I did a downgrade from 4.3 to 4.1. To make the transition smoother, I planned to wipe data, so I backed up with PCC. After the 4.1 downgrade, I tried to restore, but it didn't restore my SMS. After googling, I gathered that that feature doesn't actually do anything. I extracted the mmssms.db using this tool:https://github.com/nelenkov/android-backup-extractor
This extract only contain the last text sent/received with the recipient. Are the texts stored elsewhere on the phone?
p.s. my db is 1mb in size and I've had the phone since October and not done a data wipe until yesterday. I'm thinking that this is not big enough for the amount of texts I send. I send on average at least 3 SMS per day. On some days, 30 in a single day. Most of my texts are roughly 300 characters.
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I did a downgrade from 4.3 to 4.1. To make the transition smoother, I planned to wipe data, so I backed up with PCC. After the 4.1 downgrade, I tried to restore, but it didn't restore my SMS. After googling, I gathered that that feature doesn't actually do anything. I extracted the mmssms.db using this tool:https://github.com/nelenkov/android-backup-extractor
This extract only contain the last text sent/received with the recipient. Are the texts stored elsewhere on the phone?
p.s. my db is 1mb in size and I've had the phone since October and not done a data wipe until yesterday. I'm thinking that this is not big enough for the amount of texts I send. I send on average at least 3 SMS per day. On some days, 30 in a single day. Most of my texts are roughly 300 characters.
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I had a look at the data at the data files for hangouts and the stock sony app. No data was found there in my case.
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Hi all, I read the other thread on this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=568361&highlight=text+message+limit) and figured I'd start a new one rather than resurrect that one out of nowhere. I understand the whole "Manilla only shows 25 texts while the others are actually saved" thing, but does anyone know of a way to get all of them visible on the manilla interface? I'd much rather see 1/x number of messages on the sms tab than 1/25 just for the sake of knowing how many texts i have stored.
Thanks
I dont think this is possible, and I am not exactly sure that you would want this because Manilla Caches the messages, i could be wrong though, but if it does cache the messages, you would be very unhappy with your device's performance. I send about 500 messages a day, and recieve a little more than that, messages are about 5k each, thats about an additional 2 megabytes of cache, sounds like a little, but sense struggles to run as it is.
Well for some reason my dialer data keeps ballooning up its a 15 megs right now which is horrible.. how can i clear this specifically? and why is this like this? My dad email data was at almost 100 megs and the techs told him to wipe and that fixed it but of course he lost all of his stuff
Don't worry you wont need to do a wipe.
If you clear up some of your sms it will bring your dialer data down. You probably send and receive a good a amount of mms yeah? Just go through your threads with mms in them and delete the mms. You dont have to delete the picture just delete the mms. Save the pictures before you delete the mms if you dont want to lose the pictures.
I'm using my G2 rooted with Cyanogen, and I just deleted all my messages in the daytime. However, I'm a heavy texter and rarely delete my texts, and at the end of the day my phone has like 300 messages and is slow as **** when it comes to responding.
Does anyone else have that same problem in their phone? I also have the iPhone 4 and its smooth as silk with about 20,000 texts in 4 months (once again, I'm a heavy texter). I'm thinking about letting go of this awesome device if I have to delete my texts every other hour.
go to the sms settings and have it auto delete after any amount you put. for me i got to delete after 75 messages per recipient. obviously it deletes the oldest text first.
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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Hello,
My Note 4 suddenly did not turn on (hard brick). I received a new device but had two worries (could not reset the old device, could not transfer from it).
Many of my apps autoloaded on the new Note (thanks Android). Pictures, videos, recordings, and screenshots on internal memory were gone and so were old text messages and voicemails. Is there no chance Android/Google stored this automatically somewhere? How do I check?
Why are pending text messages or voicemails not shown? How would I know who tried to contact me in the weeks that the old phone is broken?
In the future I'll save everything (pictures etc...) to the external SD. Can I do daily auto-backups with SMS Backup & Restore for texts? What about voicemails? Is there no way to prevent texts in transit from getting deleted - if my phone doesn't work how can I save texts I've never seen or read??
Thank you.
If you have set up a Samsung account on your phone it will back up sms mms every 24 hours but only on wifi. As far as voicemail if you use the stock voicemail app you can have it set up to forward all voicemails to your email address. From there you can listen to them through your email account.