Dealing with an unresponsive touch screen

[locobear]

Originally Posted by horndoctor

Can you just copy the PIM.vol file from your PPC to your PC and then view it on your PC?

I saved the PIM file and emailed it to myself to move it to my PC, but you can't read any of the data from a PIM file on desktop PC apparently.

[MrGoodtunes]

Originally Posted by locobear

...can't read any of the data from a PIM file on desktop PC...

That's what I have found, however you can copy pim.vol to another WinMo device and read it just fine. BTW whenever the touchscreen on any 1 of my Vogues goes bad or gets scratched, I just replace the lens/screen/digitizer. It takes about 10 minutes, now that I've had alot of practice, and costs less than a single month of Assurian's so-called insurance. You can find touchscreen replacements on eBay, where I just searched on "htc pro2 digitizer" and got almost 200 hits:

eBay: htc pro2 digitizer

[locobear]

Originally Posted by MrGoodtunes

That's what I have found, however you can copy pim.vol to another WinMo device and read it just fine. BTW whenever the touchscreen on any 1 of my Vogues goes bad or gets scratched, I just replace the lens/screen/digitizer. It takes about 10 minutes, now that I've had alot of practice, and costs less than a single month of Assurian's so-called insurance. You can find touchscreen replacements on eBay, where I just searched on "htc pro2 digitizer" and got almost 200 hits:

eBay: htc pro2 digitizer

How and where do you copy the PIM file? If I email the PIM file to another windows phone then where should the PIM file be added to the phone in order to view or use it?

When I found the PIM file on my original phone I clicked it to see if it would open and I got a message saying the file could not be opened. I copied the file anyway and attached it to an email that I sent to myself. The PIM file is about 2 MB in size.

[MrGoodtunes]

Originally Posted by locobear

How and where do you copy the PIM file? If I email the PIM file to another windows phone then where should the PIM file be added to the phone in order to view or use it?

You basically over-write the pim.vol file in the receiving phone, but first, save that phone's contacts info as, say, pim1.vol, so as not to lose its data. PIM belongs in the root directory, called My Device on my Vogues. WinMo will not allow you to over-write pim.vol directly, so use this indirect procedure on the phone to which you email'd pim.vol:

(1) Navigate up to root directory and rename pim.vol to pim1.vol
(2) Copy email attachment pim.vol to root directory
(3) Soft reset
(4) Open Contacts

[horndoctor]

Originally Posted by locobear

I saved the PIM file and emailed it to myself to move it to my PC, but you can't read any of the data from a PIM file on desktop PC apparently.

You should be able to view but not edit the PIM file using Notepad on your PC. Otherwise, I think you can use a specific file viewer like DragonUnpacker.