All my text messages disappeared....

[MannyZ28]

So this morning I want to text a buddy of mine so I click on Handcent to start it, and all that comes up was a blank screen. So I sit there waiting, because usually when you start Handcent the first thing you will see is all the people you have texted with lately. Since nothing comes up I thought that maybe handcent is locked up, so I force close it and even stop the handcent service and try again, same thing. I click on a few buttons and handcent reacts the way it's supposed to....so, I go to the stock messages app. On the screen with the title "All Messages" I see nothing....all my texts just disappeared.

Has anyone had that happen to them?

 

[illwood]

I haven't had it happen personally, but did you check the settings of the stock messaging app and/or Handcent to see if there was a setting that deleted texts after a certain number of days or number of messages?

 

[MannyZ28]

It was set to keeping 300 messages for each person, it always automatically deleted anything past 300, and it killed all texts for every person!

 

[Darth Mo]

It's happened to me and several others. I never found a cause. Just one day, poof, all the threads gone.

 

[ryanshannon]

has anyone figured out what the cause is? this just happened to me this morning, i woke up and every one of my texts was just, GONE. kind of a bummer. had alot of convos saved on there. what is going on with this phone!!??

 

[FreudSlipped]

It's not an EVO problem. Based on what I've read it's a Google / Android problem. Well, actually, it happens on all platforms. iOS, BB, WebOS and Android. Do a Google search on the topic.

My experience with various platforms over the years, even before smartphones, has shown that the mms database can get corrupted at some point. My older phones (dumb and early smart phones) would just quit the messaging function completely until the database was erased. In some phones, recovery meant a reset and, if you didn't have a backup of your contacts, etc, you were screwed. In some platforms, being able to back up meant spending 50 bucks on proprietary software and a cable that pretty much did only that, back up your contacts.

I don't mind having the mms app starting a new database. I would like it to offer to back it up in an archive that you could export on your next sync.