SMS Backup & Restore Pro

SyncTech Pty Ltd

About this app

SMS Backup & Restore Pro is an app that backs up (creates a copy of) SMS & MMS messages and call logs currently available on the phone. It can also restore messages and call logs from already existing backups. This is a Paid no-ads version of the ad-supported free app.

Note: This app requires existing backups to be able to restore call logs and messages. It cannot recover anything without existing backups.

For questions or issues please visit our FAQ at: https://synctech.com.au/sms-faqs/
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APP FEATURES:
Additional features not in the free app:
- Compress and encrypt backups.
- Use WebDAV as a backup location.

OTHER FEATURES:
- Backup SMS (text) messages, MMS and call logs in XML format.
- Local device backup with options to automatically upload to Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive.
- Compress and encrypt backup files.
- Choose a recurring scheduled time to automatically backup.
- Option to select which conversations to backup or restore.
- View and drill into your local and cloud backups.
- Search backups.
- Restore/transfer backup to another phone. Backup format is independent of the Android version so the messages and logs can be easily transferred from one phone to another, irrespective of the version.
- Fast Transfer between 2 phones over WiFi direct
- Free up space on your phone. Delete all SMS messages or call logs on the Phone.
- Email a backup file.
- The XML backup can be viewed on a computer via the online viewer at https://SyncTech.com.au/view-backup/

Notes:
- Tested on Android 5.0 and higher
- App only restores backups made by this app
- Backup is created locally on the phone by default, but has options to upload to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Email. At no time are the files sent to the developer.
- Please ensure there is a copy of the backup outside the phone before performing a factory reset on the phone.

This App needs access to the following:
* Your messages: Backup and Restore messages. Receive SMS permission needed to properly handle messages received while the app is the default messaging app.
* Your Calls and Contact information: Backup and Restore Call Logs.
* Network view and communication: Allows the app to connect to wifi for backup
* Your social information: To display and store the contact names in the Backup file.
* Run at start-up: Start scheduled Backups.
* Prevent Phone from Sleeping: To prevent the phone from going to sleep/suspended state while a Backup or Restore operation is in progress.
* Account Information: To authenticate with Google Drive and Gmail for cloud uploads.
* Location: Only requested and used during WiFi direct transfer due to a security requirement on Android.

Ratings and reviews

I can finally give this little helper the stars it deserves. I always set the Export to print and Include media (they show an incl emoji option, I don't have that function on my Samsung tablet nor Ultra 23+ cell) but all it collected was TEXT. Finally I gave the html button a try. Voila all the images were pulled but it took 40 minutes to find pdfsimpli to convert the file to pdf. No browser printer nor viewer on my devices could do it. Wish Developers bothered to write decent instructions.

Works great. I'm paying for pro, even though I don't want or need it as a donation to support your work. Thank you! It took a bit of playing to get it correct. Google wasn't restoring all my picture messages correctly and was importing some of them as blank files. SMSB&R would see these blanks and skip over, so they didn't get restored. If I told SMSB&R to ignore dupes then it would double things. The solution was to erase all messages in Google and SMSB&R (not backups) and do a fresh restore.

Excellent for automated backups, but missing a way to archive or delete really old messages. It's possible, if you make a date-based backup with a specific date + delete everything + restore the date-based backup, but that's a manual process. I'd rather have a setting to keep the last X years/months/weeks/days of messages and delete ones older than that. 38,000 messages takes a while to backup.

What’s new

- Added feature to export as HTML or CSV from backups
- Keep screen awake during transfer to reduce disconnection problems