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How to Save Text Messages From Your Cell

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If you live to text message on your cell, there's nothing more important sometimes than to save certain messages and conversations that you've had over text. Unfortunately, a text message is like a phone call – you can't save it while you're texting feverishly. Often times, if you change your phone, you loose the text messages. Here's how you can backup and save all of your valuable text messages.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • PDA cell phone with email compatibility
  • Text Messaging Plan
  1. Step 1

    Make sure your cell phone is a PDA or personal digital assistant phone. These multi-functional phones allow you to send and receive email which is essential to saving your text messages.

  2. Step 2

    Though there's no fast and easy way to save your text messages, you need to open each text message separately and copy the text. Then close out of the text message.

  3. Step 3

    Create a new email message to send to yourself.

  4. Step 4

    Then paste the text message into the body of the email.

  5. Step 5

    Save the email as a draft. Then go back and copy the next text message.

  6. Step 6

    Paste the text message back into the saved email draft.

  7. Step 7

    Continue and repeat the above steps until you've copied all your text messages that you want to save, pasted into an email message that you'll eventually send to yourself once this is all done.

  8. Step 8

    After all your texts are backed up and saved, you can go ahead and delete them from your phone if you want.

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on 7/5/2008 We provide a service which lets you do just this. It works for all phones and all you have to do is forward the message you want to save. http://www.treasuremytext.com

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