Open VMG files in your browser
The text messages Nokia's phones and PC Suite saved, a file each. Read one right here as the phone showed it. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your text message opens as the phone showed it: who sent it, when, and what it says.
- From and to • Names and numbers
- When it was sent
- Inbox or Sent • Read or not
- Message, Tree or Text
About VMG
vMessage is IrMC's format for a text message, beside vNote for notes and vCard for contacts. Nokia's phones and Nokia PC Suite saved messages as .vmg files, one a message, and Sony Ericsson's, Samsung's and others' phones sent them that way over Bluetooth and infrared.
A .vmg is text: BEGIN:VMSG, the message's folder and status, the sender's vCard, then an envelope with the recipient's vCard and the body, whose first line is the date. Nokia wrote them in UTF-16, so Notepad can show them with a gap between every letter.
Filepeek shows the message as the phone did: who it's from and to, by name and number, the date, the folder, whether it was read, and its text. Tree shows each part as the file has it.
vMessage
.vmg
Format
- MIME type
- text/x-vmessage
- Made by
- The Infrared Data Association (IrDA)
Inside the file
- Holds
- One text message
- People
- The sender's and recipient's vCards
- Text
- UTF-16 from Nokia
- Markup
- Plain text, like a vCard
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens VMG files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on any computer or phone. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open VMG
- WindowsNokia PC Suite, no longer made • Notepad shows its text
- MacTextEdit shows its text
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I read my old Nokia messages?
Nokia PC Suite saved each message as a .vmg file. Drop one on this page or choose Peek a VMG, and it shows who sent it, when and what it says.
Why does my VMG look like gibberish in Notepad?
Nokia wrote messages in UTF-16, two bytes a letter, which some editors show with gaps or odd characters. Filepeek reads it as UTF-16.
Can I copy a message's text?
Yes. Select it on the card and copy it, or choose Text by the card for the whole file.