Hi,
A friend of mine recently came into possession of a "maimed" S4. We are able to fix this, however, the data on the phone is incredibly important, more specifically, the text messages. It is critical that we recover them. The phone is not rooted.
My questions are:
1) Can we recover the messages without root through some computer software or application?
2) If we install some sort of application, do you think it will over-write the deleted text message data (We know that it stays on the device until overwritten)?
3) If we attach the phone via usb to a computer and set it to "usb mass storage," will that prevent data from being lost if we need to install an application?
Thank you in advance!
Anyone?
There is no way, that I am aware of, to recover deleted text messages. There might be a way If rooted. Good luck with your endeavor!
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You are taking data recovery. Expensive, if you have someone do it. If you are using something like Verizon messages, simply put another phone on the line/number, and tell it to sync your old texts. This will only work if the texts have not been deleted. Good luck! I do not use Verizon messages but I use the app to sync my texts when I change phones.
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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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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.
SecUpwN said:
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 XDA
I'am in dire need of your help and expertise. Last wednesday my LG G2 had a problem with its clock, and I have a feeling that it somehow conflicted with ingoing/outgoing messages - Is that even possible?
My real problem is that troughout wed-friday I had troubles recieving and sending SMS, or so I thought. 1 SMS that was sent to me on wednesday arrived friday and that it when I noticed that something was wrong. Afterwards every message I sent was almost instantly disappeared from my message app but my contact recieved the SMS even though. Also any incomming SMS would display in the notification bar and the dropdown function android has, but when I opened the SMS to the message viewer the SMS would disappear almost instantly before I could have a chance to read it through.I have a feelling the it is not deleted and stil resides somewhere within my phone. Can you help me find it or somehow restore it if that what takes?
Side note:
I've heard that you can use various android SMS recovery tools, but that should - correct me if I'am wrong - require a root of your phone. But if I root my LG G2, wouldnt the phone reset and the data get whiped along with my SMS ?
Thanks in advance.
Try using SMS backup and restore by ritesh sahu from google play store.
Aur backup ready the phone and then restore
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Hi Folks.
I've been using CyanogenMod11 for a few weeks now, and i was very happy when i realised that it has WhisperPush (TextSecure) integrated. However, a few questions came up when i started using it.
1. There seems to be no way of finding out whether or not my Messages are encrypted or not (when using the standard SMS App). Additionally, there seems to be no was of finding out if Messages were sent as SMS or as an online Message. I chatted with a friend of mine, who is using Textsecure with Android (not CM), and he told me that we were chatting via online messages, while i couldn't see a difference to normal SMS.
I would like to see if my messages are encrypted, and whether im communicating via sms or via data connection. I would like to know that before i send my Message, because otherwise, i might send important data via an unencrypted connection. Is there any way to do that, or will this feature be implemented in future versions? Is this even possible, to show a certain symbol when using my normal SMS app oder Google Hangouts or whatever?
2. As i can't find out if my Messages are encrypted or not, i also can't find out for which applications whisperpush is used. I read that it works with sms apps and with google hangouts, but could i theoretically just use any App with it? Could i, for example, chat encrypted with any Jabber client via whisperpush? (I know that i can also use OTR with Jabber, but it would be very convenient to just use all my apps and have them automatically encrypted by whisperpush).
Thanks for answers =)
Gasp0de
Hi All,
I'm new here, clearly. I did a fair amount of searching (albeit I may have overlooked the one thread to answer my question), but I need some help. I'm not familiar with the dev side of phones, nor am I very educated by any means.
I recently somehow deleted all of my texts on my vwz galaxy s4 32gb blackmist. I can see that when I open a contact and view the history - the text messages still exist there. I tried the Dr. Fone app by wondershare (and paid for it). Didn't work. I just rooted my phone to see if that would help, and while successful in the rooting, still have found that I can not revive my dead texts.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
Much thanks,
Matt
I too have deleted text messages from my phone when clean flashing ROMs. To restore, download the Verizon Messaging app from the Play Store. Set is as your default messaging app, and refresh the messages. Then open your regular messaging app and it should update with the old text messages.
After this you can uninstall the Verizon app. I use Hangouts for text messaging and for me it's a 3 step process: run Verzion meesaging, then load the standard Messaging apk, and then finally run Hangouts.
Good Luck!
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I too have deleted text messages from my phone when clean flashing ROMs. To restore, download the Verizon Messaging app from the Play Store. Set is as your default messaging app, and refresh the messages. Then open your regular messaging app and it should update with the old text messages.
After this you can uninstall the Verizon app. I use Hangouts for text messaging and for me it's a 3 step process: run Verzion meesaging, then load the standard Messaging apk, and then finally run Hangouts.
Good Luck!
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Thanks so much for the advice; I did download the vzw messaging app and set it as default. I don't see a "refresh" for this app - but have toyed around and think I've tried everything to no avail.
I'm trying my best here to not sound like an idiot - but I'm not sure how to 'refresh.' I still do see quite a bit of messages in the history of each contact.
Do i need to go into settings to make default app or simply just set it when it asks?
Any more advice?
Thanks again.
That app seems to imply that it only lets you restore messages that have been synced with Verizon in the last 90 days. That makes more sense. I didn't think they kept a user-accessible log of all SMS messages (could be wrong).
Every time I get a new phone I am baffled by the fact that no tool exists that can accurately transfer my sms messages to my new phone. "Sure there is, use SMS Backup and Restore"....that is a fantasy... I must be the only one for whom that software is useless given how much people like to recommend it, as I have tried using it many times only to have it restore a mangled up train wreck version of the messages it backed up. Isn't there some way to grab the sms database from the old phone as an intact file and swap it out with the new one, or some other way of that simply puts the messages that were on phone #1 exactly onto phone #2? Why can not even Google do that?
I'm going from chomp sms on a non-rooted pixel 2 running android 11 to chomp sms on a rooted oneplus nord 10 5g running android 11. have thousands of messages in a 2gb file generated by sms backup and restore.
any advice would be greatly appreciated
Hi, do you want to transfer text messages from one Android phone to the other one? If yes, try Coolmuster Mobile Transfer. It allows you to do that easily on the computer via USB cable. It's easy and safe. You just need to install it on your computer, start it. Connect both of the two phones to the same computer via USB cables. It will need you to enable the USB debugging on them when using it. A short time scanning later, you can transfer text messages between them directly. Please do remember that it's not free. Hope this will be your help.