Hi,
I just purchased a Tab S7+.
After activating viber, I am not able to restore my messages as the restore/ backup menu is missing at all!
Does anyone have the same issue?
Any solution?
ATom_ said:
Hi,
I just purchased a Tab S7+.
After activating viber, I am not able to restore my messages as the restore/ backup menu is missing at all!
Does anyone have the same issue?
Any solution?
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I found the answer: "You must use your phone to backup your chat history; backup is unavailable on Desktop or Tablet."
So it is just not possible on tablet. Thanks the answer to myself
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I would like to know if anyone has found a way to increase the stored message limit from the max of 1000? I have a few contacts that I need to keep more then 1000 for quick access.. My old Captivate could disable it entirely.. I'm wondering if there is a DB setting i could change to disable it as the stock app doesn't have the option on it.
Any help is appreciated.
P.S.
please don't post saying/asking "why on earth would you want to do that" these posts are not necessary.
Thanks
I use Go SMS Pro and currently have over 3k messages stored (as backup files) and about 2k in my inbox atm.
There are many apps that will back up SMS also.
jgc121 said:
I use Go SMS Pro and currently have over 3k messages stored (as backup files) and about 2k in my inbox atm.
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I'm not keen on relying on backups to achieve this, I always find them hard to access. When you say over 2k messages in your inbox, are you saying from 1 person, or combined?
I tried it and I still have messages deleting.
WiredPirate said:
There are many apps that will back up SMS also.
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I'm not looking for backups. as if i restored the backup id have the same issue.
Surely someone out there has encountered this and fixed it.
Hi, I am coming from captivate to s3. I am not planning to root the device. So is there a way to transfer apps, sms, call logs from captivate?
cello_eisenhart said:
Hi, I am coming from captivate to s3. I am not planning to root the device. So is there a way to transfer apps, sms, call logs from captivate?
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TiBu for appdata.
SMS Backup+ to backup & restore SMS/MMS + Call Log to Gmail folders. (This should honestly be part of android)
'go backup' will do all of the above in a nice simple interface
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.
Sent from my EVO 3D GSM, using XDA Premium
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..
Sent from my Evo 3D GSM using xda premium
Anyone know the path to sms files?
What SMS files?
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imnuts;text messaging812 said:
What SMS files?
Sent from my Galaxy Tab 2
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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........
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.