[APP|TUT]How to convert / transfer SMS from Nokia to any WM HTC device

[MuF123]

Please, leave feedback in this thread if it works, if it doesn't work or if you have encountered a problem somewhere! Thank you.

Tools needed:

Jeyo SMS backup (http://www.jeyo.com/companion/features.asp)
Nokia PC Suite (http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/download-software/nokia-pc-suite)
ABC Amber Nokia Converter (http://www.processtext.com/abcnokia.html)
PSPAD (http://www.pspad.com/) or other notepad thingy
SMSImport (http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-smsimport-v1-0-1.html)
MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility (http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=219625&d=1251021248)
You need .NET CF 3.5 on your device. Please see this page (http://tiltmobility.com/how-to-install-net-compact-framework-35/) or try this one (http://www.google.sk/search?q=.net+compact+install). You probably already have this installed.


Procedure steps:

Install:
On your PC: Nokia PC Suite, ABC Amber Nokia Converter, PSPAD, MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility
On your PocketPC: SMSImport
Make full backup of your PDA! Or at least backup the messages with Jeyo SMS backup.
Run SMSImport on your PPC, export messages, name it for example "import.xml". Don't get confused by the name.
Copy the exported messages to your PC.
Sync your Nokia PC suite. Open messages, click on Message Folder you want to export from your Nokia.
Select (all) messages from the view, copy&paste them into new empty folder.
Open the folder with ABC Amber Nokia Converter.
Select all messages, File>Save as> TXT(ANSI). Name it for example "Inbox.txt".
Run MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility, open the Inbox.txt file. You will get file Inbox.txt_export.txt.
Open the Inbox.txt_export.txt, select all, copy.
Open the import.xml with PSPad, find one of the folders: inbox, sent items, deleted items, or other custom folder name.
Paste the Inbox.txt_export.txt right after the folder xml tag. It should look like this:
<folder name="Inbox"><message date="22/08/2009 22:47:55" sender="+4...
Don't worry if you have other messages after it, it doesn't matter. Your PDA will sort them out by the date/time stamp anyway.
Repeat the process for other items - saved, sent, archive, etc. Create another empty folder, copy&paste from Nokia Suite, load with ABC Amber, export as .txt, load with MuF's utility, paste new file into xml.
Save import.xml.
Copy import.xml right back to your PDA.
Open run SMSImport, import import.xml. Wait until all SMS load up, it can take few minutes to do.
Double check if the SMS are imported with correct date/time stamp, correct cell phone numbers and correct text.
If this helped you, hit the THANKS button bellow this post :).


Known problems

XML importer has problems with "<" and ">" symbols in messages. If you have a problem with importing messages, please check if this isn't your issue before asking questions!
No warranties whatsoever. Few of mine SMSes got garbled during this process, few of them were duplicated or with bad date/time stamps.
There is a problem with names saving, see tutorial in the Links section below.


Links on helpful posts on XDA-developers

Tutorial on replacing numbers with contact names by Drew97 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6375734&postcount=66)
Another method for Windows Mobile by Icewind (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11267485&postcount=89)
Original idea by SGTNorcz (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=499230)
Android tutorial by Nemeziz13 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10942062&postcount=88)

[utak3r]

Nice tut, many people will thank you :)
Good job on this.

[MuF123]

Im glad to hear that :) I had the feeling to try to contribute something too

[anirban31024360]

I just got inspiration from SGTNorcz http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=499230 and wanted to contribute a little. Please move this thread where it belongs (I didn't know where to put this).

Please leave feedback if it works, if it doesn't work, if it has a problem somewhere! Thank you.

Tools needed:

Jeyo SMS backup (http://www.jeyo.com/companion/features.asp)
Nokia PC Suite (http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/download-software/nokia-pc-suite)
ABC Amber Nokia Converter (http://www.processtext.com/abcnokia.html)
PSPAD (http://www.pspad.com/) or other notepad thingy
SMSImport (http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-smsimport-v1-0-1.html)
MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility (http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=219625&d=1251021248)


Procedure steps:

Install:
On your PC: Nokia PC Suite, ABC Amber Nokia Converter, PSPAD, MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility
On your PocketPC: SMSImport
Make full backup of your PDA! Or at least backup the messages with Jeyo SMS backup.
Run SMSImport on your PPC, export messages, name it for example "import.xml". Don't get confused by the name.
Copy the exported messages to your PC.
Sync your Nokia PC suite. Open messages, click on Message Folder you want to export from your Nokia.
Select (all) messages from the view, copy&paste them into new empty folder.
Open the folder with ABC Amber Nokia Converter.
Select all messages, File>Save as> TXT(ANSI). Name it for example "Inbox.txt".
Run MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility, open the Inbox.txt file. You will get file Inbox.txt_export.txt.
Open the Inbox.txt_export.txt, select all, copy.
Open the import.xml with PSPad, find one of the folders: inbox, sent items, deleted items, or other custom folder name.
Paste the Inbox.txt_export.txt right after the folder xml tag. It should look like this:
<folder name="Inbox"><message date="22/08/2009 22:47:55" sender="+4...
Don't worry if you have other messages after it, it doesn't matter. Your PDA will sort them out by the date/time stamp anyway.
Repeat the proces for other items - saved, sent, archive, etc. Create another empty folder, copy&paste from Nokia Suite, load with ABC Amber, export as .txt, load with MuF's utility, paste new file into xml.
Save import.xml.
Copy import.xml right back to your PDA.
Open run SMSImport, import import.xml. Wait until all SMS load up, it can take few minutes to do.
Double check if the SMS are imported with correct date/time stamp, correct cell phone numbers and correct text.


MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility
It is just alpha release so, please, comment whether it works or not. It could be problem with different date formats, dunno. You tell me .) It worked for me (central europe date/time format).

For any questions, please use this thread. Thank you!

as u said it is not working for the date format i am from india so can u plz help me out to solve the problem or how can i sort out this convertion problem due to the date format..... plz i need it urgently u have really done a good job on it

[MuF123]

<message date="22/08/2009 22:47:55"

how should your date for august 22nd 2009, 10:57pm look like?

start>settings>regional settings
please check those menus out

[~Chan~]

<message date="22/08/2009 22:47:55"

how should your date for august 22nd 2009, 10:57pm look like?

start>settings>regional settings
please check those menus out

This is my first time so may get this wrong..don't even know if you'll get this but your post is exactly what i NEED to do. I called every possible phone company & they/ve all said its not possible theni saw your post:D

I can download MuF's Nokia SMS convert & SMS import- are there any other website?

[hsmcd]

nice job~have u ever consider developing this app for other phone eg like sony ericson etc??:D

[MuF123]

if you need just mirror for the download the here you are:
http://maffafu.xf.cz/files/MuF's_Nokia_SMS_convert.zip
http://maffafu.xf.cz/files/SmsImport.zip
if it was something else, please write again

btw: regarding the SE phones - if you export sms from your SE to a text/xml file, then it is possilble to import your sms to your PDA.
I don't own SE and also I didn't search if it could be done so I don't know if wouldnt be worthless job.

[~Chan~]

Sorry..i'm really not getting it :confused:

I'm stuck at stage 9..I can't seem to run "MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility". This pop-up comes up "The appliction falied to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application"- but the other applications worked fine in the same way. THe same pop-up comes up for "SMSImport". Do you know what that means?Is there anything i can do to fix it?

btw- might be a stupid question but what does 'PDA' mean?

sorry to bug you but i only have another 12hrs before i have to hand in my nokia to get it completely wiped- really need these messages

[MuF123]

the sms converter needs to be run on PC

sms import needs to be run on your HTC = PDA (PDA google pda for definition)

make sure you copy all your sms to folders on your PC like "inbox" and "sent" so then it will be easy for you to say which messages goes to which folder in your HTC.
after you will got your messages copied to your PC, you can wipe your nokia and then try this tutorial or the one linked in first post.

[~Chan~]

And i forgot we saved the messages already..as you can tell first timer

I only have the one folder- inbox- that i need to transfer. I'l have to work on the sms converter but the sms import- when i connect my HTC to the computer it appears as a removablke disk wth a couple of folders inside- camera, music (& ive forgotten the last one). but do i have to download sms import on the phone from the net or an application? or download it on the computer & drag it into the removable folder?

[MuF123]

Please, read a few topics about basic usage of your HTC before trying anything.

Yes, you need to copy SMS Import to your removable disk and the on your HTC find the file and try to import that.

Make sure you do a backup in case something went wrong.

[markisme]

Hi... I am also trying to transfer my sms from my nokia to a HTC Diamond 2 but i cannot seem to run MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility as i get a error message , pls help

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2145/erroryz.jpg

[MuF123]

"8. Select all messages, File>Save as> TXT(ANSI). Name it for example "Inbox.txt"."

Could you please send me sample from the inbox.txt file? You can change phone number and message text. Please use private message or mail muf123@gmail.com

[markisme]

Thanks for ur reply ... have sent you a sample of a message by email

[MuF123]

the test sample worked at my pc.
here is modified converter, try this one.
one more question: does your numbers always have "+" mark? Tel: 919821000000 have to be sender="+919821000000"? if it should be without the +, tell me and don't use the converter .)

always make a backup!

[niktheman]

MuF123

Is there any way i can do this but get them to my HTC hero, smsimport doesn't run on it.

[MuF123]

MuF123

Is there any way i can do this but get them to my HTC hero, smsimport doesn't run on it.

smsimport runs on windows mobile, hero is android as I remember... this tut probably won't work for you, sorry :(
if you find something that can import sms on android, please come back and tell me. catch me on MSN (or other IM) and I can try to help you.

of course no guarantees... Im just a begginer programmer so take this just as a thing I developed for myself and wanted to share with others here. I will do my best to help as much as I can...

[niktheman]

smsimport runs on windows mobile, hero is android as I remember... this tut probably won't work for you, sorry :(
if you find something that can import sms on android, please come back and tell me. catch me on MSN (or other IM) and I can try to help you.

of course no guarantees... Im just a begginer programmer so take this just as a thing I developed for myself and wanted to share with others here. I will do my best to help as much as I can...

Hi MuF123

Found it, almost the same as your step but with the Android convert,

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4506837#post4506837

[markisme]

The +91 is the country calling code , i guess the code is required only if ur calling outside ur city , but I can do without it & would not mind if it was removed from all the numbers eg i could use 9821000000 instead of +(91)9821000000

[MuF123]

sorry for long no reply. so how do you suggest to make the converter? should there be option to choose to write numbers with or without "+"?

[samsamfin]

Heyyy, ive got about 400+ messages that i want to move from nokia to touch hd. smsimport says there was an error reading the xml file, but when i reduce the amount of messages to around 50 in each folder, it works. Is there a limit for messages in wm or htc, or is it something else maybe? thx a lot for this tutorial. this is the only way i can get messages moved from nokia to htc =)=)=) gr8 work!!!

[MuF123]

so have you converted messages successfully? the problem was you had to do it for 50 messages 50 50 50 50 50 etc... and not at once?

btw I was converting 200+ messasages at once (inbox) and it went fine.

[samsamfin]

i figured out the problem. one of the messages was

<message date="04/09/2009 15:19:50" sender="+00000000000" recipient=""><3</message>

that messed it up.

i removed the <3 message and now it works =)

[MuF123]

im sry, thats probably my fault. It worked for me though... could you please send me the source message you were trying to convert? so I can try to remake this error on my pc so I could edit the program.
thank you!
and well done, im glad it worked for you and also u are happy user of this tut and my app :) :) :)

[markisme]

hey even when i tried with the MuF_s Nokia SMS convert utility 0.2 , I was able to get the sms's converted to the XML format whithout any errors , but got an error when i tried to import the file using smsimport....

[MuF123]

you can't import the file that the my converter makes. you need to put the text from the file to the xml you got from ABC converter

[markisme]

oh actually I did that... but i forgot to mention that step in the post....sorry

[MuF123]

we know some issues with smsimport... :( try to contact the author

[markisme]

hey i really appreciate the time & effort im sure if i look for some characters that r not required just like samsamfin did i may get it right... thanks for all the effort

[MuF123]

yes, sms like "<3" will not be imported by smsimport :P :P

[MuF123]

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[sinmae]

hello,

it works perfectly! thanx a lot. I did not find any normal software that can do this trick. I mean transfer whole SMS from symbian to winmobile. thank you agan :)

[MuF123]

great to hear that :)

[hurricane21]

thanks alot for this tut man!
you are really awesome!

[leipreachan]

Hi
The SMS parser produces a file with the strings as following:
<message date="08/05/2009 8:23:12 PM" sender="+79262548360" recipient="">
��������������������!!!!! �����������!!!!!
</message>

I mean parser doesn't take into account encoding of my messages.
The file with has been produced by ABC Amber .. has the correct messages (in Russian).
Any advice?

[MuF123]

please check if the ABC converter makes the messages with right coding. then please check after you convert it with my converter if you use unicode aware viewer (like pspad). SMSimport is has multiple bugs so I would assume even if it would have correct russian unicode input it couldn't import that.

please check those things.

[leipreachan]

ABC Converter produces the correct file - the encoding is fine.
I do have the editor with unicode support. And it shows that the file has no signs of meaningful contents.
If your converter has kinda logging or debug?

[MuF123]

If your converter has kinda logging or debug?
no nothing like that implemented in such a small utility.
btw I use c# strings which should be unicode aware, so if anyone can help, I will glad.

edit> btw I am very sceptic about that the SMSimport will support russian charset. so even if my converter would do the job, I think SMSimport couldn't import that file. please try that with one sms (change the string with correct message) and import that.
thank you

[MuF123]

please send me sample from the file that you tried to import together with the wrong output sample. muf123@gmail.com

[xomac]

great work here, though i discovered that SMSIMPORT did not get the time and date stamps correct. i checked the ansi text file, and the xml file and the information in them were correct. if anyone knows how to correct this, please advise me.

i found that 'error reading the xml file' was caused by the '<', '>', '&' in my sms messages. i corrected these by replacing the above signs in the ansi text file that was generated by ABC Amber Nokia Converter, following which all was fine. we can't replace in the text file generated by MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility, since the signs '<' and '>' will already be included in there.

[MuF123]

I dont have nokia anymore, so I wanted to tell you that...

I can make the < > & be deleted from messages, few people complained about "<3" in their messages...

I dont know why are timestams loaded badly, it is correct for about +-day I think, dont know why is this...

[madnesss99]

Great tutorial, i transferd about 600 messages from my N97 to my HD2 and everything work great.

Again thanks for tutorial and great program.

[MuF123]

please check messages integrity, date/times of messages etc before deletion of older messages / selling your older phone.

hope you will enjoy your HD2! :)

[tchxxx]

Help!!! I can't seem to be successful to do more than 2 messages at a time using your method. I've tried 1 & 2 sms messages before, and it works... But more than 2, the smsimporter fails to import the sms messages successfully. What seems to be wrong? Please email me your reply (clvnator@streamyx.com). Your urgent reply is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[MuF123]

to be honest, I dont know where is the problem. please check format inside the file you are trying to use - check for errors, special characters, whatever. just use logic.

if it fails, come back later.
this worked for few ppl for like 200-400sms no problem.

PS I dont own any nokia anymore so supporting this will be difficult :/

[Shadow0506]

Hello All!

This solution does it work with nokia and htc hero? (android os) or only windows htc ?

thank you!

Thomas

[MuF123]

read first post to get answer. thx

[smensi]

Hello

After some time I get it work, thanks.
But I have a problem, imported sms in my Toshiba tg01 loses the contact name.
When I open VMG file with ABC Amber Nokia converter I can not see contact names ( yust tel. num., text and date).
Do you have any soluttion how to get contact names.
thx.
Mare

[MuF123]

I have the same problem. thats because htc wants to import sms with a names already in it...

I dont know why it couldnt load it from contacts list :mad:

[smensi]

Hello again
I have a nother problem, when I import sentSMS(outbox) to my TG01
I do not get phone numbers to whitch sms was sent.
Inbox is ok (no names just phone number)
thx.
Mare

[Drew97]

Hi, thanks for the easier tutorial, but I desperately need some help.
I recently upgraded from a Nokia 3600 (Slide) to a HTC Vox (S710)
I have followed the instruction's exactly how they read, step by step, accept from step 2 as I didn't think it was necessary for me. I have got as far as importing the texts back, but it keeps saying "There was an error while loading
XML file"

I have looked at the file using windows. The first few times I checked there was errors, so I deleted the text causing these (by the XML code) and now it is clean according to IE. But I still get the same error.

Please help, they are really important to me, is there something different on my phones? Or is there another way to get them off, (by SIM etc)?

[MuF123]

XML importer is very buggy and we all have to deal with that. Please check if your messages you're trying to import don't have "<" or ">" symbols in that - xml importer has problems with that...

[Drew97]

Thank you for your reply. This will take forever is that is the case, and i'm not sure i'll have many left. Does any one know of any other ways of doing this, but batch, like copying them to SIM. If not I'll have to give Muf123's idea a bash!

[nobita0313]

i just keep get error when importing the .txt file to MuF's Nokia SMS converter

link: img526.imageshack.us/img526/6130/56646693.jpg
(sorry i can't post links because of the forum restriction)

i am using ABC Amber Nokia Converter V3.09 and the text messages are in chinese. Where did i go wrong? plz help:)

[MuF123]

Thank you for your reply. This will take forever is that is the case, and i'm not sure i'll have many left. Does any one know of any other ways of doing this, but batch, like copying them to SIM. If not I'll have to give Muf123's idea a bash!

so do you have a lot of < or > in your SMS? right in text of the message... Im sorry to hear that this tutorial didnt work for you... :(

if you want you can send me the xml file (or just a piece from it) with few SMS in it - please change phone numbers and text of the message.

i just keep get error when importing the .txt file to MuF's Nokia SMS converter

link: img526.imageshack.us/img526/6130/56646693.jpg
(sorry i can't post links because of the forum restriction)

i am using ABC Amber Nokia Converter V3.09 and the text messages are in chinese. Where did i go wrong? plz help:)
oh :) that's the problem with different time formats. too bad that ABC or my converter (or both) are affected by local settings. Strings could be written mm/dd/yyyy or dd-mm-yyyy or other datetime format. I don't know how does the string look in chinese - if you want you can send me the file (or just a piece from it) with few SMS in it - please change phone numbers and text of the message.

[Drew97]

Hi, MuF123
I kind of miss read your reply, I have no checked my xml file for < and >.
There was none apart from the actual coding! (e.g. <message>) and still no luck.
I just don't get it.
Before I start sending copies out for analysis, is absolutey any alternative's for doing this what so ever?
Or do you think I should email nokia or htc support?
Anyone?

[MuF123]

Hi, MuF123
I kind of miss read your reply, I have no checked my xml file for < and >.
There was none apart from the actual coding! (e.g. <message>) and still no luck.
I just don't get it.
Im sorry to say this but I think I can't solve your problem. My advice is to look for other tutorial like this.
I don't have free time to make complex analysis of these problems nor the devices to test with. I have no nokia phone anymore :(

Before I start sending copies out for analysis, is absolutey any alternative's for doing this what so ever?
You don't have to have worries about this - you can change numbers/text in the file if you are really concerned about me seeing your private data.

Or do you think I should email nokia or htc support?
Anyone?
Nokia nor HTC has anything to do with this. You can try, but the chances they will help you are very close to zero. Sorry! :(

[Drew97]

Thank you for you kindness and willingness MuF123
I will have to think about this
But I am very busy durring the week (Sorry - Especially this week) so I may not get back to you until the weekend!

[Drew97]

Hello MuF123, I apologize once again for my such slow reply, On top of me being busy my computer has been playing up!
I have had a think, and would really like you to analyse my 'xml' file and see why I get the error when using SMSImport, please! I have changed the numbers so I hope it won't affect the testing but if it does I still have a copy of orginal!

Please find attached the edited (numbers) version of my texts. AND
PLEASE NOTE: I will be re-installing windows on my computer during the holiday, so unless I recieve a notifaction email and am able to do any jobs required on my phone I am stuffed for a few days. (Please don't let this stop you from helping me!)

[MuF123]

hello Drew97,
please take a look at the end of the file you've attached.
"<message date="01/29/2009 16:45:05" sender="&quot;Mum&quot; &lt;+xxxxxxxxxxxxx&gt;" recipient="">"
and "/message>"
as you can see these two last messages are kind of scrambled. You can try to fix them or just delete them from the xml file.
please remember that the file after the last end of the message "</message>" must be like this:
</folder><folder name="Outbox"/><folder name="Sent Items"/></store></SMSExport>
don't delete this. try importing.
also you could check messages with [ENTER]=new lines in them. maybe this could be a problem.
try this and come back. if it won't work, please attach the file as you did this time.
btw you can remove your file attached to the previous message - just to hide your privacy...

I hope your pc will be okay :)

[Drew97]

Thanks for the 'advice' MuF but still no luck, even after I completey deleted the two jumbled up texts and deleted any with serveral lines in - (See what I've done attached)

Please help! I just don't get it! Is it SMSImport isn't compatible with WM6.1 or something?
(The reason why I ask about compatibility is because everytime I use it on my WM6.1 Vox, it will not end properely and I have to completey reboot the phone!!)

[MuF123]

Im not an expert in XML so if anyone reading this has any clue that can help - please, you're welcome! :)

what I've noticed:
<message date="30/03/2010 15:36:09" sender="+Orange" recipient="">
Thanks - you've just topped up by �x and you've now got �y.z credit.

In my PSPad I can't see the symbol of your currency. Maybe thats a problem. You can remove them by "replace" option in PSPad or similar text editor. In PSPad it is in SEARCH menu. Copy the symbol, put it in the replace menu and replace all occurrences.


If it won't help, try importing almost empty XML file like this:

<SMSExport><store name="SMS">
<folder name="Deleted Items"/><folder name="Drafts">
<message date="01/01/1970 00:00:00" sender="sender" recipient="recipient">hi1</message></folder>
<folder name="Inbox">
<message date="01/01/1970 00:00:00" sender="sender" recipient="recipient">hi2</message>
</folder><folder name="Outbox"/><folder name="Sent Items"/></store></SMSExport>

just to to try the if the basic things work!
Sry for these problems - I'm not the developer of the SMSImport, nor am I a pro developer so have this in your mind.

[Drew97]

Hi MuF
After all of this I have finally found the main cause.
Although I do think the factors which have been mentioned have affected the results. The main reason I have found, which has cured the problem, is the amount of texts in the XML file!
I had about 360 messages, and I split them into files with 50 in.
This cured the problem

Also, I have noticed that the numbers don't automatically display as contacts. So the sender will display as a mobile number (unless there is a setting for this somewhere)
And that the date gets mixed up in the threaded texts, so the older imported texts display at the bottom of the persons thread - but this could be the way I have split them, either way I'm pretty sure theres an option to re - order threaded texts somwhere!

So for anyone trying to do this in the future: (And MuF123 may want to put this on his original [APP | TUT] post)
You are limited to the amount of texts you can import i'd once - I'd say maxium of 100 but to be safe 50
AND
The senders number only shows up, not there name - you may want to change the sender tag
<message date ="01/01/1970 00:00:00" sender="+4407xxxxxx" recipient="me">EXAMPLE</message>
or put them in a different folder, or something. etc

Thanks
Drew97

P.S. I understand theese problems are not you fault MuF! Thank - you for all your help!!

[MuF123]

sry the thing with phone numbers occurred to me too and I don't know how to solve this - how to assign real names to the phone numbers. If anyone has a clue how to do this - please :) tell us!

[Drew97]

OKAY, It seems like we are just answering our own questions here. So I think the lesson is to look deeper before pleeding for help.
Speaking of which, I have now cured the number problem. I found it on the complicated orginal tutorial by SGTNorcz - but this part is not complicated. Here is my tutorial on replacing numbers with contact names:
Replace any capital bold italic letters with the real life things
1. With PSPad open the file(s) you tried to import before
2. Hilight a mobile number (e.g. <message date="01/01/1970 00:00:00" sender="+44075xxxxxx" recipient="recipient>)
3. Goto the "Search" menu and select "Replace" (Ctrl + H)
Your selected number should automatically come up in the "Find" input box. If it doesn't just copy it into the input box.
4. In the "Replace" input box enter "&quot;CONTACTS DISPLAY NAME&quot; &lt;ORIGNAL NUMBER&gt" - with out the qoutation marks
Select "Entire Scope" in the direction options and press "OK"
Then click "Yes To All" to change all of the contacts text on that file!
5. Keep replacing the numbers from each contact with the line above until every message looks something like this
<message date="DATE" sender=""&quot;CONTACTS DISPLAY NAME&quot; &lt;ORIGNAL NUMBER&gt;" recipient="">MESSAGE CONTENT</message>
6. Save the edited XML file and drag'n'drop it to your windows mobile phone!

7. Disconnect your windows mobile phone (see why in step 10)
8. Open file explorer, and locate SMSImport
9. Run SMSImport on your WM Device and 'tap'/select "Import...". Then use the file explorer to locate and select your XML file. This will set it off importing your texts.
10. Once it has done reboot your phone, and if you have more than one file, repeat the steps, rebooting after each import (I'll tell you why in the conclusion)
11. This it, finally! Your texts should be there and displayed as if you never changed phone.
Although it takes a long time (it took me approx. 3 hours), it does work!

Conclusion:
From my experience with importing texts, it was horrible and took pain staking time to be honest. But some of us need to go through this process, so bellow I have stated some things I noticed, and some tips to try and get you seemless results along with help in this thread:

SMSImport is very flakey
If your WM Phone is anything like mine SMSImport will cause alot of problems if you don't reboot after any import or if you do something else in the same session - (it drove me insain. i had to remove the battery and put it back in!!)
It will not import any more than 50 texts at once - it did about 10 everytime
If you've got a lot of strange characters PSPad will display a wierd question mark character in their place, and it won't import
Good Luck, Just reply if you have any more problems or querry's anyone!! We'll try to help!!


Thanks and Good Luck,
Drew97

Trust me, I've witness everything that can go wrong, I'd never lie on support!

[MuF123]

Thanks drew! I've edited the first post with your part of the tutorial, I hope you don't mind (all the credits are there).

This is why I like XDA-devs :) Everyone adds a little piece of the puzzle...

[Drew97]

Thanks for the mention MuF!! And no I don't mind, only to happy to help! (And I hope people will benifit from!) I agree with you, when everyone help and co-opearates, with out any abuse, it make the place a better place!!!

And like I say, 'everything that could go wrong, seems to go wrong for me', So...yeah...

Thank you and good luck everyone!!!

[brownianmanish]

HI PPL...

I am not too tech saavy person. I have tried the ABC converter and after that i have just got stuck.

I have almost 2500 SMS to transfer from my N73 to HTC HD2... How to go abt it.

Please help and if possible reply me on my id brownianmanish@gmail.com

[MuF123]

why are you stuck? what exactly did you do? what error did it show? what did you did afterwards?

[Drew97]

Hi browniananish, from your description I can only assume that your problem is that one of the applications in the process will not do its job and displays an error. Am I right? (You are very vaque in your discription, in future it may pay off to take a little more time and write in more detail. Also, the nature of this site (A Forum) means that the users use this for contact, not email addresses!)

So, anyway...
If am right, your problem is to do with the vast qauntity of your text's. Even if the process failing, worked, you would be extremely lucky if SMSImport actually imported them.
To stop you fixing the problem and then finding out that SMSImport fails you at the end, I would advise you to start the process again.
But this time only export 75 messages with nokia pc suite
Once ran through all the software and you are ready to use SMSImport, open your XML (that you copied and pasted the result of "MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility)
Use the method I made to change contact numbers to names! (If needed) And save it.
Open the XML file with Windows (Internet Explorer) and see if it displays any errors. If it does you can try and correct it (it should tell you what text it has a problem with) or simply delete it!
Once windows okay's the file you are ready to use SMSImport!

Good Luck, I know this will take a while, but if you go at a steady pace and come up with a method/routine, it should seem worth it at the end!

P.S. We are not "too tech savy" people nor "tech savy people". We just use our learnt knowledge wisely!!:P

[moulikminda]

Thanx a lot...
Was able to transfer 600+ sms in 1 shot....

Was just facing problem with the xml file earlier...
Try error checking at
w3schools.com/Dom/dom_validate.asp

And it will work...

[chukkyi]

Hey, thanks so much MuF123 for this tutorial. I have a few issues though.

My TXT(ANSI) from ABC Amber comes out as:
N: 1., Date: 30/06/2010 6:55:08 AM, Tel: 1443...., Subject: I jus calld. They say i shud hav

to

N: 655., Date: 09/07/2008 3:16:15 PM, Tel: 111....., Subject: S: Port In or Within Complete Welcome!

Then

Message number 1
Tel: 14435.........
Subject: I jus calld. They say i shud hav
Date: 30/06/2010 6:55:08 AM

I jus calld. They say i shud hav it by like tomro or friday... When u come bak we can try callin again.



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to

Message number 655
Tel: 1111.......
Subject: S: Port In or Within CompleteWelcome!
Date: 09/07/2008 3:16:15 PM

S: Port In or Within Complete
Welcome! Your phone is now ready to receive calls. Bienvenido! Su telefono esta listo para recibir llamadas.



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These codes appears all in the single (.txt) file and I think thereby makes the (inbx.txt_export.txt) file come out as such

<message date="30/06/2010 6:55:08 AM" sender="+1443........" recipient="">
I jus calld. They say i shud hav it by like tomro or friday... When u come bak we can try callin again.
</message>
<message date="t: Well i dont kno how long it will" sender="+ge number 2" recipient="">

Well i dont kno how long it will take 4 d thing 2 actually get 2 me cuz they say it takes about 48hrs 4 d reqest to go in, then 72hrs 4 d thing 2 b sent 2 me...
</message>
<message date="t: Megabus I think" sender="+ge number 3" recipient="">

Megabus I think
</message>
<message date="t: Oh cus its 4th of july weekend!!" sender="+ge number 4" recipient="">

Oh cus its 4th of july weekend!! That's a raping!!!

If you notice after the first line the code the date field get replaced with the first few words that make up the subject of the message and the sender field get replaced with this confusing "+ge number #" thing.

PLEASE HELP, Do I have to manually go through and change all these?

[chukkyi]

I think my ABC Amber settings may be off, can you possibly provide the best settings for this?

[chukkyi]

Hey Guys, I figured it out my proble. Since ABC Amber parsing the .vmg files like this:

Message number 1
Tel: 14435.....
Subject: I jus calld. They say i shud hav
Date: 30/06/2010 6:55:08 AM

I jus calld. They say i shud hav it by like tomro or friday... When u come bak we can try callin again.



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MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility understands the first line and then after that start to put the words in the "subject" field in the "message date" field and the "ge number #" from the heading "Message number #" in the "sender" field.

How to Fix This:

1. Saving to .txt(ANSI) from ABC Amber as normal
2. Open the .txt file
3. Edit the contents so that all messages look like this:


.................................................. ...........................................
Tel: 14435........

Date: 30/06/2010 6:55:08 AM

I jus calld. They say i shud hav it by like tomro or friday... When u come bak we can try callin again.



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4. The spaces in between the Tel and Date and Message Text Field are very important. If you don't have them you get errors when you open it in MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility. So copy this exact format and save the .txt file
5. Continue to follow guidelines from STEP 9

[MuF123]

looks like I've forgot to implement a lot of special cases I didn't think of (like new line :o :( ). Sorry guys! I'm just a begginer :) Anyway the ABC utility has it's own bugs so you have to find your way :)

Btw I don't have any nokia anymore, I don't use windows mobile so this thread is kinda left as-is :(

[bart3385]

I have old messages saved in csv file from Nokia PC Suite of the late 90's. Is there a way to convert this and import to Jeyo Mobile or other methods to bring it to my WinMo device?

Without going thru PC Suite or any Nokia software.

[agent008my]

i have currently got all my messages on my sony ericsson xperia x1 running WM6.5, and im looking to transfer them to my xperia x10 running android 2.1. would the steps required be the same?

[MuF123]

i have currently got all my messages on my sony ericsson xperia x1 running WM6.5, and im looking to transfer them to my xperia x10 running android 2.1. would the steps required be the same?

no! of course not... as you can see in first steps you need to export messages with NOKIA pc suite... so you can't do that with SE, right? maybe if the format is the same, it could be used... What software does SE provide to export messages?

[agent008my]

no! of course not... as you can see in first steps you need to export messages with NOKIA pc suite... so you can't do that with SE, right? maybe if the format is the same, it could be used... What software does SE provide to export messages?


im not too sure what software SE uses to export messages, but since the X1 is a WM phone, i have been using PIM backup to back up messages, contacts and call logs. would you know if this can be exported to an android device?

[MuF123]

im not too sure what software SE uses to export messages, but since the X1 is a WM phone, i have been using PIM backup to back up messages, contacts and call logs. would you know if this can be exported to an android device?

:D sorry I'm an idiot and I don't read.

Try exporting to some csv file and then find app to import csv file or so... This tutorial isn't for you anyway.

[hamdi_ab]

i really wanna thank u for ur effort
iam a new HTC HD2 user
i tried every single word u wrote , but unfortunately it didn't work
i am not sure where is the problem

anyway ,, i just wanted to say thanx

[MuF123]

you can help us to help you by writing what have you done, what result you got, what errror message you got and so on...

[sydneyboy1415]

Hi there, can anyone help me to copy nokia sms to htc hd2. I have done all that process, but still stuck on line no.12 (i.e.Paste the Inbox.txt_export.txt right after the folder xml tag) of instruction guide. Where to paste Inbox.txt_export.txt in import.xml. I think, i am pasting wrong space. When i try to import.xml in my pda. Its giving error. Can anyone help me to sort out line no.12 please.

[rwxer]

As alternative you can try bloove.com. It's web based backup and management solution for smartphones. But it's not free (USD 5-10)

[wickyes]

I just got inspiration from SGTNorcz http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=499230 and wanted to contribute a little. Please move this thread where it belongs (I didn't know where to put this).

Please leave feedback if it works, if it doesn't work, if it has a problem somewhere! Thank you.

For android devices use this tutorial: http://vinodmishra.com/2009/09/how-to-import-smss-from-nokia-to-htc-android-devices/

Tools needed:

Jeyo SMS backup (http://www.jeyo.com/companion/features.asp)
Nokia PC Suite (http://europe.nokia.com/get-support-and-software/download-software/nokia-pc-suite)
ABC Amber Nokia Converter (http://www.processtext.com/abcnokia.html)
PSPAD (http://www.pspad.com/) or other notepad thingy
SMSImport (http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-smsimport-v1-0-1.html)
MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility (http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=219625&d=1251021248)
All new WM devices have this already preinstalled so no need to worry about this! You need .NET CF 3.5 on your device. Please see this page (http://tiltmobility.com/how-to-install-net-compact-framework-35/) or try this one (http://www.google.sk/search?q=.net+compact+install).


Procedure steps:

Install:
On your PC: Nokia PC Suite, ABC Amber Nokia Converter, PSPAD, MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility
On your PocketPC: SMSImport
Make full backup of your PDA! Or at least backup the messages with Jeyo SMS backup.
Run SMSImport on your PPC, export messages, name it for example "import.xml". Don't get confused by the name.
Copy the exported messages to your PC.
Sync your Nokia PC suite. Open messages, click on Message Folder you want to export from your Nokia.
Select (all) messages from the view, copy&paste them into new empty folder.
Open the folder with ABC Amber Nokia Converter.
Select all messages, File>Save as> TXT(ANSI). Name it for example "Inbox.txt".
Run MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility, open the Inbox.txt file. You will get file Inbox.txt_export.txt.
Open the Inbox.txt_export.txt, select all, copy.
Open the import.xml with PSPad, find one of the folders: inbox, sent items, deleted items, or other custom folder name.
Paste the Inbox.txt_export.txt right after the folder xml tag. It should look like this:
<folder name="Inbox"><message date="22/08/2009 22:47:55" sender="+4...
Don't worry if you have other messages after it, it doesn't matter. Your PDA will sort them out by the date/time stamp anyway.
Repeat the proces for other items - saved, sent, archive, etc. Create another empty folder, copy&paste from Nokia Suite, load with ABC Amber, export as .txt, load with MuF's utility, paste new file into xml.
Save import.xml.
Thanks to Drew97 we finally have some things straighten up!



Copy import.xml right back to your PDA.
Open run SMSImport, import import.xml. Wait until all SMS load up, it can take few minutes to do.
Double check if the SMS are imported with correct date/time stamp, correct cell phone numbers and correct text.


MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility
It is just alpha release so, please, comment whether it works or not. It could be problem with different date formats, dunno. You tell me .) It worked for me (central europe date/time format).

Few of mine sms got garbled during this process, few of them were duplicated, with bad date/time stamps - I think it were the sms messages from SIM card. I've just deleted duplicates. Other items were fine.
This isn't a professional tool, but it's free ;) With no warranties ofc.

Notes
PDA stands for Personal Digital Assistant = your HTC phone device.

XML importer has problems with "<" and ">" symbols in messages. If you have a problem with importing messages, please check if this isn't your issue before asking questions! Thank you!

For any questions, please use this thread. Thank you!


Hi... I am also trying to transfer my sms from my nokia N81 8GB to a HTC Touch 3G but i cannot seem to run MuF's Nokia SMS convert utility as i get a error message , pls help me

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2145/erroryz.jpg

[oida_oida]

thank you very much for your efforts!! im just trying to preapare everything for my HD2... as i have a russian gf my phone is full of russian messages and your programm cant work with the, i already changed the enconding to russian on my windows 7 but i still only have black signs. I dont mean to bother you, but will there be any update in the future or is there any workaround. i tried copying it buy had, but with 2.500 messages its just to much((

thank you very much!

[Nemeziz13]

Another metod, but for Android,

Original link .simail.si/nokia2androidsms/

Nokia Ovi to Android SMS convert utility
Description

Nokia2AndroidSMS is a small application that allows you to convert SMS messages from Nokia Ovi datafiles into an xml file supported by SMS Backup & Restore Android application.

Process for transferring SMS messages to your new Android Phone is the following.

Nokia phone side:
Install Nokia OVI, (You don’t need the OVI account!)
synchronize messages from your phone with OVI
Disconnect your Nokia Phone and close the Nokia OVI application. WATCH OUT. Noia OVI likes to minimize to system tray please be sure you really closed the application

Conversion:
Download Nokia2AndroidSMS and extract it to any directory.
Run Nokia2AndroidSMS.exe
The application should automatically find all datastores created by Nokia OVI and automatically select the 1st one.
If it should fail to detect datastores you’ll have to find it by yourself, you can either drag and drop datastore file from Windows Explorer onto the Nokia2AndroidSMS window or use the Open button to find it.
You can change the datastore in the 1st selection list if there is more than one
If you have more than one phone in the datastore than you can select for which you’d like to export the messages, they are listed by their IMEI number.
Press Convert button and you should get an xml file in the same folder you extracted Nokia2AndroidSMS to
WATCH OUT: If you get: “Failed to load DLL library. System error number was 126.“ Antivirus probably prevented proper extraction of archive, so you need to extract it again and/or disable antivirus when extracting. The most problematic AV software found was Bitdefender.

Android:
Install SMS Backup & Restore
Connect the phone onto the PC (You MUST select Disk drive as connection type)
Copy the xml file into the SMSBackupRestore Folder on the phone, create it if it’s not already there
Run SMS Backup & Restore and import messages.

Big thanks to Miha Vrhovnik
Source .simail.si/

[Icewind]

google this : nokiasmstowm (i can't post link as an novice user)
I developed this java app for myself. You will need : Jeyo Mobile Companion and Nokia Ovi Suite or PC suite.

Guide:
Nokia SMS to Windows Mobile
1) Import all your sms from Nokia phone via the Nokia Ovi Suite to an *.csv file (filename has to be: backup_sms-Nokia.csv)
2) Copy this file to the directory with my app and run it via cmd (java -jar Nokia_to_WM.jar)
3) Restore created xml file with Jeyo Mobile Companion to your PDA

[MuF123]

It would be better if you could get this application to XDAdev :) But thanks anyway, I've linked to your post in the first post.

I've also cleaned up the first post to look more boring and more formal :D

[hkon912003]

what if i dun hv a pda?

[MuF123]

what if i dun hv a pda?

then you should stop trolling and leave. kthx.

[DyNaRaX]

Thanks, it worked fine :D

[MuF123]

I'm glad to hear that ;)

[FlavioB]

Hello MuF, thanks for your precious and detailed tutorial.

I got one question tough: I went through all the procedure and when loading the XML file on the PDA, I get:

"There was an error while loading XML file."

Nothing more, nothing less.
Could you please help me out?

Thanks in advance!
F.

[MuF123]

Hello MuF, thanks for your precious and detailed tutorial.

I got one question tough: I went through all the procedure and when loading the XML file on the PDA, I get:

"There was an error while loading XML file."

Nothing more, nothing less.
Could you please help me out?

Thanks in advance!
F.

if it is not the "Known problems" first thing there I'm afraid I cant help you. You can post few messages from the the xml (change phone numbers and messages for privacy).

Also please check if you have no "<" or ">" symbols in your messages.

[FlavioB]

if it is not the "Known problems" first thing there I'm afraid I cant help you. You can post few messages from the the xml (change phone numbers and messages for privacy).

Also please check if you have no "<" or ">" symbols in your messages.

Hello MuF, thanks for getting back to me.

I checked the file again, and what I noticed is as follows:
the import.xml file contains weird characters. The folder names are in german, but instead of "umlauts" I have weird characters.
Should I correct all these and put the correct "ö" "ü" and so on there?

Here an example:

<SMSExport><store name="SMS"><folder name="Entwürfe"/><folder name="Gelöschte Objekte"/><folder name="Gesendete Objekte"/><message date="09/06/2011 12:45:33" sender="+41123456789" recipient="">
Jetzt wenn du willst! Kuss
</message>
<message date="09/06/2011 12:26:51" sender="+41123456789" recipient="">
Hab besuch, sp?ter...
</message>

You can see that there is a question mark, but there should be "ä"...

And furthermore: is there any tool which can tell me if the tags are all opened and closed "by couples", so that there is no "orphaned" open or closed tag?

Or any means to detect ">" or "<"?

Thanks again Muf!
F.

[MuF123]

yes those special characters could be an issue.

try CTRL+H in pspad or similar program - the replace feature: search for that ö and replace it with "o" or "oe" or something. try again then come back and tell us how it went :)

[FlavioB]

yes those special characters could be an issue.

try CTRL+H in pspad or similar program - the replace feature: search for that ö and replace it with "o" or "oe" or something. try again then come back and tell us how it went :)

Wait! (still thanks for your comment)

I'll do something more quick and easy: I'll just retain one and only SMS in my incoming folder and test against that one.

I'll get back soon!

F.

[MuF123]

Yes, that's more of an analytical approach :) But I didn't suggest it because I don't want to tell people to try something that will possibly puzzle them :)

[FlavioB]

Yes, that's more of an analytical approach :) But I didn't suggest it because I don't want to tell people to try something that will possibly puzzle them :)

Don't bother: in my case I'm trying to "migrate" from Nokia 6500 Slide to HTC S740, which is completely empty and I can play with that as long as I wish.

Be back later...

F.

[FlavioB]

Paste the Inbox.txt_export.txt right after the folder xml tag. It should look like this:
<folder name="Inbox"><message date="22/08/2009 22:47:55" sender="+4...
Don't worry if you have other messages after it, it doesn't matter. Your PDA will sort them out by the date/time stamp anyway.


BTW, I noticed that my xml file has trailing slashes, like:

<folder name="Posteingang"/>

Is this still ok for importing SMS?

Anyway, I managed to play around a bit with with the XML file. It looks like:

<SMSExport><store name="SMS"><folder name="Entwürfe"/><folder name="Gelöschte Objekte"/><folder name="Gesendete Objekte"/><message date="09/06/2011 12:26:51" sender="+41123456789" recipient="">
Hab besuch, spÔøΩter...
</message><folder name="Postausgang"/><folder name="Posteingang"/><message date="08/06/2011 11:17:15" sender="+41987374747" recipient="">
Ehil?, come ti ? andata la visita agli appartamenti? Qu? tutto ok a parte pioggia e un p? di fresco. Saluti D.
</message></store></SMSExport>

What's wrong there?

F.

[MuF123]

try to not use non-ASCII characters

[FlavioB]

try to not use non-ASCII characters

Well, as you for sure know, the folder names are exported "as is" from the PDA with the Export Tool: would you suggest to change them too?

And: I have tried to use no accented characters, no umlauts... but still: I can import the file, but I can't see anything in the Inbox or Outbox folders on my PDA.

Any other clues?

F.

[MuF123]

Maybe changing language to english and then trying to do this?

[MuF123]

Nice tut, many people will thank you :)

Actually none did ;)