yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Don't ask to much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ugoff:
The ROMs for the Kaiser (including 6.5) would actually sort these after the restore was done. I would open the sms/mms window and watch as it was populated 1 message at a time by date/time. It took a while, but they were always in order. I have a Tilt 2/Rhodium now, and it doesn't seem to have this functionality anymore. Anyone know what that was and if it can be reimplemented?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Atamagaokashii:
My i910 Omnia has this problem as well. I'm running 6.5.1 build 23085, but I noticed this happening way back before when I first flashed to 6.5.

Perhaps it is a 6.5 issue?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ugoff:
It must be. Although, every build until the last build (23071) I ran on my Tilt worked fine. I'm using a 23081 build on the Tilt 2, so it must have something to do with the OS after 3207*. Can anyone confirm?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Bence:
If I backup contact now, using 6.1, and then after upgrading to 6.5, would the pim backup application work and import contact without problems?

I am using outlook contacts and not sim contacts option...

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Atamagaokashii:
Yes, if it's just contacts it should be fine as long as you save it to a external storage like a sd card or your pc via activesync and then transfer it back, or if you use an sd card, just choose the file in your card as the source of the restore.

I should mention now that in previous flashes after soft resetting a few times, I wouold notice that some messages would re-organize themselves bakin to "last received" order, but not everytime. fyi

tl;dr yes you're fine, sometimes text messages would fix themselves.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cartus:
does it work from one pda to another ? like i backup an Asus P552 and restore the contacts on HTC TD2 ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] surayoot:
Ok good app
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ren McCourtey:
Hi everybody. My HTC is gone now and all what's left is pim backup file. I unpacked it and got all what I needed, like numbers. But I would like also get my messages. Is there a way how to convert *.pbm to *.csv file, to process it further? Most importantly to decode hashes to date/time?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ppa25:
Tilt 2

Hi Guys,

I have a stock rom Tilt 2 and when using PIM Backup, the select boxes don't work properly. I'm unable to select or deselect files. It will cycle from checked, filled radio box, back to unchecked, to empty radio box, to a green arrow(???). No matter which is selected, it considers it as checked. Anyone had this problem or know of a fix?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _cv:
Thank your for answering!

i belive, that there are one or more appointments damaged or incorrupt and so the restore/recovery do not continue.

The problem is also at activesync.

Is it possible to make a restore/recovery without damaged appointments

thank you

_cv
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] udamir:
I've made full backup using WM6.1 then tried to restore on device with WM6.5, but messages (SMS) didn't restore from backup!

Is it possible to restore all my messages?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tiburon69:
Edit csl file

Great app.

I'm sorry if the answer that I need is already posted.

I need to see the call log on exel and edit it (date, time of call...)

When I open the csl file on excel it is full of hexadecimal numbers.

Am I doing some thing wrong? how can I "read" it?

many thanks in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jagzjagz:
Viewing PIM backup on PC - How?

I'm trying to view the backup text file or binary file on my PC somehow. Windows XP. I want to sell my phone and backup all my data so I can view it after it is sold.

How can I do this????????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] luksi:
Text backup looks like hexadecimal

Hi,

I'd really love to use this great app to backup my WM5 (Qtek 8500) appointments to Google calendar.

But my text backup looks like this:

"Nieuwjaar";"0xff,0xff";"";;"0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00";"";"0xa0,0x05,0x00,0x00"; ...

I searched this thread and found that this is in Unicode, but I have not been able to convert it to something readable.

I am not the only one with this problem, but has anyone solved it?

Thanks for listening!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
That's not a problem but quite normal.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1230067&highlight=unicode#post1230067
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] luksi:
Hi Hendrixus,

Thanks for your quick advice. Though this may be normal, I still can't import it into Google Calendar, nor read or edit it. The header line reads like this:

"0xe6,0xd2,0x9a,0x2a,0x2f,0x90,0x1c,0x2f,0x4e,0x20,0x2f,0x88,0x5b,0x2f,0x7a,0x7e,0x47,0xbe,0x2a,0xbd"

I have no idea what this means, do you?

Thanks for helping,

Luksi
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Why do I have to search for you? The answer is in the below link. He basically asks the same

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2903316&postcount=990

and Fred gave an answer.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2906165&postcount=991
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Oreo10:
Could anyone tell me how to get this software onto my phone or send me a link on how exactly to do it?

I have an HTC Imagio that I want to save text messages and contacts from but can't figure out how to get a .exe onto the phone. I tried to copy it to the phone that shows up in My Computer but it doesn't allow me to paste anything there. Thanks in advance!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] anhphe076:
PIM Backup v2.8

PIM Backup v2.8.Cab:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Oreo10:
Thanks, got it working. Awesome program!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] luksi:
Thank you. I understand now that the 'text' backup is not really meant for use outside this program. I shall wait for the next release.

Luksi
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
See the below.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Rule ONE.

Check the first page, search, then ask!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] grayden:
fix?

The radio buttons in Pim Backup don't really work if you use WM6.5.x as you have probably noticed.

But today after a flash i setup my Touch Pro and used Pim Backup to restore the contacts (they were synced already through Activesync), appointments, call history and tasks. In the screen were you choose to update/add new/etc where the problem with the buttons occurs if you tap, move to the right and release you can bypass the problem. I chose for contacts the allow duplicate to be created and it worked as it should.

Check it out.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abid885:
Help

Hi,

Need help, as i try to restore form Pimbackup it says file corrupted. how do i open the particular corrupted file on the destop? using what program? try to open it using notepad & words but couldn't understant the language inside.

thanks in advance.

-/Abid.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Farmer Ted:
If the file's corrupted then it may be toast. You best bet is to scan the disk with a repair utility and see if you can recover the data. Unfortunately, it will probably be in the wrong format and will have a lot of garbage in it (trust me, I know). Your card needs repairing, anyway. Try pocket mechanic or something similar. Also, have several different backups in different locations.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abid885:
Hi Farmer Ted,

Thanks for the reply. It is not my memory card that is coruppted but the file itself (PIMBackup_20091222.pib) I know there is something inside this particular file because the file size is 349kb.

Please help.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=299705&highlight=corrupt&page=29
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] danbjergby:
Does this work on 64 bit win 7??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JediFonger:
danbjergby, this works the phone only. it'll help u make internal backups right on the phone to SD card or wherever. u dont need to connect phone to computer to make backups.

also most 32-bit programs work on 64-bit windows (in general).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ravenlord:
Hello! Is it possible to optimize the program to work at 480x800 ? For do it more finger friendly...

Dotfred, can you do it, please?

Greetings
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Wajk:
i have little problem.

I used Miri ROM, pimbackup very well, now i use other ROM.

When i try restore my backup.

Log say everything very well (inserted x contact to Outlook... etc.), but Phone Contacts, Call History, etc not restored, only Messages.

how to extract contacts and inserted other way?

thnx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] chua:
Uber-app

Had: 4 year old XDA Neo, running WM5

Bought new: HTC Touch Pro 2, running WM6.5

Used PIM backup 2.8 to save all my contacts, SMS and call history. Then uploaded them into my new TP2. Worked fine without any quirps.

Thank you dotfred!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wacky.banana:
PIM 2.8 Weird Backup Problem

Have speed searched through all 134 pages of this thread plus googled on the internet but can't find this problem or a solution.

I have a HTC HD2 which is running the winmobile sms client NOT the HTC/manilla one.

Quite by accident I noticed yesterday that when the schedule I have setup in PIM kicks in, the application only backs up my email account but not my SMS or anything else. However when I run exactly the same settings manually ALL items are backed up successfully.

I have done a load of testing and these results are consistent, time after time. Does anyone know what's going on here and how to solve it?

I rely hugely on this application and trust it implicitly. It was our chance that I discovered this anomaly and was able to get myself out of trouble by manually backing up.

Thanks in advance for any help.

WB
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DarkRenegade:
similar issue with HTC HD with Miri ROM:

my backup is: sms, contacts and call logs.

- at scheduled time: it backups only contacts and call logs (when i try to restore sms it says me there are no sms saved)

- manual backup: everything ok

however i notice that the backup *.pib files have same dimension, so sms are saved but it's impossible to restore them.

how to solve this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] selvator:
cant seem to run this on my 64 bit windows 7 laptop

says its not a valid win32 application
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rightjb:
Fred - I have 7 email accounts (plus sms/mms). Is there any work around to CREATE the accounts rather than having to reset them before restore? Many thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
both:The solution is quite simple. Don't use the scheduled backup!

1. don't use the Miri ROM

2. Ask the programmer of the miri ROM

3. Pim backup wasn't made for WM6.5

DotFred last comment on the PIM Backup status
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wacky.banana:
@ Hendrixus,

Not sure whether you are trying to be helpful or not but I will give you the benefit of the doubt for now.

My point is the programme works fine manually but not when in schedule mode. Works fine in WM 6.5 apart from the schedule issue so I don't know where your comments are coming from.

Its the scheduling aspect of the software that has a glitch NOT its ability to work in 6.5. Hope that's clear.

WB
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
I think I was clear enough!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] danchio:
Thanks for app :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Deetz:
I love your program, I had a Sony Xperia which was stolen but I had a recent backup.

I now have a Android based phone and I would like to get my contacts back. Is there a way to parse the backup file on windows?

Or do I have to hijack someone's windows mobile phone, backup their settings, import mine then restore there's?

Alternatively I know a emulator might work but any easy way to parse the "PIMBackup_XXXXXX" file?

Edit:

OHHh

"There are two kinds of backups. The binary based backup has been implemented in order to have a backup/restore process which is fast and more reliable, the disadvantage being that the backup contents cannot be easily modified or viewed.

The text based backup has been implemented in order to see/edit the contents on a pc for instance."

So am I SOL without my original phone to decrypt the binary format? Didn't ever think of this before.

Ok I see it's coming at some point very cool.

"- conversion of text backups <-> binary backups"

Edit: Also send Fred $20 USD cause damn if his work isn't saving us all a lot of time and frustration esp if you play with new roms.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gooe2004:
Thanks

Thankssssssssssssssss
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shuweee:
Hi Fred,

as I open up the backup with Winzip, i noticed instead of having a .csv file i think i selected the compression version and i have a .pbc extenstion instead. so how do i go about viewing that file on PC if you know or can point me to the right directions.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lidaraza:
Restore issues

Hi all,

I want to know if, after a backup, I am able to restore ALL the programs.

I explain: I got installed a bought navigation software (garmin xt). Is the restore going to "re-install" back my garmin xt?

or do I have to go back to the soft store and buy it again?

thanks for your help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=538499
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
No, no, no. PIM Backup only backups data, phone data like SMS, email, appointments, tasks etc.It is free.

Do some reading first before asking!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=299705
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MumpiH:
Email message bodys completely lost

I'm using PIMBackup for quite a while now and it is really great. Thanks a lot!

Yesterday I made a fresh backup to upgrade my "Telekom MDA V compact" (aka HTC Diamond) with an official ROM from 6.1 to 6.5.

Upgrade went well and I recreated my Email accounts etc.

Everything looked great and I have no messages indicating problem when I do a restore.

All subfolders were restored and contain the expected number of messages, BUT when I try to read the contents of the emails, I find them empty without any message body!

I hope I didn't overlook something and this is a FAQ, but I'm a little desperate now.

I successfully unzipped the messages file from the pib archive, but I'm struck with interpreting the contents.

Any clues for me?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Basti:
I have an existing bunch of SMS already on my device. Now I want to add some older backup files to retrieve the SMS out of them, so I select to restore the SMS and say "add only new messages to the database".

Then it says that it imports messages to the database but the progress bar does not start to run at all.

I waited 1 (one) hour and canceled afterwards.

Any idea?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] emudem:
I want restore contacts using windows 7 but I not to become it, i have open "contact.pcb" with excel 2007 but it is not work

Help, my pda is dead!! and i can not use pimbackup
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SABINAD:
Pim failed backup

I recently upgraed my htc touch to wm 6.1. i was so anxious to do so...i forgot to properly back up my text and contacts. i did however save the pim and other files to my storage disc. is there any way for me to get it to restore to my disc? i tried moving the files, but that didn't do anything. can i run a backup on the storage disc?

thanks

sabina
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AlAneed:
It's getting slower with WM6.5! in the previous versions it was so fast

But, now with WM6.5 it's fast in backup but it's so slow in restore!

Does anyone agree?

BTW, it's the best tool for Backup & restore !

Thanks very much
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Yeah just copy the pim.vol to the original place which is "My Device" (the root) then softreset and start pim backup and make a copy.If you can't copy then there are "read only"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fearless139:
when restore sms, it doesn't appear in correct order :(

how to fix this??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tabbe:
no fix, PIM Backup restore sms but wont group them correctly in threaded mode

I think PIM Backup should get a upgrade now for 6.5 and above

with backup of group list & email
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
If you upgraded your device to wm6.1, overwriting the new pim.vol with the one saved on the storage card won't probably work due to version differences.

I made a tool that dumps the contents of any pim.vol to csv files zipped together. The zip file is simply called pim.zip, the csv files have the name of the tables found in the pim.vol database. The dump is in text except for binary fields which are stored as hex strings. The fields names are the one used in the tables, so don't expect to find names.

I hope this tool helps.

Cheers,

Fred

ps.: the tool is designed for pocket pcs devices only, not smartphones

pps.: the tool works from wm5.0 to wm6.5
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Hi Fred,

thanks for your reply and the tools

It wasn't my problem. I only tried to help out.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5534339&postcount=1362

Any news about an upgrade? I know you're quite busy, but you know. Many want to know ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kbloem:
Hi,

so here's the situation. I used pim backup to backup all my contacts sms etc. Now my xperia is broken and my new ordered hd2 should arrive in about two weeks.

I have a nokia n95 till then so how wil i get my contacts to that phone? I know i can rename the backup file to zip and open it but i cannot read the pbc file. Is there a way to convert it to csv?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mu52210:
PIM didnt work with me

Hi, i am planning to do some upgrades into my diamond wm6.1.

and i had installed the PIM backup v2.8 but it did not work fully, i managed to select what i need to backup, but the (next) button is fade , and i couldnt press on it!!!

if anyone can help me, i would like to do the following upgrades,

ROM upgrades from 1.37.456.2 WWE to the latests!

Also, i would like to get wm7, with manila.

thanks;
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Read the below rulez

http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?f=453

Use the search option!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] solefly:
can u view SMS on the desktop??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] solefly:
sadly:

Some Treos (such as the 750) use Palm's custom SMS software on the phone instead of the standard Microsoft SMS application. These phones will not allow SMS synchronization with Jeyo products. You'll be able to send SMS messages through these phones from Jeyo apps, as well as sync call history, etc, but not download any SMS information.

is there any hope for an app to VIEW sms on desktop for the treo 750??:(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5622063&postcount=12
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] solefly:
thanks but it didnt work! :(:(

only contacts sync nothing else

why does treo's sms have to be so difficult!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Which version do I download for HD2 leo phone?	PPCPimBackupV2.8_wm2005.zip or PPCPimBackupV2.8_wm2003se.zip?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Are you familiar with your own device? Did you read you manual or at least the quick start?

WM2003SE is from 7 years ago!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
From what your saying both of the version are not compatible with WM6.5??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jacob.kadosh:
upgrade software PPCPimBackup

It's time to upgrade the software PPCPimBackup

To support the updating of personal information that rum should not re-defined it as:

Favorite Contacts

Weather cities list

Securities and coins

Saving shortcuts to programs such as: Manila Co0kie's Home Tab - Extended QuickLinks 16 20 25 or more

Favorites list personalities instances Manila Internet

Saving the mail accounts and various settings such as home, work, etc..

Save settings WiFi devices connected to the work, etc..

Save Settings Bluwtooth connected devices such as vehicles, ears, printer, etc..

More ...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rightjb:
I would paypal for that!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tigro11:
would be nice
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] c_shekhar:
Thanks for the quick update. dotfred.

The time related problems are still not over...The backup taken at 20:58 are shown to have been taken at 15:28. I think you are storing the time stamp of GMT instead of local time. To elaborate my point further....

I am located at GMT+5:30 (20:58) and the time stamp recorded is GMT (15:28)

here are the screenShots...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomal:
Hi DF,

The icons (i.e. info icon) of the application is very tiny on VGA devices.

Hope it will be fixed in future.

Thanx for the wonderful work. Keep up... :)

Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fibsi:
is ther an any way to back up the voice commands?

thanks for help!

fibsi
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dominick_7:
Will this work with the Threaded SMS App?

Hi I was wondering if there was a way to get this to work with the Threaded SMS App? If so, how would that work? Also I'm not used to Excell, and was wondering how you get it to maybe convert to Word, or something that isn't as weird and awkward? Everything is squished together, and I can't seem to get to the whole email or what not. Thank you. Great app btw!

Dominick
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
From which application?

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Everything is retrieved from cemail.vol and pim.vol used by tmail.exe and poutlook.exe, if you are using something else then the answer is no.

Even if you are not used to Excel, it is very easy to create an excel sheet then convert it to a word document.

1) Just extract the .csm file from the .pib then change the extension to .csv

2) Launch Excel, then open the .csv file, you will see a wizard dialog and follow the steps to get the excel sheet as you want.

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
I will take a look to this...

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
You're right, the date of the files is GMT, I will modify it!

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AlainL:
Thanks a lot for this great apps.

I transfered all contacts from my S100 to my spv m3100 (Hermes) with blackv2.0 without problems.

The appointments seems ok too, but now, on the new device, all entries have an empty note attached (no notes on the old one).

I'm ready to help you, if you need.

Greetings

(version used on both device was 1.5)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fibsi:
for example:

Cyberon Voice Speed Dial Version 1.1

the voice command can't be backuped, or?

is the a way to backup the connections? after each testing of a rom, i must make a new networksetting. also the settings for mms!

bye

fibsi

ps: THIS PROGRAMM IS ONE OF THE BEST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
This is what you need:

And for the rest, no, sorry, I'm not interested in that. First it is too much work, and I cannot guarantee that a registry backup from one device, will work on another, too dangerous, so no.:o

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CWKJ:
Have you seen this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1206553#post1206553
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
No I didn't see

Thanks, for the tip

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] allynm:
possible bug

During a restore (1.5), i hit cancel during the contacts restore (at the 'retrieving contacts mapped... part). retrieving contacts was cancelled, and the cancel button changed to adn exit button, but the restore did not stop - it moved on to restoring appointments. there appeared to be no correct way to cancel at this point, and the exit button did nothing.

Hope this info helps.

Al
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jay_9090:
Very Good Program !!

It's very Indispensable if you want test all new roms and save your PIM !!!

Thanks A Lot !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] festermania:
very great applications. only a little problems after restore I have loose the mms images. all mms have only text without images.