Are you getting a new phone or do you have to do a factory
reset? If you need to do either of the two and are worried about losing your
text messages the best app to use is SMS Backup +. SMS Backup+ backs up your
entire sms, mms, and call log to your Gmail account.
I really love this app because it is so easy to use. After
you connect you simply back up your messages. What happens is that your messages
get saved to your Gmail account. If you look under Labels in Gmail you will
see the label (SMS). Simply select it and
you
will see all of your messages. Do not freak out if you see someone you regularly
text with only 100 sms. For some reason it breaks them up in 100 sms segments. When
they get restored they will look normal on your phone.
This app is also great even you just want to back up your
messages on a regular basis. There is an auto backup option so you can schedule
you phone to back up your messages after every message or once a day. If this
is something you want to do regularly I would suggest doing it once a day. I
myself only back up my messages about once a week. I don’t like apps running often in the
background as they eat up battery life.
One important thing! If you are going to restore your
messages do a backup before you start the restore. Let’s say you have not
backed up your messages in a week. When you hit restore you will lose all of
you current messages and only have the messages from the last time you did a
backup. It erases all of you messages on a restore so be careful.
I have had one issue with this app recently that I would
like to tell you about. When I do the restore for some reason it has not given
me my most recent messages. I have seen this might be a timing issue. My old
phone never had this problem. If this is something that happens to you when you
do a restore simply hit stop towards the end of the restore. Doing so will keep
all your messages on your phone.
Some of the concerns I mentioned above make it sound scary
however it is a simple tool to use. I have provided a link below if you would
like to try it out.
SMS Backup+ on the Market
