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jberkel / sms-backup-plus

Backup Android SMS, MMS and call log to Gmail / Gcal / IMAP
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync
Apache License 2.0
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Some text DOES NOT back up in the app #1016

Closed pete1182 closed 3 years ago

pete1182 commented 4 years ago

i know there's been a few issues with this app but i still think its one of the best back-up app available for android. my app still works as long as i manually perform it. however i just recently discovered there are a few sms texts from certain phone #s that did not back up in my gmail at all. like i said i dont mind doing it manually, but is there any other way for me to store those text to back up somehow. please help!!!

pete1182 commented 4 years ago

by the way this is for my samsung galaxy s20 ultra

kurahaupo commented 4 years ago

however i just recently discovered there are a few SMS texts from certain phone #s that did not back up in my gmail at all.

Check whether the messages from those senders are "Advanced Messaging". (Typically it's turned on per-device, so that a particular person will send all of their "SMS" and "MMS" messages as "AM" messages instead.

Unfortunately they're visually indistinguishable, you need to explicitly check the metadata to find out which format they're in.

Last I checked, Google had yet to document their new API for accessing these AM messages; until then there's not much that can be done, other that ask your correspondents not to use AM when sending to you.

-Martin

kurahaupo commented 4 years ago

Does disabling AM/RCS at the sender fix this?

kurahaupo commented 3 years ago

no response, closing