Am currently trying to flash an english rom onto my newly arrived german xdaII (ebay) but for some strange reason am having difficulty copying any files except picture files to the device from my notebook. Sorry to bore you but this is what I understand the procedure to be. Highlight file to be copied on the notebook. Press explore in active sync and highlight file which is to receive the copied file and press paste. This only works for picture files and never for anything else. It appears correct and present on the notebook's activesync but when I open the file on the xdaII it is completely empty. In fact every file except the my pictures and templates is completely empty, no matter how I try to fill them. I therefore cannot get the HimaGetDeviceData file to the xdaII to get around the country id error. I have tried a soft reset and that didn't fix it. What is the difference between that and hard reset? Is this a case of simply pressing the wrong buttons (of course I don't understand German!) or is there something more sinister lurking about? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
CT
softreset == reboot on a pc
hardreset == putting in a restore cd that came with the pc and letting it set everything back to default / formatting the hd and reinstalling windows if you build your own pc
Ok, my phone is connected to my shiny new Vista PC with the cable, and WMDC is running. I go to view my files, and it isn't showing the Windows folder or any of it's contents. Does it think I'm going to be stupid and delete something vital, therefore I have to be babysat by Microsoft? Please tell me if there is a way around this
Also, I have the HTC official cradle, but it seems very tempromental. When I plug it in and put my phone in it will sometimes sync but not very often. And if it does it loses the connection again quite quickly. There is definitely a connection though because the phone continues to charge throughout. and before anyone says it I've tried the tickbox that says enable advanced functionality and it's not that this time
Has anyone got any answers to these, or a better syncing solution for Vista?
As found here (with pictures):
Fuze Mobility
See More of Your Fuze on Your PC
Posted by David KJanuary 12, 2009 Many of you have realized that when connecting your Fuze over ActiveSync the \Windows directory cannot be seen and there are other files that are hidden. Because of this, we’re often forced to do a lot of the changes on our Fuze using File Explorer or using apps like TotalCommander. There have been plenty of times where going to the Windows directory is needed (like changing the programs located in the Programs directory) or modifying the name of TF3D tabs. Well Rainfreak of PPCGeeks was kind enough to give a set of step by step instructions on how to change this on our PC so we can see all files and the Windows directory and it’s actually embarrassingly easy.
Step 1:Go to Organize and click on Folder and Search Options
Step 2: Go to the View tab and change the Hidden files and Folders option to ‘Show hidden files and folders’
Step 3: Uncheck the box for ‘Hide protected operating system files [Recommended]‘ and click Yes to disregard the warning that pops up.
Step 4: Press OK to close out of the Folder Option settings and navigate to your Windows directory and then wait a few seconds cause just like doing this directly on the Fuze it takes a while to propagate.
Haha, I did step 2 almost instinctively, but not step 3. All sorted now
Now if I could just get my cradle to sync
Hi, I have a huge problem with my Touch Pro atm.
Ok, today my Touch Pro with TAEL 23683 started doing strange things. First Sence got some how bugged, it wasn't able to start, but I also wasn't able to turn it off, all I was able to see was "Tap to load HTC Sence" and when I tap, it blinks 3-5 times "Loading HTC Sence..." and again the Tap to load line. I made hard-reset and here's where the big problem comes. I copied back pim.vol (I backed-up just before making hard-reset, I was able to load Resco Explorer to do that) but my contacts aren't shown in the list in "All Contacts" on Sence. the Windows build in Contact manager was crashing w/o message. I managed with deleting and copying the pim.vol to open and see the contacts in the build in manager, but Sence still shows nothing. On top of that I can't add/delete/open contact in the build in manager, if I try, the manager crashes, and after restart I can't open it anymore. I can't make ActiveSync connection, it says "Error", I tried making back-up of the contacts with PIM Backup but it gave error that it can't connect to the Outlook Database. What can I do, I don't have older back-up or if I do it's 5+ months old which isn't good option (but I think I deleted them from my PC). Any suggestions are welcome, I want to be able to use my device normally again
Have a look at these threads;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=310152
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=281421
You could also try using the PIM.vol on windows 6.5 emulator.
About time we had a PIM viewing/editing PC app !
The problem is that it seems pim.vol is corrupted, ROM is the same, I tried by reflashing it again (the same image I used before) and still nothing. PIM editing tool would be nice, eventually it may rewrite the data and fix the issue.
I haven't used manila in a long time, but as I recall, you need to shut manila down before over-writing pim.vol. Otherwise, you end up in re-boot cycles like that. I remember it happening once to me where the device would be fine until I went to the contact tab and tried to access a contact. Then it would crash, and be impossible to use.
So, you have three choices:
1. Don't use Sense. It's total crap, anyway.
2. Try turning Sense off, then restore pim.vol. Do a soft reset. Then re-load Sense, and watch all your ram and processor power disappear.
3. Use a different backup utility. I've found that SK Tools does a very good job with restoring pim info. It's better than pimbackup, imo.
use task 29 before flashing the rom. Did you sync with outlook on the PC? So you should have a copy of your data ...
Task 29's not going to help. The problem is that Sense/Manila throws a hissy fit any time you sneeze in its direction. It can't handle having pim.vol over-written while it is running. I guess if effs up the contact tab. But as I recall, the only way to restore your contact photos was to restore pim.vol directly. Pimbackup doesn't restore the favorite contact photos (I think sk tools might, though). You just have to get the process down correctly, in order to avoid the hissy fit.
You're better off just disabling that sense crap permanently, though. It's just a giant band-aid, anyway.
Ok
1) I don't have Outlook installed (not even Outlook Express)
2) With overwritten pim.vol I can't make ActiveSync connection
3) I make back-up by copy pim.vol for 2-3 years already
4) I only have PIMBackup but it doesn't connect to the corrupted pim.vol so I can't make back-up with it
5) I flash ROMs from SD card, and I do format with RAPHDIAG.nbh before flashing new ROM with RAPHIMG.nbh
6) I only have the corrupted pim.vol so I can't make new back-up from it, I can only make attempts to fix the one I have.
Are you sure that it's corrupted? Can you copy it to another location (like on your sd card) w/o getting an error? It shouldn't have a problem if you can copy it.
Try scanning your sd card. You can also try to export the data from it with a database editor. If you have SK Tools, you may be able to open the database using the database tool and the 'mount volume' command. Or, you can try Phatware's Pocket Database Editor and see if you can open it up (I've opened copies of pim.vol on my sd card with each in the past, but sometimes it doesn't work).
Edit: Phatware opens it up fine, and you can copy things out to another database. SK Tools will open it if you rename it (like to pim2.vol).
I had no problem copying it using Resco, I also copied it on 2 different SD cards, both copies act the same. I found the problem after I made hard-reset and copied back in root folder, where phone should start using it. I actually use command in SDConfig.txt to copy it, it always worked before, and worked last time I flashed that ROM, now I only made hard-reset (first, then made re-flash of same ROM). I'll try with the tools you said.
I wouldn't do it with sdconfig.txt; if Sense is already loaded, you'll run into major problems. You really need to disable Sense in the Home Items settings, then do the over-write with Resco, soft-reset, and then re-activate Sense.
Restoring pim.vol is weird. I don't use manila, and I use a mortscript that restores pim.vol and a bunch of other files during customization. For a while, it worked great, and I would have all my contacts restored after first boot. But it hasn't worked in ~6 months for me. I have no idea why. I have also found that it's important to reset immediately after doing the over-write. Sometimes, if I wait a while, the over-write won't 'stick' after the soft reset, and I'll have blank contacts, or worse, when I try to open the contacts, the device will freeze for 15-20 seconds. So now, after customization runs, I do the restore manually and then soft reset immediately, and it's always worked fine. It's a faster process than using a backup utility, so I prefer doing it this way.
I also keep other types of backups. I have a few pimbackup copies (never use them, but keep them just in case), and nightly I have a script that runs sk tools pim backup. Every once in a while, I'll also load myphone and backup my pim info there. You need to have more than one backup just in case something happens, like your sd card fails.
Well, Mortscript is executed later than SDConfig, and actually I think the one I use makes the customizations before Sence run for the first time. Anyway, for more than an year that copy method works, and it worked on that ROM 3 times just fine, just till now there wasn't corrupted DB file to copy (problem caused before backing it up, not after copy back). I found 2 bad records in my Contacts database with PhatWare, looking for ideas how to delete them, Phatware DB Explorer crashes when I select them and I can't delete them.
Well, at least you're getting somewhere. You should maybe just trying to copy all the databases into an empty pim.vol except for the two that are bad. I've never really copied stuff out from one database to another with that tool, but it might work.
Unf I can't, thought about that too but no such option, I have only for full table, but it crashes because of the 2 bad records.
Any ideas about PC DB tool that can open them, I hope it won't crash on bad records and have a bit more options (I think I'll need one for DBs, not related to PPC that much)
I don't know about a pc-side editor.
You could just try exporting each of the databases to csv files, and then see if you ca re-import them to a clean pim.vol.
I can't export them, it stops while it get to the records with errors and the file size is 0 bytes.
Guess no one has more ideas :/
For the last several months, I can download and upload to my shared folders on my Windows 10 Pro PC, with no problems at all using FX Explorer, via SMB2. Never a glitz or slowdown, no problems whatso ever, no matter what ROM I happened to be running at the time.
The problem I am now having started yesterday, when I installed the new Windows 10 Pro x64 Fall Creators Update on my PC. I did a clean install, and set up the system from scratch. I did all my Network settings for sharing, just like before, and I set the Share permissions on 2 folders that I use for my OPO, just like before. Made sure that SMB2 protocol is enabled on the PC also.
I created a new LAN connection in FX Explorer to the new Windows OS, and tried to connect. Well, it sort of does connect, but mostly does not. When I try to access the shared folder on my PC, I can see the 2 folders in the Explorer list-view on my phone, but when I try to enter either one of the folders, all I get is a spinning circle for about a minute, and then get a report in big red letters that there was a "Network Error".
Well, that's a first on the OPO, for sure! To double check that I had set up the new Windows OS correctly, I connected to the shared folders using a laptop via WiFi, and it connects and reads the contents perfectly fine. I then gave it a go with a second PC in the house, and that PC also was able to read/write great to the shared folders.
OK.... so, the folders on the main PC are in fact, being shared, and other PCs can access them, but my OPO cannot, no matter what I try. Like I said, it sees the shared folders, but when I try to enter either one of them, it just craps out. I've tried 3 different file managers, all with the same results. I've tried anonymous connect, and password connect, both with the same result.
I even disabled the firewall on my PC to see if that was the problem (which I did not do for the 2 PCs that did connect) , and tried again with my OPO, but no joy, once again..
I am totally baffled. I have spent probably the better part of 6 hours on the net searching for solutions and answers, including this forum, but again, no joy, and then trying all things I could think of to do. Does anyone have any idea what can be causing this issue all the sudden? Any ideas at all as to why this is happening? You have no idea how much I would appreciate a solution to this problem. I even went so far as to restore a complete backup image I had made just before upgrading the PC, and with the old image installed on the PC, my OPO would once again connect to the shares perfect. So, not a hardware issue with my OPO either..
Thanks for reading this long post!!
I have the Google Drive app on several devices. It is very important to me. Last year it got shut down by Google for containing " contaminated" files which were just Excel files containing hyperlinks. Although the hyperlinks were perfectly safe my drive was frozen for some length of time then I had to remove the offending files for it to work again. I deleted them and eventually Drive got back to normal but it was a huge pita.
I have an old windows tablet which has the drive all on it containing those files. It hasn't been turned on in years so it isn't a problem. I would like to use it this weekend but I'm afraid it will update and put those files back to online Google drive from Google drive folder in tablet as soon as I turn it on. This will freeze my drive and I go through the huge hastle again.
When I shut off the old tablet it definitely contained those Google forbidden Excel files in the Google drive folder. If I turn it on will drive update to current status without those files or will it put them right back when folder updates to cloud freezing me out again? What is the easiest way to ensure that doesn't happen?
recDNA said:
I have the Google Drive app on several devices. It is very important to me. Last year it got shut down by Google for containing " contaminated" files which were just Excel files containing hyperlinks. Although the hyperlinks were perfectly safe my drive was frozen for some length of time then I had to remove the offending files for it to work again. I deleted them and eventually Drive got back to normal but it was a huge pita.
I have an old windows tablet which has the drive all on it containing those files. It hasn't been turned on in years so it isn't a problem. I would like to use it this weekend but I'm afraid it will update and put those files back to online Google drive from Google drive folder in tablet as soon as I turn it on. This will freeze my drive and I go through the huge hastle again.
When I shut off the old tablet it definitely contained those Google forbidden Excel files in the Google drive folder. If I turn it on will drive update to current status without those files or will it put them right back when folder updates to cloud freezing me out again? What is the easiest way to ensure that doesn't happen?
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Boot to recovery and factory reset the device.
Or
Turn the device on in a place where there is no network to connect to, it won't update/upload/backup anything without a network connection. Use that time to turn off/disconnect all network settings/connections, then delete or uninstall whatever you need to get rid of, then reboot the device.
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