Help ICS Messed up my Text Messaging

[wmikati]

Hi,

I have an HTC Sensation with T-Mobile UK. Last week I got an official upgrade to Android 4.0 (ICS), and everything seems to work fine except for one thing.

My native text messaging app is now having issues.
- At first it wouldn't come up at all, but after several reboots and battery pulls it did work. However some of the larger threads do not load... When I tap to open the thread I just get the "Loading..." message in the middle and nothing happens. I've tried waiting an hour to see if that makes any difference.
- When I back out of the "Loading..." screen and try to enter any other thread, the program crashes.
- Also, relatively minor but I no longer get the thread size in brackets like I used to.

Mind you, using a 3rd-party app, such as Go SMS Pro, I can access all of my messages so it's just the native app that's having issues. I'm not a fan of Go SMS Pro's interface and just want the app I used to have.

I talked with T-Mobile, and the best they could suggest was a hard reset. Surely there's a less extreme solution!

(For the avoidance of doubt, I haven't used any non-sanctioned ROMs)

Thanks,
Wassim

 

[Wazza66]

It`s recommended to do a Factory Restore after a big update like ICS was, just remember to back up your stuff before doing it...I used "My backup pro" from Google Play......I had a few bugs but a restore sorted them out apart from my Wifi which doesn`t connect as good as it did with Gingerbread....