antosubhakar / sms-bnr-tools

SMS Backup & Restore Tools for Windows

SMS-BnR-Tools

SMS Backup & Restore Tools for Windows

This is a tool built to read, display and split the XML backups created by the Android app SMS Backup & Restore by Ritesh Sahu https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore

I also took some inspiration from this Java tool, but haven't tried it: http://devadvance.com/sms-backup-reader/

I built this tool mainly to split out the one big XML created by the Android app into single XML files per contact. I know you can also achieve this by creating each backup individually with the app, but that seems a bit tedious if you are planning to do it on a regular basis.

You can grab the binary (executable) from the binary folder. No installation required, you can just run it.

v 1.1

• Handling MMS

Features

• Read XML file generated by SMS Backup & Restore
• Group messages by contact, displayed in a data grid
• View messages for each contact
• Delete contacts
• Merge contacts - this is useful if a contact has changed numbers or some messages have the phone number in international format and others don't. For display, the contact with the latest (newest) message is considered the master
• Export messages for a single contact
• Export messages for all contacts: This prompts you to select a folder and will generate one XML file per contact
• File exist options: Merge, overwrite, cancel - Merge will eliminate duplicate messages and add new messages (ordered by date)
• The exported XML files have the same format as the original from the app and also reference the xsl stylesheet for display in the browser

Currently missing - possible future features

• Delete individual messages
• Edit contact name in data grid
• Make a program icon ;)

PS: Sorry for the basic UI. My background is in web development, so I pretty much just threw this together for my own use.