SMS Backup Reader Changelog

What's new in SMS Backup Reader 0.7

May 11, 2013
  • Completely recoded and tested the project: -Tested with Java 6 and 7, on Windows 7, Windows 8, Ubuntu, and OS X 10.8.
  • Eclipse instead of NetBeans
  • Refactored to better fit the Java programming model: BackupReader is now a separate class, enabling GUI/CLI creation as a separate entity.
  • Better commenting (still needs more).
  • Feedback for load success/failure
  • Added error codes to deal with problems reading files.
  • Feedback for export success/failure.
  • Added better international support (Unicode font and UTF-8 parsing).

New in SMS Backup Reader 0.6 (May 11, 2013)

  • Added the ability to change the received message time offset. This will make it so you can effectively change the timezone. Default is 0 (zero), if it already works, don't change it

New in SMS Backup Reader 0.5.1 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Forgot to remove some debugging statements
  • Extra address checking

New in SMS Backup Reader 0.5 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Added help in 4 languages
  • Fixed an issue with draft messages. The address is "null" for drafts.
  • Fixed an issue with short codes. If the address is less than 6, assume its a short code.
  • Tested with the latest backups from SMS Backup & Restore (as of 2011-12-02) and old backups (2011-07-20

New in SMS Backup Reader 0.3.5 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Added the ability to export selected contact messages.
  • Added popups to warn if no messages were loaded rather than simply doing nothing.

New in SMS Backup Reader 0.3 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Added the ability to export all messages as a file

New in SMS Backup Reader 0.2.1 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug or two

New in SMS Backup Reader 0.2 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Added the ability to specify country code. This should help with multiple versions of the same contact.
  • Bug fix, code cleanup