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wheres my contacts?

after upgrading custom roms by the guides only some of my contacts are synced. any fixes to force all to come over?

noone has had this bug happen to them?
I followed the sticky threads which were EXTREMELY informative... I thing that took the longest was waiting to relog into rapidshare to get files as it cuts you off without having an account.
All my contacts are still showing in outlook and it says updating 0/283 when it starts up but only like 20 carry over.

Before you run any upgrade, you MUST backup all your data! It's a rule for all kind of Windows OS product!
Because in the Instruction, there's 1 step: Delete you parnership and Outlook will ask you sonething like "All your persional information will be delete such as contact, calendar...etc". You should backup before run this step!
Upto now, I dont have any way to recorver data (both mobi device or PC) and I myself think there's no way to recover!

DiCham said:
Before you run any upgrade, you MUST backup all your data! It's a rule for all kind of Windows OS product!
Because in the Instruction, there's 1 step: Delete you parnership and Outlook will ask you sonething like "All your persional information will be delete such as contact, calendar...etc". You should backup before run this step!
Upto now, I dont have any way to recorver data (both mobi device or PC) and I myself think there's no way to recover!
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yea I know that. I build custom PC's and know the no-no's to computers not to mention I followed the how to's to the letter.
My question was now that I have everything all customized and I have resynced my info. all my contacts show in outlook HOWEVER only like 20 are actually syncing over to the new custom phone. The other 263 contacts or so aren't syncing like they used to.

Just FYI data doctor recovery can recover any deleted sim messages or contacts off of your sim card. Also I have used my data recovery programs to recover files off of my SD card and the Wizard internal flash memory.
So there is a way to do what you thought I was talkin about.... heheh I just don't wanna have to re-enter 263 contacts.

noone? I have resynced this thing a whole buncha times and still not all the contacts are going back to the phone.

I have deleted the .pim and it recreated it. Still nothing syncs over to the phone. I have read posts on other boards of people with the same problem. I can add new contacts and it will sync them over strangley enough. I exported the list out of outlook and imported it with no duplicates and with duplicates and both ways none of the contacts carried over.
Anyone ever had this problem? The .pst file is fine and my calendar syncs perfectly.

Arghhh lost my contacts!!!!

Hi all,
Just recently i re-formatted my hard drive on my laptop and put vista back on it. Now i went to connect my Diamond to the laptop...it downloaded some updates etc and installed and also installed the windows mobile device center.
Anyways the phone synched but it didnt give me a chance to specify where and what i wanted synched etc. So anyways it seems like all my contacts that were on the phone have gone missing...which annoys me to no end as i had no back up. Usually i have my contacts backed up on my outlook email program.
Now it must have synched the contacts somewhere but for the life of me i cannot find where. So does anyone have any ideas as to where my contacts have gone??. They arent on the sim card as i usually keep them on the phone memory. Ive checked through the phone memory...checking through all the files and cant see where they have gone...they have obviously been taken off the phone when the stupid thing decided to synch itself before i had a chance to stop the synch. I dont know how it synched because it only installed the microsoft stuff after the first synch.
Anyways really hoping someone can help as i cannot afford to lose all these contacts that i have had on the phone...

I would say that it synced all your contacts from your laptop to the Diamond i.e. nothing. It is usual to sync this way when first connecting.

Spawn12 said:
Hi all,
Just recently i re-formatted my hard drive on my laptop and put vista back on it. Now i went to connect my Diamond to the laptop...it downloaded some updates etc and installed and also installed the windows mobile device center.
Anyways the phone synched but it didnt give me a chance to specify where and what i wanted synched etc. So anyways it seems like all my contacts that were on the phone have gone missing...which annoys me to no end as i had no back up. Usually i have my contacts backed up on my outlook email program.
Now it must have synched the contacts somewhere but for the life of me i cannot find where. So does anyone have any ideas as to where my contacts have gone??. They arent on the sim card as i usually keep them on the phone memory. Ive checked through the phone memory...checking through all the files and cant see where they have gone...they have obviously been taken off the phone when the stupid thing decided to synch itself before i had a chance to stop the synch. I dont know how it synched because it only installed the microsoft stuff after the first synch.
Anyways really hoping someone can help as i cannot afford to lose all these contacts that i have had on the phone...
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Did you never synct your contacts with any Gmail or MSN account, or did you never create a backup of your system with SPB backup, if you have then there must be a way to import them again in Outlook and sync them to your phone, an other way maid be easy recovery, with this program you maid be able to find your .pst back at your harddsik important is that you install as less as possible during the time you didn't found it back cause everytime you install something at your pc the possebillity to overwrite the .pst files gets bigger.
Sucses
Willem

Thanks for all your help...ive managed to get all my contacts back. Good thing i had them on my nokia 8600 Luna so i just copied them from there to my laptop then onto my Diamond.

I would say "it a good lesson to have always a backup of your contacts"
Willem

Wilsas said:
I would say "it a good lesson to have always a backup of your contacts"
Willem
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LOL yeh will have to make a backup of my contacts later tonight.

i do a PIM Backup most days
dont want to loose a days work!

I use this;
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01&displaylang=en
It works really well and makes sure you never loose contacts!!
Will

Spawn12 said:
Hi all,
Just recently i re-formatted my hard drive on my laptop and put vista back on it. Now i went to connect my Diamond to the laptop...it downloaded some updates etc and installed and also installed the windows mobile device center.
Anyways the phone synched but it didnt give me a chance to specify where and what i wanted synched etc. So anyways it seems like all my contacts that were on the phone have gone missing...which annoys me to no end as i had no back up. Usually i have my contacts backed up on my outlook email program.
Now it must have synched the contacts somewhere but for the life of me i cannot find where. So does anyone have any ideas as to where my contacts have gone??. They arent on the sim card as i usually keep them on the phone memory. Ive checked through the phone memory...checking through all the files and cant see where they have gone...they have obviously been taken off the phone when the stupid thing decided to synch itself before i had a chance to stop the synch. I dont know how it synched because it only installed the microsoft stuff after the first synch.
Anyways really hoping someone can help as i cannot afford to lose all these contacts that i have had on the phone...
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I did something very similar and learnt my lesson the hard way. Good news was I recovered quite a few contacts from old phone and even better news is that I've cut down my contact list to people I actually contact, rather just accumulate!

Diamond recognized in mobile device center but won't sync

I'm pretty frustrated by now, tried everything but i can't get it to work. Here's the thing:
When i came home from my holiday i tried syncing my diamond as it always has worked. It;s connected and all and i can see the device in mobile device center, i had to reenter the things i wanted to sync but well... so I did.
But now it wont sync, it gives the error 0x80004005 but looking into google doesnt help at all.
I need my calendar en contacts to sync, who can help

Simply uncheck the Calendar, Contacts, Email, Tasks settings in the ActiveSync options and that will force the phone to delete all synched content. Then re-check all those boxes and fresh copies of all the data will be downloaded. It appears something was corrupted on the phone, causing ActiveSync to fail.
http://www.lanlogic.net/blog/post/2008/11/07/0x80004005-Error-with-ActiveSync-.aspx

Didn't work :-(
Thx for the reply, but it doesn't work. Indeed it seems like something is corrupted, i even tried a new rom but it doesn't work. My idea was to do a format on everything but all i can fiund is the info on how to go back to manufacturer and format nand....
Ho do i move along?

[Q] HD7 can't export contacts to SIM?

Hi all. Got my HD7 few days ago and can't find out how to export my phone contact list to SIM. There is the import function (to import contacts from SIM to phone) but is there the export function?

Does not exist. There was a nice Sim Manager in previous versions of Windows Mobile but it's missing in WP7. Even my iPhone had this feature missing and yes.. finally "there's an app for that" in the iPhone world.
Hopefully it's also an app for this Phone OS that will be coming. Some times (not all the time) I don't want to carry around my HTC HD7. Being able to export contacts to Sim allows for another phone to be used and still have all your phone# you might need.

or you could store your new contacts as windows live contacts so they are stored online and they can be imported to any WP7 phone. not perfect but one solution.

Yes... that would work but some of us have an older phone (candy bar style) as a back up or for travel (not use carrier data plan abroad). Not being able to transfer all contacts to sim would be an issue. I sure hope all the good things about previous Windows Mobile are brought over to WP7. Even some nice features of the iPhone should be implemented too.
I will say though... going to the cloud for data is fantastic. The idea would be to have access to all your info no matter what phone/internet device/appliance is being used. As I understand it Microsoft is really pushing for Laptop/Phone/TV as the interface. Just image being able to logon to any internet enabled device in the world, make a phone call, send email, Instant Messege or SMS, watch movie/TV all from your "Live" account. One day it will be possible !

I honestly could care less about this function unless they improve sim cards.
1. Names tend to get chopped off
2. Different "contact" for every number each contact has (1 for mobile, 1 for home, etc)
3. No other info makes it across (address, email addy, etc), at least on t-mobile
Now, if they improved the sim cards to actually store the contact the way its stored on the phone, then I could see it as a valuable thing.

HD7 cant export contacts to SIM
Hi
Leading on from earlier reply to this thread. What are the steps to
or you could store your new contacts as windows live contacts so they are stored online and they can be imported to any WP7 phone. not perfect but one solution.
Can you export the contacts on the phone to windows live account in one go or is it a case of manually creating a contact in windows live for each entry in the phone book on the phone
My contacts in my phone book have lot of detail in them. Emails, addresses, multiple phone numbers, notes, etc so having to manually type all of these into a windows live contact is going to take forever and is real pain
Also, what are the steps/instructions to follow to then import these contacts from windows live to windows 7 phone
Thanks

o wow im so disapointed that i cant back up my contacts to my sim card i realy hope a talented dev will address this issue with some new application
im t-mobel us!
i did store my contacts online but thats not going to fix the probums im about to face when the next update hits
we realy need a fix for this
Export contacts to sim is a must!!!!

Sync WP7 HD7 contacts
I have added new contacts directly in the phone but they were not sync to windows live. How can I sync manually? or How can I force the sync of all my contacts? Can I perform a general contact backup?
Thanks!

boooooooooooooooo

I'm a programmer and I'll have a go at implementing something. It may be the case, however, that it's just not possible to gain access to the sim from the WP7 API.
The reason I need to do this, is that I don't want to take my expencive WP7 phone hillwalking (can be very wet where I live) so I bought a cheap and cheerful candy bar phone for outdoor activities. I'd rather not type in a heap of contacts though if I can help it.
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flobadob said:
I'm a programmer and I'll have a go at implementing something. It may be the case, however, that it's just not possible to gain access to the sim from the WP7 API.
The reason I need to do this, is that I don't want to take my expencive WP7 phone hillwalking (can be very wet where I live) so I bought a cheap and cheerful candy bar phone for outdoor activities. I'd rather not type in a heap of contacts though if I can help it.
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After some digging around I see that it's not possible. The WP7 API doesn't provide any access to the sim card. You can but a sim card writer very cheaply though. Maybe one of those can integrate with Windows Live contacts. Probably not.

contacts transfer
u can transfer ur contacts using Nokia contacts transfer app for any unlocked wp7 via bluetooth

Passport1 said:
Hi
Leading on from earlier reply to this thread. What are the steps to
or you could store your new contacts as windows live contacts so they are stored online and they can be imported to any WP7 phone. not perfect but one solution.
Can you export the contacts on the phone to windows live account in one go or is it a case of manually creating a contact in windows live for each entry in the phone book on the phone
My contacts in my phone book have lot of detail in them. Emails, addresses, multiple phone numbers, notes, etc so having to manually type all of these into a windows live contact is going to take forever and is real pain
Also, what are the steps/instructions to follow to then import these contacts from windows live to windows 7 phone
Thanks
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If you've set up a windows live account, and have it on the phone as well, contacts and calendar are automatically backed up to windows live every time it syncs... go to the email settings and make sure the windows live account is scheduled to sync and not set to manual sync.
I flash my phone all the time and windows live always syncs my phone contacts and calendar back without loosing anything.

I can't delete my window live account on my HD7

For some reason when i try to delete my window live account the only option i get is sync and not delete like my facebook account.
I can't buy games now since i registered the account overseas and now i'm back in my home country. I can't download any games because it says i need an account registered to the country i'm currently in.
After registering i tried to buy games but i can't change the email address.
Is there any solution to this problem?

Just do a quick hard reset. Takes about 20 seconds with this phone.

You can't delete the main Live ID on the phone, as you must have at least one connected to it at all times. Try adding another one and then deleting the first one. Otherwise a hard reset will do the trick (at the expense of wiping your phone).

The thing is if i hard reset it i'll lose all my apps and it took me ages to download.
I tried making a new live one but it would only let me delete the new one and not the old one

As was said earlier, you cannot delete the live account, on which is your phone registered. It is not possible. The only way is to hard reset your phone and register it on different live id. But not even that you will have to download all apps again, but also, if you already bought some apps using the previous live id, you will have to buy them again because they are connected with the live id, not the phone itself.

For some reason when i try to delete my window live account the only option i get is sync and not delete like my facebook account.
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the reason is simple: You can track your phone with your live-id, as well as delete or lock the phone, if your phone is stolen or lost. This is a security feature.
If it were just that simple to delete your live-id from the phone like your facebook-account, this feature would be unnecessary.