recovering text messages from the time I used a different SIM card

[hotrad]

Hello Community,

I travelled to another country and used a different SIM card in my phone when I was there.

I returned to Canada and now want to see the content of text messages that were sent to me while I was on the other network in the other country. The useage part of my phone bill shows me the phone number of the originator phone number.

Thanks

[mimmo]

@hotrad as numerous people have stated already, the sms are not stored in the pm system. 

[hotrad]

Hello,

Do you have an answer to my query ?

[will13am]

I believe text messages go through a short message service center (SMSC) which has policies on how messages are buffered and buffer size.  Being off the network whether using a different SIM card or having phone turned off for a period of time is the same thing.  There is text message buffering going on.  I don't recall much discussion of this in the forum about limits and parameters for this buffering.  @Alan_K , care to weigh in on this dicussion?

[mimmo]

Yes the messages are gone.

In the future there are ways around this by leaving your sim in an old phone and set up a forwarding app to forward sms to email or another number like fongo. 

[geopublic]

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@hotrad wrote:

Hello Community,

I travelled to another country and used a different SIM card in my phone when I was there.

I returned to Canada and now want to see the content of text messages that were sent to me while I was on the other network in the other country. The useage part of my phone bill shows me the phone number of the originator phone number.

Thanks

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My understanding is that a provider will try to deliver a text between 3  to 7 days of the original date they were sent and then they expire. Not sure what it is for PM. How long were you away? 

[dabr]

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@hotrad wrote:

Hello Community,

I travelled to another country and used a different SIM card in my phone when I was there.

I returned to Canada and now want to see the content of text messages that were sent to me while I was on the other network in the other country. The useage part of my phone bill shows me the phone number of the originator phone number.

Thanks

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I think @missorange  is correct and that PM doesn't allow for text message recovery, although it would be nice if that were the case.  I also never received any texts that were sent to me when I was out of the country last year and it looks like PM is probably not too bothered about adding a roaming feature for travel outside the US, for now at least.

[Pizzaeh]

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@hotrad wrote:

Hello Community,

I travelled to another country and used a different SIM card in my phone when I was there.

I returned to Canada and now want to see the content of text messages that were sent to me while I was on the other network in the other country. The useage part of my phone bill shows me the phone number of the originator phone number.

Thanks

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Edit: Sorry, I misinterpreted what was meant by the op; they're asking about the text messages sent to their Public Mobile number while they were away.  @missorange and @dabr are right.

[missorange]

I don't think PM has that feature to recover the text message when you out of country.