plz help screen wont work on droid 2

[sulibarri14]

the screen on my droid 2 just stopped working it powers on but then the scrren has a white line that flickers across it i have VERY important text messages saved on it and do not know how to get them off i do not know if when i saved them they are saved to my sd card or not i got it to come on for a few minutes but not able to use my backup assistant at all i have heard that if you have gmail activated on ur phone-which i do- you can access certain things from it can someone plz help me????

[kerouac1]

Text messages are normally saved to the SIM card. Since you have a Verizon phone, there is no SIM card to remove.

[sulibarri14]

so does that mean that i cannot retrieve my messages

[acraftylady]

I don't have a smart phone but any important text I want to save I send them right to my email for safe keeping on the computer so something to think about for future reference.  Mary

[sulibarri14]

i dont even know how to do that lol im trying to recover the messages that were on the phone i have already gotten a replacement phone but it is not activated yet i just dont know how to get the messages already saved on the droid that doesnt work anymore

[acraftylady]

Well when you get a working phone any new important texts that come in you want save you just hit forward and put your email address in the to field and send and it goes to your email.  If you want to send back from email to phone then you use  your10digitnumber@vzwpix.com.   You have to do this before the phone dies.  I think you are out of luck getting the texts back unless you did this before hand.  Take it to a verizon store and maybe they can get them back.  If they were that important they should have been backed up to begin with.   Mary

[sulibarri14]

ya i think so to it really stinks i cant get them back but thank you very much

[acraftylady]

Well now you have learned a lesson to back them up from now on in case this happens again.  Mary

[Ann154]

There are applications in the Android Market for backing up your text messages to either the SD card or an email address.

Just search "SMS backup" on the Android Market.

[sulibarri14]

ann154 i cant back it up from the phone the screen is not coming on at all its blacked out i need to find a way to be able to do it without using the phone they are saved but idk where they are saved to if its in the sd card or sims card