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manila 2.1 facebook links backup ?

Im using the new Energy rom, 06/08. I set up all the links in facebook to my contacts, but as most of you know the energy ROM gets updated often. Im a flash junkie, so I follow them.
Is there any way I can export the links, it took me about an hour to link them up and im not going to do that every week or so.
Thanks for your time.

Anthony2oo5 said:
Im using the new Energy rom, 06/08. I set up all the links in facebook to my contacts, but as most of you know the energy ROM gets updated often. Im a flash junkie, so I follow them.
Is there any way I can export the links, it took me about an hour to link them up and im not going to do that every week or so.
Thanks for your time.
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You can use SPB backup. The only thing is everytime I restore my contacts It restores every contact twice and I have to go through and erase them. Pim backup backs up contacts but I dont know how to carry over the facebook links.

Yea I know how to backup my contacts. Infact they sync to outlook. I just dont want to have to restore the facebook links everytime.
Thanks for your reply

this would be very helpful for me also. i too am an energy rom user & would luv to know how to backup the facebook links. dscottjr81 can you verify SPBbackup does work for this?? i also wonder if Sprite Backup would work? i know PIMbackup does not carry over the facebook integration.
anyone?

maybe the facebook stuff is in the facebook.vol in your root directory? \facebook.vol
just try it

facebook.vol is for the facebook application produced by microsoft.

you use the link your contacts in the manila contacts page, right?
I have nothing else of facebook installed, and have the \FacebookInfo.vol on my phone, so I think thats one of the files for the "manila facebook" ..
but here is another solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538513

Il back that file up and restore it see if it works. Il also use your link in the event it dosnt work.
Thanks very much.

I have over 75+ facebook links in my phone, so having to do them all again would of been very troublesome for me. I did however figure out how to backup all of the links and current PIM information for your phone.
Backing up and Restoring the ENTIRE PIM(Calendar, Contacts, Tasks) and the Facebookinfo Vol file is the only way to get your Links back intact.
Before you do this, you should do the following things to prepare for the restore. If you have an active sync partnership with a computer allready, in your active sync settings on the PPC for that connection, set you sync conflict mode to "Keep items on my device". This will prevent dupes from appearing in outlook on your PC as well as on your phone. If your synced with an Exchange server or google mobile, unfortunately the Exchange connector lacks this feature. You'll just have to manually De-Dupe those.. Sorry.
When all of this is done, Download and Install Total Commander (Google it). Open total commander and in the root of your device, rename the "pim.vol" and "facebookinfo.vol" files (If they exist. If not, then fill out your personal card and link atleast one facebook contact). Once these are renamed, copy your old pim.vol and facebookinfo.vol files into the root, and soft reset. You should now have all your contacts, tasks, calendar entry's, and facebook links.
Edit: I just checked my gmail account after doing this method (Which is being synced via the exchange connector) and I only found a few dupes which may of been left over. Post your experience if you do this as well.

Try using microsoft my phone, looking at the details it has synced to my account it saves the fb links as a note, ive not reflashed the phone since i got all my links connected, i only got the phone yesterday and am trying out my 1st rom since moving over from the Kaiser. Loving the diamond compared to my old trusty heavy Kaiser.
I have always used Microsoft my phone for backing up, i like the sync my location as if i ever loose of get my phone stolen at the press of a button it will tell me where it is

langers1 said:
Try using microsoft my phone, looking at the details it has synced to my account it saves the fb links as a note, ive not reflashed the phone since i got all my links connected, i only got the phone yesterday and am trying out my 1st rom since moving over from the Kaiser. Loving the diamond compared to my old trusty heavy Kaiser.
I have always used Microsoft my phone for backing up, i like the sync my location as if i ever loose of get my phone stolen at the press of a button it will tell me where it is
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My phone does not backup/restore facebook links. I'm not sure if it is even aware that manila creates them. Where did you see this in details? The sync details in my phone is very basic and doesn't say anything that detailed. When I look at the sync settings in the latest version of my phone, it doesn't even give an option to backup notes, and there is no mention of notes in the online profile either. Where did you see this?

Grabbing contacts from nandroid backup, different rom

i was running modaco 2.2 for a few days, then i installed aosp 1.6 which i like a LOT better. I did a nandroid backup before the 1.6 install, and then did a wipe.
now, is there any way to get my contacts that were backed up with nandroid onto my current rom? i have a backup of modaco and an aosp backup, i need to get JUST the contacts out of my modaco backup...
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Try mounting the SD to your computer, going into the nandroid folder, and see what you can find.

- restore your Nandroid backup
- back up your contacts with a known working app (e.g., WaveSecure)
- zap back to the AOSP ROM
In the future, I recommend syncing your contacts with Google... MUCH easier to manage. Pay attention to the "sync groups" option to avoid syncing contacts you don't want.

x99percent said:
- restore your Nandroid backup
- back up your contacts with a known working app (e.g., WaveSecure)
- zap back to the AOSP ROM
In the future, I recommend syncing your contacts with Google... MUCH easier to manage. Pay attention to the "sync groups" option to avoid syncing contacts you don't want.
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i was thinking about restoring the backup, then syncing all contacts with google, restoring the 1.6 backup, and importing...
another question real quick; in aosp1.6 how can i get the contacts app that i am used to, that syncs with facebook? is it possible?

x99percent said:
- restore your Nandroid backup
- back up your contacts with a known working app (e.g., WaveSecure)
- zap back to the AOSP ROM
In the future, I recommend syncing your contacts with Google... MUCH easier to manage. Pay attention to the "sync groups" option to avoid syncing contacts you don't want.
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I thought syncing with google is one-way. That is, the phone pulls contacts from your google contacts but does not update your google contacts with new numbers/contacts you add on your phone. If I am incorrect, I'd like to know how to keep the contacts both on my phone and google in sync.

bboydru said:
I thought syncing with google is one-way. That is, the phone pulls contacts from your google contacts but does not update your google contacts with new numbers/contacts you add on your phone. If I am incorrect, I'd like to know how to keep the contacts both on my phone and google in sync.
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I can add as a google contact on my phone when I log in later online its their...its how several of my contacts have been put into Gmail. Also, when I need to add a new one with lots of contact info I type it on at the gmail website, then it appears on my phone shortly after.
I think that appointments are only one way.

Kcarpenter said:
I think that appointments are only one way.
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Appointments sync both ways.

Syncing contacts with google is your friend, even if you don't like the idea of backing up contacts in the clouds. I'd suggest making backups online and on your desktop. A little overkill, but you never know if you'll lose one or the other

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In the future, I recommend syncing your contacts with Google... MUCH easier to manage. Pay attention to the "sync groups" option to avoid syncing contacts you don't want.
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I can't find this option for the life of me.

I can't find this option for the life of me.
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On your phone open up your contacts app and using the trackball scroll to the right until you highlight "groups". From there, you can press Menu and be given the options to sync whichever contacts you want. Now, since your contact list is already establish you'll have to do some re-arranging so everything is organized both on the phone and online.

srkmagnus said:
On your phone open up your contacts app and using the trackball scroll to the right until you highlight "groups". From there, you can press Menu and be given the options to sync whichever contacts you want. Now, since your contact list is already establish you'll have to do some re-arranging so everything is organized both on the phone and online.
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

but is there a way to get them from a nandroid backup, i unfortunatly have one, but i cant use it, as it just restarts after the lockscreen. idk how to open the files from it.

A new answer to an old question...
If I should just leave this thread alone and make a tutorial, let me know. I was searching for the answer to the question in the OP, and when I couldn't find an answer, I just messed with it for a while. This is for anyone else who ever is looking for this and does a search that pulls this up like I did...
1) Be rooted, have a root file explorer on your phone, and have 7zip on your computer,
2) Put your SD with the Nandroid backup in your computer. Open the backup with 7zip.
3) In 7zip open the data.ext4.tar file.
4) Navigate to ~/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/
5) Pull the databases folder out of the Nandroid backup
Now that you have the databases folder out of the backup, you need to push that to your phone. There are several ways to do this, (adb etc...) but here is one way.
1) Plug your phone in to your computer and enable USB Mass Storage.
2) Drag the folder into your phone somewhere where you will be able to find it.
3) Use your root file explorer to copy the databases folder from your backup, and replace the current databases folder located at ~/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/
VIOLA!
When you open your contacts, all your old contacts from the Nandroid backup will be there.
*** Please let me know if I should put this somewhere else. I know resurrecting an old thread isn't usually good, as it doesn't help the OP. I can post a tutorial if needed, just let me know what forum to put it in, I am new around here. Hopefully this will help someone in the future who has this question. I wasn't able to find it anywhere.

wow your an idiot thx for bumping a thread thats over a year and this shouldnt even matter u can back up all your contacs on your sd card or through your google acount so epic fail for u

Wow man, I already said sorry in advance for pulling up an old thread. There are times where your fancy little backup idea doesn't work out, especially if it isn't your phone, or its too late... I searched for a long time for a way to do this and didn't find anything.
If my post didn't help you, that's your loss, but don't flame me for trying to help guys in the future...
And your fail comment doesn't quite account for all situations. Chill out and be a little more receptive. I'm new to the forums, and that right there makes we want to say "screw helping people" --- I don't think this is the message you would like to send to new members of a forum that you might ask questions on some day.
I'll take my advice elsewhere... As for you, go read a forum that helps you and quit flaming me.
Can we have a moderator delete my original post? Clearly it wasn't appreciated.
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I agree with that

drewahner said:
If I should just leave this thread alone and make a tutorial, let me know.
*** Please let me know if I should put this somewhere else. I know resurrecting an old thread isn't usually good, as it doesn't help the OP. I can post a tutorial if needed, just let me know what forum to put it in, I am new around here. Hopefully this will help someone in the future who has this question. I wasn't able to find it anywhere.
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Dude, I needed this exact procedure tonight. Way faster than a backup/restore/restore, even if your backup works. So we can both be idiots together, I guess. Thanks!!

Transferring contact list from Windows Mobile to Android SANS OUTLOOK

A quick search of the site didn't turn up any information on how to get contacts from wm to android if you don't have outlook, so I figured I'd post an easy solution I figured out last night. Should come in handy for a few people at least, now that 'droid on the vogue is starting to come into its own.
All you'll need is PIM Backup, a computer with internet access and a Gmail account.
1. Open PIM Backup on your Windows Mobile device. Select the Backup action and unselect everything but contacts, then hit Next.
2. At the "Select backup filename and folder" screen, unselect the "compress backup" and "binary backup" options, then hit Next.
3. Transfer the BACKUP.PIB file that you just made from your phone to your computer. Change the extension from .PIB to .RAR, then extract the file.
4. The extracted file should be BACKUP.CSC. Simply change the extension to .CSV and import the file to your gmail account. All your contacts can now be imported to your phone through gmail - just follow the instructions given in the phone's contact menu.
Hopefully that helps someone out, I've been taking advantage of the great firmware you guys churn out for far too long to not give something back.
And much thanks to everyone involved with bringing Android to the Vogue, new life has been breathed into a phone that I thought was all but dead.

Thanks for this! You can also set activesync on your winmo device to sync with an exchange server at m.google.com to transfer your email/contacts/calendar into gmail/gmail contacts/google calendar.

tmcfarland said:
Thanks for this! You can also set activesync on your winmo device to sync with an exchange server at m.google.com to transfer your email/contacts/calendar into gmail/gmail contacts/google calendar.
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That is exactly the kind of solution I was searching for yesterday, but to no avail
Ahh well - I offer an alternative, at least.

brownman said:
That is exactly the kind of solution I was searching for yesterday, but to no avail
Ahh well - I offer an alternative, at least.
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http://tinyurl.com/y9pbgcv ( )
OR:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138636

1)I would suggest to sync with your outlook with your ppc by active sync or sync center
2)sync with your google account from your outlook by one free software - go contact sync
3)sync your android with your google account..
The only reason I use this way is because outlook can manage contacts best.

awesome! thanks!

brownman thanks for the info, it really helped

I synced my WinMo contacts with google through nuevasync.com (because I had multiple google calendars) then everything just moved over when I boot up and log into Android

brownman said:
A quick search of the site didn't turn up any information on how to get contacts from wm to android if you don't have outlook, so I figured I'd post an easy solution I figured out last night. Should come in handy for a few people at least, now that 'droid on the vogue is starting to come into its own.
All you'll need is PIM Backup, a computer with internet access and a Gmail account.
1. Open PIM Backup on your Windows Mobile device. Select the Backup action and unselect everything but contacts, then hit Next.
2. At the "Select backup filename and folder" screen, unselect the "compress backup" and "binary backup" options, then hit Next.
3. Transfer the BACKUP.PIB file that you just made from your phone to your computer. Change the extension from .PIB to .RAR, then extract the file.
4. The extracted file should be BACKUP.CSC. Simply change the extension to .CSV and import the file to your gmail account. All your contacts can now be imported to your phone through gmail - just follow the instructions given in the phone's contact menu.
Hopefully that helps someone out, I've been taking advantage of the great firmware you guys churn out for far too long to not give something back.
And much thanks to everyone involved with bringing Android to the Vogue, new life has been breathed into a phone that I thought was all but dead.
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Thank you very much for your advice, it made the transfer of my contacts to my motoroid really easy. Thank you again

im in similar boat, i hmm backed up with pim backup, but mine is binary etc... so i was like oh wait i already flashed my tilt with android... how to get contacts
so then i thought wait... how about PC windows mobile simulator from MS and thats what im doing lol, then i can easily fallow the steps here or sync it with outlook etc...

brownman said:
A quick search of the site didn't turn up any information on how to get contacts from wm to android if you don't have outlook, so I figured I'd post an easy solution I figured out last night. Should come in handy for a few people at least, now that 'droid on the vogue is starting to come into its own.
All you'll need is PIM Backup, a computer with internet access and a Gmail account.
1. Open PIM Backup on your Windows Mobile device. Select the Backup action and unselect everything but contacts, then hit Next.
2. At the "Select backup filename and folder" screen, unselect the "compress backup" and "binary backup" options, then hit Next.
3. Transfer the BACKUP.PIB file that you just made from your phone to your computer. Change the extension from .PIB to .RAR, then extract the file.
4. The extracted file should be BACKUP.CSC. Simply change the extension to .CSV and import the file to your gmail account. All your contacts can now be imported to your phone through gmail - just follow the instructions given in the phone's contact menu.
Hopefully that helps someone out, I've been taking advantage of the great firmware you guys churn out for far too long to not give something back.
And much thanks to everyone involved with bringing Android to the Vogue, new life has been breathed into a phone that I thought was all but dead.
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The best guide..!!!
Thanks..!!!

THANK YOU! You saved me hours of brutal copying out! Like a freakin' charm!

Worked great for me, thanks for posting!
Only issue I had is in the notes section it put a bunch of random crap in that I have to delete for 150 contacts.

Transfering from your google account to your HD2 win6.5 device is already possible
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=678339
No ever need to use your myphone service again..

Any way to transfer Internet Faves from WinMo to Android?

I figure I may as well give myself a few full days in Android to have a proper play (I tend to drop back into WinMo when I want to do anything).
I find that (despite clicking "no"!) my contacts from the phone automatically got backed up to my gmail account so I have those available.
I use the (internet) favourites screen in WinMo sense and have then backed up to MS My Phone.
Is there any way to transfer/export my favourites from WinMo to my Android build please?
Also could you guys recommend a decent ebook reader to read by epub books from the sdcard?
Thanks

If I remember correctly I used active sync to sync favourites, these then appeared in ie under "mobile favourites". From there you can export them to a htm file, then I followed this guide with the following program on Android!
http://www.rerware.com/MyBookmarks/default.aspx
Sorry if it's a little vague, just trying to remember when I first did it in July after weeks of googling for a simple way! Hope this helps, if not I'll try retrace my steps but I'm pretty sure this is how I accomplished it!

Thanks. I will give it a try.
What do I enter for "device id"? The serial number?

You'll need to do that on android, open the program and it should give you one to enter online I think, then upload from your pc, then in the program import and it'll give you the choice of importing all or one by one should you want to be selective

You can do that with HTC Sync. Copy your favorites to your PC, and create a folder as you see on my screen.
HTC Sync will sync your favorites to the default browser.

Braakie said:
You can do that with HTC Sync. Copy your favorites to your PC, and create a folder as you see on my screen.
HTC Sync will sync your favorites to the default browser.
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He could only do that if flashing a sense build though right? Other method will work on any

I have a sense build - the Desire HD build.
Thanks all.
I have uploaded to that mybookmarks app.
Need to finish my novel [winmo ebook reader] first!

worked fine, thanks.
Now how can I get it so that when I click the Internet button on the homescreen it opens the bookmarks page so I can click on my faves rather than defaulting to the last page I was looking at?

Back up (From WP) and restore (To Android) Contacts + SMS

Hello everyone.
I would like to install Android on an HTC HD2, the only problem I'm facing is how can I backup contacts and SMS Messages on windows phone, and then restore them back when Android is installed?!
All I could find online is how to back them up, restore them IF I keep Windows Phone installed
I appreciate any kind of help

DeepUnknown said:
Hello everyone.
I would like to install Android on an HTC HD2, the only problem I'm facing is how can I backup contacts and SMS Messages on windows phone, and then restore them back when Android is installed?!
All I could find online is how to back them up, restore them IF I keep Windows Phone installed
I appreciate any kind of help
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I would suggest using an Exchange Server. Google it cause i dont know much about it.

elesbb said:
I would suggest using an Exchange Server. Google it cause i dont know much about it.
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using Exchange Server will it make me lost current contacts and messages?!

DeepUnknown said:
using Exchange Server will it make me lost current contacts and messages?!
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No no, Exchange server, is microsoft's "google sync" i never used a windows phone, but i know in windows mobile i was able to backup my contacts to an xml file then used an online converter to convert it to vcd to be restored in android. And in windows mobile i used smschat to backup my inbox. Look in the windows phone store for any type of backup software and get back to me with them and i'll see what sort of conversions i can do.