Morning / Afternoon / Evening to All,
Not to be critical of this wonderful website which is full of great resources but, I have noticed that the useful info is hard to find.
So I thought it might be a good idea to post all of my items in the one place so here goes.
I will update these as i go.
TIP
If you want the CAB Files in remain in your PPC after install simply change the files preferences to "Read Only"
since i was just upgrade from wallaby to magician, i found all your posting, instructions and cab files very very helpful thanks a lot ampda, you rules :!:
Hello ampda , Great Work Friend . . . many thanx for these cabs and instruction files.
Cheers for taking the time to make them for the rest of us noobs
Glad to Help
verry nice indeed but there are simpler ways of doing the discribed below
(copied this out of pdf file )
3. Copying your “Extended ROM” Files before Big Storage
You need to copy the files from your “Extended ROM” before you go the Big Storage as you will need to install some of them after you’re finished, i.e. MMS etc. They will be deleted after the upgrade (and that’s the whole point).
a. To copy them from your Magician do a hard reset (push the power button and reset button at the same time).
b. Go through the screen alignment, time zone etc and get ready…….. when you reach the “Completed” screen it will ask you to “Tap your screen…. As soon as you tap the screen you get 3 sec to soft reset (push the reset button). If you miss it as I did just do a hard reset and try again.
c. After you do b. above go to the built in file explorer and under “My Device” you will now see the treasured “Extended_ROM” with all its files. Copy the directory straight to your SD Card then to your PC, keep them safe.
its just a bit easyer when you just fill in
go to windows folder on PPC and search loadvdisk.exe
run it and you will see your ext_rom (until you reset )
not to sure the usual file explorer can do this but Resco file explorer will find it
another progie that can find it is total commander :
find it here
http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm
no offence ment by this
Logos for Qtec, i-mate...
http://www.npo-hors.ru/logoqtek/logoqteks100.rar
Hi!!
Thanks for all your help!
Does anyone konw, or is there a way to save to the pc the SMS messages both received and sent??
Cheers!
use jeyo mobile companion. u can backup all of your messages, contacts (phone and sim), etc.
Hi!
Thanks for the tip!
By the way, and i think these questions are more tricky, is there any way NOT to charge the battery while the phone is connected to the USB?
And while using the calling software, when inputing the nunbers, to make the sim card entries dissapear and only have the ones that are in the contacts? Because most of the times i have a double entry and it really makes me mad!
Thanks!
The way to NOT to charge the battarie is to make some changes to your cable - cut +5v from USB (or make a switch).
the tray launch only app.... theres now way to BROWSE for the program you want on the tray?
sucks that you have to type out the entire path just to get it
Any idea whether these (or more specifically the camera speckles change) will work on a Wizard?
Remove Camera
Noob question here.
Once i install the camera & album to Storage how do i delete it from the \windows . Maybe not possible due to it being in ROM. In this case I end up with 2 camera software? So i'm curious what is the idea of installing in storage.
Halo ampda, i tryin to follow your how_to_ppc_upgrade.pdf buat I stuck in the step 4 backing up your existing rom to PC, in romupdate.exe I still confuse about the PORT things. can you help me to, which one to use?
please help...
thanks
Thanks for nice posting AMPDA..
I have a question,
I installed ampda_CameraV2.7b21026_RAM.CAB
but my camera version was 2.70 (build 18727) and it is still the same. I reset the device but still didnt become build 2026.
Do you have an idea?
regards
Guys,
This sharing is really useful. I just bought mine few days ago from ebay. Mine doesn't come with ANY EXT ROM at all! No software such MMS, smart dial etc.
Can anyone provide a link to get back those basic EXT ROM software so that I can upload it back? ftp://ftp.xda-developers.com/ is not working for me. Any help pls?
Pillow...
Pillow write your email address. I'll send you them via email. (Those which are not device spesific).
What is the type of your device and rom versions?
smellypillow said:
Guys,
This sharing is really useful. I just bought mine few days ago from ebay. Mine doesn't come with ANY EXT ROM at all! No software such MMS, smart dial etc.
Can anyone provide a link to get back those basic EXT ROM software so that I can upload it back? ftp://ftp.xda-developers.com/ is not working for me. Any help pls?
Pillow...
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Hi Lupusic,
Thanks a lot for your kind offer. I manage to pull up the files from the FTP using cuteFTP software. Some how my company laptop doesn't allow default browser connection....
My phone is O2 mini and has v.1.13 for both rom & radio. I think it's BigStorage (not sure though).
Any good advice for me? I mean anything at all....
Thx again
Pillow....
Guys, I'm not able to run Boot Image Tool. It gives me this error
Component 'mscomctl.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid
Any idea?
Thx....
Hi AMPDA,
Thanks for all your postings on big storage which gives detailed instructions step-by-step. Very brief and consise. Also now I notice you have put everything into 1 place like a table for pick and choose. Can it get any better ? Can't ask for anything more. You have so many useful cabs and instructions. I have benefitte a great deal. ONCE AGAIN Thank You.
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Hi after putting the official t mobile upgrade on my english mda compat all was well for about 3 weeks then disaster.
If i hard reset and let it load the tmobile custom then when i go in to contacts and load contacts from sim card tthe phone starts playing up big time
If i highlite 1 contact it will not actualey dial that 1 contact but it highlites as many as the styles is draged across
Also if I go into file explorer and try opening the storage card it will open sd card but when i tap a file it just highlites it and all other files that styles is draged across ... please somebody help ...
any ideas ..
even just abuse about me being a newbie is better than the last post i put with 46 viewings and not 1 reply!!!!!!
thanks in advance
Since you now got all these problems, why not try to upgrade to 1.13 or reinstall the 1.12? It might help you. Guess it won't be a good idea to put a backup back on your mda after reinstalling or upgrading.
M
I have tried putting different roms on it taken from this forum but I either get an id/country code error or it gives me the same problem .
I am only useing the roms that are exe files as I am not brave enough to use all the other programs like maug? or what ever it is ....
If i can wipe my mda clean then try putting one back on I hope this will do the trick
So to anybody out there please can you tell me which roms to use or how I can sort my big problem out, that would be nice ..
Abuse is accepted help would be good thank you for looking and I hope it makes you laugh 8)
billbob, download this 1.13 WWE upgrade from here: ftp://xda:[email protected]/Magician/Shipped_ROMS/NL_11300_131_11200.exe
When it's downloaded:
1) Using WINZIP, extract the EXE file to any folder you like.
2) Once you have extracted the files into your directory, download the file attached down here and copy it into the same folder as the files.
3) Double click on the ActiveSync icon, then go File -> Connection Settings
4) Untick Allow USB connection
5) Then run this attached file (MaUpgradeUtNoId.exe) from the folder. It may give you a country id error the first time you run it. If it does, just run it again and it will work!
Hope it fixes your problem. If it doesn't at least you would have the latest ROM ;-)
And when you're really really desperate and want a 'clean' device, so the upgrade program doesn't see your versionz: give it a hard-reset and when the first screen shows after the splash or anytime before you finish the init. procedure give a softreset. This way you won't have an OS so the getdevicedata function is NOT working and the upgrade software will report you're upgrading from version 'blanks only'.
I did it myself but won't recommend it.
Hope you don't need this tip.
M
finger crossed
To all that posted to my problem thanks for your advice / help / knowledge /wisdom /possible good looks (well it sounds good)...
I will be trying this tonight and will tell my story of turmoil in the next installment of " OH NO I'VE F$CKED MY PHONE THAT WILL TEACH ME TO MESS" which will be coming tomorrow to a computer near you ......
:? :!: :!:
Re: finger crossed
billbob said:
To all that posted to my problem thanks for your advice / help / knowledge /wisdom /possible good looks (well it sounds good)...
I will be trying this tonight and will tell my story of turmoil in the next installment of " OH NO I'VE F$CKED MY PHONE THAT WILL TEACH ME TO MESS" which will be coming tomorrow to a computer near you ......
:? :!: :!:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
hmmmmmm
Tried the all new 1.13.00 upgrade and loaded on my contact and hey all was well loaded tomtom on and all still great .finally got to bed at 1.30am
Now to some thats not late but considering i have to be up for work at 5am and then drive a lorry that weighs just under 44tonnes (why do so many people eat heinz soup) this kind of sleep pattern is not a good idea
after weaving my way to the drop off point where i would get some sleep I noticed that the phone had gone in to align screen mode
so phoned t mobile for help .nice person told me "oh your rom is newer than the one on the mda she had and did i do a hard reset after new rom upgrade ?"
anyway did as told and still same problem
sorry for going on
problems are
The contacts cannot be accessed1 at a time
File explorer will not open the file that the stylus is highlighting
the calender hard button puts the phone into align screen mode
this problem happens with diffrent roms on the phone so am thinking WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?????
will be speaking to tmobile tommorow and they may tell me its my fault
so please all you nice kind clever (no we wont put good looking this time )lovely people any help ???????
Sorry billbob i've read this before in a thread, at the time there wasn't a solution provided. Maybe I can find it back.
M
lady I spoke to today sounded impressed that i had 1.13 version on mda will she will be calling me tommorow to advise me what to do
aparently 1 of the engineres was upgradeing his at time of my phone call so that may hav ehelped with my case for them to sort it will tell all tomorrow night
thanks
Cannot find the thread, the guy/girl didn't use correct English (mine isn't perfect too, I know) and I remember that 'stylus' was spelled funny. Searching hasn't provided me with the thread I'm looking for.
By the way, the roms you've tried were they shipped or modified? Or both, otherwise I would have tried a shipped one, guess you've done that by now, don't you?
Hope the lady can help you.
Regards, M
pls help me.im tryign to sell my xda lli,i install a pic whenever me sort reset the xda a topless woman will appeal in the screen.
I thought hard reset this pic will gone..no,its still there.
help me guys.
If anything is there after a hard reset it must be in \Storage
change your splash-screen
Your splash screen isn't stored in storage. On my magician eg it is a separate part of the rom. You managed to change it once & I'm sure you can do the trick again. Just search the ftp for the cab which will flash your splash. If you kept a copy on your PC it's even more simple. And next time use an image that doesn't make you so embarrassed when you wanna sell your device
M
i have lost the cab file...
OK, how to ditch your t.ts.
Found this for u, at the magician upgrading etc. forum:
hshortt said:
Maybe it's just me, but I've read this post here and at Howardforums and I'm clearly missing something.
I've only ever used the nb_image_converter_859_418.exe to convert "any" bmp to the Splash2.NB file.
Then I drop that into my Windows Folder and use MDA3_bootimage_changer2.cab to apply the file. (Yes I'm using a Magician with this file!)
Soft reset and that's that. No need to do any cab file editing.
Cheers
Howard
PS. I've have both tools on my pc and can repost them, but they are from this site!
- http://www.howardshortt.com
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I use this method myself and it works great. Maybe for your device as well. In the same thread, 3rd sticky I belief, they mention an other tool as well.
Good luck with your lovely lady,
M
can i delete the pic in somewhere the boot image file store?
Is she good looking?
(I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist LOL)
she is beautiful
So you soft-reset every hour LOL. Can you pm her I'm getting very curious to see what where talking about?
Still not found the correct cab?
stressss...
Must be quite a challenge to soft reset 20 times in 5 mins with only one hand free :lol:
Gajet: Dude, you ain't right...LOL
i need someone to help me with it...
Dear All,
Some days ago I deleted one file from the Windows dir of my S710.
Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the file I deleted by mistake.
The result is that I cannot open a lot of seetings: wifi, clock, ...
Could someone help me?
Thanks and best regards
Hard Reset
You always have the option of a hard reset to restore your system to out-of-the-box condition. Note however this will lose all software and data so you may want to back up essential items before you do this.
The non-destructive approach will be to compare a filelist from \windows with another VOX. With over 1700 files that could be a way to pass your weekend . I attach a listing from my Vodafone V1415, see if you can spot anything?
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the files!
Do you have a suggestion for a backup program (freeware if it is possible)?
karlym said:
Thanks for the files!
Do you have a suggestion for a backup program (freeware if it is possible)?
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You are quite welcome; let me know if you spot anything missing. If you hunt around the wiki for Blue Angel and other platforms you will find resources to make the ROM viewable. I do not know if this works on the Vox, and you will need a better File Manager than the default. This could also be a route to recovering the file from your own system but is more complex.
I have no suggestion for backup, certainly not freeware. You are better off checking the usual sites for software, paid or free. I use SPB Backup on my Hermes but there is no Smartphone version, otherwise I would recommend it without hesitation.
@nakamater
Why indeed?
Thanks again for your help,
Using Mortscript I compared your windows dir with mine and I created the file with the diffferences.
In another file I listed the possible candidates in my opinion.
please to find them as attachments.
Could you please let me know your opinion?
Kind regards,
Karlym
PM me with your e-mail address.
hello everyone, long time member of howardforums and just joined xda and find some very usefull info, thank you all. i ran into a small problem last night. i have a tilt , not flashed but i have installed the htc home screen and everything worked great. last night i tryed to install the touchflo program found in a few places in this forum and it didn't work but thats when the interesting stuff happen....after deleting all touchflo cab files and restarting the tilt every time at startup it gives me a warning " FTouchFlo.exe cannot be open, its either not signed with a trusted certificate or one of its components can not be found. try reinstalling or restoring file." ????? and now the icon that used to be under the clock for favorite people that would send me their pics so i can just one touch dial is GONE? tryed installing the cab for the htc homescreen again but the same....there is a music short cut that lets me launch the music player that wasn't there before? i downloaded the htc home plugin customisor and even when i set for 6 icons on the bottom of the clock it still just gives me 5?
at the end of the day i would like to have the touchflo program but its not a big deal if i dont, i would however really like to have the pic dialer back on my screen as its really convinient to dial my fav people with it.thanks in advance
try this for the favorite people tab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1614132&highlight=favorite+people#post1614132
To get the favorite people tab back, delete this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/OEM/MASD/QuickDial
i'm asuming this is what you meant? sorry but where do i find this key? thanks
bobcho10 said:
To get the favorite people tab back, delete this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/OEM/MASD/QuickDial
i'm asuming this is what you meant? sorry but where do i find this key? thanks
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Keys are in the registry. To access and change the registry you need a registry viewer/editor. There are many but for simple "everyday" use this is a good one:
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/
Be careful though delete the wrong things and you'll end up needing a hard reset.
Mike
mikechannon said:
Keys are in the registry. To access and change the registry you need a registry viewer/editor. There are many but for simple "everyday" use this is a good one:
http://www.phm.lu/Products/PocketPC/RegEdit/
Be careful though delete the wrong things and you'll end up needing a hard reset.
Mike
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thanks mike, sorry for the noob question but what do i do once i install this on my comp ? do i install on the phone as well and run the program or ? .....
bobcho10 said:
thanks mike, sorry for the noob question but what do i do once i install this on my comp ? do i install on the phone as well and run the program or ? .....
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PHM downloads as a .MSI windows installer. So it will not install properly unless you have your device connected via active sync when you run the downloaded file. So connect your device via usb cable. Let active sync connect and update. Then while still connected run the installer download. During the process a message will pop up on your device. If a choice is offered it will be ok to install to storage card if you have one.
Cheers for now.
Mike
thanks guys , can anyone tell me how to delete .exe files? i still get warnings at start up that touchflo.exe and bio-something-.exe can not run because some files are missing.....thanks
#4 - ADDED MY SOURCE FILES!!!! Just in case u wanna change something
Ok guys...here we go again I try my best to put some of t7he things i like into the same cab...looks huge...but looks nice Some of the best features without touching too much the rom. DISCOVER YOURSELF Is all I can say
1. Random contacts retouch
2. Volume retouch
3. M2D DJ Koa retouch and retouch with Landscape
4. workaround Honeycomb...DJ Koa retouch (best feature is with Josh 21198 v1 ...seems to be fast and skin works better)
5. Keyboard Skin
6. DJ Koa 6.5 Skin (i try to put big menus...but fixing)
7. ...some more tweaks specially on manilla
PS - I will keep adding/fixing things Hugs
Ai ai ai....people complaining about loosing data with this cab. Well..I tested pretty much times with different roms. In any case, please backup ur data before install and please: make sure you have enough space to install and work. And follow the proper steps down. Is easy. And please feedback with ur rom's so I can keep testing.
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Pre-install:
YOU MUST HAVE A SDCARD!How to install?
1. DISABLE TOUCH OR M2D IN TODAY!
2. RUN CAB
3. DON'T LET IT SLEEP WHILE INSTALL!
More caps
Here some more caps...
Looks nice but how do we install two zip files?
Source files!
Ok my friends!!!! I decided to share with you guys the source files for this so that everything is clear If u feel u can change source.
I used Cabwiz to pack it. I FEEL THE Source!
1. Install cabwiz
2. Create a folder to cabwiz folder and unzip the inf into there
3. Unzip the other zips to same folder
4. Run ..\cabwiz "DJKOA M2D 1.00.4000.1903.inf" /compress
it will generate the CAB.
Cheers
Won't install for me, says installation unsuccessful because of insufficient system privileges.
Phone was connected to pc all through installation so did not got to sleep.
thankssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Good stuff mate but this should be posted in Kaiser software section Anyway, going to have a spin at this.
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Won't install for me, says installation unsuccessful because of insufficient system privileges.
Phone was connected to pc all through installation so did not got to sleep.
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djkoa, this is probably because of a single file. Ussaully a dll will cause this. Some dll's don't like being installed via cab. They must be manually copied. Another problem could be that piplewis has a dll or file installed that can't be overwriten. Another usaully a dll problem. I've noticed some dll's, once you replace it, you can't replace it again. The work around I found is to rename said dll as .bak which will cause the ROM to use the original again and allowing the file to finally be replaced.
Overwise, great job, only ther suggestion. I thought about making 1 big cab myself, but realized large cab's are difficult to uninstalled. If the user changes 1 small thing, it won't uninstall and will cause them to need to hard reset. Have that problem with NeoTitanium. People change a registry or something and BAM, can't uninstall it.
piplewis said:
Won't install for me, says installation unsuccessful because of insufficient system privileges.
Phone was connected to pc all through installation so did not got to sleep.
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Same for me. Im really hoping we find a solution to this cuz this looks awesome. I dont have M2D installed though, i dont know if that matters.
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djkoa, this is probably because of a single file. Ussaully a dll will cause this. Some dll's don't like being installed via cab. They must be manually copied. Another problem could be that piplewis has a dll or file installed that can't be overwriten. Another usaully a dll problem. I've noticed some dll's, once you replace it, you can't replace it again. The work around I found is to rename said dll as .bak which will cause the ROM to use the original again and allowing the file to finally be replaced.
Overwise, great job, only ther suggestion. I thought about making 1 big cab myself, but realized large cab's are difficult to uninstalled. If the user changes 1 small thing, it won't uninstall and will cause them to need to hard reset. Have that problem with NeoTitanium. People change a registry or something and BAM, can't uninstall it.
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Pretty spot on when it comes to .dll You can make the the cab itself to step by step rename->copy it. Other than that its a ok project, one idea I thought of is whit youre project to make it more customizeable is to take advatage of one if the autoinstallers. And then make a folder whit all the cabs, if you make the whole SJABANG finish to go out of the box you can lateron change its contents aswell as the users themself.
I have 2-3 of theese setups myself whit payed content as stuff from lakeridge, SPB and so on. Making a cab is good training but not wery customizable in the loong run on this project IMO.
raiisak said:
Pretty spot on when it comes to .dll You can make the the cab itself to step by step rename->copy it. Other than that its a ok project, one idea I thought of is whit youre project to make it more customizeable is to take advatage of one if the autoinstallers. And then make a folder whit all the cabs, if you make the whole SJABANG finish to go out of the box you can lateron change its contents aswell as the users themself.
I have 2-3 of theese setups myself whit payed content as stuff from lakeridge, SPB and so on. Making a cab is good training but not wery customizable in the loong run on this project IMO.
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Another work around for Uninstalling, is to reinstall it first. It's a bit time consuming, but even if WinMo can't uninstall the software when trying to reinstall, it'll still let you reinstall replacing all original files and "Should" let you uninstall finally. A few extra steps and time consuming true, but better than a HArd Reset if it works.
drkfngthdragnlrd said:
Another work around for Uninstalling, is to reinstall it first. It's a bit time consuming, but even if WinMo can't uninstall the software when trying to reinstall, it'll still let you reinstall replacing all original files and "Should" let you uninstall finally. A few extra steps and time consuming true, but better than a HArd Reset if it works.
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Tricks of the trade ".bak reminds me of something "
Would just be better as seperate installs .cabs.
drkfngthdragnlrd said:
Another work around for Uninstalling, is to reinstall it first. It's a bit time consuming, but even if WinMo can't uninstall the software when trying to reinstall, it'll still let you reinstall replacing all original files and "Should" let you uninstall finally. A few extra steps and time consuming true, but better than a HArd Reset if it works.
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Getting the perfect setup is wery time consuming, its no secret that the order its installed, register strings overlap eachoter and so on will count for the final result. Reinstalling the cab just to have it removed from installed list doesnt mean you have a good uninstallation. Going from one setup to another whit several cabs when it comes to interface, its almsout inevitable that you going to hard reset to have a fresh installation.
My thought was that its easyer to update the package itself, not update the software on the phone
Ok, I disabled m2d and without soft resetting (after 1st attempt) tried to install again. This time it seems to have installed.
Just restarting now, will let you know.
*Edit*
Yup, seems to have installed fine now.
I can't uninstall......hardreset now
Hi, is it possible you can make this into a .cab.
piplewis said:
Ok, I disabled m2d and without soft resetting (after 1st attempt) tried to install again. This time it seems to have installed.
Just restarting now, will let you know.
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Hmm, I think I am going to pass on this on for now. All brewed in like this is unlikly that im going to have a good installation IMO. Should be step by step whit whit atleast one reset as far as I could see (HTC HOME),. Good combination, no doubth. But to just gather everything in one big cab im not a fan of. Also I would take advatage of pre-xml in making of this
I dont mean to be critical in a bad way here, its good training and as I sad good combination. I didnt pop the setup.dll as I stopped looking after a minutt, clearly you havent used that much time on this mister Also this installation is expect upon that you have a SD card in phone upon installation (but who doesnt have that, but still a good thing to inform on).
I perform a remove it, run it and after about 5 minutes of it can not remove so I hardreset
after hardreset (keep in storage Kaiser) the entire all data on my storage end are lost, empty storage .... please help me,
So....anyone try it and check
sported said:
I perform a remove it, run it and after about 5 minutes of it can not remove so I hardreset
after hardreset (keep in storage Kaiser) the entire all data on my storage end are lost, empty storage .... please help me,
So....anyone try it and check
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That is what happens when you hard reset the phone. All the data:contacts, messages, pictures, songs, etc. are lost. You should had used ppm backup (I think that is what its called) to save your contacts and messages on a sd card on computer.
dooyoo222 said:
That is what happens when you hard reset the phone. All the data:contacts, messages, pictures, songs, etc. are lost. You should had used ppm backup (I think that is what its called) to save your contacts and messages on a sd card on computer.
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You probobly mean PIM backup and he can find it here: http://frifor.com/download/IBI/PIM_BACKUP_V2.8_MONX.CAB