Hi!
I did an update for xperia x8 today. I made a back-up for calendar, contacts and so on. When the update was finished, i tried to run the backup file to restore the information (most importantly contacts) but it said the file (.sbf) couldn't be read.
I tried taking out the sd card and putting it back in, didn't work. Tried to find a converter or a sbf reader, hoping to at least be able to see the information. No luck.
Can you repair the file? (I guess it is corrupted or something, since i can open an older backup file.) Are there any programs that can read the file? (on the phone, or on pc)
Thanks!
I don't know how to help you with corrupt sbf, but I can give you a tip for the future.
Sync your calendar, contacts, etc with gmail! It's pretty easy and very good! When I format my phone, I only backup my messages, cuz contacts are already backed up @ gmail!
Hi Vixen666,
I'm in the same situation Did you found the solosion?
Thanks!
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Hi, I recently decided to upgrade to the newish Orange update to help speed up the PPC as is was running slower than usual... So I quickly plugged it in and synced it with ActiveSync thinking that would be fine. Syncing everything but Media... all completed successfully.
Now after flashing and erasing everything, I cannot find anything but the backed up documents. I cannot even see the previous device?
I need my contacts desperately !
I never used Outlook on the device. I cant find a backed up file for the contacts, as I said just a copy of the PPC My Documents...
Anyone know what I can do? I have learnt a lesson in using proper backing up precautions
Any help is hugely appreciated
Sam.
Is there anything i can do? It must have backed-up the information somewhere? Or does it not backup the device contacts/just the outlook ones?
Many thanks
all contacts are synced over, if you have selected to sync contacts, but as you have said you never synced contacts with outlook so therefore you have lost them all, you should get pimbackup and use that from now on to backup your contacts and sms etc, if you are not using outlook.
Final point is you have lost them all
:'( As I had ignorantly realised... thought it was backing up quickly lol
Thanks for your help scouse, much appreciated. Will also look into your reccomendation...
Sam.
This may have been asked I have search but had no luck
I have two questions the first is where are contacts stored on htc and can they be transferred back to Phone if copied to PC
and second I had backed up my phone using sprite but when I wanted to to a restore I found that My Pc has 6.2.3.2324 and the phone has 6.2.3.19 so the phone wont run the file I have tried installing the exe I got on cd to both but they are different and it wont work
Anyone have any ideas I have about 300 contacts, they were not synced to outlook so all I have is a backup and copies of my phones Storage card and device folders on my PC which I had copied
pim.vol
dont know where exactly the file is because i havent used wm in over an year.
and please learn how to search http://www.google.co.in/search?rlz=...hrome&ie=UTF-8&q=contacts+file+windows+mobile
pim.vol is in the root folder but it is hard to retrieve contacts from that file. If you don't use outlook for backup, atleast you could have had PIM Backup on your pocketpc.
IMO, Sprite backup sucks, SPB is the best, check out my guide on Backing up your pocketpc
Regards,
Carty..
Thanks to both of you for your help I did a search on google without any luck maybe I didnt ask the right question
And I do usually use outlook to backup but something went wrong with my sync with outlook which is why I lost all my contacts in the first place
Sprite may not be as good as others however I contacted there help on there website any they were excellant very responsive and helpful (incase anyone wants to know)
Anyway thanks again for your help
just replace the backup copy of pim.vol with the pim.vol that is currently there (you will require total commander or resco file explorer to do this) soft reset and you'll get back all your PIM (Contacts, Calender etc) data back.
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!!
Hello all, i'm desperately in need of your help!!
1) The problem:
-my NAND (internal storage memory) runs out of space all of a sudden when I know for sure that it has plenty of free space since I install almost everything on my microSD. All my user setting/sms/contacts were reset and emptied. Every time I reboot/turn on my phone, it always make me go through the whole Initial Setup Wizard as if it was a brand new phone. Apparently since there's 0 space available on NAND, it simply cannot save my setting.
2) Back ground Info:
- my hd2 has been running coredroid 1.5 (or 1.6) perfectly on NAND for over 6+ months.
- I know NAND is still working because I'm still able to boot into android.
3) What I need:
- I need to figure out a way to recover my contacts and sms from NAND before I reformat it and reflash android. Please help me I've been searching on XDA and google for the past hours but no dice
thanks a million in advance!!!
just download sms backup app and add contacts with your google accout
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just download sms backup app and add contacts with your google accout
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thanks for your response, but I dont think u understand my question. My contacts and SMS are emptied, so a regular backup app will not help me in this case. What I need is to somehow recover contacts and sms from internal storage.
Titanium backup can schedule the backup/restore
You guys are not understanding me, backup app can only backup the data that's currently there. but if the data has been deleted, these backup apps cannot recover them...
since they are gone, they have probably been removed. I don't think u can recover them..
computer memory and/or hard drives usually still retain the files that you deleted. it's possible to recover files after you format hard drive, so of course it's possible to recover files from a memory chip.
so I was looking at my TitaniumBackup folder, and I see these files:
com.android.providers.contacts-20110409-103323.properties
com.android.providers.contacts-20110409-103323.tar
com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts-20110409-103331
com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts-20110409-103331.tar
can one of the files above contain my contacts?
mythek88, first
P.S. and Titanium can backup to dropbox =)
sorry buddy...i dont think you can recover contacts and smss....they are converted into binary and stored is what i vaguely remember reading.
there is a undelete app for root users, if you are one... try this app. i cant promise it will bring back sometime, but sometime trying is all it takes...good luck
to avoid this situation, i typically sync everything with my gmail so i can always recover anytime....
Thank you for all the inputs, I've given up on trying to recover my data and have went ahead and reformat/repartition/reflashed my rom. Luckily I found an old backup of my contacts, so I only lost a handful of new numbers.
mythek88 said:
Thank you for all the inputs, I've given up on trying to recover my data and have went ahead and reformat/repartition/reflashed my rom. Luckily I found an old backup of my contacts, so I only lost a handful of new numbers.
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now...dont forget to sync it with some service
Restore SMS from mmssms.db with adb
Hi all,
Can anybody help me how to restore mmssms.db and also the contacts2.db? I read I can do it with adb, but as I tried, it sayd Permission Denied.
Can anybody write me a step-by-step guide how can I restore them for sure?
Thanks a lot.
Additionally, I tried Titanium, it doesn't see these files, so that is why is went for adb.
Please help!
Thanks a lot.