On Saturday, December 5, 2020 at 2:52:55 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 5 Dec 2020 05:22:48 -0800 (PST), trader_4
wrote:


Regarding the non-responsive plumber, I would send him a demand letter, via registered
mail so that he has proof it was mailed and received. Or whatever you have in the UK
that is similar. Save proof of phone call records too. In the letter give him a reasonable
Texting is good because you have a record, if he has a phone number that
receives texts (any cell phoen**). but save the texts you've send and
if you get a new phone, transfer them to to the new phone. It looks so
lame when plaintiffs claim to have texted and they all say the phone was
lost or broken or they got a new one.

I wonder how many are telling the truth. I've had the same phone for 3 years, can't
remember what happened when I did the transfer back then. I didn't have any texts
worth saving. I would expect that the typical transfer today should save texts.
You'd think texting apps would have the ability to export texts to a text file, but mine
doesn't. Maybe other text apps do. That's the nice thing with Android, if you don't
like the stock apps you can change most of them to something else.
I'm sure some people lose or break their phone and had none of their
texts backed up,

You're encouraged during setup to enable Google Account backup. If you do that, I think
texts along with other key info will be backed up, but I don't remember what happened
years ago with texts when I used it to move to a new phone. I know it did restore apps,
contacts, etc., that all came right across to the new phone.


and I'm sure most people who buy a new phone don't even
know how to copy texts to it.

A new phone comes with instructions on how to easily move what you have from the
old phone to the new. AFAIK, using Google Account is just one, I think they may have
utilities that will do it for you too. Apple has similar, it's all backed up in the cloud.
Hard to imagine that in 2020 it would not include texts.