Comments on: Txtract for Android G1 Phones – Text (SMS) Message Extractor

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:09:46 +0000

Hi All,

Great thread. I’m eagerly awaiting a Droid next Friday. I have been using WinMobile for years and between PIMBackup and MSFT’s new MyPhone, I have many thousands of texts that have travelled from WinMobile phone to WinMobile phone. Now I want to import them to the Droid.

Anyone have any success stories? I imagine there’s a way to get the messages out of MyPhone, but I know I can relatively easily dump them all to an ASCII file using PIMBackup. It’s the parsing/importing/linking to contacts on Android that’s scaring me.

Thanks!
David

By: Brian Cole

Brian Cole — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:02:40 +0000

My daughter has a G1 t mobile phone. She is a teenager. I would like to be able to read her deleted messages.Is there an app for recovering a deleted sms text message? Please help. I just want to make sure she stays out of trouble. I called t mobile they said this way may be the best option. They do not offer this service.

By: nietzsche

nietzsche — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:47:03 +0000

@BabeInWoods did you resolve that problem? I’m about to run into the same problem overhere…switching from a HTC kaiser to a HTC Magic running android and I want to export the textmessages from windows mobile and import them again on my android device. Would love to know if you worked something out and how you did it in case you succeeded ^_^

By: Cem

Cem — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:53:57 +0000

hi LeAnna,

Latest release of Android (Cupcake) resolves delete related issues. Did you get the update yet ?

By: Ric

Ric — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:04:47 +0000

I am having the same problem, 2500+ texts in one thread and I want rid of them. One by one is the only way so far. Mass delete causes a force close

By: LeAnna

LeAnna — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:22:45 +0000

i have 53hundred texts in 1 thread. i keep hitting wait but it never deletes. i went hours doing it with no results. any ideas?

By: Ozgur Cem Sen

Ozgur Cem Sen — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:13:25 +0000

Hi Courtney,
It should take less than a minute to extract/backup nearly 2000 sms messages. Do you get any errors ? Just to try it out; can you please reboot your phone and run Txtract again ?

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:12:30 +0000

Hi, I just downloaded it, and i am trying to extract… it keeps saying its extracting but nothing is happening. how long does it usually take?

By: Ozgur Cem Sen

Ozgur Cem Sen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:14:06 +0000

Hi Kim, how many messages do you have ?

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:57:13 +0000

I am having the same issue. I tried to transfer the texts to my pc via an application but its crashing and powering down my phone. I want to save one thread and then I will restore to factory settings…just need to save that one text

By: jafriendz

jafriendz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:58:06 +0000

In re: to tulinda – I also am havin this problem but however I do not have any such trash folder. I have tried deleting large amounts of texts and it keeps crashing. It will delete small threads that contain only a few but the large ones that contain a good few hundred it crashes. I have tried deleting them before they grow larger in quantity and it obviously wont so I just keep getting more in quantity which is obviously a problem. If someone could please assist me with a way to delete all these texts on my phone thatd be fabulous…. because as of right now my phone wont stop crashing because of it.

By: nada

nada — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:42:47 +0000

I have the same prob. Everytime I try deleting my long threads they don’t delete. But instead it forces close and freezes my msgs app, not letting me send or receive any texts…

By: Ozgur Cem Sen

Ozgur Cem Sen — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:57:53 +0000

Your best bet is keep selecting delete and let it work until it crashes. During that time, I believe it deletes quite a number of them. So after about 50 or more tries, you should be able to delete them all.

By: treasurie

treasurie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:51:41 +0000

I am trying to find out how to delete the text messages.I have 3570 mesg of me in this person,and every time I tried press n holf n press delete it doesn’t work or if I click the application n delete it from their it still don’t work all it do is shut down the mesg screen……the only way that I kno how to delete it is to delete it one by one is their a fatser way plz help me

By: Ozgur Cem Sen

Ozgur Cem Sen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:12:11 +0000

Hi there,

I saw your post in the androidforums.com . i’ll get back with you on this in a few days – i hope i’ll have a good answer for you.