While contacts, and other important information easily gets synced to your Gmail account, but SMS is one thing – you will need to backup everytime you are changing phones/factory reset or even applying new custom ROM.
There are a few handy applications available in the Android market, which will easily help you make the back up of your text messages.
Backup to Gmail:
1. SMS Backup: It automatically backs up SMS messages to your Gmail account.
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2. SMS Backup+: Yes, that + is there for a reason. This app automatically backup SMS, MMS and call log entries using a separate label in Gmail / Google Calendar. It is also possible to restore SMS and call log entries back to the phone (MMS not supported yet).
2. SMS Backup & Restore: Offer similar functionality as the above app, this application takes backup of your SMS into file which is stored on your SD card (location : /sdcard/SMSBackup/) and same will be used to restore on the same or other device.
Gaurav Shukla is a journalist with over 12 years of experience covering the consumer technology space. He started his career with a self-published Android blog and has since worked with Microsoft's MSN.com, XDA Developers, How-to Geek, and NDTV Gadgets 360.
4 replies on “SMS Backup apps for Android – To Gmail, SD cards”
is there an app data backup for android ?i hate losing game progress while upgrading firmwares and hard resets
Titanium Backup does that..
SMS Backup & Restore by Ritesh Sahu is cool. It’s in my essential list. And it’s pretty much reliable.
Is there any application which can save SMS to a PC for backup ,which can be read later on the PC ?