Jumping ship from Android to iPhone

prashantnew

prashantnew

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Hi everyone, long time reader, first time poster

After much deliberation, I've finally decided to bite the bullet and buy the iPhone 4s instead of upgrading to the Galaxy S2

I was just wondering if there was anyway to transfer my texts from my old Galaxy S1, to the iPhone?

Thank youuu (now back to the England game!)
 
prashantnew said:
Hi everyone, long time reader, first time poster

After much deliberation, I've finally decided to bite the bullet and buy the iPhone 4s instead of upgrading to the Galaxy S2

I was just wondering if there was anyway to transfer my texts from my old Galaxy S1, to the iPhone?

Thank youuu (now back to the England game!)
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No is the short answer. Maybe if you jailbreak your new shiny 4s but not 100% sure on that one
 
Troezar said:
Funny some phone shop staff I know went iPhone to S2. Not had an iPhone myself but very happy with my S2.
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I know! I've spent hours and hours debating about this with myself, literally! But the android doesn't have some of the key apps that would make my life at work a tiny bit easier *sigh*

I did love my s1, served me very well for 2 years

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Do any of the jail breakers know of any way of transfering texts? ..I'm kinda soppy and sentimental with this stuff :S
 
prashantnew said:
I know! I've spent hours and hours debating about this with myself, literally! But the android doesn't have some of the key apps that would make my life at work a tiny bit easier *sigh*

I did love my s1, served me very well for 2 years

**edit**

Do any of the jail breakers know of any way of transfering texts? ..I'm kinda soppy and sentimental with this stuff :S
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Almost certainly not.

Edit: Some reading suggests the S1 stores the texts in a XML file. The iPhone stores it in a mySQL lite file. Convert them correctly and you might have a chance... But I've only found people going from iPHone to S1 not the other way round...
 
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MikeHunt79 said:
If you jailbreak then you can access the texts on the 4S thru iFile.

It's an SQlite database, good luck. :)
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Just thinking aloud here, but as you can use SQLite DB tools to access texts in an iPhone backup, could you possibly do the reverse and insert new texts into the database, then restore it back to the phone, avoiding the need for a jailbreak?
 
Steve_bullockuk said:
Why so funny? They are only phone shop staff, not the guru's of the mobile world.
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Pretty obvious really, they owned/used both work with them every day and chose one over the other. I take notice when people in a particular industry put their money where their mouth is. If S2 sales are anything to go by they were right. Besides which I've been very pleased.
 
Troezar said:
Pretty obvious really, they owned/used both work with them every day and chose one over the other. I take notice when people in a particular industry put their money where their mouth is. If S2 sales are anything to go by they were right. Besides which I've been very pleased.
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I wouldn't trust a salesperson as far as I could throw them. These are the same salespeople who told the GF it was impossible to transfer contacts from her old Blackberry to her ip4s. You should take everything they tell you and throw it in the bin. Literally.
 
A change is always good.

Would converting the sms messages to emails, still linked to contacts, be enough? You'd think think they'd be a conversion app for this type of thing.
 
Aww thank you all so much for the replies, its sounding a little complicated to do the conversion, was hoping hthere was a handy app to do all the hard work for me!

I think the debate as to whether to go S2 or iphone 4s will go on till the end of time, they'll never be a "right" choice.

Sarge 78, I was wondering if you knew how to do what you said about converting to emails then linking to contacts? There's about 7000 texts, would that take a life time?
 
Troezar said:
Pretty obvious really, they owned/used both work with them every day and chose one over the other. I take notice when people in a particular industry put their money where their mouth is. If S2 sales are anything to go by they were right. Besides which I've been very pleased.
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Sorry I don't normally react but your posts in this thread are irrelevant. The op is asking about transferring text messages. It's great you like your phone but this doesn't add anything to the thread. Also, iPhones 4S sales are way above the Samsung S2's (I'll source this if you need me to). Again irrelevant. Both are good phones.

Anyway sorry for the off-topic reply. Hope you find an answer to keeping your text messages.
 
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I love how you don't even have to post in the Android forum to get it's opinion these days.

Absolute pinnacle of efficiency, that. :p
 
Timber said:
Sorry I don't normally react but your posts in this thread are irrelevant. The op is asking about transferring text messages. It's great you like your phone but this doesn't add anything to the thread. Also, iPhones 4S sales are way above the Samsung S2's (I'll source this if you need me to). Again irrelevant. Both are good phones.

Anyway sorry for the off-topic reply. Hope you find an answer to keeping your text messages.
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Note the op said jumping not jumped. Just offering an alternative view. Did I slate the 4s? No. Do I know people personally that may know more than me about it? Yes. I shouldn't be surprised really, more zealots here than the Nvidia threads! It will make no difference to me what op buys just trying to help. As for texts our even contacts I find transfer between different manufacturers rarely goes smoothly. They really should standardise the formats...
 
Troezar said:
Note the op said jumping not jumped. Just offering an alternative view.
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An alternative view despite you admitting you don't know what you are talking about?

Troezar said:
Do I know people personally that may know more than me about it? Yes.
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You mean the phone shop staff who told you what phone to buy? ;)

Troezar said:
I shouldn't be surprised really, more zealots here than the Nvidia threads! It will make no difference to me what op buys just trying to help. As for texts our even contacts I find transfer between different manufacturers rarely goes smoothly. They really should standardise the formats...
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No uninformed rant would be complete without the old religious fanatic reference. Poor effort.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Just thinking aloud here, but as you can use SQLite DB tools to access texts in an iPhone backup, could you possibly do the reverse and insert new texts into the database, then restore it back to the phone, avoiding the need for a jailbreak?
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That sounds like it would work in theory. I've not tried it however. I'm not aware of how to access the SQLite file without jailbreaking however, but I guess something like iPhone explorer may work here.

I ended up using iFile to back up certain files including the SMS file to Dropbox before doing a full restore when jumping to ios 5, I haven't had to access them since but it's nice to know they're backed up. :)
Tute said:
I love how you don't even have to post in the Android forum to get it's opinion these days.

Absolute pinnacle of efficiency, that. :p
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There's an Android forum?;)
 
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