Hi,
I recently bought Galaxy SIII LTE and I have been using SMSBackupRestore for a long time in my old Desire;
When I was recovering all my old sms from my Desire to my SIII some sms threads were duplicated even triplicated after restore i.e. some of the messages were in one thread, others in another even though all sms were from/to the same number;
Has any one else have encountered the same problem and knows an application/Workaround in order to restore all SMS correctly?
Thanks
I had a similar issue when I moved from my Sensation to the 9300.
Cannot remember exactly what I did but I have a feeling it was deleting all messages (Clear Messaging Data) on the phone then restoring.
However I use SMSBackup+ so my solution may not work although we are talking a similar principal.
SMSBackup+ actually backs up to your Google Account so you can even see your Messages there. After trying several different apps I found this one to be the most reliable.
EDIT: Guess if you still have the Desire and the messages are all ok there then use SMSBackup+ to backup to your goolgle account then restore on the 9305. It is pretty slow to restore but not had any duplications since my initial issue which may have just been a glitch.
chippyuk said:
I had a similar issue when I moved from my Sensation to the 9300.
Cannot remember exactly what I did but I have a feeling it was deleting all messages (Clear Messaging Data) on the phone then restoring.
However I use SMSBackup+ so my solution may not work although we are talking a similar principal.
SMSBackup+ actually backs up to your Google Account so you can even see your Messages there. After trying several different apps I found this one to be the most reliable.
EDIT: Guess if you still have the Desire and the messages are all ok there then use SMSBackup+ to backup to your goolgle account then restore on the 9305. It is pretty slow to restore but not had any duplications since my initial issue which may have just been a glitch.
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Your guess is right I still have the Desire and all messages on it;
Thanks for your repply I will try your approach today
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Something really odd just happened.
I got a text from my buddy Aaron.
Opened up my SMS, and it showed another contact's picture and phone number when looking at the thread. but when I went back to the list of sms threads, it would show Aaron's phone number (not connected to his contact, no picture, no name etc)...
If I clicked on it and went back into the thread, again another contacts name and phone number and picture
wtf ?!?!
So I deleted the sms thread. Went into contacts, and swiped left on Aaron's contact to text him, when in the sms typing area, it only shows his phone number and fails to connect his number to his actual contact.
When I call Aaron from my contacts though, it does show his picture ...
is this sort of thing a common occurance ?
All my contacts are sync'd with exchange (corporate) and most of them are linked to facebook.
I've got no contacts on my sim, or entered into the phone memory itself.
I also noticed that when using a 3rd party sms app, the texts don't get linked up to the contacts, so it would only show the numbers.
pda:I9000UGJG9
phone:I9000UGJG9
csc:I9000BMCJG9
bell phone running on fido
i have not seen the error yet
but now that i know, i might not be surprised if it does happens
wow .. honestly that sort of thing is pretty unacceptable on any phone..
This happened to me yesterday! Any ideas on what causes it?
Ya i ve d same problm. anything can be done abt this?
This has been discussed many times before, its generally down to having other SMS applications on your device, ie Handscent.
this happened when i coded my own SMS app, left it installed on my phone for a few days and open the conversation to my mate and had all the msgs from my girlfriend in it...
Lol.. It actually happened to me a couple of time. Thankfully it solves itself when I hit the back button
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it happens me several times on 2 of 4 galaxys. this is totaly unacceptable offcourse. if this isnt fixed on froyo I have a galaxy for sale.
Which firmwares, and is this firmware you are using a final version?
sensi_ said:
This has been discussed many times before, its generally down to having other SMS applications on your device, ie Handscent.
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It does it for me quite regularly, and I've never installed any other SMS apps. Bog standard JF3, never flashed, nothing.
It was also one of the first things my friend mentioned to me about his new Galaxy S, which hadn't even had a single app of any kind downloaded at the time.
Believe me, it's very weird to have a text apparently from your best male friend telling you how much they love you after the phone gets the name confused with your girlfriend.
Weeeeirdness.
guys, you do know this issue is just a SMS software bug eh?
have you guys tried using ChompSMS (freebie)
that will prevent the problem of mixing contacts
me had this problem before but not anymore when i flash the i9000ZSJP2 firmware..... try it...
SMS problem yes, but Mail too!
I have had this problem with SMS a couple of times, but more serious and more frequent: Exchange mail mixes up, I get maibodies under wrong subject! I am using standard SGS Exchange client. Any other seen this?
AllGamer said:
guys, you do know this issue is just a SMS software bug eh?
have you guys tried using ChompSMS (freebie)
that will prevent the problem of mixing contacts
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Yup it sure is and i can confirm it on the firmware jpjg8
iv been recieving a lot of sms's and on the notification it gives me some random contact name but once opened it correctly goes back to the original sender with the text. i havn't tried using a diff sms app as im pretty happy with the stock 1 in use.
as for a fix , i found out that a big list of contacts and sms's do confuse the phone and try as much as possible to keep it as small as possible but id love to keep those sms's / mms's , so still no real fix T_T
bump .. me also haveing the same problem. contacts name in the notification is displayed wrong ..but it corrects itself when i open the sms.
using another app solved it
i switch to use Handcent SMS, much better than ChompSMS
i never really noticed if there was a problem with SMS getting mixed up
must have been an older bug on the older firmwares
I Have the same problem as the two people below.
I'll get a new text message, and it will show up on the notifications bar as from some random person, and i'll get another text from the same person and the notification will show another random name. They seem to be names of people that have previously sent me a message, but it is quite strange... It only started happening recently, so maybe it is an app or something conflicting?
The only things that come to mind are the LauncherPro messaging widget that i've been putting on one of my homescreens.
I'm running
Firmware 2.1-upadate1
I9000UGJH2
ECLAIR.UGJH2
rooted and running one click lag fix
also running trillian in the background, as well as beautiful widgets wheather.
can you guys post some info on what you are running so that maybe we can find a cause for this?
karanits said:
bump .. me also haveing the same problem. contacts name in the notification is displayed wrong ..but it corrects itself when i open the sms.
using another app solved it
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mazroui said:
Yup it sure is and i can confirm it on the firmware jpjg8
iv been recieving a lot of sms's and on the notification it gives me some random contact name but once opened it correctly goes back to the original sender with the text. i havn't tried using a diff sms app as im pretty happy with the stock 1 in use.
as for a fix , i found out that a big list of contacts and sms's do confuse the phone and try as much as possible to keep it as small as possible but id love to keep those sms's / mms's , so still no real fix T_T
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I experience the same on my desire z with htc's default app.
Is the a solution for this?
I find custom flashing and limiting the number of contacts ridiculously lame - no offence, but these bare not $10 devices
I had this bug on 2.1. I had no other text app installed so put it down to an eclair/rom version bug. Mine would also text the wrong people if it had got the contacts mixed. Best fix for me was a reboot.
I'm on Froyo now and no sign of it so far......fingers crossed
This very same thing is happening to me now. Called my carrier but they couldn't help. Hoping to find a solution here.
Hey everyone,
So on the past few ROMs I've been using (Slim, CM9, etc.) I've experienced the same problem: on the stock messaging app, when viewing the list of contacts/numbers (not an individual persons messages), it does not show their messages—only my own.
So, for example, if I send Bob a text and he replies, the preview of the last message is my last message, even though he was the last person to text in the message list.
This wouldn't be a huge problem, but it causes the order of texts to be messed up. If I haven't texted Bob in months, his name will be far down on the list. If he then texts me and I clear the notifications, his name (and his new message) will still be far down the list, causing me to overlook it.
Can anyone give me some insight on what is causing this? It's extremely annoying. And I would love to fix it. Thanks!
You have probably already done this, but just in case - have you tried to backup messages with sms backup & restore, then delete all messages, clear data/cache, uninstall updates, etc. for Messaging (mms.apk).
Then restore messages from backup.
Because for me CM9 messaging app properly shows last message text in all messages/contacts view. Of course I've only some 40 messages from 3-4 contacts
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You have probably already done this, but just in case - have you tried to backup messages with sms backup & restore, then delete all messages, clear data/cache, uninstall updates, etc. for Messaging (mms.apk).
Then restore messages from backup.
Because for me CM9 messaging app properly shows last message text in all messages/contacts view. Of course I've only some 40 messages from 3-4 contacts
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I cleared data, cache (even wiped dalvik cache) uninstalled it, then flashed the latest nightly to restore it. Same problem.
What the heck is going on here...
upichie said:
I cleared data, cache (even wiped dalvik cache) uninstalled it, then flashed the latest nightly to restore it. Same problem.
What the heck is going on here...
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Last thing I may propose: look at this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667615.
At least OP, Difusal, shall be knowledgeable regarding mms.apk.
andres_a said:
Last thing I may propose: look at this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667615.
At least OP, Difusal, shall be knowledgeable regarding mms.apk.
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I've tried various apks, wiping everything, etc. I can't figure this out. I feel it must have to do with Phone/Messaging Storage, as I haven't tried clearing/wiping that yet. I don't want to lose my texts though, so I'll try that at a later date. I really appreciate your help!
Id try another sms app like handcent and see of that also happens. At least it will serve to see if its an app or internal message system thing. I never paid too much attention to that but i don't think i have that problem (i use handcent)
Actually, i always thought the standard sms app is very lacking and doesn't display the behaviour id like so id recommend replacing it anyway.
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Id try another sms app like handcent and see of that also happens. At least it will serve to see if its an app or internal message system thing. I never paid too much attention to that but i don't think i have that problem (i use handcent)
Actually, i always thought the standard sms app is very lacking and doesn't display the behaviour id like so id recommend replacing it anyway.
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I'll give it a go. The alternatives always look horribly cluttered and ugly every time I look at their market pictures. I'm somewhat of a minimalist myself. But thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a go.
So I somehow borked messaging on my phone. Only it's deeper than that. Let's rewind a bit, shall we?
So about a week and a half ago, I started experimenting with different popup programs for SMS/MMS messages, since I'm not a big fan of how laggy chat heads can be with FB Messenger. I went through app after app comparing features until I settled on Glowfly. Everything seemed to be working fine until my sister tried to message me and my parents. It looked to me like she had just messaged me individually, and when I tried to send out a new group message with them all in it, I noticed it sent separate SMS messages to each person instead of a group MMS. And they didn't receive as a group message; it was all individual messages to them too. My first reaction was to uninstall Glowfly, but the damage was done. No matter what I've tried, this issue is persisting. I don't know if something messed up MMS settings on the network for me, or what, but even wiping and doing a clean install of roms (both stock and Sense) have the exact same issue, even if I don't restore anything with TIBU or install anything at all. The only thing I can think is that maybe it's pulling wrong MMS settings from Google, or it's something on the network acting screwy, but no one else is having this issue. Oh, and here's the weirdest part: I can still get MMS messages with pictures. So MMS is not flat-out broken. I just don't understand how it can persist through wipes and clean installs. Anyway, does anyone have any idea what could be happening?
Its not MMS, its not an included feature in 4.1, it got added in 4.2. Try Textra. Its in the play store. Has popups and group messaging built in. Super clean and stable texting app. My wife and mom have been using it on their firsts, and have had no issues at all. Hope that helps.
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So I haven't used an android phone since the HTC Hero and I'm not sure what is causing this. It doesn't do it to everyone so far and it doesn't seem to follow any pattern but here's what happens.
This afternoon I started a new text thread with my daughter and sent her 2 SMS messages using the messenger app. She responded a couple of hours later however her response came in an entirely newly created SMS thread within messenger. And she also mentioned she only received 1 of the 2 messages I sent.
This continues to happen randomly with different people. Both starting of a new thread when they reply and having not received all of my messages from the new SMS thread I had created to contact them.
I've only had this phone for a couple of days so I'm really trying to get used to it and stick with android again.
Thanks in advance!
Alright, we are going to have to take this step by step and just use the process of elimination for this.
When you are in your contacts, are there multiple contacts for your daughter? Example, Jainy and Jainy?
If there are multiple ones, one could contain only her email or with another app's contact system (example, Skype), and another instance of her contact could contain her number. So if you sent a SMS with to the wrong one, it could have never been sent.
While you are doing that, check the other contacts that it happens with.
I did check that, that's the first thing I thought it could be and there are no duplicates at all for her, or anyone else that I can see. Within her contact info particularly, it's just her phone number and no other data.
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I did check that, that's the first thing I thought it could be and there are no duplicates at all for her, or anyone else that I can see. Within her contact info particularly, it's just her phone number and no other data.
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Have you tried another SMS app? Like Textra SMS or similar? Maybe the problem could lie within the app itself because I remember on the Zenfone 2, sometimes messages wouldn't send with one messenger but would be perfectly fine with another.
I haven't yet. And while I can certainly try it, I wouldn't want to use that as a fix you know what I mean? I haven't seen anyone complaining of it with this phone although a Google search reveals similar questions among a barrage of android phones but no solutions that I've seen that would apply to me.
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I haven't yet. And while I can certainly try it, I wouldn't want to use that as a fix you know what I mean? I haven't seen anyone complaining of it with this phone although a Google search reveals similar questions among a barrage of android phones but no solutions that I've seen that would apply to me.
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Sorry, late reply. Didn't see this thread get updated. Use the reply button under my post to quote it so that I'll get a notification when you reply.
Yeah, I see what you mean, you could even try clearing the data and cache of the messaging app too and see that fixes it as well. But when that was an issue, I never found a solution either other than it seems to happen randomly on some phones without the user doing much.
Only solution that fixes it was other SMS messengers, but then that is also a thing to figure out as to what is causing the problem. All messaging apps read from one file that has all the messages so it might be a problem in how it is being handled by the app. I know that sometimes when I restore my SMS messages to a new phone, I have to uninstall and reinstall the messaging app because it is not displaying the messages under the correct thread.
Any reason you don't want to use a different app? Textra, chomp, and Google messenger will all do basically the same thing, slightly different colors and settings, but if one works and the other doesn't, you have a solution. I bounce between those apps on different devices without a problem.
So today I made a factory reset in order to solve some excessive battery draining that I had the last few weeks.
As always, I have I made sure to make a thorough backup to all my accounts and I also used the HiSuite to make a backup on my pc, HOWEVER, after I restored my backups and apps, I noticed that all my sms are missing besides some 5 sms of today and maybe 5 sms from 2013!
I tried to delete messages app data and restore them but no luck. I also tried to restore them from HiSuite and although it says restore complete I am still missing the sms. Finally I tried to restore them from an older huawei cloud backup (I suppose it also stores the sms) and but again nothing!
Can someone please guide me? how can I access my Google account sms backup and restore the last sms backup?
Tks in advance,
Thanos
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I think there is a bug in the app. When I restored my messages a lot of them got stored in a conversation with "unknown number".
Yes, I also some of mine were registered as unknown number indeed.
There must be a way to recover the sms though, but what is it...
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Honestly I didn't really dig deeper into it because I don't care much about text messages. Maybe transferring to another app with a backup tool and then back can solve the issue?
Gaba90 said:
Honestly I didn't really dig deeper into it because I don't care much about text messages. Maybe transferring to another app with a backup tool and then back can solve the issue?
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The weirdest thing of them all? I used one sms backup app and it said that it backed up approx 12000sms..so it seems that they are in the device but they are not shown in the app... WTF??
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