I am still new to this stuff but is there any way to recover deleted text messages without buying a SIM card reader? I am not even sure if my phone stores the messages on the SIM card or on the phone itself. It is stock except that I rooted it.
Text messages are stored in internal memory, in a database:
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
I do not believe there would be any way to recover deleted texts. Use SMS Backup + to backup and store future text messages to your gmail account.
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I recently installed the palm SMS app to my tilt, and now every time I load up the app I get 10 *new* text messages that are from months ago. I had thousands of messages already on my tilt and I guess for some reason they come in unthreaded 10 at a time every time I start it now.
How do I delete all my old text messages, and if possible save them externally? I tried deleting the "messages" folder under windows but that didn't work and they are suddenly reappearing there after restart.... 10 at a time.
Where else are they saved? How do I get rid of them??? Thanks!
You can you use PIM backup for saving your SMS externally or Jeyo SMS backup which is a good sms backup tool (but it ain't free...).
The SMS's that are re-appearing are probably held on your SIM card (remember those old days!) and Pocket Outlook is just loading them back in every time.
You need to delete SIM messages to get rid of them.
If you can't do it through your Kaiser, find an ancient basic Nokia phone, put the SIM in that and see if the SMS's are there then delete them.
How to save text messages on internal memory?
I have done this before, but after resetting my phone I cant seem to remember how to do it again... I want to set up my phone so that when I receive a text message its saved on my internal storage instead of main memory.
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I just deleted by accident a whole thread of text messages.
I know I can't recover the text messages as a nice thread back on my phone.
What I am trying to do however is to access *all* of the internal memory.
Make some sort of raw dump of the whole internal memory (where text messages are stored as well) and browse it with a hex editor in the hope of finding pieces of my text messages with my gf.
Is it possible ? are there better solutions ?
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I have no idea if this is possible or not, but if you value your text messages so much, you should seriously consider using an app such as SMS Backup to backup all your messages to gmail automatically, like I do.
I am aware I had to back up and how to do it... but I just wanted to know how I could access *all* of the internal drive of my phone even the supposed 'free' space... ?
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Does anyone know of a way to save my text messages and call history before i flash my phone with a new ROM?
I use SMS backup and restore from the market. Its free and works really well for saving SMS and timestamps etc. It doesnt backup your MMS though.
I just use titanium backup, and restore the data for the system storage files (they're highlighted in green), haven't had any issues so far
Hi. After installing the new update 4.1.2. The option of delete older message somehow got selected. So my latest 200 messages in a particular conversation remain. I would like to recover the older messages. Is there any way?
Phone-GT-N7000
Backup SMS
Your question sounds interesting but it seems no answer. Happily I've used the SMS backup&restore to put SMS copies on the external SD card. It helps me to update regularly ROM.
If you do not have SMS backup, sadly the answer is no