OK, so my phone suggested that I connect it to my PC for the latest software - ie Gingerbread. So, remembering what I had to do last time (1.6 to 2.1) I did the "right" thing by making a backup using backup and restore, ticked the box to say that life was good and I understood I would lose "everything" on the phone that wasn't on the SD card and away we went.
So, everything installed ok, I then can't find "Backup and Restore" and can't find it in the market.... n'er mind, I'll "just download it from the Sony website" - so I do a quick Google, put the URL into my phone, download the application, get the message "Application not Installed".
A quick check online then tells me the truth: 2.3 Gingerbread does not support Sony's backup and restore!!!
This isn't a complete show stopper - I have my contacts synced with Google Contacts (thank f***!) so that's all back, and I was using an archiver for my SMS messages, so I have them all but the last few weeks, but it would be nice to be able to access my recent text messages and the list of applications in the backup.
Does anyone know a way I can read and restore the SBF I created? The only way I can think to do it is to roll back to 2.1, restore, create a new backup using a third party piece of software, and then roll forward to 2.3 again - which seems a lot of effort.
I have tried looking for the something that will read the SBF, but I can't find anything.
Thanks
Steve
So, everything installed ok, I then can't find "Backup and Restore" and can't find it in the market.... n'er mind, I'll "just download it from the Sony website" - so I do a quick Google, put the URL into my phone, download the application, get the message "Application not Installed".
A quick check online then tells me the truth: 2.3 Gingerbread does not support Sony's backup and restore!!!
This isn't a complete show stopper - I have my contacts synced with Google Contacts (thank f***!) so that's all back, and I was using an archiver for my SMS messages, so I have them all but the last few weeks, but it would be nice to be able to access my recent text messages and the list of applications in the backup.
Does anyone know a way I can read and restore the SBF I created? The only way I can think to do it is to roll back to 2.1, restore, create a new backup using a third party piece of software, and then roll forward to 2.3 again - which seems a lot of effort.
I have tried looking for the something that will read the SBF, but I can't find anything.
Thanks
Steve