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How to Tranfer PIM data from Imate jam to Opel?

I want to transfer contacts and other pim data from my old Imate Jam to htc touch viva. How?
Thanks in advance.

solution
Use PIM backup on your first device..backup all the files that you want (ex. contact) and save them in a directory that you want...after connect your PDA on the PC and transfer this file (that you can find in the folder choose in the program). finally you must install on the new device (the OPAL) this fantastic app, copy the backup's file in a folder that you want in the new PDA and with the same application, RESTORE.!
if you have a problem contact me here

devilpera64 said:
Use PIM backup on your first device..backup all the files that you want (ex. contact) and save them in a directory that you want...after connect your PDA on the PC and transfer this file (that you can find in the folder choose in the program). finally you must install on the new device (the OPAL) this fantastic app, copy the backup's file in a folder that you want in the new PDA and with the same application, RESTORE.!
if you have a problem contact me here
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Thank you very much for this fantastic idea. GOD bless.

[Q] Importing contacts from .SPB file?

I've exported the contacts with Kies to .SPB file and flashed the new firmware, how can I import them back to my phone?

I found the answer myself, you just need to open the 'contacts' tab and it will find the .spb file itself.

It doesn't work
Kies doesn't sync the contacts even founding the .spb file. Have flashed to Froyo my I9000 and don't know how to restore my contacts now . Any help?

Same problem exists in my SGS when i import SPB contacts from kies to phone....shows low memory.Please help

So what I've gathered is you guys have
1) Kies Running/Working
2) You have your .SPB Contacts File
3) Kies is able to open said File
and your problem is that no matter what you do, you can't get KIES to connect to your newly flashed phone for starters and then your phone doesn't want to do anything with the .SPB file on your SD when you try to open it.
If that's the case, with your .SPB file open in KIES, you need to choose Save As and select .VCF
This will create vCards of ALL your contacts which your phone will be able to open.
The one problem with that is you have to select them to be opened one by one in your phone in order to restore all your contacts.
If you are familiar with Linux and Terminal, you can "cat" them all together into a single vCard which once opened in your phone loads all your contacts. If there is another way to compile all your contacts together in a single vCard I don't know what it is, nor do I know how to do it in Terminal, I just had a friend help me do it, so I'm talking from what experience I have
I hope this helps you all in some way

What if Kies doenst open spb file??

No 'save as .vcf' option in Kies
Dude i followed what u said! but the problem with my Kies is that i cannot save .spb as .vcf file!! there is no option in the 'save as' Please Help!

cynomodX said:
Dude i followed what u said! but the problem with my Kies is that i cannot save .spb as .vcf file!! there is no option in the 'save as' Please Help!
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if you use the new kies 3 it wont appear the option to load files or save as, if you use the old version intended for older phones (samsung official) it will let you load the spb file and save every contact in vcf

[Q] Converting KIES SPB file

Hey folks,
does anybody know how to convert a KIES SPB phonebook file into a vcf file? My KIES is not connecting and I have my latest contacts only as a SPB file
Timiboy

Boy,
I was not aware this is such a problem! Let's hope KIES V2 will fix the problem !
Timiboy

You can save your contacts as vcf directly on the phone in the contacts app (menu->export).
Hope that helps.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

there is one way i found
1. open Kies
2. open your last saved *.spb file
3. save the file again as *. vsf manually in the file name area
4. go to were normally saved spb files ( C:\Users\ _\Documents\samsung\Kies\PIMS)
5. you will find all the contacts saved as vsf file.
6. select all contacts and copy them in a directory (ontacts)
7. connect your samsong to the pc and copy the directory (cotacts) in to the sd card
8. disconect your samsong
9. select the contact icon
10. from the left key press and select import contact from sd
job done

turkdos said:
there is one way i found
1. open Kies
2. open your last saved *.spb file
3. save the file again as *. vsf manually in the file name area
4. go to were normally saved spb files ( C:\Users\ _\Documents\samsung\Kies\PIMS)
5. you will find all the contacts saved as vsf file.
6. select all contacts and copy them in a directory (ontacts)
7. connect your samsong to the pc and copy the directory (cotacts) in to the sd card
8. disconect your samsong
9. select the contact icon
10. from the left key press and select import contact from sd
job done
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This Works perfectly, just saved all my contacts Thanks a lot.
the only thing is that is ".vcf" and not ".vsf"
PD: i know this question is old but it was from great help.

turkdos said:
there is one way i found
1. open Kies
2. open your last saved *.spb file
3. save the file again as *. vsf manually in the file name area
4. go to were normally saved spb files ( C:\Users\ _\Documents\samsung\Kies\PIMS)
5. you will find all the contacts saved as vsf file.
6. select all contacts and copy them in a directory (ontacts)
7. connect your samsong to the pc and copy the directory (cotacts) in to the sd card
8. disconect your samsong
9. select the contact icon
10. from the left key press and select import contact from sd
job done
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Thanks...it works like a charm...

in future google all your contacts then everything is synched everywhere...for ever! you will never have to worry about contacts again!

turkdos said:
there is one way i found
1. open Kies
2. open your last saved *.spb file
3. save the file again as *. vsf manually in the file name area
4. go to were normally saved spb files ( C:\Users\ _\Documents\samsung\Kies\PIMS)
5. you will find all the contacts saved as vsf file.
6. select all contacts and copy them in a directory (ontacts)
7. connect your samsong to the pc and copy the directory (cotacts) in to the sd card
8. disconect your samsong
9. select the contact icon
10. from the left key press and select import contact from sd
job done
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Perfect Thanks.........

i am in the same situation, but for gt i9100. I've followed the above steps but get
Reading of vCard data has failed.
any one know another way to convert the spb file to vcf or csv (csv would allow me to sync them through gmail.)

Converting KIES SPB file
Turkdos
you mentioned that "1. open Kies
2. open your last saved *.spb file"
i opened Kies but i cannot find anywere to click to enable me to Open the spb file. how did you manage to open the spb file in Kies?

Its on top .. open file ..

yes even i was not able to find out the option "open file" in kies 2.0 can anyone post a screen shot please? thank you

Unfortunatelly I`m having the same problem, KIES is only accepting .spb files, it does not see other kind of files.

Sync your contacts with Google! I did it once, It took some time, but now I don't have to do it anymore!

xls to spb converter
Hi, can someone help me how can i convert xls. to spb.
Thanks

I do the same but in outlook all files empy no any contacts appear

turkdos said:
there is one way i found
1. open Kies
2. open your last saved *.spb file
3. save the file again as *. vsf manually in the file name area
4. go to were normally saved spb files ( C:\Users\ _\Documents\samsung\Kies\PIMS)
5. you will find all the contacts saved as vsf file.
6. select all contacts and copy them in a directory (ontacts)
7. connect your samsong to the pc and copy the directory (cotacts) in to the sd card
8. disconect your samsong
9. select the contact icon
10. from the left key press and select import contact from sd
job done
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thnx soooooooooo much man

turkdos said:
there is one way i found
1. open Kies
2. open your last saved *.spb file
3. save the file again as *. vsf manually in the file name area
4. go to were normally saved spb files ( C:\Users\ _\Documents\samsung\Kies\PIMS)
5. you will find all the contacts saved as vsf file.
6. select all contacts and copy them in a directory (ontacts)
7. connect your samsong to the pc and copy the directory (cotacts) in to the sd card
8. disconect your samsong
9. select the contact icon
10. from the left key press and select import contact from sd
job done
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wow.. it works
thank you soo much man

felocar said:
This Works perfectly, just saved all my contacts Thanks a lot.
the only thing is that is ".vcf" and not ".vsf"
PD: i know this question is old but it was from great help.
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thanks man!!! it worked.

felocar said:
This Works perfectly, just saved all my contacts Thanks a lot.
the only thing is that is ".vcf" and not ".vsf"
PD: i know this question is old but it was from great help.
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Thanks, this helped me

[Q] upload contact file

Hi All,
I've updated my phone to Android 2.2 and now I'm trying to transfer the phonebook to the phone with no success.
I have the backup file which has the extension ".SPB" but after the update to 2.2 kies is not able to detect the phone and I already tried with another pc.
I've also uploaded the phonebook file to the phone and tried to import it but it seems that there is no option to import phonebook from a file.
Is it possible to import the phonebook file without using kies.
Thanks

It could be done by opening the the SPB file in kies and save it as vcf, then copy the vcf files to the phone and import it from the contacts using the import/export option

A quick Q about transferring sms

I have my old nokia 5800 and I want to transfer all my SMS to galaxy s. I have synced 5800 with nokia pc suite and all the SMS and contacts are there too. I found this app "SMS migrator" for android that does the job but where in my pc can I find the file that has my SMS so I can put that to my galaxy sd-card and use the migrator?
Thanks for your help in advance!( yes I know how to "thank" ) Btw it's windows7..

Hi,
You need to download and install 2 programs:
1). h**p://www.simail.si/nokia2androidsms/
You install this on your PC, basically this will convert the Nokia file to an xml file and you transfer this file to your Android device after you have installed the second program.
2). h**p://android.riteshsahu.com/apps/sms-backup-restore/
You install this apk on your Android and it will create a backup and restore folder, you transfer the xml file from your PC to this folder.
3). Open the SMS BU restore program on your Android, select import and your done.
Hope this helps.
Regards, khan3.

I have tried that already, it doesn't find the file it is supposed to convert -.-
That's why I asked for the location of the file so I ca drag it to the Program so it converts it...
I also found this mobiledit phone copier but it requires paid version of the program to do the conversion to XML-format...
Thanks anyway, hope you could help me a lil more

Nevermind, I finally got it after struggling for couple of hours XD now I can finally start enjoying my SGS! I had too new version of OVI so the nokia2android program couldnt find the file, I had to delete the OVI and search for older OVI and it worked

Glad you are now sorted.
If it helps anyone else this is what I did:
I am running Windows 7, have Nokia OVI suite v3.0.0.290 installed and used OVI to create a backup.
I created a new folder on my D drive and called it N2A which contains the main Nokia2AndroidSMS.exe + sqlite2.dll, when you run the program it automatically finds the appropriate OVI file (.NBU), converts it to .xml format and places it in the same folder as Nokia2AndroidSMS (in my case N2A).
Actually you don't have to locate the nokia backup file or drag it. Nokia2Android does it automatically, you just select datastore1 from the drop down box and select your imei.
Then you connect your SGS to your computer, wait a few seconds and you will get the AutoPlayer window pop up with GT-I9000 shown, select open device to view files, double click on phone, double click on the folder SMSBackupRestore, then drag the xml file from your computer to this folder, Now press the SGS home key, then press the applications icon, navigate to and open the SMS Backup & Restore program and select the restore option, this will now import your messages, to exit the program just press the return key a few times to return to your home screen.
If you want to backup your messages, open the program and select the backup option, the file will be saved in the SMSBackupRestore folder in xml format.
In the program settings you can change the message date format - default is java date representation (including millisecond) - or time and date in readable format of the time when the message was sent/received, you can also change the naming convention for the saved xml file.
The xml file can be opened and edited!
Some of the xml file fields are:
type – Sent = 2, Received = 1
read – Read Message = 1, Unread Message = 0
status – None = -1, Complete = 0, Pending = 32, Failed = 64
For those interested in interpreting the java date representation you can check out epochconverter.com.
Hope this little contribution helps any one having the same problems.
Regards, khan3

Thanks for this useful thread
but I don't know why it's not working with me
I downloaded Ovi suite (the one I could found on Nokia site is v3.1.1.85, is it necessary to use v3.0.0.290?)
I used it for sync (& even making a backup) & all the messages are synchronized
I disconnected the mobile & closed the ovi suite from the notifications area
But when I use the nokia2android program I get a small xml file with no messages in it (count=0)
even when I drag the MDataStore.db3 file from:
C:\Users\*********\AppData\Local\Nokia\Nokia Data Store\DataBase
I get the same empty file!
any help please??
BTW, Sync Nokia N81.. & working on windows 7 too