Broken contacts database? Strange stuff on Cingular 8125

[discopalace]

Hi all,

I have tried several add-ons to improve my Cingular 8125's contact management capabilities. Here are a few:
- mNotes to sync with Lotus Notes (didn't work, removed it)
- Inesoft Addressbook (wanted bigger contact pics)
- PhotoContacts (wanted bigger contact pics)
- finchSynch (for Thunderbird integration)
- couple other things, forgot...

I'm still not entirely satisfied, but it's better than before. THe one thing that is really messing me up right now is that I think I have a problem with my contacts database. When the PDA soft boots up, it gives me this error "Error: open database failed - contacts database". I click ok and go on. I'm still able to browse my contact list and contact people on it. But when I edit a contact and press ok, the phone locks up. It ends up automatically soft booting. This has happened with Inesoft as well as PhotoContacts.

So I'm wondering:
1) What is the underlying problem? My best guess is somehow a messed up contacts db
2) What can I do to fix it? Assuming it's a db problem, any way to rebuild?
3) Has anyone seen a problem like this?

Thanks!

[meschle]

Sorry to hear of your problem. Is you phone synced with outlook on your pc? - if so you should be able to restore from there. Your contacts\appts are kept in a file on the root directory of your device called pim.vol. Copy that to your storage card or desktop then rename the original - say to pim.vo and then try to restore from outlook.
Have fun ;)