Hi, I have been using go SMS pro and I made some backups and made it auto backup by schedule..
I've noticed now that something probably went wrong and now I've got most of my SMS twice or trice, or even 4 times duplicate..
And if ill try to fix it handily by my self it'll take me 40 years, cuz I got over a thousand messages.. and each one is 2-4 times..
Is there any app that you know that could scan it and delete it by its own?
Like scanning the whole SMS and delete those who are the same..?
Please help. Its very important for me.
Thanks,
Yarden.
I'll second this one! Most other SMS apps have a way of sorting duplicates? They see sent or received dates. Would be cool if GOSMS could do this too. I noticed that a 3rd party sms app cannot back up GOSMS's SMS (geeze that's a mouthful to say lol)... the only way you can allow them to function is if you uncheck the box for disable other SMS apps inside GOSMS; but doing that in it's self causes other issues.
Hey
You said "most other app got way of.sorting duplicates.."
Can you name one please?
Although this is very old post and I already fixed the problem of duplicating the messages each backup, I still got a lot of old messages twice / trice...
Can you name a app that can scan and fix it?
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You could use "SMS Backup & Restore".
Make a Backup, Check if it was ok, Delete all SMS, Restore from Backup -> There you can choose if the Restore should check if the Message exists...
How do I choose such a thing?
Can you be more accurate please? I can not see such an option.
Do you talk about go sms?
Thanks.
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you can try my app BackupSMS. It has this feature (delete duplicate messages).
kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android - http://bit.ly/eVTEEn
Oh that's exactly what I was looking for!!!
It fixed my problem so easily!
God will bless you for inventing this simply genius app!
Thank you!
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Kamma I downloaded your app to try and remove some duplicate messages I have but I get a force close.
I have an HTC ONE X running ICS
Life saver! I used SMSBackupRestore to restore backups after my phone got factory reset, and it kept hanging about half way through. I ended up with three or four copies of all my messages. Your "delete duplicates" option saved the day! Thanks heaps
kamma said:
you can try my app BackupSMS. It has this feature (delete duplicate messages).
kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android - http://bit.ly/eVTEEn
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Your App does have the delete duplicates feature, which is the only thing I needed (due to a mistake using SMS Backup & Restore).
It was HELLA slow, > 2 hrs for 7500 SMS, but it did work.
Thanks'd
kamma said:
you can try my app BackupSMS. It has this feature (delete duplicate messages).
kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android - http://bit.ly/eVTEEn
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The delete duplicates function didn't work for me. Running CM11 on a i9305 S3. It just says "Error while deleting duplicate messages."
pizzaman79 said:
The delete duplicates function didn't work for me. Running CM11 on a i9305 S3. It just says "Error while deleting duplicate messages."
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Have you yet found a solution to this?
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Have you yet found a solution to this?
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Yes, but it's a bit of work. If I recall correctly, this is what I did.
- use titanium backup to export your sms messages to xml
- rename to .txt
- open in excel, don't import the xml, just the plain text line by line
- take a look at your file: are duplicates exactly the same? How to uniquely identify them?
- on column two, use a formula to extract part of the text that identifies a text message, use excel help or ask me by posting an example
- next column use a formula if(the identifier on column two = identifier of previous line, "", first column)
- copy column three, paste in column four data only
- sort column four to get rid of empty lines
- in titanium, delete all your text messages
- import the cleaned xml file.
- done
I'm a bit of an expert in this, so it took me maybe half an hour. Note that there may be text editing tools that remove duplicate lines, but that only works if the whole xml code of duplicate text messages is identical. Also not that importing xml files in excel is nice, but exporting them is difficult.
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Yes, but it's a bit of work. If I recall correctly, this is what I did.
- use titanium backup to export your sms messages to xml
- rename to .txt
- open in excel, don't import the xml, just the plain text line by line
- take a look at your file: are duplicates exactly the same? How to uniquely identify them?
- on column two, use a formula to extract part of the text that identifies a text message, use excel help or ask me by posting an example
- next column use a formula if(the identifier on column two = identifier of previous line, "", first column)
- copy column three, paste in column four data only
- sort column four to get rid of empty lines
- in titanium, delete all your text messages
- import the cleaned xml file.
- done
I'm a bit of an expert in this, so it took me maybe half an hour. Note that there may be text editing tools that remove duplicate lines, but that only works if the whole xml code of duplicate text messages is identical. Also not that importing xml files in excel is nice, but exporting them is difficult.
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Hi, my backup file have sms and MMS inside, thats why editing it via txt file is pointless
do You have any sollutions how to delete duplicated sms messages from it ?
Because "kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android" didn't work for me - I get an error message...
azmo said:
Hi, my backup file have sms and MMS inside, thats why editing it via txt file is pointless
do You have any sollutions how to delete duplicated sms messages from it ?
Because "kAmMa's BackupSMS for Android" didn't work for me - I get an error message...
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Maybe you can separate the sms and mms and then use my excel procedure to delete duplicate sms messages and delete the mms duplicates by hand?
To behonest, I'm surprised anyone uses mms...
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I installed the theaded sms cab and now my messages are gone.
I know this always happens and I just forgot to delete them before the
install.
Now: I can see all the messages in Windows\Messaging
they are unknown files and they look like 8f3500011000001f
Can I just delete all the files in this folder or will I mess something up.
Thanks in advance for anyones help.
These could be text messages (SMS), emails, or MMS message bodies.
If all of your various message inboxes,outboxes, sent folders, drafts folders, etc are empty, and any of these files still exists (happens often where WMx loses track) you can indeed safely delete them.
But if you have (and wish to keep) any messages in any of your messaging folders, you should keep them around until such a time when you can safely clear them all. I have only found limited number of means to try to figure out which of the various .MPB messages are which.
Also, I don't know if it's possible to save and decode these files into their original text. THAT would be cool!
HTH,
-pvs
Does anyone know how to split/archive an sms thread (or perhaps start a new thread for my wife, keeping the old one). I have imported all my sms from my Windows Mobile using Sprite Migrate (cool free beta software).
My wifes thread has 4k sms messages, and takes a few seconds to load, does anyone know if I can split the thread into chucks? It would be cool if they were split by date.
Does anyone know if I could backup all sms using some tool, and modify the file to split the sms, and re import?
I own MyBackupPro, does anyone know if these file are easily manipulated?
Thanks
looks like nobody can help you. afaik these things are stored in sqlite databases, maybe you can look into that. my layman's guess would be that the first problem is to seperate the two threads, maybe you need to create a contact WIFE2 or smthng, and alter the number in the database for a few (thousand) sms.
btw, WTF? i once tried to restore a backup of my sms with ~35 msgs in the largest thread, made the sms app FC... yesterday i had to delete a thread with 32 apps because it always showed me one unread in the summary, but all read in the thread...
Every time I reset my phone when it restarts, it tells me i have a new text message even though there is no message in my text inbox. anyone come across this before?
yes, i know this problem, and never got it solved >.< after a time it was away.. xD
what helped in my case was switching SMS view to traditional, then while scrolling through the inbox I've found one supposedly unread message at the very end of the list, after opening it marker disappeared
how to change to traditional view and back >.<
I have deleted all my messages. if i receive a sms then delete it, it clears, but if i reset it comes back.
D4rkSoRRoW said:
how to change to traditional view and back >.<
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page 146 of manual: "To manage text and multimedia messages by folders
If you want to use the conventional way of managing your messages by folders, tap Menu > Settings > Traditional Mode on the All Messages screen. The Inbox folder is then displayed, listing separate text and multimedia messages instead of threading."
another possible solution could be using PIM Backup to backup all text messages, deleting all manually and restore back - I did not try it, as the method above helped in my case
If you had another phone with a SIM and moved the SIM to your HD2 you may find there is a text message on the SIM. The HD2 can't delete from the SIM so you need to put the SIM back in a "dumb" phone and delete it there.
p107r0 said:
page 146 of manual: "To manage text and multimedia messages by folders
If you want to use the conventional way of managing your messages by folders, tap Menu > Settings > Traditional Mode on the All Messages screen. The Inbox folder is then displayed, listing separate text and multimedia messages instead of threading."
another possible solution could be using PIM Backup to backup all text messages, deleting all manually and restore back - I did not try it, as the method above helped in my case
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oh well.. im not using htc messaging u know xD
default messaging app ftw
Airborne Aircrew said:
If you had another phone with a SIM and moved the SIM to your HD2 you may find there is a text message on the SIM. The HD2 can't delete from the SIM so you need to put the SIM back in a "dumb" phone and delete it there.
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Just checked my sim in a "dumb" phone, it is empty.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1519862&postcount=3
and soft reset.
fighter7139 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1519862&postcount=3
and soft reset.
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Thanks. It worked, any idea what it does?
I tried to import my messages from IOS to Android 4.2 using isms2droid and SMS Backup & Restore. Now, I can see all the people that I sent a message to, but as soon as I try to go into the conversation, Messaging crashes and all the conversations are gone, I can still use the phone just not Messaging. However, restarting the phone allows me to see the names again, but again as soon as I enter a conversation they disappear. I tried to delete all the messages using SMS Backup & Restore but it just stalls on the "deleting messages" box. Now I can't delete any messages nor send any new ones, can anyone help please?
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I tried to import my messages from IOS to Android 4.2 using isms2droid and SMS Backup & Restore. Now, I can see all the people that I sent a message to, but as soon as I try to go into the conversation, Messaging crashes and all the conversations are gone, I can still use the phone just not Messaging. However, restarting the phone allows me to see the names again, but again as soon as I enter a conversation they disappear. I tried to delete all the messages using SMS Backup & Restore but it just stalls on the "deleting messages" box. Now I can't delete any messages nor send any new ones, can anyone help please?
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It happens sometimes that the Mms.apk is "overloaded". Your phone had zero messages and after the restore there are 1000 or more.
But can you open the converted SMS dump with the backup and restore app? Only to be sure that the dump is a valid XML and readable.
An alternative messaging app could fix the problem, because it could push the stock mms in the direction.
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It happens sometimes that the Mms.apk is "overloaded". Your phone had zero messages and after the restore there are 1000 or more.
But can you open the converted SMS dump with the backup and restore app? Only to be sure that the dump is a valid XML and readable.
An alternative messaging app could fix the problem, because it could push the stock mms in the direction.
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It can be viewed so I don't think there's a problem with the XML, isn't there any other way to delete the messages? Maybe directly through one of the folders?
As explained elsewhere, sometimes it's not possible for the receiving Android handset to recombine a text message longer than 160 characters (which was split by the originating carrier).
A very simple but useful app would let the user select two or more SMSes and merge them.
1. After selecting the messages (via a list of checkboxes attached to the SMS inbox, like in Handcent's batch mode), a new dialog would ask the user to reorder the messages.
2. When tapping "Done", the contents of the oldest SMS would be overwritten with the concatenated contents of the selected messages, and the other selected messages would be deleted.
I've spent quite a bit of time searching for such an app, and there isn't any. This should be pretty to code for an experienced developer, and I'd be willing to PayPal $5 for it, and I'm sure others would too. Why? Because the StackOverflow question I've linked to in this paragraph has received so many views it was marked notable.
dandv said:
As explained elsewhere, sometimes it's not possible for the receiving Android handset to recombine a text message longer than 160 characters (which was split by the originating carrier).
A very simple but useful app would let the user select two or more SMSes and merge them.
1. After selecting the messages (via a list of checkboxes attached to the SMS inbox, like in Handcent's batch mode), a new dialog would ask the user to reorder the messages.
2. When tapping "Done", the contents of the oldest SMS would be overwritten with the concatenated contents of the selected messages, and the other selected messages would be deleted.
I've spent quite a bit of time searching for such an app, and there isn't any. This should be pretty to code for an experienced developer, and I'd be willing to PayPal $5 for it, and I'm sure others would too. Why? Because the StackOverflow question I've linked to in this paragraph has received so many views it was marked notable.
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Any solution you got?