T-Mobile posts Sidekick contact recovery instructions

That Microsoft / T-Mobile tag team has been doing a pretty decent job of cleaning up the disaster area left by the Sidekick data loss, and now the first item on the recovery menu is ready for collection. Sidekick users can hit up the My T-Mobile webpage to download their contacts and then restore them either to their Sidekick or whatever device they've replaced it with. Extensive how-to instructions are available at the read link, which also furnishes us with the reassurance that "Microsoft/Danger continues its efforts to recover pictures, calendar entries and to-do lists, which may be available in the future."

[Thanks, Abe G.]

[bureX Posted Oct 20th 2009 1:00PM]

But... but... it's almost Christmas!

[taligent Posted Oct 20th 2009 6:36AM]

You have to feel for T-Mobile a little .. they are going to permanently lose a lot of customers due to this screw by Microsoft/Danger.

[jimlivingston Posted Oct 20th 2009 9:37AM]

Ah come on. No harm no foul, right? :-)

[taligent Posted Oct 20th 2009 9:48AM]

@Jim .. well only SOME of the user's have had data recovered. And it is only contacts .. not photos or anything else. I can imagine a lot of people being pretty annoyed by it all.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2009 11:53AM]

Well i just imported my contacts and they are not all there. I'm easily missing a full 3rd of my original contacts.
And of the contacts that were retrieved, a handful of them have no phone # associated with them. What good is that.

This is marginally better then having no contacts at all but still no where near acceptable. What a joke.

/still full of rage
/WTF

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2009 7:05PM]

I do not feel for them at all. They have made a lot of money also off this fiasco. Many people who are not switching are having to buy new phones and accessories. This is costing consumers so much money. I today made them agree to send me a new freaking phone after 3 weeks of hell. They should have given SIDEKICK users the opportunity to trad in their systems for a comparible phone and been done with the phone issue. The problem si that it is not just the contacts problems, many sidekicks do not work any more in general. My sidkick has been unable to receive or send a call since the day that this happened.

[Wolfticket Posted Oct 20th 2009 6:41AM]

I bet Microsoft/T-Mobile called Mr. Wolfe.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2009 6:44AM]

About time. It's just a shame that I (and many other users) have already jumped ship.

Too little, too late on the part of T-Mobile.

[vman81 Posted Oct 20th 2009 6:57AM]

You can argue too late, but if you are getting all your data back you could be a lot worse off.

[M3Ki Posted Oct 20th 2009 9:10AM]

you're on here and you owned a sidekick? What are you, 12? Are you paris hilton?

[ZbHRP Posted Oct 20th 2009 7:08AM]

Will it also recover my sidekick info on Midnight Club?

[Mister Vicious Posted Oct 20th 2009 7:32AM]

Funny, but be a man and play Forza/Gran Torismo

[PhaseDMA Posted Oct 20th 2009 8:46AM]

How can you even begin to compare a arcade racer to realistic ones even jokingly? The only thing similar is some of the cars are the same.

[montymintypie Posted Oct 20th 2009 7:13AM]

I reckon they're idiots for losing the data. But good on them for doing what seems like a pretty commendable effort of recovering the data.

[Blacknimbus Posted Oct 20th 2009 8:06AM]

Thanks for the heads up. I had most of my contacts backed up to my SIM, but it was nice getting everything back.

And I'll jump ship when someone makes a device that does what my Sidekick does, only better. So far, I haven't found one that does.

[DonIsGood Posted Oct 20th 2009 9:08AM]

Can HTC release the same for the HERO please?

I lose all my "Phone" contacts that I keyed into the phone after each OTA Gmail-contact sync. Not happy!

[derX Posted Oct 20th 2009 10:37AM]

iTunes is not and cannot be the standard because only the iPhone (except for when Palm tries otherwise) can sync with it. Saving data to the phone's memory is the clear standard.

Please surrender your internet.

[sullivan504 Posted Oct 20th 2009 12:51PM]

Please die quickly and painfully, spammer.

[bureX Posted Oct 20th 2009 1:01PM]

Nice to see the comment system is working properly...

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some are only getting a partial recovery while others (like me!!) are getting NOTHING!!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 20th 2009 7:05PM]

Exactly. I am getting nothing either - no incomming calls, no outgoing calls. I feel a HUGE class action suite coming on - mark my words!!!

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