Repaired phone but now Cant restore back-up done w/ old PC companion 2.1. got the latest just now

[yvettequiwa]

I had to do software REPAIR as suggested by sony since I have problems with battery drain and touch screen sensitivity. Using my PC COMPANION (Old version-2.1).

First step i followed was the BACK-UP, I did the back-up successfully and had it saved as sonytm xperia z1 c6903.dbk in my laptop.

Secondly, i did the REPAIR/RESET, which was also successful. But then, when I tried to do the RESTORE, PC COMPANION 2.1 was not opening. So I updated it to the latest software but keeps on saying INSTALLATION ERROR.

Then, I downloaded the LATEST XPERIA COMPANION from the SONY website. Got the software, it read my phone but when I was trying to load the .dbk file of my previous back-up, this keeps on popping.

Error code: PCCBackupFailed
CompanionBR 1432

SO NOW, I'm really frustrated thinking my Contacts, notes and other data are already backed-up but then cant be restored..:(.. Hope someone can help me with this.. 

[Muazhassan1]

U can use phone miner app for restoring backup files of sony

[Muazhassan1 · Accepted solution]

Sorry java download restoreData.jar from Google then past it on destop and then past ur file in applications in dbk file after converting it to rar and inside u will find file name fullpackupdata some thing like that place it on destop too now run restoreData.jar file and another file name restoreData.tar will be created
Make sure u have java and after opening with rar u will find ur vcard back as contacts and many more

[yvettequiwa]

OMG! Thanks a lot,:) changing .dbk to .rar was kinda surprising for me. LOL. but this really worked. 

[Muazhassan1]

No problem
Regards
From Pakistan