iPhone SMS Import - Application

2010-04-25T15:57:00.001+02:00

The usage of the iPhone SMS Import is pretty simple and straight forward.
You can very easily import text messages from your iPhone to your Android Device.
The hardest part is to locate your SMS database and copy it on your SD card.

1) Click the "Select conversations"button.

2) You'll get a list with all the SMS conversations and currently stored in your iPhone SMS database. The popup lists them with the name of the person you were texting and the number of SMS in that conversation.
Note: If a phone number is unknown on the phone, it will just display the number

3) Simply select the conversations you wish to import.

4) A status message shows how many conversations are selected. With a click on the "Start import", you can obviously start the import ;)

5) Depending on the number of messages, the import process can take a while.

6) The import process finished

Messages

Before

After

Troubleshooting:

"SD card not properly mounted" - Please check if your sd card is correctly inserted and is currently not mounted by your computer.
"Database not found" - Please check if the database is correctly stored in the sd cards root directory as "sms.db", "3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mddata" or "3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mdbackup".

iPhone SMS Import - Locate sms database

2010-04-25T15:55:00.000+02:00

There are two ways to obtain the sms database.

1. Obtain from iTunes Backup

The easiest way to find the sms database from your iTunes backup is by simply searching for files containing the string 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.

Your computer should find a file named 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mddata or 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mdbackup.

Under Mac OS, the file is located under "~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/[long hex string]/".
For Windows, the directory is "C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\[long hex tring]\" (Documents and Settings may vary depending on your language settings).

If you found the file, simply copy it to the root folder of your phones SD card and start the iPhone SMS Import application.

Important: !!This does NOT work if your iTunes backups are encrypted!!

2. Obtain from Jailbroken iPhone

To obtain the sms database from a jailbroken iPhone, SFTP into the phone and copy the file "/var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db" to the sd card of your phone and start the iPhone SMS Import application.

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iPhone SMS Import - Application

iPhone SMS Import - Locate sms database