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Simple SMS shows temporary messages from SMS Backup & Restore #516

Open mariobrostech opened 1 year ago

mariobrostech commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I was originally going to make this issue with the SMS Backup & Restore app’s developer, but Simple SMS Messenger seems to be the only SMS app I’ve tested that’s been affected by this.

I used SMS Backup & Restore to back up text messages from my old phone. After importing this backup to my new phone, everything seemed to work fine. I currently use QKSMS, and everything worked fine there. I also tested the stock AOSP messaging app and even Google Messages. All of them displayed my messages correctly.

However, when using Simple SMS Messenger, I see the following message under most of my group MMS messages: “SMSBackupRestore Temp Message, Please Delete.” This message doesn’t appear underneath any regular SMS conversations. The date associated with all of these messages matches the time at which I restored my backup from SMS Backup & Restore. It seems like other SMS apps simply ignore these messages, but Simple SMS Messenger doesn’t seem to. I’ve attached a screenshot showing this behavior below:

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Thank you in advance for your help!

tibbi commented 1 year ago

do you have those messages in some file? Can you send a sample file so that we could reproduce it?

mariobrostech commented 1 year ago

I have them in an XML backup of my text messages made through SMS Backup & Restore, but given that it's my entire text message history, it's multiple gigabytes, and there are several personal conversations in there that I'd prefer to keep private. However, I still have my old phone with the texts on it, so I'll try to make a separate backup with only the problematic conversations included. I most likely won't have time to do that until the weekend, though. In the meantime, can you please share a location where I can send the files to you privately?

tibbi commented 1 year ago

sure, you can manually open the .xml after exporting too with any text editor, and just edit out whatever you want. You can send it to hello@simplemobiletools.com, only I have access there.