How to transfer SMS Message from iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS?

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Editor Reviews: I know we can transfer iPhone Contacts, Notes, Calendar, Music, Photos and Videos to my iPhone 3GS.But how can we backup our previous iPhone 3G SMS to iPhone 3GS.First,if you jailbreaked your phone than it’s damn easy just SSH your iPhone 3G and Navigate to /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS and Save sms.db on your computer then follow the vice versa with iPhone 3GS just copy sms.db from your computer to iPhone 3GS /private/var/mobile/Library/SMS folder. For more details see our previously published guide How to transfer iPhone Contacts, SMS, Calendar,Notes & Call History?. If you phone has never jailbreaked before or you are not interested in jailbreaking your iPhone 3GS.


Here is the simple to follow steps to Restore SMS History from Previous iPhone to New iPhone. All you have to do is to copy SMS backup files from old iPhone back up folder to new iPhone back up folder.
Navigate to the iTunes backup folder
1.Windows User : C >> Users >> User Name >> AppData >> Roaming >> Apple >> Computer >> MobileSync >> Backup >>
2.Mac OS X User : ~/Libary » Applications Support » MobileSync » Backup.
In the backup folder there will be X number of folders according to number of phones you synced to your iTunes. For example i have two iPhone 2G and 3G so i have two folders named with 40 random hex characters. But i need to copy SMS from iPhone 3G so how do i identify?
To identify your particular iPhone backup sync both phones with 5 minutes of interval and note the time in your computer clock while syncing.
Now Sort the view by date–this will let you easily tell which subfolder belongs to which phone.
Now you knows the folder where your previous iPhone 3G backup is saved, so explore to that particular folder (iPhone 3G) and copy these two files to iPhone 3GS folder. Make sure you must synced new iPhone 3GS at least once so back up folder will be created.
    3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mddata
    3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28.mdinfo

Connect your new iPhone 3GS to the computer and launch the iTunes.
When your iPhone appears under Devices in your iTunes sidebar, Control-click it and select the ‘Restore from Backup…’ option.
Select the backup related to your device i mean iPhone 3GS.


Tips:
If you follow these ways of which can not better transfer your sms from iPhone 3GS to iPhone 3GS,we suggest you try out a kind of iphone sms transfer software called Tansee iPhone Transfer SMS,and its trail version is trusted to backup all important sms messages for iphone users.
With Tansee iPhone Transfer SMS,you can transfer the backup of all important iPhone SMS to computer as a txt file or a ANTS file.
Besides,you can refer to know more about Tansee iPhone Transfer SMS Reviews,or introduce it to your dear friends.

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