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Just got my Droid X

Just went and upgraded to the Droid X and I love it! :smileyhappy: So glad I went with this phone. But does anyone know if BitPim will work with it? I got some of my old texts off my EnV3 onto bitpim and I was wondering if I would be able to transfer them to my Droid X...? Anyone know?

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Wildman

If you exported contacts as a CSV file you can import them into Google by loggin into Google contact page and select import from option menu.

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keezy

Thanks. I got my contacts transferred when I bought the phone, I just need to figure out how to transfer the texts

Wildman

My bad, I looked over the text part.. :smileyhappy: Out of curiosity which device are you coming from because so far I havent seen any way to tranfer messages from BitPIM to a Android device but there may be another way/

keezy

I'm coming from the env3. I couldn't figure out how to get bitpim to recognize the droid x. I'm really hoping theres another way to transfer the texts

Ann154

Can you tell what file format the bitpim put the text messages from the old phone into on your computer?

keezy

Ann154 wrote:
Can you tell what file format the bitpim put the text messages from the old phone into on your computer?

It says it's in "mbox" format. Which I've never heard of. And when I try to export them and save them on my computer, none of the programs are able to view them

Ann154

Did a file extension search. "The MBOX file type is primarily associated with 'Unix'. Mbox2eml allows opening and viewing mailboxes in the standard Unix Mbox format. Mbox2eml is freeware."

Looks like there is a program that can read the format.

The reason I asked is some sms backup Apps use the xml file format to save the text messages to the sd card. If you were able to convert this MBOX format to xml, you could use such an application to "restore" the messages from your old phone to the new phone.

keezy

Ann154 wrote:
Did a file extension search. "The MBOX file type is primarily associated with 'Unix'. Mbox2eml allows opening and viewing mailboxes in the standard Unix Mbox format. Mbox2eml is freeware."

Looks like there is a program that can read the format.

The reason I asked is some sms backup Apps use the xml file format to save the text messages to the sd card. If you were able to convert this MBOX format to xml, you could use such an application to "restore" the messages from your old phone to the new phone.

Interesting. I didn't even think to look it up. I have no idea how to convert files, though :smileysad: I'm sure I could find some software online that would do it

Wildman

Here is a link that instructs you how to import mBox files into Google account.... http://www.ehow.com/how_6802046_import-mbox-gmail.html

B33

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keezy

Wildman wrote:
Here is a link that instructs you how to import mBox files into Google account.... http://www.ehow.com/how_6802046_import-mbox-gmail.html

Thank you for that link. Unfortunately that process didn't work for me. I was able to export the texts from BitPim to my computer in CSV format, and I uploaded them as contacts on my GMail, which let me copy the text with the phone number, date, time, and body of the text and email it to myself. I guess that's the closest I'll get to keeping them.

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