Touch HD won't boot - Recover contacts before hard reset?

[simobk]

Hi all,

I had a weird problem today. Was on the phone, when time cam to hang up, the phone froze and I couldnt. Waited about a minute for it to unfreeze, no success. I then removed the battery and restarted it. It stuck at the HTC logo.

Here's what I have tried to make it boot :
- Soft reset
- Removed the battery and waited more than an hour, then tried again
- Tried without the micro SD
- Tried without the SIM
- Tried without both
- Tried while connected to a PC
- Tried while plugged to the power supply.

None of this worked, always stuck at the HTC logo.

I can perform a hard reset. Problem is I do not have a recent backup of my contacts, data etc. Last time I synced was in November, and I had a Resco backup scheduled daily to my Micro SD, but now that I checked, for whatever reason no backup happened since mid December.

Is there any way I can recover my contacts before hard resetting? I can get rid of all the other stuff but I NEED all the contacts I added since December and for which I have no backup.

Thanks a lot,

Simo

NOTE : No cooked ROM, I went back to the official HTC Rom

 

[Fallen Spartan]

Hi all,

I had a weird problem today. Was on the phone, when time cam to hang up, the phone froze and I couldnt. Waited about a minute for it to unfreeze, no success. I then removed the battery and restarted it. It stuck at the HTC logo.

Here's what I have tried to make it boot :
- Soft reset
- Removed the battery and waited more than an hour, then tried again
- Tried without the micro SD
- Tried without the SIM
- Tried without both
- Tried while connected to a PC
- Tried while plugged to the power supply.

None of this worked, always stuck at the HTC logo.

I can perform a hard reset. Problem is I do not have a recent backup of my contacts, data etc. Last time I synced was in November, and I had a Resco backup scheduled daily to my Micro SD, but now that I checked, for whatever reason no backup happened since mid December.

Is there any way I can recover my contacts before hard resetting? I can get rid of all the other stuff but I NEED all the contacts I added since December and for which I have no backup.

Thanks a lot,

Simo

NOTE : No cooked ROM, I went back to the official HTC Rom

Unfortunayely from what I can tell you need to be able to access your phone to backup your contacts and as you cannot access phone I can't see how you can back these up

It also looks like you may need to hard reset device to fix it ........try removing battery for a whole night and then try again

For future record I backup conacts/emails eveyday, but then again I generally flash a new rom every other day

 

[Bodisson]

For future record I backup conacts/emails eveyday, but then again I generally flash a new rom every other day

Hmmm... made me check my backups...
PIMBackup does it's "backup to SD card" magic every night at 23:56

On the other hand, I charge my HD from PC at least once a week, and thus sync data with Outlook.

@simobk: Sorry, but looks like you lost all your new contacts since last Resco backup...
Hope you will check backup functionality more often in the future...

 

[simobk]

Thank you for your answers... Although it is hard to accept

I learned through another forum that all the contacts are stored to a file called PIM.vol.

Is there anyway I can dump of all the files to a PC without being able to boot? Is there some kind of Safe Mode startup option in Windows Mobile?

Thanks,

Simo