[otterit]

"The kicker is that I have to keep loading that particular convo multiple times and look at each "new" message on multiple pages."

same issue here even with short conv. in my opinion, this is a poorly designed feature of the phone. the only way i have found to get around the notification window is to open each text individually. for some reason, the TF3D messages interface does not always mark a text as 'read' when you see it on the screen.

the same goofy thing happens with email. you have to click on every message. the tf3d viewer does not mark a message a read.