I am switching from iPhone to Android and need a little bit of help importing my iPhone SMS to Android.
I used this website, http://faked.org/isms2droid/, to convert my sms.db file to xml. Then I installed SMS Backup & Restore app to restore my sms which is in xml format.
The issue I am having is with the SMS Backup & Restore app. It shows I am restoring about 10000 messages so it takes forever to restore. If the screen turn of (sleep), the restoration process freezes and I have to start all over again.
The biggest problem is that once it gets to 100% completion, it just hangs at 100% and doesn't finishes. When I go to see my Messages, I see my old message and the new ones are being loaded very slowly.
The big issue is that even when connect to the charger, the battery is being drained and complete restoration doesn't work.
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I just updtaed my rom to the official 6.1 build released recently here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=519698
I used Pim Backup before updating to save all my contacts and text messages.
When I did a restore, my phone ran incredibly slowly. I know that before, when I used PIM to restore from Windows 6.0 to 6.1 (this was when I was on a Cingular 8525), it took a very long time because 6.1 needed to nest all my text messages, but my fuze didn't seem to do this. It only kept the last 30 or so messages from my side of the conversation only, and the entire phone slowed down like crazy once I did the restore, especially if I do anything involving text messages, it was damn near unusable.
Is there anything I can do to restore the backup of all my contacts and text messages successfully and have them all intact the way they were before the update?
before you do a restore you should do the tweak to make texts go in regular order not threaded
then do the restore
all you need to do to speed the phone back up is to soft reset.
once you reset you do the tweak to go back to threaded and you will be fine
How many texts do you have? You may want to archive some of the older ones. It's probably worth looking at \cemail.vol just to see how big it is. I don't text much at all and don't use email; I have maybe 100 texts on my device. My cemail.vol (in the root of the device memory) is 292K. If you've got 10K+ texts or some crazy amount, my guess is that your cemail.vol file is huge-this could be your problem. I also have maybe 50 contacts, and my pim.vol is ~600K. If I were you, I'd just look at those two files, and maybe look at your available storage memory before and after restoring your pim data.
Edit: or just do what lbhocky19 said, lol.
lbhocky19 said:
before you do a restore you should do the tweak to make texts go in regular order not threaded
then do the restore
all you need to do to speed the phone back up is to soft reset.
once you reset you do the tweak to go back to threaded and you will be fine
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How do I do this tweak?
do you have advanced config? if not get that
its in the messaging section
By Advanced Config, do you mean a setting somewhere in my phone that I can set to advanced mode, or do you mean a program I need to download?
Umm, Hello? Anyone?
... umm, can anybody please help me?
Well... http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=advanced+config
..... you don't have to insult me, "Advanced Config" is a common term, I didn't expect a Google search to get it right on the first hit.
So, is this program basically the equivalent of the Att Tilt's Kaiser Tweak then?
I have a new problem with PIM Backup now however.....
I used Advanced Config to set the messages as regular order, then did the restore, and it APPEARED to work fine (didnt set them back to threaded yet). But then I tried restoring the second backup, and the progress bar has been stuck at 1% for a while now. I am assuming its going so slow because its trying to insert information while the database already has so much information in it.
Is there any way I can make this work faster? A way to restore both backup files at once or merge them into one or something like that?
The reason I have two is because after I made the initial backup, since I wasn't able to get it to restore correctly, I had to reset my device yesterday so I made a second backup that is just the 2-4 week period between then I last updated it and had to reset it, it contains far far fewer messages and logs than previously.
Sorry to post again but.... I have another problem.
The restore isn't working correctly.
I used Advanced Config to set mt messages as standard instead of threaded, and restored my PIM backup. After I set ti back to threaded, it would only show the other person's side of the conversation, not mine. Then once I got a text from that person and replied it started re-sorting the messages..... and then it would only show MY side of the conversation, not theirs!
Why is this happening? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
I don't know whatelse to do really, but my phone will just delete all of my text messages from my phone randomly.
This is not the if your phone reaches XXXX messages, then delete the oldest, it's erases them all.
I've restored my phone back to 2.1 with Odin, and then updated with Kies light. Phone is rooted with the One-Click Root. Other than that, my phone is pretty stock. I have to use SMS Backup and Restore to back up my SMS every hour because it keeps it keeps killing my texts.
Any advice, or anyone having the same problem
Ever since the ICS upgrade, one contact's message thread refuses to open and is stuck on "O Loading" with that little circle revolving.
I downloaded go sms pro before and I was able to access his thread through that and the message count wasn't over the maximum limit per contact. I've since gone back to the stock app as he's out of the country and it's faster than go sms pro but he recently txted me and caused the problem to occur with other contacts (though a reset of the phone solves their issue)
Does anyone have a solution and failing that, advice? I should say right now that deleting his message thread is the last resort.
and HTC sensation
Android 4.0.3
Software 3.32.401.5
You could try to backup your messages (you can find some apps for that in the market), then delete all your contacts, and afterwards restore them again~
Though no idea if it will work :/
burningwipf said:
You could try to backup your messages (you can find some apps for that in the market), then delete all your contacts, and afterwards restore them again~
Though no idea if it will work :/
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Aye I could try it with a contact whose messages I don't mind losing and seeing if that works, thanks for the tip!
You can also use Google Voice, and have it copy all the messages to your Gmail account.
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So I started backing up and restoring and I was able to open all contacts' threads. The backup never fully restores all messages though and I have to keep hitting "restore" so that it'll restore them all up to the present day. Don't know why it's doing it this way.
Just now I've checked and that one contact won't open again. What I might do is try and restore all to the present, delete loads of messages I don't want, and backup this new message history.
I know this is most likely far too late but I was having the same problems and found this thread while trying to sort it and hope it will help anyone else in future who has the same problems. I tried backing up and restoring (Using both the default and sms back-up and restore) deleting the thread and restoring, eventually I solved it by installing handscent, deleting the messages sent/received back to when the problem started in that thread and a few before, then went in settings, apps, then all, messages cleared the cache, restarted and it is sorted!!
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I know this is most likely far too late but I was having the same problems and found this thread while trying to sort it and hope it will help anyone else in future who has the same problems. I tried backing up and restoring (Using both the default and sms back-up and restore) deleting the thread and restoring, eventually I solved it by installing handscent, deleting the messages sent/received back to when the problem started in that thread and a few before, then went in settings, apps, then all, messages cleared the cache, restarted and it is sorted!!
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Yeah it never resolved itself but I love the customisation of go sms pro so much that I don't mind anymore. Pity go sms pro crashes every so often and I think it slows the phone down.
I was going to start a new thread but see that this is the same problem I have.
I have a mt4gs (Doubleshot) and the problem described in this thread has happened twice. Both times i was receiving a text message and did something else with the phone at the same moment, and it seems to have jammed up the receipt of that text. The first time, i sent a text to the person at the same moment i received one. The second time, i locked the screen at the moment one arrived. Now that thread never loads, and loading other threads or contacts takes much longer than it should. In fact, i don't think contacts would ever load if i were willing to wait forever.
The first time I backed up the texts, reset the device, and restored, and everything worked fine, but that's a really time-consuming process and it seems like a ridiculous workaround for some broken buffer or queue in Android messaging.
It seems that there must be a direct fix for this. If it's easy enough to break messaging that it has happened to me twice, it must be a fairly common problem. But a search has turned up nothing but people saying there are too many messages or to use an alternative app for messaging. That's (1) incorrect and (2) again an ugly workaround for a problem with core functionality.
I am having issues with the Oppo backup & restore.
When I try and attempt this, the device creates 2 folders, one for apps and one for data. Whenever I try and backup it gets to 99% very quickly then hangs there whilst trying to backup my messages. Messages are always behind completing when it hangs. I have left for over an hour but it never completes. Tried several times. The messages file size is also so small only around 15MB
If I back up Apps, Contacts., call logs and System data without message it completes fine but never when messages are included?? Am on A.46 was the same on A.42.
Anyone else have this issue or know how to fix?
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This is a common issue? Seems bizarre that it can't backup my messages properly.
So at some point in the last 3 or 4 months, a lot of my old text messages disappeared. IE there's a few group chats and individual chats where the messages don't go back any further than a year and a half to 2 years. There's not a specific cut off date, and these are threads that go back several years. I've looked through them 3-4 months ago, so i know they were there.
I cannot get them to show back up to save my life. I have a backup of my Note 10+ i had before this, as well as a backup of the note 22 from a few months back. both show 10's of thousands of SMS messages. I factory reset my phone and restored the messages from the note 10 save, but no luck, same issue, they cut off at specific points and wont go back further.
I downloaded SMS backup and restore because I absolutely do not want something like this to happen again, but i noticed that even though my back ups show thousands and thousands of sms messages, SMS backup and restore is only showing 6000 messages. This has me very baffled. Im wondering if one of the recent updates caused this or something? I have made no major changes to anything sms related over the last few months, so for this to just suddenly happen, and me not be able to restore them even after a factory reset just really has me losing my mind. If these messages are gone, then their gone, but it doesnt make sense, and the number that SMS backup and restore says are on my phone vs what should be on there from the restore just don't add up.
Anyone else experience anything like this??
edit: this is an AT&T version
I can only confirm that SMS Backup and Restore Pro v10.10.001 supports 13692 sms without any problem. I delete the mms because the archive file swells very fast. Currently the archive is 4.7 MB.