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Resolved How to recover deleted SMS !!!!!!?

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georgeadbb

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I AM SO DUMB THAT I DELETED THOUSANDS OF SMS WITH JUST A SWIPE OF MY FINGER!!!!!
Please! Could someone tell me how to get them back?????? The bad news is that I disabled back-ups in iTunes so I have anything to recover from.
 
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nunes013

nunes013

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georgeadbb said:
I AM SO DUMB THAT I DELETED THOUSANDS OF SMS WITH JUST A SWIPE OF MY FINGER!!!!!
Please! Could someone tell me how to get them back?????? The bad news is that I disabled back-ups in iTunes so I have anything to recover from.
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i dont think you can. unless you are running iOS5 and you backed up to the cloud.
 
iceterminal

iceterminal

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Disabled backup in iTunes. Deleted on iPhone......bad news OP.


Repeat after me:
Backups are our friends. Backups are good. Backups are nice. Be kind, rewind.
 
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georgeadbb

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because backing-up always took so long..... don't feel like doing it every time I connect iphone to iTunes.

Gosh.. I WANT MY SMS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Rodimus Prime

Rodimus Prime

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Always amazed by people who care so much about losing SMS. I mean how many of you have ever gone back more than 1 month of SMS to read them over again. Most of the time they just are filled up and so much noise. There is no way to really search them to find something you want and there is not anything on the iPhone that I know of that would need or could learn from them like swiftkey on andriod.
 
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georgeadbb

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Oh hahahahahahahahha
Just found the file containing all old sms in the iphone's file system.:)

I'm so happy right now. Problem solved~~~
 
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georgeadbb

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Rodimus Prime said:
Always amazed by people who care so much about losing SMS. I mean how many of you have ever gone back more than 1 month of SMS to read them over again. Most of the time they just are filled up and so much noise. There is no way to really search them to find something you want and there is not anything on the iPhone that I know of that would need or could learn from them like swiftkey on andriod.
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Yeah you're right. But these sms are from my girlfriend.. she wants to save a copy.
Anyways, I've recovered them.

Thanks so much for everyone's help~!
 
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james92se

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georgeadbb said:
Yeah you're right. But these sms are from my girlfriend.. she wants to save a copy.
Anyways, I've recovered them.

Thanks so much for everyone's help~!
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Your girlfriend wants you to save a copy of all the texts she's sent you to YOUR phone?

:confused: :eek:

Whatever floats her boat I guess.

In all seriousness though, how did you recover them?
 
Vundu

Vundu

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georgeadbb said:
because backing-up always took so long..... don't feel like doing it every time I connect iphone to iTunes.

Gosh.. I WANT MY SMS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You still could of done a backup once a week or something by right-clicking on the phone in iTunes.
 
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georgeadbb

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james92se said:
Your girlfriend wants you to save a copy of all the texts she's sent you to YOUR phone?

:confused: :eek:

Whatever floats her boat I guess.

In all seriousness though, how did you recover them?
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i wanted all the sms sent between us, good memories to have.
 
iceterminal

iceterminal

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I understand about wanting to keep memories. No problem, to each their own I say.

But you say that backing up took so long. My wife has the exact same complaint. Here's why: she only backs up once every 3 months....maybe. It takes her about 25 minutes. Crazy stuff...

I sync every day. Takes maybe 4 or 5 minutes. So sync every day if you can. You'll notice a difference, and you'll be safe.
 
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macsrcool1234

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georgeadbb said:
Yeah you're right. But these sms are from my girlfriend.. she wants to save a copy.
Anyways, I've recovered them.

Thanks so much for everyone's help~!
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Well isn't that just great news.

Apparently 'deleted' SMS messages aren't actually removed.

Apple fail.
 
jpetticrew

jpetticrew

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iceterminal said:
I understand about wanting to keep memories. No problem, to each their own I say.

But you say that backing up took so long. My wife has the exact same complaint. Here's why: she only backs up once every 3 months....maybe. It takes her about 25 minutes. Crazy stuff...

I sync every day. Takes maybe 4 or 5 minutes. So sync every day if you can. You'll notice a difference, and you'll be safe.
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I sync everyday and my backups take like 30-45 seconds.
 
Givmeabrek

Givmeabrek

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I've never had a backup take more than about 30 seconds unless I just added some big apps. Why does it take some people so long? I back up all the time. Maybe that's the answer. :confused:
 
wordoflife

wordoflife

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Backups only take a long time if you sync infrequently. If you sync every few days, it shouldn't be a problem.
 
diamond.g

diamond.g

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macsrcool1234 said:
Well isn't that just great news.

Apparently 'deleted' SMS messages aren't actually removed.

Apple fail.
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Aren't SMSs stored in a DB on the device? It would seem like Apple is just marking them for removal (if so) instead of flat out removing the DB entry.
 
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