[NEW] PIM Backup v2.8 [NEW]

[aYuki]

Hi tsalta,
I could help you and re-backup your contacts. I just sent you a PM.

Edit:
Somehow it seems, that's not possible to send you PM's.
Although I sent the message twice, it's not shown in my PM outbox.
Give me a hint how I can contact you, because I don't want to post my eMail address in public.

 

[Mister B]

Hello i have need from someone who want to make me a favor and help me.

Im ex Blackstone user and i move to Android.

I did some updates etc and i lost all my contacts from the SIM card and everything.

THe good news is that i still have on my PC a PIMbackup.pib file but its made like binary one..

There is a chance to get my contacts back!!!

WHat i need is someone with WinMo device can do it for one minute.

Just to run Pimbackup on his own Device and to restore the Contacts from the .PIB file i will provide

After this is done just re Backup them again BUT in normal mode without binary etc

in this case the final .pib file will be able to transfer it to a zip .csv file and Put all the contacts back in my SIM card via Gmail

So if somene want to help me will be really thankfull for that its emergency.



The other variant if someone do not want to use HIS device is to do the same procedure with a Windows Mobile Emulator but i don`t know how to work with this and make it to work on my desktop PC i already try several hours to set up everything but just not working

Thanks in advance

emulator is way to go, used it a lot for manipulating PIM formats ect, send me file or download link in PM & I will do it on emulator or my spare WM device.

 

[pupakota]

....pib is JUST rar.
after unpacking, ALL YOU NEED is...total commander + its lister + unicode VIEW.
then you have some copy-paste work, thats ALL.
notice then, that ppcpimbackup would be ULTIMATE tool if only it had rar encryption built-in to protect our DATA.

thank you.

 

[Mano75]

Again, the same old issues...

Hi everybody.

I recently flashed my HD2 with a new ROM (WM 6.5.X), hence, I previously backed up all my info with Pim Backup 2.8

Then it came the moment I wanted to restore my messages (SMS), just the messages because I'm also using Outlook 2007 and I have all my agenda and contacts there.

Ok, I restore them and I have all my messages back to my device. Everybody who sent me an SMS is properly tagged (John Doe, David, Claire, etc) but If I go to my contacts profile, there's no SMS from anybody, somehow they're not associated.

Has anybody had the same or similar issues?
Thank you!

 

[Cheque]

BUG in 2.8.5

Dear Dotfred,

I encountered a major layout bug in the new version.

2.8.5 : on restore-mode, there are no checkboxes nor radiobuttons, like shown in my screenshots.

2.8.0: I tried to restore the same backup-file with the previous version, checkboxes are there.

my device: Htc HD mini (HVGA), WinMo 6.5.3 , custom ROM

Did anyone else experience this?

 

[pupakota]

nope, but i experienced nonexistent TICKS IN checkboxes(i mean i can tick things, but i cannot see them ticked), which is wm 6.5 bug, someone even had solution, but i lost it(sth with adding position to wm res with reshack, etc)..
it is not occuring in ANY of 6.1 roms i made, and with EVERY 6.5, and 6.5.x i tried.

 

[kainppc6700]

SMS BACKUP AND RESTORE Reply

Hey there all, it's 2 Bunny again.

A lot of you may remember the Diamond repair disaster of October 2011, when I managed to break the screen while attempting a repair. At this point, it just wasn't worth it to fix, and I ended up getting a Samsung Epic on a whim. It's a decent device (with a custom ROM, that is ), and ended up working out better for what I planned to use it for than I would've thought, but I still haven't completed the "migration" process completely. I have managed to sync my contacts and tasks and calendars (kind of) with various (lousy) sync "soulutions" for Android, but one thing I have not yet managed to move to the Epic yet would be my messages. I knew I had an older (but very much working) backup of my SMSes from one of my favorite Windows Mobile programs called PIM Backup. After a little reading, I found you could rename that ".PIB" file into a ".ZIP", which ended up working just fine. I was able to find a file inside with my messages backed up called "msgs_[date].PBM".

The question now would be, how can I get that msgs_xyz.PBM file migrated into Android? I have a program on Android called "SMS backup and restore" which takes XML files, so I was wondering if maybe there was software that could organize and convert PBM files into the XML files that "SMS Backup and Restore" is hungry for to help me get my old messages back.

Thanks.

- 2B

 

[Cheque]

2B:
you can try to open the msg-file with a text editor.

• case 1: the file was not saved in plain text but in binary mode (which is of course the faster way to backup).
  • solution 1: then you would have to investigate how WinMo saves their files, and work out an application that converts the binary file to plain text. [EDDIT/ADD] since dotfreds PimBackup is able to do the same on your device, maybe he could give some help here
  • solution 2: restore your old pim file to a windows mobile phone, and then backup again, with unselected "binary backup" checkbox.[EDIT/ADD] to receive the plain text file
  • move on with case 2
• case 2: you can open it successfully in a text editor and you can actually read all the messages.
  • solution 1: write an app / batch / whatever-you-are-able-to-work-with to make an xml patterned file.
  • solution 2: look for an application that can do that

 

[kainppc6700]

SMS IMPORT AND EXPORT Reply

2B:
you can try to open the msg-file with a text editor.

• case 1: the file was not saved in plain text but in binary mode (which is of course the faster way to backup).
  • solution 1: then you would have to investigate how WinMo saves their files, and work out an application that converts the binary file to plain text. [EDDIT/ADD] since dotfreds PimBackup is able to do the same on your device, maybe he could give some help here
  • solution 2: restore your old pim file to a windows mobile phone, and then backup again, with unselected "binary backup" checkbox.[EDIT/ADD] to receive the plain text file
  • move on with case 2
• case 2: you can open it successfully in a text editor and you can actually read all the messages.
  • solution 1: write an app / batch / whatever-you-are-able-to-work-with to make an xml patterned file.
  • solution 2: look for an application that can do that

Thanks. My experiment led me to finding that all my messages were actually in plain text when I opened that file in notepad, although I discovered that between every single letter was a space, and between every word were three spaces, and they didn't appear to be in any kind of organization whatsoever. Just to make sure, I checked the XML files that "SMS backup and restore" in Android had created for my more current messages, and it looked quite different (and very organized).

I'm guessing that with this I'll need to do "solution 2". I've never built a program or batch before, and I'm not sure if anyone has really made one. Maybe this is a long shot here, but are there any other Windows Mobile SMS export software? I have access to a spare Windows Mobile device for experimenting with that if anyone has any ideas.

Thanks.

- 2B


PSUpdate: I did a bit more reading, and someone had actually created a program to do just what I'm looking for, described in this blog post. Unfortunately, I get the infamous "'python' is not recognized as an internal or external..." blah blah blah problem when I try to run it from the command prompt. Some further research led me to modifying the template in this program and exporting from there. I will try this tomorrow, but I'm still curious what the community had to think.

 

[krispp]

thank you, update now

 

[Cheque]

[...]
PSUpdate: I did a bit more reading, and someone had actually created a program to do just what I'm looking for, described in this blog post. Unfortunately, I get the infamous "'python' is not recognized as an internal or external..." blah blah blah problem when I try to run it from the command prompt.[...]

the blog seems to be a good solution, maybe you try to get python working on your machine.
cheers

 

[pupakota]

although I discovered that between every single letter was a space, and between every word were three spaces, and they didn't appear to be in any kind of organization whatsoever

..unicode...
i told you.
open it in total commander(on pc), press f3 then choose menu, options, unicode.

 

[Ramkal]

hello
I got a backup in windows mobile with PIM Backup.
Now, How does I open my file (pib) in Android ?
Meanwhile, I'm not used of import Gmail , because was not possible
plz help me

 

[soyab0007]

thanx it was great

 

[Cheque]

new version available
at PIM Backup Website

 

[2 Bunny]

NEW VERSION OF PIM BACKUP Reply

new version available
at PIM Backup Website

That's great. If I ever need to do any backup or restore work with my Windows Mobile devices, that'll be a great start.

+1

- 2 Bunny

 

[Mister B]

Some great updates, just a shame so many people have moved on.
Will be loading this on my hd2 WM6.5.3 powered device & having some fun the old way :-D

 

[Cheque]

seems not to work on my HD mini (WM 6.5.3),
neither the 6.5.3 version nor 6.5 version.

it seems to load , but doesn't show up and the phone lags a lot.
Task manager shows it as a process, taking up to 90% of CPU usage.
:silly:

 

[pupakota]

new version available
at PIM Backup Website

awesome.

 

[jb789]

seems not to work on my HD mini (WM 6.5.3),
neither the 6.5.3 version nor 6.5 version.

it seems to load , but doesn't show up and the phone lags a lot.
Task manager shows it as a process, taking up to 90% of CPU usage.
:silly:

I have not tried the newer release, but maybe you've got to clear out everything from an older release 1st? Not sure if any prefs get written to the registry.