Hello need help in backing up my contacts into Excel or CSV file.
I've seen some threads here but there were no solutions
i tried downloading PIM backup application but I was not able to run it on WM6.1 since it was maybe an EXE file.
hope someone can help me with this
thanks and godbless
Download PIMBackup from here:
http://www.dotfred.net/default.htm
You have to extract the PPCPimBackupV2.8_wm2005.zip, copy the PPCPimBackup.exe to the internal storage of your diamond and start it. This should work - it works for me.
sync with computer. The contacts will be transferred to ms outlook. Then you can export by ms outlook.
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Hello
Does synching my XDA Exec backup my contacts? in case it does and if i lose my contacts(my not using my xda for a month) then how do i copy the backup on my pc to my xda?
set up outlook as your email software and select contacts in active sync make sure to check outlook contacts so see if all the contats are there
or read the help in active sync
Dude,
I asked similar Q a while ago - just backup "pim.vol" in your windows folder I think it is . . that's your contacts file.
thanks for the reply little_rock
how do i backup "pim.vol" ?
xda_guy said:
thanks for the reply little_rock
how do i backup "pim.vol" ?
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It's far easier /safer to use the desktop outlook to do the backup.
Alternatively, you can also check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=30893&d=1160987030 ; also see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279925
yeah or just use resco file explorer and cop y it to another folder somewhere
thanks for the replies
i have copied the pim.vol to my SD card, what information does it contain, i guess if my phone crashes i just need to copy the pim.vol on the SD card into the root directory, correct? why is it a hiddenen file?
what is SKTools 3.0
Pim.vol has got all of ur pim files like contacts, calender appointments,To do items etc.....
thanks niket
Is there a way to sync contacts without activesync?
If you know, please answer soon! I'm going on a 3+hour trip tomorow and plan to upgrade my HTC wizard/ unlock it, and have all the files, except I can not sync my contacts.
Thank you so much!
Jinto.Lin said:
Is there a way to sync contacts without activesync?
If you know, please answer soon! I'm going on a 3+hour trip tomorow and plan to upgrade my HTC wizard/ unlock it, and have all the files, except I can not sync my contacts.
Thank you so much!
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From your pc:
Make an export of your contacts in Outlook to a csv file.
To your pocket pc:
Use PPCPimBackup (see details here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1189061) to load the csv file (rename it csc) and restore the contacts...
From your pocket pc:
Use PPCPimBackup to export contacts to a csv file
To your pc:
Import the csv file (rename csc to csv) into Outlook.
ps.: PPCPimbackup creates a pib file which is a zip file, so extract the contacts csc file from pib when backup is done. Do not select binary backup on the options dialog if you want to have a csc file
Cheers,
Fred
can't upgrade to WM6 - stuck with Outlook 2000
I'd like an alternative, too.
We're on Outlook 2000 for the next year here at work (corporate image, no chance of it changing) and so I can't run a WM6 device, as WM6 needs Activesync 4.5 which doesn't work with Outlook 2000.
Any alternative, or a bodge to get AS4.2 working with WM6 or AS4.5 with Outlook 2000, would be very interesting...!
dotfred said:
From your pc:
Make an export of your contacts in Outlook to a csv file.
To your pocket pc:
Use PPCPimBackup (see details here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1189061) to load the csv file (rename it csc) and restore the contacts...
From your pocket pc:
Use PPCPimBackup to export contacts to a csv file
To your pc:
Import the csv file (rename csc to csv) into Outlook.
ps.: PPCPimbackup creates a pib file which is a zip file, so extract the contacts csc file from pib when backup is done. Do not select binary backup on the options dialog if you want to have a csc file
Cheers,
Fred
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Thanks so much for the quick answer! On the trip I was able to back up my contacts, and then proceed to unlock and install Mobile 6 ^^All done today on the road, unlocking and flashing twice on one battery, and then flashing Mobile 6 and installing other programs on the other.
Hi,
I had to do a hard reset on my HTC Touch and i couldnt backup my messages before that. But i do have an file with all messages in it on my Mac via Missing Sync... messages.csv
Is there a way to get these messages back on my ppc?
Thanx a lot in advance!
Can missing sync not restore the csv file it's backed up?
So what program made the .csv file, since you double posted the same question in the PIM Backup thread can we assume you used PIM Backup to create it? If so use PIM to restore it.
No, it was made with Missing Sync, but it's not possible to restore them with that program. Pim Backup also does not do the trick
Didn't think it supported that file type, but your post over there got me confussed, maybe you can find someone with MS Outlook and use that, MS Office has supported csv files for years. Anything beyond that, I don't have a clue, guess this will be a lession to start backing up your pda.
hi all,
I had a SE Xperia X1 running on WM 6.5 and i backed up all my contacts using PIM backup for windows mobile. the back up file is saved on my storage card as a .pib format. I have however been understood that the only way i can transfer these contacts and texts to my new motorola milestone 2 running Android 2.2 is by the means of a .csv file.
Is there any way that i can convert this .pib file format to a .csv file format? i would appreciate any help out there as i am new to the Android OS.
Thank you
Rename PIB to ZIP. Open it and unpack file. That file (CSV) would be import to Google Contact (GMail). After that you may to synchronize your mobile with GMail and all your contact will be shown in Android phone.
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Rename PIB to ZIP. Open it and unpack file. That file (CSV) would be import to Google Contact (GMail). After that you may to synchronize your mobile with GMail and all your contact will be shown in Android phone.
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thanks so much. juz a small doubt....when u say import to google contact, how about do i do it. and will my text messages be backed up as well?
thanks very much
You must to login on Gmail from your computer (www.gmail.com) and go to your contact tab. In this contact tab you have a option for import CSV file. Import it to your Gmail account, edit contact if you wish then logout from Gmail.
Then synchronize contacts from your mobile phone with Gmail. After that, all your contact will be see on your mobile phone.
Only contacts will be backup. SMS is not possible for backup.
Hint:
In PIM Backup you must set backup only Contacts without any Binary or Compressed option.
I just installed Android Gingerbread (SD-card) and now I want to copy all my contacts from Windows Mobile 6.5 to Android. Is there an easy way to do this )if any)?
Hope you understand my question and thanks for answering!
If you use Outlook you can extract the contacts data base as I think a. Vcf and then load it into your gmail account then sync your phone with gmail
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If you have your contacts in out look try this http://sourceforge.net/projects/googlesyncmod/files/
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many ways to accomplish this...
first, back up your contacts (and anything else you fancy) using "pimbackup" on windows mobile. if any of the following options goes wrong, simply restore using the back up you just made with pimbackup.
now, ONE of the following options should work:
1. on windows mobile, set up an activesync with google's servers. once the activesync is established, your contacts SHOULD automatically upload to google's servers. this is useful because you are migrating to android, which is tightly integrated with your google account. when you will finish setting up your android with your google account, your contacts will download automatically in a few minutes...and you're done!
2. on windows mobile, use "sprite migrate". this nifty little tool will extract your contacts and sms messages into a file on your sd card. then, transfer the file to your desktop/laptop. on the PC, install the PC component of sprite migrate and feed it the file you just threw from your sd card. tell it to prepare a file for android. this will spit out another file which you can copy back on to your sd card. inside android, install the android component of sprite migrate and import the file you created on your PC. done!
3. use the outlook related options as suggested by others above if you are already integrated with outlook!
Easiest way is to just save your address book to your SIM card then import in Android
Easiest way is enable Google Sync on WinMo 6.5, google for instructions on how to...
It will copy contacts automatically to your google account and sync them back as soon as you link your google account with Android..
Mafioso said:
Easiest way is enable Google Sync on WinMo 6.5, google for instructions on how to...
It will copy contacts automatically to your google account and sync them back as soon as you link your google account with Android..
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I agree, this is the easiest way.
Just synchronize with google account.
w/o Gmail
If you no matter what do not want to rely on Google/Gmail services (for obvious privacy reasons):
Several users mentioned sprite migrate, but unfortunately the software's been discontinued since Oct/2011.
OTOH you can export your contacts:
using the built-in Outlook export. It gets quickly tedious I'm told because you have to process them individually (bleh). This creates a vCard file for each contact.
export using PIMbackup. The procedure is documented about everywhere on the forums, just use search. Important is to UNCHECK compression (and of course, check the "contacts" box earlier on). The resulting pib file is actually a renamed ZIP archive, you can open it with 7-zip regardless of its extension.
I'll assume you know how to transfer files in and out from your SD card.
Now within the pib/zip file, there's a .csc file, which is a comma-separated value "spreadsheet". Extract it from the archive.
You will now export (demux) this .csc into multiple .vcf (vCard) files.
The tool I found is http://homebrew.binaervarianz.de/in...ts-and-SMS-from-WindowsMobile-to-Android.html
Extract "PIM2vcard.pl" from the "PIM2vcard.tar.gz" archive into the same directory as before.
It uses Perl (a general-purpose scripting language) to achieve this. I recommend using Strawberry Perl for its simplicty of installation.
Fire it up using the "portableshell.bat" shortcut.
Then, enter the commands (replace with your own values):
Code:
CD /D "C:\EXTRACT\htc"
notepad contacts_20120418.csc
In notepad, click "File > Save As...". In the dialog, leave the default filename (contacts_20120418.csc.txt) and navigate to your working directory using the treeview on the left. In the Encoding drop-down box, select "UTF-8". Click Save, then quit Notepad.
Back to the Perl command prompt, enter these commands:
Code:
MKDIR vcf
perl PIM2vcard.pl contacts_20120418.csc.txt
When the script ends, you shall find the resulting files in the vcf subdirectory.
Copy them into your SD card / internal storage.
Finally, use the Contacts applet in Android to import the vcf files.
There are known issues:
1. Problems if you have contacts with non Latin chars [use encode_qp?]
2. Problems with multiline fields (such as home address) [fix CSV beforehand]
Note: Maybe some benevolent soul can whip up an excel macro or a website to perform all steps automatically?
Another alternative is importing the csv (*.csm.txt) into Windows Live Mail (mapping fields, which is a boring task) and then export to .vcf.
These features are available from the Import/Export ribbon toolbar buttons.
Also, the import process sometimes silently chokes, so it's not such a reliable solution either.
For migrating your SMS messages, I recommend the dedicated PimBackup SMS Importer to Android application by -emandt-.
An interesting alternative is http://piemaster.net/tools/winmo-android-sms-converter/ (Python 2.x, open-source). It seems to take the .pib in and churn out a fat .xml containing SMS's and importable into SMS Backup & Restore. However, I haven't tested it.
Edit: checked it out, it doesn't seem to process contacts.
ActiveSync with Gmail
GregoRA0 said:
I agree, this is the easiest way.
Just synchronize with google account.
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What to do if you already have an activesync connection with Outlook? It says you have to disengage that connection first and then sync this new (google) account. Problem is, once you uncheck it, it says it's gonna remove all contacts imported from Outlook!
Have a look at second program "Contact Backup CSV Import" HERE
Also do a search for PIM Backup as has some info in that thread on transferring contacts & sms ...