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Chernita
18th November 2006, 11:54 AM
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My device cannot boot because i accidentaly renamed the Pim.vol file to something else while making a backup.

I have been reading this board for 2 days and not been able to find any information about copying or renaming files.

I havew been able to run mtty and connect to my device. However, i dont know any of the mtty commands for my phone. I just need to rename the original pim.vol file so the device will boot!

Please help!!

I have a Dopod 310 (Oxygen) from China. Actually i know how to do the hard reset, but havent backed up my SMS. If there is a way to extract the SMS messages then that could be an alternative.
levenum
18th November 2006, 05:48 PM
Hi. Unfortunately, MTTY will not help you. It is a tool to communicate with the bootloader, and it has no commands of its own. It only sends command (just as you type them) to the bootloader, and it has no control over the file system (the OS needs to boot up for that).

It is strange though. I renamed pim.vol many times on couple of different devices just to clear it. Thing is when you rename it a new blank version appears after reset.
In any case, it should not have prevented device from booting so I think you may have another problem.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
Chernita
18th November 2006, 06:54 PM
Well now that i know mtty is a dead end, is there a special place in the phone where SMS messages are kept? Pim.vol keeps contacts and calendar, but not SMS... I had just copied pim.vol to the SD card, but that doesnt really help me since all my contacts are already in Outlook... i was actually in the process of backing up when this happened! Is there any way to run file manager type commands through the USB cable, or at least run some type of safe mode so it wont freeze? If I can get the SMS then i can just do the hard reset. I am going to India in a few hours and would like to use this phone. its a great phone by the way.

Thanks for all your help im very impressed with the quality of this board. im way in over my head here. hehehe