Transfer Text Messages from Phone to Mac/Windows Computer

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Save Android Phone SMS to Computer

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Why we need to backup SMS from phone to computer?
You have memorable text messages received from
your lover, your friends or your families and you
wish to keep them forever. However, you cannot
predict what would happen to your phone You drop
your phone, got your phone stolen or damaged, or
have your SMS accidentally deleted by someone
else. That is why you choose to backup them to
your computer. The other reason for transferring
SMS to computer is to free up your Android space.
If the capacity of the text messages reached a
certain degree, you will be prompted that you
cannot receive new messages unless you delete
some old messages.
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However, all saved messages mean a lot for you.
You want to make a copy of the text messages on
your computer before you delete them from your
phone. (You can learn how to recover deleted text
messages from Android) Now, we share two
different methods to help you transfer SMS from
mobile phone to computer, and what you can do if
text messages are lost on your phone.
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Backup Android Text Messages on Computer with
Phone Transfer
One way to help coping Android phone text
messages to computer is using Phone Transfer. As
its name implies, it is specially designed to
transfer data between two mobile phones, no
matter they are Android phones, iOS devices or
Symbian phones. But you can also use it to
transfer text messages from your phone to
computer and restore the backup file back to your
phone freely and easily. 1-click process, without
any data quality loss. Next, we will show you how
to use the Phone Transfer to backup your text
messages on computer.
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Step 1. Double click to launch the Phone
Transfer. Connect your phone to the computer and
the program will detect the connected phone as
soon as possible.
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Step 2. Choose "Backup Your Phone" option from
the primary interface to enter the backup window.
All kinds of data that can be backed up will be
listed in the middle.
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Step 3. Choose the category of "Text Messages"
and click the "Start Transfer" button to backup
them on your computer.
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Transfer Android SMS to PC with an Android App
In addition to the desktop software above, there
are also many Android SMS backup applications can
help you backup your phone SMS on SD card and
then you can transfer the backed up SMS from SD
card to computer. One of the best Android SMS
backup app we want to recommend here is the SMS
Backup Restore.
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Step 1. Go to Google Play Store to find the SMS
Backup Restore app, download it on your
phone. Step 2. Launch the app and tap Backup to
backup text messages to SD card of your Android
phone. Step 3. Link your Android phone to
computer by using a USB cable. Step 4. Find your
Android phone on the computer and open the SD
card folder. Step 5. Find the backed up SMS,
which is in .xml file and copy it to your
computer
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Bonus How to Read SMS.xml on Computer?
Most Android SMS backup software save the
exported text messages as .xml file, .txt file or
HTML file. TXT and HTML files can be read on
computer directly. To read SMS .xml file, you
need to draw support from a third-party tool like
Notepad, which is a free source code editor,
allowing you to read the SMS .xml file without
any trouble. But you can not edit the .xml file
by using this Notepad, otherwise, the .xml file
will be damaged.