[Q] Restoring SMS/MMS from another phone

ShadowSKAR · Mar 30, 2014

I recently switched phones and would like to transfer all my SMS/MMS from my old phone. I've tried some apps from the Play Store but they seem to have difficulty with MMS. So then I tried to copy the mmssms.db and app_parts folder from /data/data/com.android.provider.telephony to the new phone but that didn't seem to work at all because no messages showed up.

What other options do I have?

cr1960 · Mar 30, 2014

ShadowSKAR said:
I recently switched phones and would like to transfer all my SMS/MMS from my old phone. I've tried some apps from the Play Store but they seem to have difficulty with MMS. So then I tried to copy the mmssms.db and app_parts folder from /data/data/com.android.provider.telephony to the new phone but that didn't seem to work at all because no messages showed up.

What other options do I have?

what is your old phone? (Make/model)?

ayo234 · Mar 30, 2014

ShadowSKAR said:
I recently switched phones and would like to transfer all my SMS/MMS from my old phone. I've tried some apps from the Play Store but they seem to have difficulty with MMS. So then I tried to copy the mmssms.db and app_parts folder from /data/data/com.android.provider.telephony to the new phone but that didn't seem to work at all because no messages showed up.

What other options do I have?

On the playstore there is an application called HTC Transfer Tool. Download that on your old phone. You have the same app on your HTC One either in the app drawer or in the settings app. But if you dont, download the same app on your htc one. Follow the instructions on screen and you should be fine.

ShadowSKAR · Mar 30, 2014

cr1960 said:
what is your old phone? (Make/model)?

Old phone is a Samsung Galaxy SII (Hercules) running CM 10.2.

ShadowSKAR · Mar 30, 2014

ayo234 said:
On the playstore there is an application called HTC Transfer Tool. Download that on your old phone. You have the same app on your HTC One either in the app drawer or in the settings app. But if you dont, download the same app on your htc one. Follow the instructions on screen and you should be fine.

I just tried that but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. It says backing up on my old phone, and when that finishes, nothing actually gets transferred. On the HTC, it says received 0/0.

RUUMan · Mar 30, 2014

u can use a an app called superbackup from the play store . it works well

ShadowSKAR · Mar 30, 2014

RUUMan said:
u can use a an app called superbackup from the play store . it works well

Doesn't work either because it's not backing up all the messages.

cr1960 · Mar 30, 2014

ShadowSKAR said:
Old phone is a Samsung Galaxy SII (Hercules) running CM 10.2.

what if you take a backup using the backup/restore option in messaging then copy it across to your new phone and try to restore?

FauxAffliction · Mar 30, 2014

ShadowSKAR said:
Doesn't work either because it's not backing up all the messages.

Download sms backup and restore and I believe there's an option to either email it to yourself or upload it to Google drive then download the same program on your HTC and restore them..after downloading from your email or drive of course

Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

ShadowSKAR · Mar 30, 2014

cr1960 said:
what if you take a backup using the backup/restore option in messaging then copy it across to your new phone and try to restore?

I don't see a backup/restore option in messaging. Can you elaborate a little further?

ShadowSKAR · Mar 30, 2014

FauxAffliction said:
Download sms backup and restore and I believe there's an option to either email it to yourself or upload it to Google drive then download the same program on your HTC and restore them..after downloading from your email or drive of course

Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Are you referring to this one?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
Because if you are, I've already tried it. It seems to backup everything but when I try to restore it, not everything gets restored. Then comparing the mmssms.db from the old phone and new phone, there is a significant difference in file size, leading me to believe that MMS aren't getting copied.

zelendel · Mar 30, 2014

If I recall correctly MMS are near impossible to back up properly. No app I have seen will do them.

Bat cave One

cr1960 · Mar 30, 2014

ShadowSKAR said:
I don't see a backup/restore option in messaging. Can you elaborate a little further?

Hmmm, don't know about the Samsung, but on the HTC there's an option under messages > settings to backup/restore.

ShadowSKAR · Mar 30, 2014

cr1960 said:
Hmmm, don't know about the Samsung, but on the HTC there's an option under messages > settings to backup/restore.

Ah ok. The old phone doesn't seem to have anything like that.

ShadowSKAR · Mar 30, 2014

zelendel said:
If I recall correctly MMS are near impossible to back up properly. No app I have seen will do them.

Bat cave One

That's why I was wondering if I could manually do it by copying the mmssms.db and app_parts folder from the old phone to the new one.

RUUMan · Mar 31, 2014

What u can do is use the HTC messaging app backup feature and then browse yr phone for the folder called smsbackup. Copy it to somewhere safe. Do whatever u want then put back the folder back to yr phone and use the HTC messaging app use the restore function

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