I am wondering if there is any way to salvage my contacts. I formatted my computer and resync it and it deleted everything. Every other time I connected it before it would ask before or it would merge them.
I doubt there is a way but I would like to know if so.
do you have a backup of your phone that you can reload?
lost Contacts
Hello,
I had the same problem on older devices running WMobil 5.0 and 6.0
becauce i have syncroniced with 2 computers i got all back. so it is nessesary to make a contact backup in outlook for that case. anyway its good to have
IN OUTLOOK FILE/IMPORT and EXPORT/EXPORT TO A FILE/Personal Folder File/ Contacts/CHOOSE Lokation and Filename/finish ok
if you make that periodicly, so you can get old contacts back you allready erased.
Greetings
Michael
lost Contacts
and allways create backups on a separate made partition and put importend files also on external drives
No I do not have any backups. I figured between the phone and the PC that there was no reason for another backup. I never thought that active sync made for mobile phones would think it's ok to erase someones entire phone book and replace it with nothing. I think that is a serious design flaw it should have at least had a warning before it did it. Anyways I figured all was lost as soon as it happened. I found an old phone and got some of the contacts back but I lost everything that I added in the last year unless I have a saved txt msg which I only keep a weeks worth usually. O well SPB Backup is installed now Lesson learned.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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i just got a new phone do2 rma from that auto complete problem i was talkin about earlier.
I made sure i backed up everything to outlook & did the sprite backup. however now i am trying to sync the phone & im not able to sync on my laptop or my desktop for some reason. do i need to reinstall sync to remove my old phones settings from the PC's or something? or is it a problem on phone that'd prevent any successful sync's?
Whats up guys my friend somehow lost his address book on his ATT tilt does anybody know of software or any method to recover them off the disk or whereever windows mobile keeps that data? all suggestions are appreciated
1st I don't know the answer,
but I'm curious, how can you lose it? surely either he did a hard reset or deleted it?
use dotfred's pim backup, and keep a backup on a memory card or pc. i think it's stickied in development or in the general forum somewhere, it will prevent things like this happening again
lol i am not sure how he did it he just told me he plugged it into the computer to sync and it kept having sync errors basically active sync wouldnt connect to his device and then all of the sudden none of his contacts were there cause I told him to just backup everything to his sim card instead of wasting time trying to get active sync to work and all of the contacts were gone
I have a Tilt. It syncs fine to my old laptop which just dies on Sunday.
I have a NEW laptop which has a slightly different name.
The Tilt is going to sync flawlessly to the new computer - it started and I stopped it because it was going to duplicate my 1350 contacts etc.
I would like the system to realize that the contacts are identical on each system and that no sync is needed.
I told it not to sync at this time - it then immediately started syncing and found 0/1350 contacts and was about to start duplication when I stopped it.
Has anyone done this before? I am suspicious that I am going to hae to MANUALLY delete one by one the contact in my phone so that when it syncs it will not duplicate - if this is really what I need to do - does anyone have a quick way to purge the contacts in a phone?
Thanks
Bill
If your old laptop is dead I can assume you won't ever use it again to sync, so:
On the phone, open ActiveSync, Menu->options, delete any partnerships there.
Connect to the PC, recreate partnership, and on first sync it should give you a popup asking what to do (sync, phone replaces PC, PC replaces phone). Choose PC replaces phone. All the info on the phone will be deleted and replaced by the PC's data.
This is what I've been doing numerous times when formatting my PC. I would sync before formatting, then save Outlook's PST file, format, restore my stuff including the .pst, then sync again using the above method. I understand you restored the PST on the new computer as well.
Of course what's on the phone but not on the PC (what has been done on the phone since your last sync with the dead laptop) will be lost.
kilrah said:
If your old laptop is dead I can assume you won't ever use it again to sync, so:
On the phone, open ActiveSync, Menu->options, delete any partnerships there.
Connect to the PC, recreate partnership, and on first sync it should give you a popup asking what to do (sync, phone replaces PC, PC replaces phone). Choose PC replaces phone. All the info on the phone will be deleted and replaced by the PC's data.
This is what I've been doing numerous times when formatting my PC. I would sync before formatting, then save Outlook's PST file, format, restore my stuff including the .pst, then sync again using the above method. I understand you restored the PST on the new computer as well.
Of course what's on the phone but not on the PC (what has been done on the phone since your last sync with the dead laptop) will be lost.
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My friend, Thank you.
This forum is a wonderful place. To be able to come here and ask a question before I toddle off to sleep and have it answered perfectly before I get to work again is magical.
Please have a great day!
Bill
Morning all,
I simply cannot believe my eyes! I soft reset my phone this morning because it got stuck and upon restart it deleted all my contacts and all my settings. I have lost allllll my contacts!!! I am soo annoyed!! aarrghhh!!!
I feel like breaking this phone right now!...
Ok calm down calm down!!...Right is there any way to bring my contacts and other settings back? I mean anything which can bring things back to normal. I don't want to loose my 300 contacts on it.
I am using Himalaya_21189WWE from Sun_dream ROM Date: 09/18/08
Any help will be highly appreciated!
Regards
hi . .
have you backup your PIM files?
usually before hard reset/change my rom
i've copy my PIM.vol to my storage card . .
so after finish i just copy paste the PIM.vol by using resco explorer and soft reset . .
but in your case i've no idea, it's just like got bad sector in your computer hard drive . . maybe using data recovery software help you . . (just 'lil idea)
a few days ago I've used Wm 6.5 21189 cooked by nuvoelegance nothing happen at first until 2 days ago all my Ramdisk files automatically erased . . maybe this is 21189 bugs . . now I'm using 21502cht so far no problem i've got (besides the language problem, coz I'm indonesian ).
Regards
no back ups here man, well i didnt think I'd need it as I was not planning to re-flash my rom. It just hard reset itself! I am so annoyed right now and cannot think how to bring back numbers other then asking people their numbers.
Regards
Sorry to hear that... the only way for you is to find a technician who will open your phone, take out the flash element and connect it to a custom-made flash reader that is connected to PC and then undelete the PIM file if you haven't overwritten that area on flash already
my condolences .. wow.. 300 contacts and never sync it to any computer and never back up the PIM file.. man, you're brave..
Do not press your finger too deep into the wound.
I'll think, it's nothing he is very proud of. I'm sorry for him, but I do not see any help. (than to weep)
This has happened to all of us before so we understand your pain. So the main lesson that we all have to learn is BACKUP YOUR DATA frequently even if you think everything is running ok. Even a simple application like PPCPimBackup is worth having in your phone. I setup mine to backup my contacts and schedules every day. Am sorry friend.
Often I sync my contacts with PC MS Outlook. Maybe you too would have some contacts in one of the PCs that you synced with. Worth a search there too..Just my tuppence.
I tried searching for a similar thread but couldn't find any, so sorry if this is a duplicate, but is there a way to retrieve my contacts over USB? I somehow managed to destroy the screen on mine (while it was in my pocket no less) but the phone still works (i can call the last person i called prior to it breaking). Is there a program to get the numbers off the phone via USB/ a file to dig through in the phones internal memory where they are stored? Any advice you can offer would be incredibly helpful. I made a backup maybe 3 months ago but theres about 3 numbers in there that would be pretty hard to get again.
If you connect to USB with Active Sync on, you should have the contact sync to your Outlook. This is not happening?
something isnt working correctly with that (i never set it up prior to the phone breaking, not to mention im a bit worried about it deleting the contacts on my phone, it did that once before) and without a screen on the phone its hard to fix it. but i can get the windows explorer dialogue to come up, which is why i was wondering if there is a way to get the numbers that way?