I'm getting ready to be going to court and I need to show a lot of text messages from my phone. Most apps I've found backup to an XML file and it's really hard to navigate. I'm looking for something that will maybe backup to HTML or something like that.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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SMS backup in the market is what I use. It backs your SMS messages up to your Google account or titanium backup works well I hear.
Beezer80 said:
SMS backup in the market is what I use. It backs your SMS messages up to your Google account or titanium backup works well I hear.
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Yah SMS Backup+ backs it up to your Google account like an threaded email message, so you can easily PDF it or print it. I only got it to work right once, then it started giving me weird errors though.
SMS Backup & Restore is what I use, works really well, doesn't clutter your gmail account, though the ones posted above are much easier to print. Also check out mysms, it cloud syncs your texts between devices, with a webapp you can use print screen with.
Search for "Ritesh Sahu" in Google Play. The SMS Backup has a Dropbox plugin too.
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Hey Everyone,
I've got ALOT of accounts set up in K-9 Mail. It normally takes me about an hour and a half to re-set them all up.
I've tried this method linked below, but It didn't seem to work for me. I would install K-9 Mail, then import the exported files. I also tried Installing it, setting up one account, and then importing the files. Both cases, it doesn't seem to import any accounts.
http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/iss...pe Status Priority Milestone Owner Summary#c5
I have both Titanium Backup (Paid) and MyBackupPro, and I can't seem to figure out how to backup the account settings in those either.
Anyone know of a way to do this?
I'd like to know this as well.
My Dell Streak crashes regularly and restoring is not a painless operation!
I am going to give Nandroid a try.
Use Titanium backup.
I use the paid-version of Titanium Backup for all my apps and SMS Backup for texts, but what's the easiest for contacts and call logs? Google doesn't fully restore my contacts (for some reason there are some missing).
take a look at Call Logs Backup & Restore, it's free and it works like a charm
this author also has free apps to backup SMS and APNs
Are the "missiing" contacts on the desktop computer version of GMail? If so, they should all sync automatically. Are these contacts from Facebook, or SIM contacts? You might just need to sync your phone to Facebook before those contacts come up.
As a final idea, when you create a contact on the phone (at least with Sense ROMs), one of the things you get asked is where you want to store the contact. You get all your gmail accounts, exchange accounts and a Phone option. If you choose Phone, it will not sync with any online service, so that might be the reason why you loose your contacts.
For my case, I only store contacts on the Phone if I know I will delete them in the short term, that way if I change phone or have to wipe I get a free cleanup, but for contacts that I want to keep I always put them on some online account.
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mschmiedel said:
As a final idea, when you create a contact on the phone (at least with Sense ROMs), one of the things you get asked is where you want to store the contact. You get all your gmail accounts, exchange accounts and a Phone option. If you choose Phone, it will not sync with any online service, so that might be the reason why you loose your contacts.
For my case, I only store contacts on the Phone if I know I will delete them in the short term, that way if I change phone or have to wipe I get a free cleanup, but for contacts that I want to keep I always put them on some online account.
Regards
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i use a couple different back ups. Google backs things up, titanium back up, then I'm using sms back up and restore pro. I haven't lost a message or contact yet flashed about 8-9 times in a week since i started rooting.
So I got the new S4 from Tmobile and so far am very happy. Great performance.
I have been able to transfer most of my data, settings etc.
The problem I have is with one email account, that doesn't store messages online ( have a limit on how many messages I can keep online) using the default email application. There is no export/ import option. I want to transfer all the messages from my S3 (sent, received etc) to my S4.
I thought I'd try what I usually do once I rooted the phone, Titanium backup pro, copy backup files and restore in the S4.
The email version of the app in the S4 is 4.2 so I didn't want to restore app and data. I only restore data and rebooted like the program prompted me to do.
However, it doesn't look like the file was restored. when I launch email it still prompts me to create an account .
Is there a way I can transfer the email messages from one android email to another?
I thought I'd try to import it to a third party email app like k9 but the import function doesn't appear to work.
I have found many apps for transferring messages, contacts apps etc.. However, I didn't find anything for the default email app.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
Should I overwite the newer version with the older version with s3 using Titanium?
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
How to transfer contacts and texts from Samsung SIII to the 5t? Is there a smart switch or something for non Samsung phones?
Thanks
Your contacts should be linked to your Google account. If they're on your SIM (which IDK why anyone would do these days), you can save them to your Google account on your s3, then when you sign into your Google account on your 5T, they will sync. For calls and texts I use the SMS Backup and Restore app.
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Your contacts should be linked to your Google account. If they're on your SIM (which IDK why anyone would do these days), you can save them to your Google account on your s3, then when you sign into your Google account on your 5T, they will sync. For calls and texts I use the SMS Backup and Restore app.
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Thanks about the contacts restoration, I manually copied them by creating a vcf file last night. About sms backup and restore I tried many apps, they copy each sms individually but when we restore them they are sorted wrongly i.e. not as per dates. Is there any specific app to which you are referring to? Also is there any smart switch type of app for this purpose?
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Your contacts should be linked to your Google account. If they're on your SIM (which IDK why anyone would do these days), you can save them to your Google account on your s3, then when you sign into your Google account on your 5T, they will sync. For calls and texts I use the SMS Backup and Restore app.
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Thanks. Copied contacts by creating a vcf file and then restoring the same. For messages used many apps, they copy each sms individually but after restoring them they are not sorted date wise. Is there any particular app to which you are referring to? Also any smart switch type of app for this purpose?
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Thanks. Copied contacts by creating a vcf file and then restoring the same. For messages used many apps, they copy each sms individually but after restoring them they are not sorted date wise. Is there any particular app to which you are referring to? Also any smart switch type of app for this purpose?
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No prob. The name of the App is SMS Backup & Restore. Just search it in the Play store. It will batch backup all your calls and texts, then you can upload it to Google drive within the app. Search for the upload to G Drive setting in backup settings. Once complete, download the same app on ur 5T, sign in to Google drive within the app, and restore. It will warn you if you don't switch back to ur SMS app and select it as default SMS after restoring, you will not get texts until u do. It does this because it needs to be the default SMS app during restoration.
So I backed up call logs and contacts from titanium backup before and when I tried to restore it, it messed up my contacts and phone app. Contacts app cannot import contacts from google account, it shows error. while contacts from vcf files imports but it doesn't show up in app. phone app does not logs call history, though calling and recieving calls works perfectly. Any fix for this. I'm currently using third party contacts app and dialer app.
You can access the contacts in your google account at contacts.google.com, maybe have a look at them there first, and if they're good, delete the ones on your phone and synch again.
MarkRobert said:
You can access the contacts in your google account at contacts.google.com, maybe have a look at them there first, and if they're good, delete the ones on your phone and synch again.
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Contacts are there on my account, but contacts app is fails to import contacts from account or even from a vcf file. if i create a new contact than it also doesn't shows up in it.
Anyway I had to factory reset to resolve the issue.