How can I save home-made videos to my Lumia 640 phone or pc sent to me in a text message?

[Susanoz]

Using Lumia Denim 8.2, Upgrade 2 w/ no sd micro card, is there a way to save short home-made video recordings (ie, IMG_1642.3gp - 10 seconds long) to my phone or Dell laptop pc that were sent to me via text message? When opened, there is no "Save" icon option at the bottom of the video or phone to save them? Holding down the text message where it is contained, only allows to "delete" or "forward" I'm a new grandma who would love to save these home-made recordings of my newborn grandson using my first smartphone and not stellar tech savvy. Thanks in advance for anyone willing to answer.

 

[Teo Bartulovic]

Just connect your phone to PC via USB and move those video clips to video folder, simple as is, or move them to your OneDrive or for example install Air transfery on both machines and transfer it wireless, there are number of options to do this,

 

[Susanoz]

Thank you Teo, but I can not move a video sent to me in a text message (one I did not create) that has no save option; it has to be saved in order to then to transfer it to one drive or similarly saving to photos or another folder via my usb to pc connection. I can only do that with videos I create. From a text message I can only delete the video, forward it to another text message recipient/contact or play it. As for Air Transfery, I have no idea what that is.

 

[anon(6078578)]

One work around you can use is to forward it to an email address if your carrier has that ability.

 

[Susanoz]

Thanks for answering rgv521, but I've already stated the video can only be forwarded within a text message to a contact or deleted. Unless the video itself has a "SAVE" option--which it does not--it can't be used as an attachment to an email. What I need is a way to SAVE it.

 

[anon(6078578)]

Thanks for answering rgv521, but I've already stated the video can only be forwarded within a text message to a contact or deleted. Unless the video itself has a "SAVE" option--which it does not--it can't be used as an attachment to an email. What I need is a way to SAVE it.

I don't mean save the video as an attachment and *then* send via email. I literally mean forward the multimedia message to an email address by entering an email address instead of a contact. As I said, I don't know if it will work with your carrier. It does here in the USA. I am on T-mobile and can do this for instance.

Having said that, I have no idea why Windows Phone only allows you to save photos and not video from MMS. It does seem like an unforgivable oversight on Microsoft's part.

 

[Susanoz]

rgv521 THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! As I noted earlier I'm a not-so-tech-savvy new grandma and you have not only solved my issue but have made me very happy. I did not know I could type in an email address [mine] and save it to my computer to play. I am also in US/California and a T-Mobile subscriber using Windows 7/Windows Media Player 12. Microsoft WMP did not support .3pg video or audio, so I had to download a K-Lite Mega Codec Pack from filehippo.com to get it to work. Several threads on Microsofts website dating from 2010 to the present complaining of inability to play audio/video .3gp files that are used everywhere on this planet with only forum members fixes noted, MS directing to a link that provides no solution as its solution even in updates for the past 5 years and MS phones sold without its users being able to play the on MS WMP. I agree, it certainly is a failure on MS's part, I can't THANK YOU ENOUGH; I am now able to hear and see and my first grandbaby's movements and sounds, thanks to you. Blessings to you.

 

[anon(6078578)]

Very glad you are now able to view your videos!

To be fair, the ability to send to an email address via messaging isn't an obvious one. Anyway you seem quite tech savvy to me