Transfering SMS messages between 2 iIPHONES

okay Gents here is my issue:
I have 2 iphones:
iphone A: is a 3G (OS 3.0.1 has been unlocked and jailbroken. (unable to update OS since it will lock it back up.
iphone B: is a 3GS (OS 4.0) I just bought it and it is factory unlocked so I was able to do the OS upgrade with no problem.
now my issue is this: both iphones are configured with the same laptop. iphone A has SMS messages that I would like to transfer to iphone B. Am I able to do that?
Things that I have tried:
When I received iphone B i tried restoring it with iphone A's settings but only my notes, and pictures transfered.
Thanks for reading my post and I hope someone will be able to help me out with this.

SMS are included in your iphone backup & restoring your new phone from your old phone backup "should" restore the SMS to your new phone, however, in your case, the jailbreak on your old phone(parts of which are most likely in its backup) are preventing this data from being properly restored. I don't know of a way to make this work, because the only way of completely removing all traces of your jailbreak is to restore that phone as a "new" device in itunes, thus deleting all of its data.

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