On 2020-05-07 12:05 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
Hi all,
My LG Nexus 5X died. It went into "boot loop" for a while, and now it won't even charge. It's dead. So, I'm borrowing old Samsung Galaxy S3. It recovered all data (those I care about), except text messages. I lost all my Google Messages data, which included personal text conversations as well as notices from banks, credit card, and sorts.
When I go back to my own phone again, I'm going to lose current SMS text messages again. How do I prevent this? How do I backup/restore text messages.
You could try the Google Messages app. It connects your phone messages to a browser. I just checked and I have messages, going back to 2014, which is 2 phones back. The messages, from 6 years ago, appear on both my phone and browser.