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Android sucks at deleting messages

Iphone deletes thousands of texts in seconds. Instantly gone without the phone lagging.

Wish the eris did that instead of using that app that takes FOREVER (overnight deletion ftw)
 
Well, call me old fashioned, but I'd never let anything go that far without routine maintenance, whether it's emails, temp files or whatever in my computers, let alone text messages in a tiny little device like the cell phone is.

Sunday and Wednesday are cleanup/maintenance days for my Eris, and it takes all of one minute to delete all texts and the various caches available to clear in /applications/manage applications/sort by size.

Fast phone.
 
Frisco said:
Well, call me old fashioned, but I'd never let anything go that far without routine maintenance, whether it's emails, temp files or whatever in my computers, let alone text messages in a tiny little device like the cell phone is.

Sunday and Wednesday are cleanup/maintenance days for my Eris, and it takes all of one minute to delete all texts and the various caches available to clear in /applications/manage applications/sort by size.

Fast phone.
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I will go one better. ANdroid doesn't really suck as it were, it is the operator headspace and timing that is usually off.
 
I'm new to the smartphone thing, and I liked being able to have a thread of a lot of messages, i hated being forced to delete them.
Then it came time to finally delete and I used Delete Me Now, took about 3-4 minutes to delete about 1200 texts but it worked just fine, just start it up and go start dinner or something haha.
 
So because i don't delete every 200 texts i get that IM the problem?
LULZ

I text ALL the time, i get 200 texts in a few hours. maybe less.

Ill just use this app every 2 weeks and delete 8000+ texts over night

Btw that text deleting app worked wonders. Its still slow but it doesnt freeze your phone. Just have to do it overnight.
 
There shouldn't be any fingers being pointed at anyone, it's been 20 years since the first cell phone came onto the market and deleting mass text massages should be something that was solved in Android beta. These are billion dollar companies andwe are talking about brilliant designers and engineers creating a phone that is about the experience and ease of use!

If my phone is going to freeze when I have too many text massages what is the point in having a smart phone at all? Why not just bring my laptop around and check email that way?

All I am saying is that this is something that should be solved, the user should not have to waste their time to delete old texts. I no longer simply expect this phone to work, I need it to work and work well. If Google wants to be considered in the same league as Apple, they need to hire some more conscious designers.
 
I'm not wanting to pile on, but I have to agree. I am here for the same reason. I haven't deleted messages because I was certain there was a better way to purge old messages or to set criteria for deletion other than pressing delete 100 times. It is a little silly to think that a phone that can surf the web, map the constellations, provide audible driving directions from just about anywhere to anywhere, and keep track of all of my emails can't provide a solution for deleting outdated text messages. DFA1 has a valid question. Thank you to those who offered solutions. (BTW - Use your thumb and push delete (3000 times) is not a solution worthy of this forum. I certainly don't need to consult a user forum for advice like that...)
 
i personally think it's the phone.. not the person.. i've have my eris for maybe a month.. and i can't even delete a thread of 20 without waiting 5 mins.. Doesn't make any sense to me.. we are talking about mini computers here.. for crying out loud i saw the new iphone the other day and someone was skyping perfectly fine on it.. but a phone can't delete texts?? cmon now..
 
Don't really have an issue deleting texts, but then again I'm using KaosFroyo. I've let threads get up to 500+ without it taking long to delete.

I also use the built in text limit that's in the stock messenger app for KaosFroyo. It's so easy I don't even think about doing anything. How hard is that really
 
I thought this forum was about helping people with questions, possibly giving some advice, etc... Not insult peoples "housekeeping" skills on a cell phone. I am having the same problem, i have a 3000+ plus thread between me and my girlfriend... Does this mean i dont know how to take care of my phone? No. I just like to look back on our conversations, maybe because i was drunk and couldnt remember the conversation from the night before... lol. But seriously, ive never had a phone that had issues deleting 500+ text messages. Guess a hard reset is imminent :(
 
Insomniak said:
I thought this forum was about helping people with questions, possibly giving some advice, etc... Not insult peoples "housekeeping" skills on a cell phone. I am having the same problem, i have a 3000+ plus thread between me and my girlfriend... Does this mean i dont know how to take care of my phone? No. I just like to look back on our conversations, maybe because i was drunk and couldnt remember the conversation from the night before... lol. But seriously, ive never had a phone that had issues deleting 500+ text messages. Guess a hard reset is imminent :(
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We're not attacking people (or at least I'm not). But it is a sign of poor housekeeping, which is something you have to keep on top of with these phones. Phone OS's couldn't give a damn toward the sentimental value of your messages. If they start accumulating too much, they start causing issues. If you want to keep the conversations, just back them up, and delete them.

On a lighter note, I've had another phone that couldn't delete problems deleting 500+ SMS messages. Its called a RAZR V3. Its because its max capacity was 40 SMS messages. Ha.
 
I used to have this problem on my phone as well. However, it seems to have passed since I rooted.
 
I have just screwed up 4000 contacts again after fixing them the first time. Why dont the "Smart" guys at Google take a lesson from the "Gearheads" at Blackberry and write a decent user friendly sync routine. This just sucks for such a "Smart" phone some of the basic features are non existant or so difficult to find they may as well be. I just want to sync my Outlook contacts and Calander to my HTC EVO, I would even settle for the old school USB connection and forgo the OTA if it would not screw things up. Why should I have to buy a $40 program to sync to gmail, when I dont even wat to use it , just to sync again to my phone. I am a BB user and even thought this phone as lots of iPhone like play things, why can't it also fill the needs of a business person with basic and easy syncing.

Specifically I dont want to sync all the contacts to my outlook from my phone because I have lots of smaller folders for specific groups in Outlook, now I have five folders that have all the same contacts in them and a main "Contacts" folder with 5 duplicates of each of 4000 contacts--

Please Please Please does someone have a solution or a phone number of a person to ask? I have had this phone for 29 days now and have spent over 40 hours on this and many other sites and have yet to find a person that can help or even a person to call and ask--and oh yeah forget about talking to the guys at the store--I know more than they do and I am lost.

Thanks for listening to this---please help if you are out there.
 
Here it is a year from the original post, and the problem still persists?

In scouring the forums here it seems that this problem is only plagued by HTC phones. I did a simple search for " slow deleting text " and the only users seem to be HTC users.

I have a droid Incredible, it has 8GB of internal storage, and a 1 GHZ processor.

1) my dumb phone could delete 220 text messages in less than 10 seconds.
2) It takes my HTC Incredible 10 seconds to delete 15 messages, that is .7 seconds per text message.

I find in unreasonable for such a fast processor to have such issues with such small amounts of data, resulting in force quits, and not being able to use the device.

I believe that having to do a hard reset on your phone constantly is also unreasonable.

My colleague who has a Droid2 does not suffer from this issue what so ever, and in hearing that and the simple fact that a search on this forum seems to show its HTC users only.

I do not think that it is unreasonable to have thousands of text messages on phones like this. It is 2011 not 1999. As pointed out above the iphone could delete thousands in just a few seconds.

Welcome to HTC sense UI - I believe the problem lies with this in my opinion.
 
Carm01 said:
Here it is a year from the original post, and the problem still persists?

In scouring the forums here it seems that this problem is only plagued by HTC phones. I did a simple search for " slow deleting text " and the only users seem to be HTC users.

I have a droid Incredible, it has 8GB of internal storage, and a 1 GHZ processor.

1) my dumb phone could delete 220 text messages in less than 10 seconds.
2) It takes my HTC Incredible 10 seconds to delete 15 messages, that is .7 seconds per text message.

I find in unreasonable for such a fast processor to have such issues with such small amounts of data, resulting in force quits, and not being able to use the device.

I believe that having to do a hard reset on your phone constantly is also unreasonable.

My colleague who has a Droid2 does not suffer from this issue what so ever, and in hearing that and the simple fact that a search on this forum seems to show its HTC users only.

I do not think that it is unreasonable to have thousands of text messages on phones like this. It is 2011 not 1999. As pointed out above the iphone could delete thousands in just a few seconds.

Welcome to HTC sense UI - I believe the problem lies with this in my opinion.
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It basically is just a problem with Sense. I don't know how they incorporate their text storage but it seems to be different than the way AOSP and CM does. You can try clearing the data in dialer storage, I know this works on CM 6.1 (literally just cleared 4500+ texts in less than a tenth of a second), but this maybe the difference in Sense's UI versus CM and AOSP. Worth a shot though, let me know how your results go, I've got an Inc coming on Monday and I don't know that I will root it, so if this method works for deleting messages in a Sense ROM, it would be a great boon to me haha.
 
I'm just gonna throw this out there. I think the technology that has evolved far enough to allow us to stream video from virtually anywhere on the planet, and to be able to store 32GB of data on something the size of our fingernail should also be evolved enough to allow us to be able to fill those 32GB MicroSD cards with text messages without choking. On my old Windows mobile 6 phone, I never had to delete my texts. On my HTC Incredible I currently have 12000+ texts. Why should I even need to delete them? But alas, my phone says I don't have enough application data space for them even though I have plenty of space. Now I need to go through the ridiculously long process of deleting them. It shouldn't need to be this way.
 
bl_kist said:
I'm just gonna throw this out there. I think the technology that has evolved far enough to allow us to stream video from virtually anywhere on the planet, and to be able to store 32GB of data on something the size of our fingernail should also be evolved enough to allow us to be able to fill those 32GB MicroSD cards with text messages without choking. On my old Windows mobile 6 phone, I never had to delete my texts. On my HTC Incredible I currently have 12000+ texts. Why should I even need to delete them? But alas, my phone says I don't have enough application data space for them even though I have plenty of space. Now I need to go through the ridiculously long process of deleting them. It shouldn't need to be this way.
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Google has admitted that Android is currently still under development, and they were talking about Froyo and Gingerbread. It still has a way to go.

I know that vanilla Froyo and GB allow you to set the maximum size of a conversation in messaging, so when you reach, say, 50 messages with one given contact it will automatically start trimming off the oldest. Not having a DInc, I have no idea if HTC's messaging for that phone has that setting.

Also, Android does not store text messages on your SD card - they are stored on a database on internal storage on your phone. This storage dichotomy is really another sign of Android's immaturity, IMO.

Just as a tip, I use an app called SMS Backup+ to automatically copy all of my received and sent texts and MMS messages to conversations in a label in my Gmail account, and that is a far easier way for me to search through and read my history of text conversations. You can keep the storage on your phone low and just access history in gmail, which is very searchable. And SMS Backup+ allows you to restore text messages to your phone if you ever get a new phone, have to factory reset the phone you have, or get an update that requires a factory reset. The only caveat is that it will backup MMS messages, but cannot restore them.
 
I'm just curious hy all the complainers want that many messages in thier threads??? Also wondering why it is so hard to select delete and then put the phone down and let it do its thing. We all know you aren't on the phone 24/7 because the battery life won't allow it.
 
MyNamesTooLong said:
I'm just curious hy all the complainers want that many messages in thier threads???
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I'm surprised so many people have complaints about this---maybe it is only an HTC problem?

My phone (stock Eclair), using the installed message app, allows me to select Delete Old Messages & to set a size limit so it auto deletes once it reaches the threshold. Is there no option in Sense to do that?

Seriously, it couldn't hurt to 'clean up' those threads as others have mentioned (sans snark). Maybe it's me but I've developed a habit of that simply because at work I get a warning from Outlook when I'm reaching a size limit in my InBox so I need to start deleting or moving things off -line.
 
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