Just putting it out there to see what recommendations people have for SMS/MMS applications.
I've been using GO SMS but the new backup to cloud and needing a GO id doesn't sit well with me.
Any suggestions?
So deactivate all the extra features from GO?
Handcent SMS is better
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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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So, with the death of MyPhone I'm looking for an alternative way to sync/archive/delete SMS messages from my phone easily. Since the phone slows to nothing with too many SMS messages on it I loved how I could go into MyPhone and easily delete messages from contacts I didn't care about (twitter, short codes, etc) and archive the ones I wanted to save but not keep on the phone.
Any suggestions to replace this functionality? I've found the BestBuy M:IQ works pretty good for everything else but this.
So I'm currently using GoSMS for group messaging and it actually works pretty well for grouping up messages if I was messaged as part of a group. It uses MMS to in order to make this function possible
The problem is that performance suffers tremendously when I get several at a time. I remember driving one day when friends were texting back and forth about something and I had to stop the car because my phone was completely stuck on just managing the text messages. GPS or any other apps would not run properly during the texts
Hoping there is an alternative even if it is paid
I have Samsung galaxy S2 upgraded to 4.1.2 … Tests here apply to my machine, but you can be sure, they can be repeated on a lot of other phones. I can not be sure on which one.
When you have several SMS apps, if you sent SMS by one app, randomly one of the other apps sent same SMS again. Each app sent once… but phone sent in double, so network operator charge in double.
In table bellow in red I mark, where this issue is very likely. Example: You sent SMS with the stock ‘messaging’ app… then … these apps will potentially try to sent the SMS too… zero sms, chomp sms, go sms pro, kk sms, easy sms, messenger.
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It is likely, in different times, different programs to be activated. On more modern phones, downgraded to older android, it will be no odd; single SMS to be sent in triple, four times or more.
Usually, if you have bystander apps what sent SMS, they can try to be in service for you and turn on your 2G by themselves and promptly do them job. They no care if SMS created in other app. They just want to be in service to you. This is serious bug in most SMS apps, I know how to fix it, but let SMS apps developers contact me for details.
I notice odd cases. Here described.
Textra mark messages by other programs like sent. But they are not sent. The message sent by textra is invincible to other programs, before sent.
Inside the chomp program, messages sent over chomp are well… but other SMS apps see these messages like sent by the receiver. Some apps detect these messages like not sent, and it is unclear how they’ll send them. This research, I do it without to send SMS, because it is difficult to hunt this problem down to minimal details. Each time, different apps are activated. We are in multitask environment.
Go SMS pro import spam in the conversations. Textra filter this spam in separate conversation.
Next SMS is jealous. It do not love SMS composed in competition app. But SMS by Next are well accepted by these other apps. And they kindly can try to be in service.
Other apps see messages composed in Messenger like already sent.
Resume. SMS apps are not well designed to work cooperatively each with another.
Solution. Chose your favorite SMS app, only disable the stock SMS app, and leave single active SMS app in the phone.
Do you know better way to upgrade SMS functionality compared to replace the stock app with other one? ( Example: how to replace it with two apps? ) Let me know, in reply to this post.
Just now, chomp complained with special notification to me that it wasn’t able to sent the SMS composed in five other programs. All doubts are definitely gone. Once again: SMS apps are very friendly, industrious in care for your job, they do it in double. You compose in one… SMS sent by other, etc…
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..