if its only your phone and not the same with your friends you may have a defective handset? Not sure, have you tried turning it off and on again? Also do you use taskiller? Stopping some processes may cause your phone to become unstable.

 

Hello, I also have the same issue, however, it never requires me to restart my phone. It freezes as you have said, but after I hit another button to back out and go back in, my messages are gone and I can create new messages no problem...

I don't have any task killers or anything else installed on my phone...

 

You can still slide it. It just requires more to do it. see other threads for more particular discussion.

 

for Bhengbang- I have this same issue. What i do is delete the whole thread. But i have to wait.. So what i do is i use the scroll ball and just scroll up and down on the messages (not the whole time scrolling). I do this to make sure the backlight stays on. I just finished deleting a thread with over 1800 messages. Took about 10 minutes of making sure the backlight never went out and it erased. then after that i was able to delete any threads with over 100 without a problem. Finally! i do hope they come out with a fix for this. Other than that little issue my phone is great. hope this helps.

 

And as far as the slide to unlock goes. I thought my phone was having a problem too. but i noticed that i had to touch the grey bar that has the time on it and slide down. before i was able to touch anywhere on the screen to unlock it. now on that bar. Try that. Let me know if this was useless info to you sir.

 

you can't lock text messages. How about if you want to save some.

 

i didn't say lock text messages. slide to unlock the home screen. As far as saving txt messages goes. You can download an app from the market place.

 

Well ever since I did that anything over 100 deletes in under a minute. So hopefully it stays that way.

 

When txting in landscape mode I do not see where to send it. I am turning the phone back and forth from typing to sending. any help? thanks in advance.

 

When in landscape mode press the bottom left hand corner key. The one with the keyboard. And then u can send

 

Duh, thanks.

 

Precisely the problem I had. Much teeth-gnashing. Verizon rep told me first to do a hard reset (turn off phone, remove battery, let it sit a minute, then put the battery back in). If that didn't work (and it did not seem to, after several tries), he said to purge out my gmail account, or some such thing, which made no sense because texts don't route through gmail. Anyway, I returned to my teeth-gnashing effort just now and found that, Lo! The texts finally had deleted. (Almost 1,700 texts in a thread... New user here, didn't know that'd be a problem. Duh.) Don't ask me what happened. Only thing I can figure is that the Verizon advice did work.... eventually (given, say, 31 hours to work in background?).