It is impossible to back up all of my sms with an app (i have over 50k sms) so how can i manually take them off of my phone and put them back on the phone when i flash a new rom?
Most of the messages are from my girlfriend and DO NOT want to loose them, its the only thing i car about on my phone...but its so damn slow and i would like a new rom, the one i have now is from 9 months ago
With SMS Backup +, you can send your texts to a specified folder/label in a Gmail account, and restore them at a later time.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/sms-backup/com.zegoggles.smssync
i have 50k messages do you know how long that would take? plus i already said that it is impossible with any app.....the phone just freezes after a little bit cause i have a crappy rom on it
Ah, I missed the k part in there, heh. Yeah, I have no idea how you can manually do it (if it's possible I guess).
...more googling for me....YAY
Or just grow up and delete most of them
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killer skittle said:
i have 50k messages do you know how long that would take? plus i already said that it is impossible with any app.....the phone just freezes after a little bit cause i have a crappy rom on it
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I have a ton of texts from my son in basic training that are important to me (whenever I start missing him I just go back and read them). If you're using CM6 or AOSP you can just back them up with Titanium Backup and restore the SMS messages. Today I switched from CM6 to LiquidSence and that method didnt work. I installed SMS Backup & Restore from the market and was able to restore all of my son's texts.
SMS B&R has a "no duplicates" feature. It will check to see which ones have already been restored and will pick up where it left off if your phone freezes.
I get it, it will take a long time. But if your messages are as important to you as mine are to me, it's worth it.
westicle said:
Or just grow up and delete most of them
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Hi, do us all a favor and keep your ****ty comments to your self. It is apparent that you have no one in your life that cares about you or you care about them. You will be lucky if your in box hits 10 by the end of the month.
If incoming messages are sign of importance, I'm right up there. I get a couple hundred a day, but most get deleted when their usefulness expires.
Your phone may be slow because it needs to be purged.
Handcent has online storage for donators I believe....
thats just it....the rom i have is a beta (didnt know that at the time) so it is really buggy now i get force close messages on almost everything i try and do....i just need a fresh rom and the ability to take the sms off manually and place them on a new rom
killer skittle said:
It is apparent that you have no one in your life that cares about you or you care about them. You will be lucky if your in box hits 10 by the end of the month.
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Hey now... these are the kind of things that could cause flame wars
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All jokes aside, you'll do yourself a BIG favor by not taking comments/posts personally. Getting worked up over something online doesn't do anyone any good (besides the entertainment value 3rd parties receive from it ), especially yourself.
Onto the actual topic now: As trindy said try using SMS Backup & Restore. It should do the job you need - should being the operative word here because I've never heard of anyone backing up over a few thousand messages...let alone 50,000
Hope it works out for ya
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The built in messaging in WM only shows so many messages per page. You have to keep clicking on the "older" link to keep moving through the messages. So I'm wondering if there are any SMS managers, etc. that will show the entire thread on one page. Also, show the time along with the date?
I too would like to know this answer for our kaisers and tilt 2's. However, i am suspecting it would slow things down a bit, but am willing to see what the difference is. Also the date and time would be nice
mine shows the date and time i recieved my text. not the entire thread though. i always delete my messages anyways. though it would be cool to see the whole thing on one page.
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thats what i m looking for as well, the SMS client and build in dialer are the only cons for me with this phone
Mine shows the time on some, and the date on others, but never both on all messages. Makes no sense to me
not sure if this is what you were trying to see but if you go in to the contact individually it shows your entire conversation =)
lilchip85 said:
mine shows the date and time i recieved my text. not the entire thread though. i always delete my messages anyways. though it would be cool to see the whole thing on one page.
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Hey my girlfriends named Jen...
HEY! why do you have her in your phone as baby!!!!
Lol...
stevecn70 said:
The built in messaging in WM only shows so many messages per page. You have to keep clicking on the "older" link to keep moving through the messages. So I'm wondering if there are any SMS managers, etc. that will show the entire thread on one page. Also, show the time along with the date?
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Try resco contact manager. It incorporates nicely but I don't think it will be what you completely want because the rhodium is a nice device with great graphics. For wm 6.1 it was a great addition, but check it out.
Hope this helps.
Yeah, the date and time show up if it is the SMS was received in the current day. The problem is if you backup your phone and then restore it, like through myphone.microsoft.com, it loses track of the order.
The HTC version does show the whole thread at once, with dates and times but you can't export the thread like you can in the WM threading, which I do by just doing a select all, copy, paste to word, save.
I guess what I'm really trying to get at, is the ability to archive conversations as it appears in threading mode.
I'm losing my patience with my HD2 today. First of all there's the media player (see my other thread). Then it's 'died' on me again, this time when I hung up after a call. I know it's been said it's a notification issue, but I have no agendas set in the calendar, no alarms or anything, so why is it still happening?
Then I've took2 calls and listened to one answerphone message today and the reception has been nothing short of appaling, why is this?
And the phone's stuttering quite a lot, sometimes while scrolling, sometimes when opening apps. Also the weather animation has started stuttering quite badly. What's wrong with my phone??? I've done a soft reset
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I'm losing my patience with my HD2 today. First of all there's the media player (see my other thread). Then it's 'died' on me again, this time when I hung up after a call. I know it's been said it's a notification issue, but I have no agendas set in the calendar, no alarms or anything, so why is it still happening?
Then I've took2 calls and listened to one answerphone message today and the reception has been nothing short of appaling, why is this?
And the phone's stuttering quite a lot, sometimes while scrolling, sometimes when opening apps. Also the weather animation has started stuttering quite badly. What's wrong with my phone??? I've done a soft reset
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It sounds faulty to me. Have you complained to your supplier about it?
Please make sure you upgraded your phone to latest ROM version available from HTC. 1.66 or 1.48 depending on where you are from. You can get it from htc.com.
Should this fail to solve your issue, please inform the kind users of XDA from which building, in what direction, and at which time you will be throwing said device off of said building, so one lucky XDA user might be able to catch it and walk away with a free HD2.
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Should this fail to solve your issue, please inform the kind users of XDA from which building, in what direction, and at which time you will be throwing said device off of said building, so one lucky XDA user might be able to catch it and walk away with a free HD2.
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Very funny lol
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Should this fail to solve your issue, please inform the kind users of XDA from which building, in what direction, and at which time you will be throwing said device off of said building, so one lucky XDA user might be able to catch it and walk away with a free HD2.
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rofl
nice one!
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please inform the kind users of XDA from which building, in what direction, and at which time you will be throwing said device off of said building, so one lucky XDA user might be able to catch it and walk away with a free HD2.
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me too..
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hello everybody my name is brad
so last week my battery seemed to be draining quickly on sat. was going to go trade battery on Monday but everything seemed back to normal. then today i noticed random restarts.
later in afternoon the messaging app would go directly to compose a blank message with no recipient, when hitting the back button it would then just directly back to home screen. i app killed it, force stopped it all kinds of stuff. then after restarting all my messages were gone except the ones on sim card! yeah tmobile was a sheet load of help, not. Anyway i assume the messages are permanently gone. for future problems what is best way to back up sms? free app preferably.
so to end this, think its a bad battery or internal memory? bad battery? and where are sms messages stored, internal or sdcard?
oh and one last thing. only thing i installed recently was the new mail app.
thanks - brad
are you rooted?
bradfromkc said:
hello everybody my name is brad
so last week my battery seemed to be draining quickly on sat. was going to go trade battery on Monday but everything seemed back to normal. then today i noticed random restarts.
later in afternoon the messaging app would go directly to compose a blank message with no recipient, when hitting the back button it would then just directly back to home screen. i app killed it, force stopped it all kinds of stuff. then after restarting all my messages were gone except the ones on sim card! yeah tmobile was a sheet load of help, not. Anyway i assume the messages are permanently gone. for future problems what is best way to back up sms? free app preferably.
so to end this, think its a bad battery or internal memory? bad battery? and where are sms messages stored, internal or sdcard?
oh and one last thing. only thing i installed recently was the new mail app.
thanks - brad
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Best way to backup is an app in the Market called SMS backup and restore. Backs up to SD card.
As far as the reboots, have you tried turning USB debugging on? That seems to have helped some people with the issue.
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My Xoom is getting replaced for some cosmetic damage (weird dent in the back rubber out of the box). Anyway, I have been playing with it a lot while waiting on my replacement to get here...only thing is I have spent some time customizing my homescreens the way I want them. Is there a way to backup my current setup or will I have to reorganize it again when I get my replacement? Thanks for any help.
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My Xoom is getting replaced for some cosmetic damage (weird dent in the back rubber out of the box). Anyway, I have been playing with it a lot while waiting on my replacement to get here...only thing is I have spent some time customizing my homescreens the way I want them. Is there a way to backup my current setup or will I have to reorganize it again when I get my replacement? Thanks for any help.
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Some people are saying that your apps and settings will be restored automatically. Not sure about the home screen configs though. I will not know until middle of next week when I sign into my new Xoom that will replace the one I have now (twenty-five percent off lucky bastard).
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Some people are saying that your apps and settings will be restored automatically. Not sure about the home screen configs though. I will not know until middle of next week when I sign into my new Xoom that will replace the one I have now (twenty-five percent off lucky bastard).
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If you backup your contacts etc. to your google account, you will get them back on the new device when you sign into your google account. you will also be able to re-download your apps as well as they are tied to your google account also.
Your homescreens/widgets won't be saved. On phones when you're using a custom launcher like ADW or Launcher Pro, you can backup your homescreen locales, but as far as I know there is no way to do that with the stock launcher on 2.3 or 3.0.
well crap...the homescreen config is what I cared about, that sucks.
Maybe someone can help me then, because here's my main problem:
I sync my Xoom bookmarks with my Chrome bookmarks. The problem is my Chrome looks like this:
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Notice all the favicons with no text? Well, when I sync them with my Xoom, it just shows a bunch of blank tabs without names (because I remove them in Chrome). So I went through and added most of my bookmarks as icons on one of my homescreen pages, so I can see the favicons relevant to each. It took FOREVER to do. Is there an app or anything that will let me see my bookmark favicons correctly?
I mean I'm sure it took you some time, but it takes no time at all to get rid of that text in Chrome.
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I mean I'm sure it took you some time, but it takes no time at all to get rid of that text in Chrome.
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Right, and I don't want the text in Chrome because I know what the site is based off it's favicon, but the problem is on my Xoom it doesn't show the text or favicon, so I just have a bunch of blank bookmarks. They work when I click them, but I have no idea which one I am clicking. The only way I can see the favicon is by going to +/More/Bookmark and adding it to the desktop manually. I need a way I can see my bookmark favicons on my Xoom to know what bookmark I'm clicking.
Hello all i have a stock r800x the phone has ran great for the last month but over the last week it has become very slow. mainly in the messaging app the threads take forever to come up or it will fc from timing same for the keyboard when you attempt to text. I will hit a letter and it will just hang up and fc it is a nightmare to text on this phone as of late. i do not want to do a factory reset to try and fix the problem because i have a ton of gameloft games installed and would hate to lose the game saves. also getting games back from them is a pain in the ass.
any ideas what my problem is?
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Hello all i have a stock r800x the phone has ran great for the last month but over the last week it has become very slow. mainly in the messaging app the threads take forever to come up or it will fc from timing same for the keyboard when you attempt to text. I will hit a letter and it will just hang up and fc it is a nightmare to text on this phone as of late. i do not want to do a factory reset to try and fix the problem because i have a ton of gameloft games installed and would hate to lose the game saves. also getting games back from them is a pain in the ass.
any ideas what my problem is?
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Try clearing data for the messages app in manage applications
my phone has doing the same thing just cleaned the data for it will see how it goes
as much as i'm concerned, i tried quite a lot of things, including clear cache n stuff, but turning of 'Sync' (automatic sync) does aid this...
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Try clearing data for the messages app in manage applications
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I can confirm this. If your Txt message database gets too big (too many messages stored, and too many threads) it will get awfully sluggish and occassionaly give you the FC/wait/Report options. If you hit wait, it should come back, but may still be sluggish.
I suggest that you limit all threads to a max of 200 messages (preferably 50~100) and that you delete any threads you don't still need. You can use a SMS/MMS backup application (several don't need root) to back up all the data if you want to keep it in case of needing info out of it, or for archival/audit purposes.
Completely clearing the data from the app (not just cache) will reset the DBs and after the first open to reinitialize the DB, it should be snappy again.
This maintenance will need to be performed regularly if you don't go into the app's settings to enforce thread-length limits.
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I can confirm this. If your Txt message database gets too big (too many messages stored, and too many threads) it will get awfully sluggish and occassionaly give you the FC/wait/Report options. If you hit wait, it should come back, but may still be sluggish.
I suggest that you limit all threads to a max of 200 messages (preferably 50~100) and that you delete any threads you don't still need. You can use a SMS/MMS backup application (several don't need root) to back up all the data if you want to keep it in case of needing info out of it, or for archival/audit purposes.
Completely clearing the data from the app (not just cache) will reset the DBs and after the first open to reinitialize the DB, it should be snappy again.
This maintenance will need to be perform+ed regularly if you don't go into the app's settings to enforce thread-length limits.
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+1 wise words, i dont keep messages, as soon as i reply the thread usually gets deleted, i know some people like to keep sms/mms messages, like ryocoon said though, there are many sms/mms backup apps out there, that you can use to save your messages
never had this problem with Handcent. ^_^
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Thanks all this has fixed my problem it is fast once again.