SMS Tools

Multipurpose import / export / merge tool for your text message history. (formally Android-SMS-DB-importer)

Now on PyPi (the python package index) and available using pip! pip install smstools puts smstools in your path, you're ready to roll.

Convert your message history between:

• iOS 5, 6, and 7 databases directly (from backup or from your jailbroken phone directly)
• Android mmssms.db database (directly from phone)
• Android XML from the SMS Backup & Restore app
• CSV files
• JSON files
• google voice data dump (see more details below)

Get all of your old messages onto your android phone.

Why?

• Leaving Google Voice?
• Getting a new iPhone or Android phone?
• Want a searchable CSV, JSON, or XML file of your conversations?
• Want to move all your messages from your past into a new, date-sorted, database?

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##Howto:

Now on PyPi (the python package index) and available using pip! pip install smstools puts smstools in your path, you're ready to roll.

usage: smstools [-h] [--type {xml,json,android,csv,ios5,ios7,ios6}]
                    infiles [infiles ...] outfile

##Where do I get my files from?

• iPhone:

• Pull from your iTunes backup: See below!
• If you're jailbroken: pull down /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db

• Android:

• mmssms.db pulled from your phone: See below!
• SMS Backup & Restore to get an XML file of your messages.

• Google Voice: Work in progress

####Getting your iPhone messages from iTunes backup

1. Open the right folder:

• On Mac OS X open "~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/"
• On Windows 7/Vista open "C:\Users[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup"

2. Open the most recent folder (the most recent backup)
3. Get the file named "3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28" and rename it to sms.db

####What is the Android mmssms.db file? This is the sqlite file where your Android phone stores messages. To read or write it you'll need root. It's located at /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

It may be possible to read it directly using ADB by running the adb pull command as com.android.providers.telephony. Otherwise use SMS Backup & Restore or something similar.

So why use this option?

• It's orders of magnitude faster. Perfect for load testing mms applications with different databases (why I created this)
• Much better database performance. After importing the output.xml file with SMSBackupRestore.apk my Messaging.apk was left completely unusable. SMSBackupRestore is great, but it doesn't handle tens of thousands of messages.

##My results When I run this tool on my Google Voice data it processes 6675 messages into 149 conversations in 15 seconds, which is 435 average entries/second. Not bad!