So, the screen on my Tilt has died. Luckily I use Pimbackup pretty regularly, so most of my stuff is saved, but I would like to pull my recent text messages off the device. I know I've received a dozen or so texts since the screen broke
Is there any PC based software that will do that? I've searched, but can't seem to find anything that doesn't require installing/using a device based program.
Cheers!
BUMP!
Well, all my searching has come up with nil -- just a quick bump to see if anyone has any ideas before I have to send this unit back tomorrow, when my new one arrives...
Search harder, My Mobiler is probably what you want.
Pocket controller professional will do it. Shows a virtual pda screen on your PC. But with the new Sprite Backup 6.1, you can also initiate backups & restores directly from your PC with the PC Backup manager.
Sprite Back up is now on version 6.2 and will do exactly what you want via desktop back-up.
You guys rock.
My Mobiler worked like a charm to get at my stuff -- curiosity was seriously killing me.
Sprite Backup looks as if it'll be my new backup solutions!
Thanks so much for your help!
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What files do I need to backup before I hard reset so I dont have the 2-3 hours to set everything backup.
I like playing withit and trying new things but anm getting tired of trying to
put everything back the way I like it, some lesser used things take a wek or so before i stumble across them and fix them.
I am wanting to keep things like
Email settings and email I had saved
Owner Info
Device ID
Speed dial
Assigned ring tones
Font size
back light
IP Addresses for Wifi
Directory structure (moved a few lightly used itemd to a misc folder to clear up the programs directory)
Start menu items
Today screen
etc. (all I can think of now)
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Thanks
This is something I wanna learn too :idea:
Just use a backup soft like Sprite Backup.
BUT THAT WILL RESTORE EVERYTHING LIKE i HAVE IT NOW.
i LIKE TO CHANGE THINGS BUT KEEP MY SETTINGS AND PREFERENCES THE SAME.
Sprite and Sbp Backup both allow you to only restore the PIM data etc.
...create fullbackup to save everything now with i.e. SQB Backup. Perform hard reset and prepare it like you want. Create backup.
Do you thingies and create incremental backups and save with i.e. name of changes. You can then always go back to earlier stages. I use it all the time.
If you need something what's not installed in your new backup then it's gonna cost ya 10 min. to get back in earlier stage...
Ok I did not know they did backups like that I will try it.
Hmm... very interested in this myself as I think I want to get rid of all O2 software (as much as I like O2 I believe their software is unecassary and slows the system down is this correct?), without losing all my personalised settings.
Just two things though...
1) what are/is PIM data/settings?
2) I have read on either this forum or AV forums that I need to input certain settings manually when doing a corporate install ( to completely get rid of O2 software), it also listed what these settings were, but I can't seem to find the post now?
thanks
Matt :?
From what I can find Sprite and SPB define PIM data as tasks and appointments. I have that in outlook with my first sync.
How do I restore all my personal settings and information that is not involved with a sync ?
I to have reached that conclusion...
ah well here's goes nothing with a hard reset! I'll just have to spend hours trying to get everything back to what it was settings wise!
Here goes... I'll let you know how I get on........
Great!
I followed the instructions in the manual, they didn't work, so I followed some instructions from AV Forums, they didn't work either!! My XDA won't die! Good in some respects but how can I hard reset????
Matt :shock: :?:
Well I tried SPB and it did not get what I wanted.
Mostly I got what I would get after a sync.
Any more ideas ?
To clarify I an tired of all the fiddeling I have to do after a hard reset to get all my settings and info back.
I do not mind loading programs but an tired of setting up email accounts
Fonts, Rings, Speed dials etc.
Hooray... hard reset completed, now in corporate mode. Took me about an hour to get everything back to normal, but then I suppose I've only had the machine just over a week so not that much to reset really.
Matt
Has anyone managed to stop SMS from working? Something I've tweaked or installed is preventing me from sending messages - when I tap the SMS option nothing at all happens. I don't seem to be able to receive them either. With all the fiddling (Kaiser Tweak, GPRS Monitor, SBP etc) who knows what I've done. Just hoping someone else may have stumbled over the same problem before I have to reset everything back to original (It's the only fault).
Thanks
Are you able to compose an SMS at all?
Have you verified that your Text Message Service Center number is not blank?
Please provide more information. Phone, ROM, Carrier, etc...
Thanks for the interest,
I'm using WM6 standard ROM 1.82.707.0.WWE (ie not cooked) on the Tytn2, the service centre number is there and is correct according to the carrier (Telstra Australia).
It used to work fine so I'm assuming that I've tweaked something I should have left alone, or one of these installs has jammed it up - just no idea what!
If I pull up a contact and tap the 'Send Text Message' option nothing at all happens, just sits there looking at me! I don't seem to be able to receive texts either.
Installed are the standard apps plus Google Maps, GPRS Monitor, Kaiser Tweak, Resco File Explorer, TomTom, SPB mobile Shell and Diary, QuickMenu.
I know it's a tricky one to fix from a distance (so many settings, so little patience) but any thoughts would be appreciated.
I had the same problem a few months ago and tried everything. Defaulted my tweaks and adv config etc. Eventually I had to reinstall my rom which is a cooked rom and all came back and have not had any problems since then. Hpefully you do not have to do this. You should try a cooked rom.
Ok I want to take a shot at this.....
Ok Does Telstra have the ability to send SMS to mobiles from their website? If so try sending one to yourself.
Next. Go into Messaging, Menu -> New -> SMS. Type in your mobile and Send.
Oh and Uninstall The SPB product Soft Reset and try again.
Let me know If that works.
Can't find a way to send sms from telstra (easily) so tried from another mobile. The other mobile says it can't send the message. I'm (almost) sure this is my phone rejecting it rather than a network of other phone's fault.
When I tap on Messaging in the menu nothing happens - doesn't take me anywhere at all. Same thing if I tap on 'send text message' option in contacts.
Removed the spb stuff, did a soft reset, still no go.
Keep the thoughts coming though. In the end it would probably be easier and quicker just to hard reset now, but it's the challenge of figuring it out that's interesting isn't it? It's going to be one of those dead simple slap your forehead things I reckon.
Thanks for all the help so far.
Have you tried reinstalling the Arcsoft SMS/MMS client? There are many different versions floating around XDA.
OK it's fixed. Here's what I did:
Discovered that the 'Messaging' menu item in the start menu pointed to a file called tmail.exe
Used file explorer to navigate to tmail and ran it directly
Fell over laughing when it actually ran
From that time on it works via any link, such as the start menu and contacts option to SMS
I have no idea what that's all about but I'm really happy to have it back - although I haven't tested sending and receiving texts yet
Interestingly a very similar thing happened to Mortscript - I have a script that rotates the screen and runs TomTom (not mine, found on xda-dev) and it wouldn't work either after all this fiddling until I ran it directly rather than through any links. Now it works fine too.
If anyone knows /why/ it happened I'd be interested.
Thanks for all the support. Really great knowing there's such a community around.
Alrighty then, spoke too soon. Now it works when the sd card is out, but not when it's in. Same old problem, tap on messaging and nothing. With the card out of the slot, messaging appears. What the heck is this?! Could it be something to do with where messages are stored? I'm also getting this storagecard2 problem each time I take the card in and out which is easy enough to fix but could be contributing I suppose. Any more ideas?
Edit: I repaired the storagecard2 directory issue, cleaned up all the references to storagecard2 in the registry (about 4), unticked the option to use the card to store attachments, and it seems to work. I've also re-synched and re-installed spb mobileshell. Last time it seemed to fail at that last step but this time is still working. Even after a final soft reset. I haven't reinstalled spb diary.
Has me stumped but works again now. Sorry to bore you all with this but someone may have a simple answer and the ordeal might help someone else I hope.
Based on all of these issues, I would definitely suggest re-flashing your current ROM again (not just a hard reset), and do a full format of your SD card outside of the phone. It sounds like you've got some major corruption going on...
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Alrighty then, spoke too soon. Now it works when the sd card is out, but not when it's in. Same old problem, tap on messaging and nothing. With the card out of the slot, messaging appears. What the heck is this?! Could it be something to do with where messages are stored? I'm also getting this storagecard2 problem each time I take the card in and out which is easy enough to fix but could be contributing I suppose. Any more ideas?
Edit: I repaired the storagecard2 directory issue, cleaned up all the references to storagecard2 in the registry (about 4), unticked the option to use the card to store attachments, and it seems to work. I've also re-synched and re-installed spb mobileshell. Last time it seemed to fail at that last step but this time is still working. Even after a final soft reset. I haven't reinstalled spb diary.
Has me stumped but works again now. Sorry to bore you all with this but someone may have a simple answer and the ordeal might help someone else I hope.
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Yes delete the storage card directory, if it gets corrupt the unit won't send or receive SMS.
Speaking from experience here
Thanks guys,
I've re-done the storage card and all is still working ok. I'm reluctant to reflash while it's working so I'll wait to see how long it keeps up.
Thanks again.
Is this possible to do with my tilt? I currently have Slueth WM6.1 customized how I like it and everything functional... however Id like to try some other ROMs to see if I like them.
But I do not want to reload a new ROM, decide I dont like it, and have to spend hours reloading my previous one and installing all the fixes and programs and settings that I like.... is there a way to make a ROM backup, like a "ghost" image of my phone, like you can with a computer hard drive?
Thanks in advance...
jay487 said:
Is this possible to do with my tilt? I currently have Slueth WM6.1 customized how I like it and everything functional... however Id like to try some other ROMs to see if I like them.
But I do not want to reload a new ROM, decide I dont like it, and have to spend hours reloading my previous one and installing all the fixes and programs and settings that I like.... is there a way to make a ROM backup, like a "ghost" image of my phone, like you can with a computer hard drive?
Thanks in advance...
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Use SPB BACKUP it makes a true copy of your phone and can be backed up from your phone and your pc it has saved me a few times. There are others out there its just SPV is my fav
Take a look
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/backup/
Does SPB Backup make a backup of the total ROM?
what i know it will make backup of your: contact, sms, mail, agenda etc etc..
160bpm said:
Does SPB Backup make a backup of the total ROM?
what i know it will make backup of your: contact, sms, mail, agenda etc etc..
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Yes spb is a total back up solution...
Check the link placed above.
lufc said:
Use SPB BACKUP it makes a true copy of your phone and can be backed up from your phone and your pc it has saved me a few times. There are others out there its just SPV is my fav
Take a look
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/backup/
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is there any way to plug ur phone in and do it from the computer? i have a phone where the screen is cracked and blurred up with patches of colors. but tht phone has EVERYTHING on it. can i tranfer the image onto my new phone without having to use the touch screen? btw im using a sprint TP2.
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is there any way to plug ur phone in and do it from the computer? i have a phone where the screen is cracked and blurred up with patches of colors. but tht phone has EVERYTHING on it. can i tranfer the image onto my new phone without having to use the touch screen? btw im using a sprint TP2.
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There is a software called MyMobiler that will give you a remote desktop to> the phone, so you can see in a window on the desktop what your phone screen is.
DemonLoader said:
There is a software called MyMobiler that will give you a remote desktop to> the phone, so you can see in a window on the desktop what your phone screen is.
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Very nice app. Used it all the time when my Kaiser was my main phone.
SPB Clone is another product that they make.
It is pretty awesome.
You can create an image to a flash card and restore the entire image back to the phone.
I have not received any texts or emails in the past couple of days. I tried to go into my mail program...tmail.exe and messaging.ink, but I have yet to get back into it.
Do you folks have any other ideas?
Thank you,
What to do when you cannot get tmail.exe or get into your sms and emails
Please help me. I have done about everything that I can without flashing.
I am not even sure that would help, and I am very leary about doing that in case I dont do it correctly.
this happened to me about 4 months ago. Just back up your contacts and whatever messages (or ALL) using PIM Backup and do a hard reset. This was the ONLY thing that worked for me. Especially was scary because I was on vacation and nowhere near a PC. Haven't had a problem since.
Did you install anything that edited the registry in order to put your mail on your SD card? Because this happened to me a while ago, after I uninstalled that program, and did a soft reset, Pocket Outlook worked just fine again.
Dave
orflin said:
this happened to me about 4 months ago. Just back up your contacts and whatever messages (or ALL) using PIM Backup and do a hard reset. This was the ONLY thing that worked for me. Especially was scary because I was on vacation and nowhere near a PC. Haven't had a problem since.
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If I do a Hard Reset will that wipe out the current ROM that I am using and set it back to the original HTC ROM?
I have Sprite backup, if I do a restore will that just make the problem resume again?
I think you want to think about "dave the tytnII guy" reply & review any changes you might of recently made to your device.
If you have made no changes or can not resolve the issue by uninstalling a newly added software then hard setting could be your option.
Your current rom will remain after hard reset & so could your problem if you do a full backup & restore.
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I think you want to think about "dave the tytnII guy" reply & review any changes you might of recently made to your device.
If you have made no changes or can not resolve the issue by uninstalling a newly added software then hard setting could be your option.
Your current rom will remain after hard reset & so could your problem if you do a full backup & restore.
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I do remember rearranging some folders, thinking that it would work better, but I cannot remember what folders I moved or deleted.
The only think that I have downloaded has been ringtones, voice commander software....
Probably linked to stuff you deleted or perhaps voice commander software.
If you can't resolve it you'll have to hard reset.
Hard reseting is not a big problem unless you have a lot of software & customizations installed.
Backup your PIM data hard reset & in future make backups before deleting folders or installing software that enters a lot of registry keys.
Good luck...
Mister B said:
Probably linked to stuff you deleted or perhaps voice commander software.
If you can't resolve it you'll have to hard reset.
Hard reseting is not a big problem unless you have a lot of software & customizations installed.
Backup your PIM data hard reset & in future make backups before deleting folders or installing software that enters a lot of registry keys.
Good luck...
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Thank you very much for your assistance. What software would you recommend to back up my PIM data? Would Sprite work?
Sprite or SPB backup or for just PIM data use PIMBackup.
I have had problems with Sprite on my tytnII, after making backups my tytn has lost WIFI connection settings & other account settings have been troublesome.
I would backup with both Sprite & SPB & see what you like the most.
Hi,
This just happened to me and I found this worked. Goto your storage card in file explorer and look for the folder inbox.mst123456 (the numbers will be different) and delete it. It worked for me. I hope it works for you.
David
Mister B said:
Sprite or SPB backup or for just PIM data use PIMBackup.
I have had problems with Sprite on my tytnII, after making backups my tytn has lost WIFI connection settings & other account settings have been troublesome.
I would backup with both Sprite & SPB & see what you like the most.
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I did a Hard Reset and restored my information using PIM backup. I was able to get my email and sms back to work. Thank you very much for the assistance one and all!
It Worked!
Derman said:
Hi,
This just happened to me and I found this worked. Goto your storage card in file explorer and look for the folder inbox.mst123456 (the numbers will be different) and delete it. It worked for me. I hope it works for you.
David
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TYTYTYTY!!!
Deleted file and it returned all my mms and emails!
Thank you was not looking forward to doing a hard reset
I did a search and as Ive found over the past few years the search option blows. Anyway, I have been customizing my tilt as well as my moms (that I will be shipping back to her) anyway I need to put another rom on her phone but dont want to lose the customization since it took so long to do.
My question is what specifically to select in lets say sprite back up or spb?
Thanks.
Spb backup allows you to back up the entire phone, contacts, installed programs, sms, everything.
i used it when i was trying out new roms becuase i didn't want to re-set up my phone again from scratch after messing with a new OS.
Fully agree
Sprite Backup also lets you choose exactly what you want to backup.