Hi guys,
Please read before clicking back lol. (I have a TG01)
Thanks to Markinus and Endrix for all their hard work on the TG01 build to date, but we have a general issue. The last build was left with the problem where text messages are saved to the SIM card rather than phone Memory. This is a problem because when returning to windows, the texts are still saved to the SIM card!
Either, we need an app or registry tweak for windows to switch it back again, or we need a way to switch the android build to save the SMS's to the phone memory instead.
Can anyone help please? (With either a suggestion, or perhaps guidance so that I might be able to write something (I'm a developer, but only in Java J2EE btw). I'm happy to attempt a hack, or create something I just have absolutely no idea where to start.
Thanks for any guidance
There MUST be a way in the kernel to do this surely? If it's currently saving all the SMS messages to the SIM card, there MUST be a setting or a bit of code that changes/defines where messages are saved?
Uh? This an Android forum & you are talking about windows!!
Come again?
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Dear Group, i've only had the quickest of looks at my new Wizard cos its a xmas prezzy lol. Anyways, just to check it works i put my SIM from my mobile fone into it and sent myself a SMS message. Sure enough it worked, only a message popped up saying that it was full and i need to delete some messages (or words to that effect)
But from where? I find it a wee bit confusing to tell the truth. On my mobile i can save about 20 texts to the SIM and 200 to the phone memory, can i do the same thing with my Wizard?
The SIM that i put in has texts saved to it, but how would i access them in the Wizard.
And, while i hopefully have your attention, is there anyway to save texts from different contacts into different folders? And even better, is there a way to filter them out automagically?
All help gratefully received
After my Vario II gradually slowed to a halt and stopped receiving calls or sending text messages, I finally had to admit defeat and do a hard reset (not bad going though, I managed 4 months without hard resetting)
I am now going through the long process of getting everything back the way I like it (I stupidly didn't have a backup program installed!). I am sure I found a registry tweak to store, by default, all of my SMS text messages to my storage card and looking at the contents of my card, I do have a folder which seems to agree with this as it does look like it is full of my most recent SMS messages, but I can not, despite searching for a few hours, find the tweak to do this again.
Can anyone help? I have found something about temporary internet files but nothing about SMS/text messages.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I am just bumping this in the hopes that someone may be browsing who knows the answer .. I shall keep my fingers crossed. Thanks.
first post virgin
One I usually do when I want to preserve my SMS messages is use SPB backup, and select just the emails/messages to be backed up, this will back em up to the memory card as an exe.
when your happy with your new "build" on your phone simply run the exe and the messages are back.
Hope that helps?
Thanks for that Craig. I will give SPB Backup a go, it really would make sense for me to install a backup program, it would have made the recent hard reset less painful as far as reinstalling stuff was concerned
I am still interested in knowing where the registry entry is for the sms storage location because I would like to be able to access the various messages I appear to have on my storage card ... I can't for the life of me remember how I managed to change the location to get them on there in the first place, it was several months ago and I have't bothered to save the post/webpage I got the info from .. silly me!
Thanks
Check out Jeyo mobile extender for outlook, everytime you sync with your ppc via activesync and outlook it will back up your sms to outlook.
Not quite the same, but efficasoft Mobile express will allow you to send messages from your PC through a connector when the PPC is connected to active sync.
You can see your messages in the softwares in box, and export them to a text file thus backing them up but you cant import them back into the phone unfortunatly
is there a way to save sms text messages to the memory ? or one individual message of a conversation thread ?
im interesting too
anyone know somethng?
Sorry, but I really don't get what you're asking.
Could you explain what you want and why you want it? All your texts are (obviously) stored on the phone, so why do you want any other storage?
i think he meant to export the smses
yes, sorry i wasnt very clear. i was getting fed up with sms's taking so long to load up that i thought id save (export) them somewhere and clear the memory to hopefully speed things up , anyway ive got the latest official sms fix and its speeded things up substantially.
im still interested in how you export sms's though so if i have some important info i want to save for a long time i can , ie transfer to mr external hard drive somehow ?? thanks in advance
andi1977dog said:
yes, sorry i wasnt very clear. i was getting fed up with sms's taking so long to load up that i thought id save (export) them somewhere and clear the memory to hopefully speed things up , anyway ive got the latest official sms fix and its speeded things up substantially.
im still interested in how you export sms's though so if i have some important info i want to save for a long time i can , ie transfer to mr external hard drive somehow ?? thanks in advance
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I use Microsoft MyPhone to back up all the data on my phone each night, and if I go to the web interface and archive the text messages, it deletes them off my phone next time I sync. They're still safe in the online store, and can be un-archived at any time and therefore synced back to the phone again.
johncmolyneux said:
I use Microsoft MyPhone to back up all the data on my phone each night, and if I go to the web interface and archive the text messages, it deletes them off my phone next time I sync. They're still safe in the online store, and can be un-archived at any time and therefore synced back to the phone again.
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Do you have to pay for the service? I'm interested too. I want to cook the rom but i do not want to loose all the messages. is there another way to back them up???
Its free, unless you take up the extra services.
Go have a read here
http://sn1-p2.myphone.microsoft.com/mkweb/MoreInfo.po?tsid=1263481021241&mkt=en-GB
andi1977dog said:
is there a way to save sms text messages to the memory ? or one individual message of a conversation thread ?
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There is a NEW SMS update which resolves the SMS loading issue plus providing a few more enhancements. I have installed directly to phone and works and it should. I can now start replying to a message while the long conversation thread loads in the background.
thanks guys, yes i have the update and its much better, ill try the microsoft backup suggestion.
Hello guys!
In a few days i will buy my first WM phone, which is the HTC HD2, and I will sell my Nokia N96!
BUT i have about 3000 or more text messages that i like to keep; i was storing them on my microSD card; my question is:
-If I put the card into the HD2, does it identify the messages?! (i mean can i see them and use them as if they were sent/received by the HD2?!) (did anyone try this before?!)
-If not; is there is anyway to do that?! I don't want to loose these msgs in anyway!
-Does the HD2 have the same option as nokia in creating folders and menaging the text msgs in these folders?!
-One more thing! Does the HD2 have the possibility to move/copy messages from SIM card to the memory card installed on the phone?! And/or to the phone memory?!
Thanks guys you're awesome!
Are u planning 2 put ur old card into HD2 without formatting?Isnt that a bad idea?
I faced the same issue but i used a new card for my HD2.
See if this thread helps u:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=551399
Im not sure about your texts but I took the sd card straight from my N95 to my HD2 and there were no problems.....
Im sure there'll be a way to sync those texts to pc and then back to the HD2, they may even be there straight away, Im not 100% on this though.....
Theres bound to be "an app for that" out there somewhere though....
Have you had a long hard google session??
10x man! Not a long session! I had a short one and i mainly found that the first result on google is a thread in here (xda); (it's the one that our colleague mentioned to me in the 1st reply);
it's a bit complicated method and will take maybe days to transfer about 4000 msgs!
I need a fast way to do that!
Please guys somebody help; i guess i shouldn't be the first one to face that! Maybe everyone of you had a nokia before switching to htc!!!
HD2 saves texts to the internal storage AFAIK. Saving 4000+ messages to it will leave you with little internal storage for other thing. My advise is to search and backup your most beloved text messages and backup online or something and just start over with a fresh HD2.
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HD2 saves texts to the internal storage AFAIK. Saving 4000+ messages to it will leave you with little internal storage for other thing. My advise is to search and backup your most beloved text messages and backup online or something and just start over with a fresh HD2.
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It shouldn't take up more than 5Mbs, I believe your average SMS is only 1kb, it's only a rough guess but I'd say it'd only use up 5-8Mbs or so, depending on your text length of course.
3,000 test messages!!! Why would anyone want to keep so many??? (I'm simply curious )
Sincere apologies if this has been asked before but I couldnt find it.
I would like to use android for daily use but have been put off by the MMS problems and the constant need to disconnect/reconnect data when trying to surf etc.
I would be more inclined to use it if would save my text messages in such a way that I could get them in both winmo and android?
So if someone send me a text in android, when and if I boot into winmo, I would be able to see it there as well?
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance
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the only way to do this is to save them to your sim card (i think)
Which is what I am asking! I want it so when i use winmo my messages are there ready, and when i boot into android my messages are ALSO there.
Im looking for a way to save texts to storage card, and them to be accessible by both winmo and android. Is this possible?
Don't think so.. Not by default..
Someone could develop a system that uploads all texts from WM to an online database (or local datastores like SD) and then sync it in Android again.. And the other way around..
One solution is to use an application like SMSBackup (Android) or Windows Phone (i think of was called) to upload sent and received messages to a cloud service (like gmail).... I can't think of one that bridges both operating systems though.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
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Which is what I am asking! I want it so when i use winmo my messages are there ready, and when i boot into android my messages are ALSO there.
Im looking for a way to save texts to storage card, and them to be accessible by both winmo and android. Is this possible?
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sorry i dont know exactly how to do this, my phone just decides to do it sometimes
Would that kind of program be hard to create?
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Would that kind of program be hard to create?
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I think the main obstacle here is the demand. I don't think this is a major concern for the devs out there.
really? i find that hard to believe. there are lots of people using android and winmo dual boot. being able go have texts etc available on both OS's would be very useful to a lot of people.
I for one would find this type of app useful!
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really? i find that hard to believe. there are lots of people using android and winmo dual boot. being able go have texts etc available on both OS's would be very useful to a lot of people.
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I was syncing 6000 sms in WM with MyPhone. Every single ROM was becoming slow after that. Keeping sms in WM is a no-go for me now.
Working my way to that amount in Android but from just having a few hundred you can see the small delay in loading the pic of the contact in the sms list.
I think you misunderstand me a little.
I dont keep every msg I have ever got sent. But i do keep them for a month or so. I am looking for a way to store ALL my text messages (automatically) onto my SD card and have WINMO and Android be able to recognise they are there on boot up.
At the moment if someone send me a msg in android, the message is not in WINMO which makes it difficult to track conversations.
I hope that clears it up a little.
sprint migrate maybe, but you'd constantly be having to convert back and forth, not even too sure if it can do sms!!!
just to add to the amount of demand: this would be very helpful to me too!
I use WM most of the times, because I also have some mobile apps running I need for work. Everything works great. Next to that I have android installed. The problem is: I can't have two databases of text-messages. It would get too confusing after a while. So I can't have text messages coming in while in Android-mode (since I wouldn't be able to see them in WM). Phone-calls and email are no problem off course, neither are contacts. Only these text-messages trouble me...
If both databases could be sync'able or mergeable automatically, that would be grrreat!
Now, who can make it happen? (I wonder...)
+1 Ditto! It's the only reason I haven't switched (plus battery-life, but I think I can make that manageable if texts are fixed)
I rarely ever keep text messages and wonder why unless they are really important why people would want to keep them
Can't see this ever being possible to be honest...they'll both use their own format to store the messages...only way would be to store them online somewhere, but that would mean having to connect to wifi or 4g to view your texts which wouldnt be very handy.
Yes, that's what I think too, but I can only hope, can't I ;-)
@jonny68: next to just for chatting I use sms to exchange and/or discuss data with other people just because that works best for me. (they don't always have email on the go). That's why they have to be all together and in the right order. I do keep them for a while too...
Reset-a-thon 2K10!
I think the awnser lies in either the MyPhone server and or Exchange for Windows Server 2008 R2.. I am going to investigate this further and will report back my findings.. Hang in there!
btw.. I for one just took advantage of the HTC recall/replace of the 16GB MicroSD card, Next day air, that's what I call service. They replaced the SanDisk Class 2 with a Samsung Class 2 16GB, and I must say Android boots twice as fast!