How To View a Call Log File from an Android Phone?
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Nuts, I mistakenly wasted your time on Wondershare. My apologies
Reading further this worked with the older Samsung Kies backups but Samsung continues to upgrade its encryption protocols in its newer SmartSwtich backups so this no longer applies.
This link is an interesting article on the matter, decrypting a SmartSwitch backup:
But apparently the report is based on using the SmartSwitch utility, which in this particular instance is the heart your problem -- getting that elusive phone call log to successfully import into the Phone app on your new phone. I'm out of other suggestions.![]()
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Thats okay, was worth a try.
I asked this same question in another android forums, and a user volunteered to test restoring his S7 smart switch backup of his to his current phone, he found that the old call logs did NOT restore for him either, but everything else did.
He thinks its because of the older vs newer versions of android causing some conflict. Weird, because its just call history, its not like an old App or something

