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Text message history

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:35:35 GMT

Hi,

I recently change phones and with it the whole of my messaging data for december has gone missing.

The problem now is there is a very important message I need to find as a home rental turned sour and the tenant is lying and insinuating we forced them out when in actual fact we only provided a warning.

Is there a way to request all sent message data, as messages can be doctored so the tenant could doctor the sent messages in their own way. As I have not history of this on the phone I wouldnt be able to prove otherwise.

Please help

Matt

Re: Text message history

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:42:17 GMT

Have a look at http://service.o2.co.uk/IQ/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,KB=Companion,question=ref%28User%29:str%28Mobile%29,CASE=12867

O2 can't provide copies of the content of text messages.

Regarding your concerns re edited texts - speak to a lawyer. In practice, it's hardly a simple, straight-forward task to edit a text message in situ on the phone so it's incredibly unlikely to be a problem but a lawyer will be able to advise you on how to challenge such evidence.

Re: Text message history

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:59:07 GMT

Learning curve is not to just text a tenant.

Always back things up in writing and getting signatures from the tenant.

Re: Text message history

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:17:31 GMT

cheers guys.

by the look im screwed, lesson certainly learned here I wont be renting out again.

what makes the whole thing worse is the tenant in question works with me on the same team and currently owes £700, the effect this could have on work if she doesn't pay could be catastrophic.

Re: Text message history

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:16:45 GMT

Obvious question - do you still have the "old" phone?

Re: Text message history

Liquid — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:16:51 GMT

Horrible situation to be in:(

Luckily depending on the platform doctored txts would be relatively simple to prove.

Re: Text message history

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:08:19 GMT

yeah still have the old phone, thought it was knackered as wouldnt turn on. Check on the phone and I have texts all the way until 28/11/12 nothing for december. Very strange, it seems as if all text data d=for december has just vanished and I certainly didn't delete it. We'll knowingly deleted it anyway. Its the worst thing that could hav happened.

Re: Text message history

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:58:12 GMT

If you haven't actually deleted the message, try taking the sim and any memory card out of the old phone and put them in your new one - it's possible they are still there but the old phone is not finding them.