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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

Need help: Transporting Outlook contacts from one device to the other

Hey.
I'm hoping someone can help me with this issue I'm having.
Today I'm buying the HTC Touch HD because my good old HTC Tytn is broken. I am planning to use the Touch HD immediately but I don't have access to my computers containing my personal Outlook files for the next two weeks (I'm on the road for work and having a holiday right after) so I can't use activesync to upload all my contacts onto the Touch HD.
So I thought I'd copy the outlook contacts file or folder (it isn't a .pst file is it?) onto the SD card from my Tytn and place it into the HD and paste the outlook file/folder into the right place.
Is this possible and can anyone tell me where I can find these Outlook files on my device?
thanks!
Cruise.

Hmmm... think that files are not available...
But you could try some backup tool, like one in my signature...

Agree, use PIM BackUp, it's on here somewhere, not only will it backup your contacts but messages and calendar as well.

and call history

[Q] Transfer contacts/sms from K310i to OmniaII

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?

Copy and moving contacts on WM

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.

Spent 3 hours joining/merging contacts on SG2, how to transfer to another android?

So I have a gmail account and hotmail account with contacts synced to my phone. Spent 3 hours joining contacts/ updating emails etc. I then used the merge with google in the contacts menu, but not all of the contacts show up in my google accounts. I then export to vcard, transfer vcard to another phone, but all of the contacts are not updated/joined.
Very frustrating...
I basically want to have the same contacts on my phone, gmail and hotmail accounts, and have all 3 synced all the time. What's the best way of doing this?

i dnt know if it works cross phone but titanium back up of the contacts settings and details etc, (may cause problems as the settings are optimized for a specific phone.) i used this to copy contacts back to phone after changing roms, but some htc like roms conflict with settings in samsung type roms etc.. its worth a shot as long as you got a nandroid back up you will be ok i doubt you'll need it just for contacts though

Menu button -> Import/Export -> Export to external storage. After done, transfer the generated file to another phone. There, Contacts app -> Import/Export -> Import from external storage

Copy contacts to him card. Then import them on the other phone
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

So were you using google sync?
If you install google sync all you have to do with your new phone or with any phone is link that phone to google sync and all the contacts will automatically sync to your phone?

This brings back bad memories. The only option I came across, after much reading, were paid apps to sync. Going to check and see if I saved them. I did use kies/free trial of google sync (only available to business or something along those lines...), which made a mess of outlook.
The method above, export to card/import from card works. The issue for me is keeping them synced.
Sent from my Epic 4G Touch using Tapatalk 2

Felimenta97 said:
Menu button -> Import/Export -> Export to external storage. After done, transfer the generated file to another phone. There, Contacts app -> Import/Export -> Import from external storage
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This does not keep the contacts merged. I went through and manually merged my hotmail/cellphone and gmail contacts in my ATT S2, and I want to transfer that list completely intact to my Telus S2. It shows up as individual contacts again though =/
i have all contacts backed up to titanium, as well as vcf and kies, so I'll try some things out tonight. Worst case, I'll clean my gmail contacts, fix it all there, and then clone to hotmail and my phone

jeweladdict said:
This does not keep the contacts merged. I went through and manually merged my hotmail/cellphone and gmail contacts in my ATT S2, and I want to transfer that list completely intact to my Telus S2. It shows up as individual contacts again though =/
i have all contacts backed up to titanium, as well as vcf and kies, so I'll try some things out tonight. Worst case, I'll clean my gmail contacts, fix it all there, and then clone to hotmail and my phone
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was able to get them back with my titanium backup. Use the green font CONTACTS