If you are keeping the Android phone, you can still access the old messages on that phone. There is no need to try to transfer them if you are just keeping them for historical purposes.
What OP wants to do is actually import his old SMSs into the iPhone's SMS database. I have been wanting to do this too, but I don't think there is a reliable solution out there.
Since Sprint only started selling the iPhone in the fall of last year, it is a certainty that the Original Poster did not have a Sprint iPhone when the message was posted in June 2011.
I would put money on it: it ain't possible. How do you propose that Sprint would do this? Jailbreak the phone? Backup the phone, take the SMS database, import the old records into it somehow by modifying the database, patch the backup with the new database, then restore? It ain't possible. If you can prove that this is done, PM me and I'll pay you $50.
I would put money on it: it ain't possible. How do you propose that Sprint would do this? Jailbreak the phone? Backup the phone, take the SMS database, import the old records into it somehow by modifying the database, patch the backup with the new database, then restore? It ain't possible. If you can prove that this is done, PM me and I'll pay you $50.
Sprint has a machine that backs up all your information from an old phone and puts it on a new phone. It's designed to be cross-platform compatible and has an amazing track record. These gadgets cost about $7,000 according to my local Sprint guy.
The thing is, I don't know that it's as simple as having a fancy machine to do the job. The reality is, you can't simply transfer data to an Apple iPhone any way you please. The SMS database and the folder it's contained in are not accessible unless you jailbreak your phone. The only other possibility would be creating an iTunes backup with the desired SMS database and then doing a restore, but even so, iTunes checks backups to make sure they haven't been tampered with. I haven't done enough research on the technical workings of backups to know whether iTunes uses a checksum or a hash of some kind, or what, but it definitely aims to stop exactly this kind of practice.
To test this, do an unencrypted backup in iTunes, open up your SMS database in a simple text editor (the name begins with 3D) and change something. For instance, search for the word "hey" and replace it with "howdy." Now try restoring that backup, and iTunes will complain about the file you modified and will refuse to restore it.
I'm not trying to be argumentative here, but I would bet that Sprint's machine doesn't handle iPhones. I would be interested for someone to try and get this done and report on how they're able to do it, or not. As far as my technical knowledge goes, it can't be done.
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Originally Posted by efparri
If you are keeping the Android phone, you can still access the old messages on that phone. There is no need to try to transfer them if you are just keeping them for historical purposes.
Are you serious lol?
I am pretty sure OP thought of that before
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