topic K810i - SMS backup in XPERIA archive

K810i - SMS backup

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:17:03 GMT

Hi,

I have a K810i and would like to take a backup of my text SMSes.

I have searched for this topic in these forums and it seems that there does not seem to be a way to do so.

However, after using PC Suite, I am quite confused. Limiting ourselves to PC Suite for now, here are my doubts:

1. Using PC Suite, is there any way to create a backup of my text SMS?

2. Can the backups be stored in text format so that I can just browse through them like text files? I hate to depend on PC Suite just for viewing some text.

3. Can I restore this backup in case the SMSes on my phone are lost by accident?

4. What does the PC Suite Archive do? I copied my SMSes from the phone to a new archive and they are visible even when the phone has been disconnected from the PC.

I can see that PC Suite creates a bunch of text files in random order for these archived SMSes.

Thanks for your help !

Re: K810i - SMS backup

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:28:03 GMT

Never mind.

Used MyPhoneExplorer and exported the SMSes to HTML format.

Re: K810i - SMS backup

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:05:06 GMT

you cannot copy back to the phone your messages (you can, but it's lots of work - hacking)

you can save your messages also in SE pc suite by selecting print in the message archive of your phone, and then print to file (.mdi extension)

Re: K810i - SMS backup

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:20:06 GMT

Thanks Lucifer. I will give the "print" option a try.