Anyone had any luck restoring sms messages? I've tried using SMS backup & restore but nothing has appeared in hangouts.
Tung_meister said:
Anyone had any luck restoring sms messages? I've tried using SMS backup & restore but nothing has appeared in hangouts.
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I wonder if we would have to wait until the makers of SMS backup and restore update to support it. If they do. (I hope so...that's one of the most used apps on my phone.)
Also I was wondering how now works the backup&restore SMS apps...
I've more than 5000 SMS witht he stock SMS app on my Galaxy Nexus, always backed up and restored when wiping, changing ROm etc... now with Hangouts how works?
I've messaged the SMS Backup & Restore developers so hopefully they'll be looking into it.
Now that chanfire releases a root solution has anyone tried titanium backup?
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mymusicathome said:
Now that chanfire releases a root solution has anyone tried titanium backup?
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Another thread states that this has worked for them on a 4.4 ROM flashed to another device.
Any news on a none root solution?
Ritesh Sahu updated his SMS Backup Restore app today with KitKat compatibility. Try updating the app and then attempting another restore?
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cmstlist said:
Ritesh Sahu updated his SMS Backup Restore app today with KitKat compatibility. Try updating the app and then attempting another restore?
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Just popped on to post about that. The update works brilliantly all SMS now showing on my Nexus 5
DDaveW said:
Just popped on to post about that. The update works brilliantly all SMS now showing on my Nexus 5
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Thanks for the confirmation. Does it work for MMS too?
It's not working for me, no sms' are getting restored to the hangouts app, did you have to create a new backup with the latest version for it to work?
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It's not working for me, no sms' are getting restored to the hangouts app, did you have to create a new backup with the latest version for it to work?
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I'm in the same boat: created a backup on old 4.3 phone with the new SMS Backup and Restore app, restored it on Nexus 5 (again with the new version of SMS Backup and Restore) but I see no messages in Hangouts. Definitely had SMS B+R set as the default SMS app during the restore.
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Tung_meister said:
It's not working for me, no sms' are getting restored to the hangouts app, did you have to create a new backup with the latest version for it to work?
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Forget my previous post - just worked out how to force Hangouts to see the new messages.
The key step is to open Hangouts while SMS B+R is set as the default SMS app. This forces it to remove any SMS threads it knows about. Exit the app, set Hangouts as default again, and reopen it - it will refresh its thread list.
Hooray!
I will be upgrading to the Nexus 5 from an iPhone 4.
Is there any way to port over all my old SMS?
I have heard before that HTC had a way of bringing all that data from an Apple phone.
darkness_sam said:
I'm in the same boat: created a backup on old 4.3 phone with the new SMS Backup and Restore app, restored it on Nexus 5 (again with the new version of SMS Backup and Restore) but I see no messages in Hangouts. Definitely had SMS B+R set as the default SMS app during the restore.
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Forget my previous post - just worked out how to force Hangouts to see the new messages.
The key step is to open Hangouts while SMS B+R is set as the default SMS app. This forces it to remove any SMS threads it knows about. Exit the app, set Hangouts as default again, and reopen it - it will refresh its thread list.
Hooray!
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The only issue with this method is that you lose any messages that you've received before restoring as Hangouts must make it's own database that's separate to the mmssms.db.
darkness_sam said:
I'm in the same boat: created a backup on old 4.3 phone with the new SMS Backup and Restore app, restored it on Nexus 5 (again with the new version of SMS Backup and Restore) but I see no messages in Hangouts. Definitely had SMS B+R set as the default SMS app during the restore.
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Forget my previous post - just worked out how to force Hangouts to see the new messages.
The key step is to open Hangouts while SMS B+R is set as the default SMS app. This forces it to remove any SMS threads it knows about. Exit the app, set Hangouts as default again, and reopen it - it will refresh its thread list.
Hooray!
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Can you please explain better for who has a lower knowing of english language, please? XD
I managed to get Hangouts to see my restored SMSes, and thankfully it's really easy to do and doesn't require any other apps or updates to work. After restoring you SMSes, go into Hangouts and then into settings and turn SMS off. This will remove all SMS threads from Hangouts (but they will still be on your phone and accessible using other SMS apps). Close Hangouts then open it again and turn SMS back on, and it will find all the SMS threads on your phone, including those that were restored from a backup. Easy!
Note: this was on a HTC One where Hangouts isn't the default SMS app, I presume disabling SMS in Hangouts won't delete all your SMS threads permanently on a Nexus 5 but exercise some caution until someone confirms that this works fine on a Nexus 5.
I'm also thinking maybe a good plan would be to install a 3rd-party SMS client in order to monitor what has actually been placed into SMS storage or not. Now SMS is a nice clean-looking client. If you have any existing SMS on your device already before restoring from your old device, install an extra client and switch that to the default. See if your messages appear in that client. If not, disable SMS in Hangouts and check again.
Mysms works to restore texts even though that's not its advertised use and you don't need root.
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littleguevara said:
Mysms works to restore texts even though that's not its advertised use and you don't need root.
sent from my Nexus 7✌
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Good to know. I used to use mysms but I found it to have a lot of odd behaviours. Sometimes it would stop syncing, and then if I forced it to resync, it would proceed to destroy all the date stamps on my message history for about 20 minutes while it rifled through them. Usually everything went back to normal eventually, but it was really disruptive.
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lordromanov01 said:
I will be upgrading to the Nexus 5 from an iPhone 4.
Is there any way to port over all my old SMS?
I have heard before that HTC had a way of bringing all that data from an Apple phone.
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Yes, there is. But it involves a jailbroken iphone, a linux pc/virtual, a shell script
I did when i moved from iphone to nexus4 (using a script found on github), but the timestamps were not kept
SMS Backup + from the store works great plus it restores call logs too. I haven't used it going from one phone to another but i can't see why it wouldn't work.
Sent from the other side of the Milky Way with my S4.
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Hi all,
Like many others, got my shiny new N5 today and now wondering how to get my SMS + MMS over from my S4 to the N5. Previously I'd used backup to gmail which worked fine, but now all SMS/MMS are in hangouts it doesn't seem to restore properly. Does anyone have any way to restore both SMS + MMS over to their N5?
Thanks
+1 on that. Are you rooted btw?
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Kid_droid said:
+1 on that. Are you rooted btw?
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No, not rooted at all yet, may have to if it means I can use the old messaging app instead of hangouts
I don't have mine yet nor a proper solution. I plan on trying by switching off SMS in hangouts, downloading a 3rd party SMS app then restore my old sms/mms then switch back to hangouts. Maybe that would work?
You can install some SMS application from Play store and restored SMSs will be there. Not sure about the possibility to viewing old SMSs in hangouts.
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I just used titanium backup to restore hangouts data from my nexus 4 onto my 5, worked fine.
If you don't have your texts in hangouts on the s4 then download the new hangouts apk and it should transfer texts when it sets up the sms functionality.
There's also an app called sms backup and restore which was updated for kit kat so that might work too.
SMS Backup and Restore worked fine for me (well, for SMS, it doesn't do MMS, but I don't care about them).
SMS might be in Hangouts now, but the message store is unchanged.
Rusty! said:
SMS Backup and Restore worked fine for me (well, for SMS, it doesn't do MMS, but I don't care about them).
SMS might be in Hangouts now, but the message store is unchanged.
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Yeah I got that working for SMS, but not MMS. Also i can only seem to view the SMS' when i'm signed-in to hangouts, I don't really want my hangout chats being in the same place as my SMS' tbh as i wont be signed in to hangouts all the time.
nickj2010 said:
I just used titanium backup to restore hangouts data from my nexus 4 onto my 5, worked fine.
If you don't have your texts in hangouts on the s4 then download the new hangouts apk and it should transfer texts when it sets up the sms functionality.
There's also an app called sms backup and restore which was updated for kit kat so that might work too.
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I can verify that this works. find the 4.4 hangouts apk. install it on your rom and then turn on the sms feature. itll transfer all your current texts into the hangouts app and then they can be restored from a titanium backup on your n5
MaliceOmega said:
I can verify that this works. find the 4.4 hangouts apk. install it on your rom and then turn on the sms feature. itll transfer all your current texts into the hangouts app and then they can be restored from a titanium backup on your n5
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I'm trying GoSMS Pro out at the moment, that seems to work and means I don't have to mix my SMS with my hangouts.
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I'm trying GoSMS Pro out at the moment, that seems to work and means I don't have to mix my SMS with my hangouts.
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i never liked gosms. and to be honest i kind of like the integration of sms into hangouts. just curious if it'll work like imessage in bypassing cell service and using data/wifi to send msgs to other ppl using the new hangouts
It won't, SMS and IM's are seperate.
Ie. If I open Hangouts, I have two threads for my brother, one for SMS's and one for online Hangouts.
When I open hangouts, I see the SMS' i restored and my hangout chats, when i sign-out of hangouts they both vanish so I dont see SMS'
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When I open hangouts, I see the SMS' i restored and my hangout chats, when i sign-out of hangouts they both vanish so I dont see SMS'
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I'm having the same problem.
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Interestingly, after I installed goSMS and the ran hangouts, all my SMS now appear and I'm logged out of hangouts too. so I've now uninstalled goSMS
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Interestingly, after I installed goSMS and the ran hangouts, all my SMS now appear and I'm logged out of hangouts too. so I've now uninstalled goSMS
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I've now had a similar success, but it was a bit more involved for me. I installed gosms on both devices (using a Tiberium Backup for the N5) but this did not work.
The method I used was to create a backup on the N4 using gosms, then copying the folder it to my N5 via Dropbox. I then restored the messages and opened Hangouts, and made it my default sms app. Gosms is now deleted and Hangouts appears to be restored and working fine.
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_Belial said:
Hi all,
Like many others, got my shiny new N5 today and now wondering how to get my SMS + MMS over from my S4 to the N5. Previously I'd used backup to gmail which worked fine, but now all SMS/MMS are in hangouts it doesn't seem to restore properly. Does anyone have any way to restore both SMS + MMS over to their N5?
Thanks
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My Backup Pro does SMS + MMS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackupPro
darkintragedy said:
My Backup Pro does SMS + MMS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackupPro
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SMS Backup and Restore on the Playstore does SMS flawlessly.
MaliceOmega said:
I can verify that this works. find the 4.4 hangouts apk. install it on your rom and then turn on the sms feature. itll transfer all your current texts into the hangouts app and then they can be restored from a titanium backup on your n5
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Hi guys,
Can you please confirm what I should backup from the 4.3 rom AFTER transferring sms & mms to hangouts. Is it the hangouts app & data or just the sms/mms data.
Also I know that titanium can change the data format it uses for sms/mms. I think I normally have this set a 'prefer xml' or something. Is this correct for transferring to 4.4?
Cheers,
FullCycle said:
Hi guys,
Can you please confirm what I should backup from the 4.3 rom AFTER transferring sms & mms to hangouts. Is it the hangouts app & data or just the sms/mms data.
Also I know that titanium can change the data format it uses for sms/mms. I think I normally have this set a 'prefer xml' or something. Is this correct for transferring to 4.4?
Cheers,
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yes you wanna back up your rom and hangouts app after hangouts transfered your sms. i also deleted my stock mms apk for good measure. TB backup saves your mms as an xml file and i had no issues restoring. if you just care about sms and not your pictures, sms backup from the play store works just as well and is a bit faster
Hi
I have searched through the forum and seen how to use SMS Backup & Restore to move SMS from old device to new Nexus 5. I have managed this successfully and can see the restored SMS's in Hangouts. However I prefer to use Textra for SMS and I cannot see the restored texts in this app. Does any one have any ideas why this would be?
Thanks
jlgreg said:
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I have searched through the forum and seen how to use SMS Backup & Restore to move SMS from old device to new Nexus 5. I have managed this successfully and can see the restored SMS's in Hangouts. However I prefer to use Textra for SMS and I cannot see the restored texts in this app. Does any one have any ideas why this would be?
Thanks
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Did you download Textra first, run it, and then import your messages?
You have to import first, then run Textra for the first time. So uninstall it, reinstall, and your messages should show.
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Did you download Textra first, run it, and then import your messages?
You have to import first, then run Textra for the first time. So uninstall it, reinstall, and your messages should show.
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Thats what I didnt do! Thanks I will give that a try.
Megiddo2000 said:
Did you download Textra first, run it, and then import your messages?
You have to import first, then run Textra for the first time. So uninstall it, reinstall, and your messages should show.
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I had this issue too - uninstalled and reinstalled and now my messages are all back.
Thanks!
Hey guys,
I cannot seem to get this to work. Even when I install an AOSP rom with an SMS app and Hangouts not activated- I cannot restore my Titanium backup of the SMS messages from my G2, and my G2 is gone so I only have the TiBu to restore. Has anybody gotten this to work?
thanks,
AC
aaronc_98 said:
Hey guys,
I cannot seem to get this to work. Even when I install an AOSP rom with an SMS app and Hangouts not activated- I cannot restore my Titanium backup of the SMS messages from my G2, and my G2 is gone so I only have the TiBu to restore. Has anybody gotten this to work?
thanks,
AC
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AFAIK, there is no way to do that yet. You are essentially want to restore a db from one app to a completely different app. Doesn't work that way. Google would have to write a utility to extract the info from the sms database & then import it into Hangouts. I do not know of any way to do it currently, aside from manually entering the data into the hangouts db.
If it makes you feel any better, I couldn't restore my SMS messages from my Moto X onto my Nexus 5 with Helium. I just had to start over.
Edit: BTW, I was running the Hangouts v2 apk on my Moto X for my SMS, so it was the same Hangouts app that came loaded onto the Nexus 5. It still would not restore the texts.
Use SMS Backup and Restore as it can restore the SMS to hangouts app which is the new default. I had helium before and couldn't restore it, finally this app did the trick.!!
Hope this helps.
Go SMS has a backup option where it does it to their server then you can restore them on another device when you sign in on it.
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MyBackup Pro Beta worked for me:
https://www.rerware.com/Android-Backup/MyBackupPro402beta.apk
I backed up from the old messaging app locally, transferred the 'rerware' folder, and restored to the new hangouts. I had to reboot to see the messages in hangouts. MMS and SMS both worked.
Went through about 16 pages in this section and couldn't find a similar question so here goes.
I'm having a problem restoring my SMS/MMS with Titanium backup on my N5.
This is what I've done so far to my N5
1) Rooted/Unlocked (CF-Autoroot)
2) Flashed TWRP in fastboot
Now I installed Hangouts 2.0 via an apk leak on my Samsung Captivate running CM 10.1.3. I also backed up my SMS/MMS with titanium backup to .xml.
On the N5, I have chosen to restore SMS/MMS from xml, and unfortunately nothing shows up in hangouts.
Is there a way to remedy this? Would it be better to restore from Hangouts to get the MMS/SMS back? Thanks all.
Tried the same and failed. Seems to be a problem going from a touchwiz ROM to the N5 with TiBu.
The most recent beta of my backup pro was able to restore SMS and MMS media files but not group messages.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47182271&postcount=27
Someone posted that the handcent backup feature works as well, but no one has confirmed group messages are restored.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!searchin/hangouts/mms/hangouts/LFnU4ieifzM
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jmelan said:
Tried the same and failed. Seems to be a problem going from a touchwiz ROM to the N5 with TiBu.
The most recent beta of my backup pro was able to restore SMS and MMS media files but not group messages.
Someone posted that the handcent backup feature works as well, but no one has confirmed group messages are restored.
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Do you mean samsung device? I was running CM 10.1.3 on my captivate. Gonna read that other thread, thanks for the info!
Hmm, looking at my hangouts on Tibu.... the backup data says package version 1.2.018 (849105-30) (12018130)
However I know I installed 2.0 on my phone.... guess I'll be trying with another backup again?
Sorry, missed that. I guess it is not just touchwiz.
I updated my last post with the links with more info on the other options.
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Update:
So I did another backup, getting the version to 2.0.122. Restored data on my N5 which prompted a reboot due to updating system data.
Upon reboot, all my SMS are now present in Hangouts! Even my "group" SMS. Not really keen on restoring system info to be honest due to possible issues, but it seemed to work. MMS, however aren't really working well... I see three bouncing dots for every picture.
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This time I tried to do what someone in the other post said. I backed up Hangouts, uninstalled hangouts, and tried to restore the app only. Unfortunately this led to a Titanium Backup hang. Upon forced restart, the Hangout app is back, but all the SMS/MMS are gone. Re-uninstalling and re-installing Hangouts with data this time and also getting another hang in Tibu... this is highly annoying. I guess I can always just get the SMS and save the pics on my other phone.
Are you kidding me? Tried to install Hangouts from the Play Store and it gives me version 1.2?
Either way, Titanium Backup isn't playing nice with restoring Hangouts as all it does is hang on me, even with indirect selected.
At least after I force a restart, the correct Hangout app is installed and perhaps I can work from there.
Might as well restore SMS from SMS Backup and Restore and then just save the pics on my old phone and transfer them over to the N5.
try not use hangout for text messages
I suggest you to try to not use hangout for the text messages and try another app, try now with the restore, it should work
has titanium backup been updated to support 4.4?
if you try restoring and it does not ask about setting the default SMS app to titanium backup then its not going to work.
4.4 only allows one app at a time to have access to the SMS database.
you can try sms backup and restore it has been updated to support 4.4
Bane99 said:
Is there a way to remedy this? Would it be better to restore from Hangouts to get the MMS/SMS back? Thanks all.
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Sorry for the OT, but this link can be a help.
electric0ant said:
has titanium backup been updated to support 4.4?
if you try restoring and it does not ask about setting the default SMS app to titanium backup then its not going to work.
4.4 only allows one app at a time to have access to the SMS database.
you can try sms backup and restore it has been updated to support 4.4
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I contacted titanium support a few days ago to ask this exact question but have not heard a response yet
TiBu definitely does NOT ask to be the default SMS app
Both handcent and my backup pro have been documented to work for SMS and MMS except for group messages but require paying for additional features.
-handcent may work for group messages but is untested, while my backup pro does not work
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jmelan said:
I contacted titanium support a few days ago to ask this exact question but have not heard a response yet
TiBu definitely does NOT ask to be the default SMS app
Both handcent and my backup pro have been documented to work for SMS and MMS except for group messages but require paying for additional features.
-handcent may work for group messages but is untested, while my backup pro does not work
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you should use SMS Backup & Restore. that works for sure as it has been updated to support SMS for 4.4:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
this will also help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47104611#post47104611
+1 for SMS back up and restore. I would always have problems using titanium restoring if the ROM was slightly different. With SMS backup you dont have to worry about version unless it is brand new OS version but they are quick to support. Hence they already support 4.4.
electric0ant said:
you should use SMS Backup & Restore. that works for sure as it has been updated to support SMS for 4.4:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
this will also help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47104611#post47104611
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This.
As others have said, only one application can have access to the SMS database at a time. If Titanium doesn't ask to be set to default when you try to restore, then it's not yet been updated to work with 4.4. Being rooted and giving Titanium root access might be why you don't see an error at the time (because it's probably trying to overwrite data), but it still probably won't work the way it should.
Just use SMS Backup & Restore. It works flawlessly with 4.4, it's a super small footprint, the dev publishes the source so you can tell there's nothing going on with it that shouldn't be, and it does its job perfectly. I've used it for years, even on handsets that were rooted and where I used TB heavily.
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This.
As others have said, only one application can have access to the SMS database at a time. If Titanium doesn't ask to be set to default when you try to restore, then it's not yet been updated to work with 4.4. Being rooted and giving Titanium root access might be why you don't see an error at the time (because it's probably trying to overwrite data), but it still probably won't work the way it should.
Just use SMS Backup & Restore. It works flawlessly with 4.4, it's a super small footprint, the dev publishes the source so you can tell there's nothing going on with it that shouldn't be, and it does its job perfectly. I've used it for years, even on handsets that were rooted and where I used TB heavily.
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SMS Backup and Restore worked flawlessly for me. Unfortunately it only does SMS, not MMS (eg messages with pictures attached). But that's OK, it does the SMS part brilliantly.
In trying to preserve my handful of MMS, I also tried MyBackup Pro. That worked strangely - it does all the default app stuff, but all restored threads had, and sometimes the oldest message was 'on top' of the thread. That was fixable by selecting a thread and deleting any single message from the thread - suddenly the thread showed the correct dates and order.
So in the end, I did SMS Backup and Restore to move over my SMS (99% of what I had) and MyBackup Pro for only the MMS messages, which I then fixed by tweaking the threads as above.
[Regardless of above, I also decided not to use Hangouts for SMS/MMS (Hangouts introduced too many inter-dependencies and integrations for my tastes). Loaded 8SMS (a port of the non-Nexus KitKat Messaging app) instead, seems solid]
Go and clear data for Hangouts and it should show your text messages from TB. That is what I had to do.
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Just adding my two cents here. I was able to use SMS Backup + to back up both my SMS and MMS to my Gmail and then restore them. I then did what the previous poster said and went into the Settings > Apps > All > Hangouts menu and cleared all data. This brought all my messages up after I relaunched Hangouts.
Thanks everyone,
So I discovered that I had 3 total pictures in MMS that I wanted saved... So I went ahead and downloaded them on my cappy.
Then I just used SMS Backup and Restore, and all is good. Definitely not something I want to go about doing again. And for the love of all, do not uninstall Hangouts with TiBu. Play Store will just give you version 1.2, and Tibu hangs on restoring. Shutting off the phone and starting it up should show hangouts after and it's been working pretty well so far.
BKPhil said:
SMS Backup and Restore worked flawlessly for me. Unfortunately it only does SMS, not MMS (eg messages with pictures attached). But that's OK, it does the SMS part brilliantly.
In trying to preserve my handful of MMS, I also tried MyBackup Pro. That worked strangely - it does all the default app stuff, but all restored threads had, and sometimes the oldest message was 'on top' of the thread. That was fixable by selecting a thread and deleting any single message from the thread - suddenly the thread showed the correct dates and order.
So in the end, I did SMS Backup and Restore to move over my SMS (99% of what I had) and MyBackup Pro for only the MMS messages, which I then fixed by tweaking the threads as above.
[Regardless of above, I also decided not to use Hangouts for SMS/MMS (Hangouts introduced too many inter-dependencies and integrations for my tastes). Loaded 8SMS (a port of the non-Nexus KitKat Messaging app) instead, seems solid]
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I use a PC program named Android SMS + MMS Transfer. Both SMS/MMS messages are supported.
Hope it helps.
Just had this same issue. I loaded a ROM and didn't like it. So I restored a Nandroid and attempted to restore my SMS/MMS (Messaging, XML), have a recent backup from 1/22, it asked me to make Titanium the default SMS app, restored, completed, made Hangouts the default app again, but when I go into Hangouts the last text I have is from end of December. I rebooted, cleared cache and data in Hangouts but no luck.
Not sure why this isn't working now. I had no issues bringing in my texts and MMS messages when I switched from my Moto Bionic to Nexus.
Would love to hear some other ideas.
Semi solved by selecting all hangouts, deleting them, and restoring my backup. Still feel there should be a better way. Anyone know if there's a db file I can delete in root explorer if I need to do this again? Or better yet there should be a way to merge the current and backed up msgs ...
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I am S-off and running my phone stock with root.
I've never had luck with backing up the Messages app so I'm asking for help.
I use Titanium Back up Pro. I also use Hangouts for SMS. Do I just backup the Messages app and hangouts? And then restore with data if I choose to run another stock ROM?
I'm thinking about Clean ROM or Bone stock. I like Sense and I like the stock feel. The only thing I really want is for my music that's on my SD card to play...
Anyway, anyone have luck keeping texts backed up? I need it for work...usually I've never cared about saving texts.
Thank you.
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I use SMS Backup & Restore for my backups. I usually don't restore any of them, just keep a running archive.
I came from an AOSP room to the M8. On my old phone I started using SMS backup/restore but soon realized it wasn't saving my MMSs. Since then I started using restoring with the titanium SMS/MMS backup xml it was already making and it works just fine for me. Even from AOSP to stock Sense to Viper.
cntryby429 said:
I came from an AOSP room to the M8. On my old phone I started using SMS backup/restore but soon realized it wasn't saving my MMSs. Since then I started using restoring with the titanium SMS/MMS backup xml it was already making and it works just fine for me. Even from AOSP to stock Sense to Viper.
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what are you saying its backing up?
Abe21599 said:
what are you saying its backing up?
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Sms backup restore does exactly that. It backs up and restores your SMSs (text only messages). The titanium sms/mms xml option also restores my mms messages which conserves any pictures that were "texted" (read, mms) to me as well.
cntryby429 said:
I came from an AOSP room to the M8. On my old phone I started using SMS backup/restore but soon realized it wasn't saving my MMSs. Since then I started using restoring with the titanium SMS/MMS backup xml it was already making and it works just fine for me. Even from AOSP to stock Sense to Viper.
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The XML function in TiBackup is amazing. I've never used the app for anymore than freezing or backing up apps. This is perfect. Thank you.
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Vpmsae said:
I would like to save text to computer and then I can open it without connect my phone
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Look into Pushbullet. I can view notifications and text messages through a browser add-on on my computer.
I use this app. Works great for me as I use sense messenger on sense ROM and Google's for GPe ROM.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ore&pcampaignid=APPU_1_S6VhV76GGoGo-QGlmoaIBw
Wpaasgt said:
How to backup your text messages ? The first thing you should do is sign into Gmail . In fact ,you can use Samsung Phone Backup save phone messages to computer .
How to save text messages on android
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I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en
it worked from my m8 using Google Play edition ROM to my 10 using Sense
I've been using that app for about 3 1/2 years. First on my LG G2 and then G3 and now on the M8. And it works slick, it also backs up your call log too.
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