all you texts can belong to gmail

[dk379]

well, we are fast approaching final frontier of phone to internet
integration. As I had planned to upgrade my Samsung Spica (aka i5700)
mobile running aging Android 1.5 to something decent (specifically,
version 2.2 with custom modifications by widely known in narrow
circles LeshaK),
I carefully wrote down list of applications I had to reinstall,

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[vzaliva]

[ext_280539]

hi dmitry,

the time-stamps are actually correct if you read the emails in a mail client. the gmail web interface somehow messes them up.

[dk379]

wow. how did you find this post? i can't believe you actually read my livejournal (ok, this got reposted from posterous - but your commented specifically here.)

i suspected that dates are saved correctly since after restore message dates appear properly.
probably gmail has "ctime" and "atime" for messages :-)

[ext_280539]

i actually have a google alert set up :)

a lot of people complain about this, but i don't think there's anything i can do about it. i added a faq to the readme. http://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus#faq-timestamps

[dk379]

by the way - it seems that all my smses are now backed up twice, first time in full and second only as 160 or so characters. unsure if this is because i now run Handcent SMS together with stock sms application (perhaps one of them is duplicating smses.)