folder location of sms messages in s4

There is some information in this forum thread. Both solutions offered require rooting your phone which sounds like a guarantee invaluation and a risk of bricking it.

*invalidation I love autocorrect.

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databeses/mmssms.db

Looking for it....

Good news. Did you need to root the phone to get to it?

no

That's even better news. I don't like the idea of hacking through the protection and potentially destroying a phone.

I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for Mark88's comment #a40548243

for the following reason:

This was difficult!

Was my link no help to you? If you wanted me to look further you could ask. It sounds like you used information from the link I posted to find the solution which was to use a tool to back up the sms mugs.

*msgs

I received a notice giving me 4 days to object. The question closed in just one day with no acknowledgement of my post. I can't ask a question in community support so having to raise it from here.

Ors-Ankh-Aten, no I did not use the link.

Some communication may have solved your problem faster. You said you were looking for the folder and several days later that you had a solution. If you said you couldn't find it I could have looked further. Or someone else may have joined in to help.

I am sorry for the late communication.

That's ok. Please remember that there are many people willing to help here. If a question looks like it is back with the asker and waiting for them to come back then people will generally leave it alone.