hi all
first sorry for my english i ' m from italy, that's my question:
i have a HTC hd mini and i need to find the folder where are saved SMS mail contacts for do a manually backup because i have problem with automatic backup(using program).
i hope someone can help me.
sms and contacts are saved in pim.vol file in your device.
oldsap said:
sms and contacts are saved in pim.vol file in your device.
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can help me about mail and mms?a question...if i copy all files wich are in the device ,then i ll do hard reset install new rom and paste files wich i had copied they work again?
furious84 said:
can help me about mail and mms?a question...if i copy all files wich are in the device ,then i ll do hard reset install new rom and paste files wich i had copied they work again?
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I don't know, off the top of my head, if that will work. However, here are a lot of options to backup the PIM info (email, contacts, text and SMS messages, etc.) on your WM device in preparation for a Hard Reset.
If you do a search in the Windows Mobile Development and Hacking Forum for "pim backup" you will find many, many solutions.
In my opinion, 2 of the most popular (and useful) programs are:
- Microsoft's My Phone is a free service that allows you to backup all of you email, text messages, contacts, etc. (up to 200MB) to the web. you can them sync them all back to the device after you hard reset. It also allows you to schedule the backup so it is almost always up to date.\
- DotFred's PIM Backup tool allows you to backup your appointments, emails, SMS, etc. It also lets you do 2 things that MS My Phone does not... you can backup your call logs and speed dials as well (this is something My Phone does not do). It can also run on a schedule, but the backups are stored on your device (main memory or on the storage card) not on the web.
Cheers!
I recently put a new ROM(the simple one that is built for speed/battery life) and i backed up everything in titanium for the 1st time.
Well everything was working fine i thought; as i restored my contacts/texts from titanium. Well i just tried adding a contact and i get the message "Unable to Save Contact" when trying to add one to my phone.
If i change the setting to save to "gmail" it works but i don't want to do that every time i add a contact.
Also, when i try connecting to Kies i get a message about simcard being undetected, not sure if those are related or not"
i'll wait for someone to clarify this but as far as I know, you cannot save contacts via TiBu and restore them on a different rom. You'll need to make sure they're backed up on google first or export them before wiping the phone.
I'm on stock rom unroot
I used to use Xperia Mini and I was able to back up my whole contact to SD
when restore the file, everything was back, especially the "join contact" option which joining same contact with different names into one on the phone, I can't backup this to google. (did this before repair the 'screen' which resulted in factory reset)
Is there anyway to do this in the S3? I looked around the setting in Contact, found nothing.
Thanks for your time.
pinmemo said:
I'm on stock rom unroot
I used to use Xperia Mini and I was able to back up my whole contact to SD
when restore the file, everything was back, especially the "join contact" option which joining same contact with different names into one on the phone, I can't backup this to google. (did this before repair the 'screen' which resulted in factory reset)
Is there anyway to do this in the S3? I looked around the setting in Contact, found nothing.
Thanks for your time.
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It may be just me, but i'm having trouble understanding what you mean!
Are you just looking for a way to backup these contacts that you have imported from the SD to PHONE into your google account?
If so, make sure your google account settings are set to 'sync'.
Settings > Accounts and Sync > Make sure 'Google (email address) is set to sync (green arrows instead of grey).
Then go to contacts > menu > 'Merge with Google'
If this isnt what your asking, please explain further...
i think he wanted to export his contacts as a CSV or XML file into the SD card.
bradputt said:
i think he wanted to export his contacts as a CSV or XML file into the SD card.
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Contacts > Menu > Import/Export > Choose whether to 'Export to SD card' or 'Import from SD card'
Thank you, me and my bad eyesight. It is literally on my face but I just skipped it completely
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Hello!!
Can anybody give me a hand with this trouble:
Last night, I upgrade the ROM of my SGS2 from 4.0.4 (official) to 4.2 (cyanogenmod) using CWM. The ROM that I installed was downloaded from "Cyanogenmod download" (I can't post the link, but downloaded the 2013-02-04 09:32:39 version for SGS2).
Before I start the process, I made a backup with Titanium app.
When I finished the upgrading, I restored the backup, but my contact list wasn't restore!!!
I looked for in Titanium and it said that my contact list was backed up successfully, but can´t restore my contacts (Doesn't show an error detail or something)...
On the other side, I have a backup that I made a months ago with Samsung Kies, but when I Try to connect my S2 to Kies...it always stays "connecting" and doesn't show any progress. Then, I unchecked the "USB Debugging" mode --> unplugged the phone, restart the PC and Phone, installed the drivers and connect the phone again to my PC and I got the same result, the cellphone doesn't connect...Always appear "connecting" and nothing happens...
Is there any way to restore the contacts backup made by Titanium or the Kies backup in this new ROM???
May I use another program (not Kies) that I can use to restore the Kies backup???
Thanks a lot for your help!!!
Titanium will keep your contacts, logs and sms IF you choosed Backup System Data through the backup process. Contacts and Messages are system apps, they are not backed up by defaulf, you have to do that manually. That's because restoring sytem apps to a new ROM different from the previous one always became to conflicts.If its not done i assume the story becomes harder.
Did you used GMail in your previous rom? It has a option to backup contacts. Also why just not save contacts to your SIM card...that always work for me.
Just re-add your google account and your contacts will be re0-synced to phone. (Google account automatically backs up your contacts/calender etc)
I used a google account, but that account was not syncing contacts...
Is there anything else that I can do???
cejas1719 said:
Hello!!
Can anybody give me a hand with this trouble:
Last night, I upgrade the ROM of my SGS2 from 4.0.4 (official) to 4.2 (cyanogenmod) using CWM. The ROM that I installed was downloaded from "Cyanogenmod download" (I can't post the link, but downloaded the 2013-02-04 09:32:39 version for SGS2).
Before I start the process, I made a backup with Titanium app.
When I finished the upgrading, I restored the backup, but my contact list wasn't restore!!!
I looked for in Titanium and it said that my contact list was backed up successfully, but can´t restore my contacts (Doesn't show an error detail or something)...
On the other side, I have a backup that I made a months ago with Samsung Kies, but when I Try to connect my S2 to Kies...it always stays "connecting" and doesn't show any progress. Then, I unchecked the "USB Debugging" mode --> unplugged the phone, restart the PC and Phone, installed the drivers and connect the phone again to my PC and I got the same result, the cellphone doesn't connect...Always appear "connecting" and nothing happens...
Is there any way to restore the contacts backup made by Titanium or the Kies backup in this new ROM???
May I use another program (not Kies) that I can use to restore the Kies backup???
Thanks a lot for your help!!!
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Kies will not work if you have custom ROM in your phone.
It will be time consuming but what you can try to do if your contacts have not been stored with google is to flash stock samsung firmawe with Odin. Then restore your contacts with Kies, back them up witch google account or export to file and then root your phone again and flash custom firmware.
Yeah,
If I don't have any choice, i have to do that!
A lot of work, but nothing to do...
thanks for your help!!!
cejas1719 said:
Hello!!
Can anybody give me a hand with this trouble:
Last night, I upgrade the ROM of my SGS2 from 4.0.4 (official) to 4.2 (cyanogenmod) using CWM. The ROM that I installed was downloaded from "Cyanogenmod download" (I can't post the link, but downloaded the 2013-02-04 09:32:39 version for SGS2).
Before I start the process, I made a backup with Titanium app.
When I finished the upgrading, I restored the backup, but my contact list wasn't restore!!!
I looked for in Titanium and it said that my contact list was backed up successfully, but can´t restore my contacts (Doesn't show an error detail or something)...
On the other side, I have a backup that I made a months ago with Samsung Kies, but when I Try to connect my S2 to Kies...it always stays "connecting" and doesn't show any progress. Then, I unchecked the "USB Debugging" mode --> unplugged the phone, restart the PC and Phone, installed the drivers and connect the phone again to my PC and I got the same result, the cellphone doesn't connect...Always appear "connecting" and nothing happens...
Is there any way to restore the contacts backup made by Titanium or the Kies backup in this new ROM???
May I use another program (not Kies) that I can use to restore the Kies backup???
Thanks a lot for your help!!!
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First titanium backup is not recommended for CM10.1 see this
Second go to kies, the contacts you saved ,It will be in .spb
first find that file in your pc and copy to other location. (backup if you lost file in case)
then in kies select save as and select save as vCard file and all your contacts will be stored individually in your pc.
connect phone and put all contacts in phone internal storage
open contacts > menu button > import/export > import from storage
you will find all your contacts in few moments...
and then backup to Google account:good:
Peaceful Droid said:
First titanium backup is not recommended for CM10.1 see this
Second go to kies, the contacts you saved ,It will be in .spb
first find that file in your pc and copy to other location. (backup if you lost file in case)
then in kies select save as and select save as vCard file and all your contacts will be stored individually in your pc.
connect phone and put all contacts in phone internal storage
open contacts > menu button > import/export > import from storage
you will find all your contacts in few moments...
and then backup to Google account:good:
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I've had same issue and saving my contacts from Kies as a vCard file just did not worked. There was no option to select vCard filetype, only spb.
tomtro74 said:
I've had same issue and saving my contacts from Kies as a vCard file just did not worked. There was no option to select vCard filetype, only spb.
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when you press button written save as, a window pops up and at bottom you will have 2 options first file name and second save as type. in second option there is drop down list in which you will find three file types
1. kies contacts .spb
2. CSV file .csv
3. vCard file .vcf
select last one .vcf and you are done!!!!
(i have windows 8 just for info)
Peaceful Droid said:
when you press button written save as, a window pops up and at bottom you will have 2 options first file name and second save as type. in second option there is drop down list in which you will find three file types
1. kies contacts .spb
2. CSV file .csv
3. vCard file .vcf
select last one .vcf and you are done!!!!
(i have windows 8 just for info)
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And now you can import contacts to the google account and enable to synchronize to the phone.
The hardiest way is to completly back to stock rom, synchronize contacts from kies to phone. And then go to Contacts, Export to sd card, re-flash new rom and go to Contacts and import to the phone backup from sd card... Backup on sd card is stored as xxxx.vcf file in the root of sd card
A was similar issue with my old Nokia and backup through the Nokia PC SUite, but a was some contacts stored in Outlook, and solution was synchronize through Nokia PC suite.
If you changing roms enable synchorinzation to the google account. this is easy way to have a backup...
It seems that I messed up big time. I recently just setup a Z-Push server to sync with my Zimbra 8 installation. Things were going good for the last day or so but my contacts were not auto-syncing, I had to manually sync them. When I went into the account settings it said "Sync Disabled".
I chose not to sync email with Z-Push because I really didn't see the need since I can just use IMAP and don't really care if I get PUSH notifications. If I get an email 30 seconds later it really doesn't bother me.
So... In an effort to clean things up, I thought, "since I use K-9 mail I wouldn't need the default email client", so I deleted it. I backed it up and then clicked uninstall. I did get a warning that said something like "in order to restore you will have to restore from Titanium Backup with the exact same ROM". I obviously misunderstood this warning because I clicked ok. When I went to re-setup the Exchange account the option was no longer there.
I went to go re-install the email client and my backup was gone.
I have a back up of the app from when I first installed Titanium Backup which is on my desktop. I just copied it over to my Downloads folder on my sd card, but I can't find a way to install the apk or the properties file into Titanium Backup from the sd card.
Could someone please help me restore this app? I would like to get exchange setup.
--- DISREGARD: I searched for the email app and it was found. I restored it. ---