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Â Ron, You are a genius.

Ron,

You are a genius. Thanks to you, I was able to restore completely. I wasted 2h before I chanced upon your entry!

Cheers,

I tried the same procedure

I tried the same procedure as bigfatron and jetenginecom on my ipaq 4155 and it did not work. dang :(

OK I had the restore problem

OK I had the restore problem too - Activesync was not restoring the Contacts Database which disables your call history and message archive. However i read the entry for October 5 2008 by bigfatron on the hard reset then an immediate soft reset and WELL LET ME CONFIRM THAT IT WORKED!!! Activesync restored every single file without an error, now i have my contacts, messages, call history and connection settings and i am double backing them up with xBackup to my SD Card. As bigfatron notes, the trick is in keeping the phone from loading the default settings. Thanks bigfatron and i hope all you guys with this problem can now have the confidence that there is a clean working hack .

MDA compact user, wm2003se,

MDA compact user, wm2003se, ActiveSync 4.2.

Finally managed to get ActiveSync to restore all my files and databases as follows:

Do a hard reset.

As soon as the hard re-set is complete (and you are advised to touch screen to continue) touch screen then very quickly do a soft reset. (This stops default connection settings being loaded, in my case T-mobile).

After soft re-set, check region settings are same as when you did the back-up (in my case English UK).

Now connect with ActiveSync and try restore.

This worked for me (finally) after weeks of pulling my hair-out. Hope you have success too.

Ron

Although this thread is a

Although this thread is a couple of years old, I'm hoping that there's a solution. I have a HP iPAQ 4150 that froze at the Windows Mobile screen. The stylus won't make it do anything. I can run AS and create a backup .STG. I also have an older .STG which is much larger that the current backup.

The unit stopped syncing with Outlook many months ago. Now I want to get the Contacts that are only on the iPAQ into Outlook.

I'm getting only two columns of .CSV output with meaningless data. I don't know what version of CE is on the iPAQ because I can't do anything. When I soft reset it I see 1.10 in the lower right corner.

Is there any hope of getting my Contacts from the .STG file(s) into Outlook? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Of course, it'd be FAR easier for me (I'm pretty busy) to explain a decent, easy and universal way of doing this. If it existed, that is :) Unfortunately, particularly if you don't have a real pre-WM5 device (see for example this thread (this is what happened before the thread) over at microsoft.public.pocketpc), it can become a REAL pain in the back to do this.

Not to mention where only real-world programming or really in-depth Windows Mobile system-level knowledge can help (like converting WinCE database stuff to, say, importable CSV files).