Broken the screen on my hermes!

[Guest trinityj5]

Hi there people!

As the topic title states, I broke the screen on my hermes this morning, accidentally dropped a remote control on it... bloody stupid of me! :rolleyes: However I have a new one on its way, and I wanted to know the best way of backing up all my data, such as contacts, messages, emails, favorites, all that jazz... and then how do I go about restoring it onto my new phone? Can I do this all through activesync?

Any help would be massively appreciated :P

John :D

[Guest Phil John]

Use one of the remote control apps for Windows Mobile so that you can "see" the screen. Then install SPB backup, do a full backup (just so you have everything, you'll only do a partial restore) and run the exe it generates on your new phone.

[Guest trinityj5]

Hi there phil John, thanks very much for your advice, I could still use the phone by using the hardware buttons so I manged to install spb backup and do a backup. I then restored it on my device and it worked brilliantly, or so I thought, weirdly I wasn't able to make any phone calls and I wasnt able to access any contacts! So I tried to restore it again, and the same thing happened...

So what I then did was hard reset back to the vodafone default, and restore my phone as best I could through active sync and some other third party apps such as pimbackup...

Weirdly my new phone seems much more stable, and the vodafone defaulting seems much less severe. For example, my old phone frequently had problems with turning bluetooth on (highly irritating with a b/t car kit) and the original voda defaulting removed things like device lock and messaging from the items list for the today page... where as with this rom they are there! :P

Also the new phone has a far newer radio rom, my old phone was runing 1.0.4 where as my new one has 1.32 a big change considering its only 3 months newer...

Rambling a bit there!

Thanks again for your help!

John :rolleyes: