@anyone:
My friend's HD2 starts loading, it shows the desktop then its just hourglass...
Stock 3.14 EU ROM.
I can easily hard reset, but he asked me to somehow save/recover his personal data (addresses, contacts, etc).
So I have not hard reset his phone just yet hoping that one of you guys can help me...
What can be done?
Thanks in advance!
If You have mortsript installed, I presume you can do various things with it together with having an autorun folder on sd card called 2577, like copy pim.vol file to sd card etc. Just an idea.
Addition - You can register .mscr files with the autorun trick and run Your .mscr to copy pim.vol to SD then. Basically that should be it, after hard reset You can just replace the pim.vol again. Haven't tested it tho, but in theory should work.
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I'm having trouble deleting files in my XDAII. Everytime I delete a file I get stock to the waiting timer that goes on and on. In the long run , I get to soft reset my unit because this does'nt stop. After the reset the file is still there not deleted. I have a spb pocket plus program installed. Does this have to do with it.
Thanks
only with file explore or also with better filemanagers like total commander ?
even with file explorer and the menu using delete command. Do you know whats wrong?
what i asked was if you have tried other file managers then explore
because explore is really not that good and if your problem could be solved by using another manager then .......
I just had a similar situation this weekend. My SD card was full, and I downloaded email.
I could not get file manager to delete anything, though it would successfully copy to a new SD card I installed. Eventually, I tried deleting files from Album -- it worked!!!
You might try Word or the Notes program, too (though I haven't).
Go figure.
There's my $0.02
If you are trying to delete files from sd card, try removing the card then reinserting, the other thing is to make sure you close all running programs except the file explorer.
It happened to me too with the ROM 1.66, the only way was to remove the SD ant to insert it again...
After solme days it stopped to do it and now with the new 1.72 ROM it works flawlessy
:lol:
I have that problem when I use the default file explorer, but only when deleting files from the phone as opposed to the sd card.
In the end I decided to do all deleting from the phone memory through my PC as it works fine from there.
Anthony
it seems to me that due to the storage and memory structure of WM2005, this may not be possible, however i find it a major drawback over WM2003se, as it used to be possible to store contacts and such on ROM so you could always recover them should you have a hard reset..
what if JASJAR craps out someday? i'd probably have to wait till i get a chance to get to a PC and sync my contacts and calendar again :\
someone please tell me i'm wrong
Hi...
I have been running a XDA II for a number of months with WM5.0 installed.
The contacts/calendar informtion is stored in a file called "pim.vol" held in the root of my device.
you can copy this file to your sd card any time you need as a back up for your data.
Should your device "crap out" and you need to restore this file, simply rename the pim.vol file in the root to something else, copy your backed up pim.vol back to the root and soft reset.
This works fine on the himalaya with wm5.0 so should work on the universal.
Hope this helps
thanks for the tip steverae..
now i wonder if it's possible for WM2005 to read this file directly off an SD card, or perhaps the extended rom (less likely)
This may help to back up any data
Question - my pim.vol file is around 18MB (4000 contacts, month worth of meetings etc).
Has anyone figured how to not only move pim.vol to the storage card (easy) but have the PIM use the SD version - freeing up valuable Universal memory?
Hope someone can help.
Andrew - Sydney Australia (picked up a Universal in the UK on my last business trip).
U can only copy it to SD Card...use default file explorer....
have you searched the registry, I haven't tried yet but it should be somewhere in it...
Is there a way to make the pim.vol-file stay at the SD card ??
Sorry, one too many !
registry
searched the whole registry - nothibg there but I have seen various web postings pointing to the fact that pim.vol is loaded during startup - need to be able to change where it is loaded from. ideas??
I did notice that there are a few pim*.dll's in the registry I wonder if one of those can point to the location on the SD card....
restore pim.vol
I was able to backup pim.vol to SD card, but when I try to restore it, it gives a sharing violation, even after I kill all programs. Is there a way to do that?
Re: restore pim.vol
ehabh said:
I was able to backup pim.vol to SD card, but when I try to restore it, it gives a sharing violation, even after I kill all programs. Is there a way to do that?
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rename pim.vol to anything else, copy pim.vol from storage card, reboot, delete old pim.vol
Anyway I can easily copy my contacts to my SD card before i hard reset so I can copy them back afterwards???
You mean OTHER than using ActiveSync and Outlook????
Technically Jeyo Mobile Companion 1.1 can do it, though when performing my text backups I've always found that the Contact feature causes problems.
Pocket Informant or ContactBreeze probably has those functions, also.
Cheers
Ant
Just copy the pim.vol file at the root of your file system to SD. Use the internal file explorer to do this. Do not use resco.
To restore, rename the pim.vol pim.old before copying the old file to the root. Soft reset after this. Don't use any other program than internal file explorer or it won't work.
thaihugo, thanks that was the answer I was looking for
Regards
Problem with me (and perhaps many other) is that i chagne from on rom to other rom every day. im tired of backing up and restoring contacts from SD card. so i am instrested in a software that can save contact to SD card and search and load a contact from sd card again directly.(it my dream it may not be possible). but i hope at least someone may come up with a solution.
wow a reply after 6 years . as far as i can remember the good old WM times, DotNetFreds PIM Backup was the! solution for backup&restore questions.
Hi Guys,
My XDA Mini S has lost teh ability to activesync! I have tried everything and i think my only option is to reflash it. However I want to backup my contacts, calendar etc first. What are the files i need to copy to back these up? I loked but couldnt find them!
Thanks in advance.
I had a similar issue. What I did was copy my PIM.vol file to my SD card. Once that was done, remove the SD card and reset your device. When you get it running again. Copy the PIM.vol file back to the device and replace the one that is there.
Hope this helps
David