Cannot send SMS after restore sms.db on iPhone

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Job Vermeulen (admin)

If you have problems sending SMS after a manual restore of the SMS.db.

It’s properly a security-rights problem, you iPhone cannot write its outgoing messages to the database file.

Fix it this way:

Open Putty and connect to your iPhone as root (default password ‘apline’) btw you SHOULD change this for security reasons.

Run:

chown mobile -R /var/mobile/

And:

killall SpringBoard

Now all folder and files are reset to the correct settings.

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  • luis

    tnx, searching for this solution on the net for a long time :D

  • Ren.

    Thank you so much, it was a great help.

  • Josh

    Thanks so much for this. Fixed the issue I was having of the SMS.app crashing when you tried to send something. Cheers!

  • amir

    bonjour
    moi aussi j ai le meme probleme mais je n arrive pas a le resoudre merci .

  • http://www.valtorre.es julian

    hola, no puedo enviar sms desde mi iphone 4, si puedo recibirlos, decidme que hago!!!!!!!!!! gracias

  • jorge

    thank you soo much!! saved my life

  • Pankaj

    Thanks a lot , its perfect solution

  • Poom

    thanks, you just saved another life :)

  • http://maxitjob.com Job Vermeulen (admin)

    Happy you guys are helped with this info!:)

  • Kanoko

    And yet another life saved.
    Thanks a lot