While we’re still waiting for our Palm Profiles to start backing up text messages and our call history, PreCentral reader Devon chimed in to let us know how to do it ourselves. Not only will this let you save your text messages for the potential of calamity – these backups can be used to transfer your messages and history to another webOS phone. The how-to of backing up and restoring is after the break.
Update: be sure to hit up the comments (especially volcom45’s) on this post before attempting – this is definitely a power-user/at-your-own risk procedure.
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More and more patches arrive every week on WebOS Internals, and with each patch comes plenty of new and useful functionality. A new patch aims to alleviate a painful problem that has afflicted some Palm owners: getting your contacts out of the Palm Profile. As we’ve reported before, some users have run into an issue where a glitch between the Palm servers and your phone results in the Palm Profile’s personal data getting wiped.
The “Send All Contacts via Email” patch by bsiegel provides a way to get your contacts out of the Palm Profile and into whatever you want. The patch adds the menu option to export your contacts into a standard vCard file (which can take a while if you have a lot) and then attaches that file to an email for you to send to wherever you desire. We’ll use Google as an example here: once exported you can save the vCard file to your computer, and then upload all the contacts to Google by opening Contacts and clicking on Import.
Apart from transferring your contacts from the Palm Profile to Google, you can also use the patch to perform backups of your contacts data, as the patch does not discriminate between sources like Google, Palm, and Exchange.
Thanks to Matt for the tip!
As reported both in
our forums and on Palm’s
own support forum, there is an apparent bug in Exchange calendar syncing following the 1.3.5 webOS upgrade this past week. Users report (and I found as well) that when the Pre’s calendar hit January 1, 2010, all Exchange calendar data disappeared from view on the Pre (although some report that alerts continue to work, suggesting the data are there but just hidden). Users who do not use Exchange syncing are not reporting the same problem, and those that delete the Exchange account say that their calendar data reappears; adding back the Exchange account, however, makes it happen again. Note that the bug is on the Pre side only; the data remain untouched on the Exchange server.
Fortunately, there is at least a partial workaround, first suggested by
meandmypre in the
PreCentral forum: go to Date & Time, turn off Network time, and manually reset the calendar to December 31, 2009. Check your Pre’s calendar; the Exchange data should be back. Now return to Date & Time and change it back to the correct date; the calendar data should remain visible. Unfortunately, if you have to reset your Pre for any reason, this fix will be undone, and you will have to go through the steps again to properly view the Exchange data in your Pre’s calendar.
Hopefully, Palm will figure out the problem and push out a fix ASAP; we’ll keep you posted.
Thanks to Jim for the heads up!
Mein ursprünglicher Plan war, einen Artikel zu schreiben, wieviele Minuten – ich dachte so an 15 Minuten – ich brauche, um meinen Palm Pre Start klar zu kriegen und mit meinem Mac zu synchronisieren.
Da die Synchronisation am Mac aber nicht ganz so einfach ist, werde ich mich daher darauf konzentrieren, einen Weg möglichst exakt zu [...]
While we’re still waiting for our Palm Profiles to start backing up text messages and our call history, PreCentral reader Devon chimed in to let us know how to do it ourselves. Not only will this let you save your text messages for the potential of calamity – these backups can be used to transfer your messages and history to another webOS phone. The how-to of backing up and restoring is after the break.
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