starred/sms-backup-plus-jberkel

Fork 0

mirror of https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus.git synced 2026-04-26 01:15:58 +03:00

[GH-ISSUE #108] Random Delays In Specified Backup #93

New issue

Closed

opened 2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00 by kerem · 8 comments

kerem commented

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

Owner

Originally created by @Swxxttxxth-xx on GitHub (Jan 4, 2011).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/108

My girlfriend and I, both with non-rooted Droid 1's with the 2.2.1 update seem to have an issue with SMS and Call Logs occasionally never being received by Gmail at the intervals specified in the application's settings.

For instance, hers is set to do a regular backup every 30 minutes and incoming is set to 1 minute, however occasionally, it will just stop backing anything up until a manual backup is performed. I appreciate the application going into idle mode and using up less resources but I'm wondering if maybe it's completely going to sleep so to speak.

I didn't see this issue mentioned in the Market comments but am curious if this is happening to anyone else. I mean the idea is you shouldn't even have to check your Gmail or the application to routinely verify it's backing up, and if you don't, you may find it hasn't backed anything up for days. Other than that I love the app.

Originally created by @Swxxttxxth-xx on GitHub (Jan 4, 2011). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/108 My girlfriend and I, both with non-rooted Droid 1's with the 2.2.1 update seem to have an issue with SMS and Call Logs occasionally never being received by Gmail at the intervals specified in the application's settings. For instance, hers is set to do a regular backup every 30 minutes and incoming is set to 1 minute, however occasionally, it will just stop backing anything up until a manual backup is performed. I appreciate the application going into idle mode and using up less resources but I'm wondering if maybe it's completely going to sleep so to speak. I didn't see this issue mentioned in the Market comments but am curious if this is happening to anyone else. I mean the idea is you shouldn't even have to check your Gmail or the application to routinely verify it's backing up, and if you don't, you may find it hasn't backed anything up for days. Other than that I love the app.

kerem closed this issue

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

kerem commented

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

Author

Owner

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Jan 4, 2011):

Do you have background data enabled? it won't autobackup unless this is the case. the other thing you could try is to enable notifications, to see if the backups don't happen because of errors.

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Jan 4, 2011): Do you have background data enabled? it won't autobackup unless this is the case. the other thing you could try is to enable notifications, to see if the backups don't happen because of errors.

kerem commented

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

Author

Owner

@Swxxttxxth-xx commented on GitHub (Jan 4, 2011):

I didn't turn on notifications because I wanted everything to happen under the surface without it constantly telling me. Background data is on; as I said very often it works just fine but twice now I've encountered the situation where it just stops backing up and wont start up again. When I go into the application it is idle, even though I've just sent or received a message.

@Swxxttxxth-xx commented on GitHub (Jan 4, 2011): I didn't turn on notifications because I wanted everything to happen under the surface without it constantly telling me. Background data is on; as I said very often it works just fine but twice now I've encountered the situation where it just stops backing up and wont start up again. When I go into the application it is idle, even though I've just sent or received a message.

kerem commented

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

Author

Owner

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2011):

it would be good to turn on notifications to debug this problem - you can switch it off afterwards.

i've heard that sometimes messages don't get backed up when the app is moved to the sdcard, and the user mounts the sd as usb drive. you might want to try to move it back to phone memory if it's on SD.

see https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues#issue/93

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2011): it would be good to turn on notifications to debug this problem - you can switch it off afterwards. i've heard that sometimes messages don't get backed up when the app is moved to the sdcard, and the user mounts the sd as usb drive. you might want to try to move it back to phone memory if it's on SD. see https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues#issue/93

kerem commented

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

Author

Owner

@Swxxttxxth-xx commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2011):

I turned on notifications and moved the app back to SD. I'll do the same on hers or instruct her how to do it later and see if it helps.

Thanks! I appreciate the quick responses! :)

@Swxxttxxth-xx commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2011): I turned on notifications and moved the app back to SD. I'll do the same on hers or instruct her how to do it later and see if it helps. Thanks! I appreciate the quick responses! :)

kerem commented

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

Author

Owner

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Jan 9, 2011):

did it help?

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Jan 9, 2011): did it help?

kerem commented

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

Author

Owner

@Swxxttxxth-xx commented on GitHub (Jan 13, 2011):

I haven't received any error messages but there still seems to be times where there is clear evidence that the phone is sending and receiving data on its 3G connection and yet the SMS messages and call logs are either not backing up, or are not backing up according to the specified schedule.

I don't know how exactly this application works but in my head what would be nice is if all SMS/call log data was organized, timestamped, and written to a file on the SD card, then based on the backup schedule, emailed to the user. This way, even if the backups are off, all data is already backed up and ready to be emailed. Otherwise if something happens to the device or data before the backup, it gets skipped obviously.

@Swxxttxxth-xx commented on GitHub (Jan 13, 2011): I haven't received any error messages but there still seems to be times where there is clear evidence that the phone is sending and receiving data on its 3G connection and yet the SMS messages and call logs are either not backing up, or are not backing up according to the specified schedule. I don't know how exactly this application works but in my head what would be nice is if all SMS/call log data was organized, timestamped, and written to a file on the SD card, then based on the backup schedule, emailed to the user. This way, even if the backups are off, all data is already backed up and ready to be emailed. Otherwise if something happens to the device or data before the backup, it gets skipped obviously.

kerem commented

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

Author

Owner

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Jan 13, 2011):

another thing might be the fact that you're running a droid: there are some bugs related to timzone/timestamps, which causes some incoming msgs to be skipped.

@jberkel commented on GitHub (Jan 13, 2011): another thing might be the fact that you're running a droid: there are some bugs related to timzone/timestamps, which causes some incoming msgs to be skipped.

kerem commented

2026-02-26 00:36:14 +03:00

Author

Owner

@Swxxttxxth-xx commented on GitHub (Jan 14, 2011):

Well, that sucks...So then in theory if it backs up data during the PM, it could mistake AM data for PM and conclude it had already been backed up. As when this issue has befallen us I noticed it happening later at night or early in the morning especially. I'd thought it was only the DX/D2 that was having issues..? I'm honestly not too overly concerned about this myself but she keeps EVERY text she gets, some important, some not, but regardless she has conversations from 20 different people that I'm sure she'd hate to lose permanently. :p

@Swxxttxxth-xx commented on GitHub (Jan 14, 2011): Well, that sucks...So then in theory if it backs up data during the PM, it could mistake AM data for PM and conclude it had already been backed up. As when this issue has befallen us I noticed it happening later at night or early in the morning especially. I'd thought it was only the DX/D2 that was having issues..? I'm honestly not too overly concerned about this myself but she keeps EVERY text she gets, some important, some not, but regardless she has conversations from 20 different people that I'm sure she'd hate to lose permanently. :p