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
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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
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
Hello, I've recently uninstalled and wiped my SD card of Android. Now I'm trying to install it from the latest (01/23) cab file and I keep getting an installation error when running it on my phone. I've also tried to extract the cab file manually on my computer with 7-Zip, but I get decompression errors. And when I unrar the .rar file I get a completely flattened directory structure.
What am I doing wrong here?
Delete all the Android files and folders from your SD card. This means the Android, andboot, and any other Android related folders that may have been created by apps and such.
Copy everything that's left off of your SD card onto your computer.
Format the card to FAT32.
Put all the stuff back onto your SD card.
Reinstall XDAndroid.
I've never had luck with the cab. I think it has something to do with the size, and how the device handles cabs. For me, it has been easier to download the rar file, extract that on the desktop, and then copy over the andboot directory to your sdcard.
I usually create a staging location on the hard drive before copying it to the device. Doing this allows you to customize the files/configs: edit the startup.txt file on the desktop, replace the original rootfs with F22's new file that allows for keyboard mappings, etc. Then when it's all finished, simply copy the directory to the sdcard.
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Delete all the Android files and folders from your SD card. This means the Android, andboot, and any other Android related folders that may have been created by apps and such.
Copy everything that's left off of your SD card onto your computer.
Format the card to FAT32.
Put all the stuff back onto your SD card.
Reinstall XDAndroid.
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I tried this and it didn't work. Got an error half way through the install.
For pohket's suggestion, I'm limited to Linux tools, and unrar extracts a flat directory structure for me, so there isn't like an `andboot` or other such directories, just every file, which I don't know how to organize.
I ended up using an old release from November 1, 2010. It's been the most stable release I've used so far. (and also the only release I had saved on my computer)
earlz83 said:
Hello, I've recently uninstalled and wiped my SD card of Android. Now I'm trying to install it from the latest (01/23) cab file and I keep getting an installation error when running it on my phone. I've also tried to extract the cab file manually on my computer with 7-Zip, but I get decompression errors. And when I unrar the .rar file I get a completely flattened directory structure.
What am I doing wrong here?
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I have the feeling the latest cab file was not working too well. In the end I used the rar files as well and extracted those.
the cab doesn't work!!!
earlz83 said:
Hello, I've recently uninstalled and wiped my SD card of Android. Now I'm trying to install it from the latest (01/23) cab file and I keep getting an installation error when running it on my phone. I've also tried to extract the cab file manually on my computer with 7-Zip, but I get decompression errors. And when I unrar the .rar file I get a completely flattened directory structure.
What am I doing wrong here?
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I had the same problem with that cab, I did everything: erase, format, copy, download - many times from different computers...but doesn't work at all. You should download the RAR file and uncompress into the fat32 - SD card. Worked at the first time.
ps: this FRX04 2.2.1 is quite slower than the FRX03!!!
Also, it halts everytime!!! (in my rhodium 210).
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!
So I was trying to move my files from whatever directory they were in to my storage since I had just gone from tw to miui so the directory change mess up thing happened. It would go and overwrite the new empty same name folders but nothing would show up I go back to the directory they were in and everything was gone. Restart my phone and some showed up and managed to transfer only a small portion of my pictures and some other files. My music files and some of other folders I tried transferring again and it would seem like everything went well but they wouldn't show up in my storage folder and it disappeared from the original folder it was in. They got deleted. I had about 3gb of free storage now I have 9. Sigh. So is there anything I can do to recover my files? I'm about ready to toss this phone out the window I've never had problems with es until now.
I know that there are file recovery programs for Windows and macs. You'll need to Google it because I can't remember what it's called.
I think is Recuva.
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You can use data recovery tool to recover deleted files from ES file explorer. See this step by step ES file explorer deleted files recovery tutorial.
hope this helps.