How Many SMS does android project allow?

[revaaron]

I'm loading from my windows phone.
I have 21536 that I'm loading up... well trying.
SMS Backup and Restore is 40% done and slowing down.
The last time I tried to do this, it got to about 60% and then hung.

anyone?

[Wesley762]

I think the better question is why do you need 21k text messages on your phone? really???????

[revaaron]

cause I want to put them there and then see if the phone handles it better than winmo... winmo dies at 1K. Plus, I want to load them all up and then use SMS Backup to send them all to my gmail.

[Ragster]

I used to have 15000 on my phone lol, this was before I knew how to flash though haha my noob self.. Anyways in Android, I got to about 3000 when I had a Hero, I was waiting for an update that got shelved, it worked fine, but it was so much slower.. I always delete them on android at around 500, and trust me, backing up to gmail takes foreverrrrrrrrrrrr, you can only back up 200 at a time I think and it takes almost a second to back up one text, so it'll take you quite a long time

[revaaron]

So using SMS Backup & Restore, I can take all my texts and put them into one XML. When I loaded the file with 21K in it, I got to 10K and the phone crawled. Then I cut the 21K into 4 files. I loaded a 5.1K file and it got to 40% and crawled.... a few hours later it was done and the phone was basically dead. Windows and Android stopped working for the most part all night.

I'm going to re-flash my windows install and then try in android again.

[revaaron]

and 15K on the tp2 in winmo is the worst. winmo dies at 1-2K. Also, SMS Backup (gmail syncer) I think only remembers times and not some other sort of hashing method so if you load older sms's it won't back them up.

[revaaron]

The other weird thing is that the backups have SMS with null and awful lot in gmail convos.