My friend has a Qtek Wizard from Vodafone, which (as he's an apple mac user) he's never set up to use Activesync, and has never synchronised.
Now he's managed to break his usb connector, and so can no longer use the machine (can't charge it). Vodafone have offered to repair it for him, but tell him they'll wipe the memory when they do, which means he loses a year's important business contacts.
So, after having agood laugh at his non- existent back- up policy, I offered to help him get his data.
But I'm stuck - I can't find a way of getting the data off his Wizard.
Things I've tried:
1. Activesync via either bluetooth or infrared:
Didn't work - I assume because the first async relationship must be via USB?
2. copying his pim.vol file onto an sd card and transferring it onto my own wizard (02 ROM) (renaming the original pim.vol on my machine to pim-old.vol, and installing his into the root directory
couldn't get the contacts or calendar to open at all. Had to do a hard reset and wipe the phone completely to be able to sync back with my own PC again
- any ideas? I guess the ideal would be to find a way to conver the pim.vol file into a format that can be imported into outlook or whatever Mac users have that's equivalent
copy a backup app to a mem card. install from card to device and then backup device to mem card. restore to phone once vodafone have fix it.
Check his and your OS version. The 'pim.vol' method should work if both PPCs are using the same OS. From what it seems, it is likely to be different OS.
Look for the "PIM Backup" in this forum. It is an OS independant backup software for.. PIM stuff (e.g. including calendar and contacts).
jdl1306 said:
copy a backup app to a mem card. install from card to device and then backup device to mem card. restore to phone once vodafone have fix it.
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Thanks jdl - can you recommend a backup app? I've only ever installed apps using activesync before now - is it easy to do from a card?
hanmin said:
Check his and your OS version. The 'pim.vol' method should work if both PPCs are using the same OS. From what it seems, it is likely to be different OS.
Look for the "PIM Backup" in this forum. It is an OS independant backup software for.. PIM stuff (e.g. including calendar and contacts).
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Thanks Hanmin - I'll look for that software
robbiec said:
Thanks jdl - can you recommend a backup app? I've only ever installed apps using activesync before now - is it easy to do from a card?
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If you look in the ActiveSync dir (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Activesync), you should see a list of software that you've installed. Go into the backup software directory (get some clues from their names) and you ought to see some CAB files within (most of the time). Get the correct (if there are more than one CAB file) CAB file (e.g. choose based on the given name), and copy it into the memory card, and run it on your PPC.
Success!
Thanks Guys,
I ended up doing the following:
1) Downloaded the "PIM backup" utility - it's here on the forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705&highlight=PIM+backup
2) copied it onto an SD card on my phone.
3) moved the SD card to his (broken) phone
4) copied the file into one of his programs directories
5) Ran the app for a complete backup, with the backup data going onto the sd card.
6) Moved the SD card back to my phone
7) Backed up my phone using the same app, making sure I named the data file so I could recognise it later
8) "restored" my phone using the back-up date from his (broken) phone
9) Opened Outlook on my PC. copied my calendar, contacts and tasks to another folder. Deleted all my contacts and tasks from the "Outlook Today" personal folder.
10) Ran Activesync, changing the settings so that only the PIM data wqas syncronised (no internet favourites, no files) , and so that the phone overwrote the PC
11) Checked Outlook to see if the stuff had uploaded correctly (all except Calendar which merged the two did)
12) To be sure (well he does use a Mac) I exported the contaces as a CSV file
13) copied contacts & tasks to another, new outlook folder and data file.
14) emailed the new .pst file, the CSV file and the backup application and backup file to him to use now & when the phone is repaired.
15) On My phone, "restored" my old PIM stuff: Contacts came back well, as did calendar and tasks. For some reason I still have his sms messages ??
16) Deleted his sms messages
17) In outlook, deleted his stuff from the "Outlook Today" folder's contacts and tasks, and then copied mine back in.
18) Used activesync to get it all nicely synced.
- thanks again all!
My phone is hosed, and I can't launch any applications. It opens and can make calls, but very little else works. I can browse the files using ActiveSync, but there's no way to back up all my other data before reflashing it. Is there any way to access the memory and back it up directly over USB? I know I've seen it before using WM5torage, but of course there is no way for me to launch that.
If you can browse the files with ActiveSync you can copy them to your PC. If you're looking to backup the PIM data it's in pim.vol in the root folder.
Wilhelm said:
If you can browse the files with ActiveSync you can copy them to your PC. If you're looking to backup the PIM data it's in pim.vol in the root folder.
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I copied that.
Does that include text messages, contacts, calendars, call logs, etc?
I cannot actually sync with ActiveSync ("Synchronization cannot be completed successfully"), but I can browse the files under "Mobile Device".
Is there a guide on how to back up all my important data before a reflash?
What exactly is contained in the pim.vol file? Will I be able to hard reset and then get my information back for a backup, and then reflash?
Im wondering if someone can help me with my backup file which has an .nbf file extension. I use NTI backup to backup my files and save the *.nbf file to my external harddrive. I then re-format my computer. I can no longer access my .nbf file using the NTI backup recovery. Sorry, this is my first time to join a forum since I'm really disperate to recover all my files. Thank you.
i hope somsone can help ^^ i need it too
.nbf are file extensions from BACKUP NOW software.
You probably need to use their software to restore them.
.nbf file extension
Thank you Dark3n for your reply. Yes I did use NTI BACKUP NOW to backup all my files that is why I got this *.nbf file extension. The problem is I save all my .nbf files in my external harddrive and format my computer. I installed the NTI BACKUP NOW software again once I've done formatting my pc and then when I tried to retrieved my file through BACKUP NOW software it can't read my .nbf files. Is there any way I can extract the .nbf files? Thank you.
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