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.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA app.
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I am using pim backup for my persoanl information backups specialy for the contacts. I have question I my PPC broken or stolen and I dont have another PPC then how do i view my contacts on my desktop PC.
solved. I was taking backup in binary mode thats why I wasnt able to import data in excel.
Thanks every one for reading.
azfar said:
solved. I was taking backup in binary mode thats why I wasnt able to import data in excel.
Thanks every one for reading.
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Well,for the benefit of the community at large always give full details of the solution,what you did and how you did it,it helps many others to solve and benefit from it.This forum believes in "Help & Support"
Its very simple.
Just uncheck binary backup while taking backup then go to backup archive rename its extension from pib to zip, extract it with any zip software, rename the contacts file from .csc to .csv extention.
Open excel, import data and choose semicolumn as delimerter, finish.
YUP !
I know,its very simple,I know the workaround
Just wanted to point out to you that always explain how you solved your problem,as to help others,who are seeking for the same solution and might be wondering how to solve it.
when a new thread is started with a view to seek help,it must have ample info and workaround to finish it solving that problem,with keeping in mind that many cud benefit from it.
Hi all,
Just a little question that might be very easy for some of you.
I bought a new Advantage X7510 a few days ago (price lowered to some 450 euros... that surely helped to make up my mind !). I am very happy with it, but I found some strange quirks.
Most obvious is: I put all my documents in some folders in the flash disk. I am able to reach them from the Explorer, and from there I can open them (let's say in Word or Excel). But when I try to save them, Word or Excel does not see any folder in the flash drive, so it is impossible to move them to another location, or to open any other file sitting in the flash drive, from inside those apps.
Has anyone faced this problem and, maybe found a solution or a workaround?
My X7510 has WM 6.1 in spanish, original ROM, CE 5.2.19217.
Thanks a lot
Now, I am answering to myself, because I was in the clouds last night when I wrote this.
I had forgotten something crucial concerning flash drives and cards, that is that only first level folders are recognized by the apps. So a file in a folder like Flash Disk\My Documents\Any subfolder\... will be found by the Explorer but not by Word or any other app.
Just another Windows Mobile curiosity...
So, moderator, please close this thread and send it to the bottom !
Actually it's not a silly question at all! A lot of people get caught out by this inability to see more than one subfolder level.
I think some of the file dialog changer programs can rectify the issue but I'm not sure.
locus solus said:
I had forgotten something crucial concerning flash drives and cards, that is that only first level folders are recognized by the apps. So a file in a folder like Flash Disk\My Documents\Any subfolder\... will be found by the Explorer but not by Word or any other app.
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Actually, I think it is a bug in Office Mobile (that Office Mibile applications can only see files in level-1 folders) and I am surprised it has not been fixed. Other applications see deeper level folders in flash drives and cards.
rsawoseyin said:
Actually, I think it is a bug in Office Mobile (that Office Mibile applications can only see files in level-1 folders) and I am surprised it has not been fixed. Other applications see deeper level folders in flash drives and cards.
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It is not a bug of Office Mobile.
Simply: the system utility to browse the "disks" for any files, which is provided by system (Windows Mobile) to apps works in this way. If any app uses this system utility, you have that problem. Many apps, not only Office, uses that utility, and all of them have this problem, But there are some apps (like Resco apps, in eg.) have their own utility to browse file storage, and those apps usualy have this solved much better.
That means, this issue is a bug of Windows Mobile, not of any particular app.
Cobra19710 said:
HI everybody anyone has the original 2 CD comes with the HTC ADVANTAGE X7510 if can anybody upload them for me please i need them urgently Sure English Version. Thanks in advanced.
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Hi, Mr. this is spam. We do not like people, who write the same question in each and every thread. I hope nobody will provide you any help untill you get your lesson.
Tadeusz said:
It is not a bug of Office Mobile.
Simply: the system utility to browse the "disks" for any files, which is provided by system (Windows Mobile) to apps works in this way. If any app uses this system utility, you have that problem. Many apps, not only Office, uses that utility, and all of them have this problem, But there are some apps (like Resco apps, in eg.) have their own utility to browse file storage, and those apps usualy have this solved much better.
That means, this issue is a bug of Windows Mobile, not of any particular app.
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Thanks for the education. Any idea if this WM bug is fixed in WM 6.5?
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Thanks for the education. Any idea if this WM bug is fixed in WM 6.5?
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No idea. I haven't used it yet. Should ask Michy.
I accidentally erased a name of a file using total commander and can't undo myself.
My files show:
//Plugins
Application Data
ConnMgr
Content
Documents and Settings
Music
My Documents
Programs
Storage Card
Temp
Windows
and "wrong name because I deleted it" (in the folder is Manilla_20100401....)
Can someone please let me know what that file name should be? Most of my programs won't fully launch now because of it.
Thank you for your help.
Michael
Just hard reset your phone. That's always an easy fix that's sure to work
I just had this phone replaced due to warranty and had finished reinstalling lots of items but stupidly hadn't made a backup. I was in fact only opening total commander to make certain it was working when I accidentally deleted the file name. I would hate to hard reset when it is just a single file name that needs replaced .... I hope.
Do you have SK Tools? If so, this is a piece of cake. Open the database tool and export Replstor as an .xml. Open it with notepad on your PC and find the name of the file or folder (and its contents) in the list. There could be a few thousand entries, so it may take a while.
Farmer Ted--I don't find any of my file names from my device in this document. Thank you for the suggestion but I am still at a loss for the original names of the folders under My Device.
If only I knew someone with an HTC Fuze, I could just look on their panel under My Device. Unfortunately, most of my folk are Iphone zealots. Their advice usually involves a different purchase!
Michael
Well, I realized after I posted that if you somehow deleted one of the databases, then it won't show up in replstor, because they're all excluded from replstor. Most of them can't be deleted, though. You should have mxip_initdb.vol, mxip_lang.vol, mxip_notify.vol, mxip_swmgmt.vol and mxip_system.vol. If you're missing one of them, then look in the\windows folder and find the rom version and copy it to the root of the device. It may not have everything it needs in it, though. Just post up if you're missing one, and I can probably tell you how to fix it (well, maybe, lol).
Thanks FarmerTed, I'll give it a go as soon as I understand what it means! Just to clarify, I didn't delete any files. I renamed it. Not on purpose. These are just the basic files under My Device.
I've renamed stuff before, too. The best thing to do if you catch yourself is to delete the entire name, then highlight another file. The messed up file will go back to the original name.
shoot. doesn't work. It would have if I would've done that in the first place though, so that is good to know.
Please Help
I'm trying to restore my text messages from my old phone and i have them in these various formats right now (.vmg/.txt/.csv/.dbf/.html/.rtf) and would like to preferably convert them to (.sms or .stf or .xml) so that i can sync it to my inbox in my HTC HD2 (Leo). What is best way to do this and how?
Thanks in Advance!
moved to the right forum, please post in the correct forums.
Me too!
I have the same question, but it seems there's no way, or at least I couldn't find any!
I hope someone develops an app for it!
found some options... (btw vmsg and vmg are the same afaik just the different ending)
1. the app on the play store vmg converter
2. if you have one vmsg file with all sms first split the file with "gsplit" with splitting the file every 1 times (or maybe it was 2 because of the first sms...?!?) BEFORE "BEGIN:VMSG" so every file starts with a non empty first line then use "ABC amber nokia converter" and save as you like... then you can import it with some tools from the play store if you have duplicate sms like me you can use AllDup before using ABC amber to delete the double sms
3. on the net there were also some intelligent python or whatever scripts to convert the files but im not very familiar with python...
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.