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
When I copy some files or folders into my SD card, the names look just right on my computer. but when I put SD into my mobile phone and browse them, the names of some(not all of them) files/folders become capital.
I've tried XP and Win7, still the same.
For example: I copy two folders - conf and media - into my SD card, but they become CONF and MEDIA in my mobile.
How could this happen? Somebody can help me with this?
What is the output when you run "cat /etc/fstab" on your phone via command line?
thanks for replying.
I'm sorry I didnt make myself clear. this all happened in WM65, not in Android.
maybe I've post it in the wrong place ^_^
Hi guys, just wondering what your 'workflow' is like when backing the SD card contents to the PC. Do you guys just literally copy and paste all files and create a new folder each time or do you use a program to keep the backup folder in sync with what is on the SD card?
I use Beyond Compare3 - compares 2 folders and shows the differences. Lets you only copy the files that are missing or have been updated/deleted. Saves a whole lot of time!
That program looks quite useful. Will def have a look at that. Thanks! Need something to help maintain backups. Dont really want 10s of copies of the same file in different folders hogging hd space.
My problem is that after deleting a file from DCIM folder after taking a backup on my PC (the folder where the pictures clicked from the phone are stored); when I click a new picture it is stored with a filename of the deleted file.
e.g if I hv stored Image006 on my PC and deleted it from the SD card, a new image will have the name Image006 although I have an Image035
So then wen i backup the images again i hv problem of images having the same name.
Is there a way to prevent this from happening i.e the new filename should always be the one after my last image.
Also I dnt know if this happens only in Desire or in all phones.
What are all the files in the /mnt/sdcard/.mail folder. There are alot of files with a bunch of #'s as the name. Does anyone know what these files are and can i delete them every once in a while.
thanks,
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What are all the files in the /mnt/sdcard/.mail folder. There are alot of files with a bunch of #'s as the name. Does anyone know what these files are and can i delete them every once in a while.
thanks,
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Not sure, I use GMail and TouchDown for Exchange, so nothing is in mine right now. You can always make a SD card backup to your computer (which is always good to have on hand in case...), delete it, and see what happens.