IPhone 4 :: How To Backup And Restore ONLY Text / IMessage History
Sep 7, 2014
I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1.2. I will be purchasing the iPhone 6 when it comes out. Ideally, I want to set it up as a new phone but I want to keep my text and iMessage history. I found this article online [URL]....and it talks about the 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4636395e047a3d28.mddata. file that is in a backup. Can I manipulate the backup of my iPhone 4 so that it seems like a phone that only has texts and iMessages on it and restore that backup to the iPhone 6? Will that be incompatible with a phone running iOS 8 (which I assume the iPhone 6 will)?
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Dec 7, 2011
My 'backup and restore' app won't back up my text messages... it backs up the other things on the list for example the contacts, call logs, brower history etc. I would like to save the messages before I update my phone.Or unless there is another way of saving my messages, i.e. saving them onto a pc or something.I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro.
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May 22, 2012
How do I delete the text history and phone call history on my phone?
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iPhone 4
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Mar 20, 2012
Recently perfomed a system restore on my iphone 4s. Device backup date is March 17,2012 but for some reason the phone only shows messages from Oct 2011.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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Aug 31, 2014
iPhone 3GS
iOS 6.1.6
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I had assumed i would be able to save/backup/restore the most important info on my cell like my text messages, phone contacts and ALL my photos in my photostream thru iTunes and NOT have to shell out $3.99US + taxes to be able to do so! The App Store has only 1 free app (out of a whopping 5) which, of course, i cannot use on my 6.1.6 iOS..
How can i backup my messages and contacts? How do I add more options from where I backup email contacts etc etc OTHER than just Microsoft programs? i.e. From Chrome or FireFox.
How do I save and access ALL my 600 pics from my phone when only 56 are listed to be able to be saved on iTunes? Would I be completely delusional to hope there is an app or software that could do a cross-platform transfer of my stuff to an Android phone....??Â
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 6.1.6
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Mar 16, 2012
I know apple must keep track of my imessage history. Is there a way to get a copy?
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
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Mar 14, 2012
I use iMessage and delete all my previous messages from my iPhone.
I recently backed up my iphone and a few days later tried to restore my iphone from the old backup, I did that and during those few days any iMessage I had sent and deleted all came back to my iphone. I thought i had deleted those messages for privacy reasons but doing the reset from the old backup made them messages come back.
Now my question is, are these iMessages saved somewhere on Apple servers or iCloud? I dont use iCloud feature on iphone. This is major privacy concern for me and is there any way to permanently delete these messages not just from iphone and never have such situation described above where the deleted imessages reappear.
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1
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Jan 3, 2012
I did a backup of Nokia x6 (FW 40.X latest) on Nokia PC suite and Nokia suite. I then did a hard reset of my phone and now I'm unable to restore text messages from backup file. In fact not just the new ones but none of the backup files are getting restored. I do a backup every 2 weeks and even the older files don't seem to work. Rest of the data got restored absolutely fine. Only have a problem with test messages.
I nearly have 7000 sms across inbox and my folders. too much data lose ( or may be too much to restore? ).
List of Nokia phones I've used: 3310, 3315, 3200, 6600,3250, N73 ME, N95 8GB, 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia X6 16 GB (currently using this).
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Jul 3, 2010
My old Xperia TX is encrypted. So "Xperia Transfer Mobile" app and "PC Companion" are not working here.
Internal "Backup & restore" app exist on both phones - my new Z5 and TX and serves the same way - it can back up all text messages (and other data which I don't need to transfer) and it does work with encrypted phone! First it asks for password for decrypting and then works fine. I'm saving my backup to SD card. I'm inserting SD card to Z5 and trying to restore with same data but... BnR app can't see saved data on SD card!
I made some researches on content of backups and I see they using different formats for backups. Different files structure, different files contents and different metadata format.
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Apr 7, 2012
i have noticed that after switching to ios 5.1 my phone has been acting funny. for example: when i am messaging other iphone users with iMessage, it keeps switching from iMessage to regular text every 2 or 3 messages. at first i thought it was the other person since i am normally within my works wifi network and at my home wifi network, but it seems that this problem only occurs to other people when imessaging with me and not with anyone else. and this problem occurs to me while imessaging everyone, so i have come to the conclusion that the problem must be my phone. i have noticed this problem to occur since updating to ios 5.1. has anyone else experienced this problem? what can i do? i am 2 steps shy of reinstalling my phone.
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
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Jun 3, 2012
I have updated my iPhone 4 to 5.1.1 and I can't restore my backup files because when I try to restore my backup iTunes shows that the backup is corrupted or not compatible with the iPhone
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 27, 2012
When setting up my new iPhone 4s, should I restore from icloud or itunes backup? Or set up as a new iPhone? The phone number is staying the same from my iPhone 4.
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iPhone 4S
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Jun 1, 2012
how can i restore old mobile backup from iCloud backup to new phone?
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iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1
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Jul 6, 2010
I have lost ~20 pictures I took during my family's 4th of July event this weekend. It was the first time they have met my 17 month old daughter. Normally I wouldn't sweat loosing pictures, but these are very important to me.It restored every picture up until the backup I did before I left Sunday morning. I have tried A few different backups, one I made before I erased and synced my phone(new computer, old one was my work computer, no access to it).
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Jun 14, 2010
I'm planning to restore my iPhone while updating to iOS 4 since I've bee using the same old backup for 3 years or so now, installed a bunch of thing etc... so I want to start from scratch.
The only thing I don't want to lose are my SMS.I also don't want to jailbreak my iPhone.
What are the solution to backup only my SMS (so not regular iTunes backup) and then restore that only to my freshly installed iOS4?
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May 3, 2012
I finally updated my iPhone to 5.1. I waited so long because of the fiasco updating my iPod Touch when 5.0 first came out. I thought it worked, I was pleased Apple worked out the bugs. Lo and behold, all of my apps and folders disappeared before my eyes. No problem I thought, I did a back up. Restore from back up. Fifteen minutes later, it looks exactly the same. Isn't a backup supposed to be of everything on the system so that if something goes wrong, you just revert back to the back up and either try again or wait for the process to be fixed? Seriously, get your stuff together.
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May 19, 2012
if I restore factory setting to my iPhone, is it still possible to restore the backup from itune/ icloud to get the purchased apps and other informations?
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
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Jun 27, 2012
I just updated to iOS 5.1.1 on my 3GS phone, previously using 5.0, while plugged into the computer and iTunes 10.6.3. I had the phone set to backup to iCloud, and ran a sync operation before updating.Does that not also create a backup?When the restore process began, it asked if I wanted to set up as a new phone or restore from backup. However the list of available backups did not have anything from today.The last one listed was from October 2011.So I cancelled that operation, went through the new phone setup and then it asked if I wanted to restore from iCloud. So I chose the most recent iCloud backup which was from around 6 AM this morning. Now it is in the process of downloading all my apps, pics, and perhaps music as well. I don't know but it's going to take HOURS to finish this.
Anyway I opened some apps that have already downloaded, and some app data appears to be intact. But other apps have nothing after October 2011. And I'm talking apps that have tracked my fitness and workout progress over the past 6 months, bike rides in the past few months, car fuel fillup and maintenance history since October, I'm talking LOTS of data that appears to be gone.What did I do wrong here? Did I not do what I should have done regarding backups? What is the point of backing up to iCloud if it's not going to back up all my app data?
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 4.3.3, 16GB Black, 05.13.04 baseband
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Jun 9, 2012
I have been using my iPhone 4 as an iPod for a while because I'm waiting for AT&T to unlock it. I wanted to restore my phone to backup in my computer, but the restore button only restored my phone to factory settings, and it now tells me to activate the phone but I don't have the original SIM. Is there a way to restore to backup without activating the phone?
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 12, 2012
Is there a way I can save my text history to my computer? Or even email it to myself? I don't want to take a bunch of screen shots.
Info:iPhone 4S, Windows Vista
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Aug 20, 2014
iPhone 5c- the entire text history for just one contact just disappeared. I only have the text he sent me this afternoon.
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iPhone 5c, iOS 7.1.1
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Mar 19, 2012
Is there a way or a software to restore browser history?
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Apr 14, 2012
I am the user of bold 9900, how to restore the whatsapp chat history from the old to new phone. I used Samsung galaxy, after I backup whatsapp, I copy the whole whatsapp file to my media card. When I re-installed whatsapp in my blackberry, it did not show any message to ask me if I want to restore chat history. I cannot find any button about backup and restore in the whatsapp of 9900.
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May 13, 2012
How do I view phone history including text messages
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iPad 2, iOS 5.1.1, SMS recovery
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Jun 26, 2012
I click restore and my phone doesn't restore the last backup file?
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Oct 28, 2010
I had faced this issue when i last updated my phone when the 2.1 had come out.. I installed the latest Backup and Restore application as recomended by the SE update site.. Then backed up my files onto an already existing backup (which i think has corrupted the backup), hence overwriting the file.. After that i upgraded to 2.1 and restored my files, which failed because the contacts were not successfully imported (even though the Backup and Restore app said that the import was succesful.)
i was asked to repair the firmware using PC companion and hence want to backup succesfully without any problems. I cant risk loosing my contacts again. And i want to know from others in this forum if they have faced this issue on normal backup (not overwritten on an existing backup). [URL]
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Sep 16, 2010
coaxed by the desktop app, I changed to 5.00822 on my bb bold 9000 my phone history is now two lines for each entry which i find really annoying; you can only see half as many entries at a time.How to change back to a single line display alludes me - can someone tell where I find that option?
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Jan 12, 2010
I'm considering trying a JB on my phone, but I do not want to deal with plugging it in just to restart. To some people it's not a big deal, but my personal preference is to not have to deal with it. I just want to make sure I have the process correct:
1. Perform a backup of my iPhone in iTunes.
2. D/L, install, run Blackra1n
3. Phone will be JB'd, possibly untethered, which would be awesome.
4. If it ends up being a tethered JB, and I wish to undo everything, I can just restore from that backup in iTunes.
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Mar 13, 2012
how can i backup my phone to previous backup i lost info when doing update?
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iPhone 4, iOS 5.1
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Mar 17, 2012
I broke my old iPhone 3G (16GB) so today I went to the Apple store, and got a new one for free by setting up an AT&T account (this free iPhone 3G is 8GB). I got home, plugged it in my laptop, and wanted to transfer my stuff from my old phone over to my new one so I clicked restore from last backup. When I did so, I got this error message: iTunes could not restore the iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored. I need to restore from my last backup but apparently it's corrupted?
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iPhone 3G
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Mar 20, 2012
Had a problem with iphone, was issued a new one. In setting up iphone it restored from the wrong backup and I do not have my photos, favorite contacts, Can you restore from a specific backup
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iPhone 3GS (8GB), iOS 5.1
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