So, I have a problem.
Sometime last year I got in the habit of backing up all my text messages with Titanium and restoring them across all the roms I flash. I have a Verizon Galaxy S4 now, but some of these texts are from back when I had my S3. So I have been restoring some of the same sms threads for almost a year now. There are alot of people that I text work related stuff to every night, and it's nice to be able to look back and see previous messages, as alot of the threads have pertinent information. Most of them aren't that large but there is one that I really want to delete (from my ex girlfriend) that was about 5 months worth of messages, almost 4500 texts that I really want to delete as it is just taking up space and there is no reason for it to be there. I use Go Sms Pro as my texting app and it works great for me.
So I thought nothing of just going in there long-pressing the thread and hitting delete. But all it did was hang with a prompt "deleting.." for about an hour, then froze and force closed. And when I rebooted the damn thread was STILL there. Every last message. So of course I tried the stock Samsung messaging app next, it did the same thing. Hang for a loooooong time then froze and force closed. Then I tried Super SMS quick delete off the play store. Also no dice.
Now I know I could just wipe/reflash and start from scratch on Text messages but I really don't wanna do that. Like I said, there is important information in some of the threads that I really don't wanna lose.
I know that messages are stored here: ./dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.telephony/mmssms.db
./data/data/com.jb.gosms/databases/gommssms.db but is there anyway I can edit that database to delete those? Or something else?
So can anyone advise me on this? I am a reasonably well-acquainted Android power user and can use adb well and follow directions.
I did do quite a bit of googling and found lots of people with the same problem and no solution.
I also searched through quite a few threads here on XDA but they were all two to three years old and not much in the way of solutions either.
Some help here anybody?
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I was wondering if there is a way to have your text go to the sdcard instead of on the phone? I've noticed that once threads get to about 200 the messaging program slows down, so I have to delete the thread. Having the messages go straight to the sdcard would be a lot better.
Wouldn't fix it. The application would still be loading them, just from a different source. The fact that it's loading them is what's slowing it down, where from doesn't matter.
Back them up with txtract (it's on the market) and delete the threads.
Oh yeah your right, didn't think about that. Oh well.
Or you could use Chomp SMS if you're not. It seems to handle threads with a massive amount of texts in them quite well. A lot better than the stock messaging app in my opinion.
does chomp save to the sdcard messages? Cauyse if you dont delete them in the default one after 2 months of heavy texting its like 13 mb..lol
bump for a solution to this problem. I am a heavy texter and its kinda frustrating to not have a history of the conversation. Especially when there is only a few long threads.
Chomp does not handle large threads well either, it starts to slow once you get past the 200 mark
Gary13579 said:
Wouldn't fix it. The application would still be loading them, just from a different source. The fact that it's loading them is what's slowing it down, where from doesn't matter.
Back them up with txtract (it's on the market) and delete the threads.
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what he said, my backup also does this,
also new app called sms backup automatically backs up sms to gmail account at set intervals worth a try,
K9sms does a fantastic job with lots of sms messages.
http://brad.livejournal.com/2399905.html
I had about 600 in there before I wiped to install JFv1.41 and it scrolled 100% smoothly.
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Chomp does not handle large threads well either, it starts to slow once you get past the 200 mark
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Not for me. I have several threads well over 200 and it still runs very smoothly. Only time i get hiccups is when I get a mms in the thread, then it might slow down until I get a new sms or two.
Someone else brought this to my attention, and I feel that this post belongs here and not in ROM development because I have noticed it with several WM 6.5 ROMs.
My AT&T Fuze freezes A LOT, when I text message. It happens explicitly while I'm trying to browse my inbox and am receiving a text message at the same time. I'd say about 40% of the time I receive an incoming SMS, my phone locks up for a good 30 seconds or more. Does anyone else experience this issue? The ROM I am currently running is an EnergyROM build that is a little bit older, but has the titanium configuration only (I guess that means no Manila, or TouchFlo3D?...not sure about the names, but its optimized for stability and minimal resource consumption) but it still freezes up beyond belief. Let me know if this sounds familiar, or if there's a fix for it!
Do you have lots of SMS in your inbox? Mine was doing this when I had 3000ish. Just backed them up and deleted them; now it's running fast as anything.
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Do you have lots of SMS in your inbox? Mine was doing this when I had 3000ish. Just backed them up and deleted them; now it's running fast as anything.
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Yes i got this kind of issue too and have more than 3000 sms in my box. i recently updated my phone to WM6.5. before there was no problem.
so perhaps i should delete a couple of sms. i wrote a similar reply in another thread (in a rom development thread, which i can't link to)
greetz
I only have about 350, nowhere near 3000 text messages It's prety un-useable at this point with the phone locking up so much. I guess all I can do is try to clear all my text messages and try new ROMs until it goes away. I did a forum search in ROM Development and found a similar post about freezing while browsing all SMS messages in the romeos thread and that described what I'm experiencing, although that other person was the only one who experienced the same issue as me.
Thanks for the heads up guys.
Hello all,
I know there are lots of posts on this forum and on the web about this subject, a few on this particular phone. However, after hours of research, I'm a bit frustrated because I get conflicting info on what to do.
I have modified my Skyrocket heavily and one of the things I left for last is to get rid of all the junk. After installing everything and making all changes, I pulled a full list of all apps from Titanium Back Pro.
It was quite a HUGE list so I went through it today and filtered out everything I do not or should not remove. I was left with the following list of apps that I'm really unsure of and wondering if they can be removed? Some of these apps I have no clue what they are and why they are there (ex. buddies, badgeprovider, kobo, etc).
Anyways, I know it is a pain in the ass and will take some time for some of you to go through this list, but I really would like some advice as to which of these are really not needed. Again, file was massive but I did cut it down significantly to these...
Also, I'm assuming that I should freeze the apps you tell me are OK instead of removing? I do rather freeze but I did completely uninstall just a handful of AT&T apps (non system apps) that really annoyed me. Hope that is not a problem when updating come time via OTA.
Any help is appreciated...
Best,
--mike
Here is bloatware list that you can freeze.
pookieguy said:
Hello all,
I know there are lots of posts on this forum and on the web about this subject, a few on this particular phone. However, after hours of research, I'm a bit frustrated because I get conflicting info on what to do.
I have modified my Skyrocket heavily and one of the things I left for last is to get rid of all the junk. After installing everything and making all changes, I pulled a full list of all apps from Titanium Back Pro.
It was quite a HUGE list so I went through it today and filtered out everything I do not or should not remove. I was left with the following list of apps that I'm really unsure of and wondering if they can be removed? Some of these apps I have no clue what they are and why they are there (ex. buddies, badgeprovider, kobo, etc).
Anyways, I know it is a pain in the ass and will take some time for some of you to go through this list, but I really would like some advice as to which of these are really not needed. Again, file was massive but I did cut it down significantly to these...
Also, I'm assuming that I should freeze the apps you tell me are OK instead of removing? I do rather freeze but I did completely uninstall just a handful of AT&T apps (non system apps) that really annoyed me. Hope that is not a problem when updating come time via OTA.
Any help is appreciated...
Best,
--mike
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Thank you...
I will take a look and see how it does compare to the list I generated and posted here.
--mike
Hji
Is there a maximum number of messages per conversation?
I've got 179 conversations holding ~20k messages. The longest thread is 5,5k and it doesn't work. The loading takes more than 10 minutes. The second longest thread is nearly 2,5k and loads completely fine.
I googled a bit but didn't find a solution for this though 5k was mentioned in many places. Is that true?
I'm using the Sense 4.0 default messaging app.
If 5k is the limit, how can I easily delete messages from beginning of the thread? Or are there any other solutions?
Thanks a lot in advance!
check apps settings, I think there was possible to set "limit". Dont have my S now, cant tell u where it was.
Stiflerlv said:
check apps settings, I think there was possible to set "limit". Dont have my S now, cant tell u where it was.
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General settings of SMS has "Delete old messages" option which gives you possibility to delete messages per conversation. When it's tapped and you try to set the limit, it gives you range of 10-5000.
So according to this, 5000 is the ultimate limit which the phone/ICS/Sense can hold comfortably? Is that right or are there any solutionts [to keep the messages in the conversation, they're of course backed up]?
If the limit is 5k per thread you might want to look at SMS Backup and Restore. You can export the messages to XML and maybe modify the XML with a text editor to hold the "oldest" 5k messages of a particular thread in a different thread.
1. You make a XML backup with the app
2. Edit the backup on your computer to replace the phone number in the overflowing thread to a different one
3. Wipe the entire message contents off the phone or even just selectively the thread in question
4. Restore the messages through the app and that way they should be put into the new thread you modified the XML with.
That way you could hold all the messages on the device at all times, but not in the same single thread I think.
Thanks psych0t1c! That sounds like a good idea and will surely work.
But I just came up with this third-party SMS app GoSMS Pro. Weirdly it does NOT have the problem of conversations longer than 5k messages. It loads them as fast as all the other, shorter ones.
So the limit must be in HTC Sense's messaging app. Or is it the default ICS app in One S?
Anyway, problem solved! Lets see if I stick to GoSMS as it got pretty nice other features too or if I follow your suggestion.
Sorry to bump a slightly old thread, but having the same problem with my sensation, 8k on one thread and seems it can't open the thread, and screws up all the others until I restart the phone, though handcent works fine. Probably something to do with being a port!
A develops input to this would be cool! Is there any way of hacking the apk to allow more messages to be stored? it's obviously not a problem with loading them as the sensation loads 3k conversations as quick as 1k ones...
Sorry to bump this old thread, but is there a solution to this? Or do we have to actually back it up and start a new thread?
Thanks
Hi.
I dont change phones too often my last phone was HTC 10, last me 4years , and still do, just hidden in drawer. I just upgraded to LG G8X Android 9.0, good phone proper hardware nothing could go wrong right? All producers change UI little bit so I accept that, but couldnt imagine the Messaging app will be fck up so badly compared to this what was a STANDARD on HTC, my brother who is computer geek, confirmed my problem but he doesnt care. Ive had gone mad looking for replacement, installed dozen of them and still cant find proper. So whats the point?
On HTC 10, You open messaging app have all threads listed and recent messages same like everywhere so far so good, then you want write message then click + icon>new menu opens and you can write and add recipient, perfect.
Now in these days, same open the app, recent messages listed, then to write new text click +icon or (start chat), and now its a problem, I NEED to ADD recipient first before can compose my message, this is so bad, no chance to make a message DONT add recipient and save it as draft and continue later, or just quickly write something and have it as notepad.
How these days function so simple could be removed, when back in days nobody could think to remove it and make so complicated.
I was looking everywhere installed most top apps and no function or looking **** or adverts or wants too much personal data. And yea HTC app .apk doesnt work, crashes, tried this too.
Thank you for any help, regarding I have 0 posts on this forum