Database Users

Interesting Messaging Problem

Firstly, I did a search and this issue was briefly touched on, but no resolve was given. I receive a new text message, I go into my inbox it says 0 items 1 new. This has been going on for a week. Now I have missed 11 text messages. My inbox and today screen say 0 items 11new. Any way to find these messages and to repair so this does not continue?
Thanks

Help I can't retrieve my text messages... now there is 13.

nerdgurl, kindly send a list of all 3rd party programs installed.

Here is the list:
Total Commander, Sygic Mobile Contacts, Pocket Max PhoneAlarm,
AE Button Plus, SetAsRingTone, ME PhonePlus, SPB PocketPlus, Sprite Backup.
It was working fine until last week, when I did a full restore, but I do have the newest Sprite Backup so there should have been no conflicts, but I don't know.
Is there any way to retreive them with another messaging software?
Thank you so much, I'm getting desperate

Are you going to the correct inbox? There are several inboxes: MMS, Outlook E-Mail, SMS...

Restoring backups screws up inboxes. Sprite's the closest thing to a proper backup app but still not perfect.

Yes, I'm going to the correct inbox, as for Sprite perhaps I am unable to save my old messages but I can't even receive new ones. If I knew how to do a screen capture, I would post a picture of this bizzare behavior.

jdee246 said:
Restoring backups screws up inboxes. Sprite's the closest thing to a proper backup app but still not perfect.
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Nah, I would suggest SPb Clone, lotsa issues with Sprite :>

Is there any remedy for this, to retrieve my older messages or to stop this from occuring with new incoming messages?

Nerdgurl said:
Is there any remedt for this, to retrieve my older messages or to stop this from occuring with new incoming messages?
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There is a tool to backup messages. I have not yet tried it myself. I'm just going to post a link to it since after install you need to put in a code at their website in order for software to be able to run. Hope it helps.
http://pdafresh.freeweb.hu/communications/sms/app_smsbackup.htm (Backs up only messages)
Developer site: http://www.zedsoft.net/smsbackup/
http://pdafresh.freeweb.hu/communications/sms/app_allexport.htm (Exports messages AND Outlook data)
UPDATE: Export function works fine. Restore will test after a HR. Backup worx.
Developer site: http://www.zedsoft.net/allexport/
Hope it worx 4 u

OH I messed it up good! It says Message Backup successfull (0 Messages), then I tried to restore the messages and it would state: Message restore successfull (0 Messages). What have I done?

Nerdgurl,
Your sms database seems to be corrupt. Use the attached tool to delete all mail/sms databases. Dont forget to backup since it destroys all SMS, mail & account info. I had a similar prob & resolved.
Cheers...

You can try the soft from Jeyo to see, if it can salvage your messages. But when all is said and done, you will HAVE to do a hard reset, to get things running again. With a bit of luck you can reinstall everything but the messages, otherwise a full reinstall is needed.
Also, you may wanna try visiting www.Sunnysoft.cz for Backup Manager. A very nice alternative to Sprite, which has way too many unsolved bugs. I fully agree with dmmh on that...

Backing up and restoring SMS messages as threads?

I decided that I want to upgrade my ROM to unlock the 30 fps video on my x1a. But I want to backup all of my text messages before I do so. And I want to be able to restore them all as threaded SMS, just as they were before the upgrade. Before you guys go bashing me for wanting to backup my messages, I have personal reasons for wanting to do this, so there's no need to ask "why would you want to backup all your messages for" and other stuff like that. Just because their not important to you doesn't mean their not to somebody else lol. And I have also searched the forum for programs that backup sms, but they restore them as individual messages (not threaded) which is not what I want.
So my question is: is there a program out there that will allow me to backup and restore my SMS as THREADS? Or should I wait to get a Windows My Phone invite to do this?

I use PIMbackup. It will restore the SMS and you can choose the threads options subsequently.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-pim-backup-v2-8.html

i tried using PIMBackup before, but i don't remember seeing a threading messages option. how do you do this?

Isn't the 30fps video a hardware issue??

Bennieficial said:
I decided that I want to upgrade my ROM to unlock the 30 fps video on my x1a. But I want to backup all of my text messages before I do so. And I want to be able to restore them all as threaded SMS, just as they were before the upgrade. Before you guys go bashing me for wanting to backup my messages, I have personal reasons for wanting to do this, so there's no need to ask "why would you want to backup all your messages for" and other stuff like that. Just because their not important to you doesn't mean their not to somebody else lol. And I have also searched the forum for programs that backup sms, but they restore them as individual messages (not threaded) which is not what I want.
So my question is: is there a program out there that will allow me to backup and restore my SMS as THREADS? Or should I wait to get a Windows My Phone invite to do this?
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I couldn't agree more. I dont see why a company as huge as Microsoft cant incorporate this into WMDC/ActiveSync. It is one thing I really miss about my Blackberry.

PIMBackup works perfect even with threaded messages I checked that few times and it's works fine

but how do i restore all messages as threads with PIMBackup? cuz from what I remember, it was restoring them as individual messages, making my phone move very sluggishly, so i stopped the restoration process. If I let it finish, will all the messages be threaded or something?

when you use PIMBackup, it will backup the way it was and restore them the way it was. There is no option to choose threaded or not, it just backs it up threaded or non-threaded.
So yea, PIMBackup is the way to go!

The X1 got sluggish because it was doing something intensive. Let it finish before you make your mind up that it doesn't do what you think it should.
It's a superb piece of software, very well written and does exactly what it says on the tin. It backs up and restores all of your PIM.
Messages restored will be threaded.

After restore phone is threading restored messages so it's need a bit of resources.
Go into messaging->sms and watch, threads will showing in real time and on the bottom bar it'll showing which messages are processing now

SMS notification in Titanium "-GSM"

Guys, need to ask if anyone has experienced this in the latest WM 6.5 roms, whenever you receive messages and your using titanium, the sms is partly displayed with a "- GSM" at the end part. Is there any way (register tweak) to remove this? Kinda ugly and annoying. Thanks in advance.

Am i experiencing this?

i have found that om messages i have restored with PIMBackup, but not on new messages i have sent.
is it the same for you?

sning said:
i have found that om messages i have restored with PIMBackup, but not on new messages i have sent.
is it the same for you?
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its actually when receiving not restoring.

I need help with this too, I have a AT&T Tilt 2 (Rhodium) when they come in like this there not threaded like they should be.

Conversation mode on wm 6.5.x

The last 5 builds I have flashed seemed to have stopped working with sense conversation mode. Does any one know why??!
Basically, I backup everything on myphone, reinstate after flashing and i can see them in the sense tab. But when I go to open them in conversation mode nothing is there unless I switch to traditional.
I do find however that if I get a text from someone it appears and shows all their old texts....
Weird...any ideas>

jonboyuk said:
The last 5 builds I have flashed seemed to have stopped working with sense conversation mode. Does any one know why??!
Basically, I backup everything on myphone, reinstate after flashing and i can see them in the sense tab. But when I go to open them in conversation mode nothing is there unless I switch to traditional.
I do find however that if I get a text from someone it appears and shows all their old texts....
Weird...any ideas>
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They are working but in different mode. If you delete them all and then you start to keep new ones conversation mode will work.

They are aways issues after flashing and then restoring backed-up data! I don't advice you to do this in the future after flashing new ROM....if you want to make a hard reset then it will work without probs (most of the times)
hope that helps you
cheers

Hang on a minute, I've been flashing phones for about 6 years now and I've never had to delete all my texts and start from scratch.
What's the point in myphone otherwise?!
Also, I have flashed my HD2 about 18 times now (maybe more) and it's only the last 3 flashes that this happens in. If I revert to an official rom, or some of the earlier build's by chef's in here then all of my texts come back in conversation mode.
I was wondering if anyone knew why this happens in the newer builds? :-/

Anyone else? I can't believe I'm the only one - it's doing my nut in!

jonboyuk said:
Anyone else? I can't believe I'm the only one - it's doing my nut in!
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i noticed something similar, but i'm not using myphone.
the thing is the following: sense makes a new folder in the sms inbox named
"conversations" (i saw that because i backup my texts with pimbackup, at the
restore you can see this folder). when you restore this folder (and i don't know
if myphone does this; i stoped to use myphone because it doesn't sync the
content of sms folders inside the inbox (at least the builds i used, about 3
months ago), which is out of regard with manila because manila ignores subfolders
also) then the conversations are there from the beginning, allthough they are
not correctly linked to the contact. for that you have to "edit" the contact
one time, or add it to the people tab. after that all conversations for this
contact are back (which is also the reason for the manila lags, this is when
manila "reads" all the old sms's from this contact in the background, which
could be very slow if you have 5000+ sms as i do). another thing to get the
conversations back is to send or recieve just one sms, after that the sms
history is also back (for the corresponding contact)...
hope i could help you a bit with my findings!
regards,
markus

Thanks Markus, I noticed the same for point 2 as you said. It's strange though. It must be an update as part of the newer builds of manilla because I always used to be able to retrieve my conversations with MyPhone. I think they've done this as a cheeky way of getting around sms lag!
Shameful HTC, shameful!

SMS Conversation mode: Duplicated threads for same people

Hi guys,
I've searched the forum but couldn't find an answer so here goes...
In the HTC (SMS) messaging app (conversation mode) I am getting two entries for every person. Pressing either one, for the same person, brings up exactly the same messages. I've had a look in traditional mode and the messages themselves are not duplicated, neither are they when displayed in the Sense UI thingy!
I'm hoping this is just going to be some sort of database/text/xml file problem which if deleted will be re-built but things are never that simple!
I'd prefer an answer that doesn't involve a hard-reset as there are LOTS of text messages I'd rather keep (and again, the messages themselves are not duplicated, just their initial thread display entry in conversation mode)
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Check your contacts and see if they are not duplicated...

Have you used PIM backup? I get the problem when restoring messages from that?

Hi guys,
Thanks for your replies.
@DeadVirus: I've just checked my contacts and there are no duplicates on my phone and my SIM has no contacts on it.
@corny2007: I haven't used any kind of PIM backup software.
However, rather oddly, the problem has sort of fixed itself. By "sort of" I mean everything has returned to normal for all except one thread.Typically it's the one thread that probably gets used more than any other (you guessed it... its for a woman! ) and its probably the one that I least want to lose texts from!
I'm wondering if this is being caused by duplicate texts on the phone and SIM. Is there any software that allows the deleting of text messages on a SIM?
Once again, thanks for your help, any further assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Okay, so I've found a "fix" for the one remaining duplicated thread: Delete all the messages and then undelete them one-by-one (which is no small task, given there is probably about 200 messages!).
Anyways, its fixed now. Thanks guys for your help.