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Motorola Droid deletes texts randomly

marsbound2024

marsbound2024

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I know many of you may already be aware but this was the first time I was aware of the issue. Tonight, a thousand or so text messages (I rarely if ever delete messages) vanished. Some sent today that were very important. If you do a google search you can see that others have the issue as well. It looks as if I'll have to use a third-party texting application and back up my text messages that are important. This is my first [major] disappointment with the Droid thus far.
 
Was just talking to my sister, and she said the predictive text sucks: she texted haha and it put Bahamas, and she went to type if and it put Irish.
Lol.

/off topic
 
There's a setting in the default Messenger client will auto delete text messages after a limit as been reached. I use HandCent myself, the default client is a pale substitute for it, never had an issue with texts being deleted using it.
 
also i use txtract pro to backup text messages and delete them every so often. but its just a precaution, i've never had such an issue on my g1 or n1
 
Bateluer said:
There's a setting in the default Messenger client will auto delete text messages after a limit as been reached. I use HandCent myself, the default client is a pale substitute for it, never had an issue with texts being deleted using it.
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That default is only to delete messages after a thread limit has been reached. "Text Message Limit: 200 messages per conversation" That is the default, however it CAN be adjusted. There is also a check box to "Delete old messages: Delete old messages as limits are reached." That is not checked. Besides, it shouldn't wipe all messages, old and new, anyway.
 
I remember having this issue with my blackberry. What happened was that there was a memory limit on texts and once that was reached it wouldn't store any more texts.
 
gorcorps said:
I remember having this issue with my blackberry. What happened was that there was a memory limit on texts and once that was reached it wouldn't store any more texts.
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With as much storage as the Droid has standard, I would think the limit would be higher. Texts don't take THAT much space. How much space do you think a thousand texts would take with the character limit imposed? My guess is maybe a few hundred kilobytes MAX. :/

But I also heard someone had that same issue with their Blackberry.
 
I had that happen to me two or three times with the Droid. I used SMS Backup to automatically archive them in gmail, so it wasn't a big deal.
 
Happens to me every so often. I don't know what the threshold is, but I think it's anywhere between 1,000 and 1,400. The messenger app just crashes randomly, and then all your texts are gone.

Good thing most of mine are about beer, friends hooking up with chicks, or what brand sour cream my girlfriend wants next time I go out.
 
marsbound2024 said:
With as much storage as the Droid has standard, I would think the limit would be higher. Texts don't take THAT much space. How much space do you think a thousand texts would take with the character limit imposed? My guess is maybe a few hundred kilobytes MAX. :/

But I also heard someone had that same issue with their Blackberry.
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It wasn't that there wasn't anymore room on the blackberry, it's just that there was a setting that you can change which dictates how MUCH of the phone's memory is used for text storage... which is fairly small. I don't think the droid (or any other phones for that matter) do things that way but I figured I'd mention it. I think it's been remedied in most if not all of the current BB OS versions though.
 
gorcorps said:
It wasn't that there wasn't anymore room on the blackberry, it's just that there was a setting that you can change which dictates how MUCH of the phone's memory is used for text storage... which is fairly small. I don't think the droid (or any other phones for that matter) do things that way but I figured I'd mention it. I think it's been remedied in most if not all of the current BB OS versions though.
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BB was FAMOUS for memory leak. If you had too much installed, it would start eating texts, then contacts then anything else.
 
this was a bug but I believe it was fixed in 2.1

I had it happen to me once but I really couldn't give a shit less about text messages. If you do care about them, install SMS Backup from the market.
 
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