FEfencepost·Jun 28, 2019
You're likely to have better luck monitoring the relevant issue on the github repo. https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/959
In Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15jberkel
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sms-backup-plus
Backup Android SMS, MMS and call log to Gmail / Gcal / IMAP
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Backup Android SMS, MMS and call log to Gmail / Gcal / IMAP
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| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesWe need your help. Google is doing evil :(
Google is sending in June messages about limiting access (read NO access) to some apps using oauth accessing gmail.
Of course under privacy pretext, and of course they won't do this is apps 'comply' and udnergo verification process.
Currently it hit (among others) very popular sms backup + (https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus) app which allows to backup and restore calls metadata and sms (with content) to gmail.
Develeoper of the app complied and submited app for verification process, but of course it was denied by Google. Whole verification process announced from them is another corporate mambo-jumbo = read lie.
Google guys, please help from inside. Why your company is doing this?
p.s. it does not applies only to gsuite, but to all gmail.
In Google kicks out popular open source app(s) with fake excusesGoogle kicks out popular open source app(s) with fake excuses
11 points · Open discussion> I have not heard of any cases of SQLite failure in phone, or anyone needing a DB admin to recover their phone contact data.
For a long time (until API level 11), Android automatically silently deleted corrupted SQLite databases. https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/12388#33896 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7764943
I learned the hard way to limit SMS storage and install Jan Berkel's SMS Backup+ https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/#readme after losing my first Android SMS database (this may or may not have been SQLite's fault).
https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html#_bugs_in_sqlite
In It’s About Time for Time Series DatabasesSMS Backup+ for Android can put all texts into your GMail archive (and calls into Google Calendar), knocking out one dependency there.
https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/
It's actually one of the first apps I always install after I discovered the hard way that Android used to delete corrupted SQLite databases and I lost the SMS DB on my phone.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7764943/what-can-be-done...
In Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?FYI: Android deletes corrupt DBs
(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756653)
If you have an Android phone and care at all about your ever-growing message history, install SMS Backup+ by Jan Berkel or an equivalent ASAP. (https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus)
In Android Issue 5669: Android deleting all SMS threads (Dec 2009; 1100+ stars)