Hello!
I was referred here by my roommate and I am hoping that there is something that can be done to recovery these text messages.
Long story short:
My brother is going through a divorce. She's a nutcase. She was able to obtain access to his Gmail account, change all recovery options, and remotely reset the phone. A judge has ordered her to provide the password and she has yet to comply, so we are assuming that she wiped anything that was backed up to the Gmail account. She has made some very specific accusations (which are false), and these text messages would prove that. The text messages were recent and were not deleted when the phone was reset. He did try to log back into his Gmail account when it reset, but when he was unsuccessful he shut the phone off and now has a new phone.
I've spent a few hours reading through threads and Google searching. I'm no developer, so admittedly, some of it goes over my head. I've not found anything thus far that seems like it would work, but most of the situations involve things that were deleted prior to the phone resetting (I'm not sure if that would make a difference). Is there something, anything, that we can try to get these text messages back? I've not tried anything thus far in fear of doing something that would ruin a chance of recovering them.
I appreciate any help at all!!
The carrier might send them to you, but not from the phone as it was encrypted
i will make a post for you on how to reovery text messages... tomorrow my friend. But you need to buy a sim card reader. I will upload the application to recover text messages and more info from you phone number.
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2 totally separate phones (dash's) one with Rogers and one with stock Tmo WM6. Hard restart all contacts disappear! Since in their infinite wisdom you cant disable the sim contacts from showing, I rely on them STAYING in the phone memory! Anyone else with this issue? It has happened only twice in maybe 4 months, but is very frustrating!
Thanks for any advice!
A hard reset will restore the phone to factory default (no contact list). It's supposed to do that. Keep your contacts synchronized via outlook and activesync.
Sorry, I was lying when I typed hard reset. I yanked the battery so it wasnt exactly a soft reset but I did not do the clear storage either I guess next time it locks up I will be more patient!
gospeed.racergo said:
2 totally separate phones (dash's) one with Rogers and one with stock Tmo WM6. Hard restart all contacts disappear! Since in their infinite wisdom you cant disable the sim contacts from showing, I rely on them STAYING in the phone memory! Anyone else with this issue? It has happened only twice in maybe 4 months, but is very frustrating!
Thanks for any advice!
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You should be syncing your phone with your contact list on your PC or exchange server if you are lucky enough to have one. This is one of the most basic things you can do on a smartphone. What if you lost your phone???
I do sync. But I dont take my computer with me either. So today, all day, I was without contacts. Now they are back caused I sync'd.
I guess we should be telling people that want louder call volume to get a hearing aid and people that want to run another ROM to buy the right phone
backup
I use Sprite Backup for said problem and its golden. Simply make backups of your data on the go and when things happen like say an impossible to stop boot loop or a data error, you can still restore everything.
I guess I am just the kind of person that would rather look at the root of the problem, not the band-aid repair after it happens again. I will look into the backup, but I will probably just carry my spare deactivated sim card so I can transfer stuff back if it fails me again.
So does anyone know a way to KEEP the contacts on the sim, yet hide them from view on the contacts list? It surpirses me that something my 8 year old Nokia does WM6 wont let you do . I have never accidentally lost my sim contacts- but the duplicate thing is annoying
The rogers rom for the htc s621 (dash) allows you to hide sim contacts without a registry edit. goto settings then phone... you'll find it there.
also there is a reg edit for said issue for roms that don't offer this option. I have not personally found a smartphone rom without this option but the regedit is: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Phone]
"ShowSIM"=dword:00000001 ->0 to disable, 1 to enable.
Now you can keep your contacts on your activated SIM.
THANK YOU!!! I had not realized Rogers did this!
Found the check box under Settings/Phone/Call Options
Hi I have a HTC TP 2 and since yesterday it says that my password for the phone is not correct so i cant do anything with the phone.My password always is/was 1989 so there is no possibility that i fil in a wrong pasword. does any one hase experiences with this ?
Is there a solution without a Hard reset ?
this has happened to me also... I woke up and my phone was frozen, then I took out the battery to restart it... It didn't help at all. I think I may have to hard reset. I may have to lose my tasks and calendar schedules. AND photos...
No one knows any solution to this?
1. Posts with "Question" as the title are not helpful. Almost everyone in here is lookeing for help and descriptive titles help us help you.
2. After a hard reset you can get all your appointments, tasks, contacts back by simply resyncing to your computer. Assuming you're using Outlook, of course.
3. You should always keep photos and e-mails on your SD card. It is unaffected by a hard reset. There are several thread in here on how to change where your phone stores these items.
For the past week or so people in my hotmail contacts list are getting e-mails containing a link, and they are getting them daily. I am not sending out this e-mail and my EVO is usually the only form of a computer I have for e-mail.
When I first realized this was hapinning, I went to the Market and downloaded the free versions of Lookout Mobile Security, and AVG antivirus. Scaned with both of them and they both said my phone is clean, but the e-mails are still sending.
Guess my question is, is there a way for me to find this BOT or whatever it is and get rid of it with out having to restore my phone? Any and all help is greatly appreciated....
Thanks
dizL
I know that phones can aquire viruses and etc but I'm not sure there is anything that can clean them. Try scanning your microsd and if thAt does not work you may want flash a new rom or hard reset
Your email got phished. Change password and see if it continues.
Definitely change your password off top and then get in touch with hotmail, they will have the ip address of who/what has been doing it.
Thanks, Ill prob just flash a new ROM...
It's your email account in general. Chnage the password [make it stronger throwing at least a number in there] and you should be straight.
Hi,
I recently reset my One M8, and I made a backup of my SMS with MyBackupPro, i used it a lot of time with my OneX.
I tried to restore this backup (.mbp), but it's not working with SMS, and buggy with Call History.
I have about 10k sms, so it's pretty important for me to get it back...
Can someone help me ?
If it's that important to hold on to 10000 messages, might I suggest you back them up with multiple apps to be safe?
I think you may be out of luck... They either restore or they don't. The app probably can't handle the amount you have and is having trouble restoring them. You could contact the app makers for support.
You may find things easier to let go of the past and clear out some of those messages occasionally. Seriously.
I use sms backup, when I remember, and have never had trouble. There's titanium backup too... And probably many others.
Again, with that kind of number of messages, you may see issues with any of them.
I'm using "SMS backup", with something like 2k sms, configured it to save the backup on external sd. never had a problem.
Did you take a nandroid backup before you reset?
If you did, there is some excellent functionality in an app called 'Nandroid Manager' which enables you to restore your SMS from the nandroid backup.
Hi, thanks for reply
I think I should explain the whole situation.
I have Zimbra at work, and I wanted to sync my stuff with an "ActiveSync" account.
So I added this account, and Android asked me to apply some security policies, like crypt the SD card, and activate a PIN to unlock.
I accepted, thinking that I could change it later.
But impossible to disable all this security stuff, it was really annoying to type a PIN everytime...
Then I decided to just make a backup and restore from stock.
I did, but now the backup can't be restored.
It shows a progress bar, like it's working, and ask me to reboot the phone, but after that still no SMS.
I thought it may be because the phone was crypted when I did the Backup, so I added again the ActiveSync, recrypted the phone, and tried to restore in this state. Still nothing...
KJ said:
If it's that important to hold on to 10000 messages, might I suggest you back them up with multiple apps to be safe?
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Nevermind that...I don't think any group of people can be so important as to collectively message 10K times and if they are truly important then perhaps it'll be better to talk in person instead of SMS's
My total SMS's - +- 100(Total) over the last 5months.
Not important people - don't get sms'd or phoned.
Important people - get spoken to in person, they are to important to me to merely communicate via "messages"
Rest - probably promotions, companies wanting more money by selling crap in other words - Crap.
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Nevermind that...I don't think any group of people can be so important as to collectively message 10K times and if they are truly important then perhaps it'll be better to talk in person instead of SMS's
My total SMS's - +- 100(Total) over the last 5months.
Not important people - don't get sms'd or phoned.
Important people - get spoken to in person, they are to important to me to merely communicate via "messages"
Rest - probably promotions, companies wanting more money by selling crap in other words - Crap.
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I text most people I know even work... But I usually start with a clean inbox after every flash. I've yet to find a reason to keep any texts. Yesterday is yesterday. ?
But to each their own!
So, my A5 2017 was giving my problems so I backed it up to Samsung backup, or at least I tried. I thought I read somewhere that Samsung stoppped their backup service for that phone, and said to back up using Google. So., I also backed up there.
The thing is, the problem happend while I was away and couldn't get it looked at right away. I thought I was SOL, but I looked at my Google backup and the date is still from before the reset! I just don't know how to tell it to restore the phone using what's in my Google cloud storage.
If that ends up not being possible I did manually save as many files as I could. Even going into directories that the phone said were empty but still would show files if you went down the rabbit hole deep enough. All I really want are my contacts, whcih I THINK I exported to a file anyways, and just as important, my text message history. If I could get back what I had in my Notes app that would be great too, but that's way down the list.
Does anyways know how I would do this? I do see in the Google settings that I can restore the contacts, or so it says, but I looked in the cloud folders and there are 2 zip files that start with "takeout" and then I think a dash and numbers. I looked in them and it definitely has way more then just my contacts in it.
I'm a small business owner and I use this phone for work, so losing all the texts is actually kind of a problem. I actually didn't realize how much so until it happend.
Thank you very much for any help you can offer!
DM