the problem:
i receive daily around 50 sms's (very soon will be twice more), with just a line in a subject -so basically i need something to export the content from those XX sms's - into a singe txt file, or maybe a excel sheet (even better), not the copy/forward/paste way i do - takes some time :/
.. and the question is: did anyone saw/used something like that? cause the most programs i checked are for backup, and save all the data (tel, date...etc.) in separate files, biut i only need the contents of all sms's saved together into a single file.
prehaps i might need some sms-parser, but didnt saw a product like that.
..so, anyone can help or i'll have to do that copy/paste for for the rest of my life ?
thanks in advance.
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I'm just wondering if this is just my issue or if it's a common issue with WM5/WM6 and or the latest ActiveSync, 4.5. I'm having issues with syncing Excel files that used to sync just fine on WM2003. I have large spreadsheets that are about 325kb in size on the desktop. When I sync the file, it's the same size until I open it and try to make changes and save it. Then I get the following error:
"Unsupported content and formatting may be lost if you save this workbook..."
The only way I can save the spreadsheet is to rename it and create a new one with the same name. It then writes over the original file, taking up to 30 seconds to save. The file is then 969kbs in size. And every time I edit on the PC it goes back to 325kbs. Then when I edit on the PPC, it goes through this again, making the file almost a Meg.
Is there any way to just sync the file with just one format? This is really annoying. Also, sometimes my date formats are changed from month-day-year to day-year-month, or something retarded like that. Really freakin annoying to say the least. You buy MS products and they're not even compatible. I feel like I have a Palm trying to sync Apple documents or something. It's really ridiculous! I'm hoping that one of you genius' can point me to a setting that I've overlooked to fix this. Please help!
PS, I've tried to change the conversion settings in Active sync as well with no apparant effects.
dear all!!!
really it's so hard to restore many pimbackup.pib files on a device...
i have been searching for an extracor, or kind of emulator that alow me to view the backuped file on my pc...
thankyou
best regards...
moiisse
If I remember correctly, you can rename the .PIB file as a .ZIP and then look at it with your "favourite archive tool".... Within the ZIP/PIB file there are loads of CSV format files for each of the messages/contacts/phone logs etc.
The only problem may/might/will be if you did the PIM backup in binary format; your best bet would be to post on the PIMbackup thread (here) and see if Dotfred or anyone else can help
Cheers,
Mark.
Dear Mark
I have tried this trick but the files I got were not .CSV one some other extension files. I am afraid if I am doing anything wrong.
The extension is not .CSV, but they are in CSV format. If you rename them to .CSV and open them with Microsoft Excel or Openoffice Calc (or whatever), they can be imported as semicolon delimited files (so strictly speaking, they're SSV - "Semicolon Separated Values" rather than CSV )
Hope that helps,
Mark.
That was a great tip!
Any idea how to import these into an Android Phone - just got an HTC Hero today. Took a backup of my existing contacts, sms etc from WM6.5 (HTC Touch HD) and could see the .pib (renamed as .zip) and individual files (which I renamed as .csv)..
Guess there might be a simple trick to restore them as well in HTC Hero?
I think I may have found something........
sam_htc_touch said:
Any idea how to import these into an Android Phone - just got an HTC Hero today. Took a backup of my existing contacts, sms etc from WM6.5 (HTC Touch HD) and could see the .pib (renamed as .zip) and individual files (which I renamed as .csv)..
Guess there might be a simple trick to restore them as well in HTC Hero?
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I was about to say I have no idea and I don't really care (about Android phones that is, not your problem getting your messages onto your Hero!), but then.......
I found this - Sprite Software's FREE (at the moment) migration software - which looks like the answer to your prayers
I've seen a report from someone who used it - apparently, it's pretty slow, but as it's a "one-time" transfer operation.....who cares how long "free" takes!!!???
Let us know how you get on - and post something in the Android-related forums so that other users can benefit.....
Cheers,
Mark.
(At times like this, I wish I had a Paypal "donate" button.....this gem of wisdom is surely worth a buck/quid/euro or two ....Ho hum!!!)
Excellent! That seems to be promising!
Just tried using that and tried to restore only the sms on my android, however it gave an error. Have emailed sprite software the relevant log file, lets see if they come up with the reason of failure. Guess it might have something to do with the threaded view on my win mob 6.5
PS : Paypal donate button shudn't be that difficult to get
And yes just thought that I would mention about the contacts - its actually very easy - just get them into csv file using the trick that you mentioned above and then import the csv file in gmail contacts! that's it! gmail automatically syncs the contacts thereafter!
Mark Crouch said:
I was about to say I have no idea and I don't really care (about Android phones that is, not your problem getting your messages onto your Hero!), but then.......
I found this - Sprite Software's FREE (at the moment) migration software - which looks like the answer to your prayers
I've seen a report from someone who used it - apparently, it's pretty slow, but as it's a "one-time" transfer operation.....who cares how long "free" takes!!!???
Let us know how you get on - and post something in the Android-related forums so that other users can benefit.....
Cheers,
Mark.
(At times like this, I wish I had a Paypal "donate" button.....this gem of wisdom is surely worth a buck/quid/euro or two ....Ho hum!!!)
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Hi Mark (Am I Noob to Android)
It seems like, you have solved the issue here. I did have one question for you:
What if you allready had a PIM back of your old phone. Then the phone you have sold it. But you still the the PIM backup file on your SD card. Can you still go on to follow and start from 2 step and then step 3.
Or is the another way of doing this then?
Many Thanks.
yes u should be able too as long as the PIM file is on your SD card. you can just directly transfer it onto your PC, then rename it to a ZIP file and proceed as instructed above.
sam_htc_touch said:
Any idea how to import these into an Android Phone - just got an HTC Hero today. Took a backup of my existing contacts, sms etc from WM6.5 (HTC Touch HD) and could see the .pib (renamed as .zip) and individual files (which I renamed as .csv)..
Guess there might be a simple trick to restore them as well in HTC Hero?
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tried it..
i just took the contacts.csv file ,tried to extract with gmail...
then
An unknown error occurred while importing your contacts.Learn more
.....oohhhh.....really needed help
Hello to everyone!
I had an HTC Touch HD and after a serious accident it's officially dead! I had a backup of contacts and messages to my sd card and i did what is described. I renamed it to .zip and i extracted it to my pc.. The result i get is files .pba, .pbl, .pbc, .pbx, .pbd and .pbt
Does anyone know what is all that and how i can use them in android phone????
please help me!
isovitis33 said:
Hello to everyone!
I had an HTC Touch HD and after a serious accident it's officially dead! I had a backup of contacts and messages to my sd card and i did what is described. I renamed it to .zip and i extracted it to my pc.. The result i get is files .pba, .pbl, .pbc, .pbx, .pbd and .pbt
Does anyone know what is all that and how i can use them in android phone????
please help me!
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that is what I got also, I tried importing data to excel (with / without renaming to csv or ssv) but the text was not understandable in any language so I did not even proceed in selecting the separator and actually import the data.
Mr Black'd said:
that is what I got also, I tried importing data to excel (with / without renaming to csv or ssv) but the text was not understandable in any language so I did not even proceed in selecting the separator and actually import the data.
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Come on guys read a little more on the web, if you would have done so you would have figured out you have the binary backup files, not the text file, so what you need to do is convert. Now if you press the search button for the forum you would have found this interesting link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=424641
the title says: 'Convert PIM Backup binary file to text without using windows mobile device'
(considering yours broke like mine)
You can read there that you can convert it to a text file using an emulator on your pc and subsequentlyfollow the steps that were described here...
First of all what makes you think that none has bothered to use search button or at least Google the issue?
Second and last ok you have proved us stupid.
Anyway thanks for the link even though a late reply cause personally I have solved my issues.
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Hi!
Tried searching about this, but can't find any easy answers.
My HD2 is full of .vol files on the unit storage which is using a lot of memory. Can I delete these files, or are they important? Like cuengine.vol and pim.vol.
I know this question may seem retarded to some, but I'm a rookie on these kind of things.
Pim.vol is you contacts and other pim info. You can't delete it, and you don't want to. You can edit it (remove old tasks and calendar items). SK Tools is probably the best way to do it. You can also reduce the size of cemail.vol by deleting old texts and emails. I don't know what cuengine.vol is, but I doubt you want to erase it. You pretty much want to leave them all alone (particularly the ones on the device root). You can delete a few, like uploader.vol, if it really bugs you, or maybe some of the facebook databases, if you use the facebook app. You can also delete album.vol off your sd card root. I don't know why, but on my sd card, album.vol grew to 9MB. I deleted it a few months ago, and it's been 32 kb since then.
Thanks! Yeah, I think I'll just leave them Found something else I could delete!
Hi,
So I have a VX6700 w/WM5 which the screen broke on yesterday. I was able to extract the contracts from the pim.vol file, however I do not see my SMS Messages. So here is my question and some of the directions I think this can go. I want to be able to extract the SMS Messages, but I have yet to find a file that they are located in nor hear anyone talk about where exactly.
So, is there db file I can grab and export
Or, is there a way I can run SMSBackup or another tool remotely on there? I can't see the screen but I can of course still communicate with it over the data cable, so if there was a program I could run remotely without needing to click on anything, I'm in the good. I don't really know much about WM but I think both of these should be possible.
Thanks!
Edit: so it looks like the cemail.vol file is what I need, but it is protected by the OS. And it looks like just about every tool I've came across needs to be ran on the phone, so I will likely need to be able to do some remote execution somehow.
So a while ago I grabbed a Motorola G2, made a complete physical memory dump to file “Full_Phone_Backup.image” I also have a .vhd which will not mount, but I remember very clearly extracting the contacts list from it.
I didn’t keep records of how I went about doing it, but I’m sure it was some busybox or cygwin and I’m very sure the file contains all the partitions. Don’t know what happened to .vhd, but I also can’t make a new one either, so bad luck I guess. Anyway, now I need to extract SMS messages from it, and so I turned to Foremost. With the following in a foremost-db.conf:
Code:
db n 4000000 \x53\x51\x4c\x69\x74\x65\x20\x66\x6f\x72\x6d\x61\x74\x20\x33\x00
I hoped to get a good rundown of the databases and extract from there. Now, I don’t need deleted messages or anything, I need to find the SMS messages that would be there as if the phone was on right now. Well, that and search them.
So, Foremost carved a whooping 36 GiB of .db files, which I think suggests that the file header is actually not for SQLite 3 file as much as for a part of SQLite3 file, and one file may contain many. Secondary evidence of that is that massive number of files contain the same data shifted a more or less uniform number of lines (like an entire block shifted 1k lines down across 10 files before it completely disappears).
Anyway, from the carved DB files I got meaningful e-mail messages, from the carved photos and videos, I got meaningful pictures (ones which would be on this phone), so I am sure data is there. Problem is, I could not find the messages I’m looking for. I was unable to find a single SMS message, I was unable to browse any of the recovered databases with sqlite database browsers, and the most useful thing I was able to do was to use Ransack in windows to search for relevant text in those recovered files.
What am I doing wrong that I’m not finding SMS messages or any relevant text in this mess?
KYKYLLIKA said:
So a while ago I grabbed a Motorola G2, made a complete physical memory dump to file “Full_Phone_Backup.image” I also have a .vhd which will not mount, but I remember very clearly extracting the contacts list from it.
I didn’t keep records of how I went about doing it, but I’m sure it was some busybox or cygwin and I’m very sure the file contains all the partitions. Don’t know what happened to .vhd, but I also can’t make a new one either, so bad luck I guess. Anyway, now I need to extract SMS messages from it, and so I turned to Foremost. With the following in a foremost-db.conf:
Code:
dbn 4000000\x53\x51\x4c\x69\x74\x65\x20\x66\x6f\x72\x6d\x61\x74\x20\x33\x00
I hoped to get a good rundown of the databases and extract from there. Now, I don’t need deleted messages or anything, I need to find the SMS messages that would be there as if the phone was on right now. Well, that and search them.
So, Foremost carved a whooping 36 GiB of .db files, which I think suggests that the file header is actually not for SQLite 3 file as much as for a part of SQLite3 file, and one file may contain many. Secondary evidence of that is that massive number of files contain the same data shifted a more or less uniform number of lines (like an entire block shifted 1k lines down across 10 files before it completely disappears).
Anyway, from the carved DB files I got meaningful e-mail messages, from the carved photos and videos, I got meaningful pictures (ones which would be on this phone), so I am sure data is there. Problem is, I could not find the messages I’m looking for. I was unable to find a single SMS message, I was unable to browse any of the recovered databases with sqlite database browsers, and the most useful thing I was able to do was to use Ransack in windows to search for relevant text in those recovered files.
What am I doing wrong that I’m not finding SMS messages or any relevant text in this mess?
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You can't get into the phone and use SMS backup app or PC to backup your SMS? Can you back them up to your Google account and then recover them from there?
There are several ways to recover SMS from a device, is this method the only one you've tried?
Are you recovering your SMS or someone else's?
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KYKYLLIKA said:
So a while ago I grabbed a Motorola G2, made a complete physical memory dump to file “Full_Phone_Backup.image”
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and I’m very sure the file contains all the partitions.
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How did you make this Backup.image? In my question over here I dreamt of something like 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/image.bak' for a really complete backup. Did you make your complete memory dump in such a way and would i be possible to write it back to the phone?
Thanks!
Droidriven said:
You can't get into the phone and use SMS backup app or PC to backup your SMS? Can you back them up to your Google account and then recover them from there?
There are several ways to recover SMS from a device, is this method the only one you've tried?
Are you recovering your SMS or someone else's?
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This is my sister’s phone. The backup is from 16 months back or so. I can’t go search the SMS it has now, because updates been around since then, including a new version of android, and all that. It does not have the old messages.
What I tried is a sqlite forensics utility called “sqlite forensics reporter”, but no luck with that either. Piriform recuva did not work, and I was unable to mount it as a virtual hard drive or find a part of it that I could mount as a virtual hard drive.
andy_ross said:
How did you make this Backup.image? In my question over here I dreamt of something like 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/image.bak' for a really complete backup. Did you make your complete memory dump in such a way and would i be possible to write it back to the phone?
Thanks!
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This is entirely possible. However, I cannot find the boot record in there or a partition table, which is very strange. I do remember dumping all the partitions in that file, though. It’s been over a year now, so details kind of gone fuzzy. I am sure I could write it back to a phone and use like that, but I don’t have a suitable surrogate phone or a virtual machine to try that on. I will not do it on the device itself, seeing as how it’s in use and all that. I just want to find the text of some messages.