[Q] Texts Gone / How To Recover - Motorola Droid 4

My Droid 4 crashed on me and when I rebooted it and went to my text messages I received an empty screen with the simple message of "No text messages". The phone deleted ALL of my messages, even my locked/ protected ones, which I NEED. I'm using stock messaging and so far, none of those so called text recovery programs have worked. They don't seem to be able to find the deleted text messages. I've tried contacting Motorola customer service (twice, actually) and they're telling me there is nothing they can do, that once they're deleted, they're gone forever. Which is bull. I know they're stored in there until they're over written and I've had my phone either off or in airplane mode. I should also mention that I do have Backup Assistant plus and it was activated... but after the crash, the shortcut to it in my apps has vanished. The only way I could find it was going in through files and when I tried to connect to it it told me it was unable to. That was the first thing I tried when I saw the missing texts. I tried the next day to connect again, it gave me the same message, tried it again later and it finally connected... only to have reset itself. It was as if I had never used it before, and I have. So, I have no backup and no messages. I'm beyond furious at this point. Does anyone know where the files are stored and can they give me step by step instructions on how to get there so I can get back my locked texts? I don't even care about the other ones, it's the LOCKED ones I need. They were locked for a reason, after all. I've also read that some of the Android phones have a history option when it comes to texts. I would love to know how to access that on the Droid 4, although, something tells me the Droid 4 doesn't have one of those.
To recap:
1) Can anyone give me instructions on going through my phone's files?
2) Is there a history mode on the Droid 4?
3) How do I use that history mode (assuming question two is a "yes")?
4)Any other possible ways of retrieving this data?
5)Does anyone know where on the phone the files are stored?
Edit: I've just attempted to go to android.com/devicemanager to see if there was something I can do from there, but it won't log me in. It just keeps asking for my password.

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Cant send any messages?!

EDIT: for whatever reason it started working just after i posted this from my tilt but if anyone knows, i would like to know possible causes.
Yesterday it was fine but now i cant send any messages (like email and sms but phone and internet are fine) on my tilt. I go into messages, and try to send a new message but all the text fields wont let me type anything and the "Add recipricant" menu option is greyed out.
As i said i was able to send a text message yesterday. the only things i did today that wasnt normal was use TrackMe. i recorded a few gps coordainates offline because i had no signal. then when i got home, i soft restarted because my signal wouldnt recover (and i knew i could get a signal here). then i uploaded my offline positions.
now im here. since active sync wont work on my company laptop, i was going to email the kml to myself and thats when i noticed i couldnt send anything.
has anyone experienced this before or know any ways to fix it (i already tried a soft reset).
See this
CHeck out this thread. Contained therein is the answer you are looking for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=383904
~Gwen

[Q] Unable to Send SMS suddenly

Hi Peeps,
For some strange reason my SGS has decided to stop sending sms. After hitting send the messages just get stuck on "sending"
I have checked the message centre number and the mms setting just in case. I have tried the sim in an old nokia and it texts just fine.
It was having intermittent issues with sms around a week ago, where it wouldnt send a message, so i would send the same one again and then both would send simultaneously. However now its not sending at all.
I am running Froyo.xwjp6 with kernel 2.6.32.9.
I have also tried instaling Handcent SMS but i just get the error "message not sent"
Thoughts on a postcard?
Same here, although trying handcent has allowed me to send, but strangely, will intermittently fail, im sure its a froyo bug.
tommyturbo said:
Same here, although trying handcent has allowed me to send, but strangely, will intermittently fail, im sure its a froyo bug.
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I managed to fix it. Couldn't be bothered with trying to reflash the modem or even the os, so tried the Privacy-return to factory settings option just out of curiosity. Can't figure out what it did exactly but when it rebooted i had not lost any settings or applications, and all my home screen app shortcuts were still there. The only discernable difference was the lack of gadgets on the home screen, which I had to reinstall.
The important thing however is that messaging worked again. God knows why.
One susipicion I have is that this is due to my usage of Titanium Backup. I installed it when i was running Eclair, and each time i upgrade the OS i use it to restore my old system data and apps. Perhaps some change between Eclair and Froyo's messaging settings is being overwritten by and older version by Titanium. I suspect this as following the above factory restore I tried a Titanium restore and instantly it broke my messaging again. So I did the factory again and got them back. There wasn't really any need to use Titanium as I said before I didn't seem to lose any setting or apps, but did it anyway out due to that old cat's friend curiosity
Give it a go if u dare and see what happens
Let me know how u get on...
Ok so im still having the same problem.is there really noone out there with an idea?
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[Q] Rejected text message on CM 6.1.....

Hi Guys,
I'm running Cyanogenmod 6.1 (Android 2.2.1) on my G1.
I received a text message but the notification then said;
"Text message rejected due to storage full"
(or something along those lines)
My questions are;
1. Is there anyway to get that text message resent by the network? If the phone says it 'rejected it' then presumably this means it has a not-delivered status on the mobile providers SMS system?
2. Can text messages be saved to the memory card?
Thanks,
Mark.
Not as far as I know. I had something similiar happens to me and I could never re-receive it.
This happened to me once and it never, ever came through. I gave up on it. Though a few weeks later it had happened again for a different reason. I done a manual search roam, tried to join a different network, it failed, put me back to my original network and the latest message came through. It worked a good couple of times for me.
Chocolate Columbo said:
This happened to me once and it never, ever came through. I gave up on it. Though a few weeks later it had happened again for a different reason. I done a manual search roam, tried to join a different network, it failed, put me back to my original network and the latest message came through. It worked a good couple of times for me.
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I too thought this would work but it didn't...
Which network did it work on?
It worked for me on giffgaff. Though when it didn't work, I had left the phone for like 2 days before actually trying anything like that to retrieve rejected ones. When I got the reject message the last few times, I cleared space then done the roam thing straight away and it came through.
I don't need to be clearing space anymore really though. I just keep an eye on it even though I'm now flashing ROMs all the time. That roam change thing was when my a2ext wasn't configured/working properly and I was in the middle of conversations.
Arghh, this just happened to me with being on a magpieless Froyo rom and just being on a market binge.
Who's fault is this, the rom/phone not sending the correct response to the network, or the network being a ****?
I'm sure it should work, it used to be fine back in the day when texts went on the sim and you could have 10 so it happened all the time.
Its pants. The phone is supposed to send a confirmation back to the network of successful receipt. So either something isn't working with that or the networks aren't processing as they should.

Can't recieve texts - EXTENSIVE

I would link you to several other posts, however I'm too new to send links! but I've googled and searched quite a bit and all the things I've tried have failed.
I'm rooted with FROYO.... and the other day I stopped recieving texts after recieving a "Low Memory" error.
I send texts just fine, I've had this issue before and usually a flash to a nandroid backup and an update to the PRL and PROFILE fixes it.... however not this time. I've been working on this for 2 days now....
Here's what I've tried
1. Reflash back to earlier ROM.
2. Update PRL, and Update PROFILE --- (done this everytime I Flash/Restore)
3. Reflashed back to current ROM.
4. restored countless nandroid backups
5. Factory reset with different roms
6. FINALLY Chatted with sprint, he made me do a couple diagnostics that he said would "work"
7. He did advanced troubleshooting and made me turn off phone for an hour
Still nothing works.
I noticed by googling that quite a few people suggested deleting telephony.db, however I do not have a telephony.db file... even when I reflash and restore backups there is no telephony.db file.
Anybody else have ideas on what I can do?
Kashank said:
I noticed by googling that quite a few people suggested deleting telephony.db, however I do not have a telephony.db file... even when I reflash and restore backups there is no telephony.db file.
Anybody else have ideas on what I can do?
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With Titanium Backup, it would be Dialer storage, it's listed with sms and mms, you could try that.
Go into your parental controls at sprint.com and make sure sms is turned on, it somehow got turned off on my sons phone once.
if you have your msl code u could restore a sense rom and dial ##3282# go to data setting and change your accolic to 1 that will give you a higher priority for calls and texts just dont change it to 0 because thats reserved for emergency government bans and you might get some notices from the fcc lol.
youll be fine if u leave it on 1though
Bierce22 said:
if you have your msl code u could restore a sense rom and dial ##3282# go to data setting and change your accolic to 1 that will give you a higher priority for calls and texts just dont change it to 0 because thats reserved for emergency government bans and you might get some notices from the fcc lol.
youll be fine if u leave it on 1though
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hmm I googled a way to get my MSL.... it took installing about 3 different pieces of software and several other steps. do you have a better way of getting my MSL?
aiwetir said:
With Titanium Backup, it would be Dialer storage, it's listed with sms and mms, you could try that.
Go into your parental controls at sprint.com and make sure sms is turned on, it somehow got turned off on my sons phone once.
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Sadly I don't have a titanium backup of the sms and mms
And for some reason I can't get the texting link on the sprint.com parental controls to open.... I've tried 3 different browser, I wonder if the link is down
just call sprint and ask tell them u want to do a data restore and theyll give it to u
msl reader in the market if you are rooted
http://goo.gl/AuW5D
IT WORRRKKSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not entirely sure what fixed it.... I just started restoring random nandroid backups....
Took me going through about 10 of them before one worked.
Kashank said:
IT WORRRKKSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not entirely sure what fixed it.... I just started restoring random nandroid backups....
Took me going through about 10 of them before one worked.
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Don't restore any system stuff or apps via titanium backup, this is probably what borked it in the first place.
Yeah I'm not entirely sure what screwed it up, however I do know that on most of the ROMS I installed and Nandroid backups, that the /data/data folder on my phone did not exist.
I tried using linux commands to find the "telephony.db" file, and doing this I discoved the /data/data folder was missing. And the "random backup" I restored either recreated it or had it still in memory. And now when I navigate to the /data/data folder on my phone it's FULL of stuff. So I'm sure however that got deleted, that it was the issue.
Thank yall so much for your help
Glad you got it sorted out.

Can't download from play store

So I've got a couple problems that I hope someone here can help me fix.
I've only had my phone for a few days and things were going great until this morning. I received a text message and replied to it, but my response just sat on "sending..." until it failed. Once it failed I was able to tap on it to send it again, and it went through. Tested sending other messages to the same person and one other and I'm having the same issue. One person has a Galaxy S8 and the other an iPhone SE, so it's not limited to just Android or iOS users. All texts I try to send sit on "sending..." forever until they fail, then they send right away if I tap to resend. I've tried every supposed fix that I could find online to people that were having the same problem on older Samsung phones, but nothing has helped. The one solution that seems like it might help, I can't find on this phone. I've used both the stock Samsung Messages app and the Google Messages app, they both refuse to send messages and I can't find this setting in either app or in the phone settings. The setting I am referring to is called "message center" and it's supposed to be in the settings for the messages app, where you can change a number that corresponds to your carrier to allow text messaging or something like that. Like I said, I have no problem receiving texts.
My other issue is one I actually ran into on my Note 4 I was using before I got the 9. I had 8.1 installed on the 4 but I tried everything I could find online to try and fix this issue too, but didn't really have any luck. Now the problem has returned on my 9, I can't download updates or new apps from the Play Store. They just sit on "downloading". The download might finally start after letting it sit for an hour or so, but they won't initiate right away. So I've taken to using APKPure or APK Mirror to do my updates.
I've tried many things to solve both issues, but nothing has helped. The only thing I've not done is a factory reset because I really don't want to go through that already. Plus I did factory resets/clean ROM installs on the Note 4 and the Play Store issue always came back. I'm at wits end and am about ready to switch to an iPhone for good. Really don't want to as I much rather prefer Android and especially the Note phones, the 9 is a beast. But I can't take this Play Store issue much longer and not being able to send texts is not acceptable. So any help on either issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Have you tried changing your network settings? Have you made any modifications to your phone? Is play store problem on WiFi, mobile data, or both? Have you cleared data in play store and services? I think if you've had the problem with two of your phone, is there some commonality between the two? Some none mainstream apps or modification you did to both? If you've tried any and all fixes you've seen on Google, I think you need to factory reset, no point jumping through hoops to fix it if you're not willing to do a reset once at least. There are limited backup capabilities without root that you could use. But really you want to reset, and use as close to factory settings as you can for a while and see if the problem is still there before adding all your own apps and stuff.
What mods have you done to the note 9? Doesn't sound like a stock setup you got going there.Are you using the stock factory sms app or did you download an apk of it from apk pure?
My next question would be what network are you on and where and what model device.?
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The text message issue seems to have resolved itself. I'm hoping it was just an issue with my network and won't return. I'd still really like to find the "message center" setting that's mentioned so many times online though in case I need it in the future.
I didn't bother listing what network I'm on since these issues appear to happen on many models of phones and all networks, but here is my info. 512gb model Note 9 on Spectrum Mobile, who is using Verizon's network I believe. My Note 4 on the other hand is a T-Mobile version running on their network through Straight-Talk.
Both issues happened on wifi and lte.
Like I said, I've done everything listed online I could find. I've cleared app cache, app data, reset network settings, booted into safe mode, booted into recovery to clear cache, installed the absolute newest versions of play services and play store apks, and whatever else I've read or thought of. And like I said, I've done clean installs/factory resets on my Note 4 to try and fix the play store issue and it always comes back. So I highly doubt doing so will permanently fix it on the 9.
I've been using Android since it first was released and have been in IT for much longer, but this play store issue has me stumped. The 9 isn't modified in any way other than running a dark theme from the Samsung Theme app. I guess if nothing turns up here I will give it a few days and then do a reset if it doesn't resolve itself, reinstall apps slowly so I can see if one of them is responsible even though safe mode ruling them out didn't work.
You don't need to worry about the message center, I'm pretty sure it's not even a thing anymore, I remember it from the days of the Nokia 5110 haha. If you really want to know it and your messages app has a setting to add it you can call your network provider for it or look on Google for your networks message center, but I'm sure it's not even necessary, especially if your test messaging works, if you needed to enter the message center and you didn't, you wouldn't be able to text at all. As I said, I'm positive it's a thing just from the olden days anyway.
As for play store, I have had a similar problem in the past but it was always just a short lived issue that resolved itself, but if it's happening to you repeatedly then I don't know, other than a reset.

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