Dear pals,
how can i back up the contact from my K-Jam to flash memory as a back up.
plz expedite.
ayenumer said:
Dear pals,
how can i back up the contact from my K-Jam to flash memory as a back up.
plz expedite.
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You have multiple options and it depends on what you exactly want to keep.
All contacts, apointments and tasks are stored in the pim.vol on the root of the ppc.
1) Just copy this file on your sd card using resco explorer. or from Windows Explorer via ActiveSync. If you have to make a restore, just rename the pim.vol in the root directory, copy back your backup, do a soft reset and delete the renamed file.
2) use spb backup from spbsoftwarehouse and select PIM only.
3) use ppcbckpcontacts which will create a csv file, that you can edit on your pc with Excel.
Cheers,
.Fred
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I've been flashing my vario ii for ages now and normally. just resync with my outlook to get my contacts etc back.
HOWEVER, the last time i flashed my phone with the latest wm6 rom, i didn't back up before. so i have a copy of the pim.vol file on a storage card, but when i copy this back over the original in \my device\ and reboot the phone, my pim apps won't start and my phone will not connect to a t-mobile.
I need some data from this pim.vol file, can it be accessed with anything else ?
steverae said:
I've been flashing my vario ii for ages now and normally. just resync with my outlook to get my contacts etc back.
HOWEVER, the last time i flashed my phone with the latest wm6 rom, i didn't back up before. so i have a copy of the pim.vol file on a storage card, but when i copy this back over the original in \my device\ and reboot the phone, my pim apps won't start and my phone will not connect to a t-mobile.
I need some data from this pim.vol file, can it be accessed with anything else ?
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I would try to flash back to the ROM on which the pim.vol file was originally created.
Easiest way that I figured out to do it was to copy the pim.vol file to the SD card (in mycase microSD card) then go into the file explorer on the phone and goto the root directory and RENAME the current pim file to pim2 and then copy and paste the one with all my contacts from the SD card to my phone, viola, all my contacts are on there now
udfxrookie said:
Easiest way that I figured out to do it was to copy the pim.vol file to the SD card (in mycase microSD card) then go into the file explorer on the phone and goto the root directory and RENAME the current pim file to pim2 and then copy and paste the one with all my contacts from the SD card to my phone, viola, all my contacts are on there now
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I did that on my tilt 2, but now my entire contacts are gone with either PIM.VOL
It doesn't recognize either one.
UPDATE: I reset it and all of my 1200 beautiful names and calls and everything else showed up.
Thanks again
Restoring my PIM.vol file.
Hi guys,
Am using win 6.5 version excellent ROM. but have some problem
Could someone please help in this...i have back up of pim.vol which i want to restore...
1)I tried ppcpimbackup software.where it says to browse for the pim.vol present in storage card.but am unable to see the file there...even if select the particual folder where the file is present, dont know wat to press for selecting.
2) I tired mobile device center sync, where in it says sync is in progress and i waited for an hour...still its not completed.it says syncing....
Early help is highly appreciated..
Thanks
Backing up and restoring the Pim.vol on win 6.5 Tilt2
To backup the Pim.vol I just connect the phone (til2) to my laptop.
The file is located at the root of the device emory. From my Laptop just with Windows Explorer I just copy and paste to my laptop and to the external memory microSD (double backup)
If the one if your phone goes bad, restore with file explorer. Rename pim.vol to pim2 and copy and paste the one on your external memory microSD to the device memory. Or get the one in the laptop.
RESET the phone and all you names and calls will be there.
Good luck
Heya, I backed up my contacts PIM File then after upgrading to WM6 Restored it (Copy&Paste). However my contact list will not open. Anyknow please help me fix this
Also anyone got a download link for MSN the standard one which normally comes on WM6 as it isnt on there.
Thanks
Nick
Depends which your previous version was
The structure of PIM.VOL changed from after WM5 AKU 3.0 (I think!), so if you previously used an AKU 3.0 ROM, you can't reuse the PIM.VOL from that version; you would have to resync the Contacts info using ActiveSync.
It may be that AKU 3.0 uses the current file structure (I can't remember!); if so, you may simply need to follow a few steps to paste your valid version.
PIM.VOL is a locked system file, so a paste operation may fail unless you use Resco Explorer to rename the existing one to PIM.OLD before pasting the older file to My Device. The built-in File Explorer won't allow system file renaming.
Once the paste has occurred, do a soft reset, and see if the older file has been picked up.
NeilM said:
Depends which your previous version was
The structure of PIM.VOL changed from after WM5 AKU 3.0 (I think!), so if you previously used an AKU 3.0 ROM, you can't reuse the PIM.VOL from that version; you would have to resync the Contacts info using ActiveSync.
It may be that AKU 3.0 uses the current file structure (I can't remember!); if so, you may simply need to follow a few steps to paste your valid version.
PIM.VOL is a locked system file, so a paste operation may fail unless you use Resco Explorer to rename the existing one to PIM.OLD before pasting the older file to My Device. The built-in File Explorer won't allow system file renaming.
Once the paste has occurred, do a soft reset, and see if the older file has been picked up.
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Heya, I copy and pasted by renaming first basicly what you said. Erm my pervious version was WM5. How would I resync it if WM6 Wont access it? Thanks Nick
If you can't recycle your old PIM.VOL for whatever reason, you will need to resync from your PC copy of Outlook.
If the data in Outlook is not up to date, the only answer is to flash back to WM5, reload the old PIM.VOL, do an ActiveSync sync to the PC, then repeat the WM6 flash, followed by a resync to the PC with Activesync.
Thanks I resync it and all is good Thanks Again Nick
Hi 2 all!
who can tell me, in which file, registry key,... the favorite people are stored?
br,
Chris
Its actually your pim.vol
Use a file explorer to copy your pim.vol and keep a copy elsewhere. After flashing, disable tf3d, copy and replace.
Your contacts and favorites will be added back to tf3d once your re-enable it from the today screen.
Highlife22 said:
Its actually your pim.vol
Use a file explorer to copy your pim.vol and keep a copy elsewhere. After flashing, disable tf3d, copy and replace.
Your contacts and favorites will be added back to tf3d once your re-enable it from the today screen.
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...are you sure about this?
You mean that in this file my fav. people are marked to be shown in tf3d?
It's in My Documents
Not sure where, but when I restore "My Documents" the are restored too in tf3d..
I would check the registry to see if I could find a registry key that's related to TF3D.
Not really a ROM Development problem..
cyron_at said:
...are you sure about this?
You mean that in this file my fav. people are marked to be shown in tf3d?
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Yes, contacts, favorites and the pictures related to your favorites are stored in the pim.vol
Copy/paste back after a flash and it will set them all back up for you.
You can always use PPC PIMBackup
adwinp said:
You can always use PPC PIMBackup
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How do I backup PEOPLE with PIMBackup,can you explain us ?
The only way would probably to backup the correct manila file or registry. Think the poster was thinking you wanted to backup up your normal contacts
mccune said:
The only way would probably to backup the correct manila file or registry. Think the poster was thinking you wanted to backup up your normal contacts
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new way of backing up your favorite people.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543605
Good find. Don't use TF3D so I don't nead this. But the TS should be satisfied now
Is there a way to do the above?
Basically, I already have a PIB Backup (.pib) file and I want to extract the contacts from it. I used WinRAR to open the .pib file and extracted the contacts (.csc) file from the .pib.
I then want to convert the contact in the contacts file (.csc) into individual vCard (.vcf) files.
Is there a way to do it?
hi all,
I flashed my Defy from CM7 R0 to CM7 R1, before flashing, i have backed up the SMS (Message-menu key, backup sms) and i got a file named "androidin_001.sms"in SD card, then after flashed, i wanna restore the backup (Message-Menu key, restore sms), but it tells me cannot find the file, i have put the "androidin_001.sms" in the SD card, i do not know why, Is the path of the file incorrect? or other reasons?
PLS help me
thank you in advance!
dereck
wow, i know how to fix it
1,backup present sms
2.open old "androidin_001.sms" file by Note.exe
3.open new "androidin_001.sms" file by Note.exe,too. And copy the all the old smses to the new one,save.
4.copy the newer "androidin_001.sms" to the SDcard root directory
5.at last, touch "Message-menu key,restore sms", dadadada... all smses back!