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Treasuremytext for iPhone lets you archive selected messages from your iPhone to Treasuremytext, an SMS archive service (currently in beta). It works over your data connection so archiving messages is free. The application also allows you to delete individual messages from the iPhone (a feature missing from the built in SMS application).Many thanks to Mike Lewis on iPhone dev, Flickr for API inspiration and the mobilepushr team for sharing their code.

–UPDATE : We’ve just tried it on an iPhone with the latest 1.1.3 firmware soft upgrade and like many other apps ours is broken on it so hold off on that upgrade if you want to use this.

Features:

• Delete Individual SMS
• Archive SMS messages to your Treasuremytext account
• Archives SMS messages and deletes from iPhone in one action
• No message charges (works over EDGE and Wifi)

Added benefits for use with Treasuremytext:

• Messages appear in TMT with the original date sent
• Contact information is automatically stored with the message
• A new contact is created if the from address is not yet in your Treasuremytext contacts

To use Treasuremytext for iPhone you need two things:

• A Jailbroken iPhone running Firmware less than 1.1.3 with ‘Installer App’
• A Treasuremytext account

To get a Treasuremytext Account:
Treasuremytext is in beta right now and invite only. As a reader of our blog we’d love you to sign up. Go to this “request an invite” page. Add in the following email address: beta and you’ll get straight in!
Fill in the form to sign up.

To install the Treasuremytext for iPhone Application:

A) First add Treasuremytext to your list of sources.
- Start Installer on your iPhonePress Sources, then Edit, then Add.
- Type http://beta.treasuremytext.com/downloads/iPhone/
- Check you now have a Treasuremytext source in your list of sources.

B) Install the Application
- Still in Installer tap ‘Install’.
- A Treasuremytext category should now be available, tap it.
- Tap the Treasuremytext Package, then tap Install in the title bar
- You will get a untrusted source warning, just tap ‘Install’
- Your iPhone will restart and you should now see a new Treasuremytext icon in your SpringBoard.
- When you are ready to use Treasuremytext for iPhone you’ll be guided through the authorisation process (you’ll need to log in to your account from you iPhone to authorize it).

Step by step pictures of the process are on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/katielips/sets/72157603603187079/

Known Issues: After authorising you may still continue to see authentication required alerts when archiving messages. These can be safely ignored.