Ok, so scenario:
I backed up individual threads in Go SMS Pro and transferred said .dat file to my computer. I played around with my phone and got it to where i wanted it to be and decided i would recover my messages as my "playing around" wiped out everything on my phone.
I cannot seem to find a way to recover the individual thread backup that is in the form of a .dat. Any ideas?
*needs help* there are a couple texts that are important
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Seasoned user here, def no noob. New to SGSII though. Anyway...here is my info.
I cannot no matter what I try get my phone to restore my Mms .db file, via recovery (I have tried, recovery, titanium, placing the files and setting the permissions manually).
If I delete the existing .db file and paste my Mms .db file there and it shows up in the data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
permissions
x x
x x
and then reboot
Go back and the old file is back there? Seriously WTF I want to smash this thing!
Someone assist me please?
Going to reply to my own thread with a solution in case anyone else has the same dramas? I kinda needed to do this because i got a chicks number the other day and she was hell cute and she had text me and I had saved her number but had not sync'ed my phone so the only way to get it back was from her SMS that was in the phone that someone had stolen. However I had the nandroid backup from the evening after i met this chick.
All previous hopes via recovery and titanium were fruitless
Anyway, I couldn't do a nandroid restore because it was saying that my device was not an MTD device....naturally its SGSII, and its not CM9 based firmware I have flashed either. So what I did was break the clockwork recovery backup down and pulled the data ext4 tar file out and re-hashed it (MD5sum)
I saw pulled an existing ICS nandroid backup form my SGSII fresh.
I exchanged the data tar and added the new hash value into the nandroid.md5 file and repackaged it.
It passed the check and installed the data but far out out it screwed my phone. android.process.android.acore was going nuts, I doubt there was even an app left that didn't force close.
I then did a titanium backup of the complete re-install with the Mms restored (although I wasn't certain because I couldn't open the messaging app at all! - nor could i get into settings to clear data cache without a bazillion force closes) I did this on total hope that it would work.
I then nandroid backuped my phone again just incase even though the data partition had a see of bugs in it. I then wiped the phone reflashed back to stock and then installed titanium and then restored just the SMS and couple of other things while i was at it! Bam perfect! All texts 100% restored including the drafts as if it was my old phone last I saw of it that is
I am still getting the odd few android.acore FCs but I know its a data cache related issue (I had this a while ago)....but no application FCs what so ever.
I hope this information helps someone out
James
Hey,
Running a Samsung Galaxy S Relay (Don't think this matters, but just in case), and just put CM10.2 on it.
I ran Titanium Backup on everything before I wiped my phone, and when I tried to restore my messages, it only restored two full threads of people, instead of however many I had. It gave me a System Batch Failed in the notification bar. I looked at the backup file, and all my text messages seem to be there, so I'm not sure why it failed. My call log data was restored successfully though.
Now the problem is that TitaniumBackup won't even detect my Messages and Call Log backups in my destination folder. When I set the correct destination folder, it shows there are 2 backups (Call Log & Messages) detected. But when I try to restore, it says there isn't any backup data to be found (like 0 system data to restore). I sent out a few messages and I can't even backup my current messages and call log.
I'm completely stumped on what to do. I tried looking in my sd card, but there doesn't seem to be anything that stores data that TitaniumBackup will detect to fail to recognize my messages and call log.
Any help would be appreciated - thanks!
I just rooted my phone to install the Google edition ROM but before I did I backed up my texts using Wondershare MobileGo. I've used this program to backup and restore messages, contacts, photos, etc. on my phone many times before and on previous phones and it has worked fine. But this time when I try to restore my messages they don't show up on my phone. To be specific, when I first do the restore the threads will show up under the contact name but there will be no messages when I open the thread. Soon after they just all disappear (only the restored messages, not any new ones). It seems like they're getting deleted as they're empty threads but that's just a guess. I thought it might have been a problem when doing the backup so I opened up the file (.sms file) in notepad and all the messages are there. I think it has something to do with Kit Kat but I've never encountered this problem before.
So does anyone know how I could restore my messages from the .sms file I was given from the backup or why the messages don't show up on my phone? Thanks!
I was on a build of CM12, but it started bugging out on me and then when I tried restarting my phone it was stuck on a boot loop, so I created a nandroid, then resorted an old back up. Does anyone know where the text messages are stored? I have important messages that I need to restore and make sure I don't lose.
Are the directories for text messages on stock different than cm12?
I'm afraid I can't answer your question, but the only way I've been able to restore text messages is to have backed them up with Titanium first. Titanium does have the option to extract data and restore from a nandroid, but I've never tried to restore SMS that way.
Perhaps this app could be of use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mNvbS5yaXRlc2hzYWh1LlNNU0JhY2t1cFJlc3RvcmUiXQ..
This might also provide some useful information: http://mobdev.olin.edu/mobdevwiki/FrontPage(2f)Tutorials(2f)SMS(20)Messaging.html
so I wanted to restore my device to factory settings cuz it was lagging a bit and backed up my viber messages with TB. I now am stuck with the infamous verification screen wipe. I tried everything on the 7th page of this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1471396&page=7 but nothing has worked and I've lost an entire day. Please help me find a way to restore these messages. I have my save and I get to see it for a couple of seconds until the verification screen pops up.
-Desperate here!
also Im troubled by the fact that when I was trying to restore the messages and messages journal files I went to Android-data-com.viber.voip and there was no databases folder and I had to create it. is smth wrong? I couldnt find the com.viber.voip folder anywhere else