Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could help me transfer my sms and mms from my old droid 1 to my new droid 3. I have tried: SMS Backup and Restore, SMS Backup, My Backup Pro, and these did not work. Also, I have more than 200 texts with multiple people that I would like to keep, so some of the above apps didn't apply.
I tried to back up the [SMS/MMS/___] dialer storage with TB. Then, on my Droid 1, I navigated to the folder where the backup files were just saved. There were 3, and they were called data.data.android.providers.telephony, or something like that. I moved these 3 files to my droid 3 in the same folder, and tried to restore them using Titanium Backup on my droid 3.
After I restored them, I was able to see the that the texts were there in Handcent SMS, BUT any time I clicked on a contact to see all the texts, my phone would force close. I used root explorer to delete the mmssms.db and that fixed my phone, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to get this to work? I feel like it has to do with something regarding permissions?
jayjl3 said:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could help me transfer my sms and mms from my old droid 1 to my new droid 3. I have tried: SMS Backup and Restore, SMS Backup, My Backup Pro, and these did not work. Also, I have more than 200 texts with multiple people that I would like to keep, so some of the above apps didn't apply.
I tried to back up the [SMS/MMS/___] dialer storage with TB. Then, on my Droid 1, I navigated to the folder where the backup files were just saved. There were 3, and they were called data.data.android.providers.telephony, or something like that. I moved these 3 files to my droid 3 in the same folder, and tried to restore them using Titanium Backup on my droid 3.
After I restored them, I was able to see the that the texts were there in Handcent SMS, BUT any time I clicked on a contact to see all the texts, my phone would force close. I used root explorer to delete the mmssms.db and that fixed my phone, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to get this to work? I feel like it has to do with something regarding permissions?
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Usigpng sms backup. Go into setting and change where it looks for the backup at. Its be something like /sdcard/smsbackup/
Add -ext after the sdcard. It looks like /sdcard-ext/smsbackup. Then it will find your backup and work
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Is there any way to make it work with TB?
SMS Backup takes too long to upload, and gives an error after I try it. Finding the backup wasn't the problem, it just reports an error everytime
Anyone know?
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I just picked up my Bionic, but when I restore the SMS messages from my previous phone, the default Messaging app displays them with the timestamp at which they were restored, not when they were sent.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the messaging app or SMSBackupRestore, but the sms.xml I'm restoring from definitely has the timestamps in there.
For the time being I've backed everything up and wiped them from the phone so that I can restore whenever this is fixed (or I flash a new ROM.)
Anyone else experiencing this?
I've ran into this on most the SMS restore apps, tried the one you did, tried mybackup pro, haven't had much luck finding one that restores the original times.
It sounds like how the Bionic's messaging app displays the texts, then. All the backup app does is parse the XML file and insert the messages into the common sms SQL database.
Hi there
I would like to backup my SMSes (only sms,not the app) using Titanium Backup. May I know which file should I choose to backup in TB? I tried exploring around but couldn't find anything that looks like my SMSes.
You need SMS backup from the market.
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Actually I have made a full backup with TB previously, so now I wish to restore my SMSes. Problem is, I do not know which file. And I do not want to do a full restore as I only need to recover my SMSes. Any help?
kohkohnut said:
Actually I have made a full backup with TB previously, so now I wish to restore my SMSes. Problem is, I do not know which file. And I do not want to do a full restore as I only need to recover my SMSes. Any help?
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Man, as far as I know Titanium is just for backing up your applications... It doesn't backup SMS nor anything other than apps...
ZioGTS said:
Man, as far as I know Titanium is just for backing up your applications... It doesn't backup SMS nor anything other than apps...
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My guess is that SMS is part of the data for a particular app. So when I backed up my apps and their data, my SMSes should have been captured as well. Only problem is I do not know which one is it.
Please correct me if my assumption is wrong.
kohkohnut said:
My guess is that SMS is part of the data for a particular app. So when I backed up my apps and their data, my SMSes should have been captured as well. Only problem is I do not know which one is it.
Please correct me if my assumption is wrong.
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I've restored sms's before using titanium backup. Can't remember how though.
smsbackup is alot simpler.
Well, that's good to know! If they are saved with data for an app, that app should be sms app, I suppose.
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no, sms app (mms.apk) does not store any sms in its data store. there is another process calles message store, this seems somehow related to the sms data.
look under the m section section of apps when you view backup/restore apps in alphabetical format and you will find an app in yellow titled '[sms/mms prefs] messaging' and I believe if you restore that one you will get your messages back
There is a very good free app called SMS Backup+, it can backup your SMS, MMS and call logs directly to Gmail with proper label. It can restore it from there as well.
Anyone have the name of an app that does this correctly. Im using sms backup and restore but it does not restore the dates properly. And the messages are all out of order because of this.
Thanks
I am using the same and have the same problem
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"AppExctractor" can extract messages from previous clockwork mod recoveries.
The only flaw is that the backup has to have been made through ROM Manager.
SMS Backup+ has the same problem (basically, all messages are restored to the date and time that you restored them, not when they were sent or received). It never did on my old phone. I suspect that Motorola is doing something non-standard with the timestamp on messages.
Titanium Backup.
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I had the same issue with SMS Backup and Backup to Gmail. I ended up switching to GoSMS and used its built in backup feature. The restore worked perfectly! All dates show correctly.
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I had the same issue with SMS Backup and Backup to Gmail. I ended up switching to GoSMS and used its built in backup feature. The restore worked perfectly! All dates show correctly.
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I use GoSMS myself and I can confirm that in the GoSMS app itself, the dates restore correctly. However, the stock messaging app does not restore correctly (it puts the date/time of transfer/restore as the timestamp of all messages restored) using the GoSMS restore function any more. I'm not quite sure if it's an update thing or a phone thing as I went from an X2 to a Bionic but I believe it was broken in an update to the app itself.
Handcent backup took too long for me. Since then, I have used My Backup Pro, which has done a fantastic job of restoring my 6700 messages with time stamp intact. Try giving it a shot.
EDIT: Just kidding. Sorry kiddos. Next time I reflash, I'll see if Handcent restore works.
Sent from my DROID BIONIC
Diocat said:
I use GoSMS myself and I can confirm that in the GoSMS app itself, the dates restore correctly. However, the stock messaging app does not restore correctly (it puts the date/time of transfer/restore as the timestamp of all messages restored) using the GoSMS restore function any more. I'm not quite sure if it's an update thing or a phone thing as I went from an X2 to a Bionic but I believe it was broken in an update to the app itself.
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this is correct, i tried 3 different backup/restore apps before i realized that the problem is with the stock SMS app, not the backup/restore app. Handcent and ChompSMS do display the correct time even when the stock app does not. same problem on my Droid X too.
PhilDX said:
this is correct, i tried 3 different backup/restore apps before i realized that the problem is with the stock SMS app, not the backup/restore app. Handcent and ChompSMS do display the correct time even when the stock app does not. same problem on my Droid X too.
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Handcent doesn't display correct time and dates for me, I used sms backup to restore sms and call logs.
GoSMS is the best one when it comes to backing up and restoring the SMS.. I have 10,000+ Msgs and while it takes about 1.5 to 2 hours to restore it's well worth it..
Ritesh Sahu, dev of SMS B&R, recently released a new version that fixed his restore mismatch dates.
What's New
What's in this version:
v4.4:
Potential fix for the incorrect Date/Time problem after restore on some Motorola phones. Special thanks to Dominick Young for his endless testing. Also thanks to John L Galt for his help.
Fixed sorting of conversations on some phones.
Added yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss as file name format.
Added a label to display the last backup date.
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It works for me so far (and yes that is me in the notes - although I wasn't able to test it nearly as much as Dominick)
Go SMS Pro is by far the best
I had a similar problem when restoring messages to my Droid X2. It looks like the stock text messaging app for Droid is looking for the date in a column named sort_index instead of the date column that all the other apps seem to look at. This also controls the sorting of the messages. When you're restoring messages sort_index gets set to the import date and time of when the message was restored which is what breaks the stock app. To fix the problem I used Root Explorer to download a copy of /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db. Then I used the command line version of SQLite to run queries to update the sort_index column to have the same value as the date column. The queries looked like this:
update pdu set sort_index = date * 1000
update sms set sort_index = date
update threads set sort_index = date
Then I put the file back in place, making sure permissions were correct and then rebooted the phone. Everything was back in the correct order at this point.
I have recently purchased a GT0I9505 and have rooted it, but have not installed any custom ROMs. I am using GO SMS Pro and when I get a new message I get the notification, but when I open the app and try to open the message, the whole thread is blank, including old messages (I have transferred my old messages across from my S2 using Titanium Backup).
I have tried deleting the app data and cache from the Application menu in 'settings', but this does nothing, and doesn't even delete my message threads. I have even uninstalled GO SMS Pro and installed another app, but this doesn't even work properly, so I don't think it's a GO problem. An interesting note is that when I uninstall GO SMS Pro and reinstall it using the Play Store, my messages all come back up (in list view only).
If I receive a text I get the popup, so I can read the message, but then when I open it up in the app, the whole thread is just blank. Can someone help, or even tell me where I can find the stored SMS messages on my phone so I can delete the file. I have tried everything but cannot delete a single text message!
Try restoring your backup of GO SMS Pro without data in TiBu.
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Hi guys,
I am trying to restore my texts from my N5 to N6 and they restore fine but the timestamp for the received texts are all wrong, hence texts all over the place.
I have tried everything I know to fix this but nothing works, I have even tried to backup texts I received today and enabled the timezone options in the menu from the SMS Backup & Restore app but still does not work. It is reading today's received texts as yesterday. My sent texts are fine.
Anyone else had an issue like this?
Thanks
kendogc said:
Hi guys,
I am trying to restore my texts from my N5 to N6 and they restore fine but the timestamp for the received texts are all wrong, hence texts all over the place.
I have tried everything I know to fix this but nothing works, I have even tried to backup texts I received today and enabled the timezone options in the menu from the SMS Backup & Restore app but still does not work. It is reading today's received texts as yesterday. My sent texts are fine.
Anyone else had an issue like this?
Thanks
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I would try the Go SMS app to backup and restore your texts. I did this a while back on a different phone, and recall the phone apply a "time fix" after restoring the messages to make sure the times were correct. You can install Go SMS on your N5, do a backup, put the backup file on google drive, Dropbox, etc. Install Go SMS on N6, download the backup file, and restore it in the Go SMS app. Once restored, proceed to use any messaging app you like, and uninstall Go SMS.
OK. Will try that on Monday as a friend is borrowing my N5 this weekend
Navigate to /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases where you'll find mmssms.db. Copy this over from your old phone to your new in in the same location and fix permissions so that both the owner and group have read/write permissions.
I've been using this method since Gingerbread and it's worked on every version of android since then.
You can also take telephony.db to transfer your call logs and blacklist.db for any blacklisted numbers.
Hope this helps.
You could always use titanium backup. Works for me
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