iPhone question: Any way I can save my text messages as I upgrade to 3G?

Factual Questions
1

The title says it all. As I understand it, in the process of switching to a 3G phone I will lose all text messages and voice messages. Any way to save either of these?

Thanks.

2

Is it jailbroken by any chance?

3

You can use PhoneView.

4

I’m not familiar with that term. I’m just going from a a 1st generation to the 3G.

Wow. That looks pretty cool. I might just have to try that.

As it turns out, my concern was for naught. All my voicemails and texts showed up on my new phone. I was told by someone in an Apple store that I would lose them. But then when I went back to pick up the new phone, a more knowledgeable girl told me a should still have them. She was right. I still may get that program though, I’m going to look into it. I like the idea that I can save all the texts as, well, text on my computer.

Much thanks.

5

I got it as part of the last MacHeist bundle. I can’t say I’ve used it, though. But, someday it may come in handy…

6

You shouldn’t need to do anything. If you back up your phone with iTunes, you should be able to restore that backup onto your new phone. Should be absolutely seamless, just about everything will be exactly how it was on your old iphone, just faster and spiffier.

7

Jailbreak = hack a phone, and frankly if the OP had done that they probably would already know how to extract the messages.

8

For the record, I just upgraded from the original iPhone to the 3Gs. This is what happened…

[ul][li]The AT&T guy set up the new phone on iTunes in the store and handed it to me, already “live”[/li][li]When I got home, I started iTunes and plugged in the phone.[/li][li]iTunes then told me that it knew about another phone (my old one), and it asked if I wanted to restore the backup of the old phone onto the new one. I did so.[/li][li]All of my data was perfect—no text messages lost, no contacts lost.[/li][/ul]One minor detail: I upgraded my old phone’s firmware to 3.0 last Thursday. Perhaps that made the migration more seamless.

9

I think that it was because you synched your phone when you upgraded the software, not because of the software itself.