text messaging overload!. how do i?

testify585 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-20-2010, 06:37 PM

Okay my Texting messaging is slowww.... I dident have the download limit or delete old messages on. I probly have over 15,000 old messages that I want GONE. anyone help me I'm desperate!! Thanks guys!!

Ryan07 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-20-2010, 06:55 PM

Go to your message list, where you see all your threads. Click Menu > Delete. From there, you can choose which threads to remove by making the X red.

testify585 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-20-2010, 07:29 PM

Ok I tryed that and it froze my phone... and this guy who works for Sprint said if I tryed deleting text conversations that have over 3,000 txts it'll crash my phone. Is there any quick,fast and easyier way to delete them all. should I do a factory reset or would that delete my contacts?

elementalwindx · #4 (**permalink**) 10-20-2010, 07:53 PM

I go thru this often and its such a freaking pita. You think programmers would have a way to make this work for once and for all. Especially with a 1GHz processor! Just to delete 1 thread takes 5 minutes and the app always crashes and has to be forced closed. It's SO annoying. I wish someone would make a fix.

Ryan07 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-20-2010, 10:34 PM

How are your contacts synched? If you have Google or Exchange, they will be saved.

**chino331** · #6 (**permalink**) 10-20-2010, 11:29 PM

Why not just go into the text message settings and enable the message limit? That way you won't have a shit load of messages to delete at once.

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testify585 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-21-2010, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chino331

Why not just go into the text message settings and enable the message limit? That way you won't have a shit load of messages to delete at once.

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I tried that and trys deleting them on its own. Idk what to do... there's got to be a way to wipe out just the text messages.

blkhwkz · #8 (**permalink**) 10-21-2010, 01:31 AM

I clear out a 3000 text thread weekly and it takes about 20-30 minutes before it deletes. I just tell it to delete and go to bed and the next day they are gone. I have done a thread of over 5000, it just took longer.

testify585 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-21-2010, 01:24 PM

^^^ theres got to be a quicker way. if it took u 30 min itll take me 3 hours... God this sucks...

carlitos · #10 (**permalink**) 10-21-2010, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by testify585

Ok I tryed that and it froze my phone... and this guy who works for Sprint said if I tryed deleting text conversations that have over 3,000 txts it'll crash my phone. Is there any quick,fast and easyier way to delete them all. should I do a factory reset or would that delete my contacts?

it froze ur phone but its deletng ur msgs in the bckground that happen to me it froze for a while idk how many mins but then all my txt msgs were gone..