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

As I mentioned previously, it worked for me, but I had to do it in 3 steps.

1) restore messages

2) clear messages from oulook

3) restore messages

But other people mentioned it didn't work for them...

Someone also mentioned that the threaded view could be removed via a key in the registry, so maybe this could solve the problem...

I cannot test for the moment, I do not have a toy to play around to find out for the moment. I just made it once when I upgraded the pda of my wife.

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nameht83:
I have the same problem...also tried the method suggested in this thread and did not work
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zard:
dotfred,

Don't mean to be pushy on this but each and every version of ROM, be it WM 6.0 or 6.1, I get the same problem as above. I really liked your tool but as I mentioned, when I have emails, PIM won't start up. Is it possible to have the option of disabling the emails portion of your tool? Currently, I can use SMS Backup tool in most of the WM 6.1 rom to backup my SMS but I don't have anything for my Contacts and Calendars. Emails is not important for me because I can always do a sync from Exchange. What's crucial is at least SMS, Contacts and Calendars. Hope you can look into this.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Silverexp:
My quick observation playing with WM6.1 on a Kaiser & Hermes, I can restore SMS/MMS information from WM6 to WM6.1, only if the WM6.1 ROM has Arcsoft 5.0.31.7 without a problem. If the WM6.1 ROM has Arcsoft 4.2.8.1, the Inbox will not restore. After the restoring, open the Inbox, the messages begin to populate (oldest first). Leave the Inbox open & unit power up, so it does not “sleep”. The time needed to restore the Inbox completely depends on the number of messages and PPC cpu speed.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ScrapMaker:
I figure I'd add to this...

I was able to get my SMS messages from 6.0 to 6.1. The only problem was the threads were out of order (not the end of the world.)

The problem arrives when I had to hard-reset my 6.1 ROM. When I restore them, (and I've tried all suggested methods,) I only get my 'sent' messages. If I turn off threaded in 6.1, I get all my messages.

It seems that there is some sort of flag that 6.1 adds to each message to make it threaded, and PIM 2.8 cannot handle that yet.

In hopes of a fix some day, I am holding onto all my backups. Perhaps there will be some sort of program to run through the backup, and sort/flag everything appropriately.

Thanks again for such a wonderful tool. It has saved me many times!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zard:
Which WM 6.1 rom are you using?

The latest I had tested is DC v1.7 and Dutty's UC compliant (latest in his thread) roms. With DC v1.7, I could see the SMS but when I click into it, I can also see the new threaded SMS style but only 1 SMS is showing.

Dutty's UC compliant rom don't have problem if restored using PIMBackup v2.8. Only issue for me is that PIMBackup v2.8 will only fire up probably if I don't have Exchange emails.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] daxliniere:
Hey Fred,

I seem to have this strange bug where PIMBackup stops doing it's job at it's scheduled time.

I only find ot about this if I remember to check if the correct backup files are being written and often I find my backups are 2 or 3 weeks out-of-date!

Do you know of a reason why PIMBackup would fall out of the notifications list? (I am only guessing it uses the notifications list to launch)

It would be a shame to lose SMSs from my loved one.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] faria:
hi dot;

thanks for the quick fix! did i mentioned that you rock? well...you do!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Thanks faria,

Well you rock too, each in his domain! ;)

Cheers,

.Fred

ps.: I didn't fix yet what you see on the screen concerning the number of messages to backup.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Exel07:
I tried to restore my contacts, but program throws "Error (ERROR_CSV_BAD_RECORD) : Bad record found at line 92. Nothing done" error.

And one more question. Does it back up contact pictures too?

I tested it at Asus P525.

Btw very usefull program, thx!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Exel07,

Interesting, another Bad record. Ok, I still have to improve my parser, then! :mad:

Are you using the last version (1.3)? If yes, can you provide me the file, (if you want of course). My email is dotfred@dotfred.net

Cheers,

.Fred

ps.: Every field that you see on the Windows Mobile 2003 SE, 2005 and 2006 in default outlook contacts application is stored. So it includes picture, ringtone path, notes, notes ink,...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Exel07:
I used version 1.2. Is in ver.1.3 present any fixes, related to this bug?

I cant try ver 1.3 right now, coz i've already lost all my contacts - i had deleted it manually before restore feature testing and forgot about it and then plug usb in and and this *** ActiveSync synchroized it and now i have no contacts in my outlook :) I have backup file from another util, but it doesnt contain pictures.

So if you think that version 1.3 will solve my problem i will try it when i will restore my contacts and if not i can send you my broken backup file.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Exel07:
Just restored my contacts(without contact pictures) by another util and tried to back up/restore it with your program(ver 1.2) - it works fine. It seems that the trouble is in contact pictures...

One more observation: when i making backup of contacts without pictures i takes about several seconds, but when i did back up of contact with pictures it took about 30 mins...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mestrini:
@dotfred

Did you have a chance to look at the appointments with never-ending repetitions (patterns) issue? It's a crucial issue for those that work by shifts:rolleyes:

tx
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
Windows Mobile 2003 SE BlueAngel (Imate PDA2k) Text Messages Problem

When backing up Text Messages from a BlueAngel (Imate PDA2k) running Windows Mobile 2003 SE (ver 1.40.00 WWE).

The backup procedure says "No message found, nothing done."

I think maybe it uses a non standard way of storing messages...

Would be nice to fix though :) If you can obtain a BA device.

(anyone know of something that can backup these text messages?)

Thanks for your great work, backups work great in WM5 and WM6
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
if it helps, the device has 2921 messages in inbox and 3022 in sent

running pdblist -d gives

oid0000b360: dbase F00000017 T00000000 3022 375084 ... 'fldr1001de4'

ORDERING: 0e060040:00000000 0c1a001f:00000002 0037001f:00000002 00090013:0000

0000

oid0000b35b: dbase F00000017 T00000000 0 356 ... 'fldr1001de3'

ORDERING: 0e060040:00000000 0c1a001f:00000002 0037001f:00000002 00090013:0000

0000

oid0000a83a: dbase F00000017 T00000000 2921 1132336 ... 'fldr1001de2'

ORDERING: 0e060040:00000000 0c1a001f:00000002 0037001f:00000002 00090013:0000

0000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] faria:
if you are in a hurry send me your email address ,i think i can help you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dan1967:
dotfred,

All worked well for me with v1.3 except restoring speed dials.

They are restored alright, but when when one no. is pressed it says number not found and after acknowledge the dial is done OK.

Basically it's all about the error that needs to be acknowledged.

Cheers and congrats for the great utility.

Dan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcespi2005:
After upgrade to las LSVW ROM really works great :)

Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lpsi2000:
dotfred,

Excellent little app, but I have one issue when I restore my MMS, I am unable to see the pictures. I see the messages are there and showing the right amount of KB, however when open a message it is just showing me a blank white screen. When I did the restore, I selected to have the messages added to the existing DB.

I did the backup on WM6 LVSW latest and the restored it on the same OS after a hard reset. My device is a Hermes (JasJam).

Thanks for such a great app.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] choas:
No Text Messages found on WM2003SE

hi dotfred

This is a very nice app, but backing up text messages is not working.

None of my messages are getting found in the backup process...

my device is a magician.

thx in advance for fixing it :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kelvino9:
Having 2 problems when restoring a backup. As dan1967 already mentioned earlier speed dials can be restored and used but not without getting an error message that the number is not found.

Secondly I noticed that all of the dates I had in my contacts (birthdates, anniversaries) are set to "30-12-1899" which is very annoying. Since I needed to hardreset my xda anyway I could reproduce this error everytime I did a hardreset so I had to use the data from my outlook.

Overall everything works fine and I don't want to miss this program anymore.

cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
It is a known problem, for mms, the "attachments" are saved on disk in files, but there are not considered as attachments in the cemail.vol database, so I don't know how to add them to the backup.

I'm investigating on this...

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
This will be in version 1.4

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
Windows Mobile 2003 SE works for backing up text messages!

but the dates seem to be lost when restoring on to a Windows Mobile 5 device and some messages appear out of order...

Not a big issue, but thought you should know

(The dates on the texts are the same time they were added to database from restore)

Thanks Again for your great work!

-Using version 1.4
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ebliss:
Hi,

I tried creating a schedule, but after clicking on the Validate button, no schedule is created. I am using asus p535.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi Carolos, I'm glad to hear it works as it should!

The problem with the dates is that when I make the backup, I store them using local time and not system time maybe there is an inconsistency when the restore is done, are you using the same time zone?

Can you provide more infos on this problem?

Thanks,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] anubis.genix:
don't have the time to read the whole thread, sorry .. i'm a lazy bastard :P

is there a way to view the backups on pc?

i just want to read my saved sms/emails without restoring them on my device :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BennTech:
DotFred's PIMBackup is a backup utility only, not a viewer, and certainly not a desktop viewer. However, the PIMBackup files are just renamed ZIP files, and if you do a text backup, the contents will be text files. They're not very human-friendly, but you can decipher the messages in a standard text editor.

What you're really looking for is a desktop app like Jeyo's Mobile Companion or Mobile Extender ($20USD).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] samy.3660:
Hey i cannot restore my sms in WM6.1, i did exactly the same thing as stated. But i dont have sms and mms integrated, it is separated so maybe that could be a problem. I dont know what to do.

Is there anyway i can remove threaded sms from WM6.1?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aph:
Found a bug, I think. On a Titan with dcd 2.3.1 ROM (WM 6.1), text messages are not restored in order in the threaded SMS. Received messages appear first, then sent messages, no matter what the original order was.

Original order:

Me: Hi

Them: Hey how's it going?

Me: Good, you?

Them: Great!

After backup/restore:

Them: Hey how's it going?

Them: Great!

Me: Hi

Me: Good, you?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] imfocused:
can anyone tell me how i use active sync to install this or where i install it to on my phone?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GerooTech:
no need to install just copy it to your mobile and run it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schmola33:
appointments / events / calendar csv import

hi everybody!

does anybody know a way how to import appointments from a *.csv-file directly ON the windows-mobile(5) device without using MS Outlook?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ilordvader:
My storage Card has jammed up

& corrupted

Now i need to get to Factory setting

run 123 to restor my Tilt

Is it still possible to run & save my contacts

on my Device with Pim back up ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] babaq:
Any chance for additional set of backed up data - registry?

Many applications store their settings in registry without any possibility of another way to back them up.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] syrguy1969:
I couldn't find one, is there a CAB for this?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ilordvader:
Is it possible to back up contacts

& then if i need to do a Hard rest

& still get all my contacts back

if i run Pim back

I tryed it did not work :(

does it mean after Hard rest it doesnt do back up

so what other way is it possible ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Pimbackup problems

PIMpackup doesn't work on the HTC S310 (Oxygen)

Cursor dissapears while browsing for the backup to be restored

Restore: it gets stuck when unzipping.

Solution: softreset.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] babaq:
My Treo became too lazy and I managed to do a hard reset. After that, I tried PIMBackup... and after a sync with Exchange server (over GPRS) I ended up with doubled contacts, tasks and events. So I guess there is something strange in the air :)

Or is it supposed to work correctly only in case you are not syncing with any other party? Exchange Server, Outlook etc.?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Copy the .exe via "explorer" option of activesync onto your device. Then start Pimbackup. Make a shortcut via "options" of Pimbackup and backup your PIM data.

As far as I know there isn't a .cab version of Pimbackup.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] abibaby:
Hi Frens

Anybody facing a problem of empty messages in drafts and sent messages.......

Only inbox messages getting restored......

Other messages seems to get restored but when I open to view them I see a blank message.......

The real content is missing......

Backing it from WM2003se and restoring it to WM2005....

Any fix possible.....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] illi:
Multiple Schedule

@dotfred

Is there anyway to have multiple schedule? I want to backup separate items at different times of the day. Eg. I want to backup my messages at midnight and then Custom files an hour later. I cant seem to be able to do so. Any help will be much appreciated.

By doing separate backup, I can then perform the Custom backup probably just once a week. This is to avoid to many files taking up space on my limited SDCard.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ilordvader:
Best Back up for Contacts is YAHOO 2.0
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jygar:
any luck on the mms backup yet....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] symphonyM700:
THX for best program 4 backup
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] csl1010:
Dear Dotfred,

First of all thanks for your great app of PIMBackup 2.8,

I would like to ask:

(1)Am I still be able to backup threaded SMS in WM6.1? (Or the SMS

structure did not change since WM6 but just when I see the SMS in WM6.1,

I see it threaded, but the internal database remaining the same as

WM6??)

(2)For backup WM6.1 SMS (i see it threaded), will I able to restore on

WM6 and WM5?

Many thanks indeed!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Elohim:
File is invalid?

Hi,

I took a PIM Backup the other day, and then I installed a new ROM today(6.1) and when I try to restore the file, I only get a error message sounding like "The format of the file "\Storage Card\PIMBackup_20080305.pib" is invalid"

Anyone that can help me? I got my messages etc in it that I would love to get out from it :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] luniz97:
i wanted to find out if i can just store my MMS and SMS instead of all my messages...i can always retrieve the email from my gmail server instead of having to restore it and maybe messing up my imap settings
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ilordvader:
I had same Problem & did not even upgrade to 6.1, mine was same 6.0

Best way to save ur Contacts is to Sync it with - Yahoo Go v2.0

Before Hard reset Or anyone else knows a better way to save Contacts
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nord0296:
I've been trying to search for a solution to restoring my SMS properly threaded but haven't been able to get it working yet. Always seems to not thread other people's responses to my texts properly.

I tried the above and now my combined SMS / MMS folder inbox shows "776 items" in the bottom bar but no messages are listed in the pane. How long does it typically take for Messaging to "Create the threads" in the last step?

I wonder if I missed something somewhere... If I turn threading off I see all messages. Followed procedure above pretty well I thought.

Using a Tilt w/ Dutty's RTM 6.1 .19716 from March 04 no cube

Thanks,

nord
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sponzert:
It's a sugestion and i hope it can be implemented. When i made a backup for my contacts etc i can add folders and exe/ink files in the Custom section. When i have done that it really works well and and an restore is done in no time. Now my suggestion. It would be great if when i select my image that i made with all my folders and ink files in Custom it would like to see an option that i can add files/folders/exe/ink files. That way i can work with just one backup and when i install an program i can add that in the backup i already have made with all y "Old " settings. I hop you understand what i mean.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Optimistisch_nl:
Yes I restored sms etc from Tytn II WM6.1 to Tytn WM6
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Elohim:
Still having trouble

Isnt there any way for me to actualy get those messages back? because I realy need some of them.

I took backup before, now it is a invalid file, I have checked for any faults in the file name, but it is the samea s all the other backups I have ever taken...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pdafre4k:
Hello.

first thx for the excellent program it was the best backup utility

for backuping the contact and sms other than like sprite backup or spb backup

second i have a question

My device was dopod 838pro

running wm5

free program 20mb & storage memory 20mb

i have 8900 message

and about 30000 contacts

When i backup all except the message its was fine

but when i backup only the message or all (including messages)

my pda was hang

here is the last line

"

8900 Message have been b

Disconecting from outlook

Disconnected

"

it seem it hang when it try to add the message to the backup files

i have try couple option like not using compress it,set it more higher priority

but it was the same it always hang.

.

I want to backup because i want to upgrade my dopod 838pro to wm6.0

thx again
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Uff:
SMS in PC

Hi, is it possible to read in PC SMS from restore file - PIMBackup_XXXXXX.pib? I mean is it possible to extract them and copy them to text editor? Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
Yeah because .pib is a .zip file!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wolfhunter:
Fred, thanks for the great backup application.

Anyway, I found some glitch in the software.

1) it can't create a folder in the source path.

2) after restore the sms/mms/email, the mms is blank and I can't open all the email with/without attachment!

Hope this helps in your next revision coz I had sacrifice all my previous mms with the trial!!!

Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JimmyMcGee:
I just sit here thinking that the reason Threaded SMS backups are so whacked up is that maybe it restores the Inbox first then the Sent Messages. So The Thread goes by the Modified date Or Date of adding that file back.

So Basically the only way for Threaded SMS restore to work successfully everytime, is for the Restore to Put A Received Message Back then The Sent Based on the date and time the Text was sent. I bet to code this would be so full of PITA that you would want Falafel to go with it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hashil1:
this app is so cool!! its useful espcially whn you want to flash your fone and you can backup ur phone contacts and messages. nice one dotfred:):D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eyecrispy:
ditto that! i have had the app for awhile but haven't had to use it. last night, i used it to restore twice! thanks, dotfred!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] boby1911:
excuse me, im new here, i wanna ask, can i backup my sms and contacts in my wm2003(xdaII) and move it into wm6? and does both of them have the same programs installed? cause i notice there is prog for wm2003, and wm5? can it be done? and one more thing, can the prog be installed into wm6?

thx for the help

i have tried the backup sms in restore in my wm2003, not flashed yet.. and how come when i click my sent items folder there is nothing? is it a bug or what? can it be fix, cause i also move some of my old sent items into inbox folder and i make a subfolder containing sent items and it display the same thing...

can someone help out? thx.. cause i want to start flashing my device.. but i still cant get the backup and restore done perfectly...

thx in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] trevorw:
dotfred, you ROCK!

FYI - I just donated $20 - worth every penny! Thanks dotfred!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nuron:
So any hopes of saving threaded SMS without doing so much work? I'd really like to save mines for memories but some new ROM versions came out :).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] throwback1718:
can anyone help me?

I have messages that I want to save or back up...

it says I have over 14000 messages...

and when I go to back up, it takes forever, and naturally, I expect that. but after it says disconnected, the progress bar is not completely done.... the only options are cancel or action...

that leads me to believe that the backup isnt completely done and freezes. I pressed cancel and it took forever again to cancel.

im guessing its erasing the backups

so then I did it again, and when I got to the same point, i went to task mgr and ended it.

opened it back again, tried to back up and noticed it took forever again..

what I wanted to know was, when you back up, does it add to what was previously backed up? or does it go through the whole process again? its annoying to wait 20 minutes for it to back up.

and I dont even know if any of the messages were backed up in the 1st place.

is there any other program that I can use that doesnt freeze when there are a lot of messages?

and what should I do about this problem im having with this program? has anyone ran into this problem? please help... i want to save these messages but at the same time I want to update to WM6

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] boby1911:
try using jeyo backup sms utility :D i use pimbackup just to save my contacts and its really great :D but sms i prefer another utility

cheers :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nuron:
Bah, the trick worked! Nevermind this question! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] faz3ah:
Hi,

I use this program to backup my SMS from WM2003 to WM6 .. I got all the messages back, but all the messages I sent I didn't got. All sent messages in Sent folder and the other folders I made. This is the bug I found :D

Is there any program can help me with that, I tried smsBackup, smsOrganizer, spb backup, sunnysoft backup, pocket SMS, and I got nothing.

The problem is I kept my messages in a separate folders to organize it.

Thanks :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GerooTech:
i think you can select it through pim backup in the main window select messages, then click options it will give you a window of which folders to backup. but i do not know if this will work for windows mobile 2003; but it works for WM06
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] black_shadow69:
This is great apps.....

Thanks....
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kevinmward:
help with contacts saying unamed?!?!?!?

GREAT program only 1 prob when i import my contacts using CSV for windows when i load onto phone when i goto contacts everyting says unamed all numbers n what not are there then when i click unamed the name is there... please help thanks

kev