Help Saving SMS messages to home computer?

[Frank Mitchell]

I have some pictures and text messages that I need to save to my home computer. How do I do this? I can't seem to find a way to do it from my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Frank

 

[Noremon]

Are the pictures in MMS messages? You'll have to save them first if they are. Otherwise you should just be able to connect your device to a computer and copy the pictures off that way, your device should show as a media device or digital camera. Drag-and-drop regardless. Or you can use a service like Google Drive to upload the pictures to it for downloading on another device. You may need to install Samsung Drivers if your device doesn't do it automatically.

 

[Noremon]

Samsung USB Drivers { http://developer.samsung.com/technical-doc/view.do?v=T000000117 }

 

[Noremon]

As for backing SMS up to a readable way, I recommend Super BackUp { https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idea.backup.smscontacts } which allows you to e-mail or upload to Google Drive the file. I didn't have any luck restoring SMS after a factory reset with it though, but it does save them to an .XML file with the message, the number, and a contact name if you have one set.

 

[Noremon]

Here is a previous version of the .APK because I see from the Google Play Store reviews there are current issues since the latest update. They should get it sorted ASAP though so you can wait too!