SL4A ApiReference

And so, maybe works with perl...

perl-android-apk

If that does not work, look for the not documented "content://sms/inbox"

edit: You also need to dive into: sl4a itself

Firstly you may want to check over at xda developers for an aftermarket ROM for your phone. They're free of carried installed bloatware and tend to be more up to date (with Android releases). If you go down this route backup your phone first.

From memory I recall the SMS data being stored in a SQLite database. Tools exist in perl to parse this data, see sms-grep.pl, further reading Finding and Reverse Engineering Deleted SMS Messages, and Creating a Perl script to retrieve Android SMS.

Update: added first link.

I think your phone (storage) might be too small , but you can compile and install Perl on it.

I have some old version of Perl packaged for KitKat at http://corion.net/perl-android/.

Two years ago, I gave a talk on running Perl on your Android phone. The Android-specific ecosystem is basically nonexistent, and much of this is because a C application cannot really talk to the Android APIs because these all live in Java-land. But as a common way of storage on Android is to use an SQLite database, DBI and a rooted phone are your friends for accessing data.

More or less standard location for SMS under Android is /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db. This is SQLite database and one can read it using simple sqlite3 command.

Normally, this path is not accessible by the users. So you can access SMS messages only from inside of Android application, using Android API. Alternatively you may try to root your phone and then you'll get direct access to the file

Thanks all for comments. They all gave me valuable hints, but I'm disappointed that I didn't get farther with my end of it, as I also "upgraded" to windows 10, and now I don't have a driver that will work for media transfer protocol. I realize that this is not the place to discuss why my free operating system, that was worth every penny of it, and my unadulterated piece of crap phone can't communicate. If I can get the driver working, then this thread might be in business.

If anyone has a success story using perl on their phone, I'd be interested to know the brand and model of telephone, as well as the OS they use to talk to it. Indeed, the whole reason I left the world of apple was that I might use perl on a phone. I do hope to revisit this topic with something more than a strikeout.

I've used perl directly on various Android devices (phones and tablets) without issue with cc tools. I always run cyanogenmod, and have done since the first version of hardware that supported Android. Faster, cleaner, smaller footprint, no bloatware.

Windows 10 is a train wreck, I'm glad I only have to support close family who run it. You don't mention what you've done and what happens (How do I post a question effectively?), so I can only advise removing the drivers you have, head over to XDA developers, install the adb/fastboot tools package, transfer the files you need to work with via adb, do what you have to on your computer. Failing that get a vendor win 10 driver or at least try the generic google drivers out there. The adb route will be the quickest method of getting the job done, so far as I un derstand it.

Update: fixed typos, added link.