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
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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.
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Does anyone know of a program that backups sms text messages preferably to a pc program (outlook would be good) or exactly where they are stored on the phone so that can back them up and restore them. Also recent calls and call timers etc: where is this info stored in the phone?
Sms Backup
hi,
well i am also facing this problem i want to backup sms but i dont think there is any way to backup sms and restore on the phone but there is a way to keep all ur sms on pc
search this "Jeyo Mobile Extender for Outlook 1.1"
this is a good one u can also send sms using ur pc..
it will be trail but its crack is also available on net. so search it also..
well if u come to know any thing on the backup issue then do post it.
well.
tc,
Paras
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!
There are two people (at least) that I can't send text messages to. One is on AT&T and one is on Sprint so their carrier isn't the issue. And it doesn't matter which sms app I use.
When I use Chomp I get this result: "Unfortunately, chomp SMS has stopped."
When I use the stock messaging app I get this result: "Unfortunately, Messaging has stopped."
There is no existing thread with these people and their cell phone numbers are valid. When they send me texts everything looks normal on their end but I don't get the message.
I am bone dry stock.
Any ideas? This is very annoying and I probably will have the same problem with other people, I just haven't discovered it yet.
I've never heard of this issue before
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uscpsycho said:
There are two people (at least) that I can't send text messages to. One is on AT&T and one is on Sprint so their carrier isn't the issue. And it doesn't matter which sms app I use.
When I use Chomp I get this result: "Unfortunately, chomp SMS has stopped."
When I use the stock messaging app I get this result: "Unfortunately, Messaging has stopped."
There is no existing thread with these people and their cell phone numbers are valid. When they send me texts everything looks normal on their end but I don't get the message.
I am bone dry stock.
Any ideas? This is very annoying and I probably will have the same problem with other people, I just haven't discovered it yet.
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Did you accidentally Block them ?
prboy1969 said:
Did you accidentally Block them ?
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I don't think so. How do I check? When I long press their names in the contact list I see an option to "add to reject list" which suggests they aren't blocked. How else can I check?
I don't think I've blocked anyone. Is there a way to check everyone I've blocked? And on a related note, what happens when I add someone to the reject list? If they call me will they go straight to voicemail or what?
uscpsycho said:
I don't think so. How do I check? When I long press their names in the contact list I see an option to "add to reject list" which suggests they aren't blocked. How else can I check?
I don't think I've blocked anyone. Is there a way to check everyone I've blocked? And on a related note, what happens when I add someone to the reject list? If they call me will they go straight to voicemail or what?
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Are you opposed to rooting and trying out a ROM? I honestly don't know what's going on, but if it's crashing your sms programs, it sounds to me somehow software or settings related (but I've never seen anything that could do that). Since it's most-likely software related, I'd bet a fresh install would solve it.
But that being said, it's a really bizarre thing to have happened.
I'd try erasing the problem contacts and re-adding them before going too far into it. Very odd problem though, thats for sure!
It does not sound like you have anyone Blocked / Rejected. Did you install any apps before the issue started?
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Honestly, I have never heard of this before. Usually, I would never want to bother sprint tech, but I would go show them and see what they think. That is very odd. Have you tried a factory reset? (Backup everything first)
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So I'm in a major bind. I realized that the problem was for anyone who I didn't already have a sms thread with. If I send/receive text messages with someone that has an existing thread, it works fine. If they don't have a thread send/receive text fails as I described.
I tried uninstalling Chomp SMS and that didn't help. So I figured there might be some corruption in my text message store so I backed up my sms & mms and then deleted everything. Now I can't send/receive text messages from ANYONE and when I try to restore my text messages it fails. I backed up with two different apps to be safe and they both failed.
At this point it seems like the only option is a factory reset. Does anyone have another suggestion to fix this?
Before doing a factory reset I'd like to back everything up but I'm not rooted yet and to make matters worse I'm on vacation with my Mac rather than my Windows laptop -- so rooting is not possible. I don't want to do a factory reset and lose everything but I can't be away for this many days without the capability to send/receive text messages. Especially since people who are texting me have no idea I'm not getting their texts. FML
Turn on Mobile Data. Update Profile & PRL, Turn off your mobile data.
Backup export your contacts list. should be like a
Contacts.VCF file.
And backup your SMS messages if possible
Go into applications / All Applications > Wipe Data for both messaging apps + Wipe Contacts list.
Turn off your sync for contacts.
Reboot your device.
Open up both messaging apps and tweak / change what ever you need in the settings for both applications.
Turn on your data and reset LTE/CMDA CMDA/EVDO back and forth once
Reboot your phone.
Import your contacts list.
Re-sync your contacts.
Then try messaging them.
If that doesn't work then I have no clue what'll help with your issue being non-rooted.
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Turn on Mobile Data. Update Profile & PRL, Turn off your mobile data.
Backup export your contacts list. should be like a
Contacts.VCF file.
And backup your SMS messages if possible
Go into applications / All Applications > Wipe Data for both messaging apps + Wipe Contacts list.
Turn off your sync for contacts.
Reboot your device.
Open up both messaging apps and tweak / change what ever you need in the settings for both applications.
Turn on your data and reset LTE/CMDA CMDA/EVDO back and forth once
Reboot your phone.
Import your contacts list.
Re-sync your contacts.
Then try messaging them.
If that doesn't work then I have no clue what'll help with your issue being non-rooted.
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I tried this, it didn't work.
Now I have another problem. When I try to sync my contacts, after restoring them from the backup, I'm getting an error. The error says "Sync is currently experiencing problems.It will be back shortly." Maybe it will be back shortly but in my experience with a similar problem with calendar syncing a couple years back, this is not so easy to fix.
Any suggestions?
Your firmware and base is updated to MD4 right?
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Have you tried Go SMS Pro Using this method?
Download from Google play
Open application and go to settings
Click Advanced Tab.
Click MMS Settings
Checkmark Fill APN Configuration Manually.
Code:
MMSC
http://mms.sprintpcs.com
MMS Proxy
68.28.31.7
MMS Port
80
Force Close application, and then reboot it, and now try sending something SMS or MMS.
Yes, I'm on MD4.
I actually think MD4 may have something to do with this. The first time I noticed the problem was right around the time I installed MD4. It was within a day, either right before or right after. For some reason Sprint pushed MD4 to may waaaaay after everyone else got it which is why I just recently got it.
I tried your Go SMS Pro technique but got not joy. The stock messaging app still crashes. Go SMS doesn't crash when I send messages but nothing is actually sent. And whenever someone sends me text messages I still don't get them.
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:
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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.
If you haven't heard by now, there's been some strings in the Android Messages app indicating that there are going to be some new features coming to the app, potentially including RCS enabled by Google.
That sounds all fine and dandy; there's a number of benefits to rcs over sms. One problem though, is there doesn't seem to be a way to back them up. I'm someone who likes to back up all of my text messages - I've been using SMS backup and restore to do weekly backups for a little while now, and can take the resulting xml file anywhere i need to, and carry my texting threads to a new phone if I need to.
So when RCS inevitably becomes available (i'm on project fi), how can those be backed up? I've been searching all over for a while, and there doesn't seem to be a solution to this yet. Are they stored in the same directory as regular text messages? Why can't apps that backup sms/mms messages also backup rcs messages? is it just a matter of them being updated to include the capability, or is there a technical limitation to that?
tl;dr How can you backup rcs messages?
Unfortunately, you will have to downloada third party texting app. I'm having the same issue with my tmobile s9. I'm using the Mood messenger app. So far so good. Hopefully sms back up and restore comes up with an update supporting this RCS crap..