I'm running Golden Eye on my AT&T S4 (mdl bootloader so no safestrap). I used to update regularly but been busy lately so I'm several versions behind and want to upgrade to the latest and greatest (v24 to v35). Everything goes fine with the install except for the fact that I can't seem to restore my text messages. In the past I have always been able to restore from an xml file with TiBu without any issues. Now when I open the messaging app after attempting to restore, it shows all the contacts that I've been texting with but when I select someone there's no actual texts or photos displayed. I know some people recommend against restoring call logs and texts via TiBu but I've never had an issue when upgrading v1 through v24.
Has something changed in recent updates that might affect how these files are handled or where they're stored? Anyone know of a work around or a good app that handles mms?
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I know that there are plenty of threads talking about mybackup and titanium back but I"ve had an issue with this app. It stops and force closes randomly or if it does restore it deletes all of my current sms and then restores my saved sms in a strange order. I didn't particularly like it.
I'm constantly having people texting with new information. So after I flash a rom I might have new texts right away and I need my old texts as well. The only one that has worked was sms backup and restore (haven't tried the pro version yet) but this one worked great. It didn't delete my new incoming texts, restored my old texts in a nice orgranized way, and didn't crash. But it took over two days! for this to restore my sms and once you click menu or change the screen you can no longer see the progress bar and once you get see that the app force closes
sorry its super long but I need something that can keep all of my new incoming texts (after I flashed the rom) and restore my old sms in a somewhat reasonable time. I know its a lot to ask for (and I"m willing to pay for an app like this) but I just need some recommendations.
mytouch4gnoob said:
I know that there are plenty of threads talking about mybackup and titanium back but I"ve had an issue with this app. It stops and force closes randomly or if it does restore it deletes all of my current sms and then restores my saved sms in a strange order. I didn't particularly like it.
I'm constantly having people texting with new information. So after I flash a rom I might have new texts right away and I need my old texts as well. The only one that has worked was sms backup and restore (haven't tried the pro version yet) but this one worked great. It didn't delete my new incoming texts, restored my old texts in a nice orgranized way, and didn't crash. But it took over two days! for this to restore my sms and once you click menu or change the screen you can no longer see the progress bar and once you get see that the app force closes
sorry its super long but I need something that can keep all of my new incoming texts (after I flashed the rom) and restore my old sms in a somewhat reasonable time. I know its a lot to ask for (and I"m willing to pay for an app like this) but I just need some recommendations.
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You can try MyBackup Pro. I'm not sure if it will overwrite your new messages, so try at your own risk. My best advice would be to just flash a new ROM when you're not expecting to be contacted anymore, like later into the night or something. That's what I do.
Hello fellow Blade lovers. My apologies if this topic has already been posted in the Blade section... I did a few keyword searches to check first, but didn't find anything, so thought I might make a post just in case others are having the same problem. Hopefully many of you will be loving and using KitKat for the trusty Blade brought to us by the amazing Zeelog over in Modaco.
If you are coming from another ROM you will most likely be backing up all your apps, call/text logs and other things. Whilst doing this process one of the minor problems I found was the change in permissions of how SMS messaging works in KitKat and how this affects SMS Backup/Restore apps - namely that when restoring text messages they don't re-appear. To be clear, this is nothing to do with Zeelog, this is a change to the way KitKat deals with messaging.
I cannot take any credit for this information - I did some searching on the internet and found a few different sites discussing this issue and possible solutions. All I am doing here is just highlighting the way to get it working specific to Zeelog's KitKat for Blade users when using the app SMS Backup+ by Jan Berkel. Of course, any ROM that has the 'App Ops' functionality will be able to employ this same fix. The theory would suggest that it would work for other similar SMS backup apps as well, but I have only tested it with this app. In brief (and from what I can make out), it relates to a change in KitKat where only the default designated SMS application has permissions to write to the SMS database.
In order to get it working, you need 'App Ops' - which Zeelog's KitKat has. So here is what you do after installing SMS Backup+ but before you use it to restore your text messages:
Go into Settings>Privacy
Go into the first option Privacy Guard
Press the MENU button (or select the 3 square dots top right on the screen) and select Advanced
Scroll to the right twice so you get to the MESSAGING section
Scroll down until you find SMS Backup+ and then select it
Scroll down until you find the parameter Write SMS DB and you will see it is set to DENIED
Change it to ALLOWED
That's it. Now when you restore your call and text logs you will get all your text messages back. From what I can see, there is no reason why you cannot leave it set to ALLOWED. Looking at the features of SMS Backup+, you can automate backups but not automate restores, so I cannot see any reason for putting it back to DENIED. I cannot comment on any other backup/restore apps as this is my app of choice - but I guess that if you are not sure then DENY it once you have restored your logs. Hope this helps.
It just occurred to me that if you are using a ROM which doesn't have 'App Ops' available, you could always installed Xposed, then install the App Ops module.
Hi all,
I hope I'm in the right forum, wasn't sure.
I've done a few searches and cannot find a solution.
I have the Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9505), which recently had stock android on it (rooted).
I installed CM11 M9 onto it a few days ago, but since then, I cannot receive text messages. I can only send.
This has been confirmed by putting my simcard into my old SGS3 (with stock), and it sends and receives text messages fine.
I've done the *#*#4636#*#* trick, clicking refresh and update for the SMSC, which comes up as Telstra +61418706700
When I run the default messaging app, it forced closes. I usually run Textra.
I have disabled Voice+ as I heard this could be the cause of the issue, but did not make any difference.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I need to receive all my text messages...
numloxx1978 said:
Hi all,
I hope I'm in the right forum, wasn't sure.
I've done a few searches and cannot find a solution.
I have the Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9505), which recently had stock android on it (rooted).
I installed CM11 M9 onto it a few days ago, but since then, I cannot receive text messages. I can only send.
This has been confirmed by putting my simcard into my old SGS3 (with stock), and it sends and receives text messages fine.
I've done the *#*#4636#*#* trick, clicking refresh and update for the SMSC, which comes up as Telstra +61418706700
When I run the default messaging app, it forced closes. I usually run Textra.
I have disabled Voice+ as I heard this could be the cause of the issue, but did not make any difference.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I need to receive all my text messages...
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You should post your question here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559336
Since the app is force closing, I guess it's a bad download or flash. Take a nandroid and do a clean flash...:good:
a103 said:
You should post your question here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559336
Since the app is force closing, I guess it's a bad download or flash. Take a nandroid and do a clean flash...:good:
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Thanks,
I'll check it out
Have reverted back to stock so I can check my messages, do some backups and give the whole thing another shot with a clean install.
I re-flashed and instead of restoring every app using Titanium backup, reinstalled only the apps with important info, such as Textra etc. Messaging works all good now. Thank you for your help
Hi,
This is a general enquiry but I was not sure where to post it and thought here as I am using a Nexus 6P now.
I always backup my MMS/SMS messages when I swap phones and I also have software that allows me to swap between IOS and Android. During one of these swap sessions, a load of my messages have doubled up and I cannot remove them and was hoping someone could advise me how to do it?
I use SMS Backup & Restore and have tried to restore with the check box about duplicates checked, but it doesn't work as it check with SMS/MMS already there to see if that is a duplicate.
I read there was software that used to work on Jellybean that deleted duplicates, but I cannot get it to work on Marshmallow and I have no access to devices that run Jellybean. (Kammas BackupSMS)
Hopefully someone can assist with getting rid of all the duplicates.
My phone is an H910 running Oreo (stock; never rooted). I have used the stock Messaging app for SMS/MMS.
I am trying to backup all SMS/MMS and move to a different device so that I can delete them on my H910 to save space. There are about 1,200 messages to move. Ideally, I would like to be able to save all sent/received messages and open them in a messaging app on a different non-LG device. (I would like to open them via a messaging app installed to BlueStacks. My preference would be to save them to my email; I previously used SMS Backup+ with great success, but that has not worked for years now it seems, so I am not counting on a solution like that.)
The problem I am running into is that I cannot seem to save my sent messages. In other words, I can see all of my received messages when viewing them on the new device, but none of the messages I have sent.
I have tried switching to new messaging apps such as Google Messages and Textra on the H910. However, this only shows my received messages (no sent messages).
I have also tried using a backup/restore app such as SMS Backup & Restore, but my sent messages are not backed up that way, either. (I have used a number of different methods to view the file with the backed up messages. The only messages shown are received messages.)
Does anyone have any recommendation for how to solve this? Why can't I backup/save my sent messages?
dub5a said:
My phone is an H910 running Oreo (stock; never rooted). I have used the stock Messaging app for SMS/MMS.
I am trying to backup all SMS/MMS and move to a different device so that I can delete them on my H910 to save space. There are about 1,200 messages to move. Ideally, I would like to be able to save all sent/received messages and open them in a messaging app on a different non-LG device. (I would like to open them via a messaging app installed to BlueStacks. My preference would be to save them to my email; I previously used SMS Backup+ with great success, but that has not worked for years now it seems, so I am not counting on a solution like that.)
The problem I am running into is that I cannot seem to save my sent messages. In other words, I can see all of my received messages when viewing them on the new device, but none of the messages I have sent.
I have tried switching to new messaging apps such as Google Messages and Textra on the H910. However, this only shows my received messages (no sent messages).
I have also tried using a backup/restore app such as SMS Backup & Restore, but my sent messages are not backed up that way, either. (I have used a number of different methods to view the file with the backed up messages. The only messages shown are received messages.)
Does anyone have any recommendation for how to solve this? Why can't I backup/save my sent messages?
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SMS Backup & Restore works for me on Android 8 (US996).
A search came up with this:
https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/not-able-to-backup-sent-text-messages-12778
where RCS messages are the problem, are you using RCS?
Parasol_Monsters said:
SMS Backup & Restore works for me on Android 8 (US996).
A search came up with this:
https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/not-able-to-backup-sent-text-messages-12778
where RCS messages are the problem, are you using RCS?
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Thank you for your response.
Yes, that appears to be the problem. The H910 is AT&T-branded, and I am using it on AT&T. It automatically comes with "advanced messaging" (aka RCS) enabled. So, that is the problem... that is why SMS Backup & Restore will not work. (It looks like SMS Backup & Restore might work with RCS if I had been using Google Messages from the start. Unfortunately, that was not the case.)
I am now wondering if I can get another V20/other capable device with a better messaging app installed prior to the process and then use AT&T's Mobile Transfer to move everything over and back. I may pursue this.
If anyone has a better method of backing up SMS/MMS/RCS messages, please let me know. Otherwise, I guess the moral of the story is to always use a third-party messaging app that allows for backup of RCS or stores the messages via cloud/alternative means that you can actually access.
This might be a solution:
https://www.att.com/features/backup-sync/
Parasol_Monsters said:
This might be a solution:
https://www.att.com/features/backup-sync/
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Thank you. I actually was attempting to use that last night. It seems that using this allows you to backup all messages (SMS/MMS/RCS) to AT&T's cloud, but you can then only access them via AT&T's messaging app. There does not appear to be a way to export them from that app to a different device. So, it is great if you just want to view the messages on a different device... but not so great if you actually want to move the messages from one device to another.