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Hi guys. I have just updated my P900 for the first time in about 2 years. Previously it worked, I used it, it did everything I wanted, so I saw no reason to do so before. Then I stupidly let myself be sucked in! I "EVENTUALLY" managed to get the SE update software to see my phone on its DSS-25, even though my PC had no trouble with it, and it "EVENTUALLY" agreed to communicate with the SE site. I'm talking about hours here. It found updates and installed them without any further trouble.
Next step, restore my data. Jeez Louis, that's when the brown and smelly hit the revolving electrical appliance. Restore starts, sometimes initialises without complaint, but cannot ever get past the first few files. It always reports a problem with a file, has no better luck with Try Again, or if Skip File is chosen, has the same problem with every single file afterwards with about 5 minutes between reporting on each file.
Is this a known issue or is it just my phone (or me)? Could the update to the system have caused this problem remembering that their own software found the update and recommended it as compatible?
The P900 is still great but I always thought that SE's software stank, (along with many other phone manufacturers'). Seems once again that once they have your money there is no incentive to invest time into getting free after market stuff to work well. The suite has always been flaky since I got the phone over 3 years ago, but I didn't know how strongly it whiffed until now. It really looks from here as though this is an unusable bit of software and I may have lost all of my data.
Anyone have any advice?
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Posted: 2007-12-02 02:45:15
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I updated my P900 over the internet once and it failed and left me with a dud. Had to sent it in. To make a long story short it took a long time to get it back. So do a master reset if possible and see if it works and/or do a update/recovery mode first.
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Posted: 2007-12-04 06:19:34
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The backup file is basically a zip file with a ecs file extension.
You can find the backups in C:\\Documents and Settings\\\\Application Data\\Sony Ericsson\\backups\\
find the file in there that hass the most recent timestamp and copy it elsewhere and change the file exstension to .zip and then open it with winzip or winrar.
inside there will be a single folder called backup with lots of files with numeric names with a .dat extension eg 4483.dat
There is also a filestore.dat.txt file which is kind of like an index
each of the 'numbers' are in the file with the correseponding file name on the phone - for example:
4483 0 C:\\Web\\Saved Pages\\1.htm Internal
with a bit of work you can get them all back, this should be obvious for all you own files such as jpg mp3 etc but the PIM and apps stuff might be harder to identify - hopefully you had the PIM stuff synched with outlook so you can get it back from there, and apps can be reinstalled.
One caveat to all this - I am sure I did this with winzip in the past when I had a P900 or P910 - I still have the backups on my PC, but today winzip did not open them correctly and I had to use the open source "unzip" utility that came with cygwin to open the file.
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Posted: 2007-12-04 08:38:54
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the most damned thing is the poor user memory...
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Posted: 2007-12-04 08:47:03
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