Anyone know the path to sms files?
What SMS files?
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imnuts;text messaging812 said:
What SMS files?
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From the stock text message app.
spoiler1041 said:
From the stock text message app.
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That doesn't help. What files are you looking for? Pictures? The text messages themselves? Settings? Backed up text messages?
imnuts said:
That doesn't help. What files are you looking for? Pictures? The text messages themselves? Settings? Backed up text messages?
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The text messages themself.
They're stored in a SQL database in the /data directory
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/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases
You can back your sms/mms database up with Titanium backup. When you start Titanium go to the center Backup/Restore tab scroll down to Messages (SMS&MMS) back it up, you can put your backup folder on an external sdCard, the setting is in Preferences. Hey, you can backup your Personal dictionary also User Dictionary 4.3........
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Hello, I use handcent to handle my text messaging. I'm ready to flash a ROM and was wondering whats the best way to backup all my text messages?
SMS Backup & Restore from the market!
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JamesRF said:
Hello, I use handcent to handle my text messaging. I'm ready to flash a ROM and was wondering whats the best way to backup all my text messages?
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The app that was mentioned is good, but you can also use GOSMS, I personally prefer it to the out of the box sms but its all just personal preference
SMS Backup+
it will back up your text and media messages to your GMAIL....
I use SMS Backup+ to backup to my GMail account and Go SMS Pro to backup to my Ext. SD card so I can restore them after flashing a new ROM.
SMS Backup And Restore worked great! It took all of about a minute to do too. Thanks so much!
I use My Back up Root
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?
jewbydoo said:
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.
pizzaman79 said:
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...
I had a Rezound and used the Backup function in the stock Messaging app to back up my MMS messages. However, I moved to an S3 and the stock Messaging app doesn't have that functionality. Does anyone know how I can open and read the messages from the Rezound's backup files either on the S3 or on a PC in Windows? Thanks.
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I meant SMS messages. I'm not concerned about the MMS messages.
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I had a Rezound and used the Backup function in the stock Messaging app to back up my MMS messages. However, I moved to an S3 and the stock Messaging app doesn't have that functionality. Does anyone know how I can open and read the messages from the Rezound's backup files either on the S3 or on a PC in Windows? Thanks.
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What is the file type the phone used to save the sms?
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What is the file type the phone used to save the sms?
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Well, that's part of the problem. There is no file extension. I Googled the issue and found a post on Yahoo Answers that someone indicated it was an SQLite file, but I was unable to view the content in Notepad++ or any of several SQLite viewers. It all just looks like machine language - lines and lines of wierd random characters.
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By the way, I meant SMS messages, not MMS. I've updated the OP.
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Well, that's part of the problem. There is no file extension. I Googled the issue and found a post on Yahoo Answers that someone indicated it was an SQLite file, but I was unable to view the content in Notepad++ or any of several SQLite viewers. It all just looks like machine language - lines and lines of wierd random characters.
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By the way, I meant SMS messages, not MMS. I've updated the OP.
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terry?
synisterwolf said:
terry?
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LOL yeah
wmaudio said:
LOL yeah
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looks like it can't be decoded so easily. If you still have the phone try an app from the market.
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synisterwolf said:
looks like it can't be decoded so easily. If you still have the phone try an app from the market. Sent from my iPhone...
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If I still had the phone, I'd just restore the backup using the SMS app, then export to XML. Unfortunately, I no longer have the Rezound.
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wmaudio said:
If I still had the phone, I'd just restore the backup using the SMS app, then export to XML. Unfortunately, I no longer have the Rezound.
Sent from my SCH-I535
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maybe send htc an email and see if they can help
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If I still had the phone, I'd just restore the backup using the SMS app, then export to XML. Unfortunately, I no longer have the Rezound.
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Could you get someone else to restore them on their rezound and then use an app to back them up through a gmail account, then you can restore them from the gmail account you created just for that to the new phone.
There's an app that does that, it's name is simple like sms backup to gmail or something.
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Could you get someone else to restore them on their rezound and then use an app to back them up through a gmail account, then you can restore them from the gmail account you created just for that to the new phone.
There's an app that does that, it's name is simple like sms backup to gmail or something.
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Well I thought of that, and I checked Craigslist and everything, but I don't know anyone who has a Rezound who's fine with losing the text messages they already have if something goes wrong. (Restoring the messages wipes out the existing messages.) I know I could back theirs up the same way, swap SD cards, restore mine, export to XML, swap cards back and restore theirs, but if something happens that the process fails in restoring theirs, they'd be a bit upset.
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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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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?
im curious to know if you can edit text messages either recieved or sent to display as a joke.
reinaldistic said:
im curious to know if you can edit text messages either recieved or sent to display as a joke.
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I'll bet you can do this with the "SMS Backup and Restore" app - it saves your messages as an XML file, so it would be easy to edit that file and restore a changed message.