fargged my new LG VX11000 (enV Touch)

[Andrew Edgar]

Hi,

Phone: LG enV Touch (VX11000)
OS: Windows XP
Cable: USB charging/data cable came with phone.
Driver: LGUSBModemDriver_Eng_WHQL_Ver_4.9.4_All.exe
Bitpim: 1.0.7.20090303 - Test

I was able to connect bitpim to the phone using the latest driver and version of bitpim and setting the phone type to VX10000.  Then I sync'd my phonebook to the phone, bad idea...

I'm guessing the data format in some of the BREW files have changed.  None of the contacts show up on the phone and worse now I can't even save new contacts using the phone interface, clicking on "save" after entering a new contact simply does nothing, you only choice is to hit the back button.

Does anyone know which files I screwed up?

Is there anyone who has an enV Touch, nows which files got trashed and would be willing to email me copies of them?  Then I could use the filesystem to replace them.

I did a full software update from the phone and that didn't help.

Any ideas or pointers would be appreciated.

If anyone is developing for the enV Touch I would be happy to help out with testing.

Thanks,
aj

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[Copy Jim]

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.

[cpi2455]

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.

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.

[Andrew-26]

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.
> >
> >
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/fargged-my-new-LG-VX11000-%28enV-Touch%29-tp23933363p24436566.html
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>

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