I’ve wanted to “factory reset” my old Android phones for years but hadn’t found a good way of exporting text messages including the embedded images and videos. Some solutions involve rooting your phone, and I didn’t want to do that. Nor did I want to use an app that copied to Gmail or the cloud. And I wanted to know exactly what the app’s code was doing. So I found the MessageBackup repo on GitHub and used it as a starting point.
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