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Does not Backup SMS of Signal App #841

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p3k opened this issue Feb 18, 2018 · 4 comments
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Does not Backup SMS of Signal App #841

p3k opened this issue Feb 18, 2018 · 4 comments

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@p3k
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p3k commented Feb 18, 2018

I am using Signal as my default SMS application.

After the first backup with SMS Backup+ I noticed only 25 of the approx. billions of billions of billions messages on the phone were stored on my IMAP server.

In fact, these 25 are coming from the pre-installed system app to handle text messages.

What could I possibly do to remedy this behaviour?

@jasonab
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jasonab commented Feb 18, 2018

There are lots (and lots) of issues related to this in the Signal repo. Signal stores its messages in its own database on your phone, different from the default SMS location. There are many people requesting the ability to back it up, either in Signal or by putting the messages in the default location, but that hasn't happened yet.

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p3k commented Feb 18, 2018

Oh, I see. Thanks for the hint, was not aware of this at all.

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@jberkel
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jberkel commented Feb 18, 2018

@jasonab thanks for the info. for later reference, signalapp/Signal-Android#6012, signalapp/Signal-Android#339

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jasonab commented Feb 19, 2018

I'd also mention signalapp/Signal-Android#5729 as that actually mentions the Android SMS store

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