Andreasole
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Hello , iam wondering how to retrieve deleted sms from my A5 , is that possible? Thanks in advance
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Text messages (sms)
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Andreasole
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Thanks for the answer but what about those PC programs that you connect them are they working, they call it android recovery dataUnfortunately if you didn't have some sort of message backup in place, once you delete them they are gone.
I think they could snake-oil and don't work.
Andreasole
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Sorry i dont understand, snake-oil????
Meaning fake software, that promises to do something, but it doesn't. FYI where "snake-oil" comes from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
SMSs are all stored in a single database file in /system, so if an SMS(a record) is deleted from the database file, it's gone forever. It's not like doing undelete on a PC, where it's only changing something in the directory that tells Windows a file is deleted, but the file data is still there until overwritten.
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Andreasole
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Ok so finish , without a back up nothing comes back. Thanks a lot for the replayMeaning fake software, that promises to do something, but it doesn't. FYI where "snake-oil" comes from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
SMSs are all stored in a single database file in /system, so if an SMS(a record) is deleted from the database file, it's gone forever. It's not like doing undelete on a PC, where it's only changing something in the directory that tells Windows a file is deleted, but the file data is still there until overwritten.