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[Q] Help! All text messages gone!

So I went to bed last night, had my phone plugged in to my laptop charging and I got a text around midnight. it woke me up, I read it, put my phone back down and went to sleep. I just woke up and looked at my phone and the ONLY text message I have at all is now that text. All text before (thousands) are gone, deleted... I checked my crunchSMS and "messages" and there's just the one message in both. I'm using MYN's newest and everything else seems to be accounted for. Please let me know if there is any way to restore my texts (other than my backup, I got some important texts yesterday) Please let me know if you guys can think of anything.

ericmcintire said:
So I went to bed last night, had my phone plugged in to my laptop charging and I got a text around midnight. it woke me up, I read it, put my phone back down and went to sleep. I just woke up and looked at my phone and the ONLY text message I have at all is now that text. All text before (thousands) are gone, deleted... I checked my crunchSMS and "messages" and there's just the one message in both. I'm using MYN's newest and everything else seems to be accounted for. Please let me know if there is any way to restore my texts (other than my backup, I got some important texts yesterday) Please let me know if you guys can think of anything.
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You had just woken up and probably deleted them by accident. I'm sorry but I can't think of any way to recover them.
PS. My name is HondaCop and I approve this message.

My late night texts usually get me out of bed. But as handacap said once thryre gone, thats it.

HondaCop said:
You had just woken up and probably deleted them by accident. I'm sorry but I can't think of any way to recover them.
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I don't think that's what happened... could someone that easily delete every text they had?

ericmcintire said:
I don't think that's what happened... could someone that easily delete every text they had?
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Menu | Delete All
Easily can happen when you are messing around with the phone right after waking up and not being completely awake.
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I doubt you deleted them all by accident. I've had this happen to me twice now as well. Had you noticed the SMS program being sluggish lately? Both times it has happened to me I've had thousands upon thousands of SMS in the database and the app had slowed to a crawl. I think the app freaks out and corrupts the database or something which results in it just trashing the whole thing and recreating it from zero. Android already has an issue with the messaging app pulling up the wrong conversation/contact once in a while, for it to hose the whole database isn't much of a stretch from there lol.
The stock HTC messaging app doesn't even have a delete all option. You would have to go Menu -> Delete -> and then manually select each individual conversation in order to delete everything.

deathsled said:
The stock HTC messaging app doesn't even have a delete all option. You would have to go Menu -> Delete -> and then manually select each individual conversation in order to delete everything.
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Ouch, that sucks man. That's why I use ChompSMS.
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Same thing just happened to me right after installing the new juice defender
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There's an SMS backup that syncs to GMail. The app is free in the market. I would use that next time.
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This also happened to me like two days ago.
really quite lame...lost a lot of photos

The same thing has happened to me twice now. Thousands of messages gone. It happened today for no reason. I put my phone on silent while in an interview and when I got out I had one new text and all of the rest were gone. Total Bullsh!t!

I love deleting all of my texts, do it a few more times and you will feel free.

gqstatus0685 said:
There's an SMS backup that syncs to GMail. The app is free in the market. I would use that next time.
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i use SMS Backup and Restore. I have it configured to do automatic backups of my messages once a week, so at the worst i will lose one week work of messages in the event something goes wrong.

SMS Backup+ I have it set to back em up every hour.

(Q)Contacts Syncing Problem

Last night I updated my wife's Epic to DK28. The problem is her contacts are gone and syncing doesn't bring them back. Why wouldn't they have saved to her gmail am I overlooking something. I have flashed my phones a lot and never had this issue.
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check google/contacts online and see if her contacts are listed there. My wife had a similar problem and turns out when she added a contact she added them to her phone address book and not google.
http://www.google.com/contacts

They are not there is there a way to add them to Google after they are back in the phone?
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can you get them back on the phone? Are there a lot of them?

I had a similar problem on the syndicate rom a while ago. It would say it was syncing for a second then stop. I also noticed when i went to facebook.com and tried to install the app from there it thought my phone was something other than the epic. I resolved the issue by using a different ROM. I don't know if these things are related, but that might be a start...

Yeah luckily we found her old phone and transferred thru bluetooth but I am tryin to figure out how to get them to google in case this happens again. As far as the rom she was totally stock di18 not even rooted for 5 weeks and I updated her to unrooted dk28.
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rgregg504 said:
They are not there is there a way to add them to Google after they are back in the phone?
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You should be able to export them from contacts via the import/export menu option. This will create a file named something like 00001.vcf(vCard file) in sdcard/external_sd/. Then go to the google contacts and import it. Hope that helps!

Ok I will try that. Thanks alot guys.
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burneystarke said:
You should be able to export them from contacts via the import/export menu option. This will create a file named something like 00001.vcf(vCard file) in sdcard/external_sd/. Then go to the google contacts and import it. Hope that helps!
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that is what I did.
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Ok I will try that. Thanks alot guys.
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Just make sure when she adds any new contacts that she adds them to google.

Stupid question but she does have syncing turned on in her contacts right? After they're restored try to force sync, then check her google account from a desktop/laptop to see if it worked.
I've not had much luck with the import export v card feature. I recently had to delete all contacts on my phone, then go to my google account via desktop, export all contacts to google.csv, delete all contacts online, then reinstall online from the google.csv file in order to fix a syncing problem.
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I think google may be having an issue at the moment. My phone is saying that Sync is currently offline and will be back shortly.

Yeah her sync is on I just don't get what happened. I have reflashed my epic about 10 times without issue. And my moment ugh probably 75-100. Never lost contacts it has been automatic since I got my first android.
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rgregg504 said:
Yeah her sync is on I just don't get what happened. I have reflashed my epic about 10 times without issue. And my moment ugh probably 75-100. Never lost contacts it has been automatic since I got my first android.
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After my last rom flash I had a situation where any time I added a contact on the phone it got deleted after syncing. No idea why but a google search lead me to others that had the same issue.
I think this OS still has a lot to be ironed out. I wish they'd stop adding features and just make a decent contacts app. I can't for the life of me figure out why I have to select which of the same four phone numbers I want to dial when I try to call a contact that is synced to multiple accounts, for example.
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sometimes when i have synching issues, i fix it by going into 'manage applications' and clearing the data for that app. i've had to do that with gmail.... it erases and re-synchs the app, and afterwards it works like normal. of course, only do it if she does indeed have her contacts backed up on Google... otherwise they will be gone. not sure if this will fix hers, but just saying it did fix my synching issues a few times.

GMail Sending Issues?

Has anyone been having issues with their Gmail not sending emails?
I have tried to send emails but I keep getting the "sending..." notification in the email header.
The syncing icon in the taskbar just keeps spinning.
Ive tried to reboot the phone, etc.
Nothing.
I"m on Caulkin's ROM.
This is really frustrating as I use my phone for work as well and it delays my response times to important Clients.
Thanks!

Yeah experimented that a couple of weeks a go and dont know what of the 3 things I did was the one that worked:
1)Go to settings/Applications/Manage Applications in there go where the gmail app is (Downloaded or All) and clear the app data
2)If it have been updated in the market search for it in your apps in the market app ...uninstall it and reinstall
3)The last option is to use Root Explorer to go to system/apps delete the gmail app there and from other source paste another copy of the gmail app
Hope it works
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I had the same issue on a stock rom (rooted). Turned out it was an app called Seal that was the culprit.

I learned that whenever I restore a backup, I have the clear data in Gmail or I get the same issue.
Not sure if it's the same cause for yours but clear data and send a test email. Pm me after, I'm interested to see if this works
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Wizard Knight said:
I learned that whenever I restore a backup, I have the clear data in Gmail or I get the same issue.
Not sure if it's the same cause for yours but clear data and send a test email. Pm me after, I'm interested to see if this works
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Yup.
That's exactly what did it for me.
I went from UnNamed over to Caulkins last week and did a Titianium restore of my app+data.
Cleared the data in Applications>Gmail. That did the trick.

GueroLonghorn said:
I had the same issue on a stock rom (rooted). Turned out it was an app called Seal that was the culprit.
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Haha that Seal is a ***** I had that happen to me as well

Saving SMS messages

I'm tired of losing all my messages every time i flash a new rom. How can i take them with me? I'm on miui at the moment. I figured i could save them to my SIM but miui doesn't seem to have the option. Can tibu back then up?
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Ends said:
I'm tired of losing all my messages every time i flash a new rom. How can i take them with me? I'm on miui at the moment. I figured i could save them to my SIM but miui doesn't seem to have the option. Can tibu back then up?
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Not sure about titanium, I don't think so though. I use sms backup and restore. Has worked flawlessly for me every time.
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Titanium does not backup SMS messages, these are stored in a database, i forget where off the top of my head but shouldn't be hard to find in the forums. You can manually copy this database before a rom flash and copy back afterwards, or back them up online using an app. There are atleast a handful, personally i use SMS Backup + by Jan Berkel. This creates an SMS folder to you gmail account and backs up the each sms indivdually to gmail which makes searching for a buried text a snap, and also allows you to access any message that has already been backed up from anywhere with access to gmail. Did i mention its free .

dntesinfrno said:
Titanium does not backup SMS messages, these are stored in a database, i forget where off the top of my head but shouldn't be hard to find in the forums. You can manually copy this database before a rom flash and copy back afterwards, or back them up online using an app. There are atleast a handful, personally i use SMS Backup + by Jan Berkel. This creates an SMS folder to you gmail account and backs up the each sms indivdually to gmail which makes searching for a buried text a snap, and also allows you to access any message that has already been backed up from anywhere with access to gmail. Did i mention its free .
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Agree...SMS Backup+ has been the best option for me as well. Works very well and like he said, its free!
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I found this in another thread regarding pulling SMS messages from a phone, although i haven't confirmed this is the correct (or only) location of the SMS database.
"You can get the sms database from /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases"

I use My Backup Root to save SMS/MMS and call log messages before a flash. It has the capability to back up apps too, but TiBu does a better job on apps.

I use My Backup also. I liked it enough I bought the pro version. Use it every flash for SMS, call log, bookmarks, apps and there data. The free version does all this. The pro version allows you to restore backups to a different phone, only difference between free and paid versions. One quirk I've found is that restoring apps and data you have to do apps, reboot, then restore app data. Other than that its great.

SMSBackup+ for me... never had a problem with it.
jethro650 said:
I use My Backup also. I liked it enough I bought the pro version. Use it every flash for SMS, call log, bookmarks, apps and there data. The free version does all this. The pro version allows you to restore backups to a different phone, only difference between free and paid versions. One quirk I've found is that restoring apps and data you have to do apps, reboot, then restore app data. Other than that its great.
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I use titanium backup and works perfect for sms and mms. Hit the menu button and select backup data to xml and select the sms option. Also works great for call log backup. To restore just hit menu and select restore from xml.
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I was not aware of this, although i do like having my sms's backed up to gmail this is good to know.

The Titanium Backup option sounds good, I didn't know that..
But I use SMS Backup either way.. 60% of the time, it works everytime..

Yeah, TiBu does back up mms and sms messages, I have used the restore and backup many times and its has worked perfectly every time.

Thanks for the replies guys. I personally like the tibu option. As long as I've had the app, i never knew it did that. Tibu is a must have. So it's best to use it beings you've already got it. I'm one that prefers not to have dozens of apps downloaded. I get by as simple as possible. I checked on some of the recommendations and some of them don't backup mms. Thanks for everything guys
Thanks for everyone. :cheers:
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Hi,
Titanium even allows to batch the backup of SMS/MMS, but also Call logs, Bluetooth associations and WLAN networks in XML. It even syncs the backup to Dropbox.
A must have as far as I am concerned when often flashing new ROMs.
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I use a app called SMS back up and restore And another called call logs back up and restore. They will save to either internal or external card. Great app. Doesn't same pic messages though
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MonitorMonkey said:
Agree...SMS Backup+ has been the best option for me as well. Works very well and like he said, its free!
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I use this also, works like a char
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Looking for SMS backup

I used to use SMS backup plus to save texts from the ex wife to my gmail account. On my OG EVO it worked perfect. With the LG Optimus G it doesn't save incoming texts to my gmail account, only outbound. First, does anyone know a fix for this?
If there is no fix, can anyone suggest another app that will backup texts to my gmail? Currently, I'm using the stock messaging app, but not opposed to a 3rd party app like go sms pro. As long as I can specify which thread to backup to my gmail. Would like it to have a nice popup option too when the screen if off (like SMS Popup), but that is just a nice option not needed.
I like to backup these texts from her in case she decides to try some funny court stuff, or doesn't remember agreeing to something related to our child. It's a safety measure.
Thanks.

I have been using that app with success, it backs up inbound and outbound in order on my gmail... Thats weird, what rom are you on?
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I would recommend an app called sms backup +
It will backup your messages to a label of your choice in your account
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ramnex said:
I would recommend an app called sms backup +
It will backup your messages to a label of your choice in your account
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I have used this and it works.
My personal recommendation is Google Voice. While it doesn't restore messages to your phone, it will keep a record of every single text message sent/received that can also be accessed online.

As a tech, SMS Backup is a nightmare. I can't count the number of times a phone has come in with thousands of text messages (the record is 43K messages) that barely boots because of it.
The customer has SMS Backup installed and after we spend the time doing a hard reset they then restore the text messages. Now all that time was wasted as the phone needs to be hard reset yet again and it's somehow our fault. In some cases where there is a tin of messages, SMS Backup corrupts messages and messaging app data.
Now that I've given my $0.02, if you are going to use a backup app, try "Super Backup". It's backups are very similar to the Cellebrite machine that we techs use to backup contacts and text messages. I've even been able to restore messages on the Cellebrite using a "Super Backup" SMS backup file.
From the Super Backup thread;
"You can backup apps & contacts & SMS & Call logs & Bookmarks & Calendars to the SD Card or Gmail."
Now before you say Titanium Backup. Try to run Titanium Backup without root. You can't. Super Backup only needs and checks for root if you try backing up your apps.

jkrough0728 said:
I have been using that app with success, it backs up inbound and outbound in order on my gmail... Thats weird, what rom are you on?
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Stock Rom, not even rooted....yet.
ramnex said:
I would recommend an app called sms backup +
It will backup your messages to a label of your choice in your account
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That is the app that isn't backing up my incoming messages.
Since a few of you aren't having any issues with it, what settings are being used? As I said before, I had no issues on my evo 4g but doesn't want to save those texts from her with the LG.
I have no reason or desire to restore these texts back onto my phone. I just want them backed up to my gmail like sms backup + does, just in case I need them to cover myself.

sanity29 said:
Stock Rom, not even rooted....yet.
That is the app that isn't backing up my incoming messages.
Since a few of you aren't having any issues with it, what settings are being used? As I said before, I had no issues on my evo 4g but doesn't want to save those texts from her with the LG.
I have no reason or desire to restore these texts back onto my phone. I just want them backed up to my gmail like sms backup + does, just in case I need them to cover myself.
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if you dont get sms plus to work i too suggest google voice. sends every text right to your email

Best option is really to just have google voice.

AdriVelazquez said:
Best option is really to just have google voice.
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Never thought of using google voice that way. I guess it might be time to integrate voice with my sprint number soon then. Does it put the sms into gmail in a similar way that sms backup plus does?
I find it funny as I just went through some of those backup, and it did backup some incoming texts when I first got the phone. It just hasn't been working right since right before x-mas. I have now installed an older version of the app to see if that might work. If not I will look more into google voice. I already have gvoice but never really used it.

You will go to google.com/voice and login and there will be a text message label with all of them, it does work very well for that
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sanity29 said:
Never thought of using google voice that way. I guess it might be time to integrate voice with my sprint number soon then. Does it put the sms into gmail in a similar way that sms backup plus does?
I find it funny as I just went through some of those backup, and it did backup some incoming texts when I first got the phone. It just hasn't been working right since right before x-mas. I have now installed an older version of the app to see if that might work. If not I will look more into google voice. I already have gvoice but never really used it.
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LMAO, I would like to say in a Rodney Dangerfield voice, "I don't get no respect."
Maybe I should become a dev.
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Isn't this an invasion of privacy? No one questions why he's spying on his wife?
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I think you are confused. He is trying to back up all the conversations he has had with her on his own phone
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I'm not spying on my ex wife. I don't care what she is doing or up to. Just keeping a record of our conversations since we have a kid together and I'm sure she is doing the same thing. This is only for covering myself if we ever end up in court again.
Point is that the app isn't working. Still trying to figure out why.

sanity29 said:
I'm not spying on my ex wife. I don't care what she is doing or up to. Just keeping a record of our conversations since we have a kid together and I'm sure she is doing the same thing. This is only for covering myself if we ever end up in court again.
Point is that the app isn't working. Still trying to figure out why.
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Have you emailed the dev of the app?
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Have you emailed the dev of the app?
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I did before I started this thread, but haven't heard back yet. I might have figured it out in a round about way. Testing it now, but it seems to save both outgoing and incoming when I tell it to backup everyone and not just a specific group.

sanity29 said:
I'm not spying on my ex wife. I don't care what she is doing or up to. Just keeping a record of our conversations since we have a kid together and I'm sure she is doing the same thing. This is only for covering myself if we ever end up in court again.
Point is that the app isn't working. Still trying to figure out why.
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Totally misread...
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Jottacloud has sms mms backup, and it works great!