About 20 minutes ago ALL my lost messages miraculously re-appeared!
Will the normal backup settings eliminate my depending on MS for restoring them?
Will the normal backup settings eliminate my depending on MS for restoring them?
Messages are backed up differently I think, so no.
It has been flaky recently but hopefully will stabilize. Messages are there but some bugs have been causing issues.
Yeah I never got my SMS' back. I get SOME if I roll back to 8.1 but on 10 nothing.
SOmeone talked about a 3rd app for pc, Windows Phone Message Backup
It logged to your account and download your sms directly from your OneDrive backup to your pc.
I'm testing now
Oh nice one! Tell me how it goes.
It's downloading for hours, soo sloooowww... I found messages as old as my first Lumia.
Now there's to find a way to put them in my spare phone
Ha ha ha! Isn't there an app on the store that can put your SMS' from the SD card?
Ha ha ha! Isn't there an app on the store that can put your SMS' from the SD card?
Ok, there are news for now...
I let my pc downloading sms for hours (so slooow), and app stops to 2015 October messages.
I found everything since my first Lumia switch on.
I didn't anything on 2015 November, I got my old faithfull 520 as always in release ring for catching threshold builds
Ok, there are news for now...
I let my pc downloading sms for hours (so slooow), and app stops to 2015 October messages.
I found everything since my first Lumia switch on.
I didn't anything on 2015 November, I got my old faithfull 520 as always in release ring for catching threshold builds
Mine took a few minutes to download them on the app, though up to December 2015. Maybe you had so many messages? Mine go back 2 and half years, maybe 2000 per year?
Awesome! That's good stuff.. now if only they would actually FIX this problem of ours...I'm the author of the "sms sync is incomplete" feedback in Feedback Hub. I've just read the comments (394 upvotes FTW ^^)
Whoever said this was misleading you. You cannot add the same account to the same phone using a different method. Like yourself, I tried this despite the seeming silliness of the idea (hey, if it really DOES work and fixes the issue, then why not...) and the phone complained stating that I could not add an "Exchange" account for an account that already exists on my phone. Oh well.. Nice thought, though!...one guy says that when he has added his MSA account as an Exchange hotmail account, then boom, all messages were back in a snap.
You are quite lucky, then! I've used that app several times with no change in sync behavior, unfortunately.Strangely, after using Windows Phone Message Backup app, my SMS started syncing back to my phone!! It's a Festivus miracle!