They say curiosity killed the cat, well in my case I have just added to it
and have several questions, but first the short story.

Got a new mobile bought girlfreind similar , I have V525 she has V547.
Decided that Bluetooth too long in the tooth to figure out on Win Xp couldnt
get it working, so bought a USB data cable, had no idea how to get my pics
off mobile and pics on PC using the supplied CD software, the CD appeared to
have been badly created with regard to unusal file names. Due to work
commitments unable to attend the shop, besides there is the internet for
software, so after a while of surfing the net I found a freeware version of
P2K Commander. And boy was I intrigued at how my mobile phone looks ,
basically just like a PC set up with various directories and I quite happily
extracted all the pics from my mobile whilst navigating the mobile.

Now for the questions.

If the file structure of my mobile phone is like that of a PC is it possible
that I can back up all these system files on the mobile by simply copying
them to my PC (as I have done) so that in the catastrophic scenario of my
phone software becoming infected with a virus( which I have heard of in the
press) and the phone not working is it possible to use P2K Commander to
re-instate my phone and copy all the file back onto mobile from the PC?

I have done some digging on the issue and not come up with any answers that
make any sense and now for further questions.

In the above example is this known as flashing ? And will it work ok ?
If it is not flashing the mobile what is flashing ?

If I didnt copy all files off my mobile onto PC is there a file that can be
downloaded from the internet at no cost and using P2K Commander fix my PC,
if so what is the file and how would I get it onto PC?

Last question coming up based on the above.

I have seen reference to flashing and files to download for my particular
phone also another peice of freeware namely SmartMoto, I have gone through
the various tools within SmartMoto and other than reading the phone settings
nothing else works , the Backup option gives me an Unhadled Exception error
within the software (not a WinXp error). So how does all this work in
laymens terms?

If by copying all the files from mobile onto my PC in the same heirarchy as
that of my mobile can I simply delete everything from the mobile and copy
back over from the PC ?

Of course I dare not try any of this in case I screw up my mobile.

Any one reading this many thanks for taking the time, if you are able to
answer some or all of my questions and satisfy my curiosity I would be
grateful.

many thanks

Macroman





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