Hi Guys
Like a few of us here, after a soft reset, I *sometimes* find that my pop3 accounts have disappeared leaving me with just 'Outlook' and 'Hotmail'
Having posted a thread about this and not got (m)any suggestions I've decided to look at it another way...or at least ask another question
Here we go then:
Is there anyway to export a particular registry setting or settings that would contain ALL my email account details? I've got a registry editor on my HD2...just need to know what to export if it's possible. I'm not fussed about the actual messages themselves, just the pop3/smtp/username/password stuff
Most of the email info is in the databases, not the registry. SK Tools allows you to export email accounts with the Pim info tool. It's the way to go.
Exporting email accounts
Hey FT
Thanks for the quick reply. I've got SK Tools on the HD2. I looked under the PIM Information options and I can see the account names but am I backing up the *settings*? If I select the check boxes for the relevant accounts...it looks like I'm backing up the MESSAGES (based on the 'count' in the message column)
Sorry to be a bit thick, but I want to ensure I'm backing up the right stuff
All you do is long press on an account, and then select 'export' from the context menu. It exports the account as an xml, and it may also export emails; I always delete my emails, so that field is empty for me. To restore, you just select 'import' from the action menu.
The real question is what did you mess up in the rom so that it doesn't save the email settings? Did you leave out any sys packages, or remove xip modules?
search for rapiconfig. It lets you extract Email, Wifi and Sync information. You can find it in SDAutoRun thread.
Brilliant F Ted- no I didn't mess up the rom, AFAIK it's a bug on the HD2 that sometimes deletes email accounts
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I did some searching but it came up empty.
So, I'm asking you guys to see if anyone could tell me what I need to export from the registry in order to be able to put my mail account settings into a customizer.cab for the extended rom
Hi,
I've upgraded my XDA Exec to AKU2 and use Sprite to restore my mail (for my text messages, which worked). However, although they don't appear as selectable accounts, the old account names must be stored somewhere because if I try to reuse them, it complains that the name is already in use. Any idea how I can remove these accounts manually? I can't find them in the registry.
Cheers,
Steve
I just re-flashed the ROM of my Wizard and used Sprite Backup to restore my SMS messages. Everything works great. But...
Now I have on the Messaging Today Plugin an old e-mail account showing with unread messages. This e-mail account is not installed on either the Wizard or my desktop I used for syncing. I can highlight it on the Today Screen but when I click it doesn't go anywhere.
I've search entire registry and deleted all instances of the e-mail account and/or account name. I've even tried creating a new account with the same name (it doesn't let me as it says its a duplicate). Either way...everyting I tried has yet to solve it.
Anyone have a solution?
Thanks in advance.
When you don't have any precious mail in there, you can use for example SKTools 3's mail database cleanup utility to clean up these databases completely.
Menneisyys,
Thanks for getting back to me. I've tried what you have suggested. First backup the entire phone again. Then did the following:
1) Deleted all e-mail accounts in PIM
2) Deleted all registry entries with any information linked to e-mail account name or account's e-mail address
3) Ran SKTools' Messaging cleaner and deleted all files
4) Ran SKTools' Databases cleaner and emptied all fldr* files that aren't matched to SMS messages. I was unable to delete any of them. It would just say "1 process" but when it re-scans it will still show as 356 bytes.
5) Ran SKTools' Delete PIM info and emptied all MSG for all e-mail accounts. Once again I was unable to delete any of them. it would just reduce them to Zero bytes.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
SeanFromSoCal said:
Menneisyys,
Thanks for getting back to me. I've tried what you have suggested. First backup the entire phone again. Then did the following:
1) Deleted all e-mail accounts in PIM
2) Deleted all registry entries with any information linked to e-mail account name or account's e-mail address
3) Ran SKTools' Messaging cleaner and deleted all files
4) Ran SKTools' Databases cleaner and emptied all fldr* files that aren't matched to SMS messages. I was unable to delete any of them. It would just say "1 process" but when it re-scans it will still show as 356 bytes.
5) Ran SKTools' Delete PIM info and emptied all MSG for all e-mail accounts. Once again I was unable to delete any of them. it would just reduce them to Zero bytes.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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Probably not very helpful now but if they are POP email accounts you are supposed to delete them before the backup as they cannot be restored to a new ROM or Device.
OMG!!! What a horrible day!
I removed an exchange email today n quickly found out later that all my contacts n calendar were tied to it and i now hv to source for a OST to PST converter... argh...
Then I went on to set up my new pst file n tried to sync my mobile's contacts n calendar into the new outlook. First it says... attention required bcoz it was a wrong personal folder. So i deleted the device and added one back so it can now be linked to the new default calendar n contacts.
I carefully select on the device in the event of duplicate "mobile replace desktop" or somethign similar.
&^&(&#*#^ ACTIVE SYNC CLEARED MY CONTACTS n CALENDAR!!
I am .... argh..... so mad!!!!
As this is a new phone, i had only had a chance of sync it a wk ago n havent gone ard BACK UP!
PLEASEEEEEEEE HELP!!!!!!
And if any of you is able to help me convert my OST to PST file... I WOULD BE FOREVER GRATEFUL!! I hate EXCHANGE n I HEREBY HATE ACTIVE SYNC!!
Can someone also recomend what other sync appl can I use to replace active sync?
This may or may not help you........ I had the same thing happen to me, if you have OUTLOOK (NOT EXPRESS, OR OTHERS) then your contacts will be in the deleted tab.......... open outlook and recover........
Ouch, that's got to hurt
Glad I don't use ActiveSync (coded by pre teens) or Outlook (the target of all that malware)
Sorry for not helping
wise lesson: always make a backup, wich can be done on pc(outlook) as on your phone.....
sorry for not solving your problem, without a backup it's very difficult I think
so, you deleted your contacts, not ActiveSync itself, but sh*t happens man, life sometimes s*cks. Remember - ALLAYS make a full backup of your contacts
Since you have an .ost file, I assume you can still open your exchange account (cached) in Outlook. If you can, then create a PST file.
Go File > New > Outlook Data file, name it, save it somewhere you can easily find.
Once the PST is created, you wil have Personal Folders (default name)
Right click on the folder > New folder. Select Contact items on the dropdown, name it Contacts.
Now go to your Contacts under the Mailbox, Set view to Phone list or By Category to put them in a list, then drag the contact items to the Contact folder in the Personal folder.
If you want to move calendar items, Create a Calendar folder first, same steps as above.
If you really need to convert OST to PST, go here
I migrated to a new computer and while synchronizing with activesync, my whole contact list on my HTC Touch Pro 2 got deleted/replaced by the empty contact list from Outlook 2007. Unfortunately I had no backup yet (old computer was stolen). Is there a way to reverse the sync. Maybe there is a hidden backup file from WM. Could anyone help?
I recently bought an Aria, and there is no looking back. My previous phone was a fuze. All of my data is backed up on Microsofts Myphone service, I've been able to retrieve most of my data and contacts since Android auto syncs with GMAIL. However, I have a lot of data "stuck" on microsoft myphone. Is there a way to extract that data? Microsoft doesnt seem to have any export service on the site. Is there any easy way to do this? I'd rather not spend hours manually adding contacts into GMAIL while browsing the myphone page.
My suggestion is to put your sim back into your old phone, setup Google Sync to sync everything from your old phone to Gmail. I don't think there will ever be Android to MyPhone sync.
How to export from Microsoft MyPhone to CSV for Gmail
I know this post is quite old but I thought I'd post my solution here to save others time. It took me quite a while to get the CSV format right but it works.
First goto the myphone contacts page and right click-> view source.
Just up from the bottom of the source, you will find all the contact details wrapped in some ugly JavaScript. Copy it into a new text file (I used Notepad).
Repeat this for all the pages of your contacts.
At the very start of the text file, add this line:
Name,Mobile Phone,Home Phone,Other Phone,E-mail Address,E-mail 2 Address
It can be edited to whatever fields you want but these map perfectly into your gmail contacts. There isnt any very good documentation on which fields to use so it's trial and error.
Now go through and edit out all the JavaScript so you're left with just the data. I used Find/Replace to remove a lot of it then went through and tidied it all up manually, adding in the commas and sorting it into the correct order for the fields above. Its a long process but is easier than manually re-entering everything.
Go through and check it's all correct and the comma's are all in the right place. Each contact entry should be a new line and don't leave blank lines.
Save your file. You can now open it in a spreadsheet program to check all the fields line up correctly.
Now try it - goto your Gmail contacts and click "More Actions" -> "Import". Select your CSV file. I recommend adding them to an empty group so its easy to check them and delete them if it doesn't work correctly.
Click Import. Now go through and check them. If its not quite correct, delete them and try again. If you find certain details end up in the Notes field then it means you've used an incorrect field name.
I'm sure someone can write a nice script to do this all but I really don't have the time at the moment and I've already done it manually.
Hope this helps and Microsoft..... you should really have an export option!
I did this way when I jump to android world from WM:
I synced all contacts with outlook. Then export to CSV file from outlook, and imported to gmail contacts those files. I cant remember how exactly but u can find easily with google.
Thank you, it solved my problem (not without some work, but nevertheless in a small fraction of the time)