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SMS Backup+ removed from Google Play Store #1104
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I'm confused the app is discontinued? |
It seems that app come under google store policy of non-maintance and security for OAuth issues. Now it will bck only once the app get some update and fix for OAuth issues as per new APIs |
As a workaround I have sideloaded and it works ok. |
This pushes up the priority of #1059. If Jan is no longer contactable, that leaves me as one of the few with write access to this repo, but I still couldn't push to the PlayStore repo even if it still existed. At least this gives a new project a clean slate with Google. |
@al-right thanks for the heads-up. |
I imagine there are a fair few long time freeloaders (aka users) like me who would love to see this working again. My techie skills are modest and stale but I'm happy to be on videoconf/call/chat to review what help would make the task less of a burden and in that there may be something I can do (if only co-ordinating to find others to pitch in as wanted). |
I miss this app. Not sure what I can do to help but willing. |
Just wanted to share an update on this effort. My boyfriend is an Android developer and after the scheduler in this app broke, he tried writing me a new backup app, not realizing that the source code for this one was available. After many hours of effort, he was unable to read and write RCS messages properly. Although we could modernize this app (probably more like a re-write since it's so old), it would not be worth the time and effort without RCS support, as SMS/MMS are slowly fading away. Android seems to store RCS messages in its database in some weird way, possibly due to the end-to-end encryption. And there is not a documented method for interfacing with it. Does anyone know of another open source backup app that DOES support RCS that we might be able to analyze? I don't know of any that are open source unfortunately. |
@BenJewell Thanks to you and your boyfriends efforts! :) Very much appreciated. It seems as a larger project to get something going. Maybe some of the links below can be of some sort of help.
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For me, this will still backup when manually initiated. I would love to see the scheduler working again. There appears to be a 3rd party approach to triggering the backup by broadcast intents but I don't know how to trigger these. |
@BenJewell I spent a long time looking into RCS support options, and (at the time) searching for "RCS API" always took me to pages offering server side support (usually for a fee), intended for companies to send bulk RCS messages without actually using a phone at all. It became obvious that Google simply don't provide a new API to deal with RCS messages on a phone, but the consensus (among the very few with any technical information) seemed to be RCS messages were accessible using the existing Android API for dealing with SMS and MMS messages. From the links provided by @al-right it appears that that's only partly correct; we need an interpretation layer over the top; it's not clear whether SMS-Backup actually needs such a layer, since it's not presenting messages, merely storing them. (Personally I've been leaving RCS turned off on my phone precisely to ensure that all my messages continue to be backed up until this is sorted.) I would like to see a wider community effort rather than get stuck again with a single developer who goes silent. We need a new architecture to support a range of related tasks:
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FYI, Re: RCS: #1097 -- I haven't tested it, read through it when I saw it and it seemed pretty good though, for whatever that's worth. |
Sad that it's been removed from Google Play, I've been using it for years and discovered it was removed after my phone got stole and that I tried to reinstall the app on a new phone. |
Note added by @kurahaupo 2024-02-13:
Original submitted ticket follows:
Expected behaviour
Go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&hl=en&gl=US&pli=1 and you will be able to see SMS Backup+ in Google Play Store and install the app.
Actual behaviour
Go to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&hl=en&gl=US&pli=1 and you will be greeted with the message:
Also https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Jan+Berkel&hl=en&gl=US does no longer show dev info on Jan.
Reproduce by
No response
Android version
13 (2022)
Phone brand
Samsung
Phone model number
S23
SMS Backup+ version
v1.5.11
Messaging app
No response
Other details
Actually I run android 14 (but not possible to select in github).
Re. SMS Backup+ version I simply select a random version as to be able to fill the bug form.
Is someone able to fix the problem or is there an easy way to install the app through some other trusted channel?
Thanks
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