Hi,
I made a backup via ActiveSync. Later, when i restored my device, after the restoring process, the ActiveSync have reported an error, said that some of the files could not be restored since they where in use by another process or program (something like that), and the files which where listed were regarding to messaging application.
Now, everything work fine (as far as i could noticed) but when i enter the Messaging application (Text messages), i have a lot of messages which does not have an icon, and which i cannot see on click nor delete/move. In the Windows\Messaging folder, when i delete all files, the messages are still visible in the Messaging program, and again, i cannot do anything with them.
Could be some other folder i could delete to delete this messages too?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Igor
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I'm about to hard reset my wizard before which I'm backing up everything.
I deleted all my emails by clearing the accounts. I cleared everything except for my SMSes. When I went back to the Windows\Messaging Folder, I found that all the emails that I had ever downloaded were still there.
How do I get rid of all the emails and keep only the SMS's prior to a backup?
Can somebody please tell me if the SMS's are located in Windows\Messaging? or is it located elsewhere and hence is it safe to delete everything in the Windows\Messaging folder if i don't want any emails?
Hi everybody,
I have a problem with all the stuff I have installed on my Xperia. Yesterday I used the official update software from SE to update my firmware. I made a backup of my personal information like contacts, messages, etc.
After the update was finished I restored the backup, and I got everything back...
Ofcourse my programlist was clean and the programs like for example TomTom, Xperia Tweak, etc. were gone. But I installed this programs on my memorycard and I noticed that the list behind "Removing Programs' isn't that clean....infact all the programs are still there, and when I select a program to remove it gives an error. It says it's not possible to remove these programs.
Does anybody know a way to get rid of these programs in the remove-list?
And you're sure the program isn't running in the background, right?
Yes, the firmware update has removed everything on the internal phone memory. But because the programs were installed on my external memorycard the systemfiles of these programs are still absent but I can't start the programs because their Icons are not showen in the programlist. (problem 1)
And the programnames do show up in the 'Remove Program'-list, but If I select the program overthere and push remove, I get an error it is impossible to remove it. (problem 2)
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I made a backup of my personal information like contacts, messages, etc.
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You obviously did not backup enough.
Install Total Commander, go to the .exe files in the \\Storage Card\Program Files subdirectories and choose File >>>>>> Make shortcut. The destination should be \\Windows\Start Menu\Programs.
If you want to be sure, that all programs are completely removed from the system (also "Remove Programs" List), you should make a hard reset and delete them from the sd card manually!
But most programs can be started without being installed. You can simply copy and paste them.
Excuse me, 'cos I'm still before my upgrade:
So how to properly work with apps installed on card?
Let's say I make a backup with spritebackup, and I backup contacts etc. and settings.
But I don't backup apps since I want to reinstall them manually.
So, should I UNINSTALL all of them before backup?
If i where you, i would make a backup of messages, contacts, etc., then update and last make a hard reset. It deletes everything on the phone, but not on the card. So if you have installed progs on the sd card you just have to delete the "Program Files" Folder. Then you can install them new.
So, before my first attempt with flashing a custom ROM I made a backup with MyBackup, and like any noob included everything, all apk-s, all data, contacts and everything.
Flashed and rebooted succesfully, restored backup and then something went wrong. Everything was restored except my contacts, but also everything worked somehow buggy, with "com.google.process.gapps has stopped working" all the time and the worst part:
Restore contacts failed: unknown error
Unable to convert BLOB to string
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Some contact were synced in one of the attempts, but most of them were deleted from my phone and ALSO FROM ONLINE GOOGLE CONTACTS, followed with some annoying warnings about deleted contacts. Like I didn't noticed... so, for the biggest part it was my own fault. Should have left the contacts to sync from the "cloud" - or is there another way? Also, I emailed RerWare if they could help me with that. They responded within few hours (very nice!) and here is a part from their answer:
We have a minor bug which affects a small amount of users. People who made a contacts backup from Android 1 device and restoring it on an Android 2 device. (contacts only)...
This issue has been fixed and will be out in the next release. If you can not wait until then, you can send us the .ZIP backup file, and I will alter it so you will be able to restore your contacts. But, if you do it this way, your contacts photos\icons will not be restored. If you want to wait for the fix, this will restore everything including photo\icons.
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But in the meantime I restored it myself the hard way. There is a way to only view the contacts using MyBackup, which leaves HTML dump on SD card under "\rerware\MyBackup\tempHtml" . Copy&Paste into Excel, edit the numbers and what you have to do (little help from Google), save as csv file and import back into contacts. It will merge with existing ones so everything is fine again
Hope this helps someone
Just as a little point (not read you whole topic not got time)
never use mybackup to backup contacts especially if they are also synced with google.
Hey there,
My SMS program is lagging a lot due to having too many messages, is there anyway i can transfer them to my pc?
Ive tried searching but i cant seem to find what im looking for!
Thanks!!
Take a look at Jeyo Mobile Extender. Integrates perfectly with Outlook 2007. When registering your name, make sure its the same as the 'ME' in the HD2 contacts list.
or use microsoft myphone and archive the messages. They will be removed from your phone on next sync, but will be kept online. not sure if you can UNARCHIVE messages though if you want them back on the phone .....
If you just want to STORE them on the pc and not READ them there, then use PIM Manager to do a complete backup on your storage card. Remove the backup from the card, and move it to your PC. Then delete all your SMSes from your phone.... If you want to reinstall ALL SMSes at a future date, do a backup, put the old, stored backup back on your storage card, restore the OLD backup, then restore the NEW backup, making sure that on the second restore you untick the boxes telling it to delete messages
EDIT:
Just checked MyPhone FAQs, and yes, the archived material CAN be restored to the phone.
gonna try it now!
thanks for the response!!
I have now had the whole summer my sms-database messed up. I can read my messages only in threaded view, but I can't i any way back them up with pim-backup or smsImport. PimBackup sees only 149 messages in the inbox, and 73 in the outbox. PimBackup complains that
the messages file in \Application Data\Volatie\msg_20100902.csm can't be added to the backup file, an internal error (2) occured.
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SmsImport exports only messages after 23.6.2010. I have about 1000 sms-messages in my device, and i can read all of them from the phone, but i would like to get them backed up before doing a clean install of the x2 (it's getting slow as all windowses do!!)
Does anyone know how to access these files, and how i could be able to read them/Extract the messages from them..?
Try another backup programs like SPB Backup or Sprite Backup.
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Try another backup programs like SPB Backup or Sprite Backup.
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Hi, backing up the files seem to work, it's just that they seem to be corrupted in some way.. I would like to get out all my sms:s, and reset the phone.
SPB Backup has a tool for PC to open archives. You can extract needed items. Or if there are errors while backing up, then it seems your databases are corrupted. Try to use MyPhone service - it backups your PIM to online storage. So later after reset you may restore your SMS.
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