On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 12:18:34PM -0400, James Knott via talk wrote: > 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.
I went to https://messages.google.com/web as instructed on the app, and scan the QR code. It says "Incorrect Code". Maybe, it's because I'm not on the original phone. -- William Park <[email protected]> 1397 Lewisham Dr, Mississauga, ON, L5J 3R2 --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
