Help Message thread so long (4000+) it creates lag

[marctronixx]

on my TP2, i have an email (i use EAS) that spans about 3 years of replies and when i open it to reply to it then send form it it takes a few minutes for the phone to load the message inbox screen. i need to go in and truncate some stuff but i keep forgetting until its too late..

 

[nick325i]

I propose for you people who are getting humungously long SMS threads a solution to never have this problem again.

Download: "SMS Backup"
Its free and will forward SMS messages to your gmail account. all the texts you recieve, put them in their own label and mark them read. Fantastic!

Delete texts after you read them or weekly or whenever and if you need to pull some info out of one back, look it up in your gmail.

 

[longhornchica05]

FINALLY, I have a solution! Woohoo! ^_^
There is an app called "Sms quick delete" that works! Granted, it took me 3 hours to delete the thread that is now 4500+, but at least it worked! I set it to never turn off, kept it plugged in, and just let it sit uninterrupted, checked on it 3 hours later, and it was fine

another thing that could have attributed to it actually working was that I deleted most of my smaller threads with other people too, I believe that could have sped up the process a bit as well. Anyway, give it a shot! Hope it works for you too!! I know how ANNOYING it was texting my girlfriend, whom I text the most, and having to wait 1-2 minutes every time I press "send" and the general lag when I am inputting text as well!

mitcho, ive been trying this since this morning and i have 3500+ texts with my boyfriend and ive tried twice to to this and each time its taken me to the main menu... im not sure whats going on or if it even worked but i tried it on my smaller threads and it worked perfectly... any idea why its taking me to the main screen? ugh i swear this is so annoying!!!

 

[mitcho]

you know, it took me a few tries as well. Did you try deleting smaller threads first? Only after I deleted most of my other threads did it work.

 

[cristin]

i know this was posted a while ago and there have probably been many solutions, but i had the same problem deleting about 800 texts, i ended up removing the message app from my homepage then re-addin it and the messages are gone.

 

[lopezpm]

I know it's not the same phone, but on my Palm it takes forever to delete long threads or email accounts if there is a lot of mail in there. When it does I restart my phone then try yo delete threads and it works.

 

[momoceio]

There is an app called "Delete Old Messages" that helps.

Delete old messages v1.31 Application for Android | Tools

There is also a paid version that will do it automatically called Message Cleanup.

http://www.androlib.com/android.application.uk-co-jads-android-messagecleanup-tAqz.aspx

 

[305Cane]

There is an app called "Delete Old Messages" that helps.

Delete old messages v1.31 Application for Android | Tools

There is also a paid version that will do it automatically called Message Cleanup.

Message Cleanup v1.3 Application for Android | Tools

Use delete old messages. it was the only thing that worked for me. It kept the screen from going to sleep and allowed it to delete a thread of over 8000 texts.


no, not over 9000

 

[Hemlox]

Why in the world would you keep suck a long thread of messages? I delete mine as I go...

 

[V425]

I know I had wanted to keep every text from my boyfriend (he's deployed and I like looking back through them) so I'm glad I found out about the large text thread problem before mine got too large. If wanting to save them is why you let it get so big, then I suggest SMS Backup from the Market which saves text threads to your Gmail account so you can delete them from the phone

 

[TheBiles]

Wipe and reinstall!

 

[gonphisting]

Hey,
have you tried the Super SMS Quick Delete app? I don't know much about it, except I just came across it and thought of this thread. Hope it helps...

this works but deletes any locked messages also

 

[steam374]

Get the app "message cleanup" it might take a while to delete all the messages but this is what i use when i have to many messages (Htc hero)