Deleting Contacts on WM5

[babz]

hey Guys, i think you guys have done an amazing job creating WM5 for BlueAngel - my special thanks to Mamaich.

i have one issue - if anyone can help:

i have a little over 500 contacts in my Qtek 9090 - and i have been trying to delete ALL - but there is no option to do that - what do i do and how can i delelte them all?

i even tried taking the battery out - draining the backup battery - but NOTHING - they are still there!!

you see i was a JAM user and then i wanted WM5 - so i bought a used Qtek9090 [totally rundown] - and tried it with WM5 - which WORKED AMAZINGLY WELL!!!! - so now i went out and bought a NEW Imate PDA2K.

but i cant sell off the Qtek till i get rid of all my contacts in it.

can anyone help please? my email is: babarjhumra@gmail.com

[3waygeek]

Using the soft keyboard, do Ctrl-A; that should select all the contacts. Then use the menu to delete. I've done this in WM2003; should work just as well in WM5 since Ctrl-A has been the select all code going back to at least Windows 3.1.

[Rayan]

Unfortunately that doesn't work under WM5.0.

But there is an easy way of deleting all the contacts at once. But this method will also get rid of all you appointments too, so consider yourself warned.

Just place your device on the cradle and then explore the device through ActiveSync's File Explorer.

Navigate to the root by clicking on 'My Windows Mobile-Based Device' and locate a file called pim.vol and rename it to whatever name and soft-reset the device and that's it.

Once you boot the device, the System will create a new empty pim.vol file and now you can backup the old file to your computer for safe keeping. That's your PIM backup that you can use on other WM5.0 devices if you want.

Regards,
Rayan

[babz]

hey thanx man - i will just now try and let you know if it works for me.

[babz]

hey thank you soo much - worked like a charm - FINALLY deleted all the contacts.!!

theres one more issue: the emails i had created to check the outlook - i deleted them fine. they arent there any longer. BUT..... my today screen is still showing them and the number of un-read mails. when i click on them nothing happens or look for them thru outlook on the Pocket PC - but they arent there! - how do i get ride of this?

any suggestions?

[babz]

Also the text msgs arent deleting - i have cleared the inbox - 3 times and very time i reboot - they come back - WHY?