backing up "people" tab in manilla

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by Lsme420

Thats like putting your programs in the program launch tab, once you hard rest their gone and you have to add them again.

See, now that function DOES restore just fine for me.

I flashed my TP to Mighty 4.15 last night & restored a Sprite BU. The program tab restored to exactly how it was before the flash. The people tab came up empty however just like it always does)

~John

[Lsme420]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

See, now that function DOES restore just fine for me.

~John

Ya right-on I was just using it as a example so cats stop saying use PIM ect..

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by Lsme420

Ya right-on I was just using it as a example so cats stop saying use PIM ect..

I understood you perfectly (& you're totally correct), I was just trying to clarify that if Sprite won't restore the people tab then PIM is certainly not going to either.

~John

[Quirk]

Originally Posted by Lsme420

Its not a matter of backing up contacts or pictures with contacts. They want to back up their Touchflo TAB and its not possible. Thats like putting your programs in the program launch tab, once you hard rest their gone and you have to add them again.

not entirely true, while digging through the registry to look for the people tab info for manilla3d I found the regkeys for the programs tab.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by Quirk

not entirely true, while digging through the registry to look for the people tab info for manilla3d I found the regkeys for the programs tab.

The thing is, I don't think it will matter what you find.

The program tab restores just fine when doing a total system restore (which restores the reg to its previous state). Since that clearly does not work for the people tab, I think that is must be impossible to restore the people tab (as other posters have already stated)

~John

[jmorton10]

By the way, if anybody ever DOES figure out a way to do this I will be the first to admit I'm wrong & would love to have the info on how to do it.

I does kinda bug me that you can't restore this correctly when EVERYTHING else restores perfectly (I use Photo Contacct Pro as my main address book & that restores just fine with all the contact pics etc)

~John

[elosogrande7076]

THanks guys for the quick responses....yea i know about PIM backup and use it when i rest my phone to restore my info...like previously stated i meant to store my peoples tab in manilla since i pretty much have everything else able to restore upon hard reset (which i find myself doing fairly often). With all the things we can do with this phone u would have thought it would be possible...

[Quirk]

I still haven't found a solution (I'm at work and and have reports that have to go out on time) but there has to be SOMEWHERE that this data is saved. If it is saved somewhere, there has to be a way to back it up. It might not be as easy as copying a regkey/file, but there HAS to be a way to accomplish this.

Hopefully today is slow at work and I'll get some time to toy around.

[miguelfp1]

I've read that the Manila favorite contacts are stored inside PIM.vol (a hidden file on your device's root folder), but I haven't tried restoring that particular file after a hard reset or ROM flash, so I can't say if it will or will not work, the only thing that I'm certain, is that the favs are not stored in the registry.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by miguelfp1

I've read that the Manila favorite contacts are stored inside PIM.vol (a hidden file on your device's root folder), but I haven't tried restoring that particular file after a hard reset or ROM flash, .

I have (I did it last night). Restoring the pim vol restores all your contact info & thumbnail pics etc, but it does not put the contacts back into the TF3D people tab.

~John