SMS Backup & Restore

SyncTech Pty Ltd

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About this app

SMS Backup & Restore 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.

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/


APP 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.
- 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.
* Storage: To create the Backup file on the SD card.
* 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.
* Test access to Protected Storage: To create the Backup file on the SD card.
* 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

For whatever reason, after I backed up and restored, I now have three copies of each text. Please add a duplicate-removing feature. Also, when doing a Google security checkup, Google recommended removing access to SMS Backup and Restore because it's "not a trusted app." I dismissed this and checked to see if it's still I'm the Play Store, which it is, so I'm confused about the alert.

Can't undelete. None can. But if you want a total archive of a conversation, this is the app. With the free version, you have to manually back up. it's super fast and highly reliable, especially if you tether external storage to the phone for this app while in use. And if you don't like the free version, you can always get your money back. No questions asked.

*** REVIEW CHANGED! 2025-03: I still use this app, but today it served up an ADVERT that was a link to a very suspicious site, and it looked like an app button. BEWARE OF THIS. *** OLD RV: I use it every time I upgrade cyanogenmod.. and it works every time. I have tons and tons of SMS messages and don't throw them away, and it restores the lot!! Be warned: It backs up to internal, so be sure to run a Titanium backup, THEN back up your SD card to your PC - BEFORE you erase a single thing!!!

What’s new

- Fix for an issue where the app was not detecting itself as the default SMS app during the delete messages process
- Added a label above Ads to identify them more easily so as to prevent users from mistaking them for app functionality