Originally Posted by juiceme

It is not difficult, no. In the contrary it is amazingly simple, easier than on any other platforms I have ever done it. (well, except on SFOS which is pretty much the same thing as on Harmattan...)

Proof-of-my-point:

• I tried to back up SMS'es from my wife's Lumia device, and it is absolutely impossible!
  There is no application to do it, and no access to any kind of command line either! Absolutely impossible!
  The only way to do it is to copy and paste each bloody SMS message manually to evernote client... You bet this takes time if there are lots of messages...
• I also needed to do this to a friend's Samsung Android device, and yes, of course it was unrooted!
  I had to wrestle with the damn device a fair while to find a way to get at the SMS storage without accidentally wiping it while in the process...
• Apple IOS devices... I have no idea! (never had to try that on IOS, lucky me...)

On harmattan you don't even need any application to do that. Of course you can use SMSBoat which is pretty neat way to do it but you can also do without any external tools; The SMS database is plain sqlite which you can dump in text mode by a simple query script

Originally Posted by N9er

Ok, I stand corrected, Meego is the easier option overall. I'm glad I'm not dealing with any of those other OS's. Though dealing with my own N9 is a challenge for me as I'm no programmer.

Not sure what I'm going to do. If I could get pc suite of nokia suite going again that would be another option.

Cheers for all the advice.

Originally Posted by juiceme

"Now I have to confess I just cannot find the script I used to pull the complete SMS dump from the database. I sure had a few lines of bash that I used to get a CSV dump.."[/CODE]

Originally Posted by N9er

Thanks for looking. Shame it's vanished as that would've been worth trying. If it turns up or you remember where it is, please post here or IM me as I want all data (phone numbers, dates etc). Cheers

Originally Posted by wolke

ive got two wrapper perl scripts that i run, one for sms/call backuprestore, and one for n9Export

here are the files out of my n9 repo (they should be run on the n9):
https://github.com/teleshoes/n9-conf...ackup-comm-n9e
https://github.com/teleshoes/n9-conf...ckup-comm-scbr

(at the time of writing, master is 46406cc)

also, i will gladly distribute the binary and face the legal wrath of merlin1991, who posted the sourcecode with no license or copyright.

of course, dont run this binary if you dont trust me, and you do so at your own risk.

https://github.com/teleshoes/n9-conf...S/bin/n9Export

Originally Posted by wolke

ive got two wrapper perl scripts that i run, one for sms/call backuprestore, and one for n9Export

here are the files out of my n9 repo (they should be run on the n9):
https://github.com/teleshoes/n9-conf...ackup-comm-n9e

Originally Posted by skyjumper

Thanks for this Wolke - I tried running and of course needed the Date:Format and Date:Parse perl modules. I tried from CPAN and that didn't work. Anywhere I can grab them myself?
Compiling them on device leads to a rabbit warren of build dependencies....

Originally Posted by juiceme

You can get just the SMS text (without dates or phone numbers) by

Code:

tracker-sparql -q "select nie:plainTextContent(?d) where {?d a nmo:SMSMessage}"

Originally Posted by robthebold

FYI, if one's texts are MMSs instead -- like sometimes group texts show up as even though they don't contain multimedia -- you can replace the "SMSMessage" fieldname with "MMSMessage" to get the text content of those.