on my x7500 i could backup pim.vol to storage card and on hard reset use the intiflashfiles.dat to copy back over the pim.vol and everything worked great but i can not do it on my fuze anyone have any ideas. I recreated all my contacts on my fuze before copying the pim.vol over to my storage card. as in i am not using the pim.vol file from my x7500. thanks for any help you can provide.
What about using the proggie Pim Backup? It does what its name said.... this might help you??
Greetz
Boris
borisku said:
What about using the proggie Pim Backup? It does what its name said.... this might help you??
Greetz
Boris
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well i use a thrid party ring/text app for audio notifications so me using the pim backup is the same as going to sim manager and hit select all copy to contacts but i really just want it all to be there from hard reset and i don't understand why i could do this so easily on my old phone but not on this phone
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Which backup software/utility are you using and why :?: I've tried xbackup and am not impressed. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
philg
Sunnysoft Backup Manager.
Does what it needs to do.
I use it for FULL backups to be able to revert quickly to previous setup or recover fast from hard reset.
It is able to create self-executable backup files.
Sprite Back-up. Install it and forget it.
Restores superbly from executable back-up file.
Has saved me a few times and I wouldn't be without it.
hey guys any backup software which actually saves ur backup on the desktop pc and then restore it from the desktop pc itself ??
sprite backup (Y) AWESOME !! thats the one i was loookin for (Y)
thanks mindracing
Can Sprite backup SMS?
it didnt restore sms' messages wen i performed a hard reset... :s
How affective is using activesync for backups?
i used to use the activesync backup option but then had a few data curruptions
i now backup to my sd card using the xbackup program that came with the device.
it seems to restore my sms files aswell :wink:
xbackup restore
I did a xbackup on my device and then I went for the upgrade to the official final version UK O2 1.72.81 with Blackberry. Everything went smoothly but after the restore backup (it even restored sms, mms and e-mails, in short, the lot!) now my device is back in the original configuration although I now have Rom version 1.72.00WWE instead of the old 1.60.00WWE.
Is there an other way to restore a backup? I don't care about SMS MMS and stuff, I only want to keep settings as BT GPS, Internet GPRS settings, tt3 Navigator settings and so on. Contacts and Agenda are stored on the PC anyway. And I wanna use the Blackberry which was on it after the upgrade but is gone after the restore.
Or should I simply re flash the ROM and reenter all data for settings manually?
Thanks for helping
Cu
On my tmobile uk mda pro(exec) running wm5,were do i find the pim or contacts file to copy to sd card,to save my contacts
Thank you very much :wink:
You can find the file pim.vol in the root directory of your device.
Copy it to your SDcard.
To place it back after a clean install, you'll have to rename the clean pim.vol (to pim.old or something) and copy your backup to your root back again. Soft reset and voila. :lol:
thank you very much
anyone know which file pim.vol is located pls.sorry but i just cant find the bugger :?
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anyone know which file pim.vol is located pls.sorry but i just cant find the bugger :?
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What do you mean?
There is a file named pim.vol in the root directory of your device.
Open file explorer (on the device), in the top bar select 'my device' (top option), and you will see a file called pim (file explorer on PPCs doesn't sow extensions).
Just copy that to SD.
oddly ive looked there loads of times but lastnight i found it cheers,
i think maybe i was in portrate mode and it was sat at the bottom off screen doh!!
one of those things well sorted now thanks,worked a treat renaming the file and after a hard reset it saved all contacts no problem
Hello,
Ive been having some problems that I dont recieve notification of a new calendar event reminders. It used to show a screen saying if I want to snooze or dismiss the event, however that doesnt show anymore.
HTC support told me to clear storage so that would replace all settings to factory default.
I did a backup using Sprite backup before doing the clear storage. My question is how does the restore process work? If I plug the phone to the computer then active sync will start restoring everything, but I rather used the backup software that restores even the programs.
Any recomendation from people that used this before?
Thanks in advance
gamesstate said:
Hello,
Ive been having some problems that I dont recieve notification of a new calendar event reminders. It used to show a screen saying if I want to snooze or dismiss the event, however that doesnt show anymore.
HTC support told me to clear storage so that would replace all settings to factory default.
I did a backup using Sprite backup before doing the clear storage. My question is how does the restore process work? If I plug the phone to the computer then active sync will start restoring everything, but I rather used the backup software that restores even the programs.
Any recomendation from people that used this before?
Thanks in advance
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did u takethe backup correctly? and if u did it correctly, where did u save the backedup file?
I believe I did take it correctly and saved it in my pc.
Cheers,
If you saved it on your PC, you will need to run the Sprite Backup Manager on your machine, it will allow you to select which backup file and then restore it via ActiveSync. I prefer to make and restore backups directly on the phone, it seems to be faster than over USB. Backup to SD (creating a self-extracting backup with Sprite) and after a hard reset you can restore it right away.
One more question,
If I clear storage, then I will delete all programs on the device.
If a program is installed on the SD Card, do I have to reinstall it when I clear storage?
What do you recommend?
gamesstate said:
One more question,
If I clear storage, then I will delete all programs on the device.
If a program is installed on the SD Card, do I have to reinstall it when I clear storage?
What do you recommend?
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I think you have to re-install most of the programs, because you delete your whole registry when clearing the device memory. Not many programs will work without their correct registry entries.
^^ Yep, however you can restore selective sections of your Sprite Backup. If you open it in Sprite Explorer, you can export sections that you choose - namely your HKLM tree which should have all the registry entries for installed software.
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.
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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?
I have been looking everywhere for a way to back up everything that I have installed on my Fuze. I want to upgrade to the latest 6.5 rom but i dont want to lose all my installed stuff. Can anyone help?
I am using DotFred's PIM backup
So far so good....and best of all...its free. I have only used it to backup my contacts so I am not sure how it works for the other applications yet. Here is a link to the site if you are interested....
http://www.dotfred.net/
Great back up, but doesn't work after Sprite
krizza said:
So far so good....and best of all...its free. I have only used it to backup my contacts so I am not sure how it works for the other applications yet. Here is a link to the site if you are interested....
http://www.dotfred.net/
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This is a great backup application. However I have this problem: After accidentally performing a Sprite backup, the PIM back up doesn't work. I can't delete the program and reinstalling it returns the same problem. Any help in gettin PIM backup to work again would be appreciated, Thanks
geirgear said:
This is a great backup application. However I have this problem: After accidentally performing a Sprite backup, the PIM back up doesn't work. I can't delete the program and reinstalling it returns the same problem. Any help in gettin PIM backup to work again would be appreciated, Thanks
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Have you tried re-installing PIM backup? Or maybe install to storage card instead of to your device. I installed mine to my storage card and I just run it from my storage card and create a new backup file in my storage card when I use it. When installed on my storage card it doesn't appear in my "programs" tab (I'm using Showaco's "All Programs App") so I just click on the file for PIM Backup in my storage card files. Hope this is helpful.
krizza said:
So far so good....and best of all...its free. I have only used it to backup my contacts so I am not sure how it works for the other applications yet. Here is a link to the site if you are interested....
http://www.dotfred.net/
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Thanks for the link.