Lengthy SMS/MMS threads slow

[justihar]

Just an observation. I have a SMS/MMS thread with my girlfriend that is > 500 messages. There is a combination of regular SMS messages with a few MMS messages. I've noticed when trying to access this thread that the phone is slow to respond and I often get a message saying "Activity Message (in application Messaging) is not responding." This even happens after a fresh reboot and does not happen with small message threads.

If the messages are stored in a sqlite database (or something equivalent) they should work on a method to optimize access to large threaded messages so we don't have to delete them. Maybe archive older messages to a different database/table and put a pointer to these messages in the primary database/table when you need to access the older messages? Just a thought.

Anyone else experiencing the same or did I just make a huge mistake by duplicating a thread?

[djkdawg]

Just an observation. I have a SMS/MMS thread with my girlfriend that is > 500 messages. There is a combination of regular SMS messages with a few MMS messages. I've noticed when trying to access this thread that the phone is slow to respond and I often get a message saying "Activity Message (in application Messaging) is not responding." This even happens after a fresh reboot and does not happen with small message threads.

If the messages are stored in a sqlite database (or something equivalent) they should work on a method to optimize access to large threaded messages so we don't have to delete them. Maybe archive older messages to a different database/table and put a pointer to these messages in the primary database/table when you need to access the older messages? Just a thought.

Anyone else experiencing the same or did I just make a huge mistake by duplicating a thread?

no it happens to me to, i get mad and delete them all lol

[justihar]

no it happens to me to, i get mad and delete them all lol



I'm trying to delete all threads now and the phone is just sitting there on the "All threads will be deleted." message with the OK button highlighted. Argh.

[kommodore]

lol. It's not funny, I know... it's just... slightly funny =)

[justihar]

lol. It's not funny, I know... it's just... slightly funny =)

I have a pretty good sense of humor but I like being able to keep my messages for awhile. My WM phone had years worth of messages on it without any issues so I hope Android will soon be able to do the same. The threads finally did delete after telling my phone to "wait" for the application about 6 times.

[kommodore]

It's totally not funny. iPhones do it too. My boyfriend has every text message we've ever transmitted between us and his phone actually crashed when he opens our thread sometimes...

[justihar]

It's totally not funny. iPhones do it too. My boyfriend has every text message we've ever transmitted between us and his phone actually crashed when he opens our thread sometimes...

It's all good.... the way current technology is evolving on mobile phones, we will have complicated enterprise features on our phones like uh... maybe disk de-duplication or something good? :-P

[kommodore]

I would be satisfied with accelerometer-based layout adjustment.

[sinistersai4d]

yeah... and when you have multiple threads the scrolling is slow as well between conversations.

[G1-T]

i agree.. very annoying

[benthomasg1]

yeah this really makes me mad i like to save all of my messages but after you get over 50 or so you can start to tell that it slows down.

[rmyc]

very very annoying.. that's the only reason im moving back to WinMo

[maelström]

here i believe is a temp fix for the slowness and jerkiness in the stock sms application. hope it helps.
i haven't tried it personally since i don't sms very much. less than 300 a month i'd say :/

http://brad.livejournal.com/2399403.html

do post and let know how it is, if any of you checks it out eh..

[justihar]

Hmm, good find. I think I'll hold off on this until January because supposedly the SMS slowness is resolved in cupcake.


here i believe is a temp fix for the slowness and jerkiness in the stock sms application. hope it helps.
i haven't tried it personally since i don't sms very much. less than 300 a month i'd say :/

http://brad.livejournal.com/2399403.html

do post and let know how it is, if any of you checks it out eh..

[rmyc]

i dunno i have over 16,000 sms's saved on my tmo Dash.. and no slowness their... if this doesnt get fixed with cupcake im getting rid of my G1. What the point of a keyboard when it takes 10 seconds to load the sms

[deserttopping]

have you tried "txtract"? it archives your sms messages to the sd card. i find it pretty handy. it's in the market.

[orcking]

Use MyBackup App to archive your SMS/MMS

[sinistersai4d]

MyBackUp gets better everyday.... seriously... you can do so much **** now.