Backing Up Your Text Messages - HTC Desire 601 User Manual

119 Sync, backup, and reset

Backing up your text messages

Keep important text messages by backing them up to the phone storage or storage
card. You can easily restore backed up text messages after you've deleted them from
your message list.
§ When there's a storage card inserted, HTC Desire 601 will only back up and restore
text messages from the storage card.
§ Remove your storage card if you want to use the phone storage for backing up or
restoring messages.
1. Open the Messages app.
2. Tap > Back up/Restore SMS > Back up > Back up SMS.
3. Enter a name for your backup file, and then tap OK.
Restoring text messages
You can only restore text messages that were exported using the Back up SMS
feature.
1. Open the Messages app.
2. Tap > Back up/Restore SMS > Restore.
3. Choose how you want to restore the messages, and tap Next.
4. Tap the backup file to import.
5. Tap OK.
Backing up text messages by email
You need to set up your email account in the Mail app.
1. On the Messages screen, tap
2. Tap Back up > Back up SMS via mail.
The backup file is attached to an email.
3. Enter your email address.
4. Compose your email message, and then send it.
To restore your text messages to HTC Desire 601, open the email message with the
backup file attachment from the Mail app. Tap the attachment to download it first,
and then tap it again to open the backup file to import.
> Back up/Restore SMS.