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5 Ways to Transfer SMS from Android to Android

Whenever we move from one Android device to another, we mostly focus on transferring our photos, videos, contacts, and other data files. Too often, we forget to transfer messages from Android to Android, which might backfire in the long run.

From personal chats to important information, our SMS messages may contain crucial details at times. Therefore, when you transfer from old Android to new Android, make sure that you also migrate your messages. In this guide, you will learn 5 different ways to transfer SMS from Android to Android.

Part 1: How to transfer SMS from Android to Android in 1 click

If you are looking for a hassle-free and quick solution to transfer text messages from Android to Android, give MobileTrans — Phone Transfer a try. With this tool, you can directly move all the important data like SMS from one Android to another. Compatible with all the major Android and iOS devices, it allows you to transfer text messages not only between Android and Android but also between Android and iOS.

MobileTrans — Phone Transfer

Transfer Messages from Android to Android in 1 Click

• Easily transfer every type of data from Android to Android, including messages, music, videos, photos, contacts, call logs, etc.
• Transfer messages between two devices even of different operating systems (iOS 14 and Android 10 included).
• Work perfectly with Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Google, HUAWEI, Motorola, ZTE, and more smartphones and tablets.
• Fully compatible with major providers like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile.
• The Latest Windows 10 and Mac 10.15 supported.

To learn how to transfer text messages from Android to Android in one click, follow these simple steps.

Launch MobileTrans on your computer and select the “Phone Transfer” module from its welcome screen.

Connect both the Android devices to the computer. In no time, the application will detect them automatically and display two Android phone icons.

Check which Android will transfer the SMS messages and which Android will receive them. If you want to change their positions, click on the “Flip” button.

Now, simply select the type of data you wish to transfer. To transfer SMS from Android to Android, select the “Text messages” option from the list.

After making the appropriate selections, click on the “Start” button. This will initiate the transfer of your messages and other data from the source to the destination Android.

Sit back and wait for a while for SMS transfer to complete. Once it is done, you will be notified with a prompt. Then you can remove both Android devices safely.

In this way, you can transfer messages from Android to Android with a single click. The process is not only easy but also extremely time-saving.

If you’re tired of reading text guide, you can learn the video tutorial below:

Part 2: How to selectively transfer SMS from Android to Android

Sometimes you may not want to transfer all Android messages in one click but would like to select only important texts to transfer to a new Android phone. For this requirement, one-click for all SMS transfer may fail to meet your expectations.

In this situation, you’d better opt for Dr.Fone — Phone Manager (Android), which is developed to complement Android SMS transfer by meeting selective-transfer needs.

Dr.Fone — Phone Manager (Android)

Selectively transfer SMS messages from Android to Android

• Select and transfer desired messages, contacts, call logs from Android to Android.
• Export/import your music, photos, videos, contacts, SMS, apps, etc. to computer/Android.
• Parse and transfer iTunes messages to Android (vice versa).
• Manage your Android device on a computer.
• Fully compatible with Android 10.0.

This Android SMS transfer tool is designed to meet custom transfer requirements. Just transfer only wanted messages to new Android, and leave unwanted ones on old Android. Many users take it as an ideal solution to minimize SMS storage consumption in new Android.

Follow the below instructions to selectively transfer SMS from Android to Android:

Install and launch Dr.Fone, and select the «Phone Manager» option from the main screen.

Connect the two Android devices to your computer using the USB ports. Click the upper left corner and you can see the names of both Android devices. Click on the name to specify it as the source Android for SMS transfer.

Click on the «Information» tab. In this new screen, you can see the Contacts and SMS on the left column. Click on «SMS» to access all Android messages.

Scroll on the screen to view which messages are wanted ones on your source Android. Then select the SMS threads, click the «Export» icon on the top bar, and choose [Name of target Android].

That’s all the process of selectively transferring Android messages to a new device. Pretty easy, isn’t it?

Part 3: How to transfer SMS from Android to Android using Android SMS Transfer

There are also a few readily available apps that you can use to transfer text messages from Android to Android. For instance, the Android SMS Transfer is one of the time-honored apps that can help you.

The app will first take a backup of your Android messages and can later restore them to the target Android device. The messages will be exported to an Android SD card, which will later be used for SMS restore. While the SMS transfer process is not as fast and direct as MobileTrans — Phone Transfer, it can meet your basic SMS transfer requirements.

Here’s how you can transfer SMS from Android to Android using this Android SMS Transfer app.

First of all, download the Android SMS Transfer app on the source Android and launch it. From its welcome page, click on the «Backup SMS» option.

You will be asked to name the backup file of your Android messages. Just enter any file name and proceed.

The app will show that the SMS backup has been taken and stored on the Android SD card.

Just safely remove the SD card that contains the Android message backup, and insert it into your new Android phone.

Launch the app once again and click on the «Restore SMS» option. Browse the backup file having your text messages and restore them to the target Android phone.

In this way, you can transfer messages from Android to Android by using an SD card. Though, it will only transfer the text messages and will not include any other media data.

Part 4: How to transfer messages from Android to Android using Bluetooth

While the technique is not widely recommended, you can use the native Android Bluetooth feature as well to transfer text messages from one Android to another. Since Bluetooth SMS transfer is gradually getting obsolete, the feature might not be supported on all Android devices. Also, it would take a lot of time to send your Android messages via Bluetooth.

The method is also not recommended from a security perspective. If the source Android phone has malware, then it can be transferred to your target phone as well. Therefore, you should only consider this as your last resort for Android SMS transfer.

You can follow these steps for Android SMS transfer via Bluetooth.

1. To start with, bring the source and the target Android devices in close vicinity.
2. Turn on the Bluetooth feature on both Android devices and pair them by confirming the passcode.
3. Now, go to the Messaging app on the source device and select the messages that you wish to transfer.
4. Go to its Settings and choose to «Send» or «Share» the selected SMS threads. After that, you need to send SMS via Bluetooth.
5. A list of all the available Android devices will be displayed. Simply tap on the target device to receive SMS messages.
6. On the target Android, you will receive a prompt for the incoming SMS data. Touch «Agree» and start the SMS transfer process.

As you can see, it can be tedious to learn how to transfer messages from Android to Android via Bluetooth. Not only is this SMS transfer method time-consuming, but it would also be complicated to implement as well.

Part 5: How to transfer messages from Android to Android using SMS Backup & Restore

Another smart and easy way to transfer SMS from Android to Android is by using the SMS Backup & Restore app. Besides taking a backup of your Android messages and restoring them afterward, it can also perform a wireless SMS transfer. Unlike Bluetooth, this message transfer takes place via WiFi direct, which makes it a lot faster and reliable.

The app is available for free and can be downloaded from Google Play Store. Therefore, before you begin, make sure that you have downloaded the SMS transfer app on both Android devices.

Later, you can follow these steps to transfer messages from Android to Android directly.

Launch the Android SMS transfer app on both the devices and choose to «Transfer» your messages. You can find «Transfer» on the home page of the app or under its Settings tab.

Now, you need to specify the source and the target Android device. On the source phone, tap on the “Send from this phone” option, while on the target device, tap on the “Receive on this phone” button.

The target Android will wait for the SMS transfer. On the other hand, you can view a list of all the available devices on the source Android. Simply tap on the target Android device from here.

On the target Android, you will get an invitation to connect. Tap on the “Accept” button to proceed.

Great! You are almost there. On the source Android, the app will provide an option to send a previous backup file or all the text messages and calls. Choose the relevant option and touch on the “OK” button.

Just wait for a while for the Android messages to transfer to the target device. Once the process is complete, you can view the newly transferred messages on the target Android phone.

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Why you should always include ‘sent from my iPhone’ in your mobile signature

Author : Rob Ashton

Posted : 20 / 06 / 17

While conducting some research recently, I discovered a question in a web forum that got me thinking. In a nutshell, the question was: should you include ‘Sent from my iPhone [or Android phone etc]’ at the foot of an email if you’re composing it on a mobile device?

I confess that, until a few weeks ago, I’d assumed such questions were now redundant. Smartphones and tablets are hardly new. Surely by now we’re all over the ‘Look at me with the latest piece of tech wizardry thing’, aren’t we?

In fact, couldn’t such a line in an email signature even backfire? After all, it’s a simple enough task to customise it or even remove it altogether. Leaving it in would therefore suggest that you were actually a little, well, technologically challenged.

But then the offending line reappeared in my own iPhone signature, after a software update. Mildly irritated, I resolved to customise it as soon as I had a couple of minutes.

Two weeks later, I still hadn’t updated it. By then though, I was beginning to wonder if there might actually be an advantage to leaving it there.

After all, surely letting people know that I was emailing on the hoof would buy me some leeway when it came to the odd typo or malapropism (at least ‘for all intensive purposes’, if not ‘kind retards’).

It’s not just me – or you

Intrigued, I started doing a little digging and soon found I was not alone, which is how I discovered the forum question.

At the time of reading, this question had attracted 35 responses. A little more rooting around revealed a Guardian article on the same subject that was followed by no fewer than 590 comments. Clearly, it wasn’t just me – or the person who posted the original forum query – who was unsure.

The response reflected a range of views similar to how my own had changed over time. Some people were adamant that you should remove that line altogether, if only to show that you were not a Luddite and incapable of using anything other than default settings.

One person even argued that email signatures don’t matter at all; in fact, they were a distraction from the message and best left off. I would certainly argue strongly against that advice. At the very least, a signature should contain a phone number unless you specifically don’t want your correspondent(s) to know it. I’ve often cursed the lack of this information in an email when I needed to contact someone urgently – say, to explain that I was running late or even to place some business. (This has resulted in potential suppliers losing sales on more than one occasion.)

But opinion generally seemed divided between those who thought the line irrelevant and those who thought it important in setting context and therefore how much detail you should expect.

Clearly there was still some confusion, so I went in search of a better answer. I wondered if there had even been any definitive research on the topic.

The science of sizing people up

There had – and the results were pretty intriguing.

The short answer to the question of whether you should write ‘Sent from my iPhone’ is: yes, you should. Or, at least, you should indicate that you’re sending the message from some sort of mobile device.

But the reason why is longer. Not only that, but it’s the key that unlocks a fascinating area of communication science. Knowledge of that science can enable you to improve everything from a response to a customer-support request to a bid for a contract worth many millions.

The research area is called uncertainty reduction theory (URT). It’s far from a new idea: it was first formulated by social scientists back in 1975. Yet, unless you’re an academic yourself, I doubt you will have heard of it. Certainly, I’ve yet to find it in any book on communication aimed at business or the general public. (I’m working on a fix for that.)

The central idea of URT states that our primary aim in any initial interaction with people is to reduce uncertainty about them. In other words, we want to check that they are what (or who) they say they are, that they have our best interests at heart or that they really will help us having said they would.

This is such an established idea among academics that dozens of them have expanded on or qualified it (for example, to apply it beyond just initial interactions). But the core concept remains firm.

If you think that’s a cynical view of human interaction and that we should have more faith in humanity, bear in mind that you probably carry out this checking process all the time. It’s just that the mechanisms are so ingrained that you may do it very quickly and even subconsciously.

Our main way to reduce uncertainty is through communication, so we have more than one in-built way to work out what’s true and what isn’t whenever someone is sending us a message – be that in writing or verbally.

Communication reduces uncertainty

We’re primed to look for clues – or cues – either that all is well and we can continue with the interaction or that we need to be sceptical and proceed with caution.

Often we send out these cues unintentionally. Many of them we can’t even control very easily, and people we communicate with use those cues. Humans are hard-wired to place a high value on them, according to an area of research allied to URT called warranting theory, which calls these most valuable signals ‘high-warrant’ cues.

Those signals that we can easily manipulate (such as our words) are called low-warrant cues. And we use high-warrant cues to decide how much notice we should take of low-warrant ones.

By now, you’re probably beginning to realise that this is a pretty big deal. After all, if we’re all programmed to look out for signals that those around us have little control over, it could explain why communication so often fails.

Taking control of communication

Note though that high-warrant cues are those we can’t control very easily – that doesn’t mean we can never control them. Some are just things that we think don’t matter much and so don’t pay much attention to.

And that means that, if we work out what those high-warrant yet controllable cues are, we’ll be able to tweak them and begin to (perhaps radically) improve the success rate of our communications.

All of which leads us back (at last) to ‘Sent from my iPhone’. Because, although that’s something that most of us now know how to edit or switch off, that’s not always been the case.

In 2012, two researchers, Caleb Carr and Chad Stefaniak, decided to test the effect of including this phrase in an email signature. It was five years after the first iPhones were introduced, and this signature line was still very common in messages. The reason it was still common was that many people didn’t know how to change it – in other words, it was a high-warrant cue.

Riddled with errors

In their study, they particularly wanted to test how that cue in an email affected perception of its sender and its sender’s organisation. To do so, they recruited a group of 111 people and showed them one of four forms of the same basic message. The four versions contained a combination of either multiple errors or no errors and a ‘Sent from my iPhone’ signature or just the sender’s name and organisation.

Now, many of the errors were far from subtle. When I read the original paper, I spotted no fewer than 12 mistakes in the uncorrected example used. They included incorrect capitalising in the name of the sender’s employer, numerous missed apostrophes and sentences that ended with no full stop. The researchers clearly didn’t want to risk participants failing to pick up on these cues.

The message purported to be from an HR director. And participants were asked to rate the sender’s credibility as well as their competence and the prestige of the sender’s employer.

The results? Not surprisingly, the errors had a damaging effect in all three of these areas. But, despite the number of mistakes, the presence of ‘Sent from my iPhone’ significantly reduced that damage.

Smart move to get readers on side

The results do at least prove that, if you indicate you’re sending a message from your smartphone, your reader will generally forgive the odd mistake.

And this stuff matters. Almost nine out of ten smartphone owners (88 per cent) use their phones to send or receive email, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. This makes email one of the smartphone’s most popular features. Unlike with text messaging, however, the medium used to compose an email is not obvious unless you make it so. And while we forgive typos in a text, we’re less lenient with emails.

But the implications of this and similar studies go way beyond showing that it’s a good idea to indicate that you are emailing from a mobile device. Because they show that the unintentional cues we send out when we write or speak have a huge impact on how our audience perceives what we’re trying to say.

In communication, first and foremost, it’s the little things that count.

[Sent from my Alcatel POP 4]

This post originally appeared on Rob’s new research blog, Communication by Science. Be sure to sign up there if you want to be the first to hear about new research posts.

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