Microsoft MyPhone Hangs (gets stuck) Syncing Contacts

Fluffy Intro:

So you just ditched PPC Pim Backup because you thought you found the next best thing – Microsoft MyPhone – right? You also just reflashed your phone without backing up your contacts the old fashioned way because you thought that your contacts were safely backed up with Microsoft MyPhone. Come to find out, when you try to sync your freshly flashed windows mobile phone with Microsoft MyPhone, the sync hangs at 60% (or another random percentage). The point is, you can’t get your contacts. Well, my friends, I believe I have found the solution!

The Solution:

I have reason to believe that I found out how to get past the sync hang-up and get your contacts back on your phone.

If you have an old PPC Pim Backup that you did before still residing on your internal storage (or storage card) then you just may be in luck. All you should have to do is open the PPC Pim Backup program from your internal storage (or storage card) and process a restore (from your outdated PPC Pim contacts backup) and go through the motions of restoring it the old fashioned way. After you do this, open up Microsoft MyPhone and try to sync again. 

This is what I did, and it just happened to push my phone past it’s lag on the contact sync. I got this to work using a Sprint Diamond on Mighty’s Reborn ROM just for the record.

I hope this helps someone. This is obviously not a permanent solution to this problem, only a temporary patch (if that). I realize there is very minimal information on this problem on the web, and I also know that Microsoft is ‘aware of the issue’ and ‘working on a fix’ but we all know how that goes.

Peace out Fluffyers. Let us know if this worked out for you.

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