• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Transferring text messages from Android to Android

McClintoc

McClintoc

Fully [H]
2FA
Joined
Sep 27, 2005
Messages
17,388
This has probably been asked many times so I am just piling on, but is there an easy way to transfer text messages between phones? I recently switched from a Samsung Galaxy to a Motorola ThinkPhone (roughly the same specs as an S22 Ultra). Both Android OS but different manufacturers. I have done some Googling but can't seem to find a straight answer. Has anyone around here actually done this successfully? I'd would prefer to transfer the texts directly from phone to phone if possible and not use some third-party app.
 
back up to google drive and restore on new one? for text you do have to be using google message...
 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en_US&gl=US

I've used this countless times. It generates an xml file which you can transfer locally or it can upload to Google Drive. On the new phone use the same app to restore the xml file. It will temporarily take over default SMS app, and during restore you can choose to check for duplicates (unnecessary if the new phone has no texts but great if it already has some moved over e.g. from Google backup). After it restores open your normal SMS app and grant it default permissions, it might take a minute or two to rebuild the index but then you'll have 100% of everything.

Google Device backup for me has never fully restored my texts so I would never rely on that. I get you don't want to use an app but this works great and you can uninstall the app from both phones when you're done.
 
pendragon1 said:
try this way
https://www.guidingtech.com/restore-android-messages-google-drive/
Click to expand...
Right, I was agreeing it was there, I just didn't know that it did that before now.

Dopamin3 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en_US&gl=US

I've used this countless times. It generates an xml file which you can transfer locally or it can upload to Google Drive. On the new phone use the same app to restore the xml file. It will temporarily take over default SMS app, and during restore you can choose to check for duplicates (unnecessary if the new phone has no texts but great if it already has some moved over e.g. from Google backup). After it restores open your normal SMS app and grant it default permissions, it might take a minute or two to rebuild the index but then you'll have 100% of everything.

Google Device backup for me has never fully restored my texts so I would never rely on that. I get you don't want to use an app but this works great and you can uninstall the app from both phones when you're done.
Click to expand...
That was my go-to before finding it in Google's Drive Backup. I'll have to try Drive next time, but I'll have an SMS backup first.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top