How many text messages can a droid hold??

[whteglve]

SMS Backup & Restore.... I'm going through a divorce, as well. Cheating, pain pill addicted wives are tons of fun.

Same here expect without the pills. Just sex with LOTS of people.

 

[123amb]

I've been wondering about the limit to messages as well. I'm using the stock messaging program, and have never hit a "max" amount of messages. However, in one of my threads, it seems to be maxed out at 222 messages. Doesn't matter if I send or receive messages in that thread, it always stays at a total of 222. All it does it just delete the oldest message in that thread.

None of the messages in my other threads get affected (deleted) by this. But, none of them are up at that amount of items in a thread.

Is there a setting hidden someplace that I can modify to adjust this "max" amount of messages in a thread?

Lol of course there is; that's what we were just talking about. Go into Messaging, press the menu key, choose Settings>Text message limit. From there you can simply type in a number. What this does is set what appears to be a user preference limit of SMS messages PER THREAD, not total. So you might have a 2,000 SMS limit but have three conversations totaling 5,000 SMS messages. What I think most of us were wondering is just how many you really can have or if they are just unlimited and eat up internal memory. If they simply eat up internal memory until there's none left, why isn't there an option to store them to SD for convenience as well as easy backup and why isn't this addressed in the Froyo update?

Wait, do you have this option on the Droid Incredible? Because I can't find it.

 

[aDroidman]

The more messages you have the more memory it will take up and the longer it will take to delete from the phone. You can set a max amount of text that it will save and then set it to auto delete.

 

[123amb]

The more messages you have the more memory it will take up and the longer it will take to delete from the phone. You can set a max amount of text that it will save and then set it to auto delete.

How do you do that?

 

[Joker]

I don't have an answer to the question of what is the limit to SMS store on phone, but my phone (and I think this has happened to others, as there are threads about this) decided to just delete all SMSs. So I just start anew. No worries. I would recommend those SMS backup apps if you needed to save them for whatever reason. But I just assumed the AI in my phone said "enough is enough" and poof all gone.

 

[aDroidman]

On the Droid (not positive if its the same for all Droids) go the Messaging pull the menu and then go to settings. You are looking for "Delete Old Messages" check that and you can set the limit to what ever you want. You can also do this for Multimedia messaging which is Picture messaging

 

[Joker]

The more messages you have the more memory it will take up and the longer it will take to delete from the phone. You can set a max amount of text that it will save and then set it to auto delete.

How do you do that?

In the messaging app select Menu>settings
and check delete old messages (as limits are reached) and then below that there is a selection for text message limit. Select and enter a desired value. You could set limit for multimedia messages as well and the next option below text message limit.

 

[123amb]

The more messages you have the more memory it will take up and the longer it will take to delete from the phone. You can set a max amount of text that it will save and then set it to auto delete.

How do you do that?

In the messaging app select Menu>settings
and check delete old messages (as limits are reached) and then below that there is a selection for text message limit. Select and enter a desired value. You could set limit for multimedia messages as well and the next option below text message limit.

I can't find that for my incredible.

 

[aDroidman]

How do you do that?

In the messaging app select Menu>settings
and check delete old messages (as limits are reached) and then below that there is a selection for text message limit. Select and enter a desired value. You could set limit for multimedia messages as well and the next option below text message limit.

I can't find that for my incredible.

Im sorry I don't have enough experience with the Incredible to tell you how to do it. I dont want to tell you something wrong or mis leading. I would have thought it would have been the same.

 

[Joker]

Sorry too, I would have thought it would be fairly similar. I don't know anyone with an incredible either to ask for you. Perhaps someone in this forum with an incredible can chime in.

 

[JoeeDB]

Or you could just get google voice and use it through handcent. You can then delete all your messages from handcent on your phone while all the texts are still saved through gvoice if you need to go back and find something.