VMG Converter
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About VMG Converter
With VMG Converter you can easily view and import plain text SMS and MMS messages exported from Windows Phone, Symbian or Samsung using .VMG / .VMSG / .MSG / .MMS / .PDU files - straight into Android SMS storage.
NEWS: MMS is now supported. MMS support is still experimental. Please report oddities.
FREE VERSION - IMPORTS MAX. 200 MESSAGES AT ONCE. Get the Unlocker to remove this limitation and ads. Get the VMG Converter Unlocker here:
http://goo.gl/hyVcfe
Both Windows Phone "Contacts+Message Backup" and "Transfer my data" backup files are supported.
SUPPORT
We add support for new file formats. SMS backups come in many different flavors. If VMG Converter cannot parse your messages, the message file format is not (yet) supported. Do not panic, just send email to android@animatedoak.com. We greatly appreciate your feedback and WILL do our best to help you out.
INSTRUCTIONS
*** IMPORTANT ***
1) When importing to Android 4.4+, you must accept to change the default messaging app to VMG Converter temporarily. Afterwards, you MUST accept to change it back when asked, otherwise you won't be able to receive and send messages on your phone.
2) Messages ARRIVING DURING IMPORT may not make it to inbox depending on various phone manufacturer specific implementations. Turn on the AIRPLANE MODE before importing to make sure no SMS arrive during the import process.
How to use:
1. Export SMS messages to with Nokia PC Suite/Contacts+Message Backup/Transfer My Data.
2. Copy message files to your Android phone. Putting all files in a single folder makes importing easier.
3. Disconnect USB cable if connected.
4. Start VMG Converter.
5. Message listing appears shortly. If not, enter the correct location of VMG Files. Use Auto search to find the correct path if not sure.
6. Select the messages you want to import and press "Import".
7. Read instructions and notes that will pop up.
8. Messages now appear in the Android standard messaging section.
TROUBLESHOOTING (also read "Known issues" below)
1. Crashes while reading in message files
Out of memory errors occur with large amount of files/messages. Report these crashes to us, but as a quick remedy you should try to divide your files into smaller subsets.
2. Wrong time zone
If the time is off by hours in the message list, the VMG files may have their time in some other time zone than UTC. Change the time zone in settings to match the time zone in your VMG files and reload the message list.
3. Message thread time and date is the import time and date
Users of Android versions before 6.0/M may encounter this. If the time is set to import date and time in your message inbox after import, turn on "Refresh threads" setting to update conversation thread date, remove previous imported messages and then do the import again.
4. All messages have the same (wrong) date and time
You may be affected by a PC Suite bug that causes message original date to be the export date. VMG Converter can in some cases circumvent this by reading message date from the file name. Turn on the option from settings and refresh the message list.
5. Messages not appearing after import when using Hangouts
VMG Converter DOES NOT WORK with Hangouts. Switch to default Messaging app.
KNOWN ISSUES
- Possible loss of incoming messages while importing: turn on the airplane mode while importing.
- Android below 6.0 does not show MMS vCard content in Messenger. VMG Converter can import those, but they only show up in Android 6.0+.
- MMS group mesages currently show only the first recipient. We're working on this.
- Not all MMS content (vCard, video) can be previewed in VMG Converter. Try importing to see content inside the standard messenger app.
NEWS: MMS is now supported. MMS support is still experimental. Please report oddities.
FREE VERSION - IMPORTS MAX. 200 MESSAGES AT ONCE. Get the Unlocker to remove this limitation and ads. Get the VMG Converter Unlocker here:
http://goo.gl/hyVcfe
Both Windows Phone "Contacts+Message Backup" and "Transfer my data" backup files are supported.
SUPPORT
We add support for new file formats. SMS backups come in many different flavors. If VMG Converter cannot parse your messages, the message file format is not (yet) supported. Do not panic, just send email to android@animatedoak.com. We greatly appreciate your feedback and WILL do our best to help you out.
INSTRUCTIONS
*** IMPORTANT ***
1) When importing to Android 4.4+, you must accept to change the default messaging app to VMG Converter temporarily. Afterwards, you MUST accept to change it back when asked, otherwise you won't be able to receive and send messages on your phone.
2) Messages ARRIVING DURING IMPORT may not make it to inbox depending on various phone manufacturer specific implementations. Turn on the AIRPLANE MODE before importing to make sure no SMS arrive during the import process.
How to use:
1. Export SMS messages to with Nokia PC Suite/Contacts+Message Backup/Transfer My Data.
2. Copy message files to your Android phone. Putting all files in a single folder makes importing easier.
3. Disconnect USB cable if connected.
4. Start VMG Converter.
5. Message listing appears shortly. If not, enter the correct location of VMG Files. Use Auto search to find the correct path if not sure.
6. Select the messages you want to import and press "Import".
7. Read instructions and notes that will pop up.
8. Messages now appear in the Android standard messaging section.
TROUBLESHOOTING (also read "Known issues" below)
1. Crashes while reading in message files
Out of memory errors occur with large amount of files/messages. Report these crashes to us, but as a quick remedy you should try to divide your files into smaller subsets.
2. Wrong time zone
If the time is off by hours in the message list, the VMG files may have their time in some other time zone than UTC. Change the time zone in settings to match the time zone in your VMG files and reload the message list.
3. Message thread time and date is the import time and date
Users of Android versions before 6.0/M may encounter this. If the time is set to import date and time in your message inbox after import, turn on "Refresh threads" setting to update conversation thread date, remove previous imported messages and then do the import again.
4. All messages have the same (wrong) date and time
You may be affected by a PC Suite bug that causes message original date to be the export date. VMG Converter can in some cases circumvent this by reading message date from the file name. Turn on the option from settings and refresh the message list.
5. Messages not appearing after import when using Hangouts
VMG Converter DOES NOT WORK with Hangouts. Switch to default Messaging app.
KNOWN ISSUES
- Possible loss of incoming messages while importing: turn on the airplane mode while importing.
- Android below 6.0 does not show MMS vCard content in Messenger. VMG Converter can import those, but they only show up in Android 6.0+.
- MMS group mesages currently show only the first recipient. We're working on this.
- Not all MMS content (vCard, video) can be previewed in VMG Converter. Try importing to see content inside the standard messenger app.
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What's Changed
Adds experimental support for MMS messages (in .msg, .mms and .pdu files) and uses less RAM when reading messages.
Adds experimental support for MMS messages (in .msg, .mms and .pdu files) and uses less RAM when reading messages.
Version update VMG Converter was updated to version 1.19
More downloads VMG Converter reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
Version update VMG Converter was updated to version 1.18
Version update VMG Converter was updated to version 1.14
What are users saying about VMG Converter
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Had some messages backed up on an SD card from an older phone, let the app automatically search, and it found them. Importing them onto my phone was just a few more taps away.
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Please help, I'm in Japan and the unlocker is not available in my country. I dont want to take the fate and hand selecting each 200 mess to import to my phone :((( because I've got like 5000 sms
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An absolute life saver. Backed up all 7000+ messages without fault. Can not recommend it enough!
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Bought the full app since with 10400 SMS from my old Lumia phone, I will need 52 free conversation. In 15 minutes I had all of them converted into my messages. Thanks !
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The app crashes when trying to open a .msg file. Would like a refund.
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Copy your .vmg file in root folder. Do not keep it inside any folder. Only then this app will picup that file. It took me some time to realise this. App works as described. Thanks a lot to the developer. rated 5 star :)
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This app case me to my rescue twice. First, when I got android phone - OnePlus 2. Second time, when my phone had to be formatted 2 months later.
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Unable to read vmsg from android backup. Waste of time and patience.
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I took a backup from a windows phone in both .vmsg and .msg formats I transferred that to Android phone(6.0). however the app is not able to read that file from the system. It says no vmg/msg file found on the system. Please help.
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Though unpaid version only transfers 200 messages in one go. This one saved me from losing my old Lumia messages of which I had a back up in '.msg' format.
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Not support for unicode messages.
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I had almost 2000 messages in my windows phone and I transfer all the messages with this app best app ever I saw
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I got my back up msgs back
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It is the sms converter
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It works... very nice. Thank u
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Incorrect conversion
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wow very nice app
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Great tool
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I used "Transfer my data" app to make VMSG-file but on the android phone the app doesnt find any file
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It does the job very good...but the only disadvantage is that you can't import more than 200 per time in free version
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Helped me transfer texts from my old phone which backed up in VMG format! Kudos to the dev!
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Saved my bacon and my history
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Manual path selection is text only and therefore not intuitive and poor use ability... Crap design.
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Best app to convert windows msg file to android
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Nice app...
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I used "Transfer my data" app to make VMSG-file but on the android phone the app doesnt find any file
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Very good app
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Its the best app if you want to recover your backup file from an old phone to new one I was trying to restore my messages from my backup file. No other app worked but this. So it worked for me to restore messages from windows to android. Must try.
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Very easy to use and was able to convert all SMS from my old Nokia to Android without any problems. Really appreciate the developer
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This app is AMAZING!! Just the issue of time zone difference but other than that the transfer is flawless, Thaaaaaanks a lot :)
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I have tried to find a solution for weeks. My service provider can't transfer my sms messages from an old phone to a smart phone, but after a long, long research on google and with YOUR BIG HELP I have transferred all of my messages to the new phone. THANK YOU GUYS, you are AWESOME!!!
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I needed a app that could restore my old msgs. You made it easy. Great job.thnx
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Good
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Moved over 10,000 SMS messages from windows phone 8.1 to Android.
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Just see a bunch of asci numbers in the imported messages. Imsi:=31 Subject;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE;CHARSET=UTF-8:=44=65...and so on. BTW the messages were backed up on a Nokia X2.
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It does the job very good...but the only disadvantage is that you can't import more than 200 per time in free version
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I was able to recover all my messages. They were almost 2,000!
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What a lifesaver . its working. Thanks
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Useful and works precisely as advertised.
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OK, migrating 35000 messages from a Windows 10 phone that I needed. This did the job perfectly. Was trying a free tool which took ages and didn't work well. Restarted and this worked perfectly. Don't normally use paid apps but this was well worth it.... thanks