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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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.
Spartan117H3 said:
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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grnsl2 said:
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.
Chopstix9 said:
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.
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not sure whats up...
sometimes it takes a while for message to come up.. or opening a thread... or switching back to main screen message. is it because there is too many texts? or does that not matter?
also sometimes the N1 is a bit glitchy to where ones where i have contacts for in address book, shows up as number without picture... like if i didnt have the contact added... then after a while, the name shows up again..
any ideas?
stock N1 on 2.2.1
*edit* using the advanced task killer doesnt help either.
The messaging app will slow way down if you have a lot of saved texts.
24417 according to SMS Backup & Restore...
I use an app to back up all my SMS's to my gmail (tv.studer.smssync) and then have another app that automatically deletes any over a week old from my phone (com.carrotapp.smscleanerpro) - this one was a paid app, but only like $1
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I use an app to back up all my SMS's to my gmail (tv.studer.smssync) and then have another app that automatically deletes any over a week old from my phone (com.carrotapp.smscleanerpro) - this one was a paid app, but only like $1
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what are the links for? does it work for stock N1? $1 is no problem as long as it works well..
how does it back up to ur gmail? can u see it on gmail?
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trying that SMS backup ... omg so slow.. 100 per backup... 24417 to back up.. >_<
It'll take a while, but then you can finally get rid of all those messages in your inbox. I have some 4k messages floating about in my gmail, but only ~100-200 on my phone at any time.
Also, in case you didn't already see, it creates a label in gmail called "SMS" so you have a threaded conversation list view of the messages.
iandroo888 said:
24417 according to SMS Backup & Restore...
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wtf? 24k texts???? Hope you use the voice texting feature, or your fingers might get a little calloused...
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It'll take a while, but then you can finally get rid of all those messages in your inbox. I have some 4k messages floating about in my gmail, but only ~100-200 on my phone at any time.
Also, in case you didn't already see, it creates a label in gmail called "SMS" so you have a threaded conversation list view of the messages.
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i guess it not my business, im just curious why you would back up that many sms? why would you keep that many on your phone in the first place?
You can't expect 24k text messages and the phone running perfectly smooth.
Why are you keeping them all and backing them up anyway? Are you really going to sit down and read all of it one day? You're crazy if you do lol. I have about 4k right now and each thread is limited to 200 each. So it probably won't be moving from that at all. If I have to go through anything, I think going through 200 messages would be enough. If you're not gonna read all your texts and stuff, I suggest limiting them. Otherwise, backing it all up will just be a pain
24k texts? That's way overkill. SMS restore and backup has an option to just view your xml backups. If you need to read them again, just use that instead of importing them back to your phone. Messages take up space in the phone's internal memory so it's wise to clean up your messages.
But still 24000 messages? I can already already imagine 10000+ "Okies"...
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i guess it not my business, im just curious why you would back up that many sms? why would you keep that many on your phone in the first place?
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Not at one time, that's my running total in backup (gmail). Like I said, I only have 100-200 on my phone at any given time.
I recommend SMS Backup and Restore by Ritesh Sahu. The other SMS Backup app only backs up your smses to Gmail, which IMO is not practical for 24000 over messages. It takes time and data to upload so many messages to your Gmail.
SMS Backup and Restore on the other hand backs up text smses into a xml file which is much much quicker and easier to handle although 240000+ smses will probably still take up some time. Unfortunately it does not back up MMS messages with pictures though I seldom use MMS anyway.
looks like theres a limit on how much gmail can save SMS's... up to 100 per person.. D: i have some ppl in the thousands on my phone :[
Hey guys...
Got a weird one here... I was using my phone earlier, and had all my sms messages in there. I sent a text about 1:30pm, and all were still there then. I received a phone call at a little after. After the call, put the phone down, and didn't look at it for a couple of hours. About 3.30pm, I went to send a message. In the messages, it was all empty. A bit confused, I restarted phone. Upon restart, still empty. So, sent a text, and then I'm the only message in there?!
So, what gives. How come this all deleted?!
A bit fed up, since the last backup I have dates back about 2 weeks ago... I guess there's no way to get them back. But, how come they would just delete like that?
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Hey guys...
Got a weird one here... I was using my phone earlier, and had all my sms messages in there. I sent a text about 1:30pm, and all were still there then. I received a phone call at a little after. After the call, put the phone down, and didn't look at it for a couple of hours. About 3.30pm, I went to send a message. In the messages, it was all empty. A bit confused, I restarted phone. Upon restart, still empty. So, sent a text, and then I'm the only message in there?!
So, what gives. How come this all deleted?!
A bit fed up, since the last backup I have dates back about 2 weeks ago... I guess there's no way to get them back. But, how come they would just delete like that?
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Maybe u wiped it??
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Other people reported this issue on the Z here and here
It seems no solution or explanation was found for the moment.
So the best is to backup regularly your SMS until a fix is possibly released someday.
Thanks for that missparker... At least it's not just me going crazy...
Now, I'm wondering whether it might be something to do with the htcsense.com website and the syncing?!
I used to be able to get the messages showing on htcsense when I first signed up for it. But then, I had to factory reset the phone. When connecting up to my sense account, I Had all sorts or problems. So, I deleted my sense account, signed up again. After this, they had disabled the messaging etc. But, when I went in to htcsense yesterday, it looked a bit funny (i.e. the locations was apparantly disabled, which I had after I first had problems with it). So my guessing is htc sense deleting all the messages as it synced?!
Also, I got a message when restarting phone saying something like background searching de-activated... Couldn't find this on google?!
Have now set sms backup & restore to do a daily backup... Had that before, but when I ran the latest update, it messed up, so had to run full ruu, and forgot to setup the schedule for backup and restore! More fool me
Not sure that it's got anything to do with htcsense.com.
When it happened on my DZ, I got an FC of the SMS app then when I restarted it all my messages were gone.
Maybe there's some sort of reinitialization that it does if it detects corruption in the messages?
Does anyone know where and in what format the messages are stored?
R.
I'm running CM7 on my Evo and have amassed a few thousand texts over the past year (I backup and restore texts each time I wipe my phone for a new ROM), but tonight they all just vanished and Handcent is empty now. Anyone have any idea what might have happened?
Interestingly someone else was asking about this last week. Then a few days later I received a text and it wiped all of my other texts. Now you lost your texts too. I'm on cm7 stable and gosms but i'm not sure what the other person was running. Maybe a bug?
I know it's too late now, but you really should get SMS Backup and restore. It's free and backing up 1000 messages takes all of 10 seconds.
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I know it's too late now, but you really should get SMS Backup and restore. It's free and backing up 1000 messages takes all of 10 seconds.
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Yeah, I have MyBackup Pro, but never scheduled any regular backups. Oh well, it's probably a good thing to start over...technically, I didn't NEED any of those texts...no big deal.
nukedukem does make a point though, this MIGHT be a bug in CM7...will have to post over in that thread and see if anyone else has had this problem.
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.
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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