Stock Messaging App

[jmagid51]

Some how lost all my messages except for the ones that were locked.

Is there a way to find the lost messages. As well a few of the messaging functions are no longer working.

Can the messaging app be re-installed?

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[VidJunky]

As for lost items, I would say unless you've been backing them up there's no way to recover those. Even if you had a second SMS app the pool that messages are drawn from is shared and if a message is deleted in one place it's deleted in all places.

As for re-installing the app. That is not technically possible unless you're rooted. What you may be able to do is uninstall any updates and then re-install them. However the optimum thing to do would be to get a third party app. The stock app is pretty basic and really doesn't offer the bells and whistles that many of the other apps do. A lot of them also offer automatic backups of messages, which would give you some degree of recovery.

 

[jmagid51]

How do I remove the updates?

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[jmagid51]

I looked in the application manager and the stock messaging app is not listed???

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[VidJunky]

I looked in the application manager and the stock messaging app is not listed???

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It's there listed as messages. I have it disabled so mine doesn't show any updates to uninstall, and there may not be any. But that would be as close as you could get to uninstalling it.

 

[jmagid51]

Found it ... no updates to uninstall though. I liked the app because it had a translate function that is no longer working. I don't want to do a reset but it looks like the only way to restore. Thanks for the help. Any recommendations for a messaging app with backup?

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[VidJunky]

Handcent offers a backup and several other features. Some are offered in a paid version but most in the free. Go SMS has a good following, and so does chomp.

 

[jmagid51]

Going to try AT&T messaging. It's on both my S5 and Tab 3.0. It, will sync both devices and does backup to the AT&T cloud. We will see what, happens.

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[jmagid51]

Got the app back and working. I cleared cache and data, that seemed to bring back the app to its current state. As for lost messages, it turns out that I was able to go to my Tab 3.0 and re-sync. All is now well. Thanks.

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