Help! Text message history/automatically deleted text messages

I did not realize that my phone had the default setting to delete text messages from a contact once 200 messages were received. I have turned that setting off but is there a way to view/recover the texts that were automatically deleted? I've read on numerous forums that you can click a contact then go to their history and the messages will pop up. I've tried that but the only thing under my contacts' histories are their call logs, nothing with texts. Thank you.

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