Saving SMS from Android phone

[Crackle]

Try deleting stuff you don't need off your old phone and see if you can then install one of the apps to save it the sd card. Failing that, read them out into a dictaphone.

 

[toffee]

I use this one to back up to a micro sd card

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en

Derek

 

[User10119]

I've used SMS Backup+ for a while. It creates a folder in your gmail account and backs 'em up to that - in my case, over wifi. You can manually backup or configure it to do it automagically. It's relatively small and straightforward and for me has always just worked.

 

[srw]

[QUOTE 4166246, member: 10119"]I've used SMS Backup+ for a while. It creates a folder in your gmail account and backs 'em up to that - in my case, over wifi. You can manually backup or configure it to do it automagically. It's relatively small and straightforward and for me has always just worked.[/QUOTE]
Ooh. That sounds good. What do the in-app purchases unlock?

 

[ufkacbln]

More detail here

 

[theclaud]

Right. Greg's suggestion looked like the least onerous, so I went through some circular Googlemail rigmarole to persuade my borked phone to let me install the app he suggested, and it seems to have worked. Yay! Thanks for all suggestions. Even the bonkers ones.

 

[theclaud]

I haven't started yet.

I'm open to further suggestions, just for the entertainment value.

 

[MossCommuter]

Google Keep

 

[theclaud]

Well, you could get a throwaway phone and forward them to that then, when you get a new phone, forward them again.

What is this - The Wire?

 

[theclaud]

Or you could write them out on vellum with a quill pen.

Good idea. Vellum has, after all, recently been declared irreplaceable.

 

[theclaud]

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4166246, member: 10119"]I've used SMS Backup+ for a while. It creates a folder in your gmail account and backs 'em up to that - in my case, over wifi. You can manually backup or configure it to do it automagically. It's relatively small and straightforward and for me has always just worked.[/QUOTE]
Yup, I know @theclaud is happy, but just a +1 for that. Nice little app. Leave it installed, and everything is quietly backed up to the cloud.

 

[srw]

Or you could just ask GCHQ for a copy

Damn. I was about to suggest that.

 

[srw]

Ooh. That sounds good. What do the in-app purchases unlock?

To answer my own question - nothing. They're used to donate to the author.

 

[Milkfloat]

A bit late now, but I was under the impression that the good folks at google pre-installed 'google backup' on your phone for you and it has busy been grabbing your data since day 1. I know After my last reinstall the messages all came back afterwards upon a restore.