Hi!
Got a question...well its about restoring SMSs.
Well...I did a backup on GMail via G-Backup Full, problem is i realized that this prog does not have any restore option I tried with SMS Backup+ but it does not work :S "restores 0 sms (xxx dumps)" while xxx being my amount of SMS starred in GMail.
Any idea?
I did a full nandroid having all my sms (now on another ROM) but switching back to the nandroid backup all my SMS are gone :S
Thanxs in advance.
Anyone?
I always forget to update my SMS backup and have to do this everytime I install new FWs.
This works in Linux:
download unyaffs.c and unyaffs.h from http://code.google.com/p/unyaffs/downloads/list
type "gcc -o unyaffs unyaffs.c" from the directory you downloaded the files to
copy data.img to that folder
type "./unyaffs data.img"
It will then dump all data from the data partition on your HD
navigate to \DATA\data\com.android.providers.telephony\databases
copy mmssms.db (these are your SMS)
copy it back to the phone at the same location (\DATA\data\com.android.providers.telephony\databases)
check if the permissions are the same (not sure if they matter, I just use root explorer and set the same permissions for the file)
reboot and it's done
Thanxs! Wow
I just did the restore again....on handcent SMS if i go to delivery reports..there appear al the SMS i sent!
but...there are no sms on "inbox" xd
Related
OK can anyone help?
Sprite Backup: Backed up email and Personal databases only
Hard Reset (No Rom change, Stock T-Mobile UK rom)
Restored email and Personal databases
Icon shows 17 unread emails and 2 unread SMS - Excellent - exactly as expected.
SMS's all there and correct
Try to access emails - No account set up - try to create account - "This account already exists"
OK, Hard Reset again
Create email account first
Restore emails from Sprite
SMS - OK & Correct
Emails - Showing 17 - but when opening - no account available, Create new account - and of course - "This account already exists".
Happy to loose the emails, but I want the SMS's
I don't want to lose the ability to access emails from the Today screen icon - it still shows 17 unread (unavailable) emails.
Any ideas ?
Are you backing up and restoring "System Data" and "Personal Databases"?
Try this
Copy the exe in the attached zip to your ppc and run it from your phone. It lists all the accounts that can be restored. I use it to restore my sms messages from a sprite backup whenever I change roms...
HTH
martinreay said:
Copy the exe in the attached zip to your ppc and run it from your phone. It lists all the accounts that can be restored. I use it to restore my sms messages from a sprite backup whenever I change roms...
HTH
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks! worked for me
Excellent - Perfect fix.
Many Thanks !
Someone should sticky this. I searched all over for a fix, I recently did a fresh ROM flash to fix a problem with my Voice Command and this happened to my email, the program worked perfectly! thanks!
Hello. I've backed up the SMS messages into a file and I disabled binary mode. The backup file looked like it was successful. When I viewed the file though, it looked like it was saved in binary format.
Regardless, I deleted one SMS message and then attempted to restore using the option that does NOT delete all messages before hand. I want to make sure the restore works before risk losing all (about 1100) the SMS messages.
Once I started the restore, it ran for 10 minutes and did not look like it was doing anything. My questions: does the option to restore without deleting all messages before hand actually work? How long can I expect a restore to take with the above options and roughly 1100 SMS messages? The most important thing I'm looking for is being able to view the SMS messages at a later date, not necessarily on the phone, which is why I tried the first backup without the binary option.
I also took another backup and saved it in binary format and tried to restore just the SMS messages from that file, but it ran for about 10 minutes and didn't appear to be doing anything either.
Thanks for all the help!
Hi there,
The title says it all really... Anyone know a program that backs up all my SMS' and lets me restore them later?
Preferably backing up to my gmail account and restoring from there.
Ok, flooded with replies, but found a program...
MyBackup does this, but not all the features work on the Hero like Call Register etc.
It lets you backup my SMS and restore them which is all I wanted.
"SMS Backup" backs up (automatically) SMS messages to a Gmail folder called "SMS" (by default).
Not sure about restore, but you can just read them via Gmail, so you may not need to.
I use sprite backup.
SMS Backup and Restore
I've just tested SMS Backup & Restore today after Backup for Root Users and My Backup Pro wouldn't work (My Backup wants to phone home).
SMS Backup & Restore did not need root permissions and backed up about 300 SMSes/second, to an XML file. There is an option to include a link to an XSL stylesheet so that the XML displays the SMSes nicely as a table.
There are a few issues, which I hope the author will take as suggestions:
The date is written as a UNIX timestamp format (number of seconds since 1 January 1970), presumable for easy parsing when the SMSes are restored, and optionally in a human-readable format. This is redundant, as the date could be written in a both computer- and human-parsable format by using the ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS
An extra attribute with the contact name would be very useful in addition to the contact number.
MMS support would be great, perhaps by storing the attachments in CDATA XML elements.
dandv said:
I've just tested SMS Backup & Restore today after Backup for Root Users and My Backup Pro wouldn't work (My Backup wants to phone home).
SMS Backup & Restore did not need root permissions and backed up about 300 SMSes/second, to an XML file. There is an option to include a link to an XSL stylesheet so that the XML displays the SMSes nicely as a table.
There are a few issues, which I hope the author will take as suggestions:
The date is written as a UNIX timestamp format (number of seconds since 1 January 1970), presumable for easy parsing when the SMSes are restored, and optionally in a human-readable format. This is redundant, as the date could be written in a both computer- and human-parsable format by using the ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS
An extra attribute with the contact name would be very useful in addition to the contact number.
MMS support would be great, perhaps by storing the attachments in CDATA XML elements.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've also been using SMS Backup & Restore and it does the job! Recommended!
How do you guys backup contacts and sms when flashing gingerxperia, because before I flashed I used backup and restore on my old android 2.1 then when it flashed I couldn't find the backup and restore no more in gingerxperia....
I'm looking to backup my contacts and saved txt messages and restore them on gingerxperia...
Thanks guys
rick19011 said:
How do you guys backup contacts and sms when flashing gingerxperia, because before I flashed I used backup and restore on my old android 2.1 then when it flashed I couldn't find the backup and restore no more in gingerxperia....
I'm looking to backup my contacts and saved txt messages and restore them on gingerxperia...
Thanks guys
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Open up your contacts:
Press menu
Import / Export
Export to SD card
Let them save.
Done.
Flash rom, and goto contacts, menu, import / export, import from. Sd card.
Leave a thanks if I helped!
Sent from my X8 using xda premium
I used a program called Contacts2Sim Pro very handy and ContactRemover to clean my phone
rick19011 said:
How do you guys backup contacts and sms when flashing gingerxperia, because before I flashed I used backup and restore on my old android 2.1 then when it flashed I couldn't find the backup and restore no more in gingerxperia....
I'm looking to backup my contacts and saved txt messages and restore them on gingerxperia...
Thanks guys
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
that mean your backup using recovery rite???
so what should you do is...
1-boot into recovery
2-select restore (your backup folder)
3-after backup complete, restart phone
(now you on your old rom)(2.1 is it?) here you can find all your contact listed
4-you have to use any backup program (download from market) (sample etc. on post no2 or post no3)
5-install the backup program
6-now create backup (sms and contact rite??)
7-Now you have to install whatever cuctom rom again
8-after finnish download the same backup program (on step4)
9-install the backup program then restore the backup
Done??
Hi!
Update: Issue is resolved! I used the pre cm7 nandroid backup to export my messages to myphoneexplorer, then reapplied cm7 the same way and imported from mpe.
I recently upgraded from miui-ger_MILESTONE_2.4.6 to CM-7.2.4f (2.3.7).
Prior to the upgrade I did a comprehensive backup of my applications using Titanium Backup (v6.0.?) and I'm trying to restore that backup now. While this works for all my non-system apps, wlan, bluetooth and gmail account settings it somehow fails for SMS history:
I have an entry titled '[SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage 2.3.7' which contains all the messages in question and I can restore it's data or the app+data without any error. After several tries and reboots SMS history still remains empty. I'm sure my old texts are still there because Titanium lets me export data from the backup to a csv file.
Any idea what is going on or what I should try to troubleshoot this would be much appreciated!