Hi,
I have a T-Mobile MDA Vario IV (Raphael) with the original german ROM.
Whenever I connect it to my Vista 64 box and go to the device in the explorer, I can see its contents (and those of the sd card) but I am not allowed to copy anything from or to the device.
I tried disabling F-Secure Antivirus as some googling showed that Kaspersky mght block copying - still no success... Even when I connect the Raphael as "Hard Drive" instead of Active Sync, I am not allowed to copy anything...
Furthermore, I can't install the Sprite Backup Client on the device. First I thought that this was due to the problem above, then I removed the SD card, copied the client's cab on it and tried to install it from there. It also gave me an error, that I am not authorized to install it...
Do you have any hints for me?
Hmm this seems to be a strange problem... I tested whether I could re-install any cabs which I had already installed - this was impossible, too.
I tried to install HardSPL on it, and this was not possible, either.
Finally, I did a hard reset, and after this, I could install HardSPL...
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Hi,
I had a Magician, now I don't anymore
Fortunately, I have all my contacts backed up on my SD-card. But the question is, how can I extract them to a usable format with just my PC? I would like to insert them into outlook to later be able to transfer them to my other phone. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
found it in search
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=25418&highlight=xbackup+extractor
Thanks, but I've already tried that application on my PC, and it just created an empty subfolder called RestoredFiles, gives me an error message and dies.
I tried it on my PC at work too, same thing. :/
i want to do a factory restore on my phone to clean all the unnecessary junk file created before, i am using windows mobile 6.1, htc touch pro, dont know if it matters
i am wondering after i do the restore, do i have to install all my programs again on my storage card or i can just take my storage card out when doing the factory restore and once restore is completed, i can plug in the storage card and use the program with no problem??
i have quite a lot of program on my storage card and i lost those .cab files overtime, dont want to spend time looking for it again.
does anyone know if this will work??
many thanks
it depends. some applications require system files to be installed either in root/program files or in root/windows on your internal storage... so it's hard to tell whether you will lose them or not.
you can list the applications you have installed and i'll tell you what i know.
the one i really want to keep is my GPS, is Garmin and is installed onto the storage card
garmin should have its installation ready in the storage card incase you had to hard reset.
If you purchased garmin, you wouldn't have a problem installing it again and getting the maps
Nir, you get around my friend haha.
@rubbishhk, just a note, when you come to reinstall ur apps, if you dont delete the folders where the programs are installed on your storage card (garmin excepted) you will find u get an error when trying to re-install that program as the files already exist.
Back up ur storage card as it is to ur PC, then delete the program folders. u will then be able to re-install them no probs. Wot i do is save all my cabs in a folder on the storage card, so if i ever have to hard reset, at least i have the cabs saved on my card ready to go.
ps use advanced config and turn off "delete cabs after install" that way they will always stay on r card after u install.
timmymarsh said:
Nir, you get around my friend haha.
@rubbishhk, just a note, when you come to reinstall ur apps, if you dont delete the folders where the programs are installed on your storage card (garmin excepted) you will find u get an error when trying to re-install that program as the files already exist.
Back up ur storage card as it is to ur PC, then delete the program folders. u will then be able to re-install them no probs. Wot i do is save all my cabs in a folder on the storage card, so if i ever have to hard reset, at least i have the cabs saved on my card ready to go.
ps use advanced config and turn off "delete cabs after install" that way they will always stay on r card after u install.
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timmy, while we're at it, i suggest you download the ELITEIII rom from the Polaris section. you will find it AMAZING
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timmy, while we're at it, i suggest you download the ELITEIII rom from the Polaris section. you will find it AMAZING
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Off topic i know, but i saw this yesterday and thought mmmm Ill read the thread as i need to be able to use exchange email.... im still holding out for m3d hd thread
yeah, TF3DHD should be very cool.
I tried tflo3d and it worked and was kool (obviously jerky still) but lets hope the team find a solution for the 3d driver power off issue.
you are aware of the fact that there's something called "TF3D standby" which lets you turn off your display right?
rite, i didnt but i have now downloaded and going to give it a try!! Cheers Nir
This is a question I always keep forgetting to ask til it's too late and I've already installed a new rom, then re-installed all my favorite cab files.
This may be a "Beginners 101" question that I just never knew the simple answer to.
I have always presumed, perhaps wrongly, that apps that get installed to your storage card always install some .dll or registry files to the device, and thus when you Flash to a new Rom, all those dynamic links residing on your device which refer to your Storage Card app installations get WIPED OUT on the device... thus rendering your Applications on Storage Card no longer operational.
But maybe there is a "list" of apps which you've previously installed to your Storage Card which will work immediately again with your newly installed ROM on your device?
Because today I was moving from a previous ROM which had TouchFlo 2D installed -- to a new one that has TouchFlo 2D installed. After looking at the new ROM, I wanted to customized some of the touchflo elements, so I wanted to use the M2DC customization tool -- as I am not a code tinkerer and don't know how to find & replace specific components.
I looked at the Programs listed on my device that had just been flashed with new ROM, and I didn't see the M2DC app on it... So, just like I had to re-install, from my storage card, cabs for PCMkeyboard, WkTask, Google Maps, etc, I was prepared to install my M2DC .cab from my storage card. So I tried to. But after I would select where I want to place this program, on device or storage card, and I chose "Device", I got error message saying "Installation Unsuccessful. You do not have permissions to do (this)"... So I tried again this time choosing the Storage card, and I got the same error message.
So my conclusion was that for whatever reason, this particular ROM (this one, if it helps in troubleshooting this) was rejecting my installation of that app onto either the card or device. I figured, this just be a bug.
Later I was looking at my storage card thru file explorer, and I saw under Storage Card > Programs
a folder called M2DC ... and I figured, hmph, maybe it partially installed but got stuck due to this permissions thing. But inside the folder was the .exe app file -- there from all my installations done to the prior ROM. So I clicked it, and it launched the application ... though once it opened it did not accuarately display the current theme installed. Rather it listed themes I had installed for the prior ROM.
This is as far as I have gotten, because I don't want to go futzing with things that relate to registry or dll entries.
So, back to top: Am I mistaken? Do some applications that are installed to your storage card simply work regardless of how many new rom flashes you do? If so, what are these apps, or I guess, what are the generalized rules re how Windows treats those apps that had been prior installed onto your Storage Card?
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RELATED QUESTION: What is "Best Practices" re Program Applications on your storage card?
On my storage card I keep all my .cab files and other installers, plus my MP3s, videos, docs, my PIM Backup data ... But I have never ever given thoguht to this before now: On my Storage Card, in the Programs Folder, what do you pros do between ROM installations? Do you delete all those installed files from your storage cards, under assumption they should really be re-installed again after the device is flashed?
Or do you keep certain ones?
Awaiting the Big Mystery Revealed soon.. thank you
Personally i delete the prog file folder and start again.
thanks very much! ... Maybe it's written down somewhere, or lots of places here, but i just never recall reading it, as part of "Good Flashing Hygiene"
One quick followup please:
For all those times previously when I flashed a ROM, but never deleted the Programs folder from my Storage Card, then subsequently starting installing cab files from my storage card, installing them onto my Storage Card vs the device, here's the question:
Does the system query the storage card to see if there is an existing "Programs" folder on it (in the correct path directory), and then just use that same existing folder to then complete all new installations?
Or does it try to re-create the Programs folder, overwriting it on the Storage Card, then proceeding with installing the first program being installed to the storage card?
HERE'S WHY I ASK: On another thread tonight someone explained to me that one possible reason the device didn't notice the existing M2DC folder within Programs is because I did not follow "best practices" during flashing. He asked if I did a Hard Reset after flashing.... and I had forgotten to do that this time, so, no, I did not. He thinks that maybe this caused a lot of conflicts that would otherwise not occur. He said he ran the same cab to install M2DC using the very same rom version I'd used, and he had no problem at all with M2DC installing properly. Thus, he asked if I did a hard-reset.
any thoughts on that?
mm im not sure on the why's but i agree with dee that it is best to delete the program folder before re-install.
However there does seem to be some exceptions (always a bummer which never makes things simple, which i prefer ). Take Sprite backup for example. If you go into the programs folder on the card and run the exe, it will install itself on the device but still keeping its place on the card. (not sure i made myself clear on that one lol) and i think quickmenu does that too.
I therfore never delete the whole folder but selective program folders inside the main one.
Most of the apps do work correctly from the sd after reflashing a rom.
Simply install an app, customize settings, download registry keys being used by that program and put the xml file in a user config tool so that when you flash the rom the settings are restored. Most of the apps will work, for many of them you will miss only some resident files supposed to be in windows folder but appart from that the app will work (eg google maps)
lol talk about bringing a thrad out the dead lol, more than a year since a post was made, think the OP mighta sorted it out by now
using windows 6.1 on htc touch pro 2, any program i've installed in the past that i've unistalled that i want to install again says that the previsou version is still there, it cant be removed... and i can't install the file... any help??
Consider a hard reset (Backing up your data)
Look in the program files folder where you installed it (either device or sd card) and delete the folder relevant to the prgram u unistalled and trying to re-install.
Soft reset and Installation should then be ok?
Hey everyone, so this is the 2nd time my TP2 has had the cprog.exe error, and tf3d 2 wont load. I need to hard reset, but I do not want to lose all my contacts. Is there a file on the phone that contains my contact info? I heard someone mention the pim.vol on another forum but im not sure.
My only method of backup is to copy files to the phones storage card via file manager. I cant get the usb connection to work.
Any suggestions?