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HELP: System Error

3 replies · 1,116 views · Started 23 October 2005

When I start my phone, it couldn't proceed after the ble eye screen, sometimes with a buzz somtimes not. It shows a white screen after the blue eye and just shut off. Sometimes when it's able to start like normal, it will prompt "Sytem Error", "Contacts Error", etc and turn off.

I used to have similar problem long ago when the phone got wet in the rain. Eventually the service center dried the board and reinstall the OS, and everything was fine all the while. Today it just shows the same error again. The phone was ok whole day, never dropped, never got wet, just nothing. What's wrong with it?

Btw, is there anyway to access my contacts and messages in the phone so that I can copy them to my PC? I'm doubt at this stage.

Sounds like your phone might be very sick. I think you'll have to take it to the service center.

There's no way to get your contacts / messages AFAIK.

Well, I tried to reset my phone just now and it works fine. I sync back the contacts from my Outlook to the phone but the messages are gone forever.
Now the problem is, when I tried to do backup of the phone to the computer, the file C:\system\daat\contacts.cdb cannot be copied. Even if I manually copy it into my computer it still failed.
Btw, is there anyway to change the directory of contacts and calendar from the phone to the MMC?

Btw, I've installed the MSvDriveE, but how do I verify that the messages are kept in MMC rather than C: ?
And after I run the application, the previous messages in my Inbox are invisible. When without the MMC, they are visible again. Does this means that the messages in C: could not be transfer to E: ?