All of my SMS messages have disappeared, I have had my HTC Desire since the end of May and suddenly today all my SMS messages are gone without warning. I had auto backup to SD card enabled, but this option seems to have disappeared on 2.2, even if I could retrieve the old messages that were backed up to the SD card beforehand that would be great, there's nothing left! Delete old messages is turned off and I have tried turning the phone off and back on again but it hasn't helped. What can I do?
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All of my SMS messages disappeared when I updated on the OTA Froyo update, is this when yours vanished?
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I don't know, seems to have happened to two other people in this thread, mine is also unbranded on VF, I got an email from HTC support saying Froyo does wipe all your data including texts when it updates, but oddly enough it didn't happen to me immediately after the update. 
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This has just happened to me 12h after updating, why the suddenness? I have them all backed up on the sd card I just cannot find any way to restore the backup, when I restore to factory settings there is no option to restore anything but I mount the phone to my PC as external storage and I can see the backup sitting there - why can't froyo?
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About 10 minutes ago my phone sounded with it's sms message tone, but there was no new message there.
A few minutes later I checked my phone and all my messages were gone!
Remembering the wise words of "The IT Crowd" ("Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"), I did so and miraculously all my messages came back.
Well almost ... no sign of the message that made the phone tone 10 minutes ago.
A few minutes later I checked my phone and all my messages were gone!
Remembering the wise words of "The IT Crowd" ("Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"), I did so and miraculously all my messages came back.
Well almost ... no sign of the message that made the phone tone 10 minutes ago.
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I've just experienced the same thing...i had just received a message from someone, sent a reply...then when got a reply from THAT....when pushing the 'messages' icon...no inbox or anything...just kept getting a blank screen when selecting it!? I turned the phone off and on...SOME of the messages returned but the majority of them have gone missin..including the one i was JUST relying too...strange...
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this just happened to me too - a few weeks after the 2.2 update, on o2. don't have any backup, and restarting the phone didn't work! booo!
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This is the 2nd time this happened to me. This time I received a message. I look on my phone, no notice. I go into my messages inbox and everything is gone. Through the website of mobile vikings I could see which nr sent me a msg but it's not a nr from my contacts.
Is there nothing more known about this.
Is there nothing more known about this.
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