do you want to restart de device?","no","yes")
Case( 1 )
Message ("Be careful : Backup or Restore Cemail.vol only work if you soft reset your device")
Case( 2 )
reset
Case( 0)
Message ("Be careful : Backup or Restore Cemail.vol only work if you soft reset your device")
exit
EndChoice
Bye
Herc.
Thanks for this, been wanting to backup cemail.
I've tested it briefly on my HP RX1950, but nothing is created after restart. I've tried with a few different storage cards but no luck. Any ideas?
As you can see file creation refers to Startup(folder) Value in Registry.
So it can be 2 things
1-The startup folder is not in the same place as mine in the registry (but I doubt about that)
2-The Mapi services which use the file cemail.vol start before my script.
So to check that, launch the backup but don't restart the device and go look
into \windows\startup to see if there is a file called Backup.mscr, if yes open it with a notepad and send me the content of the file.
I'll try later to make a log script file to debug these kind of problems
Bye
Herc.
Well the startup folder is in the correct place in the registry, and backup.mscr is in the startup folder.
The contents is as follows;
XCopy \cemail.vol , "\Storage Card" , 1
delete ("\Windows\StartUp\backup.mscr")
Ok,
So could you:
-Tell me what device do you own and which rom your are using.
-In the registry in [HKLM/init] could you give me your launch values.
(ex: Launch10 Shell32.exe, Launch20 Service.exe etc...)
Bye
Herc.
hercule18 said:
Ok,
So could you:
-Tell me what device do you own and which rom your are using.
-In the registry in [HKLM/init] could you give me your launch values.
(ex: Launch10 Shell32.exe, Launch20 Service.exe etc...)
Bye
Herc.
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The device is a HP Ipaq RX1950, rom is the standard HP rom version 1.01 (english).
Launch values:
Launch10 shell.exe, Launch20 device.exe, Launch21 coldinit.exe, Launch30 gwes.exe, Launch35 wifioff.exe, Launch50 shell32.exe, Launch60 services.exe, Launch61 ciphase2.exe, Launch70 connmgr.exe, Launch80 srvtrust.exe
Thanks
i was looking for some way to perform this operations and i have to say that this thing work perfectly on my TyTN (hermes) with mobile 6. For i moment i thought that i could write something in CF, but probably it wouldn't work cause it will need the system fully uploaded.
nice work
I see another way to backup SMS.
There are many programs which do backup SMS, and at any time, and not just during reboot device. For example, smsorganizer (www.zedsoft.net). But this program not work in a mode such as command line.
If there was such program would not be to do a problem backup sms when it is necessary, either under the schedule, or on event. For example, to start the program at incoming sms by means of SKScheme or another.
And then questions with copying cemail.vol will disappear all.
I also used this kind tool to backup cemail.vol by celecmd, but this time.. when I try to backup cemail.vol now, it dosn't work, both this mortscript tool or that celecmd tool. It seems after reset, another system application lock this cemail.vol before backup tool start.
Does anyone have an idea?
I have resolved my problem, maby helpful to you:
1. set "Today", cancel items outlook-related;
2. delete poutlook link in \windows\startup.
I backed up cemail.vol manually through "Mobile Device" in XP, and now I'm trying to figure out how to copy the backed up file back onto the device after a hard reset, but I'm not having much luck. I created "aa.mscr" in my \Windows\Startup directory, but nothing I put in it works:
Code:
Rename ("\goodcemail.vol", "\cemail.vol", 1)
Code:
Rename "\goodcemail.vol", "\cemail.vol", TRUE
Code:
Delete "\cemail.vol"
Rename "\goodcemail.vol","\cemail.vol"
The files are unchanged after I soft reset.
What am I doing wrong?
According to this page:
In WM 5.0 you can not rename, delete and etc. '\cemail.vol'. It is placed in distinct storage.
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So how does your code do it then?
Ooops. This thread says to place a shortcut in the Startup directory, not the script itself. I'll try again when I have a chance.
endolith said:
Ooops. This thread says to place a shortcut in the Startup directory, not the script itself. I'll try again when I have a chance.
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Nope. That doesn't do anything either. How do I restore cemail.vol?!
I removed everything from the Today screen and restarted, and the script worked! I think I could actually delete the file manually now, since it's not being used by the Messaging part of the Today screen.
So where do all the settings for Exchange Activesync and POP account info live? I want to be able to back these up and restore them after a reflash. Any Ideas?
OK, tried removing everything from today screen as someone stated, tried deleting the poutlook.lnk from stratup. I am on Raphael(Fuze) running my own cooked ROM. I would ike this to work so I could cook in a script to copy these files back on startup. Could prove very handy as I am flashing a lot of ROMs lately. Any help appreciated.
On a WM5 MotoQ I was having a hell of a time getting a backup of a clean cemail.vol file from a freshly flashed phone. Come to find out I had not unlocked its registry. From CeRegistry editor v0.0.4.4 I chose "unlock registry" from the tools menu then made the following edits
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\0000 1001 = 2
Change to 1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\0000 1005 = 16
Change to 40
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Policies\Policies\0000 1017 = 128
Change to 144
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Security\Policies\Policies
New Dword value "0000101b" = 1
What does restore do ? is it to delete off the old one and replace a new one ?
if it is , it doesnt help my wm6.1 asus p320 .
how to download this app.
it just displays a small picture when clicking the donwload link.
Just recently my device decided to fail and only a hard reset could get it back to life again. No problem I thought - weekly automated backups with Sprite Backup - will be back in a few minutes, just loosing a few days of activity.
Sadly the restore of my most recent backup failed as one of the registry hives seems corrupt and nothing is restored, except the files :-(. So I had to find my latest working backup (which I all keep) which is about 4 months old and restored the device to that state. A start at least...
Now how to get my text messages back from the latest backup? None of the options I found (renaming the original, messing with registry settings of HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Mapi, Mortscript in Startup folder) have worked for me - the original seems to stay no matter what I did.
So I decided to more closely observe how Sprite Backup does the trick and I found a time-window to exploit for my purposes - here is how:
- unpack the latest cemail.vol from the backupfile via Sprite Explorer
- wonder about its size (and cryptic content) -> packed?
- try out usual packers, starting with tar -> rename to cemail.vol.tar -> success (!)
- get cemail.vol in original form
- copy to root folder of device with name cemail.volx
- restore device with a failing backup file (select to restore only cemail.vol) and leave it connected to PC
- observe (via remote connected PC) that reboot after initial settings (so in the actual restore phase) has no cemail.vol in the root folder
- rename the previously copied cemail.volx to cemail.vol
- restore fails (leaving the cemail.volc - tar compressed cemail.vol behind) but cemail.vol is now the one I want
- reboot
- report that Restore failed
- but have cemail.vol that I wanted
- external Backup of SMS
- restore external backup to original folder
- done
To continue where I left off - so what if you need some settings that are inside the corrupted registry hive? I spent hours of searching and trying to dump the corrupt hive to something readable and finally found one tool that works reasonably well. You find it at MSDN here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ce_base/arc...registry-hives-and-cedb-database-volumes.aspx
While rgucomp.exe simply hogs the CPU forever and produces no output, above tool at least delivers some output you can re-use. For my hive it seems to come to a loop-like situation as well (you need to Ctrl-C to end it) but the output until ending with "Finished registry walk" is delivering all you may need. It looks like:
Code:
hKey=0x00000EA9 hNext=0x00000E5F [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\QuickApp] hSubKey=0x00000000 hVal=0x00000EC3
hVal=0x00000EC3 hNext=0x00000EC2 "1"="{6D48AB52-635C-4c6a-8508-9D32A0F07863}"
hVal=0x00000EC2 hNext=0x00000EC1 "2"="{2ABD8635-9808-4c4c-943B-8173B805FD40}"
hVal=0x00000EC1 hNext=0x00000EC0 "3"="{0D519EC6-315A-4693-AF1B-B2DA865AC1C7}"
hVal=0x00000EC0 hNext=0x00000EBF "4"="{69E9215B-91B0-461b-A3B6-165EBA32DAE1}"
hVal=0x00000EBF hNext=0x00000000 "5"="{B7A5E609-3E46-442d-8D32-65926EDA6795}"
So you can copy / paste to another file for later use. Datatypes are correctly identified in usual rgu syntax.