Solved! Unrooted SMS/MMS attached photos transfer app?

[eaglebeagle]

Hi,

I just finally upgraded from my very first smartphone (now 5 years old!) to a newer one (both Samsung), and used Samsung Smart Switch to transfer _most_ everything (both phones are unrooted).

I see on the new phone that although the SMS/MMS text message "text" was transferred, all of the photos that were attached/embedded in the transferred SMSs were not (I see a "broken photo icon" when I look in the message/thread on the new phone (I see 57 such "broken photo icons" when I look more closely on the new phone, so I assume that's how many attached photos were in the messages that were transferred)).

Without rooting either phone, is there any tool/way (free or costing $$) to get the photos that are in the old phone's SMS/MMS messages to copy out/over to the new phone (and yes, I'd of course want the photos back in their proper SMS/MMS messages/threads on the new phone)? Or does this have to be done "manually" for each photo in a message on the old phone?

All of my Google searches on this subject point me to apps that don't "admit" that they don't (can't?) copy the embedded photos...

Thanks!

 

[webworkings]

To be honest, saving them in the messages, and saving the messages on the phone, is not wise. It is to easy for a phone to die, be damaged, wiped, lost, stolen, etc. Better to save anything important to a cloud account, google account or personal computer.

I know of no way to get them to move over to the new device and be in the actual messages.


Anyone else?