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SMS backup

I'm gonna do a hard reset on my Qtek9090 anyone knows how to make a backup of my SMS:s ???? and how to restore them after?

in french i found this article
http://www.smartphonefrance.info/backup-sms.asp
with google traductor ...
i am french (my englis is poor)
if you understand ask mee...

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Hi the_erk!
But thats for smartphone only. :roll:
I think Sprite Backup may be able to do the job, here:-
http://www.spritesoftware.com/products/sprite_backup_premium.html
provided you know where the sms are stored :roll:

Try Sprite backup..
you can backup EVERYTHING, and restore selectively.
this includes mail, sms, settings, contacts, as well call list and such..
hope that helps..

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Hi AntiProxy,
Can you do selective backup instead of everything using Sprite Backup?
Thanks

You could also use Jeyo mobile companion or outlook add-in, available here:
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14070
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14071
These allow you to manipulate and send SMS messages on your device, including copying them to your PC.

how come when i send a SMS (text message) a copy isnt saved in the'sent folder' ??

Anonymous said:
how come when i send a SMS (text message) a copy isnt saved in the'sent folder' ??
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From Inbox, go to Tools->Options and make sure Keep copy of sent mail in Sent folder is checked.

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FOSA said:
Can you do selective backup instead of everything using Sprite Backup?
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yup, you can choose to backup any of the following separately:
file system, Personal databases, mail, System Data
under File System, you may choose to backup individual paths
under Personal databases, you may choose any of the following individual DBs: Phone (Speed dials, Call logs), Categories, Contacts, Tasks, Appointments
under System data, you may choose any of the following:
Other Databases, File System, Registry.
so in short, yeah, you can backup anything and everything
i personally have it autorun at midnight taking a full backup onto the SD card, with 2 last backups retension..
i know it'll come in handy one day
with the generated backup files being self-contained executables, you can recover from a hard reset without a host computer

Try Jeyo
one of the BEST SMS utitlities for SMSing that I have used so far is the Jeyo Mobile Extender.
It allows you to backup all of your SMSes into the Outlook folders on your PC.
You can even send SMSes from the PC if your PDA is sync-ed.
It doesn't have the option of sending your smses back to the PDA though.
Check it out at www.jeyo.com
It didn't seem to work with my XDA, but worked just fine with the IIs.

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themarxx said:
one of the BEST SMS utitlities for SMSing that I have used so far is the Jeyo Mobile Extender.
It allows you to backup all of your SMSes into the Outlook folders on your PC.
You can even send SMSes from the PC if your PDA is sync-ed.
It doesn't have the option of sending your smses back to the PDA though.
Check it out at www.jeyo.com
It didn't seem to work with my XDA, but worked just fine with the IIs.
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Couldn't agree more its great I love it best little download yet

just to tell you, you can't backup subfolders of your sms
ie if you created any subfolders in the sms tree, jeyo doesn't back them up.

does anyne know how to back up incoming sms for XDA IIs?

Just re-read above post, it's already been explained....use sprite back up..mas

New Smsbackup Tool!!
Try this: http://www.zedsoft.net

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Try this: http://www.zedsoft.net
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Sorry for being off-topic, but I have searched and searched to my wit's end. Do you plan to have a version of SMS Organizer for the smartphone?

[Q] SMS backup

i was wondering if there is one file in the whole file structure that stores the sms / mms threads? ive been using mybackup pro to backup my sms and mms threads but it gets time consuming was wondering if there was a way to just pull that particular file off my nandroid backups (which file and what directory it's located in) and just push it onto my phone as opposed to running a program which takes a while to restore a couple thousand texts (i save all my texts)

For what it's worth, there is an app for free on the market called sms backup which backs up all sms messages to your gmail, in a special folder. There's also xarchive that'll do that with mms and photos as well, I think it's 2 bucks. Then you won't have your phone sluggish because of your messages, and you can easily search through them all.
Otherwise, I don't know an exact answer to your question, I'm sorry.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

There is no single file that contains all of the data, but SMS messages are contained in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db.
This file is as its extension indicates a database. The actual MMS payloads are in /data/data/com.android.providers/telephony/app_parts.
There was a tutorial somewhere on here that talked about extracting the MMS payload by reading the database file with SQLite Database viewer to determine which file in t he app_parts directory is the payload in question and then you would just rename it or something. I can't remember where it was, but a search should probably turn it up.
I'm in the process of trying to figure out how to migrate SMS/MMS from 2.1-update1 to Froyo - the database files are different formats so its not just a straight forward as copying.
Anyone confirm if Mybackup Pro correctly restores SMS/MMS into Froyo from a 2.1-update1 backup?
--M

i know for a fact that mybackuppro restores the sms and mms messages properly from 2.1 to 2.2
so im probably going to test this anyways but if i replaced the
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
from my nandroid backup would my old messages reappear??

ok no replacing that file only cause mms FC...
here's the problem with mybackup pro, it takes way too long to restore a big database and ive been testing too many roms to dedicate 2hrs a restore, sigh o well ill deal with not having all my sms for now

One thing I'm going to play with is figuring out if I can "merge" the database files manually so that I dont get the FC and can also bring up the MMS messages. Then maybe a script can be written to automate this.
Does MyBackup Pro actually restore everything in the correct order with timestamps, etc.? Why does it take so long...how many messages do you have?

at one point i had over 7500 sms, but it does everything correctly with a restore, timestamps and allllll....i wonder if mybackup pro doesn't already run a script to merge the databases...maybe someone could figure out a way to merge the databases on the computer which might be faster than doing it on the phone?

the databases from 2.1-update1 and froyo are sqlite 3 types, so it should just be a matter of merging them - there are a few new fields in the froyo database though which do seem to be related to sms and mms messages so I guess its just a question of figuring out how and then modifying the newer database with the old data...probably just easier to buy the program, but as you said if you have a lot of messages then its slow.

[Q] Best way to backup SMS and MMS

Basically, as the title states I'm looking for options for backing up my SMS and MMS messages.
'My Backup Pro' does a fine job but it doesn't save the time stamps. Once you restore they all show up as new messages basically.
I'm looking for a way to backup, or even better, automatically backup or sync my messages.
(Too bad Google doesn't have a messages sync option like it does with contacts and calendar)
Thoughts?

I havent found a way to backup both SMS and MMS together.
SMS Backup & Restore backs up SMS with the TS and you can restore the backup.
I use Handcent to back up MMS.
Does My Backup Pro backup both SMS and MMS? I should try that out later tonight

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I havent found a way to backup both SMS and MMS together.
SMS Backup & Restore backs up SMS with the TS and you can restore the backup.
I use Handcent to back up MMS.
Does My Backup Pro backup both SMS and MMS? I should try that out later tonight
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Yep, you have the option to backup both. You can also backup apps and data, or either or. I really like the app otherwise.

I use an app called backup to gmail. saves all my sms, mms, call logs
real time

you can save the mms and sms seperately onto your sd card. But as for backing them up the only reason the backup is if your trasfering to another phone or flashing roms. If your trasfering to another phone go to a cellphone store and they can back up messages on a maching called cellebrite and trasfers the complete state of the phone to the other. As for just flashing roms i believe titanium backup will back it up, or you can make a nandroid and dig deep in the nandroid and pull up the messages.

Doesn't titanium backup save those?
I've done several backups/restores here of the call log and sms. Time stamps appear to be preserved. I do believe TB requires root access though.

[Q] Combining Titanium Backups of SMS

Have been testing the new CoolBliss 3.5 ROM the past few days, but after getting a few sudden FCs, I decided to revert to a nandroid of RCMix for daily use. I had made Titanium backups before I started, in an attempt to preserve my sms conversations.
Before I could restore my messages, I received an sms from an important friend. Now what I have, is half a conversation stored as a TB, with the remainder from last night showing on my phone...essentially, I am unable to see three days of this convo. For personal reasons, I want to keep this conversation intact and complete...
I have a spare SD, so my hope is that I can make a TB of my messages as they are now and upload that to my PC. I would then also upload the backup I made early last night, find the appropriate files from both backups and mesh them into one, to be restored to my phone.
Is this possible, and more importantly, which files would I be wanting to extract and combine? Is there an easier way?

If I'm the one on your position, I would download SMS Backup Restore app on the market. Create a backup of the recent sms conversation. Then once I am sure that a backup file has been created on the sd card I would copy that same file on a PC just to be sure. I would then run TB to get the earlier messages and create another backup using SMS Backup Restore.
Then once you have both old and new sms backup files created using the SMS Backup app, I would do a restore. I believe it has an ability to restore several backup files into one continuous conversation.
I would suggest to check the options on the SMS backup app as it gives you an option to save all sms under one file or as individual files based on the time the back up was performed.
I haven't tried the thing you want to do in all honesty so there...
Good luck.

I'd be wary of SMS Backup & Restore because twice now it's wiped my SMS backup. I think it's basically corrupted the files when trying to restore. I know others who have had the same problem, though it's not the case for every user.
OMO.

[Q]Faster way to backup SMS?

II have around 23k messages and it tooks hours just to backup and to restore SMS after flashing rom everytime when I am using backup applications from playstore. Is there a faster way to backup like maybe a single file from /system or anything like that?

Probably not if you insist on keeping that many stored, which is a ridiculous amount of messages to keep on a Phone, I get sentimentality but still.

Titanium Backup is faster than sms backup app

Is TB accurate? When I first tried it, it lost a lot of my messages. I've stuck with SMS Backup and Restore which also has MMS backup now.

if rooted you can also get the database directly in :
data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
Check out permissions and reapply same when restoring ...:highfive: