14 DAY TRIAL // T-Mobile Sidekick users were plagued a while ago with a serious service outage, which resulted for some of them in losing a great deal of personal data, including contacts, calendar entries, to do list and notes. T-Mobile and Microsoft, the company in charge with the Sidekick service through its subsidiary Danger, announced a while ago that the user data had been recovered, and also kicked off the first phase of data restoration about two weeks ago.
T-Mobile's Sidekick users can now restore their calendar entries, to do list and notes to their handsets, and the wireless carrier provides them with detailed information on what they should do so as to retrieve their info back. “Sidekick customers can now restore their calendar, to-do list and notes that were previously lost as part of the Danger/Microsoft service disruption,” T-Mobile states on its forums, and those that would like to learn what steps need to be taken in the process should head there for all necessary details.
The process seems to be a rather simple one, yet those in need of getting through it should make sure that they follow instructions step by step. A similar process was required when T-Mobile announced that contacts restoration was possible, and, although there has also been a series of users who complained that they couldn't retrieve their data, we're hoping that this time, the restoration will be successful.
In case there are some of you who might not be familiar with the Sidekick disaster, we should mention that the Danger / Microsoft servers on which Sidekick users backed up their data went down at the beginning of the previous month. Following the outage, T-Mobile and Microsoft announced that user data might have been lost, yet, shortly after, they managed to recover almost all of the personal files of their users. However, some of them were greatly affected by the outage, and now they need to perform the aforementioned restoration process to retrieve their affected data.