Backup transfer from sony xperia p to sony xperia s.

[SFirmo]

Hello, I have a question.I recently lost my sony xperia p phone, but I did make a backup of my files. I recently bought a Sony Xperia S, and I am trying to restore my backed up files to my new phone. The Xperia P backup system is telling me that my Xperia S is not compatable with the system. How do I recover my files?

[Uliwooly]

which files are you trying to restore?

[SFirmo]

Photos and contacts. I did a backup with Sony Backup Companion  with my Xperia p, and now I want to put those files on my Xperia S, but It will not let me. The File type that I want to import is DBK. Any suggestions?

[Uliwooly]

photos should be somewhere on your PC and you just have to copy paste, as far as the dbk there are other threads on the same topic

http://filetonic.com/blog/2010/02/23/open-dbk-file/

http://www.dbkfile.com/

[Uliwooly]

or this

http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/448070#448070

[Thommo · Accepted solution]

For Contacts

If you change the extension to .rar and open with winrar you'll see a folder named Applications open this and you should see a folder named com.sonyericsson.android.socialphonebook within this folder there are several files starting with the symbol @ - There will be 1 without this symbol - open this file with notepad and there is your contacts list - Same for txt messages look in Applications then com.sonyericsson.conversations all files without the @ symbol are your backed up txt messages

For Photos

Your option would be to rename the .dbk file to .rar or .zip as above and extract the contents to a folder then open that folder and then open Files then Content and then arrange by type and all your photo's will be there however you will  have to rename the photo's as they will have names like {A5B171E0-FEB4-449A-8FB5-1720A328E01F}