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[...] Ugh, happened out of nowhere for the first time a few weeks ago. First time ever since November. Maybe I did reach a memory limit Whatever the case, I'm pissed and now I'm running SMS Backup & Restore. Freebie and I have it backup once per day at 9am: Droid download link: Site link: SMS Backup & Restore – Android Stuff [...]

Great piece of software. Whats about an automated mail after the scheduled backup?

Got it, thanks
Btw, is there any XSD of the XML created?

In some country (especially Vietnam), the phone number is changed frequently (due to cheap SIM). So would you please add one attribute like ‘Sender Name’ for easy reading and also archiving.

Anyway, the program is the best for me.

Hello,

Referring to FAQ Q14, I would like to ask that what is the diff between your Java date generated from your program (13 digit long) to the website that you provide below? (10 digit long) As I want to edit the XML java date, however the date provided from website conversion does not match to your format, please help

Thanks a lot

FYI
Q 14: What is that number is the date field in the backup file?
A: The date is backed up in the same format as its stored on the phone. Its the Java date representation (including millisecond) of the time when the message was sent/received in UTC. Check out http://www.epochconverter.com for information on how to do the conversion from other languages to Java.

Hi!
I need help.
I get this error message on my SE Xperia X10 while trying to backup my sms:
“No write access to file:/sdcard/smsbackuprestore/(nameoffile).xml.
Is it related to SonyEricsson regarding the write access or is it something ive just missed?

Thanks

Awesome app!

Would it be possible to add a feature, that when after a backup, if you have any messages that could not be backed up, the program would tell you which ones could not be backed up. That way you know which ones were not backed up.

Right now it tells me that 1 has failed, but I don’t know which one it is.

Thanks.

[...] use SMS Backup & Restore SMS Backup & Restore – Android Stuff so if that's available on GAOSP it should be a piece of cake to get your sms history [...]

well its good to see you woking in mobile applications…:) its really nice

Works well on HTC Tattoo, but it’s not present on the
market.
Perhaps it’s missing the compatibility issue for small screen (QVGA) in manifest.xml?
I think you should add someting like this:

Thanks

Diego

hats off ritesh!
*bows down*

I’ve reviews SMS Backup & Restore at xda-developers, and left 2 suggestions, in addition to the more difficult request for MMS support. Great product, keep up the good work!

MMS backup would be highly appreciated.

Another error message:
Restore failed: Exception Unable to find or allocate a thread ID.

Normal restore procedures, sometimes that is ok while sometimes not.

Here is the error message:

Restore failed: Exception Couldn’t init cursor window

Is me again. I experienced a problem since I updated to the lastest version. I have 1500+ SMS records and when I restore, there is an error of failed to initiate the screen, then the SMS function become unable to access (Unable to retireve records and force close). After a reboot the SMS will resume normal.

Now I split those 1500+ records into several smaller files (say 200 records each), but still no luck and I need to switch on and off to restore all records. Please fix.

is there a possibilty that the app upon restoration could accidentally send other people’s restored messages to another person

Hi Ritesh,
Where are the SMS data files in the /data directory on a Droid? I have been poking around but have not found where the data files are that store contacts, sms, and call logs, etc. It has to be on the /data partition because that is the only partition mounted RW except for the sdcard.
Thanks,
Landon

Hi, i’d like to know the meanings of the the “Protocol” field values (other than ‘0′), or where i can find them.

Thank You

Saved me from having to delete importants threads of SMS messages. You saved me, good sir! Thank you!

No it can only restore messages which have been backed up before.

I have not downloaded this app yet. Will it allow me to restore messages that have already been deleted from phone?

Backup and Restore SMS without PC Suite In Few Steps

http://cellplugin.blogspot.com/2010/02/backup-and-restore-sms-without-pc-suite.html

Hi Sebastian, I'd love to develop an app that can do it on windows or on Android but I dont have access to an iPhone and hence cant do much about it. If you/someone else could send me a sample file then I'll surely do that.

I'm moving to an N1 from and iPhone. Not sure how much trouble it'd be but could you code something like on http://insend.de/ to produce an XML file which can be imported into "SMS Backup & Restore"

There would certainly be a market for it if you were to put it as a PAID app http://androidforums.com/nexus-one/42788-transfer-iphone-sms-n1.html

If free i'd be happy to donate

Finally, I found the problem is the escape character on my backuped SMS, when I cleared the escape characters, it works!

@Patrick Fehr, Glad to know that the App helped you. There's a donate menu in the App, Menu -> More -> Donate. I am also adding a link on this page.

Dear Ritesh,

this is a fine piece of software. It does what it is supposed to do. Perfect.

It saved my most precious sms that are great reminders of memories of past times. I would actually like to donate something to you. Do you have paypal? Feel free to contact me!

Best regards
Patrick

Thanks, Ritesh.

You are a gem.

Your solution would seem to be the next logical step. If it's user-configurable, it sounds perfect for everybody.

By the way, I find I'm not able to see the "Comment as:" field at all in Ubuntu, and can only see it in XP when the Firefox is set to appear as "Googlebot 2.1". Strange.

Hi Ritesh,

ok, I understand, so to know which msgs i have sent i use the filter for outgoing messages….

thanks for the help

@DMAN that is how the information is stored on the phone.

@davepeck, I am thinking of adding another column in the exported file which will have the date in human readable format, that'll fix most of the problems for viewing the exported file. I am also thinking of creating an XSL stylesheet which will make it very easy to view the file with a web browser. Expect these things in the next few days.

So why is the application is putting the number to whom i sent the msg ?

By the way, I was unable to post the above comment from Firefox on either a Windows 98Se or Ubuntu 9.04 computer, because I could not see the "Comment as" field below. Using User Agent Switcher, I was surprised to find that I could still not see the field when the browser was set to IE7, and equally surprised to discover that the field appeared only when the browser was set to appear as Opera 9.25 or Netscape 4.8 on Vista.

I guess this is a Blogger bug?

There are a number of apps on the Market to backup SMS's, mainly to your Gmail account.

But I want my messages and Call Logs backed up on my own computer.

Ritesh's fine apps do a great job of getting the info off my T-Mobile G2 Touch/ HTC Hero and I can read the data okay on my computer.

But I have no programming skills and stumble at the Unix Time format.

Ritesh suggests a way to convert Unix time in
http://android.riteshsahu.com/2010/01/how-to-view-sms-and-call-logs-backup.html
but this method does not work in Open Office.org Calc (Err:508), and I can't make it work in MS Excel 2000 or Google Docs (Parse Error).

Ritesh has written: "I dont have any plans to make a viewer …". In my ignorance, it seems to me that it may not be hard for an interested and competent person to write a Viewer or spreadsheet/converter that is compatible with the output from Ritesh's apps, or suggest another solution for people who don't want to lose important information on their phone and aren't clever enough to write their own apps.

But for which platform?

Well, surely, cross-platform would be best, but I suggest that as these phones are Linux-based, such a solution should also be Linux-based.

Anybody?

@DMAN unfortunately your number is not in the SMS database, so the app cant put that there.

@Chris Logging is for troubleshooting, so the app logs any errors it encounters during backup/restore.

Hi Ritesh…. thanks for the reply..

i want to store my own msg and number for tracking purposes and proof of reply from my number..

Just downloaded….What does the Logging feature do? I wish this would automatically backup my sms messages vs. remembering to do it manually.

@Baasel Kh, the app is on the Android Market and also on the SlideMe.Org site. Will post links to them.

@Tarkahamra, thats how the messages are stored on the phone. Anyways whats the point of storing your own number, you know it already, it stores the other party's number.

how can I download it?

Hey just tried your application and backed up my SMSes send them by mail and opend them in Excel. My outgoing SMS (the smses i send as replies) are showing with the number of the person TO WHOM i sent the sms not my number.

Okay, Ritesh fixed a crucial bug and helped me out by mentioning Microsoft Excel as a tool that can fix parse errors.

I have described my experiences with using the tool in this forum thread: http://android.modaco.com/content-page/288916/windows-mobile-sms-migrator-beta-1/page/40/#entry1169994

Hmm looks like Blogger hid some of the characters in my post.

(ignore some spaces)
all < to & lt;
> to & gt;
& to & amp;

The beginning structure:
< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ? >
< smses >

(two indent spaces)< sms protocol = "0" address = "+number" date = "epoch with 000" type = "1 or 2" subject = "null" body = "message content" toa = "null" sc_toa = "null" service_center = "null" read = "1" status = "-1" *SLASH*>
<*SLASH* smses >

I am migrating messages from a Symbian UIQ-phone, but unfortunately there are no direct tools supporting that platform developed yet. I have inserted all the messages and contents in the XML structure, however I get the same error as chan, although both Firefox and IE don't encounter any errors in the file.

I have converted all ' to &apos;, all < to <, > to > and & to & and encapsulated all messages containing quotation marks within body=' ', an exception from the usual ", just like in the result file I got when I tried to backup some messages already stored on the Android phone.

The beginning structure:

Every element looks like this on separate lines:
(two indent spaces)

followed by in the end.

I have used days on this and was not satisfied with patzeks SMSImporter tool because of the date bug and the fact that he has not been doing any work on the app for months now.

I wonder if somebody could send me a working sample file called mpe_sms.xml / mpe_sms_sent.xml (Sony Ericsson with MyPhoneExplorer) or created with Gammu, as I would rather try new simple solutions rather than messing around with XML documents in Notepad++ for hours. My email is karmus (at) gmail (dot) com

@Chi Man Erio Ho,
1. have you tried the method at http://android.riteshsahu.com/2009/12/importexportmove-sms-messages-from_27.html ? I have not tried it myself but that might turn out to be easier than editing the xml manually.

2. The Restore does support UTF-8 so your non-ascii characters would work fine, given you encode them properly.

3. I'd suggest opening the XML file in IE/Firefox and see if they think that your XML file is well-formed.

An example of error:

Restore failed: Error Parsing xml unterminated entity ref (position:START_TAG @19:105 in java.io.FileReader@44851568)

That's all.

Hi, I am using this app to migrate my SMS from Nokia to Nexus One. I have more than 1000 SMS messages and I found the following problems:

1. date time, say 2009/1/1 15:10 pm, by using the convertor to epoch time, the convertor only give me a 10-digit datetime but not a 13-digit datetime that you used in your application, my Nokia backup only can give me a 10-digit, so I added the suffix "000", some got luck but some dont.

2. Is it support non-ascii characters? suppose the back up is in U8-DOS (in ultraedit), and I build the XML by my own, most failure is on non-ascii SMS.

I look forward to have your reply very soon.

@Mando, it looks like your SDCard is corrupt. Try replacing it.