Hello hello,
I updated my Note 3 on ATT via the OTA update to 4.4.2. I did the factory data reset. I restored my sms via the SMS backup and restore app. All the messages are here but the app seems to be working slow and laggy. The SMS Backup+ did not really work. What are my other options?
Thanks!
How many text messages did you restore? Did you test before and after you restored the messages? But seems like you have a couple choices, 1 - try it without restoring the messages. If you have 1000s, that could be why. 2 - try a 3rd party SMS app and see if the problem exists there or just stock.
Thanks for the response. SMS backup+ says I have 14000 items. The app works great before the backup.
I am a little disappointed with Android right now. iTunes was restoring everything to exactly where I left off. I surprised Android does not have a working sms restore function. Kies does not even offer it. How about manually copying the sms database file that I saved.
I guess I still have to try a 3rd party app but I prefer the stock one.
Cheers.
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How many text messages did you restore? Did you test before and after you restored the messages? But seems like you have a couple choices, 1 - try it without restoring the messages. If you have 1000s, that could be why. 2 - try a 3rd party SMS app and see if the problem exists there or just stock.
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panxpany said:
Thanks for the response. SMS backup+ says I have 14000 items. The app works great before the backup.
I am a little disappointed with Android right now. iTunes was restoring everything to exactly where I left off. I surprised Android does not have a working sms restore function. Kies does not even offer it. How about manually copying the sms database file that I saved.
I guess I still have to try a 3rd party app but I prefer the stock one.
Cheers.
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That amount of text messages will make many things lag (and take FOREVER to restore). But there are quite a few different ways to back up and restore texts so I guess Android doesn't think it's necessary to include it? I backup and restore texts all the time as I am a serial flasher and never have issues like that, but I also don't have any reason to keep 1000s of texts messages on my phone.
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I'm getting ready to root my phone. However I have some very important text messages that I need to save them. Is there a way to do that?
get yourself a backup app or a SMS app that has backup features
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The stock app is capable of this.... Just go into the menu in messages and go to backup sms.
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Evo4gLI said:
The stock app is capable of this.... Just go into the menu in messages and go to backup sms.
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Thanks so much! I guess I should have looked just a little harder hahah!
I stopped using the SMS application, OR my actual phone number entirely. I use Google Voice for all phone calls and texts... and this way everything is stored on their servers and I never ever have to worry about losing a voicemail, text message, or call log again.
SMS Backup+ ... I think this may be a perfect app for exactly what you need. It backs up SMS and MMS to your Gmail account under an "SMS" label, and can restored your messages as well. Seamless, works in the background, you'll never notice it, it just works. Oh, and ... it has to be the version with the "+" on the end of the name, if you want to back up MMS.
My Backup Pro ... You can also use My Backup to easily backup and restore your messages. I still prefer SMS Backup+, though, because you never have to do anything manually ever after you install it.
^^^ Question in title. ROM is stock.
SMSbackup from the market
creepyncrawly said:
SMSbackup from the market
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This, never failed me.
Doesn't backup pictures though, its a little annoying if your convo is about a picture and you can't see it.
LiLChris06 said:
This, never failed me.
Doesn't backup pictures though, its a little annoying if your convo is about a picture and you can't see it.
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SMS Backup+
integrates with GMAIL...backs up MMS to GMAIL, and you can use Tasker with it....
i have tasker set to perform an automatic backup of the latest messages every time i exit the messaging app.....
its beautiful. all my SMS/MMS are filed away nice and neat in my GMAIL for use later.....
I use Handcent, which has an integrated backup.
I used to use SMSBackup+, until it became cumbersome to backup 2000+ text messages online via EDGE (unfortunately I don't have 3g/"4g" or wifi most of the time. Then I remembered that I once invested in MyBackup Pro (~$5, I think). It backs up apps, data, photos, texts, and just about everything else. It gives the option to backup online or on your SD card. It works pretty well in my experience.
But if you have good wifi/data connection, SMSBackup+ is a great option as well.
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SMS Backup+
integrates with GMAIL...backs up MMS to GMAIL, and you can use Tasker with it....
i have tasker set to perform an automatic backup of the latest messages every time i exit the messaging app.....
its beautiful. all my SMS/MMS are filed away nice and neat in my GMAIL for use later.....
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Yea I haven't got around doing it that way, but I would love a way to restore it back in the convo.
I have 2 main backups which still has it in case I ever find a way.
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I used to use SMSBackup+, until it became cumbersome to backup 2000+ text messages online via EDGE (unfortunately I don't have 3g/"4g" or wifi most of the time. Then I remembered that I once invested in MyBackup Pro (~$5, I think). It backs up apps, data, photos, texts, and just about everything else. It gives the option to backup online or on your SD card. It works pretty well in my experience.
But if you have good wifi/data connection, SMSBackup+ is a great option as well.
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I have 10k+ messages, cause I kept a couple thousand I brought from my old phone. So uploading all that is a little annoying, but I shall do it eventually.
I use both of Ritesh Sahu's backup apps (Call Logs and SMS) - they're great. Backup to gmail is nice, other than the time it takes.
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I use both of Ritesh Sahu's backup apps (Call Logs and SMS) - they're great. Backup to gmail is nice, other than the time it takes.
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If you do it as they come in or set it to run at night during off time on wifi it doesn't take long. Smsbackup+ will also backup call logs. I have mine putting them on my Google calendar to keep track of my customer calls.
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I use GoSMS Pro for my sms messaging and found that it has a pretty good backup and restore function in it. You can schedule a backup for every day if you like also.
I just use Titanium. Works fine, it's just difficult to tell which backup file specifically holds the SMS data -- just filter for SMS and do a restore.
Hey folks.
I recently discovered a great app named "SMS Backup & Restore" which I now happen to be the owner of the PRO version. Things is, that the backup works fine, but upon restoring, messages seem to get restore the wrong order - most of the messages are in the same thread, but completely mixed up. And I don't miss a few, I miss a lot.
The FAQ of the developer says that osme SMS cannot be backed up nor restored since it currently does not support MMS messages. But I'm extremely sure that most messages are just SMS. Did such happen to any of you, too? How to resolve this? And could that be dou to the use of GoSMS Pro which I use as my phone messaging app?
Any help is very much appreciated.
SecUpwN said:
Hey folks.
I recently discovered a great app named "SMS Backup & Restore" which I now happen to be the owner of the PRO version. Things is, that the backup works fine, but upon restoring, messages seem to get restore the wrong order - most of the messages are in the same thread, but completely mixed up. And I don't miss a few, I miss a lot.
The FAQ of the developer says that osme SMS cannot be backed up nor restored since it currently does not support MMS messages. But I'm extremely sure that most messages are just SMS. Did such happen to any of you, too? How to resolve this? And could that be dou to the use of GoSMS Pro which I use as my phone messaging app?
Any help is very much appreciated.
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That is the only app I use for sms backup & restore since I have android phone. Never had any problems, except when on restore, threads (not messages) are not sorted in order in which I backed them up. Ofc, I just sort them by "most recent" in messages app. I used Handcent sometimes, but never had problems with dissapearing messages. Backup app and messaging app use xml, which is stored on phone, so I don't think it matters which one messaging app you use.
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Thanks for helping, PROleev. Is there a way to clean up the XML-File I have? It contains multiple messages and upon restoring, it does not delete the duplicates although I enabled the option in the program. Furthermore, it seems that it saved messages with the completely wrong time. Therefore, restoring the messages results in a mess I don't know how to resolve.. except for to delete everything.
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Thanks for helping, PROleev. Is there a way to clean up the XML-File I have? It contains multiple messages and upon restoring, it does not delete the duplicates although I enabled the option in the program. Furthermore, it seems that it saved messages with the completely wrong time. Therefore, restoring the messages results in a mess I don't know how to resolve.. except for to delete everything.
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You're welcome.
Here is the app for duplicate messages, and it should help you (I didn't try it, but users say that it does its job). It is slow if you have a couple of thousands messages. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10377014&postcount=1
I have to make a correction..mesagge applications read from data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db (database file), but they save messages as .xml which you can open in any xml viewer or MS Excel..
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hello all
i have been using MyBackup Pro to backup and restore my SMS messages. But after restoring them, the stock sms app (slimsaber, rootbox, resurrection remix) always shows the restoration time as the time of the last message of each thread.
but only in the list view.
so when i open the sms app, i see all the threads with the different people, but they are unsorted because tge timestamp shows the restoration time.
when i open a thread, all messages show the correct time for sent and received.
MyBackup support claims that this should be fixed by the SMS app when opening the threads. the time should be reapplied and everything sorted correctly. this is, however, not the case.
does anybody know a fix or know an sms app that will correctly sort the messages again?
thank you all
alex
officiallyme said:
hello all
i have been using MyBackup Pro to backup and restore my SMS messages. But after restoring them, the stock sms app (slimsaber, rootbox, resurrection remix) always shows the restoration time as the time of the last message of each thread.
but only in the list view.
so when i open the sms app, i see all the threads with the different people, but they are unsorted because tge timestamp shows the restoration time.
when i open a thread, all messages show the correct time for sent and received.
MyBackup support claims that this should be fixed by the SMS app when opening the threads. the time should be reapplied and everything sorted correctly. this is, however, not the case.
does anybody know a fix or know an sms app that will correctly sort the messages again?
thank you all
alex
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I use "SMS Backup & Restore" app , and havent had any issue so far
sms backup and restore does NOT backup mms.
plus, i need something to fix the timestamp now that i have restored the messages
anybody?
Use the XML backup/restore feature in TiBu Pro.
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Use the XML backup/restore feature in TiBu Pro.
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Try the method MistahBungle suggests and it's work. Just restore from MyBackup Pro first, then backup data to XML and restore data to XML in Titanium Backup Pro. Timestamps on all threads are correct now.
i tried Titanium Backup.
But for some reason it always leaves between one and three threads unsorted. They have the time of restore.
But which is completely random. I have restored the sms/mms messages 8 times now and each time a different set of threads has the wron timestamp and is placed at the top of the list.
of course each time using the same backup.
i also tried two other backups and they had the same result.
is there a trick to it?
i deleted the db files. rebooted. restored. rebooted. opened sms app.
each restoring takes about 30min (15500 messages)
On my Galaxy S5, running Android 6.0.1., when I try to send a text message to a number that does not have a saved conversation, the app I'm using always crashes, gives me an error, or does nothing instead of sending the message. The built in Messages app and Facebook's Messenger app both crash, while Google Messages gives me an error saying it couldn't create the conversation, and Go SMS Pro seems to work at first, but actually does nothing.
I've also deleted caches/data and removed old texts/conversations, and nothing seems to work.
This is clearly not a problem with one app, but rather something larger at play. What could possibly be causing this?
Sounds like something corrupted your SMS data base and it will take a wipe to fix it. Go SMS pro is the normal cause for corruption. It's a male are ridden app that users here stopped using years ago.
Darn, is there any other way to fix something like that? I use my phone for work, so I don't really want to wipe it and spend a bunch of time updating/reinstalling.
Go SMS Pro was just a last attempt to try any other SMS app, rather than one I've had, so it's probably not the culprit.
If you had root you could try to wipe the data base file.
Give textra a try. They use their own separate SMS data base. So that might help.
Other then that you might spend an evening backing up and flashing a stock clean build.