hi
i recently formatted my pc as i was setting everything up i went to set up my xda orbit with my pc i connected it all up n installed windows mobile center. it then asked me to create a partnership i did this then the next thing i know its deleted all my contacts. my txt messages before format still contain the senders name but when i point it with the stylus it says to create a new contact. i have a complete backup of the my documents folder from before the format. is there any way i can retrieve my contacts details.....
Thanks pcdave
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Lost ALL data on my XDA II. Now my PC recognises it as a divverent device. Anybody know how I can get the info from the old ActiveSync profile moved to the new one? There's no backup file. PLEASE reply to [email protected]
well do you mean the files ?
the contacts appointments and note and such ?
anyway all the activesync stuff are located in
documents and settings\USERNAME\Application Data\microsoft\activesync
and also in documents and settings\USERNAME\my pocketpc documents or what ever it's called
but if you dident backup anything then most programs will be requiring a reinstall
Hello,
I just bought my HTC and moved all my contact in there. I never synchronized it with my PC.
Recently, I created an outlook account, then i decided to erase it (the only one left). While doing this, the system prompted that it will launch activeSync and requested the synchronization of Contacts/Tasks/Calender. I accepeted because i thought my HTC was not connected to my PC anyway so it will not cause anything. Bad luck for me, it appears that it did erase all my contacts, calender, tasks (sounds like it synchronized it with empty files) !!!!
No i am in trouble because i lost all my contacts without any backup or having done any synch with my laptop !!!
PLEASE CAN ANYONE TELL ME if there is anyway to recover these data from my mobile !!!! Any place where these deleted items could be retrieved from ?Any recovery tool that i could use ???
PS: I have not performed any soft or hard reset of my mobile yet...
Thanks in davance for your help...
I wonder if doing a system restore on your PC to a date prior to deleting that outlook profile will do the trick?
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nope, a system restore "will not" do the trick!!
Sorry to hear you lost you contacts! I know how you feel... The best thing I have done was to sync with an exchange server. Now all that important data is there if I run into a problem. So whenever I flash a new ROM our screw everything up, I just connect to the Exchange Server and all is well.
I fortunately get to use the sever at my work so no $$ involved.
Hi,
I would like help in how to transfer my contacts and sms messages from my sony ericsson K310i (Java based) to Samsung I8000 OmniaII (Windows Mobile based).
As for transfering contacts, i tried copying all my contacts to sim in my K310 then copy to phone on the I8000, i get weird entries in the form
LastName;FirstName/M (M: for mobile, W for work)
and it recognizes all that as a single name, i.e. if i want to edit the contact, LastName;FirstName/M will all be in the First Name field.
I think there might be a solution using K310 and a PC but i don't have a data cable and it's hard to get one currently.
Any help would be appreciated.
transfer contacts to Omnia II
if you can save your K310i contacts to a .vcf (vcard ) file then there's a windows mobile utility "vcard expert" available from the microsoft & samsung app stores that will transfer your contacts onto your Omnia II with correct formatting.
You could send this vcf file as an attachment in email to yourself then save the attachment to your device and load into the app. So you wouldn't need any data cables to do the transfer.
Thank you for your reply, it helped even if not directly. i forgot to say that i'm missing the K310i data cable not the OmniaII one (so its impossible to export contacts from K310i as the only option available is via infrared), but your info regarding .vcf files gave a new terms to my google searches.
I found an old infrared adapter. I tried first the option to export via infrared from the K310i and got a .vcf file, which when imported in outlook gave me just the first contact (although i opened in a notepad and saw all contacts there), any solutions there?
I then managed to use "My Phone Explorer" to sync contacts with outlook, then sync OmniaII with new contacts.
Now the only thing remaining is that i need to transfer my messages to the phone. My phone explorer can export messages in .sms/.csv/.txt file formats. I tried imobiletool sms backup to restore a .sms/.csv files but without luck (the WM program will not even see the file. and the pc program will give "file validation error" when tried to import). Any insight as how to import .sms messages?
Edit: I found a program that can split the single vcf file into multiple files each one for a contact, callud suppcom vcard splitter. still outlook has no right to refuse the single vcf file!
Edit: Its damn annoying that all the SMS backup/restore programs i found only restore backups created by the same program...sigh, is there no standards or compatibilty between programs??
Anyone have a solution to transfer sms to windows mobile phone, please?
Hey guys,
My dad his phone his screen was not responding anymore and he needed his contacts from the phone. (the device is an old htc touch). So after some research on the internet I have found a way to recover all the data (especially the contacts) from this windows mobile phone.
Why am I writing this ?
Well it seems that a lot of people have problems retrieving data from their pim.vol. Just like me I was searching for a solution and would like to share it.
What was the problem ?
Well first of all connecting to the phone was already a pain in the ass. Then recovering the data. And extracting the information out of the pim.vol.
What is the solution ?
First I tried on a windows xp and installed some drivers, but it was not working. Then I used my windows 7 and he downloaded the drivers for the phone + (and this is needed) windows device manager.
In windows device manager I syncronized the cellphone for retrieving all the data. I did not open anything because he was copying all the information into outlook. The contacts also syncronized.
After the syncronizing I opened outlook (2007) and there they were. All of the phone contacts were syncronized. Now I clicked file -> import/export.
Then I selected export to file and exported to comma seperated value (csv) (WINDOWS)
After this step I uploaded them into his gmail and they were syncronized and safe. Now if his phone crashes he always have a backup.
Something that baffled me was contacts that went missing on my xda orbit..I now realise that the contact are on the sim as well as the phone. I have now put my sim card into my HTC HD mini but a large number of contacts are still on my xda.?
Ive searched the web....I cannot find the contacts folder on my xda using sync with PC...and I don’t want to sync the phone contacts with my outlook contact.
Can any advise how I can group all the contacts together and edit them before storing back on the HD mini.
well there should be an option to transfer your phone contacts to SIM. And then copy from SIM to your HD.
OR there are softwares to backup and restore contacts, search for Contacts backup.
Cheers, I was hoping that there was some tool to export or save contacts from the phone in say an excel format so I could manage them on the PC.