[GH-ISSUE #421] Group MMS Conversations aren't properly threaded in GMail #352

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opened 2026-02-26 00:36:56 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

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2026-02-26 00:36:56 +03:00

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Originally created by @gramireus on GitHub (Jan 15, 2014).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/421

Hello! This app has been a lifesaver for me - it's the only thing I've found that can both backup and allow me to view backups of my sms and mms messages. I'm fairly pleased with how it works at present, but I have been frustrated by one thing - group mms messages aren't stored properly in gmail conversations. Instead, they are split at random into snippets of conversations in multiple threads with each individual participant, which makes them quite hard to read and decipher. As I use group messaging extensively to complete projects for both work and school, this is quite inconvenient for me, and I imagine many others.

I did search your issues history and about a year ago a topic (issue #279) came up about this, though it was worded more about the title of each conversation rather than how the messages are actually stored in gmail. At the time you refused to work on it - is this still the case?

Thanks for your great work on this app and I wish you luck in the future.

Originally created by @gramireus on GitHub (Jan 15, 2014). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/421 Hello! This app has been a lifesaver for me - it's the only thing I've found that can both backup and allow me to view backups of my sms and mms messages. I'm fairly pleased with how it works at present, but I have been frustrated by one thing - group mms messages aren't stored properly in gmail conversations. Instead, they are split at random into snippets of conversations in multiple threads with each individual participant, which makes them quite hard to read and decipher. As I use group messaging extensively to complete projects for both work and school, this is quite inconvenient for me, and I imagine many others. I did search your issues history and about a year ago a topic (issue #279) came up about this, though it was worded more about the title of each conversation rather than how the messages are actually stored in gmail. At the time you refused to work on it - is this still the case? Thanks for your great work on this app and I wish you luck in the future.

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@smarts commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2014):

I'm upvoting this issue. More and more users will be moving to the Hangouts app as the default SMS/MMS app, which supports group messages via MMS. You are going to start getting poor reviews if you don't support this feature out-of-the-box. Also - disclaimer: I don't know much about how this all works - but it seems like the e-mail backups aren't storing enough information to be able to restore group MMS messages because there's no info about the thread that the message came from. I'm not even sure if it's possible though... Also, I don't know anything about android development, but I'd be willing to learn some stuff and help w/ this project if you're interested.

@smarts commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2014): I'm upvoting this issue. More and more users will be moving to the Hangouts app as the default SMS/MMS app, which supports group messages via MMS. You are going to start getting poor reviews if you don't support this feature out-of-the-box. Also - disclaimer: I don't know much about how this all works - but it seems like the e-mail backups aren't storing enough information to be able to restore group MMS messages because there's no info about the thread that the message came from. I'm not even sure if it's possible though... Also, I don't know anything about android development, but I'd be willing to learn some stuff and help w/ this project if you're interested.

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@jberkel commented on GitHub (Nov 21, 2014):

Sorry i can't work on this now.. if somebody else wants to do this I'm happy to merge it

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Nov 21, 2014): Sorry i can't work on this now.. if somebody else wants to do this I'm happy to merge it