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Re: fargged my new LG VX11000 (enV Touch)
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 06:52:11PM -0700, cpi2455 wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, i did not read these messages before trying bitpim on our new
> vx11000. Would it be possibel to provide detailed info on how your restored
> your phone's ability to save contacts? Help would be appreciated. Thanks.
In this forum dicussion someone mentions restoring their env Touch phone, but i don't see an indication of getting the phone book data back. I may be wrong, but it sounds like that gets wiped out irretrievably (unless, of course, there is a backup elsewhere):
http://cellphoneforums.net/lg-env/t298673-problem-using-bitpim-env-touch.html
Also, I did not do an exhaustive online search
Andrew
> Copy Jim wrote:
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > In regards to using BitPim to attempt to store your contacts to your new
> > VX11000, and no longer being able to save contacts in your LG-VX11000-
> > EnV-Touch.
> >
> > I do not know if you still have your vx11000, but here is something to
> > try. It worked for me.
> >
> > First, we should have saved the file tree prior to mucking around. We
> > didn't so we hosed ourselves. Our bad!
> >
> > Now here is what I did. I also tried to save my 430 contacts to my new
> > vx11000 using BitPim so I wouldn't have to do it another way. I just
> > couldn't wait to use Contact Assistant ... (Stupid Stupid Stupid).
> > Problem, contacts hosed. I could not save my contacts to my phone after
> > that. I started looking around and started looking through the Bitpim code
> > and found where the contact information is saved in the file system on the
> > phone. I checked these files and found my information had been saved to
> > the phone. I suspect that the 4 contacts that we can still see are
> > actually saved in a different file that the one we overwrote.
> > Phone files are stored under "pim/..." (Personal Information Manager). I
> > found the files associated with my changes and backed them up then erased
> > them. ( I sorted by date to help). I restarted my phone and walla... all
> > was good in the work=ld again. The phone recreated these files to their
> > defaults as I suspected they would.
> > Here are the files I deleted:
> >
> > /pim/pbaddress.dat
> > pim/pbspeed.dat
> > pim/pbPictureIdSetAsPath.dat
> > pim/pbentry.dat
> > pim/pbgroup.dat
> >
> > Your mileage may vary, and you should do this at your own risk always
> > backing up the files first. All I can say is that I will sleep better
> > tonight knowing I didn't just brick my contact list!
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > The basic problem is that since the EnV-Touch has new additional
> > information in its contacts, address, etc., the file structure is
> > different... among other things. I hope someone with a little more time,
> > and knowledge of Python than I do. I could muddle around, but it would
> > take more time than I have.
> >
> >
>
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>
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> Unfortunately, i did not read these messages before trying bitpim on our new
> vx11000. Would it be possibel to provide detailed info on how your restored
> your phone's ability to save contacts? Help would be appreciated. Thanks.
In this forum dicussion someone mentions restoring their env Touch phone, but i don't see an indication of getting the phone book data back. I may be wrong, but it sounds like that gets wiped out irretrievably (unless, of course, there is a backup elsewhere):
http://cellphoneforums.net/lg-env/t298673-problem-using-bitpim-env-touch.html
Also, I did not do an exhaustive online search
Andrew
> Copy Jim wrote:
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > In regards to using BitPim to attempt to store your contacts to your new
> > VX11000, and no longer being able to save contacts in your LG-VX11000-
> > EnV-Touch.
> >
> > I do not know if you still have your vx11000, but here is something to
> > try. It worked for me.
> >
> > First, we should have saved the file tree prior to mucking around. We
> > didn't so we hosed ourselves. Our bad!
> >
> > Now here is what I did. I also tried to save my 430 contacts to my new
> > vx11000 using BitPim so I wouldn't have to do it another way. I just
> > couldn't wait to use Contact Assistant ... (Stupid Stupid Stupid).
> > Problem, contacts hosed. I could not save my contacts to my phone after
> > that. I started looking around and started looking through the Bitpim code
> > and found where the contact information is saved in the file system on the
> > phone. I checked these files and found my information had been saved to
> > the phone. I suspect that the 4 contacts that we can still see are
> > actually saved in a different file that the one we overwrote.
> > Phone files are stored under "pim/..." (Personal Information Manager). I
> > found the files associated with my changes and backed them up then erased
> > them. ( I sorted by date to help). I restarted my phone and walla... all
> > was good in the work=ld again. The phone recreated these files to their
> > defaults as I suspected they would.
> > Here are the files I deleted:
> >
> > /pim/pbaddress.dat
> > pim/pbspeed.dat
> > pim/pbPictureIdSetAsPath.dat
> > pim/pbentry.dat
> > pim/pbgroup.dat
> >
> > Your mileage may vary, and you should do this at your own risk always
> > backing up the files first. All I can say is that I will sleep better
> > tonight knowing I didn't just brick my contact list!
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > The basic problem is that since the EnV-Touch has new additional
> > information in its contacts, address, etc., the file structure is
> > different... among other things. I hope someone with a little more time,
> > and knowledge of Python than I do. I could muddle around, but it would
> > take more time than I have.
> >
> >
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/fargged-my-new-LG-VX11000-%28enV-Touch%29-tp23933363p24436566.html
> Sent from the Bitpim - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
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