Before flashing ROMs on my device (Tilt, Kaiser, etc.) I had apparently copied everything from the UAContents folders onto my PC. These folders contain a bunch of .dat files which to my understanding relate to the contents of the MMS messages I had deleted. In an attempt to retrieve these lost messages and pictures I copied files from the MMS Log and MMS UA folders back onto my device. But I get no results. Is it even possible to retrieve lost MMS messages with these files? Am I missing a step somewhere? someone please help. Thank you.
I'd hate to bump this, but I really need some help here
I have a use for this too, lost some MMS pictures today when I did a softreset before the MMS was looked at... but I see there is .DAT files for use in My Documents/UAContents\MMS UA can I open this with some app to get out the pictures?
Found out a way to workaround this today... I moved and renamed one of my .dat files to the templates folder, and renamed it exaktly to one of the templates name ex 1_0409.dat, then I made a new mms, chose the template and sent an MMS to myself.. .voila, the picture and topic was there!
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If anyone knows of an MMS viewer could you let me know- for some reason my inbox lists mms files but won't open them, even though they are there (since I changed ROM)
I have some important MMS I can't open...so I need a program that will let me read them. If anyone could make one there will be a reward on offer....
if it was in relation to a restore and it also happens with sms and mails once in awhile
then it's the db that is going mad and no view can access the infomation
maybe everything but the title is gon
or maybe that program pocketpc db something something can fix it
As far as I can gather, the db for MMS simply links to the .dat file that contains the actual content...
so what I need is a way of opening the .dat file, or fixing the broken links (about 130 of them!)
Anyone got any ideas?
I know the dat file is in SMIL format...but no idea how to get those to open on pocket pc..help will be appreciated and rewarded!
If you have the dat files, and you are interested in getting out the pictures, this can be done using a hex editor after you have copied the dat files to your pc.
I want to completely wipe my xda IIi and rebuild but am looking for a way to save all my sms messages as individual .txt files (so that i can archive them to my desktop). I have about 2000 sms messages.
I was wondering whether there was an application (preferably free) that would automatically do this for me?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Search the forum.
I had a look before posting but couldn't find anything. I'll have another look now
Check the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=283080
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=279004&highlight=
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=285359&highlight=
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=280045&highlight=
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=272175&highlight=
Thanks guys, found stuff in the end. i was searching with 'sms' not 'text' messages :-S
Will get downloading
Hi all, I'm using an unrooted HTC Wildfire and yesterday all of my texts just disappeared - about 8000 in total. I think it was after I recieved a text from someone. I reasoned that the messages have to still be on the phone somewhere due to the fact that data is just marked as overwritable, or am I wrong about that? Either way, I hunted through the SD card with some file recovery software (PC Inspector File Recovery, to be precise) and found a few files that may be useful - "com.gb.gosms-1.asec" in "android_secure" that's 4.09MB (about the right size for the data my messaging app was reading in the "Settings>Applications", and "40123", found in "LOST.DIR" that is 14.0MB, probably too large but the closest I could find as the other two in that directory were only a few hundred kilobytes.
I can't open any of them - I tried "40123" as .db and .xml files and the .ASEC file seems to be an encrypted Android file.
I'm looking for a few things, I guess - Where should I look to use the file recovery software to find the old SMS files? How do I open a .ASEC file, and might it be the right one? And does anyone know of any way to recover my texts? I just would quite like to recover my texts as there are some important ones on there!
Many thanks in advance, and sorry if I am repeating anything, I ran a search but couldn't find anything.
P.S., I am using GoSMS, but my stock messaging app is just as empty!
Why do you have 8,000 texts on your phone? Typically any SMS app you download will automagicly delete any texts once you collect a certain amount.
I like to keep all my messages so I can know what has been said and because there are some important texts in there, and I just double checked and couldn't find any settings like that in there, but I know it's disabled on my stock app and I had conversations ranging from about 5000 to 2 or 3 texts, but thanks for the suggestion!
I did, however, find a thing saying that I had sent 1900 messages in total, or thereabouts, which is a lot more than I sent since the messages went missing, a lot less than I have sent since I got the phone. Perhaps it is from when I started using Go SMS, but is it indicative of the messages still being on the phone somewhere?
Yes it is since you got Go sms because the stock messanging app doesn't count how many was sent. And no that doesn't mean that they are on your phone. It is simply a built in counter allowing you to keep track of your messages in case you don't have an unlimited messaging plan. Try downloading a file explorer and searching for your texts, that should all be backlogged onto your phone somewhere. Chances are though that the messages where deleted. Linux will overwrite information in order to better utilize your memory space. I recommend to back up any messages, or lock the ones you want kept to avoid this in the future.
Thanks very much, I'll do that
As per my original message, does anyone know how to open a .ASEC file?
Hello Xda,
Is there a way to send a pdf or doc file through an MMS message. I have some files I would like to send to someone.
Is there an app that can do that?
Yeah. Using a file explorer (I use Root Explorer), find the PDF you wanna send, longpress on it and a list of options comes up. Select Send (or Share, depending on explorer) and then select Messaging from the list.
Have you tried?
It did not attach the file
no another software can do like this?
Ah, I found one.
Tmail allows to attach files
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phonelight.tmailtrial
I am trying to send contacts vcf file as mms from galaxy S7 to another S7, but it appears as text file instead of vcf file in message app even though send as mms option is selected. The message app displayed vcf file in the format below. Due to this, contacts cannot be saved directly.
Begin: Vcard
Version:...
N:...
FN:Tel:0400..
End: Vcard
Has anyone ever see these symptoms before and / or know if there is anything I can do to diagnose / fix the problem.
Thanks in advance.
Ryju Raju said:
I am trying to send contacts vcf file as mms from galaxy S7 to another S7, but it appears as text file instead of vcf file in message app even though send as mms option is selected. The message app displayed vcf file in the format below. Due to this, contacts cannot be saved directly.
Begin: Vcard
Version:...
N:...
FN:Tel:0400..
End: Vcard
Has anyone ever see these symptoms before and / or know if there is anything I can do to diagnose / fix the problem.
Thanks in advance.
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It's a text file, once converted to mms your contacts app can't read it anymore.
Email the text file to yourself ,open with contacts on the new S7 , save contacts.
cooltt said:
It's a text file, once converted to mms your contacts app can't read it anymore.
Email the text file to yourself ,open with contacts on the new S7 , save contacts.
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I am converting a phone number from Contact app to mms format to share it via messaging app. But the problem is that the recipient Message app displays it in text format as above instead of mms format. This problem is happening with only one S7 phone and other phones are displaying mms vcf file correctly to save it directly to Contacts.