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I applied the WM6 ROM and lost a few things
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Posted by: struff

I got a warranty replacement for my 8525 yesterday and immediately applied WM6 from HTC's website. Before using it at all, I loaded all of my old apps and software onto it and then restored a backup from my old phone. The backup consisted of only Email and the Personal Database and nothing else - no program files, nothing at all from Windows, and no Registry. I restored using Sprite backup and the "ROM" setting and did not select "Restore Databases".

So after doing all that I started playing around with the phone and noticed a few things missing: the Recognize function of Notes (that converts handwriting into typed text) and MMS. Neither of them exist in any of the menus. When I try to send myself MMS from my computer nothing happens. When I go into Contacts and try to send MMS nothing happens. There is no MMS Folder.

Do these functions no longer exist in WM6? Am I missing an exe or a dll or something? Should I use a different setting and restore again?

Oh, and none of my email is showing, but I am not too concerned about that.

Thanks.

Posted by: OutPhase

You should not be using a restore file for a different ROM. This leads to breakage because different files are in place.

Posted by: struff

Ok, so then how can I get my messages and files and contacts and calendar items and tasks from my old phone into my new one?

Thanks.

Posted by: marka2k

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Originally Posted by struff

Ok, so then how can I get my messages and files and contacts and calendar items and tasks from my old phone into my new one?

Thanks.

You should have synched it with Outlook prior and then re-synched it back after the upgrade.

Right now since WM6 is already on the device you can go back to WM5 on device restore backup, synch to Outlook then upgrade phone to WM6 then synch phone back.

Posted by: struff

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Originally Posted by marka2k

I don't use Outlook but I've tried syncing to the Windows Mail and Windows Calendar and Windows Contacts in Vista but the Windows Mobile Center thing won't let me choose those. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks.

Posted by: struff

Any suggestions for my problem? Not to be annoying about it but I only have a few more days before I have to return my old phone to warranty replacement.

If no one has any other ideas, can I just reload WM6 and start over with that? Or do I have to hard-reset? And if I hard-reset, will it go all the way back to WM5 or would it be WM6?

Thanks.

Posted by: misstenacity

Did you ever figure this one out?

Thanks! (I lost MMS on my MDA after flashing up to WM6)