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Why SMS on ICS (Galaxy Nexus) Can't handle big data?

I am big SMS/Texting lover and currently have 16600 SMS Messages. On our previous iPhone we have thousand SMS, iPhone Message still respond very good and quickly.
But why on my Galaxy Nexus after we reach 16600 our Messaging App really slowly and random refresh. Each time we need to write new SMS Message the application will be freeze for a while. :crying:
What's a problem? Does Ice Cream Sandwich can't handle huge SMS data? And why there are an option to AUTO DELETED when some amount of SMS/MMS data reached?
Another problem is... why I can search SMS Full Text? Search Box on Messaging App only search SMS data but not the sender. Any clue about it?
Any solution to Speed Up Messaging UP and keep our SMS data? Please Help

Put this in the Q & A section
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Weird issue
Usually you're one in a million users who has that many texts going in and out on the phone.
Try another SMS app? Go SMS?
Wrong section...
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Sorry for wrong section.. But I can't move this tread... maybe some Moderator or Admin able to do it?
In my Country Texting/SMS is really cheap so we still use it for daily communication, beside that fact that our country Smartphone not popular yet. So.. many of my friends and family using Texting/SMS as my daily communications...
And again.. on iPhone with same size of data (16600) Message App still running smoothly... and that only on iPhone 4 with iOS 5 of course.
Any clue how to fix it? Does there any Backup SMS app that can handle period time? example I want to backup my SMS data 1 month ago and before it and only keep the fresh one on my phone...

Its slow because the read speed of the flash memory can't keep up. The app hangs until all contents been read.
The iOS messaging app probably indexes all messages as they come, preventing an initial rescan every time the app is launched.
That's just my guess.
Try deleting some messages though lol
Titanium backup backs up messages.
Gosms works well, as does Handecent messenger.
Try finding that sweet spot of message overflow, then set your auto deletion to that
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I don't understand why people keep thousands of SMS messages.
Sure you use it as daily communications, but how many times do you go back and read messages you sent a week ago? I bet you NONE. Go delete your messages and stop being a digital hoarder.
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nxt said:
I don't understand why people keep thousands of SMS messages.
Sure you use it as daily communications, but how many times do you go back and read messages you sent a week ago? I bet you NONE. Go delete your messages and stop being a digital hoarder.
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jauhari said:
Sorry for wrong section.. But I can't move this tread... maybe some Moderator or Admin able to do it?
In my Country Texting/SMS is really cheap so we still use it for daily communication, beside that fact that our country Smartphone not popular yet. So.. many of my friends and family using Texting/SMS as my daily communications...
And again.. on iPhone with same size of data (16600) Message App still running smoothly... and that only on iPhone 4 with iOS 5 of course.
Any clue how to fix it? Does there any Backup SMS app that can handle period time? example I want to backup my SMS data 1 month ago and before it and only keep the fresh one on my phone...
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You can backup SMS using mybackup pro.
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prinzhernan said:
You can backup SMS using mybackup pro.
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Thanks.. currently we used SMS Backup & Restore

Need help to recover google account.

Hi Guys.
yesterday I helped a friend upgrade her galaxy nexus to JB, and I asked her whether she had anything important on her phone she said no.
Turns out I wiped the phone, and when i ask her to sign to her google account to bring her contacts she doesnt know her gmail!
We try to use google account recovery using her email addresses but turns out none of them were used when the new account was setup.
I did take an application backup with halaxy nexus toolkit, but it seems it's just that. apps with no google account info.
Anyone has any idea that might help me? I'd really appreaciate it.

Hire a nice hacker to hack the password, then change it. Fast.

Contact Google.

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Contact Google.
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yeah I did, but they might take a while.
When I set her up, we didnt put any security questions or anything, so it'll be very difficult to recover through google.
I'm thinking whether somehow I can have a look at the apks or the .bak file we took, and find the username at least , in this way at least
I can tell google where to look

Normally you would have had to use a secondary email address when signing up for Gmail for password reset reasons. Is there an option for that when trying to reset password?
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Elisha said:
Normally you would have had to use a secondary email address when signing up for Gmail for password reset reasons. Is there an option for that when trying to reset password?
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We had a try at the password recovery using an email address that we think it's correct (usual combination of name/birth year etc)
Once you go into the gmail password recovery page It shows you part of the email address (the domain is ok but the rest is blacked out)
I recognize the domain name being something I usually use as a fake email when I'm trying something quickly. so I'm pretty sure we got her email address right now.
Unfortunately due to the domain being fake I can't recover her password using that email address.
I remember writing her newly created email and password in a piece of paper and saying. once you get home change the password and update all your details to the correct. ( well that didn't happen :-/ )

If she's ever signed in through her PC and saved her passwords through her browser then you could recover it from the saved passwords list.
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I hope for your own sake, that she didn't just store her contacts locally. I saw that many times, especially women usually don't bother and keep hacking their numbers in just like that, without thinking about setting up sync or contact cloud beforehand. Good luck!
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Any chance that she has all her contacts stored on her SIM card?
If so, just create a new Google account and restore her apps...
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Actually, when she got the new phone, I think the way I copied all the contacts from her older phone was into the SIM, put the old SIM into the new phone and imported them.. (my memory is bad, but that kinda makes sense for coming from a dumbphone to an android)
I just asked her and she might still have the old phone and the old SIM. so maybe there is a chance there, gotta wait for her to go home and try to find it..
This will definitely teach me a lesson.
take a freaking nandroid, whatever your friends say!
PS: I reckon I'm stressing more about this than she is.. if it happened to me i'd be a royal pain in the bum.

xd4d3v said:
This will definitely teach me a lesson.
take a freaking nandroid, whatever your friends say!
PS: I reckon I'm stressing more about this than she is.. if it happened to me i'd be a royal pain in the bum.
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Hope it works out, man.
And I know what you mean, messing with other peoples phones is a bit more stressful than if you mess up your own.
Happened to me just recently, sweated myself thin till I figured out where to find the right baseband and give him back his reception... :banghead:
You're the one they trust, a sworn XDAer, flash-a-holic crazy phone guy. If they can't get redemption from you, how will they make it in this tech-crazed world?
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[Q] Delete old text messages

Is there a way to delete messages by date? I've tried backing up and restoring them using SMS backup and restore and set a date but they all came back. If I try to delete threads my phone locks up. I have about 20,000 texts
I wish there was a way to see them through windows explorer and delete them that way... I can't get anything to open. Ah!!!

If you use SMS backup and you use your gmail to sign in. You can go into gmail from your comp.(probably your phone) abs you can delete them by date that way.
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monkeypaws said:
If you use SMS backup and you use your gmail to sign in. You can go into gmail from your comp.(probably your phone) abs you can delete them by date that way. This is what it looks like on my gmail app. Its under labels. On the comp it'll be on the labels on the left hand side.
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That's a copy though. My phone has locked up and had to been forced off like 6 times now. There are too many to delete it just freezes. I set a limit in go SMS days ago and it never deletes any. This is ridiculous.

And now go SMS pro won't open either. And the phone can't force close it. The whole thing just locks up wtf.

psykhotic said:
That's a copy though. My phone has locked up and had to been forced off like 6 times now. There are too many to delete it just freezes. I set a limit in go SMS days ago and it never deletes any. This is ridiculous.
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It doesn't sync. Hmm. I guess my assumption was wrong .
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psykhotic said:
And now go SMS pro won't open either. And the phone can't force close it. The whole thing just locks up wtf.
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Wait. How many SMS programs are you syncing to? You said SMS backup. Then go SMS. ? Do you have backups to both?
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SMS backup & restore makes an XML file on my external SD. Go SMS pro shouldn't be backing anything up.
I use the stock app to send MMS because go uploads it to their servers and that creeps me out lol. But the stock app CANNOT handle that many texts being there.
Go is working a little better (I can send a text) now that I went in recovery and cleared cache, davik and fixed permissions.
I still think I need to try and get rid of old texts but every time I try programs just lock up.

Have you tried History eraser?
Or delete data for it. Just dump them all.

psykhotic said:
SMS backup & restore makes an XML file on my external SD. Go SMS pro shouldn't be backing anything up.
I use the stock app to send MMS because go uploads it to their servers and that creeps me out lol. But the stock app CANNOT handle that many texts being there.
Go is working a little better (I can send a text) now that I went in recovery and cleared cache, davik and fixed permissions.
I still think I need to try and get rid of old texts but every time I try programs just lock up.
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Well I have SMS backup +. It syncs all my SMS, call logs, etc with Google. I don't have any XML in my phone. Whenever I restore my phone I DL the app and sign in and hit restore and it pulls it from my Google account. That's what I was showing you earlier. But I'd have to test if it actually syncs when I erase from gmail to the app.
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vopezy said:
Have you tried History eraser?
Or delete data for it. Just dump them all.
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History eraser or historyeraser?? I'll try! But I don't know if it'll work. On SMS backup & restore I hit delete all messages and after an hour the little circle was still spinning.

Can someone please tell me where the texts are stored. Any app just freezes my phone and I have to reboot.

I'd love to watch you drag this along for two more days but I think I speak for everyone on this site. Just factory reset your phone and get over it.

vopezy said:
I'd love to watch you drag this along for two more days but I think I speak for everyone on this site. Just factory reset your phone and get over it.
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That would have been extremely moronic to do. I just deleted the SMS database. I also got in touch with the backup & restore people about batch removing texts from the XML output.
What a stupid suggestion.

Hey man I've had this happen to me. It happened when I would flash a new rom, and didn't turn off the auto delete after 200 and then restored my 7k texts... Honestly once in a while I'd get lucky and be able to usually... I had to re flash the ROM. Haven't found a better solution yet
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Whatsapp users! Be aware.

Guys, today after school I saw that all the statusses of my contacts were error: blablabla. I tried to refresh (in whatsapp) with no luck.
After receiving the following message, and after forwarding it to 18 ppl, i refreshed again to look if it would work.. It did work. The statusses of my contacts were back. I am just posting this here for you guys to get the statusses back. I am NOT trolling, I tested it on my phone, my sisters phone and my dads phone. I know the blue icon and red icon doesn't make sense without an app update or something like that, but the point is, after forwarding the message i got my statusses back!!( of my contacts!)
The message:
Before you read this, go to your contacts and look at everyones status! Should say error: status unavailable.
Hello everyone, it seems that all the warnings were real, the use of WhatsApp cost money from summer 2012.
If you send this string to 18 different on your list, your icon will be blue and will be free for you.
If you do not believe me see tomorrow at 6 pm ending WhatsApp and have to pay to open it, this is by law
This message is to inform all of our users, our servers have recently been very congested, so we are asking your help to solve this problem. We require our active users forwarded this message to each of the people in your contact list to confirm our active users using WhatsApp, if you do not send this message to all your contacts WhatsApp, then your account will remain inactive with the consequence of losing all their contactsMessage from Jim Balsamic (CEO of
Whatsapp) we have had an over usage of
user names on whatsapp Messenger. We
are requesting all users to forward this
message to their entire contact list. If you
do not forward this message, we will take
it as your account is invalid and it will be
deleted within the next 48 hours. Please
DO NOT ignore this message or whatsapp
will no longer recognise your activation.
If you wish to re-activate your account
after it has been deleted, a charge of
25.00 will be added to your monthly bill.
We are also aware of the issue involving
the pictures updates not showing. We are
working diligently at fixing this problem
and it will be up and running as soon as
possible. Thank you for your cooperation
from the Whatsapp team”
WhatsApp is going to cost us money
soon. The only way that it will stay free
is if you are a frequent user i.e. you
have at least 10 people you are
chatting with. To become a frequent
user send this message to 10 people
who receive it (2 ticks) and your
WhatsApp logo should turn Red to
indicate a frequent user. Am sorry had no option!
And check now the status of every individual contact is showing :
Status : error
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Copy and paste from before till error and send it.
Good luck.
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Copy and paste my balls
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I swear that I didnt believe it first, but try it yourself. It worked for me to get my statusses back.
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elmerendeiro said:
Copy and paste my balls
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Why would i WASTE 10 minutes of my time to write this if it didnt work?
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thegtfusion said:
Why would i WASTE 10 minutes of my time to write this if it didnt work?
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Because you are an idiot.
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LAME
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ROTFL WTF?
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whatsapp is pure crap. it's a shame that everyone I know uses it which means i have to use it too

Well ironically my contacts have "Error: status unavailable" on all of them, but no problems sending and receiving messages. Its probably just a server error.
Well, I just did a refresh and all status's are back to normal.

LOL.
Deleted these craps from my WhatsApp inbox and all my status were back.
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browngeek said:
Well ironically my contacts have "Error: status unavailable" on all of them, but no problems sending and receiving messages. Its probably just a server error.
Well, I just did a refresh and all status's are back to normal.
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This. I had the same problem (not that I noticed it to begin with) and a refresh fixed it.
Ignore the OP.

https://twitter.com/wa_status/status/273697196988309505

Why do people fall for chainmail bullish*t? I still get tagged in pictures on Facebook saying to share this picture to continue to be able to use Facebook for free. Go look on FB page before logging in. "It's free and always will be" right on the homepage lol.
Or my PS3 inbox FULL of spam messages saying the exact same thing.
For future reference, anything that EVER says to share this with X amount of people in order to do this or get that is false. Nothing but spam.

Jesus, there really are people this stupid?

GldRush98 said:
Jesus, there really are people this stupid?
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They make threads, and everything

Whatsapp was really the only way to txt my sis in aus but I deleted it quick time from my fone when I read that. You can keep your crappy service. It's ****e anyway
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I confirm, the refresh did the trick...

Not trying to keep this thread going, but here is confirmation that that is a hoax message from whatsapp http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/it-is-a-hoax-really-it-is/

Hey... I didn't do anything but all the status become normal back today....
You really idiot....
Hahaha...
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thegtfusion said:
Why would i WASTE 10 minutes of my time to write this if it didnt work?
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For the same reason millions of books and websites and blogs and posts are written that are full of nonsense.
Hint: correlation does not imply causation.

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.
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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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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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_Epic said:
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!