I've always kept a copy of all my text messages in my desktop email archive using an Outlook plugin from Jeyo. However, after switching to Gmail, I'm really trying to avoid using Outlook altogether. That's why it would be great to have a program that automatically uploads all my text messages straight from my phone to my Gmail account. Kinda like MyPhone but with Gmail.
This is what it would do:
* Automatically copy every text message to Gmail;
* Upload messages from different folders: inbox, concepts and sent items, each to the appropriate Gmail locations.
I believe there's a program for this on the Android platform, but not on Windows Mobile.
I'm just posting this here as a suggestion, hoping a handy developer likes my idea, since I don't know how to do it myself.
Services like MyPhone and Dashwire let you do it to the cloud.
You can use Windows Mobile SMS Sync ( not Free ) / PIM Backup to back it up to your PC and manually send it to gMail.
Another alternateive ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=324684 ) I think its no longer actively developed
hope this helps
Thanks for the suggestions. Some of them I hadn't seen before.
I'm already using MyPhone, which works automatically and does very well as a plain backup solution, but I'd really like to keep a complete archive of my correspondence (email and sms) in one place on Gmail.
On the other hand, I'm currently using Jeyo Mobile Companion to transfer my sms to gmail manually. The result is exactly what I want: each message is listed individually and chronologically among my emails. Unfortunately, this only works through desktop Outlook, and I'd like to avoid using my pc as a go-between.
So I'm still hoping for some new developement that will do this automatically and over the air. Such a program already exists for Android phones:
http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/
this would be nice
There's a Symbian program like this as well:
http://shop.psiloc.com/en/Application,262287,Psiloc+GSync
Why should Symbian and Android users have all the fun? Couldn't anyone port the Android version to Windows Mobile? It's open source...
Damn, I wish I was a developer myself.
I have been thinking about this too and I very much applaud the development of such an application too. Everything backed up to one place.
The basic idea is pretty simple, queuing a message to a specific folder on a pop3 / imap / exchange server. Restoring or syncing data from the server is more difficult, I suppose.
Sprite used to have (= not anymore) an application that continuously sent received text messages and calls as an e-mail to a specified e-mailaddress. Unfortunately, however, it was unable to restore from it.
Also, backing up messages for the first time will pose problems. Most e-mail services are capped at a maximum amount of messages per day (e.g. 1000 receive / send)
If you have an Exchange server, version 2010 wil have sms synchronisation features in it.
Cheers
Sprite Archie actually looks pretty good! I had no idea this ever existed. Too bad it's gone.
Seems like it simply forwarded text messages (and call logs) to a specified e-mail address. Ideally, I think a program could copy the messages directly to a specific e-mail folder via IMAP, right?
I see how restoring would be a problem, but I wouldn't really use this as a backup method anyway. I already have MyPhone and Sprite Backup for that.
To me, the main purpose would be archiving. Gmail just seems a natural place to store your text messages along with your e-mails: it gives you a complete overview of all your written correspondence.
Glad to see some enthousiasm for this idea!
This would be a good program, so Im putting my hand up for it as well....
(Hope that if this is done it would be compatible with the android way of doing it, thus allowing you to move texts from one platform to the other)
I've added this as a sugestion to Nuevasync as well, being that the activesync platform does allow for selecting SMS as an option to sync.
probably not what your looking for but i have my phone setup to sync my contacts and calendar through google and i run a program called phone log which puts the text message i reciever in my calendar as an event but through i would through it out there i would be interested in a program that did this though
I second this idea, it's works a treat on my Hero and I'd love to have to my sms's pushed to my SMS label in gmail on my HD2
I've actually found a copy of Sprite Archie (mentioned higher) and it works perfectly fine... At least, it did until I bought an HD2. There, it doesn't detect incoming messages. So no luck...
See also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=584610
SMSSyncUp
See this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625378
is there an app that people recommend for backing up only text messages?
everything else (contacts, email etc) is sync'd with exchange so I only need to back up my messages.
I tried SPB but it wouldn't let me restore just messages, it wanted to do mails as well.
thanks
i used microsoft myphone, seems to work well enough for me
use this jeyo sms backup
its one of the best software
PimBackup....long time running and prob the most frequently used
Is there similar application like Psiloc GSync is for Symbian phones?
http://shop.psiloc.com/en/Application,262287,Psiloc+GSync
"Psiloc GSync allows you to automatically archive all of your SMS and MMS messages on the Gmail™ account. The SMS/MMS messages appear as e-mails, are marked as read and labelled as SMS/MMS. Messages exchanged with the same people are grouped into threads. You can configure how often the messages are archived."
At the short search I did not find anything like that...
I am wondering if I am the only one with this issue and is there a way to resolve it ?
I sync my contacts from an Exchange server, so my SMS's are tied to the contacts on my Exchange server. I have tried SMSbackup and WPbackup with both the same results. When I restore, I end up with 2 of the EXACT contacts, If I remove one, the restored SMS thread is now dead or am unable to delete the restored contact so my only way is to remove it from my exchange server to get it to work.
I wish someone who made a SMS/Contacts backup made something so you can match up your current/sync'ed contacts with the SMS threads/Contact info. Even with SMSbackup I have the same issue. It creates new contacts, not the ones I have synced, so what I end up with is 2 of each contact. Once I clean that up by removing the dup, the SMS threads are dead. If someone by the same name replies to you, it will create a new thread.
Does anyone make such an app to match up Contacts/SMS with a contact on your phone ?
Is there a work-around to be able to sync my contacts from my server AND be able to restore SMS with out dups or dead SMS threads ?
any idea ?
I need some of my text messages both through SMS messenger and the stock messaging service but I don't want to pay for an additional application to do it. Any Ideas?
Sms backup and restore.