Transfer SMS from Android to PC
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I have 1 or 2 text messages regarding work on our house that I would like to keep on my computer. These text messages contain text and photos (about twenty) and I might need them for a legal dispute with the inspector who visited the house.
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Hello,
I think the easiest way to back up your SMS/MMS is to use a specialized app: SMS Backup & Restore
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
You create a backup file that can be saved to the cloud or locally (so you can back it up to your computer).
If you need the SMS, you'll have to restore them on the smartphone with the same software.
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You can read SMS/MMS on your computer using Google Messages:
Go to the site https://messages.google.com/ and follow the instructions to connect with your smartphone.
You can read and send SMS, but that doesn't solve the backup problem.
In the same vein, you can also use Mobile Connect which you can find on your computer in the Windows applications.
This doesn't solve the backup problem. You can obviously take screenshots on your smartphone or on the computer; but that's not really a replacement. That's why I suggested an app like SMS Backup & Restore.
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Hello,
It's fairly easy to do with SMS (even just by sharing them to oneself via email), less so with MMS.
The problem is that the application in question (and probably others) will, to the best of our memory, save in XML format which only includes the data structure without the specific software used to create it, and moreover, that, a priori, we are not going to save a specific MMS but all.
I am therefore not sure that this resolves the issue of "legal" archiving which would involve being able to use it independently of the original phone or another one if the first one breaks down.
I can do something like this with MyPhoneExplorer, but only with a short text and a single photo; it's impossible to obtain a result otherwise except through scrolling and successive screenshots which will then be unusable.
Of course, a number of phone brands allow archiving via their application and cloning software of all the content of the phone to a PC, but SMS and MMS are probably in their native format (database files) and again unusable, to be tested.