As I've used PIMBackup over the past years to keep my Text messages, I now have around 800 received and 900 sent.
There are a couple hundred I want to keep, but most of the others I would like to remove. How can I edit them on my PC so it doesn't take me all day?
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I'm going to do a hard reset and rebuild the TyTN. I want to keep my text messages. Anyone know what file/s and where they're located that I need to backup?
Any other tips on rebuilding?
I found SMSes notoriously difficult to extract from my PocketPC2002 / 2003 devices; Jeyo Mobile Extender, however, seems to do the trick, although it can be a little clumsy to sue at times (especially if you have many folders).
Spb backup.
Slightly off topic - I'm not a big user of SMS. I have a couple of alerts set up to provide train service updates during my commute, and occasionally exchange a few txt messages with a couple of friends, but I've never had a text message that I wanted to keep after I've read it. I usually delete them immediately. Out of curiosity, what kinds of messages do you need to keep?
lmychajluk said:
Slightly off topic - I'm not a big user of SMS. I have a couple of alerts set up to provide train service updates during my commute, and occasionally exchange a few txt messages with a couple of friends, but I've never had a text message that I wanted to keep after I've read it. I usually delete them immediately. Out of curiosity, what kinds of messages do you need to keep?
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I've got hundreds of message sent between myself and my girlfriend over the last three+ years ... soppy, I know, but the memories are great to look back on sometimes
There is a product I've just seen on this link which might do this for you
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=19302
but it might be a bit much for just wanting to back up sms messages.
I had the same problem, my kids send me text messages all the time, and I tried to keep the ones like for passing exams, driving tests etc, but lost them all on an enforced hard reset. Very upsetting. I wish there were some program which just put them into text, or word and you could keep them that way.
Good luck
I've been running CM6-RC3 on my N1 for the past two days. Everything has been speedy and problem free until this morning.
I keep all my text messages (all that I've received since i got my phone in June) and have them backed up (thank god)...
This morning I received a text from a friend; I reply and turn my phone's screen off. A minute later I receive two more messages, but it takes a while to load them. I press the back button to check the other message and notice all my conversations have disappeared. Wiped completely.
I've made sure that I don't have the 200 sms limit enabled....
I'm just wondering now: Is there a cap on how many total messages Android will store (I'd imagine so, but I've not read anywhere about it).
I'm using a HTC Hero and i've got at least 300 smses on my phone and it is still alright. I don't think that theres any limit for smses. It might be limited to the amount of space on your phone, but since smes are text they should take up really little space hence practically there is no cap on sms storage (unless you have a couple of million smses stored).
I'm talking more like 4000-5000 messages (sms and mms). I realize that its just text and very minimal, but I still wonder why everything was erased.
Maybe its a bug in CM...
But anyone else heard of a limit in Android?
By the way, I checked again I have around 1100 smes. I don't think that android has any limitations at all. All new smartphone oses don't have such a limit. Highly likely that it is a bug with CM
r45k said:
I've been running CM6-RC3 on my N1 for the past two days. Everything has been speedy and problem free until this morning.
I keep all my text messages (all that I've received since i got my phone in June) and have them backed up (thank god)...
This morning I received a text from a friend; I reply and turn my phone's screen off. A minute later I receive two more messages, but it takes a while to load them. I press the back button to check the other message and notice all my conversations have disappeared. Wiped completely.
I've made sure that I don't have the 200 sms limit enabled....
I'm just wondering now: Is there a cap on how many total messages Android will store (I'd imagine so, but I've not read anywhere about it).
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I had this happen to me at CM6 RC2. I was at about 8,000 SMS messages total. All limits removed as well. I have various backups from Nandroid and Titanium backup but I don't care too much. Unlike you I didn't notice the clearing nor what I did to trigger it.
On windows smartphone 2001 onwards to windows mobile 5/6
(if anybody still remembers the past pocket pc derived smartphone os)
i had virtually unlimited text storage with vastly smaller amounts of internal memory.
Its the same with good old symbian if you have an external memory card..
The wave has 555mb dedicated for storing sms, ems, email etc for messaging.
Why did they limit it to 1300 text messages only when text is such a small format much smaller than mms and email, and 555mb is a lot for storing messages.
I remeber when i had 10,000 text messages on my windows smartphone, an imate sp5m, it took the phone 30 minutes to delete all my messages when i executed the command.
This is what i miss from windows 6 even if the gui was shot (needed a stylus)
windows 6 was really good for messaging and with HTC sense i didnt go into the phones inner operations so often and didnt have to use the stylus frequently.
But upon looking into the sms file it was only 8mb in size.
(lets not compare this to the early years of IOS or Android. This is the reason why i only gave up my touch diamond with windows 6.1 late last year. the unlimited text and contacts storage was really great for business and sales use.
i seriously thought of going android but i got a good deal on this wave 8500.
i didnt know there were limits on installing programs, or limited text storage and limited contacts because there was no mention of this in the early reviews. `
im not regretting the purchase though because i thought there were ways to hack it to support more text, contacts, programs but no luck.
still love the cam, screen, hummingbird and body.
its like a beautiful but not overly educated chick, body is more than able (hardware) but lacks a bit in the knowledge area (bada) and its limited in the phone aspects thats very important like as i said again contacts, text message storage and amount of programs that bada 1.2 can install.
There are plenty of FREE practical utilities and programs that cant all fit in the 10 page menu of bada 1.2
Is there anyway to adjust this limit of 1300 text messages to at least 5000 text messages?
My outlook contacts have increased over the years from my sp100 windows smartphone (10 years ago) to over 2000 contacts.
I have long conversations or threads with people who ask me about the products i sell so no wonder i can fill up the 1300 limit in just three weeks.
I do have FREE unlimited text messaging and calls with my network service provider but only for other subscribers of the same network.
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Link points increasing text recipients
Thanks but the link you posted is about increasing text recipients.
I did find out that by going to messages then changing to folder view that messages can be backed up on the memory card.
Its not the real answer but its a good work around while im waiting for bada 2 to be finalized.
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Thanks but the link you posted is about increasing text recipients.
I did find out that by going to messages then changing to folder view that messages can be backed up on the memory card.
Its not the real answer but its a good work around while im waiting for bada 2 to be finalized.
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Oh! Man! Sorry did not see it! I googled your problem, but, i don't know which website I saw the solution..I by-mistakenly copied the link..I had to put it in my signature! Sorry!
Hi, I have an unlocked AT&T S4 that I am using. Im trying to delete old texts from someone who I text a lot. The problem is I only want to delete text messages that are older than 2 months old and when I selected all the texts and unselected texts that were in that 2 month range and tried to delete it, the messaging app will freeze and say that messages unfortunately closed. I can delete individual texts but that would just take way to long. I want to delete more than 500 texts! Is there a way to fix this or delete the texts that are older than 2 months? Thanks in advance.
I recent;y lost my S7 , and although I keep backups of most of what I've put on the phone, the text messages weren't backed up (I had Verizon cloud turned off).
The issue is that my wife died last year, and when I lost the s7, I lost all of our text exchanges. Fortunately, I have her phone, which also has our exchanges from her end.
She was big on texting, so there are a lot of texts from co-workers, friends, family, etc.
So...
What I'd like to be able to do is to export only our text exchanges to a format in which they can be easily read on Windows 7. I suppose I'll need an Android/Samsung app that can do the exporting and a windows 7 application to read the texts on my PC.
Is this possible?
Thanks!