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PST 7.2.3: Restoring a Phone Book Backup

So you've lost your phone, changed your firmware, or otherwise huh? Well arnt you glad you made a backup of your phone book now eh. Dont worry, its simple. But just a warning: For contacts that had more then 1 number per name, you may get individual contacts for each number. As in Mom = Home + Cell would now equal Mom = Home and Mom = Cell as two seperate entries. Atleast you have> the number.

For this guide we will be using:
* Motorola Razr V3C for Verizon
* Mini USB cable
* PST 7.2.3 - Phone Programmer [download unavailable]
PST 7.2.5 can be used instead [DOWNLOAD]





How to back up your phone book with PST

  1. Connect your phone with the mini USB cable
    2. (assuming you've installed PST) Click start and then goto All Programs and find Motorola PST and then click on Phone Programmer to start the interface

    3. You will hear a series of USB chimes. After they stop goto File > Open and then an extension of Open will appear with icons - Click Phone Book
    4. It will open up a window where you will now select your Phone Book backup file. If you used your example name, you would look for "Phone Book 05-22-06.phb" - Once you find your backup file, select it and press Open. Now it will show you your back up file. Goto Phone > Write and then it will begin to restore your phone book backup.

    5. It will now establish a connection with your phone. Eventually it will write the Phone book to your phone and show you a progress bar. This whole process may take a few minutes.

    6. 100% = The phone book has been restored. Your contacts have been restored to your phone and you should now have a full phone book. It is now safe to disconnect the phone. Press the X in the top right of this window to get rid of it.

    7. All done. Now you can close PST and consider this a job well done. Pat yourself on the back, you prevented yourself from losing your life saving of cell phone contacts! Now, dont let it happen again! Just kidding.


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