Can you recover old messages on Nokia lumia

[Anonymous]

Hi. Is their any way of retrieving old texts. I have a court case soon and need them. They were on my mums phone. We've just realised they aren't there now. She or I never deleted them but when her phone gets to a certain amount of messages old ones delete. Is their any way of getting them back, very important. Thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Not unless you backed them up using a PC suite or app etc I'm afraid.

[MI5]

Check and see if there is an app available to auto back up sms messages.
It may not help now but might help you in the future.

[Anonymous]

im not sure you can, maybe as MI5 said, but to be honest I dont think their is as its stored to phone memory and like anything you delete once its gone dude, its gone 

[aldaweb]

On the older Windows Mobile there used to be a program called Microsoft My Phone which backed up contacts  calendar SMS messages etc. automatically.  There seems to  be something similar for Windows Phone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Windows_Phone so if that has been activated there should be copies online.

[Anonymous]

cool never knew that was a facilioty on windows phones...  

[aldaweb]

Just to add that on my Lumia it seems to be in the OS so check your backup settings on the phone, you may have already backed the messages up to One Drive (formerly Sky Drive).

Sign in to One Drive online and check. Fingers crossed.:smileyhappy:

[MI5]

I checked my onedrive but there was no option to back up SMS, only contacts, calendar, photos and videos.

Which is strange because on the phone it says text message backup is turned on ?

[aldaweb]

in my one drive I have a text file in the "My Phone Export" floder both online and on my PC sms.txt

  

PC                                                                            Online

[MI5]

I don't think mine is set up properly - I'm gonna look into it......