I recently reset my DHD to factory settings, due to an SMS error, (messages wouldnt send, would send multiple times) and before doing so i backed up my SMS using 'Backup to Gmail' (the pay one, cause it was important to me that it worked properly, which it did)
Upon complete system reset, by about 2 hours later, ALL of my texts had re-appeared, (had logged into exchange server for gmail, google for contacts / calander and facebook/twitter ONLY) i had not even signed in to 'Backup to Gmail' and DEFO had not restored any messages.
Ever since, my texts have been multiplying, so automatically the old messages are duplicating themselves growing from what started as 100/150 to most recently about 2,780 (for the same contact) when max 10/20 new messages were actually sent.
It is so odd, i can open the message application (stock HTC one) and just watch the numbers increasing!?
I have since unsynced and uninstalled backup to gmail app, but i can still clearly see that the numbers of messages are increasing.
SO:
1) Where / what service backs up all text messages? If any?
2) How on earth do i stop it? I can happily reset again, but i think it will do the same unless i can work out how it is doing it? i.e. where they are being restored from?
I would really appreciate any help or suggestions anyone can give...
Thank you so much in advance... hopefully i can fix it before my messages multiply sooo much that it just fills the full memory???
Is there any quick way of restoring a large number of text messages, either from flashing somehow, titanium backup, or any other method? Maybe manually index all the messages so my message app(s) don't lock up, my phone doesn't lag, and my phone doesn't get forced to reboot? Or maybe restoring it by parts? (not sure how to split my conversations, one of them is 18k messages).
I just went from 4.4 to 5.0 recently (still rooted), and used SMS Backup & Restore to back up my texts. After a few hours of restoring, I managed to restore nearly 35k of texts. However, it's taking forever for the messages to be indexed. I would get unresponsive "do you want to wait or close the messages app" on both the stock Samsung and the Messages+ app. If I knew for sure that it just takes time and I should just keep the messages app open, I'd do it, but I've had it open for a few hours with nothing to show for it. The reason I did this was because the Messages+ app from Verizon only restores the past 90 days, when I wanted all of my existing texts ported over. Any suggestions?
Spartan117H3 said:
Is there any quick way of restoring a large number of text messages, either from flashing somehow, titanium backup, or any other method? Maybe manually index all the messages so my message app(s) don't lock up, my phone doesn't lag, and my phone doesn't get forced to reboot? Or maybe restoring it by parts? (not sure how to split my conversations, one of them is 18k messages).
I just went from 4.4 to 5.0 recently (still rooted), and used SMS Backup & Restore to back up my texts. After a few hours of restoring, I managed to restore nearly 35k of texts. However, it's taking forever for the messages to be indexed. I would get unresponsive "do you want to wait or close the messages app" on both the stock Samsung and the Messages+ app. If I knew for sure that it just takes time and I should just keep the messages app open, I'd do it, but I've had it open for a few hours with nothing to show for it. The reason I did this was because the Messages+ app from Verizon only restores the past 90 days, when I wanted all of my existing texts ported over. Any suggestions?
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35k text messages? For real? Lol
Titanium can definitely do it but I have a feeling once you climb to that sort of a number any app use is going to take a while and the ROM is probably going to think its choked. Does it eventually finish if you wait an hour?
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grnsl2 said:
35k text messages? For real? Lol
Titanium can definitely do it but I have a feeling once you climb to that sort of a number any app use is going to take a while and the ROM is probably going to think its choked. Does it eventually finish if you wait an hour?
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Yeah, according to SMS Backup & Restore.
The restore finished after a few hours. Actually indexing the texts which I thought should have been done with the restore process? For a few hours, it's been stuck saying I have the same 19 unread messages, has been locking up both my ability to navigate anywhere (locks up sometimes), and sometimes even reboots my phone.
I'm trying to figure out a way to either flash all my texts back (flashing my backup with those texts intact works just fine), or somehow restoring them by splitting them up in chunks maybe a few thousand at a time (no idea how to do this).
Spartan117H3 said:
Yeah, according to SMS Backup & Restore.
The restore finished after a few hours. Actually indexing the texts which I thought should have been done with the restore process? For a few hours, it's been stuck saying I have the same 19 unread messages, has been locking up both my ability to navigate anywhere (locks up sometimes), and sometimes even reboots my phone.
I'm trying to figure out a way to either flash all my texts back (flashing my backup with those texts intact works just fine), or somehow restoring them by splitting them up in chunks maybe a few thousand at a time (no idea how to do this).
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If you have a backup of all of your texts then why are you trying to use SMS that seems to be locking up and causing you pain. Titanium may do the same thing, just got to give it a shot. I don't have 35 thousand texts to F around with and tell you what my results are. Good luck!
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grnsl2 said:
If you have a backup of all of your texts then why are you trying to use SMS that seems to be locking up and causing you pain. Titanium may do the same thing, just got to give it a shot. I don't have 35 thousand texts to F around with and tell you what my results are. Good luck!
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The backup is from 4.4. I went to 5.0 with a factory reset.
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The backup is from 4.4. I went to 5.0 with a factory reset.
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So I've used SMS quite a few times in my rom charades. My suggestion would be that when you do a restore do the restore for the last 6 months and then a second restore earlier but skip duplicates. At least then you're splitting it in half? I don't know how many months 35000 texts go back but that's worth a shot.
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So I've used SMS quite a few times in my rom charades. My suggestion would be that when you do a restore do the restore for the last 6 months and then a second restore earlier but skip duplicates. At least then you're splitting it in half? I don't know how many months 35000 texts go back but that's worth a shot.
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I did something like that, Messages+ synced the last 90 days worth of texts, but 35k is from a little over a year's worth?
I tested restoring data only from FlashFire, which does properly restore texts but I'm getting screwed because I restored from 4.4 onto a 5.0 rom, so a ton of apps aren't happy with me, and I'm not sure if I've screwed anything up. I do know I'll need to re-install my xposed for 5.0 at the very least.
Edit: am currently trying it in smaller chunks. No idea how I'm going to do the one 18k conversation from the past 5 months though.
Spartan117H3 said:
I did something like that, Messages+ synced the last 90 days worth of texts, but 35k is from a little over a year's worth?
I tested restoring data only from FlashFire, which does properly restore texts but I'm getting screwed because I restored from 4.4 onto a 5.0 rom, so a ton of apps aren't happy with me, and I'm not sure if I've screwed anything up. I do know I'll need to re-install my xposed for 5.0 at the very least.
Edit: am currently trying it in smaller chunks. No idea how I'm going to do the one 18k conversation from the past 5 months though.
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If you use Google's Messaging+ for your default txt app they are stored on Google servers, accessible on any device, tablet and your desktop and restore to any phone you activate automatically.
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If you use Google's Messaging+ for your default txt app they are stored on Google servers, accessible on any device, tablet and your desktop and restore to any phone you activate automatically.
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When you say google, you mean Verizon's? That's what I'm using. But it only restores up to 90 days maximum from the current date you start the restoration. Even if you have texts existing within 90 days, if the time stamp of those texts are not within 90, they don't get restored.
Anyways, as an update, I've been restoring messages ~6k at a time. There's little to no indexing after sms backup and restore is finished. So it seems it will work for the rest of them. Too bad I had to flash to a backup before my initial 35k just to be able to access my messages app once again.
Edit: Ended up fixing it by loading my texts 6-8k at a time.
I'm migrating from Note Edge.
SMS back up by Go SMS and SMS backup & restore for about 4500 sms takes more than 2 days n yet not fully restored.
Used to do same in few mins on Samsung Note 3, 4 , Edge. Help anyone ?? :angel:
Hi,
I also have upgraded from a note edge
I used SMS backup and restore for just under 5000 messages. It took approx 10 mins to backup and about the same to restore. Were you attempting to restore a lot of MMS messages? Have you tried to restore without including them to see if its quicker?
Has anyone found a way to back up all your texts, including those sent or received using Advanced Messaging?
I've discovered that all the apps that I've tried so far can't "see" texts that were sent or received using Advanced Messaging. This includes:
- SMS Backup+
- SMS Backup and Restore
- GO SMS Pro
The only thing that does work is the built-in AT&T Messages Backup & Sync service, but that only keeps the last 90 days of messages.
I'm looking for a way to back up all my messages so I can do a factory restore on my AT&T Galaxy S7 because it's running really badly after the Nougat update (eating up my battery like it's candy).
Thank you!
paleG said:
Has anyone found a way to back up all your texts, including those sent or received using Advanced Messaging?
I've discovered that all the apps that I've tried so far can't "see" texts that were sent or received using Advanced Messaging. This includes:
- SMS Backup+
- SMS Backup and Restore
- GO SMS Pro
The only thing that does work is the built-in AT&T Messages Backup & Sync service, but that only keeps the last 90 days of messages.
I'm looking for a way to back up all my messages so I can do a factory restore on my AT&T Galaxy S7 because it's running really badly after the Nougat update (eating up my battery like it's candy).
Thank you!
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Before you reset anything try to fix your battery drain issue using my debloat it also can fix heat issues too methodhttps://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/samsung-galaxy-s7-debloat-att-t3569906
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My dad just went through this after a really bad Nougat experience.. He didn't find anything after an hour of research. There was one app that said it would do it, but after he flashed back to MM, the app said it couldn't restore the text messages.
You have root? If you did, you could use Titanium Backup
Solution to missing advanced messaging messages from text (sms) backups.
I've got a solution.
Try "legal text collector"
Worked for me and the dev was totally responsive, and helped fix a couple bugs the same day.
10k messages backed up!
Hey i was having issues with texting today and couldn't pinpoint if it was tmobile or the fact I have over 20k in messages. On the phone with them all day and messages wouldn't send/ receive. Couple ppl said they sent me messages and never received.. Some test ones eventually came through.
Anyways, I had restored messages from a previous phone to this and now I went to do a backup like I normally would with Sms backup & restore and never had a issue. I look into the file saved and noticed that many of the messages aren't saved. I used the built in backup with Samsung cloud and restored on another galaxy phone..
Seems like since I got the phone not many messages saved. Would I have to format the messaging app to remove all messages and call it a loss at this point and start from scratch?
Sorry for the long message. Thank you in advance
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