Touch Pro Backup Applications/Software

[the curious one]

My first post here, I think! My method, due to the fact that I'm constantly flashing is simply to copy my pim.vol file on to my internal memory everyday couple of days or before flashing. After flashing, simply copy the pim file from your internal memory, go to the pim file in the root-put a letter in front of it (Rename it). Paste the other pim file and reboot. Takes 30 secs (apart from the reboot), but it's so safe!

PS I got this tip roughly from somebody else a couple of years back. So, thank you, whoever you are!

[apoirier594]

People have already said this but PIM is a great one, I had to do a hard reset on my TP and I have pim on my storage card and backed everything up and i took out my card did a hard reset activated my phone and put my card in used pim to restore and everything and I mean everything was back

[apoirier594]

sorry i didnt mean to post that post about pim on here lol, it was meant for a differnt thread,lol

[apoirier594]

oh actually I did mean to post it, sorry silly me,

[apoirier594]

People have already said this but PIM is a great one, I had to do a hard reset on my TP and I have pim on my storage card and backed everything up and i took out my card did a hard reset activated my phone and put my card in used pim to restore and everything and I mean everything was back .

[Nikkirox_1]

Originally Posted by the curious one

My first post here, I think! My method, due to the fact that I'm constantly flashing is simply to copy my pim.vol file on to my internal memory everyday couple of days or before flashing. After flashing, simply copy the pim file from your internal memory, go to the pim file in the root-put a letter in front of it (Rename it). Paste the other pim file and reboot. Takes 30 secs (apart from the reboot), but it's so safe!

PS I got this tip roughly from somebody else a couple of years back. So, thank you, whoever you are!

where exactly can one find this pim.vol file? I would like to try this method.

[sc00b4s7eve]

Originally Posted by the curious one

My first post here, I think! My method, due to the fact that I'm constantly flashing is simply to copy my pim.vol file on to my internal memory everyday couple of days or before flashing. After flashing, simply copy the pim file from your internal memory, go to the pim file in the root-put a letter in front of it (Rename it). Paste the other pim file and reboot. Takes 30 secs (apart from the reboot), but it's so safe!

PS I got this tip roughly from somebody else a couple of years back. So, thank you, whoever you are!

Originally Posted by Nikkirox_1

where exactly can one find this pim.vol file? I would like to try this method.

It's in your phone's root directory aka My Device. You can see it as "pim" even if you do not select "show all files in file explorer.

btw - I got my MS MyPhone registration link within 48hrs of getting on the waiting list: Free 200Mb space for syncing cause it's beta. Not one problem yet. I prefer using this, even more than the once-free Mail2web exchange server, because messing with WinMo's database/.vol files always ended up in my phone reading those .vol much much slower.
Your method does sound reasonable though. I'm guessing alot of my issues with stuff like this came from the hooks into the filesystem getting wonky cause I used to use "File System Filter Cache"
Either way they are probably faster than PIMbackup. I never liked how that program slowed my phone to a crawl after restoring these types of files.
Thanks!

[petermg]

sincee spb backup already backs up what pim does....what need is there for pim if your using the former?

[subiegsr]

Originally Posted by petermg

sincee spb backup already backs up what pim does....what need is there for pim if your using the former?

insurance maybe? I'm backing up my phone with spb right now and i will do PIM as well, since i have no idea which is better at the moment. I would try others, but i don't know where to find them.

[petermg]

Originally Posted by Cicatrize

I already use UC along with XML provisioning to restore all my reg edits and programs, ...

How do you do that? I'm looking for info on this.