I upgraded my O2 XDA to 2005 rom cant remeber which one it was as it was a year ago says rom version 2.00a.96WWE 10/30/05.
However the xBackup never worked and I have been putting off and putting of the back up. I really need to back up my SMS messages.
Can any one help me to get the messages off the PDA. I dont care what format even if they are in one hex file. I can write an application to extract the sms from that. But I just dont know where in the phones memory they are stored and how to extract them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thx in advance.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=305673&highlight=sms+BACKup
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hi all i loose all my contact from outlouk and from the pda
after i upgrade to 72 version i have one backup from my old 66 version all my contact its there but how can i restore it ????
i fund a tools STGViewer i can see the file in my backup but i can not restor any database please help
sacaman
do activesync !!!
Have you done 'activesync' between your ppc & pc ???
yes but i dont know whats happend i loose all data in both
sorry, friend!
i have no idea !!!
many many time, i did hardreset, flashing, up/downgrade rom ........i never loose contact, calendar, task & appointment.
as far as i know, that is backup automaticaly on 'activesync' on my pc.
i hope the others, can help you !!!
thank,s
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=9276&highlight=stg
but i can not restore database contact
there are many different tools to unpack those backup files are you sure that non of them let you take out contacts ?
yes because all of them is for old rom 1.58WWE and 1.66FR but i know that all my contact is insaid
thank's for you if you found for me any tools to extract this i will be grate
sacaman
Use MobileVault - worked for me...
Hi, I was using the guide here: http://karhoe.net/content/view/21/1/#josc641 to upgrade my phone from WM5 to WM6.1 using Standard ROM from XDA-Developers, made by illi & rickywatt.
before flashing, i transferred a copy of the pim.vol file to my computer. after flashing, I try to transfer it back into the new WM6.1 OS to restore my contact. But after that, when i try to access my contacts, just the title page pops up momentarily for like 1 second and then it's gone.
anyone know how to fix?
thank you
kyniemxotxa98 said:
Hi, I was using the guide here: http://karhoe.net/content/view/21/1/#josc641 to upgrade my phone from WM5 to WM6.1 using Standard ROM from XDA-Developers, made by illi & rickywatt.
before flashing, i transferred a copy of the pim.vol file to my computer. after flashing, I try to transfer it back into the new WM6.1 OS to restore my contact. But after that, when i try to access my contacts, just the title page pops up momentarily for like 1 second and then it's gone.
anyone know how to fix?
thank you
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why u not use PimBackup before flashing?
i didn't know such a software existed. excuse my ignorance.. what can i do now?
--> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269237
Looks like the structur of the pim.vol file changed from WM5 to WM6. I'm afraid you're copy is useless unless you find a way to extract your contacts.
A solution might be to reflash WM5, use your pim.vol-copy to restore the ontatcs & then use another way of backing up your contacts before flashing WM6.
I installed a new ROM and the contacts i had on my phone are all gone. I have a G1. The contacts i had on my google account are still there, but the ones i added the past 6 months on my phone manually are gone. I saved my entire SD card to a folder on my desktop. I cant find them on there. Is there anyway I can recover my contacts? Its not on the SIM card either.
Losing contacts after flashing to a new ROM ? Of course this happens, that is why one should use the free PIM Backup application.
Sorry to inform you about this..
And no, you can not retrieve them in any way! There is no UNFLASH / UNFORMAT / UNDELETE on WM / WP, yet.
How about recovery? I think i backed up my phone at reboot menu earlier. I have recovery.img
try it!
Try it! Though do not expect miracles.. I know I never did, because I do not have an utility which enables me to 'browse' such an image, let alone 'change' it in any way
Anyway, maybe you have some luck? Some welcome luck
Please let us know if you have solved it.....
Hi everyone,
i recently rooted my phone and deleted faebook for htc sense (like a dumbass) not realizing that my phonebook no longer syncs with facebook. i downloaded the apk, but for some reason when using astro the file size and data is 0. don't know what the problem is bec the file def has data on it, i can see it on my comp.
please help anyone. don't know if the answer is to flash a custom rom or not
any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks
Hello, I have a question I hope you can help me with...
I've got a nexus S 2.3 and Ive just deleted a very important text msg thread, have I lost it forever or is there anyway that I can recover it??
If I can recover it can you please tell me what I should do as I ve never done anything ike this before. Many thanks, concerned android user.
Never tried anything like this before, so just some ideas as a general outline:
The first thing you should do is a complete image of the phone before the data can be overwritten (if it isn't already).
There is no convenient way to undelete that I know of.
I would search for the sms database file and try some sqlite tools on it. Look if there are entries that are marked as deleted or something.
If that doesn't bring anything up, I would use a good (hex-)editor to extract the strings from the file and see, if the data is somehow still there.
Anyway it will probably mean a lot of work, depending on how many sms you have stored and the best you should hope for is that you can manually reconstruct the thread in a text file or on a piece of paper.
Hello cgi,
thanks for the reply with advice!!
what is a complete image? how do i do this?
how do i search the sms database?
where do i get hex editor from?
do i need to back up any data before trying to recover anything?
many thanks,
Ray
what is a complete image? how do i do this?
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An image is a complete copy of the data on the phone. The easiest way to do that is to use a custom recovery system like clockworkmod recovery. If you have a custom ROM installed, chances are, that you already have it.
First: Is your bootloader locked or unlocked?
Second: Which version of Android exactly is one your phone?
If your bootloader is unlocked, you can install a recovery image that will let you backup the data partition where your sms database should reside.
If your bootloader is locked but your Android version is 2.3.3 or lower, you can use an exploit that let's install a different recovery image.
If your bootloader is locked and your Android version 2.3.4 (and your phone is not rooted), then AFAIK you are out of luck.
how do i search the sms database?
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I don't know in which files your sms are being stored, but it should not be that hard to find out.
where do i get hex editor from?
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There are a lot out there. I use okteta from the KDE project, but you can use whichever you want. You could use notepad, too, i guess, but that won't make things any easier.
do i need to back up any data before trying to recover anything?
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That's the image I was talking about. You would first copy all the data on your computer.
CGIi,
Many many thanks for taking the time to reply to my question!!
I dont think there is much chance of recovering this thread, my friend has about half of the 900 texts in the thread which makes it slighty easier to swalow.
once again the importance of backing things up is key to keeping the pics, files, texts you want to keep. I'l try to do this even more in the future, I'm so sick of losing data from old mobiles, PC'S etc, I'm gonna back up everything from now on!!
Many thanks again, RAY