How to Manually Backup your Contacts, Appointments and Task or the PIM in WM2005

11:32 pm in How To by toenailed

Currently there are no Application available to backup your
Personal Information Manager even the builtIn xBackup will not make it
possible
“;”
But there is a way to BACKUP your whole Device .. i once describe it here


WM2005: Weird way to Backup Your Data under MAGNETO

but what if you want only the Contacts and Appointments .. and need it
badly so incase a hard reset will needed to be done .. you can restore
your contacts and Appointments without any problem .. and you know what
it is very SIMPLE.. :)

heres how to Manually Backup your PIM to SD card..

  1. Open built-in FILE EXPLORER, you cannot use Resco File explorer in this
  2. Go to Root Directory of your device
  3. Then copy pim.vol, if not visible just tap Menu then Show All Files
  4. Then paste the pim.vol to your SD/MMC card, pim.vol will be your Backup Files ..

Now heres how to Manually Restore your PIM

  1. Open File Explorer or Resco File Explorer
  2. Go to Root Directory of your device
  3. rename pim.vol to something else like pim8.vol, pim.old or anything
  4. then Copy the pim.vol that you have from SD/MMC, or the pim.vol that contain the contacts
  5. then Perform a soft reset using a Soft Reset Utility Program, dont use the Reset Button ..

Thats it .. you manually BACKUP and RESTORE your PIM ..

:)

Important Note:

  • use built-in File Explorer to copy the pim.vol .. Resco File Explorer prevents to copy this file
  • this method will only work in WM2005 to WM2005 and not WM2003SE to WM2005 or vice versa
  • for faster view of the idea pim.vol contains all your Contacts and Appointments information so technically copying will just copy the whole PIM database
  • you need to soft reset after restoring the BACKUPed pim.vol to your device ROOT Directory to make the PIM restoration work
  • i only test it under 1.60a so im not sure if this will work in other WM2k5 version

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