Highlights of Sony Xperia Z1:
Water-resistant and dust resistant
20.7MP camera with the latest Sony technologies
Smart, social and innovative camera experiences
5” Full HD screen with NFC-capable devices
Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 800 Quad-core 2.2Ghz processor with 2GB RAM

Sometimes, to free up more space for new text message or preserve the important SMS on your Sony Xperia Z1, it is very essential for you to backup SMS on your phone to computer. However, you may be disappointed to find that there are no built-in apps on your Sony Xperia Z1 enables you to backup your SMS, but you can utilize some third-party Android SMS Transfer applications to help you get around this limitation.
Sony Xperia Z1 Backup SMS to PC, a very intuitive but useful application specially designed to backup Sony Xperia Z1 SMS to computer. The program includes a Phone Port and a PC Port tool.
The Phone Port tool should be installed on your Sony Xperia Z1, with this Android phone application, you can not only backup SMS as .db file format to save to your phone’s internal storage card, but also restore the backup SMS .db file to your phone’s messaging box.
The PC Port can be installed directly on your computer, you can import the backup SMS .db file to this program, then you will be able to view your SMS content, edit SMS number, date and content, print SMS out, export SMS to local computer and save as .txt or .csv file directly on your computer.

How to Backup Sony Xperia Z1 SMS to PC?
1. Install and launch Jihosoft Android SMS Transfer on your Sony Xperia Z1.
2. Hit “Backup” icon on the main interface to backup SMS to .db file, skip the pop out “Register” window and input the file name for the backup SMS in another window, then hit “OK” to start the SMS backup process.
3. When backup completes, you can locate and find all backup SMS .db file in your Sony Xperia Z1 internal storage card.

How to use backup SMS .db file?
1. Transfer backup SMS .db file to computer or external SD card.
If you want to do a factory reset on your phone or desire to switch to a new Android phone, you can transfer the backup SMS .db file to your computer or an external SD card so that you can restore them later to your phone or another new Android phone.

2. Import backup SMS .db file to desktop tool.
The backup SMS .db file is an database file that are not readable on neither your Android phone or computer, but you can use the PC Port tool with the program to import this file to view, edit, delete, print and export out the backup SMS content directly on your computer.