I was trying to back up my contacts from my Nokia E51, but something went wrong and they are now missing.
Here is what I did:
I downloaded the Nokia E51 iSync plugin found on this page after selecting E51: http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/isync/compatibility-and-download.I made sure iSync.app was not running and installed the plugin.I created a group in Address Book.app called Nokia, into which I was going to back up my contacts.I started iSync and added my mobile device. I chose to sync Contacts into the Nokia group, but decided not to sync the CalendarI chose to merge data (not to erase the device details first, which is another option)When I clicked sync I saw a message on the phone stating "Sending 315 contacts", and a little while later, "Receiving 315 contacts." Finally, a "Sync complete" (or something similar) appeared.
After this, I was a little more than shocked to find both the Nokia group within Address Book.app empty, as well as the contacts list on the phone it self. In pure desperation, I restarted the phone, but still - all my contacts are missing.
I know that the webpage says that one should backup all details before synchronizing - which in itself is somewhat of a chicken and egg problem. Backing up is exactly what I was trying to do.
Does anyone have any pointers or ides that I could try to get back the (potentially, hopefully) lost data? I haven't written anything back to the contacts list, is there a way to reconstruct (parts of) the contacts list by reading the memory directly (similar to how deleted files can sometimes be recovered if they haven't been written over)?
I have just bought a 6303 classic. It is a nice phone, however, it cannot sync with mac isync for contacts and calendar. This is a very basic feature but I find it simply could not connect to mac isync either via USB or Bluetooth. Anyone from Nokia can help?
Has anyone seen or made an iSync plugin for the E73? I installed the one for E72 but that doesn't show me the iSync capability when adding the phone as a bluetooth device.
I just got my brand new C3-01 and am wondering if it is possible to connect it to my Mac. I checked Nokia website for iSync plugin but as of today, there isn't one.
Is there any way to have an iSync plugin for my Mac and my brand new 2710 nagigator phone? I need only to sync contacts, nothing else. I don't wanna use virtual machines or windows at all!
I just bought the 6350 and am mostly[1] satisfied. My biggest problem with the handset is that there's no support for the 6350 in Apple's iSync application and there isn't a plugin available from Nokia. When I bought it I had to enter all of my information by hand (since a SIM transfer completely sucks[2]). Now I'm having the handset replaced because the back is falling off and I'm faced with reentering all of that information again.
So, when will there be iSync support for the 6350? And are there any other ways (other than the aforementioned sucky SIM card method) to transfer all of my current data from the old 6350 to the new one when I get it in a couple of days?
[1] Modulo pathetic default ring tones and inadequate bolding of calendar dates which have attached notes.
[2] The SIM card method of transferring information sucks because all the names are UPPER CASED, names with multiple numbers are converted into two names, all the number type information is lost and, the last time I tried it, no calendar information was transferred ...
When I first heard that Symbian^3 on the N8 would support multiple calendars I was under the impression that I finally could sync all my iCal calendars with my N8. But I just can't get this feature to work (iSync plug-in version is 2.0).
Calendar entries made on my Mac still show up under the "PC Suite" calendar on the N8.
I have had my E71 since May last year and love my phone, I've had no complaints - until now.A few weeks ago I added hotmail on my phone. It downloaded my contacts from my hotmail and I went from 100 phone numbers to over 400 numbers/emails. Now I know I should have backed it up at this point, and I was meaning to, honestly, when yesterday it suddenly decided to randomly dump about 350 of my contacts!
So, I got in touch with my friends and asked them to send me their details again. Just by chance I decided to put a little asterisk beside the new contacts - just in case any of the old contacts returned.Well, the today, I checked my phone, only to discover that it had deleted some of the new contacts I had entered yesterday, but at the same time reinstated a handful of the old contacts I lost! Has anyone else had this problem or can shed a light on this for me? I'm a bit worried about this now, I don't want it to keep dumping numbers I need. Do you think its connected with me putting hotmail on my phone? Its deleted a few photos too!
I recently replaced my n85 as it was malfunctioning. I backed up the phone memory to SD card. On restoring this to my new phone, the contacts doesn't seem to have been restored. On entering the phone book, it says "contacts from selected memories not available". It seems strange as, upon receiving calls/messages, my phone knows who they are from (ie. the name of the contact comes up rather than the number). It seems the contacts are somewhere in the phone but it just won'r let me see them.
I have read the official support page which told me to first make a backup from phone memory to memory card, take out the memory card, and THEN make the firmware update, put the memory card back in, and restore memory from card. I did all this and now all my business notes and all my business contacts are gone. Were they not stored in the 'phone memory'? Or did the website fail to say that notes and contacts will NOT be saved from phone memory to memory card when one performs the backup? And no, I don't use Windows, so I cannot synchronise contacts and notes and calendar. I have always made a backup from phone memory to card. Did I just find out that the people at Nokia are just a couple of mumbling amateurs who tell their clients to 'make a backup of the phone memory to memory card' and then fail to mention that some things are NOT backed up in this process? Suffice to say that I am very, very, extremely angry at Nokia now.
I just wanted to back up my address book contacts from my Nokia 6300, using Nokia PC Suite. Unfortunately, the backup process stopped before completing, backing up only 13 contacts. Then, it synchronized these 13 contacts back to my cellphone, deleting all other 400 contacts on the phone.
Do you have any idea on how i can recover those lost contacts? I have already checked the Nokia PC Suite backup file using Noki software, however it also only shows 13 contacts. Also checked the PCCSContact file in the application data folder with SQLite3 Manager. However, it doesnt show any more contacts either. Any chance I can access the contacts on the mobile phone storage card?
Windows XP Professional SP3 Nokia PC Suite 7.1.40.6 Bluetooth Connection with Nokia 6300
i just wanted to back up my address book contacts from my Nokia 6300, using Nokia PC Suite. Unfortunately, the backup process stopped before completing, backing up only 13 contacts. Then, it synchronized these 13 contacts back to my cellphone, deleting all other 400 contacts on the phone.
how i can recover those lost contacts? I have already checked the Nokia PC Suite backup file using Noki software, however it also only shows 13 contacts. Also checked the PCCSContact file in the application data folder with SQLite3 Manager. However, it doesnt show any more contacts either. Any chance I can access the contacts on the mobile phone storage card?
I have a Blackberry Curve 8310.I tried to follow the instructions on a similar post and go to my address book to change the contact directions, However I lost my icon for the Address Book for some reason.how to make everything operable again?
Yesterday I update my Nokia E71 software, after updating I am lost my all contacts, phone book and other most important document, I want recovery my all document.
So I just updated to Belle on my Nokia N8, and after it made a big thing of backing up my text messages, contacts, calendar entries and media, it seems to have lost most of this. After telling Nokia Suite to sync with my phone, it syncronised all of my media (music, photos) but my texts, contacts and calendar entries are nowhere to be found.
I am using c6-01 phone, few days ago I got some problem with my new software, I need to reload it, after reinstallation I have lost my all contact no. Before reinstallation I always used sync contact through ovi store but never tried to take backup, but know I am not able to found my lost contact anywhere. I thought after sync, contact will be safe and I can get back them after sync again, but I failed. Any other way to get back my lost contact.
I bought my bold 9900 last november and back then I connected the phone to the computer and switch from the 9700 that i own previously. Since then I never connected the phone to the computer again until yesterday to update the software. In the middle of my first attempt to update there was a crash so I started again but for my surprise after de update has finished and i reinitiate the handset it seems that almost eveything was wiped out, I had to reinstal all the applications and when the phone was on it came the option the contacts from sim to be installed but then i have some contacts missing and part of the info of some of the ones that still there are also missing, the weird thing is the pictures that i had in the phone are all there.... DO you think theres anyway to get the contacts back? SHould I restore from the backup of the 9700 that i did when i bought the new phone?
Lost my contacts when I click the contacts Icon. My phone still has them housed somewhere because when I get a call or text the phone still shows the contact name. Now when I click the contact Icon it reads Find at the top, Personal and No Contact?
I use Snow Leopard 10.6 and since 3 days, I can't synchronize my iPhone 4 IOS 4.3.5 with iTunes 10.This morning, I've connected my iPhone and try iSync 3.1.0. iSync doesn't see my iPhone.Does that has any means with the end of Mobile Me that I stopped using a few month ago? As you can see, I use older version of software, and I want to stay this way.
Info: iTunes, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Airport Volume sound_level
I downloaded Desktop Manager for Mac, followed the directions, and the sync button does not respond. When I try to add a new device in isync, I get the message that isync does not support the Bold 9650. I'm using a 13" MacBook Pro 10.6.4.
On the support site is a link from Vivaz Pro to download the iSync plugin. This links to a file Sony_Ericsson_iSync_plugins_(9)_v2.1_fc.dmg which does not contain the plugin required for Vivaz U5i or Vivaz Pro U8i. There is an older version lurking around here (v2.0b) which contains a U5i plugin but no U8i. There are a load of people moaning on the Facebook discussion about this but no solution, and searching here I can find no mention.
The first thing Sony Ericsson need to do to stop off customers is remove the link to the wrong file from the support page. Had I known that Vivaz Pro was not supporting Mac iSync I wouldn't have got it, but I checked first and saw that the iSync plugin was (allegedly) available for download so expected it to work. This is very shoddy business practice by SE who have been my preferred mobile since the Ericsson T10 and R300 over 10 years ago.
Can we please have a working U8i iSync plugin - since you already have a U5i one the changes will be trivial - probably just to the package name and some of the identifying strings in the xml .plist files. It is not rocket science. Has anyone found a way to adapt the U5i one without SE support - at the moment I can't use my new phone as I can't sync contacts and calendar so it'll be going back before the 14 days are up and I'll switch to a different brand for future phones (sadly this will probably mean joining the iPhone herd as at least then I'll be confident it'll work with Mac).
