text message retrieval

[tommorage]

My Samsung SGH-E720 deleted a load of my stored text messages by itself and i'm wondering whether there is any way to retrieve them please?

It's obviously an old phone and not a smartphone.

I was reading a single message. afterward i deleted that one and then the phone seemed to switch itself off and on again. when i went back to my inbox there was only 8 texts saved in there where previously there had been in excess of 40.

They are important messages too and i really need to retrieve them if at all possible. are they stored anywhere? (network, phone company etc.etc.)

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@tommorage 

If rebooting your phone does not retrieve them, they are lost forever unfortunately.

[Cleoriff]

@tommorage 

Unless you have them backed up with an app such as SMS backup then they are lost I'm afraid.

You won't be able to recover them.

[jonsie]

You could try rebooting the phone again to see if they reappear

They could possibly be backed up to your Samsung account

O2 don't store text messages