Currently I have over 2700 texts in one thread and as a result the messages app is seriously slow. But when I try to delete them the messages app crashes/freezes and even after killing the task it does not sort itself so I am forced to reboot.
How the hell do I delete these!? Is there another way or do I need to wait for the next software update that I care about?
The lag is the least of the issues, I believe this is also causing SMS Popup to crash (now uninstalled) but I really love this app
Any help appreciated
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Currently I have over 2700 texts in one thread and as a result the messages app is seriously slow. But when I try to delete them the messages app crashes/freezes and even after killing the task it does not sort itself so I am forced to reboot.
How the hell do I delete these!? Is there another way or do I need to wait for the next software update that I care about?
The lag is the least of the issues, I believe this is also causing SMS Popup to crash (now uninstalled) but I really love this app
Any help appreciated
Are you using the stock message app or something else?
Are you trying to delete one message or the whole thread?
I don't know if this will help, so don't do it, hopefully someone else will know the answer; would clearing the data in the application settings work?
Also, 2700 messages in one thread is most impressive.
Not sure if this will help with your situation, but I found an app in the marketplace called "Super SMS Quick Delete" (developer name is Superdroid.net) that has worked well for deleting lots of texts. You can delete entire conversations at the top level, or (this is why I got it) it allows you to go into a conversation and place check marks on all the messages you want to get rid of and then remove them all with a single press of the "delete" button (as opposed to having to delete them all one by one). It also has a "select all" button to quickly check mark all messages within the conversation.
It is pretty simple and seems like a relatively light-weight app. All it does is delete, so maybe it would have an easier time handling the massive amount of texts you are dealing with. Hope it helps.
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Not sure if this will help with your situation, but I found an app in the marketplace called "Super SMS Quick Delete" (developer name is Superdroid.net) that has worked well for deleting lots of texts. You can delete entire conversations at the top level, or (this is why I got it) it allows you to go into a conversation and place check marks on all the messages you want to get rid of and then remove them all with a single press of the "delete" button (as opposed to having to delete them all one by one). It also has a "select all" button to quickly check mark all messages within the conversation.
It is pretty simple and seems like a relatively light-weight app. All it does is delete, so maybe it would have an easier time handling the massive amount of texts you are dealing with. Hope it helps.
Tried it, gave up with it.
It took a minute to delete like 4 texts.
I'll live with the lag (and without SMS Popup ;_; ) until 2.0 comes..
Last edited by G8D; November 19th, 2009 at 12:17 PM.
Tried it, gave up with it.
It took a minute to delete like 4 texts.
I'll live with the lag (and without SMS Popup ;_; ) until 2.0 comes..
wow! it has never taken that long to delete mine, but then I don't have anywhere near as many messages to manage as you do. Oh well, sorry to hear that. At least now I know not to count on it for that so I'll use that as incentive to keep a good handle on how many messages I've got.
Hope you can find a working solution.
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hey, are you sure its freezing? I'd hazard a guess that its probably just taking a long long time to delete them all.
Try starting the delete before you go to bed, leave the phone plugged in so it doesnt lose charge, and i'd bet that they are all gone when you wake up.
In my messages I have a 1400+ between me and one person. The problem is there's so many that when I try and delete them all (because it's getting sluggish) it totally borks my phone and basically crashes. I could delete them 1 by 1 but it's extremely slow because of the amount of messages and would take forever. Is there another way to delete the messages?
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How long did you wait? It will probably take a fair while to delete them all to be honest. In that time it may look like the phone has crashed, but leave it and it should eventually get through to deleting them all.
When I deleted about 400 messages from one contact, it took about 20-30 seconds. I'd imagine 1400+ would take considerably longer, perhaps up to 2-3 minutes.
Have the same issue with my Hero crashing when trying to delete 2000+ messages. i waited for 9 hours to see if it was just taking a long time but it didn't work. i've seen the new 2.0 update has the option to automatically delete message after a certain time.
I am having the same problem I currently have 5445 messages with one person and my phone is extremely slow when texting now and it also crashes when i try to delete sometimes it seems like they have deleted but then they all just come back:/
a bump for this. Suffering from the same plight. 3000+ in one thread and neither chomp, handcent or the default messaging app can clear the thread. My E71 can do it in a few minutes but the Hero just buckles. There's surely got to be away around this
Just a thought, but texts are saved on the SD card right? I don't imagine thousands of them would fit on the phone's internal memory anyway. So if you find where they're stored couldn't you try deleting them via your computer rather than an app?
Last edited by Xyro; December 28th, 2009 at 04:41 PM.
Just a thought, but texts are saved on the SD card right? I don't imagine thousands of them would fit on the phone's internal memory anyway. So if you find where they're stored couldn't you try deleting them via your computer rather than an app?
Well they are just small amounts of text, so each one is probably only a few kb...
Does anyone know exactly where the messages are saved? I've had a look in the .Mail folder, and it says there's 9000 items in there...I deleted about 3000 on my PC as a test, but the text message count didn't go down on the phone after a restart, so I assumed they're not text message files.
If anyone knows how to access the SMS directory via computer, that'd be really helpful!
I'll live with the lag (and without SMS Popup ;_; ) until 2.0 comes..
Is that popup gonna be added in 2.0?
Or is there any way, to show only few messages (like 3 days history) and other will by archived - accesible only with some extra button? Like chompSMS or handascent has, but don't like any of those application - they dont have badge with unread messages and don't have that nice icon and user interface as the original app has..
Oh, I havent read new features coming in 2.0.. Auto delete feature is nice thing but I would rather see option for archiving messages - maybe much more then autodelete. Like archive messages that are older then x days, display button in context menu "Show old messages" and then show them.. It can't even by that difficult to create, right?
Oh, I havent read new features coming in 2.0.. Auto delete feature is nice thing but I would rather see option for archiving messages - maybe much more then autodelete. Like archive messages that are older then x days, display button in context menu "Show old messages" and then show them.. It can't even by that difficult to create, right?
Well in the mean time why not use SMS Backup.
That will backup your texts to your gmail account as if they were emails. Then you can delete them off your phone (but still access them via gmail).
Last edited by Bhav; December 29th, 2009 at 12:46 PM.
Argh I wish there was some solution! The only way I see to fix it is to install the ROM again and wipe them all, but that means you lose all contacts and apps and stuff, cba with the hassle , it's so ********, my old sony ericsson could delete loads of messages easily why can't this one!?
edit- how can ******** be censored?!
Last edited by james; December 29th, 2009 at 01:01 PM.
Sooo i had the same problem. Nearly 2000 texts and for days it was driving me insane because of the lag it caused!! I found a way around it...sorta. It still will take time to delete but is faster than going one by one.
Download handcent, and click on the thread you wanna delete. Then once in, menu, then more, then batch mode. You can check up to 50 messages at a time and they delete within about a minute. Took me a little while to delete all 2k but lags gone and phone works up to speed again! And now I'll for surely delete texts every couple 100 until the bug is fixed...
I solved my problem it was driving me crazy so when I got up to over 6000 texts with one contact I went to the android market and downloaded sms quick delete once I got it I noticed it was taking forever to delete them so i started it at night and let it delete over night when I woke up they were all gone. Now I delete all of my messages at least every other day. Hooray for no more lag=D
well i went onto the applications and put in delete text messages and installed a app i have 4096 texts in one thread n loads in others to.. 498 in one n 100 odd in another there was about 15 diff threads, installed a app the one with 4096 texts once ticked took about 25 mins to delete. but it worked, and better than a factory restore i'll never be letting my messages build up like that again. set my phone now to only take 150 messages per thread at a time. when i tried deleting them with out the ap it just froze my phone out n forced stop. was a right pain.. home this works for a few more ov you's
glad i'm not the only one. the most i have in one thread is 2800. i have threads dating back to march. this sucks. every time i try to delete ANYTHING, it force closes, and never deletes. installing the sms quick delete at this very moment. i hope it works
I had the same problem and I was told to factory reset the phone...But i didnt want to so i deleted texts from 1 contact at a time. Then on the largest one, I pressed delete put phone on charge and went to sleep. woke up with 0 texts.
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"Delete old messages" is an amazing app which deletes texts that are older than a certain time-frame. If you purchase the full version it can be automated and messages can be deleted by other filters. Using this in conjunction with "SMS Backup" means that I can access even if I were to accidentally messages I might want later.
when i go into my default message inbox it has a 'loading screen' and the same thing was happening with the SMS Backup. However, after downloading three different apps, they did finally go; thankgod. thankyou all
Not very smart of Android to be having such problems managing SMSs, surely SMS should be a fundamental part of a mobile phone OS? Never had such problems with my Nokia; prompted by this thread I've just gone to delete SMSs from my Hero for the first time, chose a contact/thread with just a few hundred messages, and the phone took ages to clear them, dread to think how long it'll struggle with those threads of thousands!
According to the SMS Backup app, i had 3819 texts from one thread. My old phone could only handle about 300 max (sent and recieved) so i had to delete them; whereas this phone just kept going. It's quite scary thinking that just pure texts can make a state of the art smartphone freeze and have major issues...
Well, I'd advise deleting them all first with "Delete old messages" then start backing them up. Unless of course you know you want to keep the ones you already have.
I had to factory reset to clear a thread of ~4000 from my hero since it was taking several seconds to load up each text etc. I guess it's not unreasonable to keep it <1000 though, since I know plenty of people who can still only store 60-70 texts on their phone in total :P
Currently I have over 2700 texts in one thread and as a result the messages app is seriously slow. But when I try to delete them the messages app crashes/freezes and even after killing the task it does not sort itself so I am forced to reboot.
How the hell do I delete these!? Is there another way or do I need to wait for the next software update that I care about?
The lag is the least of the issues, I believe this is also causing SMS Popup to crash (now uninstalled) but I really love this app
I was having the same problem. I tried to delete like a hundred texts in one thread and it would take about 2 seconds per text. So if I wanted to delete a relatively small thread with say... 250 texts, it would take my Hero about 8-9 minutes to delete them all, and that is IF it deleted them successfully.
Download an app called SMS backup & restore, or a similar app. What I did was download all my texts which took maybe ten minutes, then deleted them off of my sd card from the app. It took about 3-4 minutes to go through all of my texts and delete them. Then the ones I wanted to keep I just restored them on the phone, and ~voila~! Text message problem over.
Anyone else having serious issues with their Hero? Mine freezes all the time, and its like one of the shitty flip phones when they first came out. When I text sometimes I type the whole sentence before it finishes the first word. I'm thinking about doing a factory reset. I actually don't like my Hero at all anymore. It sucks. :/
Anyone else having serious issues with their Hero? Mine freezes all the time, and its like one of the shitty flip phones when they first came out. When I text sometimes I type the whole sentence before it finishes the first word. I'm thinking about doing a factory reset. I actually don't like my Hero at all anymore. It sucks. :/
Well atleast I feel better knowing that I'm not the only person having trouble with the deleting text messages....I have 20k and thanks for the quick delete sms....i'm going to see if that works!
I had this problem a few months back, I had nearly 1000 texts in 1 thread and it was getting really slow to open, but would hang and then force close whenever I tried to delete it. I had my phone plugged in to my laptop in USB mode and was messing around trying to delete smaller (but still large at 100 - 300) threads while I was doing things on the PC, and one of them went in just a few mins. I realised this was much quicker than normal. So I tried the large thread (1000 texts). I had to leave it for about 15 mins but it didn't force close, it deleted the lot. I was amazed. It seems plugging the phone into a computer in USB mode really speeds up deletion! I did this in Handcent on my HTC Legend, not sure if the app makes any difference. You must not touch the phone at all during deletion or it will force close (may be wise to use flight mode to stop incoming calls or texts). Hope this helps.
Not sure if this will help with your situation, but I found an app in the marketplace called "Super SMS Quick Delete" (developer name is Superdroid.net) that has worked well for deleting lots of texts. You can delete entire conversations at the top level, or (this is why I got it) it allows you to go into a conversation and place check marks on all the messages you want to get rid of and then remove them all with a single press of the "delete" button (as opposed to having to delete them all one by one). It also has a "select all" button to quickly check mark all messages within the conversation.
It is pretty simple and seems like a relatively light-weight app. All it does is delete, so maybe it would have an easier time handling the massive amount of texts you are dealing with. Hope it helps.
this was great advice i used it and it works really well
I looked through the forums for deleting text, and it seems that it is only HTC that has this problem?
Can anyone confirm this or am i wrong or not?
My messages delete at a rate of 15 messages in 10 seconds. Thats um .67 seconds per text, WTF! are you kidding? that is extremely poor performance. They will delete, you just cant use your phone or it will most likely freeze up.
I thought I had a 1 GHZ processor, maybe it is dumbed down
P.S that app super sms quick delete DOES NOT speed up the delete process.
go complain to HTC, like that will get anywhere LOL
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I have an HTC Hero, have had it for about a year almost.
I use the Handcent SMS app for my text messages. If you go to the list where all your text messages are displayed and press and hold a text message thread, one of the options displayed will be "Force Delete". Click on this option and a small blue convo window pops up in your task bar. If you pull the task bar down, you can view the progress of deleting that thread "Handcent deletion, tap to cancel."
It goes very very very slowly. As in, it hasn't reached 1/20th of the deletion in 10 mins to delete a 1700 message thread, but if you just leave it be, it'll eventually delete it.
This is the best option I find. If you simply choose "delete", your phone will likely freeze and crash, and deleting messages one text at a time is ridiculous.
Hope this helps.
P.S - Sorry if this was mentioned earlier, I didn't look through previous replies. too lazy haha.
Also, 2700 messages in one thread is most impressive.
Haha, I never thought to put a limit on my messages. So since I've had my Evo when it first came out (about a year) my biggest thread had over 12000 txts!
Currently I have over 2700 texts in one thread and as a result the messages app is seriously slow. But when I try to delete them the messages app crashes/freezes and even after killing the task it does not sort itself so I am forced to reboot.
How the hell do I delete these!? Is there another way or do I need to wait for the next software update that I care about?
The lag is the least of the issues, I believe this is also causing SMS Popup to crash (now uninstalled) but I really love this app
Any help appreciated
HEY!
so, as of yesterday I had the same problem, could not delete my 2000+ conversation on my HTC. everytime i tried to do so, my phone got stuck.
Last night I changed my SMS settings:
Tick delete older messages, and choose a text limit you want ( I chose 10)
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