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android-sms-65-to-64-workaround

So you just updated your CyanogenMod 12.1, probably to "stable" snapshot build, and now your SMS app is crashing with error android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: Can't downgrade database from version 65 to 64, you know that you can just delete /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/mmssms.db file, reboot and be happy, but you can't be happy because you must save your messages? Okay, this is what I faced and here is what you can do.

  • copy your mmssms.db file to computer (this will be the source)
  • delete it on device, reboot and copy the newly created mmssms.db (this will be the destination)
  • put the names of your src and dst files in the script
  • run it (you need PHP with SQLite3 installed)
  • replace mmssms.db on your device with your dst file
  • reboot
  • be happy

This script just copies content of some tables from old to the new db. Feel free to improve it.

Hope this will help somebody.