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How do you backup your sms?

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4ndr01d

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Hi guys, I'm thinking to upgrade the firmware of my android phone.

Currently I'm still using firmware version 1.5. Before doing that, I need to backup all my data. May I know how do you that and which software that you prefer? I did google and found this.

1. SMS Backup & Restore
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SMS Backup & Restore - Android Stuff

2. android-sms Backup Android SMS to Gmail
Downloads - android-sms - Project Hosting on Google Code

However, I'm not sure to try it or not as login your username & password into unknown application might be dangerous as we don't know what is inside the software. Probably the developer intentionally put something like a keylogger where it can record our username & password and send it back to him/her.

Please advice. Thanks in advance
 
I've installed SMS Backup+, which is an ongoing development based on the original SMS Backup (which I don't think is still maintained). It works well, does the call log and MMS too. It will restore call log & SMS, but not MMS,

I'm not over-paranoid about developers, but I'm pretty sure that SMS Backup+ just hooks into Gmail through an API and doesn't explicitly need to know your password. I don't remember entering them, and it doesn't have any record in its preferences.

HTH, Rick
HTC Desire-Z, AOS 2.2.1
 
RickPJ said:
I've installed SMS Backup+, which is an ongoing development based on the original SMS Backup (which I don't think is still maintained). It works well, does the call log and MMS too. It will restore call log & SMS, but not MMS,

I'm not over-paranoid about developers, but I'm pretty sure that SMS Backup+ just hooks into Gmail through an API and doesn't explicitly need to know your password. I don't remember entering them, and it doesn't have any record in its preferences.

HTH, Rick
HTC Desire-Z, AOS 2.2.1
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Thanks Rick for the explanation.
I notice that SMS Backup + by Jan Berkel is slightly different from SMS Backup by Christoph Studer.
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SMS Backup + - Android app on AppBrain
 
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