nps-iphone-smsimport allows you to import SMSes from Samsung phones, via the Samsung New PC Studio (NPS) software, into the iPhone SMS database.

The iPhone SMS database can be accessed directly if you are using a jailbroken iPhone, using iPhone Explorer or SSH/SFTP directly. Alternatively, you can also work on the SMS database that was backed up by iTunes, then subsequently restore to the iPhone.

You should backup your data before using this program.

1. Obtain iPhone SMS database, either from an iTunes backup or transferred from a jailbroken phone

2. Sync your Samsung phone with the New PC Studio software

3. Run the nps-iphone-smsimport.py script

The script will then find all SMSes in the NPS database. If --after-date is specified, only SMSes after the specified date will be processed.

Duplicate SMSes will not be inserted. SMSes with the same date/time, same text content and direction (sent or received) and same phone number will be considered duplicates.

EMSes are not supported in the Samsung New PC Studio and therefore have no text content. However, for completeness, the script will import these messages but with a standard placeholder text. If you do not wish to include EMSes, use the --skip-ems option to not import them.

Use the --verbose option to show the SMSes that will be imported. Specifying the option multiple times will show more information, such as empty or duplicate SMSes.

To directly sync SMSes to a jailbroken iPhone, specify the --iphone option, which downloads sms.db from the connected iPhone to the default location (specified using the --smsdb option), performs the usual sync, and then uploads the updated file back to the iPhone. Do not attempt to connect more than one iOS device - unplug all your iOS devices and leave only the iPhone you wish to sync connected.

You need at least Python 2.6 running Windows on the same machine as the Samsung NPS software, or you could copy the database and manually specify its path.

• Samsung NPS database
• Python 2.6 on Windows
• Python for Windows extensions (pywin32)
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
• Jailbroken iPhone -or- iTunes backup of the iPhone

• Figure out the hash column in the msg_group table

It should be noted that the bundled phonenumbers Python library is NOT covered under this license. For that, please refer to https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers

Copyright (C) 2011 Darell Tan

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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