[Q]Backing up messages, and call logs - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'll divide into both;
Messages; I am happily backing up my sms using sms backup and restore; and when i flashed a new rom, i had no problems with it restoring my sms. but i have one question, why all my mms didnt appear? t just appeared as blank messages. i would love if my mms would be shown in the messages too.
Call logs; I tried myBackupProand restored my call logs. the problem is, after restoring my contacts, and restored the logs, it wont recognize the contacts. it just shows the numbers, not the contact name that i saved. is there any other apps that does this perfectly? i've installed Call logs backup and restore but i kinda afraid to use it cuz afraid it'll be the same as myBackuPro. if someone could enlighten me would be great.
Thanks!

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How to restore SMS after flashing??

Hello everyone,
Having a problem since flashing from stock WM 6.1 rom over to a 6.5 Rom like Mighty Rom.
Can't seem to restore my old sms text messages properly. Tried PIM Backup, SPB backup and Microsoft Myphone with no luck.
I mean they do actually restore the messages except they are scrambled and not in order by the correct date and time. This means when I go to view a threaded convo or use the manila "reply" option the previous text conversation is there but not in the order in which it was originally. This is unfortunately not much help.
I'm not sure if this is a known issue with flashing from 6.1 to 6.5 or not but if anyone knows a way to successfully do this it would be very appreciated.
Well apparently found a fix but didnt really fix it. Someone suggested restore the sms, turn off threaded sms, soft reset, turn it back on and soft reset again. That did resolve placing them in order when I click on "all messages" and in the text message inbox and threaded convo they are all in order.
My problem now lies in the manila sms threading. As in when you scroll to the sms tab, flick through messages and click on the screen and it takes you to a threaded convo showing you a small pic of that person and gives you the little text box on the bottom of the screen to enter a reply and you press "send" on the screen.
Anyway on that screen all previous messages are still scrambled. If anyone knows a fix please share!! Thanks!!
Same problem here. Hoping someone has a solution; it's not critical in any way, but annoying.
I restored with PIM backup after turning off Threaded messages. Then I turned on threaded messaes and the phone takes about 2 hours to sort 3000 SMS. I can see now threaded messages but also have the problem in Manila SMS's threading. New messages come in the right order but restored wont.
I think we need some kind of back up utility that restores messages one by one, from older to newer, both sent and received mixed up. Restore utility at PIM backup will restore Received messages then sent messages and thats why Manilla scrambles. Any idea?

PIM Backup texts

Whenever I backup my texts and restore them after flashing a new ROM, I seem to have an issue where my texts aren't restored in the order that I received them. This makes things troublesome as they are no longer in conversation form. Is there anyway to fix this issue? Thanks.

Recovering data, SMS issue

Hey guys, I have just tried doing a hard reset and recover using the built in backup. It restored my data perfectly after the hard reset, although now when I recieve messages, the message does not go under the correct conversation.
For example I already have a conversation with BOB and JANE. I get a sms from JANE, which shows up inside BOB's conversation.....
I installed handcent sms which I guess I will uninstall and see how it goes. Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue?
So far the only way to resolve this in my experience was to delete ALL sms threads. All the sms I am now receiving are going to the correct conversations. What a stupid bug.
I just went into my gf's conversation on my phone, then sent a sms through it, it went to my boss....WTF? I get a sms back from him and it goes into my gf's conversation.....

[Q] How Can I Save Call Log

Is there a way to save then reinstall the call log? Can someone tell me the location of the Call Log or Call History file / directory? I'm installing a different ROM and want to save it. What about saving SMS's. Where are they stored?
There are apps for both of those, I've seen them on the market but I'm not sure of the names
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
I use Mobile Backup 2 to back up my sms & call log. I have over 6000 texts that I backup (most are from my son in the Army - when I start missing him too badly I go back and re-read them). This works great to restore.
If you use Handcent for your messaging MB2 will restore your messages backwards (oldest on top) but the stock messenger is perfect.
Check out SMS Backup + it backs up SMS, MMS and call logs to your gmail account. You can also restore SMS and call logs to a new ROM but not MMS. You can set it up to continuously back up either hourly or daily or just on demand.
Be careful on your initial backup though, it only does the first 100 messages per contact, so run the backup, delete the messages it backed up, then run the backup again and repeat, continuing the process until everything is backed up. After that it will work smoothly. It's also great because you can delete SMS from your phone which take up a surprisingly large chunk of internal storage.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

[Q] Messaging: Keep old SMS?

I'm not sure if it's a bug or a feature in the Messaging SMS app on LineageOS 14.1, but there doesn't seem to be a setting to permit keeping old SMS messages anymore.
I was on CM 13 on my i9100 and just migrated to LOS 14.1. I used the "experimental" migration LOS ROM (which I had saved in February: 20170226) as an interim before flashing the 0412 "weekly".
After the update everything seemed basically OK. There were a few system settings I had to redo by hand, but that wasn't a big deal. I checked my phone call log, and everything was there, but then I checked my SMS history in the Messaging app, and it was empty.
I don't use SMS a lot, but what I use, I like to keep. I had the default CM13 (and earlier) Messaging app set to keep all old messages, no automatic deletions. Never had a problem before, even during upgrades.
Anyway, after I found my old SMS missing, I went into Titantium Backup (latest update) and did a restore from the TWRP Nandroid backup I did before upgrading, only the Messaging app data. Then I went back into the Messaging app, and there were my old SMS texts. Great!
Then the strangest thing happened. The messages started disappearing! The screen refreshed a few times, messages appeared as others vanished, and in a few seconds I was staring at an empty list. I checked the "Archived" list just in case, but it was empty as well. (Later I found this action was reproduceable: restore from Nandroid, SMS appears at first, then dynamically disappears.)
So I wondered about the "keep old messages" setting in the Messaging app, and went to check it. But it's not there anymore! The LOS 14.1 Messaging app appears to have a lot fewer settings than the CM 13 app: no maximum SMS or MMS, no "delete old messages" to uncheck, nothing!
I've tried using other SMS apps from the Play Store, as well as Carbonite "SMS Backup and Restore", but I can't seem to get them to recognize the restored SMS. Only the new LOS 14.1 Messaging app seems to recognize them, and only long enough to delete them.
I've been trying various things like setting the default SMS app to something else, but I haven't been sucessful in keeping my SMS. It's very frustrating, knowing that they're there, but I can't access them.
Anyway, if anyone has any advice on what I should do, and why the new Messaging app won't let you keep old messages, I would appreciate it. Thanks!
Workaround found
OK, I managed to find a workaround. In my case it helped to have a second "spare" i9100 to work with, which allowed me to have one on CM13 and one on LOS14.1, but it should also work with a single phone, with a lot of overhead jumping between CM13 and LOS14.1 nandroid restores.
1) Restore CM13 with the working Messaging app, and all the old messages there. Install "Carbonite SMS Backup and Restore" and backup the SMS.
2) Go back to (or restore) LOS14.1, and use Carbonite to restore SMS.
3) Start LOS14.1 Messaging, and the SMS stays this time!
I'm not sure why this worked. Is the "delete old messages" setting gone in the Messaging app because the functionality is gone? Then why did the messages disappear when I did a Titanium nandroid extraction? It's all very confusing. At least now I have lots of SMS/MMS backups if something goes wrong again, about 500 messages in 1.5 MB.
Hope this workaround helps someone else in this situation.
I have the same issue now. Did someone find a solution as I don't have a CM13 to try the mentioned workaround?
BTW, I see the following messages in logcat, but I have no clue why the messages are deleted:
Code:
11-29 12:20:14.198 10203 10250 I MessagingAppDataModel: SyncMessagesAction: Updated local database (took 54 ms). Added 0 SMS, added 0 MMS, deleted 80 messages.
11-29 12:20:14.497 10203 10258 I MessagingAppDataModel: SyncMessagesAction: Updated local database (took 115 ms). Added 0 SMS, added 0 MMS, deleted 592 messages.
11-29 12:20:14.762 10203 10265 I MessagingAppDataModel: SyncMessagesAction: Updated local database (took 118 ms). Added 0 SMS, added 0 MMS, deleted 1000 messages.
11-29 12:20:14.914 10203 10267 I MessagingAppDataModel: SyncMessagesAction: Updated local database (took 33 ms). Added 0 SMS, added 0 MMS, deleted 544 messages.
Thanks in advance,
meiser
hey,
my comment will be a bit late, and apologyze for that.
As far as I can understand, you have a problem of synchronization when the backup application become the default message app. This is like you have zero message in archive and the system want the same on both side: archive and message store on your phone. It take long and progressively when there is a lot of messages.
Anyway, this is not a standard behaviour, unless you enabled a special option.
My best bet to solve it, would be to backup call and messages with SuperBackup, copy it on external storage. Then clean and re-install CM (or LineageOS).
If you use a Google account, let Google sync your messages and call log (Google messages backup is sometimes unreliable and archive uncomplete).
If you are not sure everything is here, just delete all call and messages. Then restore it from SuperBackup.
I leave all default parameters as is.
This is how I get it done.

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