Hi,
Still trying to solve my problem with Web on my E61 (http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/51773/). I would like to try to reformat my phone to see if that would solve the problem but since i've got plenty of third party apps installed and configured on my phone, i need a way to restore everything easily after the hard reset.
So has anybody tried to hard reset their phone then restore their data and applications via the memory card backup? How reliable is it? Does it restore really everything? I've read here and there that it wasn't reliable and only restored approx. 90% of everything (what does this 90% mean, i don't know) but all those reports seemed to be very vague as if it was something one should not talk about. The help on the phone is just as vague telling me that memory card backup backs up "important information" without giving an exhaustive list of what these "important information" are.
(why, oh why can't these "multimedia computers" come with a proper specifications guide that give complete and accurate technical information about the hardware and software they're using? I don't need that useless user guide that talks about "important information", "formatting" without specifying in which file system type, "memory" without specifying what type of memory, etc).
Is a general reliable process, and restores everything... but, and we have always a but, one time, with 3230, the restore process doesn�t occur, because it have a message like that "corrupt file"... Always a problem could happen!
nj7 wrote:Is a general reliable process, and restores everything... but, and we have always a but, one time, with 3230, the restore process doesn´t occur, because it have a message like that "corrupt file"... Always a problem could happen!
Thanks for your answer. I decided to do a small experiment though and i'm glad i did since things went terribly wrong. It went like that:
- rebooted the phone
- backed up phone memory to memory card
- uninstalled 1 theme and 1 application that were installed in the phone memory
- rebooted the phone
- went to "Memory" and chose "restore" in the hope that it would restore both the theme and the application. The restoring process began but after 2 seconds, an error message with quite a lot of text flashed on the screen. I couldn't read the message since it disapeared as soon as it appeared but i thought that the first line said "Memory card full". I had 38MB left on the memory card. Then a message box saying "Phone will restart" appeared leaving me with the only option of clicking "OK". So I did and the phone restarted.
- After rebooting, i checked and, sure enough, the theme and application had not been restored. So i tried the restore again with the same results.
- After another reboot, i freed up some space on the memory card in order to have 108MB left on it. Tried again, failed again.
- Next reboot: tried to restore again but this time i tried to catch what was displayed on that damn error message. I'm pretty sure now that it actually says: "Memory: memory full. Please close some applications and retry". Uh? :con? 😮 😡
Oh gosh, i'm tired of all this...
So the conclusion is that the memory card restore functionality simply doesn't work. Not in my case anyway.
Yes, not in your case. Usually is a very good process, but is always more safe do a multiple backup, Card, PCSuite Backup, and safe guard of calendar entries and contacts... just in case!🙄
elp wrote:Thanks for your answer. I decided to do a small experiment though and i'm glad i did since things went terribly wrong. It went like that:- rebooted the phone
- backed up phone memory to memory card
- uninstalled 1 theme and 1 application that were installed in the phone memory
- rebooted the phone
- went to "Memory" and chose "restore" in the hope that it would restore both the theme and the application. The restoring process began but after 2 seconds, an error message with quite a lot of text flashed on the screen. I couldn't read the message since it disapeared as soon as it appeared but i thought that the first line said "Memory card full". I had 38MB left on the memory card. Then a message box saying "Phone will restart" appeared leaving me with the only option of clicking "OK". So I did and the phone restarted.
- After rebooting, i checked and, sure enough, the theme and application had not been restored. So i tried the restore again with the same results.
- After another reboot, i freed up some space on the memory card in order to have 108MB left on it. Tried again, failed again.
- Next reboot: tried to restore again but this time i tried to catch what was displayed on that damn error message. I'm pretty sure now that it actually says: "Memory: memory full. Please close some applications and retry". Uh? :con? 😮 😡
Oh gosh, i'm tired of all this...
So the conclusion is that the memory card restore functionality simply doesn't work. Not in my case anyway.
I get this message while trying to backup my N71. I think the phone memory is full but unable to increase its freespace. 😞