Deleting HUGE SMS threads

[unixpsycho]

Anyone know of a way to delete a 4000+ msg SMS thread?

My poor Hero seems to keep making the SMS app disappear after an hour of waiting.

[quic]

best way to take care of this is to honestly just download handcent or chomp sms. although you may not want to use them and stick with the default app they do a much better job at deleting large amounts of messages. i had 2500 messages that would cause my messaging app to force close on my eris. But after downloading handcent it deleted them in less than a minute.. i no longer use handcent and i use chomp and that deletes about the same amount in the same amount of time...

it's worth a try. and their both free.

[unixpsycho]

Originally Posted by quic

best way to take care of this is to honestly just download handcent or chomp sms. although you may not want to use them and stick with the default app they do a much better job at deleting large amounts of messages. i had 2500 messages that would cause my messaging app to force close on my eris. But after downloading handcent it deleted them in less than a minute.. i no longer use handcent and i use chomp and that deletes about the same amount in the same amount of time...

it's worth a try. and their both free.

i *am* trying it with Handcent SMS. handcent just hangs then after an hour just disappears. the stock app runs for hours then eventually disappears.

i'll try chomp...

[Ginbill]

have you restarted your phone lately? if not, do so and then try to delete from handcent or chomp again.

[yozhik83]

Try an app called 'Sms Quick Delete'. It does hang a little bit, but not as long and it actually gets the job done rather than hanging for no reason. Start with the smaller threads first, if you have any, then move to the larger ones. ...Oh, and let us all know if that works for you. Thanks!

[unixpsycho]

I have restarted a bunch of times... still hangs.

Chomp laughed at me just now.

I'm going to try SMS quick Delete... Soon as I can make people stop texting me for a while.

update shortly...

[reagan247]

I'll have to try this, as I have a couple text threads with 2000+ texts in them (and before someone asks why, I'm deaf. I text and email, since calling doesn't work)

Thanks for starting this thread, I was worried about what would eventually happen

[Droid_Moment]

uh have you tried going - Menu- Delete All Threads? lol

I don't know why you need an app to use sms

[unixpsycho]

well... I had to use SMS Quick Delete and it took ~4 hours to delete a thread with ~4000 messages. unacceptable.

Chomp and Handcent kept Force Closing or disappearing. Looks like I will never let my thread count get so high ever again.

Wish this was automated within the app.

[Cory Streater]

There's a new app in the Market called "Delete old messages", that can delete messages older than a specific time period. Maybe you can use that instead of deleting all of them at once.