Web Review » mms http://www.raneri.it/blog/eng A blog by Riccardo Raneri Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:18:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to import and export SMS on Android http://www.raneri.it/blog/eng/index.php/2009/04/23/how-to-import-and-export-sms-on-android/ http://www.raneri.it/blog/eng/index.php/2009/04/23/how-to-import-and-export-sms-on-android/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:09:30 +0000 riccardo http://www.raneri.it/blog/eng/?p=409 HTC DreamHere’s another useful information for lucky people with an Android phone (only a single model is available on the market, at the time of this post: the HTC Dream, also known as “G1″): one of the most annoying problems for Android users is that they can’t export their sent and received SMS, to stock them on the PC and – maybe – to import them back on another Android phone.

I want to thanks a user from the forum on modMyGphone.com, so I discovered that our SMS and MMS are stored in this file, in the phone’s memory:
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

So, root users can copy them all on the SD card with a simple and single command from the terminal:
cp /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db /sdcard

This file must be copied on the PC and it can be copied back on the phone (for example, after a format) to recover messages. You can also browse it from your computer with a – more or less – comfortable way, using a SQLite client (for example: SQLite Database Browser).

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