Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SDM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SDM to another file type
To convert SDM Documents or logs to another format, you need Samsung Android or other System software.
Convert a file to SDM
To convert other file formats to the "Diagnostic Log or Mail Merge" file type, you need software like Samsung Android or a similar tool.
About SDM files
The .SDM file extension is most frequently associated with Samsung SysDump files. These are diagnostic system logs generated on Samsung Android devices when a user accesses the hidden system menu. They store device errors, modem data, and application crash reports. Alternatively, .SDM files function as legacy StarOffice Mail Merge Documents or Mail Messages originally developed by Sun Microsystems. Less commonly, the extension represents 3D Steel Detailing Model files used in SDS/2 Detailing Software, or workspace data in TIBCO Statistica. The primary disadvantage of .SDM files is their extreme format fragmentation and proprietary nature. Samsung log files are pure system data meant only for developers and often consume massive amounts of phone storage unnecessarily. Legacy StarOffice documents rely on the obsolete Microsoft Compound internal format, making them highly unreliable and prone to rendering errors in modern office software. SDS/2 models are locked into a closed CAD ecosystem requiring an expensive commercial license. If your file is a text-based system log, you should convert it to .TXT or .CSV to read the plain text easily. Legacy StarOffice documents must be converted to .PDF, .DOCX, or .ODT to restore their accessibility and prevent data loss. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert because standard tools cannot determine which of the underlying applications created it. Just drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to identify the format, view its internal structure, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded text or document format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SDM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SDM file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Samsung Android or similar software from the "System Logs and Legacy Documents" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to SDM, try Samsung Android or another comparable tool in the "System Logs and Legacy Documents" category.
The SDM Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SDM converter.