SMS Backup +

The call log on the LG G5 is not backing up correct. It only seams to backup what/when it wants. An option for a selected date range restore would be helpful. It would be cool only restore a day's worth of messages if using sim in multiple devices. When I switch phone I could just restore the messages I missed. Thanks for your continued development.

This is probably one of the greatest app I have, hands down. I love being able to delete texts off my phone for privacy, space, and speed. I didn't think it would restore everything with the actual time stamps and attachments either, but it does exactly that! Thank you so much for this application. Highly recommended! PS - This is my first Android store app review. And I'm glad this app got it.

Awesome app. Has saved my bacon through a few phone changes now. I Also love searching my SMS in Gmail. Restore operations could be a bit smoother / faster, or give me the option to ignore texts from 3 years ago, but that's super minor compared to the headaches it has saved!!

Besides rare instances when I can't restore, this app performs flawlessly. Been using it for years! And it allows people like me (basically a hoarder) to charge phones without fear of losing any texts. The auto backup to Gmail is the best!

I use this app whenever I get a bit antsy and need to flash a new ROM on a new phone. It perfectly backs up all my texts without any trouble. I've used this app for years now and I'm still a fan! Thanks to the dev for building such an useful and easy app!

1. install 2. open 3. connect google account 4.hit backup 5. DON'T SELECT SKIP!!!! SELECT BACKUP OR YOU NEED TO REINSTALL FOR FIRST TIME BACKUP!! That said...it brilliantly saves your sms/mms to a separate SMS folder in your google mail, and each message with attachement is saved as an e-mail style thread. So nicely done!....But i recommend starting it from a WIFI network since it can take a LOOOONG time for first synch!

I have had this app for years and it's been great but lately it is not working at all. It immediately stops backing up when the screen turns off. So I have to keep backing things up 5 messages at a time out of thousands. Or let my screen on for hours which is not ideal. I've never had this problem before but lately it is making me want to download another backup app that actually works

The automatic back up feature on this tool isn't working at all and it's selectively choosing messages to back up. In 1 conversation of 100 messages it backs up the incoming texts but maybe 1 or 2 of my own texts. Can't even read a full conversation with 1 friend. Needs serious work!

I never finished setting it up. I dont want it to email the backups to my gmail address. Simply store them on an SD card.would be great. That would be a really cool feature because I shouldnt need to uploaded and then download it back to keep a local copy.

Feature request: have option to restore only the most recent X amount or to only restore from the last Y time period. E.g. Only restore last 100 messages, or messages from the last 2 months. I have thousands backed up but don't need them all when I setup my new phone.

It backs up MMS, it doesn't restore it. Huge negative for me. SMS feature seems to work fine though. Only backs up in sets of 100 for me (even though I have it set to "All"). Haven't tried restoring SMS but atleast has the option. Also, not seeing anything like images or the vast amount if emojis supported on Android on Gmail. Not huge, but maybe important to some people.

Love this app!! Love love love. I have always loved this app but now for some reason it's stopped working won't backup at all... Having to uninstall this app after over a year it's just stopped working.. Uninstalled for a while recently reinstalled works great again thankfully hopefully it lasts

What good is it to have the option to backup mms if you can't restore them? It constantly says that feature isn't available yet. Will it ever be available!?! I've been seeing that message there for a long time with no sign that it'll actually ever be made available. So why even have that? I thought I had backed up everything but when I went to restore, some very important pictures were missing from my messages because the mms restore feature doesn't work!

I used to love this app for its relative simplicity and flexibility, but as others have mentioned the automatic backup hasn't worked well for quite some time now. New entries in the call log never trigger an automatic backup nor does sending or receiving a text message. I've also noticed that MMS messages I send get backed up with my email address being in both the From and To fields, losing the actual recipient's name/number.

Been using this app since my first Motorola Droid 1 & hardly any hiccups in over 5 years. Excellent way to organize and see my SMS messages and call logs within my gmail folders. BTW this is not the fastest way to backup there are faster apps but it's a fail safe app that takes up little space, memory and is reliable.

The way that this app backs up texts is quite a bit different than the other apps, requiring a special mailbox to be set up inside your Gmail for the text files to be backed up to, which is slower than just compiling everything into one spreadsheet that the app usually reads back from... But at the same time, it makes cloud integration easy and painless.

Have been using this app frequently and noticed now that it crashes whenever it tries to backup. I think its because i have so many texts but ive used on phones that have over 9000 texts before and it worked fine?? Any help? My google drive has plenty of space and i dont have more than 6k texts...

Doesnt back up anymore. Whats going on? Used to work wonderfully....update.....ya know...all i want to do is save sum memories...its been almost 6 months since it last worked. I have emailed u with no response. Today i have to erase some txts because there are too many n my phone...for that thread anyway...is not working properly. Thanks alot. UPDATE....DELETING.

Well I finally got a chance to test out this app's restore feature when I switched to a new phone recently. I don't know what people are complaining about... If you can't remember to back up, set a reminder for yourself in your to do list. I have a reminder to backup every few weeks and it works fine. Jeez people. The app was seemless as far as putting messages and call logs onto my new phone. It looks exactly like my old phone was. Thanks to the creator of this app!

Backup of voice text messages (audio recordings via sms). I have a family member who cannot type so we communicate via voice sms. I thought these were getting backed up too until I checked my gmail storage. This program has been backing up reliably and the archives have been useful.

OMG what a lifesaver! Samsung S3 to Note 4, nothing else worked. Not AT&T's transfer tool, not Samsung's Smart Switch, but this app worked flawlessly the first time without a hitch. Just install the app on both devices and hit "Backup"... you'll be prompted what to do from there. Very fast and efficient, backed up all my contacts, phone logs, and SMS messages. Just perfect, I cannot thank you enough for this fantastic tool.

Does a great job of backing up SMS & call logs to your email and has the ability to restore. Very handy for those that love Google Messenger because it has no backup options of its own outside of your phone service. SMS Backup+ works. The only downfall and why I give it 4 stars is because it can't backup MMS yet. It's in the works so if it isn't a major concern for you, I recommend this app.

I love this app. While I have never bothered to attempt to restore a backup, the automatic backup feature is awesome. Easy to review past SMS in my mailbox. If you are finding that the auto backup isn't automatic, please ensure that you have turned off battery optimization for this app. When my OS upgraded itself, the auto backup stopped working until I figured this out. There were several different services listed as SMS Backup+ under battery optimization - I simply disabled optimization for all.

Updated 11/24/2015: Still the best product to backup your text message and call log. Update 12/29/2014: Still the best. I have also used this product to speed up phones of friends, as they have too many txt msgs taking up space. Backs up all my text messages and call log so I don't have to worry about keeping them on the phone. I have a job where I am dispatched via text message so having a history backed up is wonderful! I recommend this to everyone.

Been looking for a way to transfer my sms & call logs from my old samsung pocket galaxy to my new note 5. I really thought there was no hope since my former phone has little memory to install apps. I tried others. It will just ask you to install more apps, do complicated steps that will make you quit halfway. Just install this on both phones then use a gmail account to back up from the old phone then restore sms & call logs on the new phone using the same gmail! This deserves 10 stars ;)

Great app, thank you very much! Auto-archives all your text msgs & call logs into your Gmail acct. Texts lumped together so need to search by person, words, or dates, unless want to browse thru long groups of conversations w each person. But does job perfectly - don't have to think about or worry you lost something if you delete a text, provided you set the auto backup for frequently enough. You can also open the app and manually back up msgs you wanna delete right away.

Any backup and restore app is only as good as the "restore" part. This one does the job, but not accurately, let alone perfectly. Example: it restored all my SMS and then some(!). It turns out that it restored even the SMS that I had deleted on my phone. In other words, even though I updated, the app never really synchronized again with my phone. It also restored my call history (which is a great plus), but it added a red color date on the missed calls, in other words, as if they were never retrieved. If the developer can solve these issues, then it's 5 stars for sure.

I've been using this app for years. However, when trying to only backup a specific group, such as "starred in android" it will only back up my sent messages and not those of the sender. The only way to get both halves of the conversation is to back up form "everybody" then I have to go in to gmail and delete those I don't want. It IS the only app I have found that accurately backs up in Gmail in a format that is readable.

One issue I see is the way it formats messages for Gmail. If a person is in my contacts with an email address, the phone number they texted from is buried in an X-header. Makes it hard to look for texts by phone number since Gmail doesn't allow filtering by headers. Would be nice to have the number included in the subject line. Still, a good app!

I love this program and have used it for years. The only issue I have is when it updates, if you don't catch that it has, It will stop backing up your messages till you open the app and allow it access to your gmail again. The last time this happened to me I was looking for an address I forgot to write down and realized that my messages hadn't been stored for over 6 months. Other than that the app performs exactly as states.

Update: Dev seems to have abandoned this app a long time ago. Auto backups aren't reliable anymore, and they'll stop without you noticing it. Make sure to manually back up every few days just in case. Been using this app for years. After connecting your Gmail account, it syncs all SMS to a "SMS" folder in your Gmail account. Seamless, easy, and reliable.

I started using this app when I started having problems with a previous employer as a way to cover my rear. It had proven to be even more useful for those sweet texts I get from my love among other things and keeps my phone memory higher and run smoother because I don't have a message thread full of texts I dont want to delete!

I have been using this app for years, and found it to be reliable and very easy to use. I only have one minor complaint that kept it from receiving 5 stars. Outgoing messages can be backed up after 1 minute, but the shortest amount of time available for backing up incoming messages is 30 minutes. I'd like for both incoming and outgoing messages to be backed up as soon as possible.

I like this app. I used it before & just recently reinstalled it. My only issue with it is that only incoming text messages are backed up & not outgoing ones. I'm not sure why. If there's a solution to this I'd love to know what it is. As of today 4/14/16 I'm changing my rating because I never received a response to any emails I sent to Jan asking for assistance. I'm not very tech savy & even though I read the FAQ's I still can't figure out why it isn't working.

Nice app overall, but when backing up MMS it doesn't properly handle group conversations. For example, I'm messaging person 1 and person 2 together, and when I view the backup in Gmail, replies from person 1 show up in one thread and replies from person 2 are in another. Proper archives of group MMS conversations would be really nice because those are the conversations I'm most likely to want to delete from my phone (it lags when opening a long group MMS thread).

Does all its work in the background. Never bothers you and it's indispensable! But now I unfortunately hesitantly need to. Take away the five star rating. When restoring sms an option should be given to how many or which sms to restore. Most people have tens of thousands of sms saved. It's takes for ever to restore them all and most people won't need all. Keep up the good work!

I thought the app wasn't working anymore since it was auto backing since Nov. I figured out tonight that this app was set on auto optimization which doesn't allow the app to run as needed if you don't open the app for 3 days! I removed it from the list & bam its working again!!!! So those of you having issues check you power settings.

I would like to backup everything g that is currently on my phone but there's no option for that. Only things it's backing up are the text I've gotten since I've installed the app. Any way to backup ALL current text that are on the phone?

Used to backup automatically but hasn't for a while now on 2 different devices. It also stops before completing 100%

The other day I checked if my backed up messages were good and they were. Today I did a restore to my phone and somehow the app restored my messages up until 2 months ago, a period which contained for me very sensitive data. I advise anyone to check when the app last time made backup for your messages or you might have some data losses.