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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] espanola:
I got a critical problem

Thanks for the tool!

I am trying to backup my sms only from a wm2k3 ROM 1.4 (my sx66 use ROM from "sx66 project" site). But the version 2.0 and 2.1 always make my sx66 soft reset and no pid. version 1.9 does not, but the number of sms are not enough when I tried to restore.

Please help me!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tyl:
Thanks very much for this application; and very well done!! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackie06:
awesome soft but does it work with WM6 ?

Thks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] oldsap:
i dont know if this is possible but could the T9's "My Words" be backed upped too?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bdaher:
Thanx a lot Great Software
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
I need to find out why one of your records is "bad formated"!

And without that I can't. So if you can provide me the lines in error, it would be easier!

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
If you can store the sms in a CSV file format as the one used in PIM backup, yes, otherwise no!

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
There is a thread somewhere on the forum, where a guy found the file that contains the T9 dico. This is nothing to do with pim.vol or cemail.vol. It is just a text file in a directory.

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zaidam:
Thanks for GREAT software. Now I ready to flash my device to any upgrade ROm available.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
1) You're right, I will add an option, to only show some points in the backup/restore process and not every entry, like I do for messages.

2) what do you want me to do? Reset the idle time ? Be more specific, please

3) Well if you've already used PPCBckpContacts in the past or tried PPCPimBackup, you would have the answer.

4) nope, impossible. I tried that first, but it simply doesn't work. The pim.vol database contains several tables with foreign keys (ids in other tables). It will be a very huge work to make the job, and in case you don't know, M$ is the champion in changing the layout of the tables. For instance, the speed dials table structure is not the same in WM2003SE, WM2005 and WM2006. Nice isn't it!!! So forget about that.

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Be sure first, that you can restore your backup ! :eek:

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] borjok536:
hi..

here is the backup of my sms messages
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kinmont:
Aawesome it works Great!. Thanks for all you do.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] allynm:
> 2) what do you want me to do? Reset the idle time ? Be more specific, please

I'm not sure if there is a real fix for this actually. It just seems wrong that during the backup process itself that the device can go to sleep if the backup takes longer than the idle timeout. If the idle time was reset every few seconds (only while the backup was running), it would prevent this. I suspect that without such a fix, the device would also fall back asleep in the middle of a scheduled backup, which would prevent the backup from completing until the device was used again.

> 3) Well if you've already used PPCBckpContacts in the past or tried PPCPimBackup, you would have the answer.

I was running PimBackup - I was afraid of what would happen if I hit the 'next' button on the restore - I didnt realize there was an additional prompt, and didnt want to learn this the 'hard way' (by killing / duplicating my data :) ).

> It will be a very huge work to make the job, and in case you don't know, M$ is the champion in changing the layout of the tables. For instance, the speed dials table structure is not the same in WM2003SE, WM2005 and WM2006. Nice isn't it!!! So forget about that.

Heheh, wonderful M$!

Side note: is there some app or method that will let me replace the pim.vol with my own provided backup? (replace the file itself directly, not import / export contents)

Thanks for your assistance, and for providing this program

Al
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CWKJ:
Thanks for the tools. Great ! ! !

Does it also backup the Ringtone associate with the particular contact?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bluecream4:
Hi .Fred,

Thanks a lot for Wonderful Apps !! ..:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Yeap, it does!

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sipher:
Unable to restore contacts

Hi Fred,

Thanks for the great tools, just tried it and had restored all the items except Contacts and Messages. Somehow it show an error during restoring process, here is the error messsage.

Error(ERROR_CSV_BAD_RECORD): Bad Record found at line 254. Nothing Done.

Anyway I could restore my contacts? Cause I did not sync with my outlook yet, and I have about 500 contacts.... so any help will be appreciate!!!

If you have time to check up this issue for me, I can send you the PIB file via email. many thanks~~

Regards

Sipher
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Sipher,

I'm working right now on this problem, you're the second one today having that problem.

I already solved the problem for the other one (borjok536), let's hoep it this the same for you. Send me your .pib to dotfred@dotfred.net

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mestrini:
yep, it's a known and discussed issue.

Use a file explorer like TotalCommander and rename your pim.vol to pim_.vol (or any other flavor) then copy your backup (already named pim.vol in another folder) to device root; accept question about overwriting old version (CE creates a new one if you take too long ;) )

Remember that you can't mix different Time Zones nor different AKU!!!

cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
PIM Backup new release version 1.1

New release version 1.1

see first post for download and infos

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] borjok536:
thanks

dotfred.....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moisha:
Excellent

Great job.

Thank you !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
yes....

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cuboosh:
dotfred, having an issue.. flashed to another rom.. trying to restore a custom file and it keeps saying file is not in list..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi jakeypoo,

Can you send me, the .pbx or the .csx file here dotfred@dotfred.net, so I can check...

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cuboosh:
i have a .pib file.. no .pbx or .csx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
The pib file is a zip file, so just extract the pbx or csx file depending if you made a binary backup (pbx) or a text backup (csx).

The pbx/csx file contains the list of custom files.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cuboosh:
heres the error

Custom file "PalmMsgV001" found in zip file, but not in list. Custom file discarded

now i did go into Options for Custom and add PalmMsgV001 to the list for file backup..

edit:

.csx file has been sent
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Problem solved, new version available...

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] operators:
After a Restore:

- With 2.0 all the appointments and tasks showing in the same day...one by one.

- With 2.1 solved appointments problem, but all tasks showing in today (all completed in today?!)

Thanks

(Treo 750v)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Dear operators,

As mentioned in first post, any text backup containing hex string fields was badly created, meaning an extra ',' before each hex field. It has been fixed in v2.1, but it doesn't mean that text backups from v2.0 can be restored.

In v2.2, it works fine.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jackie06:
Great thks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] operators:
Installed 2.2.

Backup from 2.2 and then restore from 2.2.

Same problem: all tasks after restore showing (as completed) in today.

.....or maybe I don't understand.

I'm sorry for my bad English.

Thanks dotfred.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AdamHeath:
I wonder if anyone can assist me with a problem i'm having ...

Everything seems to run smoothly and the status says RETRIEIVING MESSAGES FROM ... etc, and then after a while, the bottom bar has filled to about 10 bars, and a status message appears saying 4821 MESSSAGES HAVE BEEN SAVED etc ...

Then

DISCONNECTING FROM OUTLOOK

DISCONNECTED

and then nothing seems to happen.

No further progress on the status list, nor on the blue bar.

What is happening ??

AS AN AMMENDMENT - once I managed to close the running application, I found a file titled MSGS_20060309.PMB (my date is wrong on my phone, hence the filename) which I checked on my computer. Opening this in a text docuemnt I found it appeared to be a complete text record of my texts. I thought i'd add this in case this helps in any diagnosis.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vibranze:
hi dotfred,

i'm using version 2.1 and found that the scheduled backup file size is around 600k but with manual backup it is only around 60k.

any ideas why there is a discrepancy between manual and schedule?

congrats to the new release:)

cheers,

vibranze
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Yes, in v2.1, for the scheduled backup, there was no compression, even if the flag was set, fixed in v2.2

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
I still cannot reproduce your problem. I created several types of tasks, completed, not completed, recurrent, in the past, in the future, in the present, any kind of possibilities and they are still showing as they should.

By the way, can you give some screenshots, because I never see completed on the today screen.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi AdamHeath,

Can you tell me where this file is created, on the device, or on the storage card?

What is the size of the .pmb after backup is done?

Do you still have enough memory available to create the .pib file ?

Which version did you use, which OS, which device ?

For a diagnosis, I need all infos.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hsanghavi:
Seems Like A Good Update Till Now. Let Me Check When It Does The Automatic Backup Daily If It Creates Problems Like The V2.0 Version.

Thanks Please Keep Me Updated If There Is A New Update For This Version
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] operators:
Before backup (some tasks in 23/06)

After restore (all tasks disappears in 23/06)

After restore (all tasks showings in today date: 03/07)

Treo 750v (VFI-italian)

Pim Backup 2.2
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Well, this seems to be some kind of third party tool with its own features and probably extra fields in the pim database. So sorry but I can only retrieve default properties...

The default Task application found in the OS doesn't show tasks in a calendar like it does with appointments...

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] operators:
Thanks dotfred for your attention,

but I think that many people use P.Informant or Agenda One or others Pim applications instead of default OS applications.

Showing tasks in calendar view is a useful feature (IMHO).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hsanghavi:
There still seems to be a bug in this V2.2.

Some softwares do not work after the automatic backup process. You need to soft reset the device bring the softwares back to working.

I have splash ID, Astraware Solitaire, SPB Freecell which have the max problem after automatic backup. It says that these software are not available or not signed versions to run on this system.

Even tasks are lost when automatic backup takes place. Soft reset and they are back.

The older version did not have a problem like this. Especially V1.9 or earlier.

REALLY NEED TO CHECK HARD where the flaw is.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blazeguru:
Two questions

I think I missed something. How can I backup custom files? I could not find anything in this thread about that. It sounds like another great feature to me.

Another question is that when I make a backup I have some options but three of them I don't understand. I think they belong to restoring a backup but I am not shure.

The options are: Keep selected backup items

Keep selected messages accounts and folders

Keep defined custom items.

Greetings
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AdamHeath:
Fred,

The file is created on my storage card, and the PMB file is 3.96MB.

I have around 900mb space on my storage card so I see no reason why there should be insufficient space to create the PIB file.

I used version 2.2, on Windows Mobile 5, on a XDA MINI S

Thanks.

I look forward to hearing what the problem may be :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xusso:
Fred,

Just to say thanks for your hard work!

Love your little program and it's been useful!

Thanks again for your effords.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jbloggs000:
Migrating from WM smartphone 2003 SE with this?

Hi,

I've just downloaded and run the backup on my mda vario2. Works great - easy and does the job.

I'm migrating away from a wm smartphone 2003 device (imate sp3i) and it's got hundreds of sms I want to keep/migrate over. I took a stab and tried if the ppc 2003 version would work (nope). Is there some other program I can use to migrate or "backup" my stuff onto the new wm5 device?

Does this program read a standard format that can be written to from another bakup program perhaps?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Silverexp:
Speed Dial

Fred,

Thanks for such a great app. Since moving to a Hermes (8525), my Speed-dials do not backup. I can restore them from a previous Wizard (8125) backup. Please let me know if you need any additional information. This has happen on ver 1.9 - 2.3.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dredogg:
Backing up different pim from another phone.

I have tried going through this thread to see if anyone had addressed this earlier but its so long, so sorry If i am asking a question that has already been answered.

A friend of mine has a tmobile dash. He broke the screen and desperately needs his contact data, I have been scouring the net looking for a program I can run of the pc to extract his contact data from his pim.vol (i can still access the memory of the dash while connected to a pc, but the screen of the phone is dead) however I can't seem to find anything, this is the closest thing I have seen that may offer a fix.

Anyway what i want to know is, since i can't run pim backup off my pc. Can i run it off the sd card of my phone (i have a ppc as well) with a copy of my friend's pim.vol in the same directory and have it back up his pim instead of mine (there is no way to select which pim.vol file to backup in the program from what i have seen, pls correct me if i am wrong) and then run the program again and restore it to his replacement dash. Any help or ideas about how i can recover his data would be creatly appreciated....

Thks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] WizeMan:
Dear dotfred,

first of all I'd like to thank you for your lil' program. It has saved not only my contacts and sms's but also my a##. I also use it on my cooked ROM.

But I'd like to ask you one thing. Why dont you release a new ver every month or 2 weeks for example. So we dont have to replace again and again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cerede2000:
The backup on WM5 and restore on WM6 work?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
yes it works!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
I create new release fastly only when i find bugs that can affect backup/restore
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
sorry no smartphone version available for the moment, and no it just takes infos from pim and mails databases
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
What you can try, is to rename your pim.vol and copy his pim.vol where your pim.vol is stored, normally in the root of the device. Do a soft reset, if you can open the contacts application and see his contacts, then you can make the backup. After that you can rename his pim.vol, and put yours back. If it doesn't, well I think i can make the backup for him.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
This is indeed strange. Which OS is on your Hermes?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] AdamHeath:
Any ideas why I have been having a problem Fred?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vibranze:
Hi Fred,

Currently I sync my Contacts, Tasks and Appointment with Outlook, I want to get rid of Outlook so I backup those 3 items with PIM Backup but when I restored them and sync with Outlook again, all the entries from 3 items were doubled.

Is there a way to avoid this? Thanks.

Cheers,

Vibranze
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Nope, I don't have a clue! Can you reproduce it easily?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Vibranze,

Well no, it is not possible! People from M$ are very lazy, when they synchronize they do it on the Unique ID provided for each item in place of doing it on the contents.

If you use Oulook to synchronize, just forget about Pim backup, you don't need it, because you have everything on pc.

Another solution would be to use PIM backup, then remove everything from outlook before synchronizing...

Well nothing is perfect.... And it is not possible to force the unique ID, it is provided by the system and it is read only.

Sorry,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vibranze:
Thanks Fred,

What I did is to use PIM backup to backup Messages, Speed Dials and Call Logs, the rest I use Outlook.

Cheers,

Vibranze
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mcurtayne:
Multi-Day All Day Appointment

Thanks for a great tool. I noticed an issue when using v1.9, so've just upgraded to v2.4 - but the issue remains.

If I have a multi-day, all day appointment, when I backup and then restore, the end date of the appointment is set to the start date - i.e. it becomes single day all day appointment.

I'm using mfrazz's wm6 ROM on the wizard, but imagine this would be a universal issue.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] CWKJ:
I backup using this tools for several times using different version before v2.4. Last backup using v2.3 (WM5) on my data from Helmi AKU3.5 v1.3 was about a month before until my Universal giveup on me. Having total faith in this tool, I have never make a restore before.

I have a PPC, not sure WM2003 or WM2003SE (see my signature below), using v2.4 (WM2003SE) to restore my last backup, it works for,

1. Contacts

2. Appointments

Did not restore Tasks.

Did not restore Call Logs because never backup this before.

Did not restore Speed Dial because it is restore on a PPC.

Email restore was partially ok, not sure if it is a backup or restore problem, all backup can be restored, but some restored mail has full detail and some only header. Remember this header only has body in my Universal.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Silverexp:
Speed Dial

WM6... Well for grins, I recreated all the Speed-Dials manually. Backup only the Speed Dials (ver2.4), then restored them (deleting them on the restore) and it worked. You might have a better explanation why this worked, but with computers, sometimes you can't explain it, you just move on... :)

Thanks for replying

Current Configuration:

Cingular 8525

SuperCID/SIM Unlocked

Radio ver.: 1.40.30.00

OS 5.2.1413 (Build 17913.0.3.0)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] racerx_:
dotfred:

I've been running your app on my Trinity for a while, but have a question about something. When i flash a rom, and then restore my PIM data using this app.. if i then sync my pda i will get duplicates of all my contacts and calendar items. Is there a way to prevent this?

I don't think this happened when i first started using it, but i can't really remember if i did anything differently or at what point this began to occur..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Silverexp:
Speed Dial

Decided to flash to another ROM (again, bad habit :rolleyes: ) and backup with v2.4. Everything restored back except the Speed Dials again :( . If there's anything I can provide, let me know.

Current Configuration:

Cingular 8525

SuperCID/SIM Unlocked

Radio ver.: 1.40.30.00

OS 5.2.1413 (Build 17913.0.3.0)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mbirth:
On my upgrade to WM6 (using and older version of PIMBackup), I noticed that PimBackup only restored items when the database was already existing. I.e., restoring directly after flash didn't bring back tasks (don't know for sure, whether it was with tasks). But after opening the tasks application (and thus creating the database), restoring worked fine.

So maybe you have to add one speeddial and then try a restore.

Cheers,

-mARKUS
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Silverexp:
Speed Dial

Thanks for the suggestion. I created one additional entry besides the voicemail, then restored just the Speed Dial... “8 records found, 1 speed dial successfully restored”. It appears the solution is to have a separate Speed Dial backup in addition to the regular PIM data. Selecting Binary backup for Speed Dial appears to be the issue???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MyNameIsCrash:
Hi all.

I'm trying to backup about 22300 sms on my wm5 device, using version 2.4 but it's failing.

It starts and hangs for at least 45 minutes (my last test) saying Retrieving messages from Text messages.... then I soft-reset my device and i lost about 200 sms (the latest ones, but this is another story).

I've selected binary backup. Temp file in memory is also selected and backup is stored on SDMMC (300MB free space).

Is there something wrong? Is it a know behaviour with such huge amount of messages?

Thanks for your help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
If you have 22300 sms to backup and you have selected Temp file in memory, this is a non sense. Imagine that one sms takes 1 kb in memory, it means that you will create a 22 MB file in memory at the least, so why do you think your pocket pc hangs, well because it has to swap, no memory available anymore, or all resources taken. That's why you don't have to select that option in such case. The temp file should be created on the sd card directly, so do not select temp file in memory.

And yes, it has already been mentioned in the past, that it takes a lot of time to backup such amount.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] racerx_:
dotfred-

any thoughts on the duplicate entries? It seems to duplicate all contacts after an activesync.. calendar (if i remember correctly) was duplicated any recurring appointments.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi racerx_,

Well I can't tell because I don't synchronize... But it seems to be related to the unique ID allocated to each item, which seems to be part of the synchronization process. I may be wrong, but I don't see any other possible cause, and sorry this cannot be solved because the unique ID is given by the system and it is read only.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] racerx_:
ah ok, thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jbloggs000:
I use the program My Mobiler. It allows you to bring up your phone/ppc/ etc in a window on your computer. I installed it for my WM5 device but found that it also surprisingly worked with my wm4 smartphone 2003 device too. Both times I could see the screen on my computer exactly as it was on the device (just like VNC does). That would work for your friend.

I think I got it from www.mtux.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hsanghavi:
There still seems to be a bug in this V2.4.

Some softwares do not work after the automatic backup process. You need to soft reset the device to make the softwares back to working.

I have Splash ID, Astraware Solitaire, SPB Freecell, Fizz Traveller which have the max problem after automatic backup. It says that these software are not available or not signed versions to run on this system.

The older version did not have a problem like this. Especially V1.9 or earlier.

REALLY NEED TO CHECK HARD where the flaw is.

IS THIS PROBLEM RELATED TO BINARY OR COMPRESSED BACKUP.