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Text messages transfer/copy

Personally I'd be worried about any software that seems to be promoted on a Web forum, by someone who's sole existence there is to promote it.

So I'd be very wary of using that software

#justsaying
 
I have a drawer full of old business phones that are only being kept until I can figure out how to get the text messages off them and into a computer file so I guess I am interested in any ideas for this as well. I have no idea what Galaxy Core Prime is so I am pretty sure THAT particular part doesn't apply to me. Most of my old phones are dumb phones that I just need the texts for future references. Obviously keeping the old phones just for that reason is problematic in many ways and I would really like to get them donated if I can figure out how to retrieve those texts.
 
Copying messages is easy. The trick is to do it in a format that you can read on a device other than another android phone.

Any message backup app can be used to transfer to another phone. Many of them back up to XML files, so in principle you can read them with a text editor (but the formatting won't be nice). Or you could install SMS Backup+ on the phone and let it copy them all to a subfolder of your GMail account (which makes them readable by logging into GMail using a web browser, but won't structure them as conversations).

There may be a message backup app out there which has a PC companion app, but I can't name one myself. Manufacturers such as Samsung may have their own apps, but the drawback with something manufacturer-specific is that it's manufacturer-specific.
 
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