Ha. I wouldn't assume text messages are stored or transmitted like any other kind of data. (By the way, did you know that they're usually encoded in their own 7-bit charset?)
Most likely they aren't actually stored as flat files inside whatever pseudo-filesystem there is inside your phone. There's probably some kind of custom data store for it. SQLite would be the "sane" way (in fact I'm all but certain both iOS and Android use it to store them), but given the hardware in a typical old phone, I wouldn't be surprised if it's all home-grown.
I don't know of any way to get them out; you might be screwed. (Might I suggest Google Voice for the future to avoid that? That's how I make sure all my texts continue to exist forever, in addition to them being completely free, and send/receivable from multiple devices at once including my computer.)
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Date: 2012-07-02 05:21 am (UTC)Most likely they aren't actually stored as flat files inside whatever pseudo-filesystem there is inside your phone. There's probably some kind of custom data store for it. SQLite would be the "sane" way (in fact I'm all but certain both iOS and Android use it to store them), but given the hardware in a typical old phone, I wouldn't be surprised if it's all home-grown.
I don't know of any way to get them out; you might be screwed. (Might I suggest Google Voice for the future to avoid that? That's how I make sure all my texts continue to exist forever, in addition to them being completely free, and send/receivable from multiple devices at once including my computer.)