On my tmobile uk mda pro(exec) running wm5,were do i find the pim or contacts file to copy to sd card,to save my contacts
Thank you very much :wink:
You can find the file pim.vol in the root directory of your device.
Copy it to your SDcard.
To place it back after a clean install, you'll have to rename the clean pim.vol (to pim.old or something) and copy your backup to your root back again. Soft reset and voila. :lol:
thank you very much
anyone know which file pim.vol is located pls.sorry but i just cant find the bugger :?
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jaceuk said:
anyone know which file pim.vol is located pls.sorry but i just cant find the bugger :?
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What do you mean?
There is a file named pim.vol in the root directory of your device.
Open file explorer (on the device), in the top bar select 'my device' (top option), and you will see a file called pim (file explorer on PPCs doesn't sow extensions).
Just copy that to SD.
oddly ive looked there loads of times but lastnight i found it cheers,
i think maybe i was in portrate mode and it was sat at the bottom off screen doh!!
one of those things well sorted now thanks,worked a treat renaming the file and after a hard reset it saved all contacts no problem
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Hi, I am new to my omnia, and am wondering how to backup files safely... mainly qa_layouts.dat from the SPB menu 3. I am trying to download some of Mskip's widgets. I am worried I will back it up wrong, and loose it.
Do I just copy and paste the file to my storage (aka storage card), or what?
Please help, thanks!
Also, do I need software to do it? Like SPB backup, or sprites?
qa_layouts.dat is a plain file like any other so just copy it somewhere other than its program directory so that in the event something goes wrong you can just copy it back into place. Doesn't need any extra software, even copy it via ActiveSync back to your PC
Thanks! I'll do this.
Looking for an app, mod, commandline, something, that can make a folder on my SD card, not be read by the gallery.
Id like some stuff to not show up in the gallery by default. The same would be nice for music as well, something that will allow you to select a folder on the SD card to not include music files in the music app.
Anyone know of anything like this, whether it be an ADB command line, something i can do in terminal with su, an app, a mod, etc etc?
Create a file named ".nomedia" and put it in the folder you are trying to omit
Another tip to stop a folders contents showing in Gallery is to simply put a "." (a fullstop/period) infront of the folder name.
Also, to refresh the galleries once you've done the above, go into Dev Tools and run 'Media Scanner'
Thanks for the replies... seems simple enough. Thank you for all the suggestions.
Just to give you a little more breakdown, the easiest way to do this (from a Windows PC) is to create a blank text file on your PC and copy it to the folder on your SD Card, then use an explorer app like Astro File Manager to rename it to .nomedia (since Windows won't let you name a file .nomedia).
Just to give you a little more breakdown, the easiest way to do this (from a Windows PC) is to create a blank text file on your PC and copy it to the folder on your SD Card, then use an explorer app like Astro File Manager to rename it to .nomedia (since Windows won't let you name a file .nomedia).
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That's exactly what I did. Once on my SD card, I used astro to copy paste it to the other directories I wanted to exclude.
Again, thanks for the help.
stshannon said:
That's exactly what I did. Once on my SD card, I used astro to copy paste it to the other directories I wanted to exclude.
Again, thanks for the help.
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would that be a working work-around solution for such badly written apps such as Asphalt 5 (which makes its music & sounds appear in the Music playlist)?
Answer and suggestions provided; thread closed.
ive downloaded some ringtones/notifications and they automatically show up in the respective fields when going to select them as such, but for the life of me i cannot find them anywhere on the phones internal and external memory (i want to delete the ones i dont like). i have a folder setup on my sd card for such items. i know on my desire everything i downloaded showed up in a download folder on my sd card but with the mesmerize only pictures that i download show up there. i've tried locating them with root explorer and file manager but not having any luck. any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated
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ive downloaded some ringtones/notifications and they automatically show up in the respective fields when going to select them as such, but for the life of me i cannot find them anywhere on the phones internal and external memory (i want to delete the ones i dont like). i have a folder setup on my sd card for such items. i know on my desire everything i downloaded showed up in a download folder on my sd card but with the mesmerize only pictures that i download show up there. i've tried locating them with root explorer and file manager but not having any luck. any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated
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If you downloaded them from your phone onto your phone, they'll be in your download folder on your sdcard. If it was from an app, that app might have made a folder on your sd card, titanium backup made one on mine.
I know that's where they should go but if I download from myxer.com it automatically goes into the ringtones/notifications under settings and yesterday when I unzip a file that contained sounds it did the same thing. I can't find them in my system memory in the audio folder or on my SD cards audio folder.
try looking in sdcard/media/audio/(ringtones/alarms/notifications)
/system/media/audio
is the location of the default sounds
You could also try running a search like *.mp3 or *.ogg
Tried looking every where I could think of and suggested I even tried searching for then, still no luck locating them. If all else fails I'm just going to do a factory reset just to rid myself of this annoyance.
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I had to reset my phone tonight and I backed up everything to the cloud and I backed up my SMS as well using the stock app, for which I have a HBK file sent to my email.
Now, I am having trouble restoring the SMS, the phone says : "no back up files found" . I did transfer the HBK file to the phone but its not working, Is there a specific fold for it ?
Thank you
Hell all, after a good night of sleep I was resolved the problem this morning
There is indeed a specific folder the HBK file has to go into, it's called "SMS_back-up" , it resides in the SD card menu, along Android, Pictures, etc...
I had to create a new SMS back in order to create the file folder needed to complete the restoration, after that I simply copied the HBK file into that folder and the restoration was done!
Hope this helps
First off, sorry if this is not the right place to post this.
I've googled around and can find lots of answers to 'where does ROM manager store backups' but that doesn't help me with this.
In the past I've backed up a ROM then moved it (using something like Root Explorer) to my external card and also because I want a backup on my computer - I just copied the file across.
But now the files (and folders) are invisible to my PC.
I tried moving it, renaming the folder, creating a new folder and moving the contents out of the original folder into the new one... but to no avail. The PC simply cannot see what ever folder contains the backup.
But If I look in the same location using Root Explorer, the backup is sitting there clear as day.
I pretty much always have 'show hidden files' turned on on my PC anyway - why can't I see/transfer the backup to my computer?