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Deleted text messages

all mine got deleted last week too. i don't think they are saved anywhere. i hope the update fixes some of these problems.
 
This has been a small problem since the OG Droid. I say Small because it doesn't affect everybody, just a small group. I've yet to experience it, but I would be annoyed if they just up and disappeared.

I thought an OTA on the OG Droid fixed this issue months and months ago? Hmm.
 
I have run Handscent and GoSMS and they both have a backup to SD card option. This has never happened to me but I occasionaly back up mine so that I can save pics I may be to lazy to save at the moment. I am not sure if this info can help any of you now but for the future it might be prudent to just back up once in awhile. It is a very quick process and you can delete previous backups at the same time or just make new ones. Hope this helps!! :D
 
Ryan02Stang said:
Just happened to me today...very irritating! Has anyone found any causes for this?
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The phone only has so much memory allocated for storing texts. Once it reaches that limit it will delete them. Use a third party program to routinely back up the texts, then manually delete the texts from messaging app to prevent suprise deletes.
 
This happened to me yesterday as well. I regularly clean out my inbox so I only keep about 50 message per contact... if it goes over that I try to delete the message history. So I doubt this issue is due to memory allocation.

That being said, yesterday I received a message from my wife. I went to check it and my messages were all wiped out. However, it still showed a "1" at the bottom saying I had 1 new message. Then she texted me again and that also disappeared while I was in the messaging app. Now I had 2 unread messages that couldn't be read.

I restarted my phone and they both showed up... but everything else was gone. No idea what caused it, and it never happened to me on the Eris. I changed my settings to auto delete messages when it goes over 50 per contact.

I really don't care that messages were deleted... I mean when do I ever need to go back and check a message from a month ago saying "pick up the milk"... but they shouldn't just disappear.
 
This is the 6th time my phone has deleted my ENTIRE text log. I do not have "delete old text messages" checked in settings, i do not use Handcent or other text message software, I use what came with the phone, my text message limit per conversation is set to 2000 (i never reach that amount). My maximum message size is set to 1.2M. I downloaded SMS Backup and do have some text logs saved, but my GOD why the hell does this keep happening??

I've noticed that when my weather on the home screen doesnt show, unable to retrieve data, every time I have experienced that, my text messages are deleted soon after that.

Can someone, please, give me any information about this. Has anyone been experiencing deleted text logs? Your entire text log, completely gone, not just a few here & there.
 
mdeblaz said:
This happened to me yesterday as well. I regularly clean out my inbox so I only keep about 50 message per contact... if it goes over that I try to delete the message history. So I doubt this issue is due to memory allocation.

That being said, yesterday I received a message from my wife. I went to check it and my messages were all wiped out. However, it still showed a "1" at the bottom saying I had 1 new message. Then she texted me again and that also disappeared while I was in the messaging app. Now I had 2 unread messages that couldn't be read.

I restarted my phone and they both showed up... but everything else was gone. No idea what caused it, and it never happened to me on the Eris. I changed my settings to auto delete messages when it goes over 50 per contact.

I really don't care that messages were deleted... I mean when do I ever need to go back and check a message from a month ago saying "pick up the milk"... but they shouldn't just disappear.
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This is exactly what happened to me today....how can i get them back???
 
asmith517 said:
This is the 6th time my phone has deleted my ENTIRE text log. I do not have "delete old text messages" checked in settings, i do not use Handcent or other text message software, I use what came with the phone, my text message limit per conversation is set to 2000 (i never reach that amount). My maximum message size is set to 1.2M. I downloaded SMS Backup and do have some text logs saved, but my GOD why the hell does this keep happening??

I've noticed that when my weather on the home screen doesnt show, unable to retrieve data, every time I have experienced that, my text messages are deleted soon after that.

Can someone, please, give me any information about this. Has anyone been experiencing deleted text logs? Your entire text log, completely gone, not just a few here & there.
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Yes....it happened to me about a month ago. Entire history of text messages.....GONE. Worst part? I had SMS Backup, but when I got my Bolt, I forgot to set the schedule for the backup, so it had backed up NOTHING. :mad:

Learned my lesson on THAT right quick.
 
I get the "ghost text" message from time to time and I can't help wonder if it's related. It's a little irritating because it makes me wonder if someone tried sending me a text message but it didn't get downloaded correctly.


What exact text messages are you guys trying to save forever? Sexting is bad for you mmkay? :p
 
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