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[Sharing]My experience - Moving from WM TouchHD to froyo - Backup Contact, Cal, SMS

After trying Android Froyo for my Touch HD, I decided to use it for daily use, because I think Froyo is stable enough (last time I tried the eclair I feel not so stable), and overall it's better than WinMo
So I tried to move few important things that exist on my winmo, and the most important things that I feel is:
- Contact
- Calendar
- SMS
As a newbie I feel it might be useful for those of you who just tried to use android for you Touch HD device, and I will try to share my experience in doing it.
Hopefully useful.
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WinMo - Sync Contacts and Calendar with Gmail account
The first thing need to do is performing synchronization between the existing Calendar and Contacts on winmo with gmail account. If you haven't already, you can follow the steps described here :
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
It is not so hard to do
WinMo - Backup existing sms
Because I have some important sms messages so I don't want to lose them.
1. Download sms exporter from http://stop3dataroaming.googlecode.com/files/SmsExporterSetup0.5.CAB
2. Create a backup file with sms exporter and store it in the folder <sdcard> / SMSBackupRestore (if this folder is not exist please create it first), and give it the name: mySMS.xml
Installing Android
Install Froyo Android on your device, you can use the steps described on this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732362
And use your gmail account to get all contact and calendar items on android
Froyo - Downloading SMS Backup
Download and install the SMS Backup and Restore app by typing the word SMS Backup and Restore on the android market and select/install the application SMS Backup and Restore by Ritesh Sahu
Froyo - Restore SMS
Run the SMS Backup and Restore app, and click the restore button. There will be a pop up asking you which file to restore and then choose mySMS.xml.
Select OK and then the application will start the restore process.
Froyo - Transferring SMS backup to gmail - optional
Later, once the SMS has been moved to the android, I felt froyo becoming a bit slow (I have about 2300 sms mesages lol), so I decided to move / backup all the SMS to my gmail account.
What you need is only to install the SMS Backup+ by Jan Berkel (just search it on android Market)
And after all sms items uploaded to my gmail account under label SMS,I remove some old messages and then android becomes faster
That's all. Hopefully will help for those of you who tried to install froyo on your Touch HD

Or use Sprite migrate
spritesoftware.com/Products/Migrate/Migrate-Your-Data-Now/How-To-Transfer

Spidersoft said:
Or use Sprite migrate
spritesoftware.com/Products/Migrate/Migrate-Your-Data-Now/How-To-Transfer
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thanks! is it free of charge?

It's free and as far as i proofed, it doesn't phone home

ahaha ... isee ...
thanks for share @spider
I wish I know that link before I did the manual backup (i've spent many hours for that lol)

SPB Backup 2.1 not backing up SMS messages

Just installed this and, after some frustrated attempts to backup and restore SMS messages, I finally got it to work.
Here's the key... backing-up PIM data does NOT backup SMS messages on the HD2. You MUST select the option to backup e-mails when running a custom backup if you want your SMS messages backed-up!
Hope this helps someone.

[Q] Backup SMS and Call Logs between Android and WP7

Hi all!
There is a way to backup text messages and, if possible, call logs, between Android and WP7? I'm actually keeping these things backupped in Gmail with SMS Backup + for android, but i dunno any Wp7 alternatives.
Can you please help me to find a solution?
Thanks in advance,
Mauro.

MMauro said:
Hi all!
There is a way to backup text messages and, if possible, call logs, between Android and WP7? I'm actually keeping these things backupped in Gmail with SMS Backup + for android, but i dunno any Wp7 alternatives.
Can you please help me to find a solution?
Thanks in advance,
Mauro.
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theres this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448197
that's fine for backup and restore of text messages and contacts.
it doesn't capture call logs tho, restore is fairly easy, but if you must setup and sync all your accounts first, then restore the backup, then delete facebook (if you use it) then restart and setup facebook again.
for some reason my contacts get all messed up if I don't delete and resync my FB contacts when importing backups
If your looking to copy from android to WP7 etc then that might be an issue, if you can edit the vol files created I guess you could then import them in to WP7 but ive looked at the files and you would need a special program to do it also note that MMS messages lose there content, the message is still there but no content. perhaps that's something that can be fixed in future versions as I think the chap who made it is still trying to work out how WP7 stores it all.

About "OBBO Android SMS & Contacts Backup" of this software, someone have any sug...

About "OBBO Android SMS & Contacts Backup" of this software, someone have any sug...
About "OBBO Android SMS & Contacts Backup" of this software, someone have any suggestions? Please help!
Because I want to buy this software, I understand that this software is very powerful, can either backup and restore SMS and can backup and restore Contacts, It can help me save my SMS text message & contacts to my desktop computer for backup. If it really helps me read and manager SMS & Contacts in computer will be great thankful..
PS:My phone is SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 on Android 4.2.

For you ! What is the best application to backup and restore contacts

For you !
What is the best application to backup and restore contacts, call log and sms.
I use MyBackup Pro but as I flash often trying new rom, I notice that some contacts do not back up.
Thank you for your help.

backup your contacts in your google account.