I got my mother-in-law a new Lumia 640. Her old phone is a Lumia 620 with Amber ((lemondrop!) Cricket!). She didn't have text message backup turned on, so I turned it on. It only backed up the last month to the cloud.
I tried the Transfer My Data app, but WP8 can only transfer contacts via Bluetooth. Same story for exporting to the SD card.
Any ideas? With how (celery!) WP8 was, amazing anyone stuck around. As of now, it seems her texts are forever stuck on the old phone.
Edit: Well, I figured out part of it. The Messaging app on the new phone had an option set to only download one month of messages. I changed that to all time, which seems to have got all the messages, but it didn't get any of the MMS content.
Edit 2: Spoke too soon again. Their Wi-Fi was really slow. Disabled Wi-Fi, and in just a few minutes all MMS content downloaded.
Edit 3: I guess I'm still curious if there is a way to extract SMS/MMS from a WP8 phone. I think with WP8.1, the "Transfer My Data" app can pull them out via the "Export to SD card" option.
I tried the Transfer My Data app, but WP8 can only transfer contacts via Bluetooth. Same story for exporting to the SD card.
Any ideas? With how (celery!) WP8 was, amazing anyone stuck around. As of now, it seems her texts are forever stuck on the old phone.
Edit: Well, I figured out part of it. The Messaging app on the new phone had an option set to only download one month of messages. I changed that to all time, which seems to have got all the messages, but it didn't get any of the MMS content.
Edit 2: Spoke too soon again. Their Wi-Fi was really slow. Disabled Wi-Fi, and in just a few minutes all MMS content downloaded.
Edit 3: I guess I'm still curious if there is a way to extract SMS/MMS from a WP8 phone. I think with WP8.1, the "Transfer My Data" app can pull them out via the "Export to SD card" option.
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