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Transfer data from WM to Android

Hi all,
I'm using O2 Atom Life (Windows Mobile), now I just buy one G1, and I want to transfer my data (contact + messages) to G1 but I don't know how to do it
Please give me advice
Thank

try sprite migrate
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-spritemobile-migrate-qiFz.aspx

oh thank
and i want to find an app that can use touchscreen to control some features (such as suspend, restart, ... like iHome on iPhone); do you know it?

As a note sprite migrate does not yet transfer sms if you have a WM palm phone or using the palm sms.

did you use it? Sprite said it can?
Sprite Migrate is the easiest way to bring all your mobile data over to Android.
Sprite Migrate can transfer your data from Windows Mobile, Symbian(Nokia) and Blackberry to Android. Currently we transfer Contacts, SMS, Call Logs and Bookmarks, with more content coming soon...
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I have, but again if you have the PALM thread SMS installed it won't transfer it. I have spoke to them about this and they said they will add it. The regular WM SMS should just transfer over fine.

GMKcz said:
try sprite migrate
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thank but I think this app not work for O2 Atom Life, do you know others?

What or why is not specifically working? I only ask because that is so far the only App I have seen to do what your asking for.

in my O2 Atom Life, when I press start to begin transferring my data, after the step "Finallizing...", then it stands up and don't process anything; it lags my phone; I waited for 10 mins and I had to reboot my phone

temp304 said:
thank but I think this app not work for O2 Atom Life, do you know others?
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I don`t , I just found thisone when checking new apps on market. I didn`t tryed that so please don`t PM me with questions
Another way could be transfering sms to some xml format and then import them via some android backup apk. Contacts, mails etc could be ported via ms office and then via gmail acc.

ok, thank you

temp304 said:
Hi all,
I'm using O2 Atom Life (Windows Mobile), now I just buy one G1, and I want to transfer my data (contact + messages) to G1 but I don't know how to do it
Please give me advice
Thank
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Consider to download "SMS Migrator" from Android Market

sorry to asking, there is no blutooth between windows & android

Try SMS Migrator http://www.androlib.com/android.application.org-baole-mainimporter-iCDt.aspx
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***SMS Migrator works well with around 1000 SMSes, if you have more than that number, consider to break into smaller files and import one by one***
Features
* A utility helps you to migrate SMS from almost of phone. Support exporting softwares: Missing Sync, iPhone-iSMS (free), Window Mobile SMS Import (free), Nokia PC Suite (free), MOBILedit, ipddump (free), custom,... (please contact me if you need other format).
Step by Step to migrate
- Step 1: Check your operating system of your phone first. Then download and install an exporting software that works with your phone:
* iPhone: iPhone-iSMS (free), Missing Sync, iSMSExporter (available from AppStore, please uncheck "Use AddressBook")
* Nokia series/Symbian: Nokia PC Suite (free)
* Window Mobile phone: Window Mobile SMS Import (free)
* BlackBerry: ipddump (free), Missing Sync
* Sony Ericson: MyPhoneExplorer (free - export to CSV format)
* Other phone models: MOBILedit (this software support almost of phone models,export SMS into XML format)
Free one works with almost phone.
- Step 2: Export SMS from your phone with installed software.
- Step 3: Copy exported file to the SDCard of your Android Phone.
- Step 4: Open SMS Migrator, configure carefully parameters (especially Export Software and Encoding that you had used during exporting process), and select your sms file on SDCard (don't forget to turn off USB storage for your SDcard on your Android phone). DONE
Step 1, 2 work on your old phone and PC (or Mac/Linux), step 3 works on your Android phone plugged on your PC, step 4 works with SMS Migrator on your Android Phone.
Notes
- If your phone is not supported by above software, drop me a few lines with the detail of your phone (such as phone model, OS, etc.)
- If you use other software to export your SMS, please contact me.

Not to take over the thread but I also have a question about this but mine is different than the previous posts.
What about when it comes to Calendar events how do you transfer these from WM to Android? I dont use exchange nor Outlook I inputted all these using my phone which I have hundreds of them, is there anyway to do this?
TIA

Zero_Shadow said:
Not to take over the thread but I also have a question about this but mine is different than the previous posts.
What about when it comes to Calendar events how do you transfer these from WM to Android? I dont use exchange nor Outlook I inputted all these using my phone which I have hundreds of them, is there anyway to do this?
TIA
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On your old phone sync with your google calendar. Its a type of exhange sync that google put up to make this easier.
info is here http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15305
and then once on your new android they will be pulled back down just fine when you setup your phone with your gmail account.

Importing Contacts?

Be kind, as I am a geezer and our brains ain't as sharp as they used to be
Went from a windows HTC tilt to the iPhone and importing contacts was easy using oulook. Now I'm going from the iPhone to the Captivate. How do I import them onto the Captivate?

oldfossil said:
Be kind, as I am a geezer and our brains ain't as sharp as they used to be
Went from a windows HTC tilt to the iPhone and importing contacts was easy using oulook. Now I'm going from the iPhone to the Captivate. How do I import them onto the Captivate?
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If you can export the numbers out of Outlook into a .csv file...you can import that file into your gmail account. I have a mac and had a similar problem. Exported my numbers out of address book and then uploaded to gmail contacts. Once you do that...you can select in the settings on the phone to allow show contacts with phone numbers. Hope that helps.

so, are the contacts floating in the clouds somewhere or do they get downloaded to the phone?

oldfossil said:
so, are the contacts floating in the clouds somewhere or do they get downloaded to the phone?
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No, if you import your .csv file into your phone from your Outlook, the contacts are limited to your phone. If you, however, import your .csv into your Google Account, that puts your contacts into the cloud, which will sync with your phone.
If that sounds confusing I'm sure I could throw you a guide together if you like.

thanks, all is clear now

vCards Worked Better For Me
I had problems getting gmail to recognize my CSV even after I tried to organize it like some site said it wanted, so I dumped all of my contacts as vCards using a VBA script I found by searching and then loaded each one into gmail.

Samsung Kies
Did anyone use Samsung Kies for importing contacts?

I wanted to but I couldn't get my computer to work with kies (w7, 64bit)

joedoe said:
Did anyone use Samsung Kies for importing contacts?
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I wish I had done it originally, but I was able to sync my contacts back to Outlook using Kies. I would say that that is the way to do it.

I also had problems connecting with Kies on my W7, 64 machine until I downloaded the most recent version (1.5.1.10071_32), downloaded Microsoft .NET Framework 4, and removed my SD card. Now everything connects fine.

Old dude here too. Was going to post (may still if this get info) a new thread but found this thread. I currently rock an old HTC Hermes WM6.1 device. It Sync's all my Work Outlook Contacts & Meetings, and at home all my Outlook Contacts. The Meetings are important, as are the Contacts. I may wait until the WM7 devices start appearing, but the Captivate looks pretty nice and I can get a good premier price.
Will it/Can it sync that info using the Samsung Programs? I don't want to mess with CSV's and gmail, I work for a huge aerospace company and deal with meetings and new contacts daily, need my phone to handle that info on a daily basis. WinXP at work, Win 7 at home....
Thanks!

Kies imported my contacts just fine (it lost groups and photos though).
However it hangs on importing appointments

treylemkn said:
If you can export the numbers out of Outlook into a .csv file...you can import that file into your gmail account.
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This is exactly what I did. Worked like a champ

Kies does work on Win 7 - 64 bit with Captivate
I wanted to post a reply to this one because I was frustrated to the extent of giving up on kies, but was finally able to get Kies see my phone (samsung captivate).
So first thing is, it works, you can set Kies to see your phone on Win 7 - 64 bit.
of course, I tried a lot of things back and forth, install and uninstall various drivers etc. but below is what I think will work, please give it a shot if you are unable to get Kies to see your phone on Win 7 - 64 bit.
1. Uninstall any drivers if you have installed (either the USB_Drivers_5_02_0_2 or usb_drivers_GalaxyS_x64). [For the 5.02.02 there is a SSADUninstall.exe in the i386 folders, double check on the control panel and uinstall if you see a program listed as Android USB Modem]
2. Install Kies from the UK site samsungapps.com (cannot post URL yet) it does not matter where you download from, the same s/w is on various URLS. I am using Kies_1.5.1.10071_32
3. On the phone, under settings -> applications -> usb settings either select ask on connetion (this is how I have it), but I figure Kies would also work.
4. Plug the phone using the USB cable (I dont know if it really made any difference but I plugged the cable on to one of the back m/b ports as I read on a few forums that it wont work on the front port)
5. Now wait, your pc is going to play a trick, windows will try to install a driver for this and then say it could not find one. Ignore it ! In the meanwhile, you will also notice a warning saying if you want to run a program from Samsung electronics or something like tetrun, say yes and let it continue.
6. Have patience now and in due time, Kies will start (I have also set kies to run in win xp compatibility mode explicitly but it may not be required). You will not see your phone yet. but you continue to wait for another minute.
7. Eventually kies will say on the right side of the app that drivers need to be downloaded for the connected device and will start downloading them. Let is complete. It will then install them. windows will show you the bubble saying it is installing drivers (similar to one that failed earlier). You may click on it and you will see that it installs 3 drivers. I am thinking they are for the mass storage, modem and media player but not sure.
8. Once it is done, it should show a bar oscillating and say 'connecting device'
9. And voila, after some more wait, you should see your phone on the right side in Kies.
Please be patient, it takes quite a while for all these things to go through and you may be start thinking it has gotten stuck.
Now, for the bummer if you want to sync with outlook, it missed out quite a few of my contacts and I am still unable to get the calendar on to my phone. Kies reads it and shows it well but my phone does not show the appointments yet.
But kies will allow you to get photos off or manage contacts etc. so it does help.
If it works for you please post your experience. so others can be more confident.
Best of luck.

I tried everything possible including these instructions, cannot get it to work on windows 7 64-bit.

oldfossil said:
Be kind, as I am a geezer and our brains ain't as sharp as they used to be
Went from a windows HTC tilt to the iPhone and importing contacts was easy using oulook. Now I'm going from the iPhone to the Captivate. How do I import them onto the Captivate?
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It was easiest for me to get the contacts on the phone through google. You should be able to sync the iphone contacts with google, then they should sync with the Captivate.

Try the New "Beta" Sprite Migrate"
I am running Win 7 Ult. 64-bit with Office 2010 64-bit and have an HTC Touch Cruise (WM6.1) and just got the Captivate. First, let me say that nothing seems to work with Outlook 2010 64-bit, so no syncing. I did get & Load .Net 4.0 and the UK version of Kies. All that works and I can load stuff onto my SD card. So far update.zip and some ePub eBooks. But as for moving stuff off the WM 6.1 and to the Captivate, the best and easiest option so far has been "Sprite Migrate" a new program, still in Beta. The web site is http://www.spritesoftware.com/products/migrate/how-does-it-work- It is an easy 3 step process. I was able to move almost 800 contacts. It did show some errors after I ran step 3, but all the contact information is there. Now none of my calendar info came over and I am not sure yet what else came over, but all that contact info was the priority and that worked. The program is free. If I find a log file for the errors in step 3 , I will send it to them.

Did it transferred photos with contacts and if it did what was the quality of photos?

Yes, it transfered my photos just fine. No luck on appointments
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

I just went from a Tilt to a Captivate and the AT&T rep put all my contacts on the phone. I have been trying to use the voice dial but I am told I need to sync my phone with gmail? I recently created a gmail account but I cannot figure out how to get my contacts set up so I can use this feature...any advice?

iphone data to Note Edge

HI all i know this topic has been covered before but all the post and stuff i found on it is old like 2 years old so i am getting my note edge tomorrow my 1st android phone in a longtime my main concern is getting all my data form my Iphone over to the new phone i need it all if possible SMS contacts emails pic/videos whatsapp data game data notes and what ever else i can get off it any help in this matter is greatly appreciated thank you all.

desiking911 said:
HI all i know this topic has been covered before but all the post and stuff i found on it is old like 2 years old so i am getting my note edge tomorrow my 1st android phone in a longtime my main concern is getting all my data form my Iphone over to the new phone i need it all if possible SMS contacts emails pic/videos whatsapp data game data notes and what ever else i can get off it any help in this matter is greatly appreciated thank you all.
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I'm sure the Samsung Smart Switch tool can do most of what you need. For the other things (game data, whatsapp data, notes) you'll probably either have to use itunes to export files, or if the game has cloud saving, sync it to a google+ account. Then download later. I've never used whatsapp so I'm not sure how that would work. But perhaps everything is stored online already? Get the Edge first and see. Your emails should all be online so that's not an issue. Just configure whatever email client you choose to use on the Edge to the same service.

Samsung Smart Switch:
http://www.samsung.com/us/smart-switch/

Backup Gear S3 to pc, not Samsung cloud

As the title says, I want to backup my Gear S3 to the pc instead of Samsung cloud. Cloud storage is not accessible to the user directly and can inconveniently go down and I'd rather have control of data, apps, watchfaces instead of where I am forced to now.

ReDevolver said:
As the title says, I want to backup my Gear S3 to the pc instead of Samsung cloud. Cloud storage is not accessible to the user directly and can inconveniently go down and I'd rather have control of data, apps, watchfaces instead of where I am forced to now.
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when you make a backup, does it not store to the phone as default?

All backups to cloud only
youdoofus said:
when you make a backup, does it not store to the phone as default?
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I don't know if it's typical of non samsung phones but the backup mechanism in the Gear software only allows me to backup to Samsung's cloud and there no other choice available to me. (That I can see anywhere)

Can I manually retrieve data from Google Drive Android phone backup (to PC) ?

Scenario: My Galaxy S8 died completely about a month ago, I got an iPhone - still getting used to it, spent incredible amount of time tuning and tweaking the settings.
Today I've noticed I still have the backup from my Galaxy S8 in my Google Drive account and it seems I still should be able to import that data to my new phone. There are some valuable information for me, especially contacts (in call history, not synced with Google), text messages, whatsapp messages etc.
I however don't have another Android phone to sync it and then somehow export it, also I probably won't be able to do it on my iPhone - I am logged in to that account but somehow can't find a way to import such data. (All of my Google synced contacts for example got imported automatically, but not the rest).
Is there a way to somehow manually download that backup data from Google Drive to PC and "unpack" it?
Thanks.

TinoArts said:
Scenario: My Galaxy S8 died completely about a month ago, I got an iPhone - still getting used to it, spent incredible amount of time tuning and tweaking the settings.
Today I've noticed I still have the backup from my Galaxy S8 in my Google Drive account and it seems I still should be able to import that data to my new phone. There are some valuable information for me, especially contacts (in call history, not synced with Google), text messages, whatsapp messages etc.
I however don't have another Android phone to sync it and then somehow export it, also I probably won't be able to do it on my iPhone - I am logged in to that account but somehow can't find a way to import such data. (All of my Google synced contacts for example got imported automatically, but not the rest).
Is there a way to somehow manually download that backup data from Google Drive to PC and "unpack" it?
Thanks.
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This might help if you can use the import option to import your backup directly from Google drive then transfer it to iOS. Or maybe you can transfer the backup from Google drive then use 7zip or similar software to extract the backup into its separate parts and import/transfer them from your PC to iOS.
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The various tools in that software may help you but you may not be able to do it all in with "one shot", you may have to attack from different angles using more than one option, function or tool provided by this software.
Or, another possible option is to install an android emulator on your PC, install Android in it, then sign into your Google account in the android running in the emulator, restore the backup from Google drive in the Android running in the emulator then see if you can transfer the data from the emulated android to iOS

@TinoArts
take note that whenever you backup Android phone to Google, all your data is safely stored in an encrypted backup file over your Google Drive account.