[dear_j]

Went to bed and all is fine, in the morning I have 1 new message and that is all! No messages at all from before this morning.

It's an old LG phone, Android 2.2.2.

I don't know if they've been deleted or are just not visible or what. All contacts and other file types are fine.

All automatic delete options are disabled on my phone and I didn't accidentally hit some 'delete all' button or anything so I have no idea what's happened or how to undo it.

I've been using my phone as little as possible to try avoid writing over data or whatever, and have tried numerous retrieval/recovery programs, but all they come up with are the few msgs that I have received since this morning.

Any suggestions would be very welcome!

[ShifnaTs]

mee too faced same problem once with my galaxy grand dues Android 2.3

[Rukbat]

Unless you backed up text messages, it's probably not possible to retrieve deleted ones. Call your carrier's tech support and see if they keep backups. (Or, if you have a friend in the NSA ...)