Save my hero's life

[cij1916]

My phone is moving extra slow, Handcent is giving me a lot of force closes, or not opening at all. I can't delete messages...can't download out the market, it will say starting download but will never actually start...I want to throw it against the wall, please save my phone from me!!!

 

[Taterus Maximus]

Clear your caches, if it's still running slow remove apps that you don't need, and if you want it lightning fast root it

 

[cij1916]

how do I clear the cache?

 

[cij1916]

and i only have like at best 10 apps...and i use them all

 

[momoceio]

how many text messages do you have?

 

[cij1916]

1 conversation has 1500something...others aren't nowhere near that bad...the slowness came out the blue...last app i loaded was something to help me take my medicine, and i've had that for bout a week (just deleted it) but it was working fine up til like yesterday or the day b4

 

[Taterus Maximus]

From Menu>Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>(Select the app, you should have an option to clear its cache) I'd recommend the browser and messaging, and anything else you use on a regular basis.

 

[cij1916]

Didn't work...still can't get the downloads to actually start downloading...and i still can't erase that conversation either

 

[Taterus Maximus]

What messaging app are you using? And what kind of connection are you trying to download on?

 

[cij1916]

handcent...mobile network or wifi, doesn't matter, I can't download period...it stays on starting download...never actually starts it

 

[scottmbolt]

An obvious question... but ... have you re-booted it yet?

 

[cij1916]

every 5 minutes...the only thing I did recently was updated Handcent...ughhhh

 

[cij1916]

I just deleted data in the stock msg program...download just completed...could this had been the problem?

 

[scottmbolt]

I just deleted data in the stock msg program...download just completed...could this had been the problem?

Just a suggestion... I recently deleted the Hancent app, because I noticed it was laggy even with cache cleared and all of the threads deleted. This does of course vary phone by phone, and its just what I noticed (I am not rooted). Now I just use the Stock text messaging app, I uninstalled the other one, and it seems to be a lot less laggy.

 

[cij1916]

yea, handcent is gone for now...and i also saw my texts were also in the stock system's storage...so although i was erasing things out of hancent, it was still on my phone under the stock program...wonder if thats why it's so laggy...I'm deleting over 2k msgs and thats whats over 2 wks old

 

[Taterus Maximus]

If you want to use a different messaging app I would suggest turning auto-retrieve off in the stock app

 

[momoceio]

Keep your txt message counts low...1500 messages will make your phone crawl

 

[cij1916]

If you want to use a different messaging app I would suggest turning auto-retrieve off in the stock app

but when i open that app, it's still there...and then if i delete it out of there, it deletes it in handcent