[GH-ISSUE #716] Huge number of SMSs for backup #605

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opened 2026-02-26 01:31:05 +03:00 by kerem · 3 comments

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Originally created by @aenaiman on GitHub (Feb 20, 2017).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/716

Hi. Thanx for this app. Vs.: 1.5.10, phone: LG G3.

I used it about 6 months ago, but somehow it did not continue. I reinstalled it, and then did a backup. I thought only the last six months would be dealt with, but it backed up over 4300 SMSs. Huh? I do not even have that many on my phone. And my phone has a 500 message limit. And afterwards, the SMS folder at Gmail only increased by about 100 messages. So where did they all go?

Confused.

Thanx for any info!

Aharon Naiman

Originally created by @aenaiman on GitHub (Feb 20, 2017). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/716 Hi. Thanx for this app. Vs.: 1.5.10, phone: LG G3. I used it about 6 months ago, but somehow it did not continue. I reinstalled it, and then did a backup. I thought only the last six months would be dealt with, but it backed up over 4300 SMSs. Huh? I do not even have that many on my phone. And my phone has a 500 message limit. And afterwards, the SMS folder at Gmail only increased by about 100 messages. So where did they all go? Confused. Thanx for any info! Aharon Naiman

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@Woi commented on GitHub (Feb 23, 2018):

I also observed a higher amount of messages being backed up or restored than messages in my IMAP folder. My guess (!) is: since SMS are limited to 160 characters, longer message are send as 2 or more messages. Today's phones do this transparent to the users and SMS Backup+ saves them as one e-mail, but during restore and backup they are counted message by message. But again: It's just an assumption.

@Woi commented on GitHub (Feb 23, 2018): I also observed a higher amount of messages being backed up or restored than messages in my IMAP folder. My guess (!) is: since SMS are limited to 160 characters, longer message are send as 2 or more messages. Today's phones do this transparent to the users and SMS Backup+ saves them as one e-mail, but during restore and backup they are counted message by message. But again: It's just an assumption.

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@jberkel commented on GitHub (Mar 28, 2018):

@Woi that's very likely the case. not sure what could be done to improve the situation, better counting logic?

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Mar 28, 2018): @Woi that's very likely the case. not sure what could be done to improve the situation, better counting logic?

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@Woi commented on GitHub (Apr 2, 2018):

@jberkel What comes to my mind is either count Multi-SMS as one message, so that the numbers match. Or just be transparent to the user with something like "Saving X messages to Z emails."or "Saving X SMS and Y Multi-SMS (Concatenated SMS, Long SMS) to Z emails"

@Woi commented on GitHub (Apr 2, 2018): @jberkel What comes to my mind is either count Multi-SMS as one message, so that the numbers match. Or just be transparent to the user with something like "Saving X messages to Z emails."or "Saving X SMS and Y Multi-SMS (Concatenated SMS, Long SMS) to Z emails"