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[Q] Titanium Backup : can you backup your sms?

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this could be outdated info now, but when i used titanium backup to backup sms/mms, it would make a backup of the phone dialer and the associated files from /system.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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flak0 said:
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.
daaango said:
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!

Remove Duplicate SMS

So I've been going a little flash crazy lately and I noticed I accidentally used SMS Backup and Restore a few times without clicking to check for duplicates. Now I've got LOADS of messages available 5+ times!
Is there any app I can use to remove all these duplicate messages instantly?
Solution: Using the same app, SMS Backup and Restore, the app will scan for dups in its backups and only restore 1 copy of the SMS if you use the check for dups feature while restoring.

same issue here

Using the said application to check for duplicate while restoring can do the trick?
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Too late now. The app checks if the SMS in the backup already exists in your SMS inbox. If it's there, then it won't copy it over. But since the SMS is already in the backup 5 times, it'll restore it 5 times.

I'm having the same issue.

Yann2011 said:
Using the said application to check for duplicate while restoring can do the trick?
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Actually you were right. It even checks the backup for duplicates and only restores one of the dups. That is the solution, in case anyone was wondering.

There is something in Titanium Backup that restores call logs ...

Restoring all green items in Titanium Backup will not restore call logs.
Restoring all items (green and red in the batch) will restore call logs.
I am trying to find the smallest group of red items in the titanium batch restore system data batch that will bring the previously stored call logs into a new flash.
There is at least one red item that is necessary for titanium to successfully restore call logs but I have found it very difficult to figure out what it is.
All green items plus phone 1.0 (which is red) will not restore the call logs.
In a related question, is there a way to list all of the system settings that are stored by Titaniumbackup? That way I might be able to google some and figure out exactly what they are storing.
sms backup+ seems to have an option for backing call logs to gmail. Trying it now, it is far far slower than titaniumbackup is, and if it is possible to just use TB, I'd rather that than send all of my call logs to the cloud rather than storing them on my sd card.
Another question, are there red items that are especially dangerous to restore? Which system settings are the most likely to cause problems such as freezing and force closes?
I'd imagine that it is possible to deselect the worst red settings while keeping the harmless ones and that it would be possible to restore call logs that way.

I havr only read your first sentence. I don't feel like reading all this.
There's an app for that. Called call log bak or something like that. I'm sure if you search the market Google will be good enough to present it to you.
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Sorry. I know reading is hard for some people. It's OK.
The apps I've found in the market don't back call logs to the SD card but to your google account. I'd rather find an alternative.
Edit:
Call Logs Backup and Restore does backup to and restore from the sd card. An apology is in order.
I still would rather do it with tb if that's possible. If anyone has any information it would be appreciated.

I was sure just restoring data from logsprovider restored call logs.
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I was sure just restoring data from logsprovider restored call logs.
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That's probably it. Logsprovider is one of the red settings that I've not been checking when restoring to a new rom.
Next flash I'll test it out, see if it gets the call logs and also if it causes any noticeable problems.

Thank you!
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That's probably it. Logsprovider is one of the red settings that I've not been checking when restoring to a new rom.
Next flash I'll test it out, see if it gets the call logs and also if it causes any noticeable problems.
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I found this thread searching the forums, as I was trying to find a way to restore my call logs using TB after flashing. After restoring the data for logsprovider, the call logs came back. Thank you so much for this info!

migration in titanium backup
Use the migrate option in restoration settings.
Most probably the batch operation skips some system related data.
Correct me if i am wrong.

Another option is SMS backup+. You can find out on the market. It's worked well for me.
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Help wanted

Does anyone know the best prog to back up my sms and contacts and restore seamlessly in my htc one from my desire with no messing about. I tried mybackup but it wont see the backup on the sdcard. Any help would be appreciated .

Contacts i use Google - just needs a quick sign in of your google account and an even quicker sync and your contacts are there ready for you - alot easier than Sim or SD card for me

I have done that but got lots of the same name which means i got to go through them all. The sms migrated ok just the contacts are a pain

do htc devices on first set up not ask if you want to migrate data?

No i cant remember it saying that might need to bluetooth the buggers or something

try
http://www.htc.com/help/uk/howto_iframe.aspx?id=140089&type=1&p_id=440&fromsearch=1&q=transfer

cheers i missed that just got it today after delivery was screwed up last time i used mybackup and it worked perfectly but not this time

I would highly recommend QQ pim, you can back up all your contacts, sms, call logs even your apps via it's server.
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SMS Backup & Restore and google for contacts. Simple.
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Backing up and restoring SMS across different 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.