Rescuing data from a crashed smartphone

September 16, 2006 4:44 PM

My smartphone (SonyEricsson P910i) suddenly stopped working yesterday. A pop-up window appears on booting with the title "Information" and just one word - "corrupt". There's a box saying " continue" to click on and when I do so, it just hangs. Any idea what I can do with it? I badly need to rescue the data from it - lots of things (calendar, phone book, notes) that weren't backed up (I know, I know - but the backup program they supplied never worked properly. It always duplicated all the calendar / phonebook entries instead of backing them up.) Help!
posted by monster max to Technology (2 answers total)

I'd search over at PDAPhone's forum for the P900, and if no luck then try posting a question. Although it seems to be pretty low traffic over there for that model.

Then try a Palm phone :)
posted by intermod at 7:40 PM on September 16, 2006

Howardforums and mobiledia are generally the forums I have best luck with, in that order. There's a huge amount of noise you have to filter through to get to the useful infomation, unfortunately.

You could try taking it to a service center(not a retail store), but you'll have to get lucky and talk to someone who knows what he's doing.

Nokia makes some symbian phones, I personally like the 6682, and the PC sync software is free and works flawlessly.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 10:22 PM on September 16, 2006