How to Print Text Messages from Samsung Note/Galaxy S2/S3/S4?
Sep 24, 2013 14:35 pm / Posted by Sebastiane Alan to Android Tips
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I need to print off several text message conversations from my Samsung Galaxy S4 due to legal matters. Any software can help me to do it easily? I would appreciate it if someone could give me an explanation on how to do this. Thanks!
You saved a lot of precious text messages on your Samsung smartphone and not willing to delete them. But the capacity of your phone is limited, so you must delete some messages to ensure your phone can receive or send new messages normally. Here we can choose to print your Samsung text messages out as a kind of eternal memory before your delete them from your phone. It is pretty simple to realize the task.
To print Samsung phone’s text messages, you need to export your messages from the phone at first. iPubsoft Android Desktop Manager (Windows 8/7/XP) or Android Desktop Manager for Mac will be a great Android app that helps you transfer SMS from Samsung phone, such as Samsung Note or Galaxy S2/S3/S4, and saved in printable format so that you can print them out directly with doing any adjustment. This program is specially designed for Android users and support to transfer contacts, SMS, photos, videos and more between Android device and computer effortlessly.
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Print Text Message Conversations from Samsung Phones in 3 Steps
Below is the detailed guide showing you how to export text messages from Android phone and then print out on your computer. What you need to do is just connecting your Samsung and scanning it with the program. Read on to learn more. We will set Windows version as an example.
Step 1: Plug-in your Android phone to the PC
After downloading and installing the program on your computer, you need to connect your device to the computer now. Launch the program and wait when the phone is detected and the analysis successes, you will see an interface showing like below. The program will display your phone's information in the main window.
Note: If it is the first time to run this software, you need to enable USB debugging on your phone. If you did it before, you can skip to the next step.
(1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging".
(2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging".
(3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging".
Once the USB debugging is enabled, click "Allow" on your phone to allow the program super user authorization when an Superuser Request pops up.
Note: The program is not only compatible with Samsung phones, but also supports HTC, Google, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Huawei and so on.
Step 2: Select the SMS you want to print
The program will perform a quick scanning on your phone’s memory, including its internal memory where the text messages are located. The scan will consume you a little while. After the scan, all your phone data, such as messages, contacts, photos, videos, etc. will be scanned out and displayed in a tree structure. Choose the "Messages" category and preview the contents in detail, including all income and outcome text messages.
Step 3: Export text messages and start to print
Select the text messages you want to print out one by one and then press the Export button on the top menu to save them on your computer. After a few seconds, the exporting will be finished. Now, you can open the exported text messages and choose the "Print" function to directly print them on a piece of paper right now.
Note: You can click the New button to send mass text messages on computer easily. Just click the New button and select the contacts you want to send messages to and edit the message on the new window like this.
Done! It is pretty easy and convenient to make it, right? The program even allows you to view the date and time and sender of the text message. Still looking for a way to print text messages from an Android phone? iPubsoft Android Manager will never let you down!