Hey folks! Jus last night, i backup'd my phone memory onto the mem card, and formatted it simply, like to have my phone clean etc.. And after formatting it, when i restored the mem card backup onto the phone mem, nothin happens! OMG!! 😮 This can't happen to meeee! :frown: I don't have a backup in my pc. Only 3 things r so important to me, Calendar, Contacts and Notes. Pls pls pls help me!!! I feel so miserable without them on my phone! This is really so bad for the backup to fail. :icon13: :frown:. Is there any way we can unzip the arc file on the pc and restore the system files like contacts.cdb, calendar and notes manually to the phone like in the older series60 phones like 3650, where u go into flight mode, then open up fexplorer and go into c:/system/data etc.. i know its difficult cos the file system is different in this series 60 3rd edition. But pls pls pls help me!
Regards,
-Absi
Come on! Don't leave me stranded! I need help! A solution i need to recover my data!! Pls pls pls!
-Absi
Can't you just resync your data over from Outlook on the PC? And reinstall any applications etc.?
IIRC some early firmware versions on 3rd edition handsets had non-working backup functions, I think your handset must fall in this category.
Steve
Ahh! Thanks a reply finally! But I dont use Outlook to sync them! Applications ain't a problem at all! Only things are.. Contacts, calendar and notes! I think the 1st edition of symbian beats this in the case of backup and also file system cos u cud go to flight mode and copy the contacts.cdb & .ini, calendar and notepad file and voila.. u have it safe! but in this 3rd edition it seems impossible!!! :frown:
Absi
Coming from the Palm and Pocket PC world having a reliable backup/restore app is about the only thing that I really miss. Sprite, Resco, Spb and others allow one to backup everything and then restore exactly to the same state. We really need such an app for the Symbian world.
Frank
I have to agree. I have a Dell Axim x50v Pocket PC and although I use it very little since I got my E60, the one thing I really miss is the backup function. I like to "tinker" with things (probably why I became an engineer) and I miss having an application that lets me "screw up" and then recover. The Active Sync backup function essentially takes an image of your device. When you restore it, it goes back to exactly the way it was when you took the backup. The backup function on the E60/PC Suite is not worth the effort. I have my important settings written down and my email, contacts, and calendar sync'd with a server. If I have to format the phone (which has happened 3 times in the 5 months since I bought it), I restore my settings from scratch, reinstall all my applications, and re-sync with my mail server. This process takes the better part of a day. NOT a good thing. If I could ask for only one thing for my E60, it would be a proper backup application.
Mark
That is me too. I like to tinker or just when adding a new app I want to be able to preserve the state of the device before I do in case I get a reset. Also when setting up a new device I like to take "checkpoint" backups in case something goes wrong.
I cannot believe something like this doesn't exist.
Frank
I have a E-70 and did a back up using PC Suite before sending the phone for a software update. I restored the back up data from my PC, using PC suite of course, after getting the phone. I had no problems, all my contacts, messages, calender entries even the log was resored. But third party applications that I installed were not restored because the were not in the back up. I don't no why but that was not a problem as I had copies of the original applications. I hope this helps.
I think I understand what's going on now, after reading an article on Forum Nokia - The PC Suite and built-in backup solutions don't back up third party applications (presumably the thinking is that these are trivial to reinstall from your desktop) and only back up data from third party apps if it's stored in a ub-folder under (IIRC) \Nokia, as per Nokia's guidelines. Third party data outside this folder will be ignored.
So essentially it's up to developers to store program data in the recommended place.
Presumably the thinking behind Nokia's strategy is that if a restore is necessary then it may well be in conjunction with an OS firmware upgrade or a problem of some kind, and in both cases you don't really want to auto-re-install potentially problematic third party software or old temporary or system files.
Steve Litchfield