I never installed outlook (mistake i know) but i do have a copy of my pim.vol file from wm5.
After upgrading to wm6 I obviously lost all of my contacts - is there any way to restore them using my wm5 pim.vol file? thanks
You could always give it the good ol' try mate, but I wouldn't keep my hopes too high if I were you. Sorry.
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Guys... maybe someone can help me..
After flashing my O2 Exec with WM6 (been try Midget,Vijay,Indra) all WM6 won't input new appointment....
Thanks before.
it works for me
did you have an error message ?
You have to make syncronisation trogh AS 4.5. You probably just make a copy of pim file. Pim file have diferent structure now.
I use push mail and it works fine
u know what? Same for me... then hard reset calendar ok.. BUT...when I install Tweaks and hacks... same thing wrong again!?!?!?
damn it Chloe!
tweaks and hacks does nothing to the calendar, also i use it with no problems
joder... I just unistall it reset and I have the same problem:
"The database for this application has been deleted or is corrupted. Restore the database from a backup"
Can Input Appointment If Not Restore PIM was backup on WM5
Guys....
Last night I'm doin hard reset on my WM6 Exec.... first thing I try is make New Apointment, it work....But when I restore PIM (backup on WM5 using Sunnysoft Backup Manager), then I try again, I got same message error....
So I think the problem is structure PIM on WM5 not compatible with WM6.... now I want to try restore with sycn way....
Hope it work
Thanks
L.H.
carbunaru said:
You have to make syncronisation trogh AS 4.5. You probably just make a copy of pim file. Pim file have diferent structure now.
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You're right....
Thanks
L.H
Hi there, before upgrading to WM6, i wanted to sync my universal with outlook to have all the contacts and calendar entries backed up. Active sync showedsuccessful sync, but contacts didnt sync at all. after trying few more times, i thought i leave it, just copy PIM.VOL to sd, as i usualy do, upgrade, and then replace the clea PIM with the backed up one.
the problem started, when my backed up PIM seem to shrink in size as soon as i restart the device. contacts dont open a all. i tried the same pim vol on another universal, and the same problem appears. i simply cant get my contacts back.
what do you think it can be, coz to me it looks like a corrupted PIM.
i was trying to find some kind of PIM editor to get my contacts back, but wth no luck.
is there anything i can do, has any one know the way?
Not sure what your problem is.
But AKU3+ onward to Crossbow PIM.VOL is different from AKU2 PIM.VOL in the data format.
CWKJ said:
Not sure what your problem is.
But AKU3+ onward to Crossbow PIM.VOL is different from AKU2 PIM.VOL in the data format.
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i think the rom he had installed was the original O2 one, so you recon flashing back to aku2 rom will let me see contacts again?
This should be easy to search for.. and yes I did find the PIM Backup thread.. and yes I wish I had used it...
Note: I do NOT have Outlook sync as an option.. so I need/needed a way to do this without going via a PC.
So I tried 2 methods:
a) Database backup with Sprite Backup
b) copied pim.vol to my Storage Card
What I'm finding post-WM6-upgrade is that I can read my PIM data.. but I cannot create new PIM data (appts, contacts).
Do I have any practical way to recover (short of flashing back to WM5 and using PIM Backup?)
Thanks,
Mike
Confused.
AFAI understand, you seems to have backed up with Sprite Backup and copied the pim.vol. And you have flashed into WM6, now unable to get these info back.
If so, you may want to try the WM5 emulator (from M$) for the PC.
Try PIM-Backup??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705
works a treat.
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Try PIM-Backup??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705
works a treat.
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Aye, I found PIMBackup... but does it do me any good in my current state... or do I need to go back to WM5 1st.. PIMBackup, then back to WM6?
Thanks!
Mike
Have you already flashed WM6 then i take it?
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Have you already flashed WM6 then i take it?
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Yep. Held out all this time, watching the ROMs and finally thought it was worth the plunge.
Mike
The best thing you could do is start using exchange. Your PIM data is right there, all you do is sync once youve flashed and your contacts/calendar etc... is back on the device.
DeniaL's service is good, a $10 donation isnt much to ask for a good service especially with exchange 2007 (so you get HTML mail in WM6). Youl get push email aswell, if somebody emails you at (for example) [email protected] it instantly arrives at your device.
I do not want my personal PIM mixed into my work environment (which is my only PC). So I am mostly self-contained on the Hermes. Perhaps DeniaL's service would help me work around that... its a little beyond my knowledge scope (unix guy)
I use my work PC to install apps, and move things on/off the storage card. Not as convenient as it could be, but hopefully makes a little (if wacky) sense.
For the WM5 downgrade, I have the link to the "WM5 Downgrade guide v2".. could I cheat the steps by using ROM #3 from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=302092 (since I was Cingular before, tho a slightly older version)?
Thanks,
Mike
I've been playing with PIMBackup... what I've found so far...
I can rename the WM6 compatible pim.vol to temp name and copy in my old pim.vol
PIMBackup will extract and save off the Appts and Tasks. I can see them with Verbose. It does not seem to be able to read the Contacts.
The WM6 contacts program also barfs.
PI2007 is able to read the contacts, but doesn't seem to have any way to backup/export.
Back to some more fiddling...
Mike
Please post all utilites for handling/copying/extracting/repairing/
restoring/upgrading etc for pim.vol
I have backed up a pim.vol and changed my device with same OS WM 5.0 however when the pim.vol is restored the contacts do not appear.
1)Is there any software to read pim.vol and extract it in txt,csv file.
2)Is there any software to rewrite pim.vol to fit in newer roms.
3)Is there any software to upgrade or repair pim.vol files.
4)Is there any way to add data from pim.vol to Outlook .
5)I have two pim.vol files both of different devices but WM5,
Is their way to interchange data between them so that each other device
has data of the other device. (One is empty in my case)
Thank You
girish Kadel
Same problem
I have a similar problem. I would like to fix a failing pim.vol. If I put it on my device I get "no service" on the phone and can't access my calendar or contacts.
I found a perl script that parses pim.vol for contacts, but it only extracted about 20 out of over 100.
I have exactly the same problem as drkosse except that my contact list is around 4000 and I just updated like 5% of it last week without sync. So I really need it back up. Any tools to fix it?
Hey,
I am also urgently needing some application to read or extract my contacts from a pim.vol.
Any suggestions>?
I thought there is an answer for this...
I would also be highly interested in something that could do that.
yes im having the same problem! i went froma moto Q to HTC Mogul 6.1
i copied the pim file from the storage card after renaming the first one.
the soft reset. then clicked contacts and it just shuts out!
im not sure what to do now. i need those numbers!
lol
I had the same problem, flashed my Omnia with a new rom, forgotten to extract all contacts appointments etcpp, so had searched for a tool to extract the information from the pim.vol (which i saved wisly before)
had found this:
http://www.phatware.com/index.php?q=product/details/dbexplorer
looks like it works, doing now an extract of the data and restore into the systems pim.vol (else it won't work, the pim.vol's are incompatible through different roms ): )
I also really do need a tool for repairing my pim.vol DB. Isn't there any solution available yet? Calendar and Contacts won't start anymore, also I get shown thet there is no Service available, if I use my broken pim.vol. If I rename it and it gots replaced with a newone, everthing is working fine again, but all my data is lost, of course. Also DBExplorer isn't working for me, it says that file is no valid database or broken. :-( Can anyone help me pleaze! Greetz, BKC
Hye....
I want to install a new rom to my Artemis and i have lost my contacts from Office Outlook in my pc...
and i was wondering if anyone knows where the contacts or which file this is and where it is stored inside the phone...
(my device can't any more synchronised with my machine...)
Thanks in advance....
I maybe wrong but I believe its stored in pim.vol in your root directory
thanks... but r u sure 100%???
because i am gone lose all my contacts....... if this is not the file.....
thanks again....
MIKEMOISI said:
thanks... but r u sure 100%???
because i am gone lose all my contacts....... if this is not the file.....
thanks again....
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Hi
You are going to loose it anyway............... your pim.vol is the contacts file BUT you made it in WM5 and when you upgrade to WM6 it will no longer be readable to WM6
Use a pen and paper and write it down ............................
Alien66 said:
Hi
Use a pen and paper and write it down ............................
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Or just use PIM Backup and have contacts, appointments, task and messages (except MMS) backed up.
I tried it during WM5 -> WM6 upgrade of my Artemis and everything worked perfect.
thanks a lot... very helpfull