Recover pending text messages deleted before sent Last night I got a number from a girl, I tried to send her a message, but it hung on "message sending".

I decided to delete the message without saving the number to my phone, and the whole thread disappeared. Now I want the number back.

I have tried to access it from my carrier but they don't have it on there because the message wasn't sent in the first place.

Any ideas on how to recover it? I am using a Motorola Atrix 4G.
It is extremely unlikely that you can recover the text message itself, but you can try following something like this.

If you haven't rebooted your phone, you could also try running this from your PC while your phone is connected:

adb shell "logcat | grep handleSmsReceived"


The output will look like:

D/Mms/Txn ( 9092): handleSmsReceived messageUri: content://sms/789, address: +15551234567, body: this is a text message


If you don't have ADB installed, you can get it from the Android SDK Tools.