Recoverng text messages My boss asked me if VZW was able to actually pull a complete list of every text message hes ever written (regarding pertinant information). The phone that he sent it from was lost. Anyone have any ideas?
thats what im thinking. However I know Federal Law Enforcement can obtain these texts if its a federal case. Shouldnt the owner be able to asertain these texts as well?
Guessing he didnt have a back up type program already...live and learn...calling VZW is probably the only way to actually find out.
Im sure that wouldnt be a problem for him. (good god your alive?!) I already warned him to get a backup program for his phone when he bought it. However VZW keeps telling him that they can only print out a list of phone numbers to the cell phone hes textd (not the text themselves) Howeer, I have a hard time believing this.
Ill meanion that to him. He wants me to email him in the next couple of days as soon as I find out something. So ill meantion that. Anyone else have any ideas?
Lol seriously though...that maybe a good point to bring up to them...that "you" are aware that vzw has done this in the past. So whats different now?
isnt there a timeline that they keep the messages? i heard that they keep the messages for 6 months then they are perm deleted...dont know how much truth is in that... also, backup programs are no good if you keep the backup on a storage card in the phone (speaking from first hand experience)
thats a good question, I actually talked to him yesterday and he said that he had lost the phone but never actually turned it off (aka reported it) he said the only thing the people are doing is sending text messages.
I thought it was shorter, like five days or something. Think about how many text messages are sent (I sent nearly 9,000 alone last month) by each phone on their network. That is a lot of data to store, plus it actually seems like a waste to keep them on the network for any length of time. -Nate
