When I installed the developer preview, my text messages automatically restored for the first time since I've been using Android (~6 yrs). Stupid me didn't bother to use SMS Backup & Restore this time when I flashed the factory 8.1 image and none of my texts restored. When I check Settings|System|Backup it shows "SMS Text Messages: Waiting to backup" while every other category shows backup or sync completed.
Is there a way to recover my texts from the last backup? How can I ensure they backup properly in the future?
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Well I successfullly mangaged to install my first custom ROM last night - very chuffed!
I used TiBackup to backup all apps and data, and once I had installed LeeDroid I did a "Restore Missing Apps + Data". However, I don't have any of my non-gmail/facebook contacts or any of my SMS messages.
Have I done the wrong type of restore?
No it doesn't back them up, it only does applications as far as i can tell, and your actual SMS and MMS messages, as well as your contacts aren't stored 'within an app' i believe.
I would be intrigued to know what people use to back up their contacts data with though ?
If u check all ur backup things on titanium, there are some "special backup" (i don't know how explain) for SMS/MMM, paired bluetoot, call logs etc (if u did a full backup of ur system app)..Check it, they have the titanium icon..Anyway i never tried that..let us know
[SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage 2.2
is the proper "item" to backup SMS history.
To restore it, you MUST reboot your phone before they are fully restored.
Basically, as the title states I'm looking for options for backing up my SMS and MMS messages.
'My Backup Pro' does a fine job but it doesn't save the time stamps. Once you restore they all show up as new messages basically.
I'm looking for a way to backup, or even better, automatically backup or sync my messages.
(Too bad Google doesn't have a messages sync option like it does with contacts and calendar)
Thoughts?
I havent found a way to backup both SMS and MMS together.
SMS Backup & Restore backs up SMS with the TS and you can restore the backup.
I use Handcent to back up MMS.
Does My Backup Pro backup both SMS and MMS? I should try that out later tonight
bloodyguitars said:
I havent found a way to backup both SMS and MMS together.
SMS Backup & Restore backs up SMS with the TS and you can restore the backup.
I use Handcent to back up MMS.
Does My Backup Pro backup both SMS and MMS? I should try that out later tonight
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Yep, you have the option to backup both. You can also backup apps and data, or either or. I really like the app otherwise.
I use an app called backup to gmail. saves all my sms, mms, call logs
real time
you can save the mms and sms seperately onto your sd card. But as for backing them up the only reason the backup is if your trasfering to another phone or flashing roms. If your trasfering to another phone go to a cellphone store and they can back up messages on a maching called cellebrite and trasfers the complete state of the phone to the other. As for just flashing roms i believe titanium backup will back it up, or you can make a nandroid and dig deep in the nandroid and pull up the messages.
Doesn't titanium backup save those?
I've done several backups/restores here of the call log and sms. Time stamps appear to be preserved. I do believe TB requires root access though.
Okay, I managed to get my apps and app data with my backup pro, but tried to get my call log as well.
sms, and mms several times to with a new back up then would copy it to the nexus with no luck it gave me a i/o error
i tried about 10 different sms/mms backup and restore programs which wouldn't let me restore the backups i made.
including "sms backup and restore"
I then tried with titanium backup and that appeared to work, but didnt actually place my texts in messaging.
any ideas? help!
-Spiff
well, go sms pro worked. now i can delete all these damn apps
and start enjoying my shiny new phone.
-Later guys
HI guys first time poster here
I did a factory reset on my stock jellybean xs a few hours ago and am having trouble restoring my whatsapp messages.
I have backed up and copied the entire whatsapp folder to my xs. When starting whatsapp for the first time it will detect a restore but when selected, none of my messages get restored.
My .crypt file is over 10mb big. And i installed the latest version of whatsapp.
Any clues as to why it might fail?
I've got a good TWRP backup of my phone, on 5.1.1. Phone now has CM13 (running awesome), and am trying to restore SMS via Nandroid Manager, I get the following error:
The following error occurred package com.h3r3t1c.bkrestore does not belong to 1001 nothing was restored.
Thoughts? Any easier way to extract and restore text messages from a TWRP backup? Compatability issue between 5.1.1 -> 6.0 messaging?
I faced the same problem. Titanium Backup Pro worked.
Having the exact same issue...
How did you end up solving the problem???
I've got a good nandroid backup of my Oneplus one now updated from 5.1.1 to 6.0 CM13 (also running Awsommme {high tone of voice}) and I'm now thinking if it's possible somehow to extract my SMS/MMS from the nandroid backup or do I have to through the whole process of backing up, restoring the old nandroid, backing up SMS with a 3rd party application and then restoring back again to the latest nandroid backup...
Any suggestions any1?! Or should I just go along with the above described headache??
Seeing the same error here on my Galaxy S4 when trying to restore SMS messages through Nandroid Manager...
The batch restore gives me the same error, but if you go in the "export and explore" menu, "explore text messages", you can restore individual threads one at a time. this worked perfectly for me.