Ok i have a question. Yesterday i flashed a a different ROM but before i did that i did a titanium backup of all my Data and my Apps Then i flashed the new ROM then i restored all the Data. But after i did the restore and rebooted my SMS Texts were gone. But all of my contacts were still there. Is there a way to restore the lost texts or am i out of luck?
out of luck.. I use SMS Backup before flashing roms when i need my text messages..
HAYDENB said:
Ok i have a question. Yesterday i flashed a a different ROM but before i did that i did a titanium backup of all my Data and my Apps Then i flashed the new ROM then i restored all the Data. But after i did the restore and rebooted my SMS Texts were gone. But all of my contacts were still there. Is there a way to restore the lost texts or am i out of luck?
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As one7dchevy already stated, SMS Backup and Restore is a great app (which is also free) to use for saving your SMS when switching ROMs. You can also use Backup to GMail, which not only backs up SMS, but will also backup MMS and your Call Log if you don't mind the $1.99 fee (a bargain in my book).
I had the same thing happen when using TiBu but they showed up a lil later, I think after a reboot.
Tx Redneck said:
I had the same thing happen when using TiBu but they showed up a lil later, I think after a reboot.
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That is what usually happens after i restore the data. I do a reboot then then all my texts would all be there
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As one7dchevy already stated, SMS Backup and Restore is a great app (which is also free) to use for saving your SMS when switching ROMs. You can also use Backup to GMail, which not only backs up SMS, but will also backup MMS and your Call Log if you don't mind the $1.99 fee (a bargain in my book).
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SMS backup+ does all that to your gmail for free
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I use my backup pro. Easy to schedule and backs up to their server.
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thanks for any help
you have a gmail account?
Consider running something like SMS Backup + by Jan Berkel
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&feature=search_result
it will back up your SMS messages to labels in your gmail account... You can also restore to phone after wipe if needed.
It has worked pretty well for me. i.e. I haven't noticed any issues with it, and I can view my backed up SMS messages up in my Gmail account on my PC if/when needed.
While it says it can backup (but not restore) MMS messages, I don't get enough Pix messages to know how that works. Nor do I have it backup call log entries.
Hey thanks for this. Now I'll just back up my SMS before flashing and then restore them after flashing.
In between switching roms and restoring backed up texts, I lost a few new incoming text messages. Any way to force the server (or whatever) to resend me the texts I missed?
How did you "miss" them?
And no. Your pretty much out of luck.
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They came in, and I mistakenly thought that when I restored old texts (via AppExtractor) it would not overwrite the new texts.
Thanks for the quick reply.
Hi all,
I have a Bell HTC Sensation 4G, unlocked and using Rogers. After installing the ICS OTA update, I have been having problems opening message threads using the stock message app (third-party, e.g., Handcent SMS is okay).
In particular, I have difficult opening a message thread that has ~4.5k messages, while threads with 1.5k or less open fine. I have tried restoring backed up SMS messages using the "SMS Backup & Restore" app, as well as the functionality built into the stock message app.
I have tried doing a hard reset, and restoring the SMS messages in the 2 ways I mentioned above. I have tried only restoring the 4.5k message thread using SMS Backup & Restore.
If I don't attempt to restore the SMS messages back, the functionality seems to be okay.
Is there a way to restore my SMS messages and have proper messaging functionality, without resorting to using a third-party app for subsequent messaging?
Thanks in advance!
My Device setup
Moto Droid Bionic running a nightly of cyanogenmod 10.1 which is based on android 4.2.2.
The problem - restoring group texts!
I cannot find a way to restore group texts. I have tried SMS backup & restore, SMS backup+, titanium backup, and Nandroid manager. none of those restore group texts. Most of those apps ignore the group texts all together or restore them as single texts with only me listed as the recipient and no one else. I would like my texts restored exactly as they were when I did my backup. I have my TWRP backup ready to go but no way to get the texts out exactly as they were.
If someone has SUCCESSFULLY restored group texts, I would love to know how and if I could do it. If anyone has a suggestion that's likely to work, I'll hear that too. Thanks in advance.
So oddly enough I have 4,846 conversation threads which contain 77,000 messages.
Titanium Backup will restore messages into the stock messaging app but nowhere else. To restore the messages it averages 15 minutes.
With that I cannot access them in ANY other app (i.e. handcent, chomp, go sms pro). The only solution is to use SMS Backup restore. The problem with this is that it takes over 7 hours. I started it 11pm and its now at 3:38am. There has to be a better way, any ideas?
I backed up my SMS messages with Titanium with the XML backup.