Hi, i don't know if you already know know this but these are a few tips i've been able to figure out in my MDA Compact. let me know what you think.....
To create a new folder to save sms messages:
Go to SMS Messaging ----> Tools ----> Manage Folders ---> New ( then specify new folder name) The folder is created as a sub folder of the Inbox folder.
If you have contacts who have more than one mobile phone you can save their number under pager, work tel, home tel etc. Now this is pretty obvious BUT what you really want is to be able to identify the network the number is on and this is where the tip comes in. After adding their mobile number you can add the network the number is on by enclosing it in curvy brackets like so "079111 111 1111 (vf)" vf for Vodafone (o2) and so on. It works i tried it the dialer simply selects the number and dials it and ignores the bits in the brackets.
The third and final tip is to backup your text messages. you can create a new folder inside inbox, move your messages into that folder then use Sprite Backup and select to :lol: backup that folder only. later on when you want to restore your messages you can just restore that folder and then update it with the new ones in your inbox and then back it up again.
let me know if you found the tips useful
cheerz............
Thank you!
Your tips are useful for me!
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How is it done if possible?
Is it possible to backup only Datas and not applications...?
.. need help before doing a hard reset.. Thank you
Sprite Backup can do this. The professional version can back-up directly to a PC.
www.spritesoftware.com.
You do need the pre-release of version 2.3 - the current 2.14 will not work - or rather, if you restore a 2.1x backup, you kill the ability to receive SMS'es.
The pre-release has a few issues, but I have succesfully performed both backup and restore with this version.
Regards
Michael
well if you only want to copy sms from your xda you dont need any software... you can find all your sms from all folders in folder windows\messaging
they are .mpb files but they are merely text files chang their extensions and there you are...
bodstrup said:
The pre-release has a few issues, but I have succesfully performed both backup and restore with this version.
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can you expound? what issues are these (so i know if they also concern me or not hehehe)
also is the pre release an eval version (expiring?) or does it accept a registered serial number?
cheers,
carlo
if i copy these files from windows messaging, then reset my device, install a new rom etc and then copy them back into this folder later, will it restore all sms as well as the sms folders???
thanks
woody
mephistodan said:
well if you only want to copy sms from your xda you dont need any software... you can find all your sms from all folders in folder windows\messaging
they are .mpb files but they are merely text files chang their extensions and there you are...
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Mephistodan ---> You are my hero!!! Thanks. Why o why hasn't anyone mentioned this anywhere in my search for a way to backup sms messages!!!
Not perfect, but all I really need is to save sent and recieved sms's ;-)
Thanks again!
I think the is the tip of tips... IMHO!
WM2003/xbackup can handle everything else for backup, as far as I am concerned.
F**K sprite and all other pay stuff for just the sms backup.
Personally, I think MS will (AND should) integrate sms and mms as folders in future outlook versions.
Regards and peace,
Gnuig[/url]
Maybe I was a bit quick to reply... I have some 0 byte files (looks like my inbox), yet I can't find the message of the sms's recieved?
The ones I have sent (and e-mail inbox) appear fine as i rewrite the mpb extensions to text...
so my question is...
where are the inbox files hiding? In the att files (attachments folder)? I don't think so, but mephistodan do you know where the recieved sms's are located, as these are really the ones I mostly would like to keep.
G.
Gnuig said:
Maybe I was a bit quick to reply... I have some 0 byte files (looks like my inbox), yet I can't find the message of the sms's recieved?
The ones I have sent (and e-mail inbox) appear fine as i rewrite the mpb extensions to text...
so my question is...
where are the inbox files hiding? In the att files (attachments folder)? I don't think so, but mephistodan do you know where the recieved sms's are located, as these are really the ones I mostly would like to keep.
G.
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Talking to myself...
Now using dbExplorer (nice prog. -> think I may buy this one) to find the data in the database. The SMS inbox is called something like fldrXXXXXXX and dbExplorer lets you export the db to a *.csv file easy to use in Excel.
Works for me... no more worries that sms data is lost. I guess with some fiddeling, you could easily replace these into the database as well.
L8R,
Gnuig
SMS / MMS / Email export program
Have you tried this program? http://xpocketpc.feűw.hu
hi Guys!
I've bought an i-mate jasjar, and I'm selling a nokia n70.
Now the problem is how can i pass the sms from the nokia to the universal...
I don't know how i can do it. The extraction of the text is not a problem, thanks to nokia suite. I thinked that maybe some of you know how i can edit a .txt file and save it with a certain extension to make it readable for the ppc.
Or maybe i can "hack" a backup of the sms editing the text, the date of the sms and other information, but I don't know how to do it.
someone can help me?
PS i also thinked to create some email with the text and sincronize it with outlook, but the email must be "sent" from the autor of the sms and have to have the date of the sms.
PPS sorry for my english
Wouldnt it be easier to type them out on your shiny new thumb-keyboard?? test your WPM skills?
You have a choice of notes, MS Pocket Word, or messaging including email or SMS...
;-)
I know i can do it, but i don't want to make it in this way. I would like to have the possibility to read all my sms in the message board of the pda, I would like to backup all the messages in one file with sunnysoft backup manager and not to have the backup plus the folder of the txt messages...
I know I can solve the problem in a lot of ways, but I'm a little "perfectionist"
Is one of the ways I wrote possible to make?
or is there another similar way?
Vijay? Buzz??
ehm what? i don't know those programs...
Hi Man....
Try Message Saver or Message Storer on N70...extract all SMS in text format and copy it to yr Jasjar.Only thing is that u won't be getting in Inbox..but u will get the full details...viz who had sent,time amd the full SMS..seperated with the dots or dashes...
Secondly connect yr N70 to PC vi PC Suite..use file manager option and open the messages...copy them in text format with details and pass them on to yr jasjar
Thirdly u can try using Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian Phones
I hope this helps
thank you for your suggestion, but i think i didn't explain me. The problem is not how to take out the text of the message form the sms, for this i can use the nokia suite.
I've already tried Oxygen Mobile Phone (I had the oppisite problem when I passed from the alpine to the n70 and x51v - a big big mistake), and it didn't work. Well, to say the true, i didn't remember if Oxygen can convert the sms into email or not, but the computer where it was is, for the moment, a little "detroyed"...
Damn, if I would know how the sms function on windows mobile (are in only one file, one file per sms, two or more files for every sms...) and the registry keys or other things i could put it manually by myself...
For me it's ok also the indication of how to hack a backup of the message with sunnysoft backup manager or sprite backup...
ok I have an idea: I'll do a copy of the folder windows after an Hr, then i'll do a copy of the same folder after I've received an sms. The problem is that I can't copy the folder because a lot of files are in usa. What can i do?
had the same problem moving from Nokia9500 to M5000.
Just put another, say, pay-as-you-go SIM in the Nokia and forward your messages to the SIM number for your jasjar. End of sorry story!
I can do it also in this way, but it will be nothing more than the solution of the txt file...
it can be a way...
but i would like to solve this problem. With the alpine i had the same problem, and i solved by searching the file of the sms on the nokia, open it with word and edit it with the notepad.
Now, I don't think I'm the first with this problem. So there must be a guy who know what file do I have to take and edit....
searching on this forum I've found a post of vijay wich says that the sms and the other stuff are in the file cemail.vol
But he don't says how to modify or copy it: it is a system file, and if i try to copy it wm says that this file is in use...
Someone can help me?
@philtech44
I've understood only now that you were summoning vijay and buzz
Hi Guys,
This is my first post. I have recently purchased an Xperia X1 upgrading from an N73. I was searching for a way to transfer sms from the Nokia N73 to Windows Mobile but came up empty handed. I found a few threads on this forum which asked the question, but didn't end up helping me. I have found a way to do this, I will admit this may be a pain in the ass, but if you stick with it (and if its important enough) you will have your SMS messages transferred across to your WM device.
Tools you will need
Nokia PC Suite (whichever version you need for your mobile)
SMSImport for PPC (http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-smsimport-v1-0-1.html)
ABC Amber Nokia Converter
XML Notepad 2007
Steps
1. Firstly its best we extract the messages from your Nokia phone first. Open PC Suite and view ALL the messages you want to transfer. I just selected my inbox
and copied all messages.
2. Create a folder on your desktop and paste all the messages in the folder.
3. We will leave the messages alone at this stage and prepare the xml file template you use to import your messages. Copy SMSImport to your PPC device (doesnt matter which memory you choose) Run the app. Its best to run this with some sms messages in your inbox so you can see how its exported. Export a copy of your messages to a file. If your doing this on a fresh install below is the xml structure.
<SMSExport><store name="SMS"><folder name="Deleted Items"/><folder name="Drafts"/><folder name="Inbox">
<message date="DATE" sender="SENDER MOBILE NUMBER" recipient="">MESSAGE CONTENT</message>
</folder><folder name="Outbox"/><folder name="Sent Items"/></store></SMSExport>
You may notice that there are additional folder names. You can export messages from other folders on your phone and import them under the headers in a similar format as per below
<SMSExport><store name="SMS">
<folder name="Deleted Items"/>
<message date="DATE" sender="SENDER MOBILE NUMBER" recipient="">MESSAGE CONTENT</message>
</folder><folder name="Drafts"/>
<message date="DATE" sender="SENDER MOBILE NUMBER" recipient="">MESSAGE CONTENT</message>
</folder><folder name="Inbox">
<message date="DATE" sender="SENDER MOBILE NUMBER" recipient="">MESSAGE CONTENT</message>
</folder><folder name="Outbox"/>
<message date="DATE" sender="SENDER MOBILE NUMBER" recipient="">MESSAGE CONTENT</message>
</folder><folder name="Sent Items"/>
<message date="DATE" sender="SENDER MOBILE NUMBER" recipient="">MESSAGE CONTENT</message>
</store></SMSExport>
Simply put, there is a message in each folder above, it will restore this message in each folder on your PPC device. Got it? Good =)
4. We will return to your copied messages now. Open ABC Amber Nokia Converter and open all the messages in the folder you created earlier.
This will list all messages and show you the details of each message.
5. Now depending on how you view your SMS messages on your PPC, there is Conversation view or the normal sms itemised view. If you decide to use the Conversation view, to show the messages in the correct order from which they were recieved, you will need to sort by date, oldest messages at the top. If you use the normal sms itemised view, you dont need to worry about sorting (as far as I know).
6. Select all messages and export to a excel spreadsheet (xls). Why are we exporting to Excel? Because the next stage will make preparing the output
for the xml doc so much faster and easer.
7. Open the excel sheet and you will see all your messages listed with the individual details separated by column. YOu will need to edit this output to resemble the following order
DATE/TIME, MOBILENUMBER, MESSAGE
8. Next we need to insert the xml tags to make life easy. You will need to create the following tags.
<message date="
" sender="
" recipient="">
</message>
9. Now for each line you will need to insert additional columns for each of the above tags. The end result should be like this
COLUMN A = <message date="
COLUMN B = DATE/TIME
COLUMN C = " sender="
COLUMN D = MOBILENUMBER
COLUMN E = " recipient="">
COLUMN F = MESSAGE
COLUMN G = </message>
Ensure that this format is consistent for all messages.
10. Once you have completed this, Select all text and copy it to notepad. When the data has been pasted there will be a lot of tab spacing. These will need to be removed. The best way is to copy a block of these spaces (a tab space) and use find and replace to remove the spacing. HINT Find box will have your tab space, Replace will have nothing. Click Replace all and this will remove all the tab spaces.
11. Once this has been done you will need to then sort out your messages into the folders that you want them to be imported into. Use the example above as your guide.
12. Once you have done the sorting of your messages, you will need to add the following to the top of the document
<SMSExport><store name="SMS">
And the following to the end
</store></SMSExport>
Save as a .xml file.
13. As xml is picky on which characters are accepted, you will need to vet the xml file for bogus characters which SMSImport will reject, Open your xml file in XML Notepad 2007. It will flag the location of unsupported characters with an error message, giving the line number and character number. The status bar in Notepad will help you with the locations if you have a large amount of messages. Typical characters that arent supported will be @ & and other non English standard lettering. If there are no errors, the xml file will load and display a tree output which you can expand the folders and see your messages.
14. Now for the final step. Copy the xml file to your PPC device and start SMSImport. Point to your xml file and tap it. If things are right, You will see the app processing and adding all the messages into your SMS folders!!!
Thats it!!!.
Now I should mention on a side note that the mobile numbers do not display the + sign on the mobile number like +61000000000 for example, so linking it to your contacts will not work. If you want to be anal about how the SMS display (you want to see the Contacts name instead of the number) you will need to do the following
1. Using Notepad, and the find and replace option, search the first 3 numbers eg 614, replace it with +614 (Im using Australian country codes and the 4 is the second number for mobile numbers in Aus) This will make the numbers a recognisable format for your mobile.
2. So your messages display with the contacts name you will need to replace the following string
<message date="DATE" sender="SENDER MOBILE NUMBER" recipient="">MESSAGE CONTENT</message>
With the following
<message date="DATE" sender="""CONTACT NAME" <SENDER MOBILE NUMBER>" recipient="">MESSAGE CONTENT</message>
This will be a time consuming process if you arent to savvy with your mates mobile numbers, but it makes it worth it in the end. Once you have made the changes save the xml file and follow steps 13 and 14 to check the import file and import into your PPC.
This process took me a few hours to figure out and im happy with the results. I agree its not the simplest way of doing this, but so far the only documented way I have found that works.
I hope this helps
I just wanted to thank you for your HowTo! I had to to this from an old SE-Phone (W960i) but the steps have been mainly the same. Although I needed up to 3 hours to handle 300+ SMS I'm now happy to have them all on my X1
Also I will indeed never read them all again, but it feels just good for me to have them not lost
THX a LOT!
thx for this idea, I transfered my sms from nokia 3110c to my htc wizard with your help :")
I made updated version of the transfer guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4385729#post4385729
Also made a little parser for simple user-friendly xml creating.
Check it out :")
Hi dude, i need a similar kind of help, I am sending my Xperia X1 for repairs, I wanted to backup my sms onto my PC, do you any way I could acheive this?
Your help will be much appreciated.
Thnaks
PIM backup? Jeyo SMS backup? I think the best would be full backup with SPB backup utility
Do u know how to transfer sms from X1 to PC ?
How to transfer sms from X1 to a PC ?
Hi dude, i need a similar kind of help, I am sending my Xperia X1 for repairs, I wanted to backup my sms onto my PC, do you any way I could acheive this?
Your help will be much appreciated.
Thnaks
Help!!
Ran this procedure on a HD2 and completed all steps successfully. However, I don't see any messages when I go to the message panel on the home screen. what could be the possible issue?
thanks in advance.
Try http://www.bloove.com
MOBILedit!
Hello,
I would like to point out a software for mobile phones management called MOBILedit.
MOBILedit is a PC software, which is among other things able to browse, edit, copy, backup and migrate data within connected mobile phones. Mobile phones may be connected by cable, BlueTooth or even IrDA.
Especially the possibility to migrate contacts, messages and other content may come handy in this case.
It is not free, but it is totally worth it.
I hope you will give it a try - there is a lite version available to see how it works.
Thanks!
its a very awsome mobile phone............i like its specification............
yeah that takes ages, but deleting messages is always like loosing part of your life so thanks a lot
Hi. I'd need the option to use the old Application for managing the SMS Store.
Does anybody know if it is incorporated in HD2-Roms but hidden, or if the old application from a 6.1 ROM would work on HD2?
Backgroud: I used to created subfolders under Inbox and sent messages as an archive for all SMS I get and send. Every year I export them with PIMBackup and save the resulting file to a safe place.
Now, with the new messaging-application I'm not able to change the folders anymore. The subfolders are still there (I see them in PIMBackup when trying to create a backup), but I can't access them.
Take a look here
Cheers.
Oh thank you.
I must have defined my searches wrong, cause I missed that posting
EDIT: Oh, thank you again. You made me edit the registry and I mistankely changed the Name "System" und HKLM to "e" and I couldn't change it back. :S
Since it is one of the most important keys in the registry, only a hard-reset brought my HD2 back to life.
Well, it was not so bad at all. I have all my data as a backup.
Actually, it was kinda funny to see what the device does when you edit the registry and make a mistake.
Hi all
got little big problem. I mistakenly deleted one conversation in inbox. It is at this time 780 in/out come SMS/MMS. communication fall into Deleted items folder. Question: How do i undelete these? I was trying to order by name and mark them to undelete but not possible to mark selection on HD2.
Any hints how to undetele generally more messages together? I lost importance of Deleted items folder, if i can't udelete items in it other then one by one.
Thanx,
Ondrej
Same problem here, accidentally deleted some important sms. is there a way to get them back?
Okay, there is a program named Jeyo (manager?/smth like that). - the name is "Jeyo Mobile Companion" I got it, there is possibility to moving messages between folders, i hope that this should help me. But there was still not time to connect a phone and do that There is only thing i am afraid - in deleted folder, is may be not possible to see deference between "sent" and "incoming" messages, hope that there will be some other key that can recognize this, to able to order - mark - move to expected folder.
I let U know once i found working solution.
Ondrej