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Interesting Messaging Problem

Firstly, I did a search and this issue was briefly touched on, but no resolve was given. I receive a new text message, I go into my inbox it says 0 items 1 new. This has been going on for a week. Now I have missed 11 text messages. My inbox and today screen say 0 items 11new. Any way to find these messages and to repair so this does not continue?
Thanks

Help I can't retrieve my text messages... now there is 13.

nerdgurl, kindly send a list of all 3rd party programs installed.

Here is the list:
Total Commander, Sygic Mobile Contacts, Pocket Max PhoneAlarm,
AE Button Plus, SetAsRingTone, ME PhonePlus, SPB PocketPlus, Sprite Backup.
It was working fine until last week, when I did a full restore, but I do have the newest Sprite Backup so there should have been no conflicts, but I don't know.
Is there any way to retreive them with another messaging software?
Thank you so much, I'm getting desperate

Are you going to the correct inbox? There are several inboxes: MMS, Outlook E-Mail, SMS...

Restoring backups screws up inboxes. Sprite's the closest thing to a proper backup app but still not perfect.

Yes, I'm going to the correct inbox, as for Sprite perhaps I am unable to save my old messages but I can't even receive new ones. If I knew how to do a screen capture, I would post a picture of this bizzare behavior.

jdee246 said:
Restoring backups screws up inboxes. Sprite's the closest thing to a proper backup app but still not perfect.
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Nah, I would suggest SPb Clone, lotsa issues with Sprite :>

Is there any remedy for this, to retrieve my older messages or to stop this from occuring with new incoming messages?

Nerdgurl said:
Is there any remedt for this, to retrieve my older messages or to stop this from occuring with new incoming messages?
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There is a tool to backup messages. I have not yet tried it myself. I'm just going to post a link to it since after install you need to put in a code at their website in order for software to be able to run. Hope it helps.
http://pdafresh.freeweb.hu/communications/sms/app_smsbackup.htm (Backs up only messages)
Developer site: http://www.zedsoft.net/smsbackup/
http://pdafresh.freeweb.hu/communications/sms/app_allexport.htm (Exports messages AND Outlook data)
UPDATE: Export function works fine. Restore will test after a HR. Backup worx.
Developer site: http://www.zedsoft.net/allexport/
Hope it worx 4 u

OH I messed it up good! It says Message Backup successfull (0 Messages), then I tried to restore the messages and it would state: Message restore successfull (0 Messages). What have I done?

Nerdgurl,
Your sms database seems to be corrupt. Use the attached tool to delete all mail/sms databases. Dont forget to backup since it destroys all SMS, mail & account info. I had a similar prob & resolved.
Cheers...

You can try the soft from Jeyo to see, if it can salvage your messages. But when all is said and done, you will HAVE to do a hard reset, to get things running again. With a bit of luck you can reinstall everything but the messages, otherwise a full reinstall is needed.
Also, you may wanna try visiting www.Sunnysoft.cz for Backup Manager. A very nice alternative to Sprite, which has way too many unsolved bugs. I fully agree with dmmh on that...

SMS Issue

It wont let me select a contact when I click on to
I can go to the contacts and press the smiley face thing and it will let me but if I try to type the name it just types it with no number. ir just randomly creates numbers. ive already done a hard/soft/factory reset
what am I doing wrong?
this is pissing me off

Try using handcent sms and see if that works

is that an SMS app?

The best i bet 80% of the people here use it

this fixed it, but I HATE the way it looks, no way we can get the original SMS app working correctly?

Z51 said:
this fixed it, but I HATE the way it looks, no way we can get the original SMS app working correctly?
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Handcent can be fully customized so the look can be changed dramatically.

Have you tried settings. Privacy. Reset to default? And Forgive me i'm assuming you already restarted the phone To see if that fixed it...

In Handcent go to the settings, you can change almost every single aspect of the app, its pretty damn cool

Weird, I want to report I've had no issue with the original SMS program, I can't seem to reproduce that. Do people really use handcent?

I dont know anyone personally that doesnt use handcent on their android phone, I guess based on that I just kinda figured everyone did

DMaverick50 said:
Have you tried settings. Privacy. Reset to default? And Forgive me i'm assuming you already restarted the phone To see if that fixed it...
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I've already done a hard reset, factory reset, soft reset, etc... lol
still nothing and its starting to tick me off
handcent is ok, but i prefer the android SMS app.
any updates on fixing this?

Are your contacts phones numbers set as 'mobile'? I think the default application only pops-up contacts' mobile numbers.
If you imported them from another contact list then it's possible that they've been defaulted to something different.

JoshHart said:
Try using handcent sms and see if that works
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Thanks it is a great app.

jonc said:
Are your contacts phones numbers set as 'mobile'? I think the default application only pops-up contacts' mobile numbers.
If you imported them from another contact list then it's possible that they've been defaulted to something different.
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this fixed it thanks!
all my contacts were set as "other"

Glad I could help.
Apps like handcent sms optionally allow you to use non-mobile numbers for SMSs, but the default app it quite restricted.

premium sms texts

Hi there, in my new s7 edge,
when i was trying to send a premium sms text,
it said "do u want to send? YES NO" and bellow there was an option like "always remember".
i wanted to press YES and always remeber, but i accidentaly pressed NO and "always remember".
now there is nowhere i can find the spot to reset it back and i cant send that sms...
its not an ISP issue as when i try the same SIM to another phone, it sends it without problems...

cizent said:
Hi there, in my new s7 edge,
when i was trying to send a premium sms text,
it said "do u want to send? YES NO" and bellow there was an option like "always remember".
i wanted to press YES and always remeber, but i accidentaly pressed NO and "always remember".
now there is nowhere i can find the spot to reset it back and i cant send that sms...
its not an ISP issue as when i try the same SIM to another phone, it sends it without problems...
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I had the same issue and I had to factory reset because I couldn't find it anywhere. Very fristra5
Sent from my Blackberry Bold

I am having the same issue. This is absolute garbage that this cannot be reset. I do not want to hard reset my phone to fix this. It takes me hours to get all my apps back in place and everything logged in. If Samsung's back up saved where my apps go and how I like things customized I'd be a little more reluctant. There has to be somewhere in the phone to fix this Short code texting.

People with high Wi-Fi drain try this:
Backup and Reset -> Reset Network Settings
This will only reset WiFi password and Bluetooth and it did had a positive impact for me.

Not sure what Wifi drain has to do with this topic...

Default app manager pro can clear default apps and bring back the open with menu. Pretty sure the lite version can do this too.

Nope no defaults set anywhere

Has anyone found a solution except for factory reset?

Just curious what's premium SMS? Compared to a regular SMS?

Jomari29 said:
Just curious what's premium SMS? Compared to a regular SMS?
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It's an sms sent to a phone number to approve a charge. Kinda like a 900 call.

I was replying to something like a redbox message - STOP, HELP, YES. Since I accidently hit "no", whenever I respond, the message FAILS

T-Lynn said:
I was replying to something like a redbox message - STOP, HELP, YES. Since I accidently hit "no", whenever I respond, the message FAILS[/QUOT
go to settings and search DEFAULT - you should find where youi can reset default settings
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Still not working
None of these solutions work. I've ready that it's a marshmellow thing.

Can't you just long press the messaging app from the app drawer and go to app info and clear data and cache to reset it?
Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk

Nope, doesn't work.

asnyder646 said:
Nope, doesn't work.
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You could try settings > application manager > more > reset app preferences

Try this:
Settings > Application Manager > Find the app (most likely it would be Messages > Storage > Let it compute (which can take some time) > then CLEAR DATA. This might delete all your texts though (not 100% sure since I haven't tried)

Go to Settings / Applications / App Manager, scroll to the SMS app (Messages is the default SMS app), tap the app, tap Set as default, tap Clear Defaults.
That should do it. This is how you clear defaults for every app.

I just did the same thing. I bought my S7 today. But there is no premium sms setting in the phone. And I do not want to reset my phone. I gave my 3 hours for it

Any chance that this is under App Permissions? Ir simply install Google Messenger.

Messaging app crashing after Oreo update (H870 model)

After yesterday's upgrade to Oreo I can't open messaging app. It's crashing before opening.
I cleared app cache/data, made phone reset ... Any solution?
Thank you!

go to settings, aplications and select messages app and clear cache and data of that app. reboot the phone and see if this works...

That's what I've done. It's written in first post.

Have you try to update chrome? Or go to setting->developer option->webview choose Chrome stable.

It's updated and set in webwiew ... Is this ooption somwhow connected with messaging app?
p.s.:, I've done hard reset and now it works.

akulp said:
It's updated and set in webwiew ... Is this ooption somwhow connected with messaging app?
p.s.:, I've done hard reset and now it works.
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Because I ever uninstall chrome and didn't set webview, the messaging app has stopped like you. ?

Interesting

Hi there.
Same problem with Message app here.
Chrome is up to date, and set in webview by default (i cannot select Android webview, it's grayed out).
So I downloaded"Android Messages" by Google, set it as default messege app in settings. Et vaula...
My Messages app doesn't work but I'm able to send and receive SMS.

sun_is_shinning said:
go to settings, aplications and select messages app and clear cache and data of that app. reboot the phone and see if this works...
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hibridman said:
Hi there.
Same problem with Message app here.
Chrome is up to date, and set in webview by default (i cannot select Android webview, it's grayed out).
So I downloaded"Android Messages" by Google, set it as default messege app in settings. Et vaula...
My Messages app doesn't work but I'm able to send and receive SMS.
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Try to delete all messages.
Than default app'll probaly start to work.

I had same problem. I have 2 sms apps. When I woke up this morning, all stopped working . Then I read here about the chrome thing. So I remembered I disabled Chrome lastnight. So I enabled it then sms apps working again. Why is chrome connected to my sms apps? Hhmmm...

Sent Messages (SMS/MMS) - Can't Backup or View Using Non-Stock App

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.