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ess0616

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Oct 9, 2010
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I was texting with my friend, and when I went to go read her text message, the iPhone crashed into safe mode!

When I went to look at the text message, they were completely gone. I tried looking for them in iFile. I went to the 'SMS' folder only to see a new 'sms.db' created only 40kb. My old 'sms.db' should have been around 10-12MB.

Of course, I did backup around three days ago, but I had some real important texts in the past three days.

Anyway I can recover or maybe they're stored somewhere in the phone under a different file name?

What could have caused this to crash? I did have a LOT of text messages; around 60,000 or more.

I'm going to go ahead and recover the text messages in the iTunes backup otherwise, when I sync, I'll lose my text messages PERIOD.

What's weird is that I still have the picture messages sent to me in the 'SMS/Parts' folder...

Anyone help me out?
 
Hi

Same thing just happened to me..

Did you find any way to recover "properly" without loosing sms received in the meantime ?

Thanks
 
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eaullas, thank you for searching. You are a gentleman and a scholar.
 
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