Recover SMS? - Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
Today my phone somehow deleted over 1300 sms i had with a person.
I was supposed to back them up, but it was deleted beforehand...
It seems that this have happened to other people, and i wonder if there are any way to recover these messages, or are they all gone?
They are from a period of a week and a half, so they arent that old...
Anybody?

I'd recommend installing smsbackup, which periodically backs up your txts to your gmail account. I never have to worry about random messages getting deleted now (not that it's happened to me YET)
I don't think you can recover the messages now unfortunately...

The database is in /data/data/com. Something like htc.mms but I can't be sure.
But i think they are gone
Wavesecure also does sms backup, as does titanium backup and a few others like it, including the app mentioned above.

If you want to backup your sms easily you have to put that code in adb :
adb remount
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db mmssms.db
But I don't know if you can recover them if you have not allready back them up (I don't think so)

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Best Backup For Apps / SMS / ETC

I use nandroid to do full system backups, but usually only do those when I'm about to flash something. I'd like to do be able to back up apps, sms messages, etc,. Sometimes I'll flash something, use it for a while, and then go back to the nandroid restore, but that takes me back to where I lose messages, etc...
Seen MyBackupPro, but not sure if there are better options?
Thanks, JP
Titanium backup can do all of that but... for some reason on the SGS it does not backup txt messages but does for app, app data, system data, etc.
Titanium Backup.
It even has a new function to remove bloatwares now.
I'll be the random voice of dissent.. I wasn't too impressed with Titanium Backup. I use SMS Backup to sync all my messages to GMail (threaded, labeled, marked as read and archived - can't think of a better place to get them stored, searchable and safe). And I'm a longtime believer in reinstalling apps fresh on new installs. It takes a few minutes to reload with AppBrain and Web Install.
Titanium Backup
SMS Backup+ (the one by Jen somebody I think is the name... a chick name). She tool SMS Backup and made it better.

Backup SMS

I have over 10,000 texts on my HTC hero and my phone is ridiculously sluggish. I'd like to somehow backup all of my SMS to somewhere, so I can still read them, while starting fresh on my phone, and every new texts gets automatically updated to this said location.
I tried SMS backup +, but they get backed up in gruoped 100's and it's pretty strange.
Thanks.
See if there are any good apps for you here: https://market.android.com/search?q=sms+backup&so=1&c=apps
SMS Backup does a backup to your gmail account, sms backup & restore lets you backup in xml and other formats, and I think TxtArchive SMS Backup does what you describe, although I don't know for sure,, you should give it a try

[Q] Factory reset

Hi all,
From mistake i did a factory reset. After that i lost all my contacts(that wasn't saved on sim), all messages. After sync withh google surprise no calendar events. All applications were installed after sync with google. can i do something to recover my messages and my numbers.
Thank's in advance!
Recuva might be able to recover your data if it was in place you can normally see when you hook your phone up to your PC (I.E not in system folders). But don't get your hopes up, it's a long shot. If you have a Nandroid backup, you can probably use something like AppExtractor to pull your sms/call logs & so on, but if you don't have a backup then Recuva is your only rough chance.
if you use google account your contacts and calendar should have come back, unless you choose not to add new contacts to google.

Problems moving whatsapp chats and media to another device

I've been using whatsapp on a samsung gs5. I'm in the process of moving over to a samsung gs7. (I have already registered the new sim card.) I backed up whatsapp on the old phone using google drive. The backup completed without any error. Then I opened whatsapp on the new phone and verified the number. I understood whatsapp was supposed to automatically restore the chats and media from google drive, but that didn't happen. Whatsapp created a new database and I started receiving messages right away. I copied the entire whatsapp folder off the old phone, backed up the new folder and moved the old folder into place. Whatsapp did not load it. None of the chats or media were visible. I was going to deinstall and reinstall whatsapp, but it's pre-installed on my phone so I can't do that. Is there a way to restore the chats and media from the old phone onto the new phone, preferably preserving the new chats and media? I emailed whatsapp support, but they take forever to respond so I'm trying here.
I've done it many times without any problem.
I've done it both ways, using Drive backup and copying folders across manually.
Easiest way is to just copy the whole WhatsApp folder across to the new device BEFORE you install WhatsApp.
So maybe you could uninstall the app, copy the folder across from your old device, then reinstall it.
the_scotsman said:
I've done it many times without any problem.
I've done it both ways, using Drive backup and copying folders across manually.
Easiest way is to just copy the whole WhatsApp folder across to the new device BEFORE you install WhatsApp.
So maybe you could uninstall the app, copy the folder across from your old device, then reinstall it.
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Thanks for the reply. Whatsapp was preinstalled on my phone. I can't uninstall / reinstall it. Before I started whatsapp on the new device for the first time, I backed up the old device to google drive. When I started it on the new device, it sent a verification sms and started, but it did not restore from google drive. I immediately started receiving new messages. So now I have the old device with two years of chats and media. I tried moving the entire whatsapp folder onto the new device, but it did not load. I don't know how to restore the previous chats and media and I also don't know how to preserve the new chats and media.
bimmerdriver said:
Thanks for the reply. Whatsapp was preinstalled on my phone. I can't uninstall / reinstall it. Before I started whatsapp on the new device for the first time, I backed up the old device to google drive. When I started it on the new device, it sent a verification sms and started, but it did not restore from google drive. I immediately started receiving new messages. So now I have the old device with two years of chats and media. I tried moving the entire whatsapp folder onto the new device, but it did not load. I don't know how to restore the previous chats and media and I also don't know how to preserve the new chats and media.
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Are you sure that you can't uninstall WhatsApp?
When you have your Google Account configured and you start WhatsApp for the first time it asks you for a restore.
lordhow said:
Are you sure that you can't uninstall WhatsApp?
When you have your Google Account configured and you start WhatsApp for the first time it asks you for a restore.
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I can disable and force stop, but not uninstall. As far as I know google drive was operational, but when I started whatsapp for the first time, it did not offer to restore. There is no option anywhere I can see to restore. For an app with such high usage, the developers seem to be pretty brain-dead about some obvious functionality.
bimmerdriver said:
I can disable and force stop, but not uninstall. As far as I know google drive was operational, but when I started whatsapp for the first time, it did not offer to restore. There is no option anywhere I can see to restore. For an app with such high usage, the developers seem to be pretty brain-dead about some obvious functionality.
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Have you considered to root your phone and uninstall WhatsApp? Is the first time that I see WhatsApp is pre-installed. Even so, you have all the reason, should be an option to restore instantly.
lordhow said:
Have you considered to root your phone and uninstall WhatsApp? Is the first time that I see WhatsApp is pre-installed. Even so, you have all the reason, should be an option to restore instantly.
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Thanks for the reply. I'd love to root my phone, but I can't. It's a company phone and the intranet software we are using would not run on a rooted phone. Not sure if it's Samsung or Bell Mobility that pre-installed what's app, but it's not possible to uninstall it.
I finally received a response from whatsapp support. There is no way to restore the chats and media from before the account was transferred to the new device, at least not without losing everything since. What a f*cking brain-damaged feature. Thanks for nothing, whatsapp support.
bimmerdriver said:
I finally received a response from whatsapp support. There is no way to restore the chats and media from before the account was transferred to the new device, at least not without losing everything since. What a f*cking brain-damaged feature. Thanks for nothing, whatsapp support.
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And now you now why most people stopped using it. Well at least in the states.

Can't restore all SMS, only a few with any app I try.

I've tried so many apps I'm losing track... basically everything in google store that has "sms" and "backup" in the title. I have a non-rooted S7 edge that I'm trying to move everything off to an LG v30. When I do a backup of SMS, either to SD card or to Google drive, if I look at the XML file, all the messages are there, but after the restore, I only get a few threads from 2017?? I'm completely stumped.
I believe you can use your Samsung account to backup all of your text messages....................that way you can restore at a later time. I do a backup of mine about every other week just in case something happens to my phone.

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