[GTALUG] (off topic) Backup/restore of text messages on Android phone

[James Knott]

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.