A year ago I installed unbuntu on my HD2 with the dutch stockrom wm 6.5. After running it I lost my certificates on my HD2 resulting in not being able to run 3th party software.
So no TomTom, TCPMP etc. (but Opera and skype works ) but wm software works.
Active sync did work untill a month or 2 ago and then I got a 1 in my sms pictogram but no sms. A soft reset doesn't work.
Now I want to do a hard reset but first a backup of my contacts (most important), calendar and sms.
Now my question:
How to backup contacts, calender and sms without 3th party software (I can't install it) or active sync.
Explorer (verkenner) works.
I have a installed sd card.
I found this: [Q] Calendar folder - where is it?
Can I copy the file: "pim" from the root to my SD card, give my HD2 a hard reset and then put the pim file back in the root of my phone. Will this save my contacts and calendar? If not, what can I do?
In advance Thx for your advise.
HD
Have you tried google sync. Google can upload your contacts, calendar directly on your gmail account. The other option could be try using funambol.
Have you tried PIM BackUp 2.8 by copying the .exe file to SD card then using explorer to find & run the PIM BackUp.exe ! if it runs it will backup your requirements.
Also try SPB Backup from SD & if it runs choose custom backup & select mail, PIM ect .
Files attached ...
You could also copy/extract PIM.vol Mail.vol & try & insert them in reset device but I would make some effort with a few backup tools first, SPB if it runs is superb & I have used it flawlessly on WM2033SE to WM6.5.3 for contacts, sms, email & PIM.
Thx for youre reply.
@msmkt
Google will not work. I can't connect with my computer.
@Mister B
I will try you're solution Thx! If I have results will post them here. Thx again!
Greetings,
HD
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If I apply the latest ROM upgrade, obvously I will lose all the data on the system.
Will I be able to restore from Sprite Backup my:
Contacts?
Events?
Tasks?
documents?
applications?
Yours
Ashby
No not exactly but all is not lost.
You cannot simply use either xBackup or SpriteBackup to do a backup and then a restore.
If you sync your PIM data (contacts, tasks, appointments etc.) with MS Outlook you will be able to restore them easily enough with a simply sync once you have restablished the partnership after the ROM upgrade.
However you will need to reinstall all 3rd party applications again.
To save the data from any 3rd party applications manually copy the respective data files to either your memory card or your PC's harddisk and then manually copy them back once you have performed the ROM upgrade and reinstalled your 3rd party applications.
Ed
gutted,
sounds like a few hours work. I will wait until the sytem is so clogged up that i would need to do a hard reset.
thanks for your quick response
ashby
when i do a hardreset
i afterwards go into activsync when i connected the device once more
and choose add remove programs
and just tick the all the 3th party programs i used to have installed and wish once more on and it autoinstall them
of cause this dont work with programs that i installed from the xda itself as cab files
and ofcause hardresets if it's because one upgrade the rom may end up with some programs not working like from 2002 to 2003
and maybe with 2003SE aswell if programs mess up with the res aware stuff
Pardon my ignorance, but why can you not just restore from xbackup or using a backup file via activesync. What about sms. I have over 1000 sms that I do not wish to loose.
I,
i've recently upgraded my Prophet to ShadoW_1.0_TE WM6 Rom from my official WM5 Rom.
I've backup files made with sunnysoft backup manager, but now i cant restore them.
From my backup file i only choose PIM Data. I dont get any error, but when device restarts i cant open CONTACTS. Even creating a new one, nothing..
Does anybody have any ideias how to get my contacts back ?
Thanks
Same problem here.
Have backed up contacts using SPB software. Contacts wont even open now.
Does anyone know where contacts file is located in WM6 ?..
Hope someone can help us
Do you have SPB Diary ?
I've installed SPB Diary and my contacts appear there.
Still working on it
Solved
Problem Solved: (if you have contacts in outlook)
Re-install Outlook from Vista, sync, voilá.
Whn I use Activsync I can back up Outlook calendar, contacts etc.
But, can I back up my text msgs in my inbox on the phone?
If so, how do I do that?
many thanks
nicojo
i did not try that yet. . .
but you can use Jeyo Mobile Companion. .
its not free but i thinks its worth the fee , PIM Backup also backup SMS via ppc itself.
awesome and free software would be PIM,
you can store the file(s) on your device and copy it to your pc afterwards!
Thx open_source
Do u have a link to a specific app?
I tried AllExport v3.1 which says:
"With this program, you can backup, restore and export all your messages (SMS, MMS, E-mail, etc.) which are stored in Messaging application."
I installed it but couldn't see how to back up SMS, only contacts list
Anyone tried this program?
thx
nicojo
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705
first link when using the built in search for "PIM"
didn't try allexport.
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.
Hello there,
I have a HTC touch HD that I recently formatted and installed WM6.5 ROM on, specifically this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=671277
Anyway, all my contacts and messages were, of course, deleted, because I didn't know how to manually back them up using Sashimi or whatever.
I backed them up on a site called Bloove.com using my device before I formatted it, and I can view both the contacts and all the messages on Bloove.com from the PC, but I cannot restore them to the HTC for free, and I don't have any online payment method (visa).
The contacts aren't a lot, and I don't mind entering them manually on the PC and then syncing them to the phone; however, how do I go about doing that? What application should I use on the PC to add the contacts and then copy them to the HTC device? I have Windows Mobile Device Center which, I believe, can sync contacts between PC and HTC but I don't know how to go about using it.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
TarekElsakka said:
Hello there,
I have a HTC touch HD that I recently formatted and installed WM6.5 ROM on, specifically this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=671277
Anyway, all my contacts and messages were, of course, deleted, because I didn't know how to manually back them up using Sashimi or whatever.
I backed them up on a site called Bloove.com using my device before I formatted it, and I can view both the contacts and all the messages on Bloove.com from the PC, but I cannot restore them to the HTC for free, and I don't have any online payment method (visa).
The contacts aren't a lot, and I don't mind entering them manually on the PC and then syncing them to the phone; however, how do I go about doing that? What application should I use on the PC to add the contacts and then copy them to the HTC device? I have Windows Mobile Device Center which, I believe, can sync contacts between PC and HTC but I don't know how to go about using it.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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Can't you use WMDC?come on it's not hard, I never use it because I didn't need but it's user-friendly
You can take help of gmail
You can add your contacts on the contacts of your gmail account, then export it in Outlook .csv format (comma separated value)
In mobile you can download PIMBackup a freeware searching on google,
run the program and first backup your contacts using that program on your sd card, unchecking the binary backup
u will get .pib file, open with 7-zip another freeware compression management then extract contact.csc
rename the exported gmail t this extension ie, .csc, then zip it and change extension to .pib
put in memory card
run PIMBackup this time select restore, browse to that file and the contacts will be added..
Actually i have done the reverse process to sync with my gmail account so this process must work..