I fumbled somewhere on the phone and found Sprite backup. I then backed up the phone to the storage card! Great! I realized I do not need a pc to be able to back up to a phone. But now I cant find the program! I checked under programs list and settings.
Any how, I later clicked on the Clear Storage and inputed 1234 and completely restored the phone (by mistake, I was expecting a warning or confirmation pop-up before the phone actually restarted and cleared everything). Luckily I had just made a backup to the storage card and was able to restore the phone to 10 minutes ago! Awesome!!
So now, two questions.
1- Where is the Sprite Backup program? I found it in programs folder while using the file explorer but not when going to start > programs. Why doesnt it show up under start > programs
ALso, if I am able to backup to the storage card, why do I need the Sprite installed on my PC? As a backup or ease of use?
2- I have duplicate icons in start > programs
Which are:
- Bluetooth explorer (1)
- Calculator (1)
- Google Maps (1)
Why are there duplicates? And how to get rid of them?
polite bump
my problem is similiar
I also have the duplicates (in my case, tasks and calculator). can I simply delete the dupes from the programs folder?
What make this odd is that I chose not to install the desktop client as well. Could that be what is causing the dupes (seems odd that it would but...).
(Never used sprite before now, only spb)
I think you will find the icons listed in Windows/StartUp/Programs. You can delete from there.
This raises two questions:
What causes the duplicates? It doesn't seem normal.
What else could it be duplicating and in turn, wasting space?
For Sprite Backup, go to start -> programs -> tools
For the duplicate entries, connect to your desktop/laptop and browse to the /windows/start menu/ directory and look around for the duplicates. If you try to browse around the start menu using file explorer on the device, it doesn't always show you everything (have yet to figure out why.)
ive used sprite 5, 6 and spb and have noticed no difference between these programs except sprite 6 seems quicker than the rest
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Hi there,
I'm interested in upgrading my MDAIII to WM5005 but the idea of re-installing all my apps isn't very appealing.
The blurb on the Sprite Backup page claims the latest version will allow restores across ROM or device upgrades.
Is this the case, has anyone tried it and is it worth spending $30 for it?
Cheers,
Q.
Yes I am also interested in the same question. Maybe someone has a full or cracked version of sprite we can all experiment with?
Regards,
Simon
You guys might want to try (SPB Backup) instead
I had both and only use SPB backup now. Sprite is a big PITA compared to SPB.
Just my thoughts.
Personally, I'd never use an upgrade tool on a phone or a PC. When you import things, you import old stuff you might not want. Irrelevant config settings, incorrect registry keys and so on. I prefer to start afresh, nice & clean. With the phone, it's best (IMHO) to use ActiveSync to get your PIM data and simply enable file-sync to make a copy of My Documents on your desktop. Just drag over the old sync folder to the new once it's been upgraded and you have all your stuff across with little effort.
I'm prefering cabs these days for apps as they can be kept on the storage card and reinstalled in seconds if required.
You actualy HAVE to hard reset your device when updating to WM5; that means erasing all. You cannot restore some old settings or programs as this will be death for your PPC.
On the other hand, both SPB and Sprite can be used to restore Contacts, E-mails or PIMs (if you have a WM5 version).
OK, so it seems that just about every time i want to uninstall/upgrade a program on my tilt (not cracked, only bypassed the att crapification...er, customization).
what happens is, certain programs (most recently cetwit) will not fully uninstall when i goto remove them from remove programs. it says this and asks if i wish to remove the program from the list of installed programs, and i usually say yes. that program is still listed when i goto start/programs, and the program files are still safe and secure in the program files folder through file explorer.
the worst part is, when i try to reinstall/install an updated version, it shows two icons in my programs list, which is very frustrating...enough so that it causes me to hard reset and reinstall everything over again. i've run registry and junk file cleaners to no avail.
is there any way to COMPLETELY remove a program in this situation, or am i required to hard reset each time it happens?
maybe here i will also ask for a good registry cleaner that knows what to kill and what to leave...
sktools wiped out some important things, had to hard reset and start over because even my backup app couldnt fully recover.
Get a file explorer, delete the program's folder in Program files, delete the shortcut in the start menu and most of it is done. You can then use a reg cleaner to remove the last remains in the registry.
That has happened to me with a couple of programs, I'd blame the programs rather than WM.
I have a similar issue. I've removed the program folders, shortcuts, registry entries, etc. but the programs still appear in the remove programs list under settings / system. Although it's not causing me any problems per se it is really annoying. If anyone knows how to fix it I'd love to know.
on pc's the list in add/remove
is
located in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
would asume that they are stored in reg on pda's too
I've had that happen a few times also, what usually fixed it besides manually deleting the folders and shortcuts, is to remove it in add/remove programs in activesync. Just check the box that says to delete from handheld and desktop.
I've tried that - using AS to remove the applications - but it still doesn't work. They all show up with a size of 0.0K but removing the tick in the box and selecting the remove from both device and computer option does nothing - they still show up in the list on both devices.
Hi guys!
Ive had this happen once or twice before.
I have the following folder route:
Storage Card/Backup/PIM
Storage Card/Backup/ SPB Finance
Storage Card/Backup/SPB Pocket Plus
Suddenly the contents of a folder will disappear !
Browsing to the folder via explorer will s how an empty folder, using the application to find the file will also show nothing.
This first happened with the folder SPB Finance. Suddenly all my backup were gone and never returned. So I began backing up to SPB Pocket PLUS folder.
But now all 3 folders are empty!
In PIM folder, I used to see my PIM backups, but now browsing to it will show an empty folder. If I open up PIM to restore to a file in there, the folder PIM wont open.
Same with SPB Finance, if I restore to a file created earlier, it wont be there. I backedup to the folder today,and finance said successfully backed up, but browsing to the folder shows nothing, even when I try to restore to the file I just created, it shows nothing!
Ill be able to open Storage Card then Backup, but PIM folder wont open (the little plus sign doesnt change to minus).
This is very alarming!
As far as I know, I can only say its happened in the Backup folder as its the one I access the most to restore and backup to. It could be happening in other folders but I have not discovered it yet.
CorruptedSanity said:
Hi guys!
Ive had this happen once or twice before.
I have the following folder route:
Storage Card/Backup/PIM
Storage Card/Backup/ SPB Finance
Storage Card/Backup/SPB Pocket Plus
Suddenly the contents of a folder will disappear !
Browsing to the folder via explorer will s how an empty folder, using the application to find the file will also show nothing.
This first happened with the folder SPB Finance. Suddenly all my backup were gone and never returned. So I began backing up to SPB Pocket PLUS folder.
But now all 3 folders are empty!
In PIM folder, I used to see my PIM backups, but now browsing to it will show an empty folder. If I open up PIM to restore to a file in there, the folder PIM wont open.
Same with SPB Finance, if I restore to a file created earlier, it wont be there. I backedup to the folder today,and finance said successfully backed up, but browsing to the folder shows nothing, even when I try to restore to the file I just created, it shows nothing!
Ill be able to open Storage Card then Backup, but PIM folder wont open (the little plus sign doesnt change to minus).
This is very alarming!
As far as I know, I can only say its happened in the Backup folder as its the one I access the most to restore and backup to. It could be happening in other folders but I have not discovered it yet.
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have you tried another sd card? sound like your current one is going bad.
The issue is its happened before, on another sd card, thats why I manually migrated all my data to this current one thats also acting unreliable.
This has happened to me before, with some files missing then the entire content on micro SD card gone, but still showing 2gb of storage space used.
I did some searching on google and basically there are softwares out there that you can use to recover the files that are now missing, but I tried and it's quite troublesome and not entirely successful.
Sometimes could be that your SD card is faulty, but most of the time is just your device that is not reading the card properly.
My advice to you, which was what I did:
1) plug your SD card on one those card readers and do a thorough format of the drive.
2) Do a hard-reset or a Clear Storage of your phone.
3) re-install everything.
4) After you're done re-installing, use SPB Backup and do a backup of your phone's memory and storage card.
The only reason I've done the backup was in case my SD card was faulty then I wouldn't have to reinstall everything again after purchasing a new card.
But so far, a long time has passed and the formatted SD card is working fine. No missing files or folders.
Same thing happens to me. The other day the voices for TomTom just disappeared! I keep a backup of the card, so I just copied them across. I'm not sure what the real cause is but the idea of re-formatting the card sounds good. I'm not looking forward to a hard reset but that may be needed too. No help I'm afraid but at least you're not alone. Maybe someone knows the real cause.
Storage Card missing file fixed
I had the same issue.
Where after a reinstall I found several folders and files missing from my storage card.
It happened more than once, and this fixed it when I saw the problem.
Here is what I did to get the files back.
If files seems missing from the Storaga card
to show the files again
Copy a file with the same name of an already existing file (one of those who disappeared) on the storage card in the storage card root folder. (myChannels.opml or zz.txt)
When the file is copied all the other files and folders will show.
The file copied could be showed stored in a 8.3 file name format (old DOS file.ext), and you might not be able to delete it.
I think the issue might be related to invalid file names (or an invalid long file names) in the storage card.
If you did not have this probllem I suggest you put a short text file on the storage card root folder so that you can use this trick to restore the folders and files if you experience the problem.
I've had the same issue but I noticed that reconnecting to ActiveSync solves it. The files dissappeared after using my Tilt as a guest on a second computer and I've had it happen a few times. Returning to my main computer and syncing restores them every time though...
My Tilt just started doing this too. I usually notice either my Storage Card/Program Files/Egree Files in the directory missing or the Data files for Egress on the storage card missing. I also recently flashed to L26 KaiserTouch V1M2D.
After a reset the files will show up again.
I'm not sure if Egress or the new Rom causing this. Very odd and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot it.
OK it happened again and I could not fix it.
This time I reformatted the card
drmc said:
Same thing happens to me. The other day the voices for TomTom just disappeared! I keep a backup of the card, so I just copied them across. I'm not sure what the real cause is but the idea of re-formatting the card sounds good. I'm not looking forward to a hard reset but that may be needed too. No help I'm afraid but at least you're not alone. Maybe someone knows the real cause.
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thats wierd, my Tilt's tomtom maps mistiriously vanished today and last friday I swiched from landscape to portrate and it went black, I use wisbar advanced desktop and what caused it to go black was that my skin which was stored on the card mistiriously vanished. I think its time to backup my pictures and videos before they vanish.
Fix is here
Yea, this happens to me all the time. Sometimes a directory go missing, sometimes entire card looks blank. When use PC to read the card, the directory also seems to be blank... It's very annoying! It becomes even worse after I change to a 8G card (from 4G)...
Lucky, after some google I found following solution seems to work. at least I didnt have any of this problem for 2 weeks after apply this. (It was once almost every week. I end up having a backup for SD card)
Just modify following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\SDCARD\ClientDrivers\Class\SDMemory_Class\High_Capacity\BlockTransferSize
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\SDCARD\ClientDrivers\Class\SDMemory_Class\BlockTransferSize
Change original 64 (on my HTC WM6.1 tilt) to 32 (dec) or smaller value.
Smaller value=better reliability=slower card access
This key means the number of data 'blocks' transferred during one transaction. Larger value means "more data blocks get transferred during one transaction". Larger cards have larger block (a.k.a sector) that means more data per block. This exacerbate the data loss which caused the folder content missing..
Please be noted it's recommended to backup your phone before registry hack. I will not responsible for any data loss or malfunction caused by doing those registry hack. If you do not know what registry edit works then I recommend not doing it since it can render your device not usable unless applying a hard reset (which lose all your data!)
Please let us know how it works for you.
Anybody found a way to save the People list in TF3D so I do not need to re-add everytime I hard reset.
excellent question. I've wonder for quite some time for that same answer. Perhaps if you do a backup with Sprite back up might do. Since I left the tilt (kaiser) for the fuze (rafael) haven't ever used sprite back up. I know every back up used to take somewhat like 30-40 Mb... now the question is to locate a cab for it and test it if it backs up those contacts.
Forever022 said:
excellent question. I've wonder for quite some time for that same answer. Perhaps if you do a backup with Sprite back up might do. Since I left the tilt (kaiser) for the fuze (rafael) haven't ever used sprite back up. I know every back up used to take somewhat like 30-40 Mb... now the question is to locate a cab for it and test it if it backs up those contacts.
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I don't use backup apps.. I would need a scheduled full backup everyday to have the latest restore, coz I wouldn't know when a app would hang my WM.
Besdes, backups are not effective against firmware upgrades. In fact, its not advisable.
I use Sashimi for applications and settings restore. I would like to know if there is a file to backup for that portion. I know I can't find it in registry.
PIM.vol holds your contact info as well as TF3D faves. Copy it to storage card and copy back after flash. This DOES NOT contain messages. So you would still need to backup messages with pim backup(or similar app) unless you can somehow copy cemail.vol. I havent been able to do it on Fuze, but there is a script arpound here that will help copy it(since it is in use by system from boot).
+1 on the PIM vol comment.
Furthermore give SPB Backup a shot (it's NOT free). I use SPB Backup since my Tilt/Kaiser times and even under the latest TF3D2 after a restore all contacts under the people tab including the assigned images were flawless restored.
And it is possible to restore backup on phone where you cange your ROM?
I think that you have got old ROM so you make a backup and then you change ROM in phone and restore backup.
Is any problem with this?
would overwriting the pim.vol create duplicates following a rom upgrade and then syncing with contacts on an exchange server?
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And it is possible to restore backup on phone where you cange your ROM?
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DON'T do it even the most sophisticated backup / restore software WILL overwrite settings tweaks and worst case features of the new ROM, especially the little tweaks and tricks the chefs put into them.
Use PIM backup and start reading about UC or Sashimi and what other tricks can be performed to recover quickly after a ROM flash.
@JPHCCFC
would overwriting the pim.vol create duplicates following a rom upgrade and then syncing with contacts on an exchange server?
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Can happen and may not happen. If you have everything synced with Outlook make a PIM backup just for security reasongs (in case the new ROM may not sync). Flash, install all your apps and tweaks sync with outlook (in that particular order). This WILL take care of contacts, not more not less. OTHER email programs you may use (google, hotmail) will NOT come back with this method.
Today my email and messaging icons stopped working. I am running AT&T 6.1. I use HTC Home Customizer. After trying lots of settings and both power down and soft resets, I bit the bullet and did a hard reset and restore from Sprite backup and HHC backup.
Negative results...when I select the email icon, it is outlined in white, but the email program does not open. I looked thru FILE EXPLORER and could not find any email folders.
I did a search here and got 51 pages of mostly unrelated threads.
Any help?
where the icons and email program there before the backup? If you made a backup from a corrupt device enviroment then the problem would be created after restore of course. Try searching for messaging.lnk with for example Resco Explorer or Total commander. Don't forget to enable show hidden files and rom/system files.
The icons were there before last backup and email was working. Matter of fact, I have an older backup that may work, and I will try that.
Well, All of my backups led to the same situation.
I could get email to work after doing another hard reset, and, instead of doing a restore, selectively installed individual apps. I have determined that HHC (HTC Home Customizer) was corrupted somehow.
Now I am in the process of completing the individual re-installs.
Sounds like you solved the problem
Maybe a newer version of HHC will not have this issue or a fresh installation of HHC will do the same.
I have re-installed HHC, version 1.0final (by emunutz)
I have searched and it is the latest I can find.
Regardless, the fresh install works just fine.
AND, a hint for anyone else, just how important it is to keep your storage card up to date. After doing the hard reset, and geting HHC loaded, it was a simple matter of reinstalling my .cab files from my SD card. I never save an app on my Tilt, always on my storage card.