problem using an old backup

[miercuri]

My Xperia M2 was stolen in November and I have a backup of it from about a week before it was stolen. I want to use the data from this backup and tranfer it to the Xperia P I am currently using. Every time I try PC Companion tells me that it's not possible because the version of Android the backup was taken from is not compatible with the current application. And that I need to update my old device do a new backup and transfer that one. Which would be easy if it wasn't ridiculous, because I no longer have that device. Is there anyway I could make this work somehow. As it is right now, PC Companion is absolutely useless.

[_alexdon_]

Indeed,backups from different devices are not compatible. You can try to recover contacts using this method:

/t5/Xperia-S-SL-acro-S/How-can-I-extract-contacts-from-dbk-file-on-my-computer/m-p/235921#M18676

[miercuri]

oh wow, that's sad to hear.

would it work if I tried it with another Xperia M2? I have most of my contacts, but I would have loved to recover the pictures...

[Uliwooly]

The pictures might still be on your PC

[_alexdon_]

Sorry about the pictures,you might want to try to rename the backup to .zip or .rar and extract what you can.