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Any chance of a program that runs the above function? I can't find it in the market though.
App Txtract
Backup your SMS / Text messages as HTML(XML,CSV) and store them on your microSD Card or you email the backup file to any of your emails (yahoo, gmail, hotmail, your work mail).
Not restore to phone but can be saved for viewing on HTML, Spreadsheet ... etc
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the one that I have, that I think is the best, is free and called "SMS Backup"
What it does, is, it basically forwards your SMS/MMS messages to your gmail account. The genius of it is that it archives them and labels them "SMS". So they skip the inbox, thus avoiding a "new mail" notification. It shouldn't even be that hard to set up a filter in gmail so they're automatically marked as "read" too, although skipping the inbox is good enough for me. It threads them just like gmail does with regular emails. The subject is "SMS with _contact name_". I haven't seen what it does with MMS, but I imagine it is the same.
While this does not allow you to restore them back to being text messages, it is way better than Txtract (the free one doesn't work with cupcake, thanks dev!) which converts them to a file type you can't easily open on your phone. You can have this run in the background (which looks like it can take a couple minutes to do on it's own) or you can do it manually with the app.
I really do love this app, because now I can just delete threads and texts all the time without really having to worry too much about losing them. One of the things that can make your phone laggy is having lots and lots of text messages saved on it. So clearing out your SMS and your browser cache/history can keep your phone running smoother.
I use MyBackup Pro which is a paid app, (there is a free version called MyBackup, but not sure if sms backup is enabled or not). Anyway, the paid version can backup and restore sms directly on the phone.
I also use SMS Backup and Restore SMS Backup & Restore - Android Stuff - great little application, although I have noted a that some of the SMS' have the wrong phone number attached for a sent SMS - have the number of the person I sent to rather than my number??
The support from the developer is great - easy to contact and very helpful. Guess I need to contact about this - just haven't had a chance to do so yet.
But my device is HTC HD2.I searched on the internet and found a software called "GodswMobile Windows Mobile Transfer Suite 1.1",It contains a computer app to Backup and restore SMS and contacts, including sim card contacts and mobile contacts.it is fast to backup ,restore and easy to use!
I'm thinking about installing "SMS Backup and Restore". It's had good reviews on the marketplace, but I don't like the fact it needs access to my contacts.
Having looked into the app in more detail, I realise that it needs access to my contacts so that it can add the contact names to the backup file. I think there are enough good reviews that it won't be a problem.
By "SMS Backup", do you mean the "SMS Backup and Restore" that I mentioned, or do you mean another app? With several apps with similar titles, I just wanted to check.
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I just received a replacement phone from Verizon because of a camera issue and went to backup my texts before resetting my old and activating the new one. I used SMS Backup+ and SMS Backup and Restore (wanted to maximize my chances ). Backup+ uses Gmail, as I think stated above, but it takes forever. I think it took close to an hour to backup my 4700 texts to Gmail over 3G (I was driving to work, so couldn't use WiFi), and I had to send my wife a text at one point, whereupon it appears to have cut short the backup process.
Backup and Restore was *very* fast, since it simply backs everything up as an XML file on the SD card, but it only saw 4680 texts.
So I'm not at all sure my most recent ones got backed up, but the vast majority did between the two programs.
I use SMS Backup and it is a real life saver in backing up your text messages. I have mine set up to save in a gmail archive folder. It backs up all new text messages according to the schedule I set up. Its really easy to restore messages or print them out.
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I use the free app SMS Backup+, it works perfectly.
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I use Google Voice. It's not really an SMS backup app but messages are stored in the GV account. The messages on the device are just synced with the GV account so if anything happens to the device (lost, stolen, broken, new device,switching to an entirely different OS, etc) I can just load the GV app again sync. However, if messages are deleted from the GV account and purged from trash that's it.
With GV, messages are accessible and can be sent/received via the GV site.
Last edited by takeshi; July 15th, 2011 at 12:39 PM.
I have a samsung galaxy 550 and i saved to sdcard a csv file of sms, but it's not possible to read the file. How can i transfer the messages from nokia 6700s to samsung?
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3295907[/URL]]I have a samsung galaxy 550 and i saved to sdcard a csv file of sms, but it's not possible to read the file. How can i transfer the messages from nokia 6700s to samsung?
I use SMS backup and the best way is to have it to save all SMS to your gmail. It creates a folder and automatically places the SMS in there. You can even view the text in your e-mail. Its really cool and places all SMS in the order of the individual.
By "bump", are you referring to the app that people use it to swap business cards or entire photo-libraries without the need for cables, memory cards?
I think it's pretty good.
Hello everyone, I ve waited too long to update my android OS it's still on 1.0 and now I want to update it, I cant backup my sms nor contacts (they're phone contacts unf, not google contacts) , because the back up apps are incompatible with 1.0. Can anyone find a workaround for this? so i basically want to upgrade my Android and not lose contacts and sms. thanks
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I have been trying for many hours to get this stupid 'Nokia2AndroidSMS' to convert the .csv file so I can transfer the xtml file it makes to the Android phone. But it tells me that ovi has not sync the messages, which I know it has already. But the new ovi suite backups all sms, contacts, documents and calender all together. It is ridiculous. I'm guess this is why 'Nokia2AndroidSMS' cannot find the sms file. So I managed to export just the messages to an .csv file but now I do not think Android reads the csv file, does it? And how do I restore all the sms onto the new SGSII phone that has been saved has a .csv file? Any free programs that does this? I have been looking like mad...Now I am getting tired.
I used nokia suite to syc all sms and then tried to use nokia2androidsms. It created an xml file of 59kb only! which of ocurse is very little, right? It does this everytime. It does not seem to work with the sms backup and restore prog of urs..! i tried converting the csv file to xml by other ways…but still same problem.
Fustrated like HELL!!!! Why does things have to be sooo complicated? I've been trying for over 3 days now....Really disappointing.
"SMS Backup and Restore" that I mentioned earlier exports to, and imports from, an XML file. If you can convert your .CSV file to an .XML file, SMS Backup and Restore should be able to import from it. I've never tried this myself, but it's worth considering.
I've found the developer to be very helpful in the past.
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well. I followed the nokia2android instructions and Nokia program did make the XML. file but it was 59kb. it cannot be. There is over 1000 SMS. Then i moved the file to the telephone and used the backup app to restore the SMS XML file only to find out, it was 0kb. So what happened? Very strange.
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