[HTC EVO 3D] JesseAaronSafir:
Todd...it works fine for me. What about Google Voice doesn't work for you? You've gone through the setup to convert your Sprint number to a Google Voice number? What I DO love about Google Voice is that 1) I don't have to worry about losing my voicemails or texts when I reflash my ROM and 2) that I can read and listen to my text and voice messages on any of my 5 Android devices (Epic 4G, Evo 3D, Iconia A500, HP TouchPad, Motorola Xoom) and respond to them from any of the devices as well. What I DO NOT love about Google Voice is that 1) it doesn't seem to be smart enough to keep all the messages from one contact under a single thread so I get multiple threads of conversation for each frequent contact and 2) it doesn't seem to send or receive MMS so if I want to send a picture I have to do it from the native messaging and if someone sends me a picture, it shows up there instead of Google Voice and 3) it doesn't seem to handle multiple recipients well such that if someone sends a message to me and others at the same time, that shows up in native Messaging and not in Google Voice and if I want to send a text to multiple people at once, I think I have to do it from native Messaging instead of from Google Voice.

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You know...I was working on my friend's non-rooted Nexus S 4G and I used an app from Play Store called "SMS Backup and Restore":

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...estore&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd

It seemed to do a great job of backing up her Messages before I rooted and wiped the phone and then restoring the Messages back to CM10.1 after I flashed that ROM. It seems to have merged the backed up Messages with new messages received on the phone prior to the restore.

I also tried "Ultimate Backup Tool" to do a full backup and restore of the non-rooted phone but the backup took forever and the restore failed. Annoying. Carbon looked good for a non-root full backup of apps and data and I ran the backup but then apparently I forgot to copy the backups off the USB partition before I wiped the phone...doh! I ended up manually reinstalling her apps from Play Store and Appstore and hoping that some of her data would be restored from the Google backup. Then after I had the latest nightly of CM10.1 on the device, I hooked her up with TItaniumBackup such that future data would be protected and could be restored. I've been using TitaniumBackup for years and I love it but are there any advantages to using Carbon now that it's available? The backup/restore issue for Messages is gone for me since I bypass that by using Google Voice but I can say that previous attempts to backup/restore Messages with TitaniumBackup never worked. I also never had much luck with backing up and restoring home screen layouts or widgets. It's always annoying to have to setup home screens and widgets again after flashing a new ROM. I've been using Launcher8, which is pretty sweet but a TitaniumBackup restore of the app data for that isn't able to restore widgets correctly. Also the latest builds of Launcher8 have an issue where tiles get moved to the bottom of the list and they don't stick where I put them.