I see an area in the stock sense sms app for saved messages, but I don't see a way to actually save them. I'm tired of losing my texts when I change or reset phones & haven't found a satisfactory solution yet. Any idea how to use the save feature in the stock app?
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There's a nice app in the market that's free, it's called SMS backup and restore. Works on just about any rom and doesn't need root. it backs everything up to the sdcard so you can reinstall the app and just restore your texts after flashing a new rom or doing a data wipe.
Many thanks I hadn't heard about that app. I'll check it out.
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There's also one for MMS that batch saves all your MMS pics, audio, and video to a folder on your sd card. It's called Save MMS.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.schwimmer.android.mmsextract&feature=search_result
Thanks, times_infinity for the heads up on sms backup, too.
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I'm about to do a wipe -> clean install and I've got all my apps backed up with Titanium, but last time I restored, the only thing I lost that I even remotely care about were my text messages. How do you go about backing those up to the sd card?
TIA!
Oh and I use Handcent. I'd like to be able to import them back into it once I've reinstalled.
There's a free app in the market called SMS Backup and Restore. It's what I use and it works really well. Easy to use, does its job well, and you can configure it to backup on a schedule.
EDIT: I use Handcent as well and haven't had any problems backing up/restoring.
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There's a free app in the market called SMS Backup and Restore. It's what I use and it works really well. Easy to use, does its job well, and you can configure it to backup on a schedule.
EDIT: I use Handcent as well and haven't had any problems backing up/restoring.
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Can I use this to transfer my SMSes to a new phone?
How would you recover your sms with Titanium Backup?
is that something possible or we have to use something else?
thanks
I was wondering that too. I have the paid version, love it, but I thought I backed up the messages as well. Apperently not though.
Did I miss the setting?
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There's a free program in the market that I used to back up and restore my SMS called SMS Backup & Restore (by Ritesh Sahu)
I've had no problems with SMS Backup+ from the market - it stores the texts and MMS to your Gmail and allows for backup and restore. Makes it real simple.
Titanium does backup the SMS data, but I don't remember where it does, and on my myTouch3G 1.2 it was kind of buggy restoring it (though it mostly works). I think it's the data from Dialer Storage 2.2 that houses the SMS/MMS?
Handcent now backups sms/mms
I used to use SMS backup from above post, but it wasnt able to do mms' (at that time) so I tried Mybackuppro (in the market) and it works perfect. plus it does other backups too. I ended up buying it.
I used to have problems with Titanium with sms/mms, but I havent tried any recent versions.
I use MyPhoneExplorer. It syncs everything on your phone to your PC.
this could be outdated info now, but when i used titanium backup to backup sms/mms, it would make a backup of the phone dialer and the associated files from /system. This is not the best way to backup the sms's since a new rom may have made modifications to this.
i recommend sms backup and restore, which is what i use myself. titanium backup is great for apps and app data though!
Sorry for bumping and old thread but this brings up a question. Would any of these be able to create a backup of your SMS/MMS and convert them over to a text file of some sort so you can print up records of them? I remember when I had a Blackberry I used to be able to do this with software I purchased for it. This would be a great feature I would be interested in using. I tried searching for something that discussed this but came up with nothing. Sorry if its been covered before. Thanks in advance.
To back up texts just make a back up of Dialer Storage [SMS/MMS] and restore.
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I think marvzuno wants something that can backup AND convert the message to a text file to be read on a computer or something, not only a backup...
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To back up texts just make a back up of Dialer Storage [SMS/MMS] and restore.
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I'm looking for something more like the poster below was talking about. Thanks for the info though. This will be useful just for the backup process.
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I think marvzuno wants something that can backup AND convert the message to a text file to be read on a computer or something, not only a backup...
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Yes, Something that would convert the backup file into something I would be able to view on a computer. ANy suggestions or ideas on this?
I'd like to put in my vote for SMSBackup+. The restore feature doesn't always work perfectly, but the backup has never failed me. stores it as plain text in your gmail, which is then searcheable.
Love SMS Backup+, saves them to Gmail and can also pull them back to the device as other people have said, works great, no issues!
Is there a way of backing up the "Quick text" in the default messaging program? I backup with tiantium backup, and haven't seen how to do it. I usually don't restore the messages wiht TB - I have tried various backup programs.
I don't know about the stock app, but you can save quick texts using handcent.
If you back up the app and data using Titanium it should backup your quick texts too. When you flash a new ROM or wipe for whatever reason you should be able to get back your quick texts by restoring either the data for the messaging app or the whole app itself.
As far as the texts themselves I recommend SMS backup&restore from the market, it has a "check for duplicates" feature that's great.
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If you back up the app and data using Titanium it should backup your quick texts too. When you flash a new ROM or wipe for whatever reason you should be able to get back your quick texts by restoring either the data for the messaging app or the whole app itself.
As far as the texts themselves I recommend SMS backup&restore from the market, it has a "check for duplicates" feature that's great.
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So if this were the case, then wiping the 'Messages' would restore any changes to the quick messages. However, it has no effect. Restoring the message prefs program on a new rom also does not restore quick texts.
As far as finding an alternative, I did find another messaging app. However, I was hoping to not have 2 programs on my phone that do the same thing.
what all are you guys using to migrate your app data from your current phone to the Note 4? Helium has been my go-to for awhile but i wanted to know if there were any other options out there that i should consider too. (moderators forgive me if this is a duplicate topic, i didn't see any in this forum thus far)
I honestly wouldn't even bother transferring app data over unless it is extremely important. I wouldn't want to carry files from an old phone to a new one. Keep it fresh and don't bring over dirty files. May not do anything bad but just my take. Kinda same thing when you wipe data when flashing roms. Dirty flashing can lead to unwanted issues, just as carrying over files from another phone can.
Unless you find a good app to do so. Keep us posted.
thank you. i'm primarily interested in retaining my game data, such as Subway Surfers, Clumsy Ninja, Angry Birds, etc, where it's taken awhile to level up and i would hate to start fresh. i also always transfer text messages and call logs as well. i use SMS Backup/Restore for my texts, Helium for system settings and other app data, and Verizon Cloud for my call logs. i never rooted the S5, been so busy with work i haven't had time to look into tinkering with those settings, so i know that Titanium Backup would not be an option.
Good question. . . I have used Titatnium Backup in the past problem there however is root on N4.
What tu3218 does make sense as well unless you had some way to guarantee or verify it wasn't going to create a bunch of junk in directories which shouldn't exist.
If someone has a good solution I would like to hear it as well. I have three 2-step verify apps which would be nice to just transfer rather than removing and adding manually.
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I bought the full version of Helium and that will transfer all save game data. I downloaded all my apps fresh from the play store after I activated the note. I then used Helium to restore a backup of the games I wanted to keep my save data on.
I also used reware my backup pro to restore my call logs, small, and mms message database.
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I bought the full version of Helium and that will transfer all save game data. I downloaded all my apps fresh from the play store after I activated the note. I then used Helium to restore a backup of the games I wanted to keep my save data on.
I also used reware my backup pro to restore my call logs, small, and mms message database.
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+1 - Righ on cbdudek. That is exactly how I would do it.
* My backup will restore - call logs, contacts, sms, mms etc..
* Helium to restore games' backup
*Not recommend to restore system settings, or old apps. Download fresh from play store. The theory is every time you move into a new house, you need to do a good clean up and throw out all the junks....
appreciate it everyone. about to give Helium a go and see what happens. rather than restoring all of my app data, i only backed up the game data this time around, so we will see how that goes. i'll let you all know in the morning what happens. how do you like your Note 4's thus far?
i never use titanium or any auto backup method to transfer files to a new fone. it always causes tiny little glitches here and there. Best thing to do is start fresh. For contacts and calendar its all on my GMAIL. for text messages I use GO SMS so i can backup and restore within that app no problems. I use nova launcher so i can backup my home screen and all my other screens and restore it with nova no issues. beyond that its all manual input. I have a few remote dvr viewing apps and i configure all those again manually as well as all my mail settings and what not.
Helium works best without root and you can migrate the app over wifi.
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Doesn't your Google account back up app data???
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Doesn't your Google account back up app data???
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Only some apps.
I frequently flash my phone and change try different SMS apps. The issue is that it doesn't seem like any of them use one consistent backup file format.
Recently I was on CM12 but didn't like losing all the cool camera features from the stock ROM. Now I'm on BadBoyz using Textra/HTC Messaging but cannot restore my text messages from the CM12 Messaging app.
I used a backup/restore app from the play store but that wasn't able to restore either. Then I tried getting the CM12 Messaging app but have not been able to get it to run on BB ROM -- it crashes as soon as I open it.
Anyone have ideas how to restore my messages? Or can you point me to some kind of resource as to how SMS backups should be done -- maybe there's some way to change the database format from one app's preference to another's.
I used an app called SMS backup+ that backs up to your gmail and can restore the sms back to your phone. It's great and has saved me multiple times.
I would recommend sms backup and restore by ritesh sahu or go for titanium backup.
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+1 also for sms backup by Ritesh, last time i restored sms there were 5300 messages, no problems at all.
Also get call logs backup by Ritesh, its just as good for call history.