Mine seems to be doing the same "Please Wait" when I open the Messages app. Did it eventually go thru or did you do something to get around it?
My wife said that it does that on the first open after the update, but then it is fine. She has been in and out of it for the past hour.
Update: I tested mine and the wait screen was only there for a second..literally. Of course I use Google Voice mainly.
Mine seems to be doing the same "Please Wait" when I open the Messages app. Did it eventually go thru or did you do something to get around it?
Try a force stop and reboot. You must have a very large history.
Here's what I did to (maybe) speed up the process. Go to Settings -> Developer Options and check the box for "Stay Awake." This will prevent the phone from going to sleep and should keep the messages loading or doing whatever ICS is doing that needs to be done for the messages to show up.
Also, once this process completes, it looks like its taking a long time for message threads with lots of messages to open as well.
Patience will be required. unfortunately...![]()
That seemed to have fixed it. Thank you jonfran21![]()