Small utility to convert exported SMS from MyPhoneExplorer to Android

As text messages are very important to me I searched for a solution to import my text messages from my Sony Ericsson to my Android phone. Few days ago SMS Backup & Restore was published for Android phones making a XML file import possible. As the XML format differed from the one you can export from MPE I created a simple (and crude) tool to convert the XML.

If you want you can only import sent or received messages. If you have an archive files containing both sent and received messages my program supports it, too. Name it "mpe_sms.xml" in this case.

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Usage:

1. Export your Inbox messages in MPE as XML (Select all, right click, Export, as XML). The file must be called "mpe_sms.xml" and must be placed in the directory of the converter.
2. Export your Sent messages as XML. It must be called "mpe_sms_sent.xml".
3. Start the converter, click on the first button, then on the next button. It will create a file called "sms.xml".
4. Place this file to your Android SD card in "SMSBackupRestore"-Folder.
5. Open SMS Backup & Restore, click Restore.

Having problems? Sonyfan wrote a more detailed instruction on top of using Sony Experia X10i here.

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Found a bug? Any questions? Reply to this post or send me a mail (address can be found in the converter). Auf Deutsch natürlich auch möglich.
Please note: Some of your sent messages might not have the correct timestamp. This is NOT a bug of the converter. See here.

Best greetings and thanks to FJSoftware for his great program.

Jonas Bark

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Posted by: o_claus

Hello Jonas.

I get an error when i try to load and convert. it starts like this:

ved System.Xml.XmlTextREaderImpl.Throw(Exception e).....

and continues like this. do you know what could be the problem?

Thanks

Claus

02.05.2010

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Posted by: info

Hello Claus,
I sent you an email.

15.06.2010

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Posted by: serginator

Hi Jonas,

I've bought an Xperia X10i and i wanted to pass my old sms from my k800i to the new mobile.
The problem is that the imported sms has odd dates. I mean, the original xml has good dates, but the sms.xml has odd ones. Have a look at it:

<sms>
        <from>*********</from>
        <name>***</name>
        <body>Blahblah</body>
        <timestamp>16/06/2010 6:36:35</timestamp>
        <storage>1</storage>
        <nrpdus>1</nrpdus>
        <pdu>***</pdu>
</sms>

And the converted one:

<sms protocol="0" address="*********" date="-62135600400000" type="1" subject="null" body="Blahblah" toa="null" sc_toa="null" service_center="null" read="1" status="-1" />

So... look at the date: date="-62135600400000"
Do you know how could I fix it? Maybe changing something on the original xml?

Thank you in advance.

Sergio.

18.06.2010

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Posted by: Tive

Hi Jonas,

bei mir stürzt Dein Converter sofort beim Start ab. Bekomme nicht einmal das Hauptfenster zu sehen. Habe Windows 7 64 Bit installiert.

Wäre super wenn Du mir helfen könntest :)

Danke und Gruß
Mav

19.06.2010

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Posted by: Tive

Hi Jonas,

bei mir stürzt Dein Converter sofort beim Start ab. Bekomme nicht einmal das Hauptfenster zu sehen. Habe Windows 7 64 Bit installiert.

Wäre super wenn Du mir helfen könntest :)

Danke und Gruß
Mav

19.06.2010

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Posted by: warren

Hi Jonas,

I get a similar issue. I've taken a screenshot of the error here.

Thanks,
Warren

20.06.2010

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Posted by: midiam

Hello.

I'm having the same problem than Claus.

How can i fix it?

Thanks.

Coque

23.08.2010

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Posted by: eng.abdelalim

I faced the same problem as Claus. Please, help.

13.09.2010

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Posted by: jonas.bark

BTW: The problem may lie in your XML file. It may contain some special characters which my converter can't handle. You may search your XML file for that.

03.10.2010

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Posted by: sumit.bherwani

Great works fine.

21.01.2011

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Posted by: einfache.email

wow, marvelous work, you saved me a lot of time, thanks a lot!

07.02.2011

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Posted by: joanna.gian

Thank you very much for this program!!

11.05.2011

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Posted by: ano.cresent

Thanks man.... you are a life saver ... !!

29.06.2011

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Posted by: alharaka

I have spent a lot of time trying to fix up my XML file, but I still have an exception thrown.  I removed the usual suspects, non-7-bit chars like Arabic, <, >, &, (, and ) from the bodies of the text messages.  I still get errors parsing mpe_sms.xml every single time.  Would you be able to look at a sample and advise me and how to correctly modify it?  Thanks in advance.

07.08.2011

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Posted by: jonas.bark

Hey Alharaka.

I contacted you over e-mail. I'm sure we can sort it out. 
BTW: I just uploaded a small fix.

08.08.2011

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Posted by: pelepako

Hi,


Does this show also the sent dates and times correctly on my android after import or will it still be a mess? Thanks!

08.08.2011

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Posted by: jonas.bark

Well, if the dates exported from MyPhoneExplorer are correct (see the note at the end of the software description) then they should be correct on your Android, too. I never experienced a problem with that apart from what I noticed in the note.

09.08.2011

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Posted by: pelepako

Thanks for your answer above. I still have a problem with sent messages. The converter works great when I load received messages but it gives me error every time I try to convert sent messages. I've tried to name received messages as sent but it still gives me the same error so I think it's not because of the context of these messages. Any help with this problem would be appreciated. Thanks.

09.08.2011

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Posted by: alharaka

Also, out of curiosity, have you tried or has anyone confirmed this works with Mono on a Linux box? If not, no worries.

10.08.2011

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Posted by: alharaka

Tried your latest release, and I still have issues. Not sure what is the deal. The exception thrown does not mention the lines in the mpe_sms.xml file where it gets pissed off, so I have no idea where to start.  If you could, drop me a line when you are free and I will send you the file so you can tell me. I greatly appreciate the effort, man. Thanks.

10.08.2011

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Posted by: jonas.bark

Hello you too. Please contact me over my mail address (written in the program itself) so I may take a look at your XML files.

19.08.2011

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Posted by: mukispace

Dear Jonas.bark

I have some SMS Converter problem, and I already sent mail to you :)

19.08.2011

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Posted by: jonas.bark

I uploaded a new version which should fix the problem.

20.08.2011

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Posted by: uku

Hello Jonas,

I can only export my messages from Nokia PC Suite to CSV.
It looks like that:
sms;deliver;"+4936143914962";"";"";"2011.08.22 10:10";"";"Anruf-Info von Mailbox: 036143914962..."
sms;deliver;"+447781470659";"";"";"2011.08.21 19:52";"";"Der Google-Bestaetigungscode lautet 970259."
sms;deliver;"+4915783001013";"";"";"2011.08.17 06:28";"";"Ok! Danke. Dann bis samstag!?"

Do you have also a converting routine for that?

Best regards - Uwe.

24.08.2011

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Posted by: ath

You may have solved a long time issue for me and my wife, how to move our preasus e-mails to new phones.. I'm about to install the xml-file to her new Samsung Galaxy S I9000, yes I know it's old now. We still have no SD-card in the phone and I can't see the "restore SMS" functions on the phone. Is this a known outcome due to the missing card or are there any known problems running this process on this particular model? We have updated to latest version of operative system on phone (Gingerbread).

01.01.2012

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