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We’ve all done it at some point before. Going through a series of messages, we’ve accidentally deleted one. Come on, you can admit it. Sometimes we’re just a bit too quick to click the trackball, and it can turn into disaster. So what do you do in that case? Resign yourself to having lost the message permanently? While that might work for some, others want to recover it. Let’s take a look at how we can achieve this.
For a while, the stock answer has been “you can’t do that.” Once you delete something, it’s gone, and too bad for you. Thankfully, with a number of people having this question and asking it on forums, we’re able to figure out ways around the problem and recover our lost messages.
First we’ll look to timrcanada, poster at BlackBerry Forums, to see if his solution works. He claims:
Actually there is a workaround to this but you will have to spend time working on each message one by one…
Select the Search icon on your BB and do a search of your deleted messages if you can remember anything in the title or content of the message and if found, copy the message and forward it to another address ie your own hotmail addy etc.
You cannot forward deleted messages directly from the search…
You have to open the message, copy the content, then switch to create a new email message, paste the content, enter your forwarding email address in the to: field, type a subject and then you can send… phew!
I tried this on my Curve with both an SMS and an email. Both times, the search function did not find the deleted message. It appears this does not work. Perhaps it does with an earlier OS (I’m on 4.5)? If anyone wants to test this, let me know the results. For now, we’ll call it debunked. This was, by the way, timrcanada’s only post on BB Forums.
Thankfully, the next comment down gives us a better solution. It’s from a company called Dexrex, which aims to improve instant messaging. They offer BlackBerry software which can record your SMS conversations. This way, if you lose one you won’t lose it for good. This seems like the best way, currently, to secure the text messages on your BlackBerry. It only works for SMS right now, though the company claims it is working on extending the capability to BlackBerry PIN messages.
If you want to test out Dexrex, you can point your BlackBerry Browser to http://www.dexrex.com/mobile/blackberry. You’ll go through the OTA download process. If you do, let me know how it works. If I get around to testing it myself, I’ll post a quick review on the site.
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8 Comments ↓
I just got a BB Curve and I was looking quick how to’s and bam…your site was #1 on the list.
Thanks for the tips bro.
hi
I tried dexrex but now I’m using txtForward - this just forwards txt messages to an email-adress - without the whole online-login-thing..
cheers
Hey Joe,
Thanks for the plug! We hope you do get a chance to try out our application. Just to clarify - Dexrex has to be running to archive your SMS messages. The app currently does not upload older SMSs, nor does it find deleted messages. But, if you have Dexrex running and you delete an SMS off your phone, you will have a copy in your online account on dexrex.com for as long (or as short) as you want it there.
Thanks again Joe! And yes, we are planning to work for pin messages as well:)
Cheers,
would you know if you can recover the address book after erasing it on a black berry curve?
So you can’t recover the message without a program?
Unless the first process works for you — otherwise yes you will need the program to recover your deleted texts
I tried out dexrex and holy f**K it is awsome. I had my doubts if this even worked but it does. I highly advise anybody suspicious of there spouce to give this a try!!!!!!!!!!
Re: #10405 - well lets not say….
Does it show on the phone that it’s backing up, or does it just do it?
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