Caution with contacts+message backup

[Brandon Keenan]

Just reverted back to WP8.1 from trying out 10 for a week and noticed that every time I sent a text it would hang up and freeze the phone. Didn't know what was going on until 3 hard resets later when I noticed that in each chat history there were duplicated of many of the messages. Basically every time I was resetting and using the restore SMS and MMS to my phone it was importing it into the ones that are automatically backed up to onedrive. So word of caution to anyone doing this, either disable the autobackup for texts for onedrive or do not restore the messages.

 

[randyoaks187]

Just reverted back to WP8.1 from trying out 10 for a week and noticed that every time I sent a text it would hang up and freeze the phone. Didn't know what was going on until 3 hard resets later when I noticed that in each chat history there were duplicated of many of the messages. Basically every time I was resetting and using the restore SMS and MMS to my phone it was importing it into the ones that are automatically backed up to onedrive. So word of caution to anyone doing this, either disable the autobackup for texts for onedrive or do not restore the messages.

I am having a similar issue upgrading from an Icon to 950 ... lol wish I would have read this first

 

[Brandon Keenan]

I didnt realize this until I had already done this process 3 times.... yea... so my messages kept exponentially getting larger and larger until it was trying to download 250k messages from the onedrive servers... no bueno

 

[dfaris]

Is there a way to remove contacts+message backup since all I want is it backed up to onedrive?

 

[Brandon Keenan]

after you have already restored the backup? not that I am aware of. It adds it to the onedrive backup automatically which is when you get duplicates. I would reset the phone before it is able to restore and combine the messages. I did not and I got threads that became 2-3 times as long because of the duplicates.