yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jyavenard:
Same here

Exactly the same issue here....

I found that if I archve the speeddials, restore, then archive again. Then after restoring again, the speeddial numbers will only contain (null)

I have contacted Fred and gave him a copy of the different restores several weeks ago, he didn't answer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cheezyal:
I'm having a similiar problem to others posting here with restoring a backup. Everything restores apart ffrom messages. All messages including texts, emails etc. They are in the backup as during the restore process it tells me how many messages etc. It just says that ) were inserted during the restore process. I've tried all ways I can think of, but cant get it to work.

Running Schaps 3.6 on my hermes. Did an upgrade from a different wm6 release.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
pim.vol corrupted?? I need help / suggestions ...

Hello everybody,

you guys are my last hope. I've an HTC Universal (MDA Pro). I got a new one because the former one had a defect.

Now this new one has not the WM5 AKU 2X but the WM5 AKU 3.3 installed. So I started the restore of my "Personal Data" with Sprite Backup.

The PROBLEM:

When I use the restored pim.vol I have all the old contacts available (I can open Pocket Outlook, change them etc.), but when I open the calendar I get an error message. Therefore I wanted to backup my contacts from the old corrupted pim.vol, restore the empty preinstalled one and restore my contacts back to this.

ANY BACKUP TOOL I TRIED FAILED!

PIM Backup simply logs:

Preparing backup...

Starting contacts backup...

Connecting to Outlook...

Successfully connected to Outlook.

Retreiving contacts infos...

Disconnecting from Outlook...

Disconnected.

Adding contacts to backup file...

Backup ended successfully in 00:00:00.531

But the backup file is empty.

I hope you have an idea!

Thanks, Jan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eererewr:
I met some trubles.

1 Backup WM5 PIM at my hp 2490b

2 update wm5 -> wm6

3 restore PIM, it's been told "The file is invalid."

If I backup & restore just in wm6 system, all is ok.

How can I trans my PIM form WM5 -> WM6?

Sorry for my English :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Mohfath:
This Program ROCKS!

This should be included in all custom ROMS if the creator is a wise man!

Anyway just if u could add the Autoinstalling setup to the backup files it would be great .. u know like SPB backup... backup files are in exe format and are auto applying
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] andyfield:
Awesome software, used this to move data from MDA Vario > MDA Vario III

Thanks very much for this great util!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tomal:
Dear DF,

Thank you for your great work! Well done.

I've just downloaded this tool and hope it will fix my appointments restore problem where everytime I was missing some of the appointments.

Regards/Ranju
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vivi:
Thankss .Fred.

Tried it and it's great,I could restore my speeddials from PPCBackupContact with PIM Backup.

I put all of your programs in my personal modified ROM for ASUS P525 I am using.

And this one made me have to creat a new ROM today.

God bless you.

vivi
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Keng230:
Fred!! What a wonderful you are!!!

Thanks for all your great works (^_^)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bluecream4:
Hi Fred,

How sweet you are ! ! !

Now I can restore my Thai Unicode PIM .. (゜∀゜)人(゜∀゜)

Nette。_・☆
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hey master vivi,

What's up man?

I'm glad you like it! But don't put it in your Rom yet, three versions in three days, already! :eek:

Cheers,

Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] c_shekhar:
Great software indeed... Thanks .fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vivi:
I'm fine ,Thankss .Fred.

Haha I gonna build everyday ROM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
I don't know, who's sweet here? :D;)

C u,

Fred.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bdaher:
Nice Work

Thanx 4 Sharing
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] faria:
allo dotfred

thanks very much for app ,as always your work in unmatched! you are the genius of pim!:D

im using it in a wm6 rom.... everything works fine ecept when restoring call logs....they get restored but once you go and check the call logs in the phone ,there is none there.... but since no one reported the same i assume it is something to do with my rom.just to let you know...

once again thanks.

regards

faria
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
As mentioned on buzzdev.net, you're right I changed something because it doesn't work anymore in wm6. :mad:

I will investigate tonight!

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kelvino9:
Great work on a great progmram. Don't understand why no company could create something so useful and small program before. It had to be a smart guy from xda-developers to serve the needs of the pda community with such a important backup tool. Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] inside24:
Thanks dotfred for good programe
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] faria:
thanks for you response.:)

about suggestions ....

how about a option to backup and restore "favorites" INTERNET explorer that is,i know is not related to pim but since it makes part of active-sync options

this would come very handy for people in the road etc....:) just an idea.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcespi2005:
WM6

Hi..

Congratulations for the PIM Backup soft... great stuff :)

But in WM6 dosn't work, and freezes my Hermes...Starts to work correct, but more elements sends to backup file, more freezes, until is completily "tosted" Dosn't matter wath send to backup, mail or call log, every backup i get a "tosted" pocketpc :(

I see you are working to resolv the issue...good lock

I love this soft, hope you get working on WM6.

Regards.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi faria,

Thanks for comments and suggestions, but sorry, I will stick to the personal information backup/restore stuff, so pim.vol and cemail.vol

The rest is easy to get, not needed in this tool.

Cheers,

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

I use PPCPimBackup for a week now, with a scheduled backup every day on a wizard with Crossbow as OS, and it never froze, no problem so far.

It should be something else that engenders such behavior...

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcespi2005:
Ok, perhaps a bad soft conbination in my WM6 TyTN. I'm going to upgrade to the last LVSW ROM, so i test with no other soft after hard reset to see wath happen.

Thanks and good work :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zoki:
great app! any chance to backup notes?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dotfred:
Hi zoki,

As mentioned previously, I only backup what you can find in pim.vol and cemail.vol. The rest is left to the user. Notes are files stored on the "disk", so it is easy to copy them on your sd card.

Cheers,

.Fred
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] darnel:
sent messages and calendar issue

I use PimBackup 2.5 to transfer data from Magician(WM2003SE) to Wizard(WM6) and I encounter two problems (both was mentioned here):

1) All sent messages is restored with name and time, but no text (now I'm not sure whether it's problem with backup or restore)

When I make text backup now, new sent messages (since cross-backup) were restored well.

2) Calendar items with no reminder, are restored as with reminder 15 minutes. This problem remains in WM6 backup/restores, but it's not so painful for me.

Anyway thanks for great program :-)

EDIT: Can you provide binary format description (e.g. for PC "extracting")? thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] charleslee:
Yo mate,

any update on this yet? i have been busy flashing ROMs (838Pro/Hermes100), and your app is most useful because if i ever need to hardreset while I'm out, i could just run this, and all my contacts, calendars would be restored :)

BUT, once i get back to my PC to perform an activesync, everything gets duplicated. ie. the original contacts are in my PC, and the duplicates came from the restore.

i have 700 over contacts (732 now), and it is quite tedious to manually remove all duplicates .. (manually deleting from PC is easier than on the device itself though..)

I'm sure there might be apps/scripts that can detect duplicates and delete them on the PC, but is there an easier way?

THANKS for the wonderful app!!!

Regards,

[Charles]
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] geoffreyg:
Trying to Restore

I backed up Speed Dial and txt message to my storage card. I have the "Encrypt data on my data card" option turned on.

When I saved it to my Mini SD, it saved it as: PIMBackup_20071007.pib.e3ff0cc8.menc

The restore does not work even if I remove the .e3ff0cc8.menc extension.

Any ideas on how to successfully restore?

The following is the error message: The format of the file ... is invalid.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] darnel:
When you rename it to .zip, can you open it and see content? If not, I guess there can be problem with encrypting..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jamesus:
If you hard reset your device, then you are SOL since the encryption is set to your old setup...sorry to be the bearer of bad news...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] debonairone:
I know this feeling well... What I have done to resolve it is rather simplistic.... I delete all of the contacts from my pc, but I export them to a csv file first, just in case the backup is corrupt... Then after I synchronize and there aren't any contacts on phone or pc, I then run the restore and put all contacts back on phone, then synchronization starts and I have all of my contacts... sounds time consuming, but it only takes ~5 minutes... A lot better than cleaning up after a bunch of duplicates...

On a side note, the new AT&T rom has renamed the MMS folder, so restores don't actually work... I am going to start a new thread on dotFred's website to report the issue...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dyslexia4:
Is there anyway to transfer the file to the computer and view them there?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MatteoC:
Great application!!! But I've found some problems restoring contacts:

Number of contacts wasn't restored with his type (home, office) but was restored in adresses!

View settings of name, surname wasn't keeped!

Bye.

Matteo.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mccune:
I've tried to create a backup on a HTC Trinity and restore on a Treo 750v.

Some info:

ROM Both WM6 Professional.

Backup: Contacts, Calendar, Tasks.

PocketInformant and AgendaOne are the PIM handlers on my device.

After restore the following happened on my Treo:

All apointments had a reminder, while I never set one.

All birtdays were replaced with anniversaries.

Since I don't have the Trinity anymore I can't test it with another backup.

Does anyone else ever have had the same problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 200mpx:
For the first time have experienced a probleme with Backup on me Trinity WM6 - the app shows before the restore that i have messages in backup, but do not want to restore them - 0 restored
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] haldan:
I found that using text backup format birtdays are not replaced with anniversaries. Other thisngs I've not investigate, but this could help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lastnikita:
Hi Fred

First, great app. Really :)

I'll be donating as soon as I get money :p

But... each time I restore custom files, they get the read-only attribute. So I manually uncheck it with each file (...) but on next backup/restore they will have it again. Am I the only one ? Maybe I'm missing something..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pergod:
SMS restore

Dear Fred,

Thanks a lot for this very nice tool!

However I experience some difficulties. I've just updated my phone (HTC p3600) from WM5 to WM6. Before this update I've checked whether PIMbackup could restore my text messages (SMS); it worked fine.

Now after updating I can't restore the messages, though it might be due to the new name of my sms box (in WM5 it was called tekstberichten in WM6 it is called sms-berichten).

Tried to find out where to change the inbox name in the backup file. Unpacked the .pib file to the seperate files and tried to open msgs_071018.pbm. Opening in notepad or excel does not give good results. In notepad I can see some text but it's not clear to me how to change the text box folder name.

Could you give me a clue? What am I doing wrong? Or is it not possible to restore a WM5 backup file to WM6?

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers, Peter
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lastnikita:
I've restored the same backup twice, and despite that I choosed NOT to create duplicates, it did so.... Does someone know a way/soft to delete duplicate SMS ?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jonathag:
Thanks a ton for this app!!

Just replaced my dell axim pda with a treo 700wx and your program worked flawlessly to get my tasks and calendar info from one to the other, I love the scheduled backup function too.

You are the man!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jerome!:
Thanks for this program. Have a feature request, is it possible to make a feature that saves the backup file offsite of the phone, e.g. FTP?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] KarhU:
You can sychronize the backup file to your computer. Free version of MobSync lets you sychronize any folder you choose (including storage card). Since version 0.95 the prog went shareware so look for older ones.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zaidam:
I'm looking for the ver 2.4. Where can I have it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dennis79:
Hi Peter,

I have had same problem. But there is a solution. Just use PIM backup en choose for restoring. When just before restoring you are able to make some changes to the default settings. Choose only text messages and leave mail and MMS blank. Then change the settings for message restoring from "delete etc." to "add only new etc." or something like that... When restoring it should be clear what i mean :)

This worked fine for me, as I also updated to the Dutch WM6. Now every sms message is just where it is supposed to be!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] louiscar:
Thanks for this useful program.

I was hoping to use the csv format to create data to put into contacts. This is because I don't use Outlook (never will Just like I'll never use Vista:) ). I've got my data in my own database on wm2003 which doesnt' run in wm5.

Unfortunately it wasn't as smooth as I thought it'd be.

A couple of notes:

1)

I noticed the csv that pim backup outputs was delimited with semi-colons and each piece of data wrapped in quotes. Initially I played with this in excel output it in the only way Excel would do it. ie. no quotes and comma dlimited.

I added a bit of data and posted it back to pim.

results were awful. I then laboriously put the quotes in and imported with comma delimtation. Much the same effect.

To cut to the chase: It transpires that the quotes aren't necessary but the semi-colon was even though pim backup allows different delimiters. I couldn't get anything but semi-colons to work.

2)

I noticed one problem with the output of Pim's csv when I imported my contacts into Excel. I found that one of the contacts had got split into two records. This was simply because I had entered and address with a carriage return. eg.

2 willow close

<CR>Woodingdean

The curious thing is that when restoring from the original this wasn't a problem but once it was imported as a csv it was split. I guess this is really how Excel interprets <CR>s.

I know that this isn't Pim's problem really as its purpose is purely to back up the data for transfer but it's so close to being so much more than that for editing the data in a common format (csv) and using it anywhere that deals with it. Everything basically except Mickeysoft Outlook.

It would be great if you were to enhance this a bit further to take account of us weirdos who hate the PC Outlook and are forced to use the WM version for many reasons (eg. Tomtom - uses the contact dbase, so it's useful on wm5).

Either way thanks for providing us with a decent way to back up our data which is the real purpose of the program.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] chrisdk:
This is a great tool for moving from one ROM to another, but when restoring files to the Program Files or Windows directories, the restored files are set as read only and I have to go through and change them before some applications will work again. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nickpes1805:
Hello

I used this tool to backup and restore my messages from a QTEK S200 to an HTC P4350. While the text messages went ok ,the mms messages do not appear on the HTC P4350. I mean,they appear on a list,but when I open them they seem empty,no photo or text.

Any clue?

Thx

PS: BTW,a very usefull tool
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vibranze:
Hi Nickpes1805,

Please read the first post by dotfred and you will know why.

Cheers,

Vibranze
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
Not sure if this will work or not but worth a try,

Copy the folder \My Documents\UAContents\MMS UA

from the old phone to the same place on the new phone.

Hope it works.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mikeeb:
Hi

New to this great site, will this work on the official HTCWM6 that I've just installed?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] carolos:
Welcome, and It should :) the only way to know for sure though is to test it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fergusonwilliam:
Using Custom files

hi all,

I am trying to setup a backup to backup some custom files. I add the files to application and exit. I have "keep defined custom items" checked. When I start the application again all my custom files are gone. What am I going wrong?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jonathag:
anybody know why a scheduled backup from one day to the next would have vastly different file sizes?

The auto backup is running fine, but one day it will be 1.32mb, the next 2.64mb, the next 1.40mb, the next 2.69mb.

Why would it compress one day, then not compress the next?

Also, what do the KEEP SEL BU ITEMS, KEEP SEL MESSAGES ACCTS AND FOLDERS, KEEP DEFINED CUSTOM ITEMS options actually do??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zaidam:
I have the backup file using ver 2.4 in WM5 before upgarde the ROM to WM6. After upgraded, I have problem to restore the appointment from the backup file. Please advise. It is work if I use the old version of software? Anyone have it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lastnikita:
It keeps settings for next backup
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] polino:
Can I use Pim backup if I want to backup my contacts and then restore them with a new rom installed?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] apollo-heating:
yes, i use it for that, its fantastic.

if you also sync with outlook thoguht you may get duplicates, but it doesnt take much to tidy this up.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] peterkling:
Does not work for me :-(

I upgraded my Artemis from B&B 4.1 to 4.3 (both WM6) - Contacts, Tasks, Appointments are no problem (Restored with ActiveSync) BUT

SMS/MMS and Speed Dials do NOT work.

This is essential for me - so I think I get back to 4.1 and restore.

Edit:

I flashed the old Software again and reststored - works fine!

I back-uped again without compression - flasehd new - after restore: SMS missing, speed dials missing -

Can anyone help me with this, please? I need the old SMS.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bipinsen:
Yup... Same thing for me - not working

I have an HTC Tornado with Andot's PEE ROM. I wanted to try out a couple of other ROMs, but I need my 200 or so SMS and MMS messages to follow me. The program created the backup just fine, but when I tried to restore it at the other end, I got nothing. Not a single SMS or MMS made it through. The only thing I pulled were some old SMSses from my SIM card. I even tried rebooting a few times.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] elviejosabio:
Great. Thanks a lot. :D

Genial. Muchísimas gracias.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] anheuer:
Never using this again..

Try'd it yesterday..

contacts disappeared..

then i restored..

contacts were double..

view programs not work anymore.

get a network wizard error, can use gprs anymore.

so guess its time to update my ROM..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
And or read the manual.

I never heard of this problems! I am using this program since v1.3 One of the best programs I've seen, link
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] anheuer:
What i did was just run the program..

i did forget to select the 3 "keep" options..

so what i did is restore everything with the backup i made...

and then all the bad things happened..

i did manage to get my contacts back as i mention above (double)

so i was thinking about flashing my rom,

so i made another back up with the 3"keep: options for only my appointments and contacts.

more problems came..

so i am going to flash it anyway, if i can find out with which rom and how..

and then see what will happen if i use the back up to get my contacts in the new rom.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lastnikita:
Synchronise via active sync (only SMS/MMS if you want) your old ROM with SMS/MMS

Flash new rom, then synchronise again via active sync

Backup using PIMbackup
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hendrixus:
I only had problems using WM6 (flashed xda atom) not using it on wm2003se and wm5.0 There is an option to prevent double contacts. I am using the default settings.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] anheuer:
I use wm6 aswell...

just hope i can use the backup i made of my contacts and apointmenst to get them on my phone ones i flashed the rom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] westlake1980:
very usefull software, thanks a lot!!:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] peterkling:
SMS Restore

I don't get it - how do you synchronise SMS via ActiveSync (eMail - ok, but SMS)?

I back-uped all (incl. SMS)

Flashed new ROM.

Restored all (except SMS and call logs) via ActiveSync.

Tried to restore SMS and call logs with PIMBackup2.5 - call logs worked, SMS not. See attached pics in verbose-mode (especially the last one).

Do you have a solution to save my backup?

I found out, that MMS and SMS are together now (have not been before). Is there a way to restore my SMS??????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] anheuer:
i have to take my words back about PIM...

Is was nto the cause of my problems..

it was around the same time i set pmclean schedule which caused all the problems.

i forgot i did that..

my bad...

i flashed my rom.. used the backup i made with pim..

worked great!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jonathag:
Everyone else probably already knew this, but after I first loaded the program I setup the scheduled backup and it would backup every day, but only show around 1.5mb on one day, 3mb the next, back to 1.5mb the next, like it was compressing the backup one day, then not the next.

I found that I had to setup my backup the way I wanted, biggest thing was to setup My Documents to be backed up, then run a manual backup with the options to keep all of the settings picked (basically check every box in the options window that asks you for the default storage device and stuff), then after I ran the manual backup, all scheduled backups are backing up ok every day now.

And my treo 700wx was acting real flakey before when it only backed up 1 to 3mb and I had to soft reboot it every day after the backup finished, now that the backup is running correctly every day, I haven't had to soft reboot my treo, GREAT PROGRAM!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drtarga:
thx. nice program.. its in my "must-haven" list :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kbibby:
Using pim.vol from WM5 ROM in WM6 ROM

Forgive me if I did not pick up on this earlier but does any have any ideas on how to use the pim.vol from WM5 ROM in the new WM6 ROM. I forgot to use Active Sync to store my contacts and I am unable to go backwards in ROM.

I tried a simple copy, rename and replace (with the help of spb backup extraction tool). I can see my call history but cannot open contacts. It tries to open but closes before I can see it.

Any ideas? Thanks a bunch

Thanks

kbibby
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ravenlord:
Any update for WM6 and MMS backup?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sasu85:
When the function MMS will be implementated this software will be EXCCELLENT!

Regards!:D