Hey all. I'm trying to move all my text messages to my computer WITHOUT using any sort of third party app. I literally want to connect to my computer, move the folder, encrypt and be done. That said, where are the message files stored? I use GOsms, and I found the gommssms.DB file, but from what I saw, this is just the code for how the messages are processed. Where are the actual text messages? And are they in plain text? Thanks in advance for the help.
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Interesting oddity I've noticed with my new HTC Touch Pro.
I'm new to this threaded SMS (been using WM5.0 for years) and I kind of like it, but I also like to keep my SMS inbox clean. (habit over the years).
So when I delete a conversation I expect the messages I sent to be in the "sent items" folder and the messages I received to be in the "deleted items" folder.
The latter appears to be true, I have all of the SMS messages that were sent to me (received) but NONE of the messages I sent are in the "sent items" folder?!?!?
What's up with that?
I know I can disable this new threaded SMS (conversation) "feature", but I kind of like it. I just want to be able to keep what I sent and what I received for archive purposes in case the info is needed in future.
Thoughts?
canadawest said:
Interesting oddity I've noticed with my new HTC Touch Pro.
I'm new to this threaded SMS (been using WM5.0 for years) and I kind of like it, but I also like to keep my SMS inbox clean. (habit over the years).
So when I delete a conversation I expect the messages I sent to be in the "sent items" folder and the messages I received to be in the "deleted items" folder.
The latter appears to be true, I have all of the SMS messages that were sent to me (received) but NONE of the messages I sent are in the "sent items" folder?!?!?
What's up with that?
I know I can disable this new threaded SMS (conversation) "feature", but I kind of like it. I just want to be able to keep what I sent and what I received for archive purposes in case the info is needed in future.
Thoughts?
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There is a setting in SMS that you have to set for it to save messages to the sent folder.
Where is the setting?
Bruce Inman said:
There is a setting in SMS that you have to set for it to save messages to the sent folder.
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Can you elaborate on this alleged setting?
Gripe #2...
When you start a new SMS it keeps track of how many characters you have left out of your 160 character quota.
But...
When you are in a "conversation" there is no character counter!
Anyone know if there is a way to turn one on?
Custom ROMs are looking more and more attractive after playing with this new WM6.1 phone for 3 days.
Strange behavior?
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There is a setting in SMS that you have to set for it to save messages to the sent folder.
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PS... In Messaging, Under Tools/Options/Message "Keep copy of sent messages in Sent folder" is checked ON in my phone
Interesting discovery though...
Now I notice when I delete a conversation all messages (sent or received) within the conversation go to the deleted items folder. Not ideal, as I'd like my sent messages to be in the Sent Items folder, but at least all messages are somewhere in an archive.
Now I ask, what is the purpose of the Sent Items folder if nothing is stored there when in conversation mode (except current conversations)?
canadawest said:
PS... In Messaging, Under Tools/Options/Message "Keep copy of sent messages in Sent folder" is checked ON in my phone
Interesting discovery though...
Now I notice when I delete a conversation all messages (sent or received) within the conversation go to the deleted items folder. Not ideal, as I'd like my sent messages to be in the Sent Items folder, but at least all messages are somewhere in an archive.
Now I ask, what is the purpose of the Sent Items folder if nothing is stored there when in conversation mode (except current conversations)?
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Its just the way they wrote the program.
I believe there is a reg edit to change your max characters in SMS but as far as it not showing from one interface to another, no fix.
Love the new phone so far with one minor problem. Is there an easier way to delete text messages from the device? As it is now I have to press and hold on each message, then click on delete from the menu that pops up.
Not normally a big deal but if you get alot of sms notifications from various message boards/ texts / etc... its a royal pain to have to manually delete 20-30 messages one at a time like that.
if you go back one screen to the list of contacts instead of the list of individual messages, you can delete all messages from a single contact by long pressing.
gordopa1 said:
if you go back one screen to the list of contacts instead of the list of individual messages, you can delete all messages from a single contact by long pressing.
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Thats the screen I was referring to. My problem is that all of the forum notifications that I get come from a different "number" for each message/thread so they dont get threaded together. When I had my iphone 2G there was a delete all ap that cleared all of the messages at once. I loved that ap and was hoping for something similar, or another way to selected multiple messages at once (with checkboxes) then delete them as a group.
SMS backup and restore in the market for free has a delete all. Also lets you back all up to an XML file and restore, no root needed.
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i would suggest using a different mms client. i prefer handcent.
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?
I am using a G2x with Tsugi and stock SMS application.
My coworkers will send each vcard/vcf attached to a SMS from their iPhones. I cannot get Android to open the attachment and add to contacts. It works easily if I received an email with attached vcard, but not SMS.
Any advice?
Would chompSMS/handcent/etc help?
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I am using a G2x with Tsugi and stock SMS application.
My coworkers will send each vcard/vcf attached to a SMS from their iPhones. I cannot get Android to open the attachment and add to contacts. It works easily if I received an email with attached vcard, but not SMS.
Any advice?
Would chompSMS/handcent/etc help?
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I would try the third party apps (chomp, handcent, etc...). A vcard file is a contact right? I'm not sure why it would open in an email, but not in an sms...
Also, you may have to import it from the contacts app rather than just opening it direct. Theoretically it should automatically know what to do, but you never know.
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Any resolution to this? I have the same issue.
Hello
I've been using the site and the app for a long time. I have got 32 messages in my inbox and for all of them I replied. But I cannot access the replies I sent in my sent folder. After that I found out that when I go advanced on my private message I can check a box saying "save a copy in inbox". And whenever I write a new message I can see that it is disabled by default, so that my replies are not saved in site. That means each time I'm sending a private message I have to go advanced, check the "save copy in inbox" and write down my message. Is there anyway to make it save my sent private messages by default? I know that I can access most of them by downloading the inbox as xml or csv, but I would like to have a copy each time I reply a message without going advanced and checking box everytime
Cheers
Eleo said:
Hello
I've been using the site and the app for a long time. I have got 32 messages in my inbox and for all of them I replied. But I cannot access the replies I sent in my sent folder. After that I found out that when I go advanced on my private message I can check a box saying "save a copy in inbox". And whenever I write a new message I can see that it is disabled by default, so that my replies are not saved in site. That means each time I'm sending a private message I have to go advanced, check the "save copy in inbox" and write down my message. Is there anyway to make it save my sent private messages by default? I know that I can access most of them by downloading the inbox as xml or csv, but I would like to have a copy each time I reply a message without going advanced and checking box everytime
Cheers
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