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Not all messages are backed up - random sections of conversations are missing (send & receive)

Open bizbuyer opened this issue 9 years ago • 4 comments

I have noticed that some messages do not get backed up and cannot find a pattern. It seems to happen to one contact more than all the others. The issue seems to be on one contact for some period of time, say a few hours. This seems to only happen about twice per week, so not very frequent. Some things that do not appear to be related to the issue:

Battery - I thought it may be power save mode preventing the backup, but this does not appear to be the case as some missing messages I believe are from when the phone had 47% (but have not proved this 100%).

Send/receive - whole sections of a conversation will be missing regardless of incoming or outgoing. An entire section of the thread did not backup.

It has happened on at least 2 - 3 contacts that I have noticed.

Messages are not deleted with in the backup time period (for example if the backup frequency is set to 2 minutes, no messages were deleted in that time).

I am running the latest version of sms backup +, on a Samsung Note 4 through Verizon with the latest all updates (automatic installation of updates fr carrier)

Thank you!

bizbuyer avatar Mar 15 '17 16:03 bizbuyer

I am having the same problem! I really need these text messages. And have tried a few other apps but they aren't working the same way. if you have fixed it could you please share with me what it was that you did

wynterpizarro avatar Apr 20 '17 14:04 wynterpizarro

I am having the same problem with my Samsung S5

kzgirl avatar Jun 08 '17 05:06 kzgirl

My Note 8 is also missing random messages in the backup. Android 7.1.1

BWKulig avatar Feb 05 '18 17:02 BWKulig

Maybe this helps: https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/665#issuecomment-368053785

Woi avatar Feb 23 '18 16:02 Woi