I was backing up and restoring SMS with SMS Backup & Restore and I've managed to dupliacte all my text messages.
Of the incoming messages, 1 has a little SD card looking icon next to it. Does that mean it's stored on the SIM or something? All outgoing show no icons, but are there twice.
I've been through the smaller threads and just remove the second copy, but I have three thread with over 100 text's, does anyone know of an app that will look for duplicated text's and remove one for me?
If the duplicate is on the SIM, can I wipe just SIM SMS's?
You can run a backup again, then delete all messages from the phone and then restore with the duplicate check ON, that should sort it out.
Okay, it's removed duplicates, but it's left the ones with the little icon, what does the icon mean?
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Hi, I'm having a a slight problem with my XDA2. After an accidental hard reset when I was changing my simcard, I restored it using activesync but now there's a rather annoying problem with the sms menu where there's one sms that I cannot delete. The annoying part is when that sms counts as unread and now the today screen constantly shows I have one unread message when in truth there's none. I tried moving the messages to another folder but now I have another undeletable sms in my drafts folder(and when i try to open these messages, a blank message comes up even though the content summary shows perfectly well on the message list screen). I also have one more corrupted message in my inbox that shows [no sender] and [no subject] which remains at the top of the list and cant even be opened. I try to open it, the messafe opening screen transition comes out but then nothing happens. I'm sorry if I may seem ranting on but this is my first pda and I'd rather not lose all the SMS i keep in my archive folder. Any help is appreciated. Oh, after reading some posts here to find a solution, no, I'm not using Sprite Backup or anything.
I have exactly the same problem except I have more ghost messages, I am using sprite backup though if that has any relevance...?
any ideas?
yeah i had the second problem with the sms u can't open on my xda II, but i had hundreds that i couldn't view or delete.
seemed the only way to fix it was to hard reset.. but u might try and get that pocket mechanic i think it is, where you can edit the system databases.. just a thought.
You may use dbView to directly delete these messages from WinCE database (make backup first).
Most probably this message is located somewhere in fldrXXXX data table.
Hi im a new member of the forum.
I have had my XDAII for a year now and i needed to restore my data after a hard reset using xbackup.
I thought that restoring restores everything that was backed up, but no. My inbox has my sms messages shown but i cannot open them to read; i cannot even delete them. My messages show up with out an envelope on the left hand side of the list.
Can anyone either tell me how to get my messages back or get rid of my old messges, as i have tried to delete them, but no joy; i have also tried select all and delete but only to delete my sms messages recieve since restoring.
Thanks in advance
Nick
cant delete sms messages
HI there - I know you wrote about your sms deletion issue back in 2005 but did you ever get a reply? I have the same issue, with a selection of items in the Inbox, Outbox and Deleted folder, which just wont go, doesn't matter what I do. Just wondered if you managed to fix the issue?
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I recently upgraded to WM6. I had backed up all my sms messages in Outlook on my PC which I copied back to my device. Since the device recognizes all the messages as new, it marks them as unread. The hassle is when you have to mark them as read. And you can't select all and mark them as read because if you try that mistake, your XDA is going to go to sleep and there is no telling when will it wake up. So once in a while, when I upgrade and I have to copy all SMS messages back to the device, I mark them read doing 30-40 messages at a time.
Sometimes, I have noticed that when you are done marking them as read, there is a bug in the software and screen status at the bottom as well as the folders list shows 1 message as unread. It also appears on the Today screen: "Text Message: 1 unread message"
Now, my question is, how can I mark all messages as read. One way is to hard reset the device and re do the whole process. I am sure that will work, but its a tedious. Is there any shortcut to it?
Oh and I moved all messages in the Inbox to the Deleted Items folder, now the Inbox is completely empty but it still shows 1 unread message. There should be a way to reset the count? Is there?
I have tried running the fixunreadmessages.exe utility on it. It reset the count of the Inbox to 0 but the Today screen and the folder list still show 1 unread message.
I had the same problem. I posted my solution (which i cant remember) on a thread on the forum just incase anyone else had the problem. Will try and find it.
i download 3.14 orijinal "World Wide English (WWE) 3.14.405.2" from here and install. then i restore my contacts and sms with PPCPimBackup. After it i recognize that i have a sms problem. There is always 5 blank sms in my preview sms box (5/25) , and i can not delete them. so the new sms always come to 6/25. and everytime i have to pass 5 blank one to see the new one
at all messages part, in both mode( clsc or convrstn), everything seems ok, no blank ones.
i tried to delete all of the sms from device, but still the 5 blank ones remained.
Does anyone had the same prob? and does anyone knows the solution?
please help me. thanks.
The problem may be SMS stored on the SIM card. It has been reported that sometimes after flashing, with the SIM Card in, that soem blank SMS appear on the SIM Card.
To check, go to Messages - Conversation Mode (All Messages -> Menu -> Settings ->Conversation Mode.
These 5 SMS maybe grouped together, but the group(s) for these 5 should all have a SIM icon on the right-hand side.
If you touch and stay on the SIM icon you should get an option to copy to phone. Then go back to Traditional Mode and delete the 5 SMS. If it doesn't copy or delete, then take the SIM card out and put in an dumbphone and delete the SMSs.
I haven't found the way out yet so I'm asking for some help.
Whenever I receive an SMS alert from my home Alarm (only), it is stored in SIM card instead of phone and as a result, even though I delete them, at restart they re-appear.
I use GoSMS by the way and the only thing I did on that contact was to try and set individual alert for that number and then I removed that setting. I don't know if that messed anything but eversince, I uninstalled completely GoSMS and re-installed but still, all messages from my Alarm go to SIM card.
The only way to remove them is to enter the stock messaging application, select to view messages dtored in card and there I see all those messages only. I delete them from there and they are gone.
How can I ask my phone to store messages from my alarm in the same location as with other messages?