Save/Create MMS in inbox Android

Question

I am working on an Application which needs to be able to Save/Create a new MMS in inbox or Sent folders but I cant figure out the way.

I tried the following code but it gave me exception:

ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
values.put("address", "xxxxxxxxxxx");
values.put("body", "body 3");
values.put("read", "0");
getContentResolver().insert(Uri.parse("content://mms/inbox"), values);

And the Exception is:

ERROR/Database(118): Error inserting read=0 body=body 3 msg_box=1 date=1306153444 address=xxxxxxxxxxx
ERROR/Database(118): android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: table pdu has no column named body: , while compiling: INSERT INTO pdu(read, body, msg_box, date, address) VALUES(?, ?, ?, ?, ?);
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteCompiledSql.native_compile(Native Method)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteCompiledSql.compile(SQLiteCompiledSql.java:91)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteCompiledSql.<init>(SQLiteCompiledSql.java:64)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteProgram.<init>(SQLiteProgram.java:80)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteStatement.<init>(SQLiteStatement.java:36)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.compileStatement(SQLiteDatabase.java:1145)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.insertWithOnConflict(SQLiteDatabase.java:1536)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase.insert(SQLiteDatabase.java:1410)
ERROR/Database(118):     at com.android.providers.telephony.MmsProvider.insert(MmsProvider.java:347)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.insert(ContentProvider.java:174)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.content.ContentProviderNative.onTransact(ContentProviderNative.java:146)
ERROR/Database(118):     at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:288)
ERROR/Database(118):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method)
ERROR/MmsProvider(118): MmsProvider.insert: failed! read=0 body=body 3 msg_box=1 date=1306153444 address=xxxxxxxxxxx

UDPATE: Exception removed by removing the line: values.put("body","body 3") But I can't see any mms in messages.

Answer 1

I was having the same problem. However I successfully created and restored an MMS. It's basically reverse manipulation of database. I hope you can get an MMS from the database, right? You just need to put back appropriate values in database tables. You can get information about database tables in mmssms.db. Once you understand the mmssms.db, it's very easy to insert an MMS.

Answer 2

The body of the MMS is stored in content://mms/part/. See this code for how to read from it, but remember that all of this is undocumented, unsupported and likely to change without notice.