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Installed HTCSYNC and now gety BSOD

I just got myself a desire and naturally I want to copy all my contacts from MS Outlook to the phone. I downloaded the latest version of HTCSYNC from the HTC website. Installed and kept getting the dreaded Blue screen of Death(BSOD). eventually I managed to roll back the registry and all is stable now. I am running XP SP3 and certainly didn't expect any issues with a mature process such as sync'n contacts. It appears to be related to the HTCSYNC installation but don't know how to get around this. Can anyone please provide any answers or help...
PS I believe there is also a version of HTCSYNC on the SD card that came with the phone...
Any help appreciated. Thanks JD

jdoherty76 said:
I just got myself a desire and naturally I want to copy all my contacts from MS Outlook to the phone. I downloaded the latest version of HTCSYNC from the HTC website. Installed and kept getting the dreaded Blue screen of Death(BSOD). eventually I managed to roll back the registry and all is stable now. I am running XP SP3 and certainly didn't expect any issues with a mature process such as sync'n contacts. It appears to be related to the HTCSYNC installation but don't know how to get around this. Can anyone please provide any answers or help...
PS I believe there is also a version of HTCSYNC on the SD card that came with the phone...
Any help appreciated. Thanks JD
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go to your outlook and export your contacts to a csv file and than login into your gmail and import it there... than just login to your gmail with/in your phone under settings>>account... sync it.. wolaaa u have ur contacts in you phone..

Thanks Harvin23 I appreciate the speedy response I'll get this does as soon as I get a minute as the PC that contains my contacts is a works PC 300+ contacts. I'll export this tonight and then import them into my google account. Do you just connect via wireless to google and do the business you mentioned? Thanks again..john..

I had no end of trouble with HTCSync creating multiple incorrect Calendar entries. After doing some research I got hold of MyPhoneExplorer, and this seems to handle syncing from Outlook really well.

Thanks werdna is this quite a simple tool to use...all i require is something to copy 350 contacts from XP laptop onto Desire flawlessly..preferably with all fields present..job done. I assume you don't need HTC sync for anything else of importance? Thanks JD

Also werdna how do I install the ADB drivers if it is included in HTC sync? is there a way to extract this?
The links are all in german...

jdoherty76 said:
Thanks werdna is this quite a simple tool to use...all i require is something to copy 350 contacts from XP laptop onto Desire flawlessly..preferably with all fields present..job done. I assume you don't need HTC sync for anything else of importance? Thanks JD
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jdoherty76 said:
Also werdna how do I install the ADB drivers if it is included in HTC sync? is there a way to extract this?
The links are all in german...
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MyPhoneExplorer, at its simplest, is - as its name suggests - an app for exploring the contents of your phone, and you can view and edit Contacts, Call lists, Appointments, Alarms, Messages and Files. It's very flexible - for example you can view Messages in threads or by Inbox/Sent/Archive. You can also, very easily, set it to sync Contacts and Appointments with Outlook - and you can view all the changes before accepting them.
I don't fully understand the ADB drivers question. HTC Sync just 'worked' (or not!) straight from the installation - my Desire had a copy on the SD Card, and I later updated to a newer version.
Hope this helps!

[Q] File Recovery (Pictures) - MTP

Hi guys,
I really need your help on this one.
I have searched the forums and the web for a full day now and it seems that I am not alone with my problem here:
Last night I used Solid Explorer to create a subfolder with pictures within the Camera folder. I then tried to move that folder somewhere else on the "SD Card".
But when the process was finished, the subfolder was empty and all the pictures were gone. I could still see the thumbnails in the Camera folder, but when I tried to open one of them, they also all just disappeared!
Now I have read several threads here on xda about the problems of file recovery on a MTP device... Seems like normal file recovery programs will not be of any help in this case.
However I was hoping, that by now someone came up with a solution to this problem, since it affects all users of the GNex.
Some more infos on my side:
The phone runs 4.0.4, is not rooted and not unlocked - everything is stock.
Data back up via Google Plus and Dropbox was not possible, since I am on holidays in Asia with no data plan or WiFi available.
I have switched the phone to flight mode and (hopefully) not written any new data on the storage.
So my questions would be the following:
1) Has anybody yet found a way to asign a physical drive letter to the GNex, making it possible to be recognized by regular file recovery software?
Or is anybody currrently looking into that matter, trying to find a solution?
2) In case that I will not be able to recover the pictures myself through some pc software off the net, will I be able to let some professional have my files restored for me? If I understand correctly, all it takes is a software, that is able to recognize a ext3 or ext4 storage system???
I would really appreciate any help on this matter, because these pictures mean a lot to me and I really hope that I will be able to get them back somehow.
Thanks in advance,
Patrick.
Edit: Argh! First post and I got it wrong already! Sorry, I meant to post this in the Q/A section but ended up posting it in General :-/

I had to format my sd card losing 13GB of information yesterday. This was also due to stupid mtp. Sorry i doubt you can recover.

Sorry to hear that! Until now I could never understand the objections many people seemed to have concerning MTP, as it handled pretty much the same as an USB device when using a Windows PC. But now that I gained some insight in the matter, it's probably the ONE thing I don't like about this phone.
It just sucks to find that out the hard way...
But maybe somebody else still has an idea and can point me in the right direction?

I've had the same problem, and I'm blaming MTP as well. I finally gave up, formatted my drive and replaced MTP with cloud services or transferring files via adb.

[Q] All on-line accounts are deleted after reboot

I'm currently running the latest update for the Nokia X Platform (version 1.1.2.2) and I noticed that after I successfully added several on-line accounts in the settings, such as BBM, outlook.com, WhatsApp, etc., all these accounts were automatically deleted after the first reboot!
I tried to re-add the same on-line accounts but after the second reboot, they were deleted again!
It looks like it's a bug in the operating system but I don't know how to track it nor debug it.
I googled for a bug thread or a complain regarding Nokia X in several forums but I couldn't find a single thread with the same problem! Am I the only one who faces such issue? If anyone here has the same problem or a suggestion to solve it, please share with us.
Thank you very much

alahmed said:
I'm currently running the latest update for the Nokia X Platform (version 1.1.2.2) and I noticed that after I successfully added several on-line accounts in the settings, such as BBM, outlook.com, WhatsApp, etc., all these accounts were automatically deleted after the first reboot!
I tried to re-add the same on-line accounts but after the second reboot, they were deleted again!
It looks like it's a bug in the operating system but I don't know how to track it nor debug it.
I googled for a bug thread or a complain regarding Nokia X in several forums but I couldn't find a single thread with the same problem! Am I the only one who faces such issue? If anyone here has the same problem or a suggestion to solve it, please share with us.
Thank you very much
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You can re-flash the stock ROM with Nokia X Flasher.

Bro flash your phn with stock r0m.
GIVE ME A THANKS

Problem Solved
I kept googling for a solution and I finally found a blog which explains in details the root cause of this issue; according to Markoff, it's basically problem with app accessing encrypted data (usually used by paid apps or something behind password like free E-mail/IM clients or even launchers) before specific folder (mnt/asec) is mounted during boot of Android system.
In my case, all my downloaded applications were moved to SD card using Titanium Backup (yes my phone is rooted ) in order to free some space in the limited 1.2 GB internal storage.
Solution how to fix this extremely annoying bug of Android Jelly Bean 4.1.x/4.2.x/4.3:
1. Check if app with disappearing account (System settings\Accounts) is not installed on SD card, if it's installed on SD card move the app to Internal storage of your phone/tablet and create account again, which should solve the issue for most of the users and account should be preserved after restart/shutdown. This solution has worked as charm for me
The credit of this solution goes to Markoff the author of the blog, I just wanted to share my experience with my fellow Nokia X/XL users.
Source link: http://markoff.biz/pivot/entry.php?id=1672&w=my_weblog

[Q] $ 50,- reward (real) (data loss)

Hi All,
After update to Lollipop 5.0.2 I lost some audio files.
The update to 5.0.2 was a normal "update" so I had no idea I was going to lose data, and I did not make an additional backup.
As it turns out, I'm not the only one who is missing some files. A friend of mine lost almost all downloaded MP3 songs.
For me it's not something I downloaded, but recorded. It's a few .wav files, and I really like them back!
And Yes, I'm willing to pay for it.
I have a HTC M8, but during root process, I saw it was telling me it's a M7 (???)
So, the phone is rooted.
I tried several recovery solutions (all just reading, not writing) and some can find some files, like a facebook .png that I recognise.
This means, there is still (useful) data on there.
How can I recover my files?
Is this just a HTC problem, or are there also other phone vendors who delete user data?
I hope.... and pray... and ask here

fhorst said:
Hi All,
After update to Lollipop 5.0.2 I lost some audio files.
The update to 5.0.2 was a normal "update" so I had no idea I was going to lose data, and I did not make an additional backup.
As it turns out, I'm not the only one who is missing some files. A friend of mine lost almost all downloaded MP3 songs.
For me it's not something I downloaded, but recorded. It's a few .wav files, and I really like them back!
And Yes, I'm willing to pay for it.
I have a HTC M8, but during root process, I saw it was telling me it's a M7 (???)
So, the phone is rooted.
I tried several recovery solutions (all just reading, not writing) and some can find some files, like a facebook .png that I recognise.
This means, there is still (useful) data on there.
How can I recover my files?
Is this just a HTC problem, or are there also other phone vendors who delete user data?
I hope.... and pray... and ask here
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Have you tried Dr. Fone?

I've had good success with diskdigger

edios123 said:
Have you tried Dr. Fone?
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Yes, I have.
I am confused with the files it finds.
A lot of files, all corupt, none of it useful data for me.
I do know quite a bit about data recovery on a normal hard drive, but almost no info how it works on NAND flash.
I was not aware I had 105 times a .mov files on my phone, 3,5 GB... I dod not make them, or download them.
As dr Fone can not help me...
I am trying diskdigger.
This does find files, but also loads of files I was not aware of. (and not the files I need)
A lot of .zip files, and the strange thing is that they all seem to have the same data structure. (see zip.jpg)
Can any one tell me why I have all them .zip files and apk's?
Thanks!

Some folders in Internal Storage missing in Windows Explorer

Hi people
It seems that I can't get to certain folders in the Internal Storage folder when browsing the phone from the PC via USB. HTC Sync Manager can access it (one of the folders are the DCIM folder), but it doesn't allow me to browse there outside of HTC Sync Manager (does anybody even use that?). I've tried a few things in the past and didn't have time to struggle too much, so moved on with my life and worked around it, but it's really getting irritating. Unfortunately I can't remember what all I tried.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it working and I definitely didn't have that problem with my M7. Anybody have any suggestions? I'll provide specs below, but will provide whatever additional information is required.
Phone
HTC One M9 (stock)
Android version 5.1
Software number 2.10.401.1
Laptop
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 x64

Hey guys. Please, this is driving me out the walls.
Since the original post, I have had it once where all the folders were visible in explorer, but I can't see that I did anything different, except perhaps lingered longer before browsing to the phone. I've tried 'replicating' it, but to no avail.
Tried turning on USB Debugging for good measure and off again, no difference. Any hints whatsoever will be appreciated. Also, if there are any further details required, let me know and I'll post it.
Thanks

Try Xender,solid explorer or es explorer from playstore
The above apps provide you with option to browse your internal storage over Wi-Fi
If that didn't work..flash the latest TWRP for device
While boot in recovery try accessing your phone Storage
Sent from my HTC One M9 using Tapatalk

Hi ujere, thanks for the reply.
I really don't feel like I should need third party apps to access my DCIM folder on my phone. I use File Manager HD (have been for years) and can FTP and cloud and LAN and whatever, but it's not what I want to do in this instance. I really just want to quickly plug in a USB cable, since there's a ton laying around my desk plugged in at any given moment, browse my phone like a 'flash disk' and copy stuff. And it's possible, only, almost always my Internal Storage doesn't completely 'populate' on Windows Explorer. SD Card works 100%.

Do you have a .nomedia file on the sdcard between its root and the dcim folder?
Do you have htc sync installed?
Sent from my HTC One M9 using Tapatalk

Good day shivadow
I don't see any .nomedia files or folders in the root or the DCIM folder on either the internal memory or the SD card. I'm not entirely sure where you meant, so I checked all. I checked on the phone, not on Windows, as Windows doesn't show everything.
I have HTC Sync Manager installed. It always bugged me to want to install it when I plug in my phone if I don't have it. Annoying crappy bloatware!

Remove the htc sync manager as that causes all sorts of issues. If no joy then try "show hidden files" in folder options on your pc (vista +).
Sent from my HTC One M9 using Tapatalk

So, first time I plugged it in after uninstalling it works! Thanks! Man, I freaking hate bloatware and crap like that.
I'm just going to try it a few more times to make sure it's not a fluke, then come confirm and all that jazz.

And so, indeed, I've not had any problems as yet. Oddly enough, in the past it always hassled me to install Sync if it's not, but it has stopped doing it.
Thanks again and have a good one!