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alembical
08-22-2013, 04:40 PM
To make a long story short, a bike thief was busted last night. As part of this felony bust, police have asked for my text message correspondence with him. We had over 50 text messages in the last 2 days.

I can not figure this out. I am not tech savvy. Phone is HTC Inspire, android. AT&T can not help, but could get me dates, times and Phone #s, but not the body of the messages.

Any help? My phone is currently docked to my computer by USB and I can see the files and folders. I also tried a SMS backup program but had no real luck.

Figured it was worth a shot.
thirdgenbird
08-22-2013, 04:56 PM
I've been on an apple for a while, but I thought I recalled finding a txt or csv file with message history on my old android phone...
alembical
08-22-2013, 04:58 PM
one would think it would be much easier than it is turning out to be.
MattTuck
08-22-2013, 05:04 PM
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smeiti.smstotext&hl=en

Does something like that help?
alembical
08-22-2013, 05:23 PM
trying to get too excited, but that seems perfect... if I can get it to work.

Thanks!
alembical
08-22-2013, 05:30 PM
darn.

Seems perfect, lets me filter by conversation and then starts to transfer to the SD card and says:

Oops! javo.io.FileNotFoundException:/mntsdcard/sms_20130822.txt(no space left on device)

I am not sure why. My SD card, according to the phone has 7.4G of Total space and 4.8 are available.
alembical
08-22-2013, 05:33 PM
I even tried to just download one days worth, 28 rather than 50 and same response. I really doubt that txt files take up much space at all.
MattTuck
08-22-2013, 05:40 PM
Wish I had the answer for you...

There are a few other similar apps. Not sure what the problem is.... is the app installed on the SD card or the phone's memory? Not sure that makes a difference, but it might.
alembical
08-22-2013, 05:41 PM
good point. I will moving app to sd card as well.

Appreciate the thoughts and help either way.

looks like I may be making a voluntary trip to the police station... at least better than an involuntary one.
alembical
08-22-2013, 05:43 PM
no help, but good idea and worth a try
Nooch
08-22-2013, 06:28 PM
I would just take a screen shot of the message body, and then email all the pictures to myself and forward on to the PD.

http://lifehacker.com/5994516/how-to-take-a-screenshot-on-android
alembical
08-22-2013, 08:30 PM
Thanks everyone. I ended up following Nooch's suggestion. Not sure why that had not crossed my mind earlier. But nice and simple ... and effective.

Thanks!