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Root *poof*! all sms gone

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cashmere_cat

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The strangest thing - I was having a text conversation with someone. Back and forth a couple of times. Then suddenly when I got a response back, I went into text messages and they are all gone. Not just the ones with that one person either. All history of all text messages...just...poof.. What the heck? :confused:
 
It's been known to happen. They're usually still in the data base.

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
 
dan55 said:
hi CC,

bummer man :( did you find em in the end?

cheers
dan
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Nope, didn't find them. But its more than likely a user (me) issue! :p
I tried navigating to that directory using a file manager, but couldn't get there. Tried typing it all in - said no found.
Actually not a huge issue, I don't let myself get too attached to text messages - they are too easily lost when flashing new roms (since I'm either too lazy to back them up, or forget to)
I was mostly just very surprised that one second they were there... the next second all traces of em were gone! :eek:
 
You'd need a root file manager like root explorer, which if you don't own, should definitely consider purchasing

Smsbackup+ is great. Backs sms up to a gmail.label as they arrive
 
yes, i can confirm i found mine with root explorer, and thanks Dan, you seem to teach me something new everyday on here.
 
Hello all I am new here , been searching for a solution , the same issue with my HTC Desire happened and all SMS messages gone bar 6 up , the earliest being 27/12/11 but I had others older. I noticed my phone changed it's theme as well when this happened but I have not deleted the SMS text messages at all but they are not there where they should be.

I have rooted my phone successfully. I now have managed to extract the mmssms.db file from the directory /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db to my SD card (copied) with Rom Toolbox Pro as I could not see these files on my phone memory with Astro or ES File Manager.

So now what do I do to see my sms text messages contained in here? It is a 61 kb file. I am not sure where to go from here.
 
Open the file in your phone with a file manager (Root explorer?). You should be able to confirm your SMS are there.
 
SUroot said:
Open the file in your phone with a file manager (Root explorer?). You should be able to confirm your SMS are there.
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I am using the "Root Browser" in Rom Toolbox Pro. I cannot see any SMS messages when I view this file all I see is a list of names starting with

addr
android_metadata
attachments
canonical_addresses ....... and so on and so on


there is a name in this list "sms" but I cannot see anything when I click on it. :confused:
All I see is _id with numbers 1 and 2
 
Towle said:
I am using the "Root Browser" in Rom Toolbox Pro. I cannot see any SMS messages when I view this file all I see is a list of names starting with

addr
android_metadata
attachments
canonical_addresses ....... and so on and so on


there is a name in this list "sms" but I cannot see anything when I click on it. :confused:
All I see is _id with numbers 1 and 2
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Thats where all your SMS should be. The 3rd column "Address" should be a list of all teh phone numbers you received / sent from/to. If you keep scrolling right, there is a field called "Body". Thats the text of the message. If this is blank, theres nothing you can do.
 
thanks SUroot........ as you can see i`m new to all this, what would the command be to move that file from SD card into proper place on phone??

is this the system location,
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
 
No you don't want be pushing from sd, push from your computer hdd so

"adb push c:\mmssms.db /data/data...etc"
 
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