Well, this is something I’ve been trying to work out how to do for quite a while, I had browsed the entire file system of the phone through Windows, and by looking at it specifically through the phone, but couldn’t find anything as to where it stored SMS text messages. I have over 4,500 text messages on my phone, and I have made it a habit of mine to never delete anything, this includes every e-mail I send and receive and all IRC channels.

So when Apple announced the iPhone 3g, I needed to find a way to save or backup these messages, otherwise they’ll be lost forever and stuck on this little XDA Orbit. o2 came to a possible rescue with their Bluebook website, however this only backs up messages once you sign in and agree to it, no storing things from the past. You can however send it new messages, but im not going to forward it 3000 text’s, no only will it take me forever, itll probably cost me a kidney (or 2).

Instead of the obvious health problems I would get after doing that, I started Googling for a solution, and it seems that quite a few people want to be able to backup their txt messages from their Windows Mobile phones. Luckily after a little time I managed to find something partly useful which just about does the job while providing a few extra little functions.

This program is called Jeyo Mobile Extender, this allows you to backup all your text messages from your phone into Outlook. It also provides you with a way of responding to text messages through that, so if you have your phone connected via ActiveSync no longer do you have to reply through that! It’s SMS downloader however is a little buggy, when telling it to download every text message I have it took a little while to think about it, then just crashed out telling me my phone was not connected. I then found a way to tell it to download certain text messages from certain folders, and it seemed to be much happier doing it this way.

This appears to be a nice solution to a problem lots of people are having, and seems to work quite well, other than in the extremes of thousands of messages. Either way, i’ll be using this until my new iPhone arrives!

Although that bodes the next problem… how do I transfer these text messages onto an iPhone? Doh!