I have uploaded the software that comes with the phone and have backed up all of the data to my computer, but I can't seem to figure out how to view and print important text messages.
try sending them as an MMS to you email sounds wierd but your phone # is sorta an email addy. I sent things to my wifes work email from my previous phone several times it does work.
I believe the software from Best Buy called MiQ will do this. It's by invitation only but you can sign up and get an invite within a day or so. You'll also be able to send a text from there too. With that program it syncs pretty much your whole phone to the computer wirelessly, and you can view almost everything on your phone from the website.
Actually no invite necessary! You can just sign up at miqlive.com.
Once you sign up and download mIQ, it will start syncing any texts that come in when mIQ is running. Then you can view them on the web. Will also sync your contacts, calendar and media.
Right now, we can't upload text messages that are on your phone prior to installing and syncing with mIQ. Hopefully we'll get permission from BlackBerry to access these for a future release.
I found a cool program that does EXACTLY that and it does it super easily and super well at Pleasant Solutions. Its called "BerryExtract".
On their website they say:
A simple program that lets you save your BlackBerry text messages (SMS) to Windows text or Excel files so you can save, paste, or search them easily. It's a Windows program so no BlackBerry installs needed. It can also get deleted texts from backups.
Did the trick and saved me tons of time, my blackberry works faster now that I was able to extract the text messages and delete them.