Did a backup and restore of all my information with the V2.8 PIMBackup program many times before successfully. However, this time when I tried to restore, the program froze, I had to pull the battery out of the Tilt to do anything. When I rebooted the phone and looked at backup file, the .pib was changed to 4 files: .pbd, .pbe, .pbe, .pbt. Now the restore function does not recognize these backup files. How can I get everything zipped back up so I can get to my backed up info?
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i did a backup of my phone today and upgraded the rom, once this was done i tried to restore it and it gave me errors..
i use kai sms program to back up the sms but i cant seem to get it restored. is there any program which allows me to save the sms's then restore them layta?
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ALi
sprite backup does it all. use later versions, 2.1.2 can corrupt message file
Hi everyone,
I have an AT&T Tilt and decided to play with ROM upgrading yesterday. Before I did anything, I backed everything up using the included Sprite Backup utility.
Played with a couple of WM6.1 ROMs, liked some things but not others... to make a long story short, I re-installed the original WM6.0 ROM, did a restore with Sprite and all is good, everything restored fine - except all my SMS's are gone! Why? Using Sprite Explorer, I opened the cemail.vol database from the latest backup in Notepad and from what I can decipher from the snippets of text understandable to humans, my text messages are still in there. Copied that cemail file onto the device, SMS account still blank. What should I do?! Please help.
Hello everyone
Last night i decided to flash the new Evolution Ultimate ROM from jagan2. The ROM is great, super fast and stable (thnx allot jagan2). Before i did that i installed Sprite Backup software on my Touch Viva, and backed up my files.
The problem occurred when i wanted to restore the backup to my newly installed ROM. The backup process started, then a restart was needed, but then the screen freezed at the boot loading screen, not even continuing to the screen with the orange background and Windows logo on it.
So i tried to manually restore my contacts and message files (the Sprite software comes with a Sprite Explorer, so i could extract these files from my backup), but i just cant find the root folders for contacts and messaging in the Windows folder on my phone, so i could copy my contacts and messages...
Any ideas?
In the past I've uses TiB to backup and restore my contacts ([CONTACTS/CALLS] Contacts Storage 2.x) as I tried different roms going accross 2.1, 2.2 and 2.2.1. A couple of days I decided to bite the bullet and install CM7. I must admit I didn't do all my homework so after soft-bricking my phone once I managed to installed it right the 2nd time.
When I try to restore my contacts with TiB it just doesn't work. I also tried to manually replace the contacts2.db file, but it gets overwritten (I see a contacts2.db-journal file appear once in a while, which tells me the databases are incompatible).
So before either rolling back to 2.2 and creating a *.vcf file or installing some SQL editor to try to fix the database, I wanted to see if any one knows a faster way to fix this (sync with Google doesn't work for me).
Sync to Google, profit!
Appreciate the quick response, but I messed up that path long time ago. I wish I could go straight to profit, but looks like I'm in need to figure out step 2 here.
1. TiBu worked for me, but I had to restore twice and restart phone after that
2. Use Sprite Backup to backup to a file and use that file to restore them
Sprite Backup does seem more reliable for this kind of operation than TiBu, but looks like I'll have to Odin first to recover my contacts (since they all trapped right now in my backup contacts2.db file), the I can try Sprite Backup.
Oh well, my fault for being sloppy I guess.
do they have nandroid backups working yet on 2.3? if so make one to get back to "now" easier.
and make a tibu backup in 2.3 too just for extra! but use a different folder! dont want to overwrite your 2.2 backups!
Back ups backups backups.
oh and while you are in 2.2 backup your contacts to SIM card! &/or export to SD card in vcf.! and you can upload that vcf to google through gmail contacts (using web browser)
BACKUPS BACKUPS BACKUPS
Got a problem, could anybody please make any sense?
I had 19k sms messages on my SGS+ and I backed them up with SMS Backup & Restore. Everything went fine. Now, after flashing my device to Ultragen v1.7 Rom, I am not able to restore my messages back. When I try to restore, it shows progress screen approx. to 125/15453 and then suddenly disappears. And I am like what the heck?
The same story with Titanium backup, it does not even starts to restoring xml file.
After that I was looking forward to restore sms&mms from nandroid backup, but the fact is, following tutorial about flashing Ultragen v1.7 ROM there was a stupid point of formating card, so my nandroid backup was destroyed.
What's wrong?
Problem solved. Restoring sms from .xml file completly in one row was not possible in one or another way. But restoring manually one by one each thread was possible via SMS Backup & Restore simply "viewing" backuped file and then restoring every thread.
Maybe this helps for somebody.