Help Lost my text messages

[Texter]

I lost all my text messages today. What gives??

 

[famished]

That's kinda crazy- and you're positive you didn't accidentally delete them all?

 

[Patches O'Houlihan]

That is very interesting. The same thing happened to my MT4G last week. I had about 15 text messages and they all disappeared.

 

[famished]

Did you guys reboot or anything, see if they'd come back?

 

[San Antone RR]

My HD2 used to do that. Possessed, I think.
I use SMS Backup+ to prevent loss.

 

[vnguyen972]

This exact same thing happened to me today... so when I saw all of my msgs were gone... I was like.. WTF.. then I thought a reboot would help so I did... but they were still gone... luckily I had SMSBAckup+ so I could restore!!!
Weird!!

 

[famished]

Wow, was there some weird update that happened recently?

 

[vnguyen972]

Not sure what's going on... but it happened today again... I checked the latest updates on everything and nothing jumps out to me that it caused it... I was using Handcent and not sure if its last update caused it...
I'm trying ChompSMS now...

 

[Texter]

I did a restart and they never came back. Not a huge deal since I had some backed up. I switched to a daily auto backup setting on my sms backup app so it won't cause me grief another time.

 

[flarp]

Same thing happened to me. I sent a text, got a reply, and when I went to send a follow-up reply, I got the message:

The application Messaging
(process com.android.mms)
has stopped unexpectedly.
Please try again.

So, tried again a couple of times, and 3-4 times in, it crashed the entire phone (caused it to reboot). After it booted back up, all my messages were gone. I had maybe a couple thousand messages in all (mostly text, but a handful of MMS). Phone has 840MB free on the device itself and another 24GB free on the SD card. It's a myTouch 4G running Android OS 2.2.1.

Searching around online, it seems like this has happened to numerous others (including dozens of threads on androidforums). This seems like a problem with the Android OS itself, although I'm not sure what triggers this bug.

The only thing that seems consistent is that nobody can explain (or even theorize) as to what is causing this. I would assume that storing a few hundred kilobytes of text wouldn't be a big deal, but something seems to be causing Android to choke on it (numerous reports on other Android phones as well).

 

[famished]

Interesting- I've been deleting all my messages anyways. I came to the realization of, "What the hell am I gonna do with a thousand old text messages anyway?"

I wonder what the archive file is- probably could just copy it over to SD as backup with Astro or something