Backup and Restore Your Phone With Microsoft Phone Data Manager
Sometime back we had told you about 2 services to synchronize your contacts, calendar, tasks, notes and SMS with a online storage service. Though several phones have PC suite backups, backing up data in multiple places definitely makes it more secure and combining both a online backup and a offline backup definitely has its benefits.
Microsoft Phone Data Manager is a special software offered by Microsoft to backup and restore your contacts, music, pictures and videos to your PC. You can backup your data using either Bluetooth or with a standard USB cable. You will need to have a Windows Live Hotmail account in order to backup your data.
Microsoft Phone Data Manager Features
Contacts: Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta synchronizes the contacts present in your phone with your contact store on Windows Live Contacts, which is the same store that your Hotmail contacts uses. This way, your phone contacts are always present on the Internet, accessible via the contacts link on Hotmail.
Music, Pictures and Video: Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta will download the music, pictures and videos present in your phone to a local folder on the computer you are using this application on.
How To Use Microsoft Phone Data manager?
You can use the Phone Data Manager as any other sync software, run the software and select the connectivity options for the phone, once you have established a connection you will be show options to backup your data.
Once you have selected the options, you will be asked the login credentials for your Windows Live Hotmail account, enter the credentials and follow the instructions to create your backup data. If you lose your phone or the data gets corrupted, you can simply sync back with the Windows Live Hotmail account.
Microsoft Phone Data Manager is absolutely free to download and use.
Mark
September 17th, 2008 at 8:58 pm #
I have successfully install and run Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta on Windows Vista x64 (not tested on Windows XP x64). The installer, is seem, is the only obstacle that prevent it.
To install it on Vista x64,
1. Obtain and install Orca
2. Extract Phone Data Manager Setup.exe
3. Right click on mobsyncsetup.msi and click Edit with Orca
4. Go to and select LaunchCondition in the left
5. Right click Installed OR NOT VersionNT64 and click Drop Row
6. Save the file and run setup.exe
You will need to download the x64 driver for your phone.
Microsoft Phone Data Manager Beta work on my Razr V3. If you have Razr V3, download x64 driver here: http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/USB_Drivers/Handset_USB_Driver_64
Orca can be download from here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Authoring-tools/Setup-creators/Orca.shtmlhoring-tools/Setup-creators/Orca.shtml
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Saz
June 24th, 2009 at 9:49 pm #
This would be a nice tool to have, I have felt the need of having such a utility since ages, I use remote PC utility which makes my entire PC available but obviously does not work where the Wi-Fi signals are weak. Thanks for this update I will now look in to it.
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