I have text messages from a Motorola V9m from Verizon. The various tools I used could pull the file system but could not read and interpret the messages. I can read the text of the messages but the dates aren't in plain text, of course.
When I pulled the file system, each text message is its own file. Also each message does have a different time and date almost indicative of when the message was sent (or received). However, I can't confirm this with the display because the display is broken.
I believe I found the byte offset for the date and time of the message and I believe it represents the number of seconds since 1/1/1980. However, every time I do the calculation I seem to be about 5 days off.
Has anyone else had luck with decoding the date and time of messages, specifically from Motorola phones and hopefully from the V9 series.
i ran into this a year or so ago on a motorola chocolate (or similar) the sms messages were stored in files from 0-99. the dates/times are in hex in the first few bytes and in reverse format.
i don't have my notes in front of me for that one… but if you need more info, let me know.
Chad,
Thanks. When you say "reverse format" are you talking about Big Endian, vs. Little Endian which is found on hard drives from computers with Intel processors?
I believe it is 4 bytes long. On one Motorola phone, I found it at offset 0x24. On another, I found it at 0x2A.
Any notes you have would be helpful.