smsengine error - no incoming texts!

[derekcfoley]

Hi there,

Can anyone help me with an odd sms problem?

After installing some programs to try and back up my text messages from my xda exec, which were unsuccessful, I've since uninstalled them and now discovered I'm not recieiving any incoming text messages... only the network voicemail 901 messages ever get through, but whenever a text message comes in I get a dialogue appear saying

"smsengine.exe

The file 'smsengine' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. You might need to reinstall or restore this file."

when "ok" is clicked, the dialogue closes, then when the pocket outlook is opened I get a small dialogue box saying

"SendMyMessage
SendMessage failed.
TimeOut!"

Obviously I can't ever see what the message was, it just never gets displayed in Pocket Outlook (presumably due to the error above ) :(

Any Ideas what I can do? is smsengine.exe a standard WM5 program, if so, can somebody find it on their machine, copy and email it to me, and tell me where to save it to?

Or do I need to muck about in the registry?

I can't reset my phone to factory defaults because I have some really, really really important text messages relating to my employment which was why I started this mucking about trying to back up the messages in the first place... so I'm really stuck now, and I'd really appreciate if someone could offer some advice on what the best approach would be.

[deadmetal]

hi,

I've heard of smsengine.exe afaik its not a standard wm5 file i'd say whatever programs you installed to backup are the cause of your problems.

I'd reinstall the programs and remove 1 at a time to see which is the cause

What programs did you install?

[derekcfoley]

Thanks Deadmetal

Strangely I'd already tried uninstalling, with no luck, but tried reinstalling, then removing, and eventually the problem seems to have fixed itself using this proceedure. very odd!

The program I installed was smsOrganizer by zedsoft
http://www.zedsoft.net/

Which doesnt seem to work on the Exec for some reason, even though it says its WM2005 (which I presume is WM5 - if I'm wrong with this assumption it might explain why it messed it up <grin>)

Can anyone recommend a good (free) tool to backup sms messages under WM5 that I can use?

Thanks for the help

Derek

[deadmetal]

Ah! smsorganiser! Yeah I thought the software you had been using was that. I've had several problems using it but it does look a decent piece of software if the bugs ever get ironed out!

[oranje]

the problem keeps on!