Crashed M3100 address book and calendar appointments needed

[Guest The Dude]

Hi

I have the Orange SPV M3100.

It won’t get past the password screen. It keeps on locking up. Tried soft reset a few times no luck.

I could hard reset but I want to save all my contacts and calendar appointments.

It will connect to my laptop with active sync but no copy all the info over.

My question is - Is there a specific file/files that hold the address book and the calendar appointments on the phone? - I can't seem to find it easily

Or is there anything else to try?

Thanks

Tom

[Guest Neil5459]

If you can see the device contents in Explore, go to teh root of the device and look for PIM.VOL . This file hold all your contact/calendar/task information

[Guest The Dude]

If you can see the device contents in Explore, go to teh root of the device and look for PIM.VOL . This file hold all your contact/calendar/task information

Thanks - I'll give it a go.................

Tom

[Guest Neil5459]

One small gotcha is that you can't copy PIM.VOL directly back to your device once its rebuilt, as it is a system locked file.

The way around that is to rename the version of PIM.VOL on the rebuilt device to PIM.OLD, then copy the old file back, and then wait a few seconds for the file to write to ROM, then do a soft reset. After that your old data should be accessible. I'm not sure if the dafault Pocket File Explorer will allow the renaming, but Resco File Explorer will.