Re: BitPim 1.0.7 official LG VX9200 - ENV3

Shal Farley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alan,

>Well at least you can make a backup and view it within Bitpim. 
>The backup may be worth something someday <G>

Yes, of course. But not yet as valuable as the export from my older phone -- don't have that many new contacts.  ;-)

>If I remember correctly, when I first used that version from August (1.0.7.20090805) it totally trashed the contacts in the phone. In fact whenever I tried to open a contact the phone would reboot.
Yup, that's what happened to me. Except I found that I could use the contacts for dialing, as long as I was careful never to open one. With the name showing, using the right arrow shows you the various phone numbers and other items stored in the contact, without actually opening the contact. That didn't cause a reboot.

>After clearing the phone, I believe adding four leading zeros to my bitpim phone book and removing all groups allowed the upload to the phone to work.

Ah, not four zeros, but 0100 for the first phone number of each contact, 0200 for the second, 0300 for the third... That let me use them, but not open or edit them (a reboot if I tried). 

I manually deleted and reentered a few of my frequent contacts (so that caller ID would work, and so they would be correctly identified in text messages), and used the phone in that state for several months -- carefully avoiding opening the "land mine" contacts that came in through 20090805.

>Maybe deleting all contacts and groups would allow you to upload.
Hmm... That's worth a try. I never had any groups, but deleting /all/ of the contacts manually might clear up something...

>Of course you risk losing everything until a new Bitpim version 
>fixes things. I had nothing to lose because trying to open a 
>contact rebooted the phone.

I'm not sure either of us had nothing to lose: I'm concerned that the playing with 20090805 may have left corruption in the phone that doesn't get fixed merely by deleting all the contacts. Either as a result of the transfer itself or because of whatever happened before the reboot when we opened a contact.

-- Shal



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