Thread: HOWTO: Importing SMS messages from Nokia phones to N900
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thomasvs is offline thomasvs
2009-12-29 , 17:14
Posts: 9 | Thanked: 5 times | Joined on Dec 2009
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Originally Posted by rmoravcik View Post
Hello guys,

I wrote a simple command line tool for importing SMS messages in csv format to N900. Using that tool I was able to import ~500 received and ~100 sent SMS messages from my old E66.

Here are few step how I did that:

1. I exported all messages to csv files using "Nokia Communication Centre" from Nokia PC Suite
2. merged together exported received and sent messages to one file. eg. sms.csv
3. copied sms.csv to device to home directory together with smsimporter binary
4. and then entered these commands from terminal:
chmod +x smsimporter
run-standalone.sh ./smsimporter sms.csv
5. done, now you should have your old SMS messages imported.

Code of that tool is little bit ugly, because I didn't wanted to spend all work day writing it. So, if someone want to improve it, write simple GUI for it, you are welcome.

PLEASE MAKE BACKUP OF YOUR MESSAGES IN THE DEVICE USING BACKUP APPLICATION BEFORE IMPORTING/EXPORTING YOUR OLD SMS MESSAGES!!!

EDIT:
- Added updated version of smsimporter. This version should automatically detect delimiter.
- Added smsexporter tool.

Thanks for the tool. I finally managed to run it without segfaulting. I have no idea why the code sometimes works (it worked in x86 scratchbox for example), but it always segfaulted when I ran it on the device. In the end the fix for me was simple; instead of doing char *delimiter; in the code, I changed it to char delimiter[2]; since you use it as an *allocated* array later on (doing a memcpy into the pointer) without actually allocating it.

With that minor change the code worked perfectly for me. The only niggle is that the message are listed in order of import, not in order of their actual date. Annoying, but survivable.

Thanks a lot for writing the code!