Hey all,
My girlfriends ohine has been acting up lately. Apparently she is unable to delete messages from her inbox. It will start the process and the screen darkens up with the busy animation going but never completes. It also has been sending out duplicate messages (i received three copies of one message). She has also been complaining that it has been lagging lately. It is bone stock. I havent tinkered with it yet, and am not worried about doing so (running a rooted fascinate with froyo, have succesfully loaded and removed voodoo, etc). Her complaints seem to revolve around the messaging though. It hangs and sometimes freezes when she is compsing text messages, and/or trying to delete messages. Any suggestions on where to start? Not really looking to root if it can be avoided.
did you try restarting the phone?
That was my first suggestion. Internal mem seemed pretty low, had her dump the unnecessary apps and still no luck.
Mmmmm...Froyo!
are you using the built in messaging app or a downloaded one?
Built in. She doesn't use it much outside of the messaging and making phone calls. Nothing too crazy as far as apps go. Just games and the like.
Maybe try handcent or chompSMS.
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L551 said:
Maybe try handcent or chompSMS.
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try that, and also try deleting the messages or threads one at time
I found that deleting huge threads, regardless of the messaging app being used, caused the phone to freeze. Googled the problem and it seems to be a known issue among HTC devices. I ended up installing an app from the market called "delete old messages".
Have her run that at night while she sleeps. Its a bit of a slow process but once it finished deleting about 15-20k texts, I noticed a HUGE improvement in terms of phone response and the lag I was experiencing all but disappeared.
Hope that helps!
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I found that deleting huge threads, regardless of the messaging app being used, caused the phone to freeze. Googled the problem and it seems to be a known issue among HTC devices. I ended up installing an app from the market called "delete old messages".
Have her run that at night while she sleeps. Its a bit of a slow process but once it finished deleting about 15-20k texts, I noticed a HUGE improvement in terms of phone response and the lag I was experiencing all but disappeared.
Hope that helps!
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I had to do the same thing. I run it at least once a week, deleting at least 500 txt's each time. Great free app.
Had the same problem with HTC Sense. Once I rooted and went to CM, I haven't had any troubles. That's my only suggestion.
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thinkhope said:
I found that deleting huge threads, regardless of the messaging app being used, caused the phone to freeze. Googled the problem and it seems to be a known issue among HTC devices. I ended up installing an app from the market called "delete old messages".
Have her run that at night while she sleeps. Its a bit of a slow process but once it finished deleting about 15-20k texts, I noticed a HUGE improvement in terms of phone response and the lag I was experiencing all but disappeared.
Hope that helps!
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It doesn't not freeze it just lags a lot. That happens when like you said- when the thread is big. Apparently smartphone are slow deleting messages. I had a Windows Mobile phone before and it had exactly the same problem. Have ever tried restoring 1500 SMS with a backup app? It takes like half an hour. So it's not a issue, it's just the way the phone works when it comes to SMS
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My phone app has been slow since I got my Sprint Hero. But lately, it has gotten extremely slow. Almost unusable... it's slow to open, respond to input and ring when someone calls. Any ideas, tips or tricks on what the deal is?
I thought about trying to cut down my contact list to see if that helps, but I really hate the idea of not having all my contacts available on my phone.
Any other ideas to speed this thing up?
Thanks!
I'd try reflashing and if you dont want to go to that extreme I'd try to make sure to reboot the phone daily
Are you using a task manager? Also I find a reboot every 3 or 5 days is usually a good idea unless you clear out some of the memory hogging processes like Gmail storage and such. Generally I'll notice a bit of lag if I fall under 30mb of available memory.
I have considered reflashing, but was trying to see if there were any other solutions first. I've reflashed a few times and keep finding that after while, the phone app consistently slowed down.
I typically reboot about every 3-5 days... lately a little more. Rebooting has been much more effective that task killers.
I've read that some folks had problems with slow contacts, but is it also affecting their phone apps? How many contacts is too many for this thing? Is 130+ contacts too many for this phone to handle?
mine does EXACTLY this ... but only after I pull the phone off of charge.. the charge light stays on.. and bam.... its slow.... only fixes with a reboot
I have a lot of contacts
I have 1400+ contacts and my pone is not too slow.
Thanks
Mario
I like to use the "all people" widget its located under the live folders when adding stuff to your homescreens. Basically it just has a list form of your contacts.
Then when you select one it loads up the people app
I found out that some of the apps, were causing the problem, I started uninstalling apps, I guess most of the apps are made for 1.6 maybe because we are on 1.5 causes some kind of issue. that's just my theory...
In the mean time, you can try that.
I find the phone app very slow in response. It's very aggravating.
I noticed on the Fresh Rom, there is a note that the Location service may be what is causing the slow down in the phone app... I turned off location service yesterday and noticed an immediate response increase with the phone app. I'm not ready to call this a fix yet, but I am going to keep the location service off for a little while longer and see if it helps.
If anyone else is seeing the phone slowness, give this a try and let us know your results...
It does work. And for the sake of clarification, it's a 1.5-wide problem and affects all 1.5 ROMs.
Are you using the Facebook linking? I noticed when I had this feature on the phone and contacts apps. It's a cool feature but not worth the slow down.
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I noticed on the Fresh Rom, there is a note that the Location service may be what is causing the slow down in the phone app... I turned off location service yesterday and noticed an immediate response increase with the phone app. I'm not ready to call this a fix yet, but I am going to keep the location service off for a little while longer and see if it helps.
If anyone else is seeing the phone slowness, give this a try and let us know your results...
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Does that mean that Locale wouldn't work? I'd rather deal with the slower dialer if so.
Yes, I am using the Facebook linking. I could see that killing it too. I wish it would just import pictures and info over to my Google contacts. Any ideas on how to do that?
And yes, turning off the location feature will disable general location info from the phone. However, it can be re-enabled from settings...
It's a problem that has to do with apps using seperate threads to check your location, which builds up over time causing the location services to eat clock cycles like Rosi O'Donnel eats candy on Halloween. Disabling location services is a temporary fix, and Flipz thinks he's solved the problem in his 1.1 release by using Android's location services instead of HTC's
I have to agree with the abcdfv, fresh 1.1 has completely eliminated the annoying phone lag for me...amazing work. Now if someone could address the keyboard lag this phone is ready to rock...
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I have to agree with the abcdfv, fresh 1.1 has completely eliminated the annoying phone lag for me...amazing work. Now if someone could address the keyboard lag this phone is ready to rock...
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Are you linked to a Facebook account and running fresh 1.1, and there is no lag in the people(contacts) app?
I have a linked Facebook account on my Fresh 1.1 ROM and while there is an almost negligible lag in the phone/contacts application still, it is drastically snappier and quick to response compared to the Stock ROM.
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Are you linked to a Facebook account and running fresh 1.1, and there is no lag in the people(contacts) app?
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I have most of my contacts linked to their respective facebook and flickr pages. Coldsweat says it best as "an almost negligible lag"...still present but not an issue in the slightest (.5 seconds). I am experiencing the same change with the contacts as well.
Give it a shot and post your results...I was very impressed.
FYI, I turned off Facebook sync (synced Facebook pics with SyncMyPix), dropped my slot cycle index to 1 and installed the Fresh 1.1 ROM. Holy crap. This thing is a screaming fast new phone
For those who are rooted (and not aware), Fresh ROM has come a long way and is really, very impressive. It's very fast and some of the interface mods are very attractive.
Hey guys....I've had the Glacier for two weeks and I couldn't be happier. I got the OTA 2.2.1 and rooted it without any problems. Then, today I got a "android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly" only when I go to the phone dialer or contacts. Everything else works perfectly. Earlier today I changed the boot animation and the splash screen...both work flawlessly. I changed the boot animation back to stock and see if that would fix it but no luck. I have rebooted and taken the battery out several times but no go. I checked around and no one else seems to have the same issue. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated....Thanks in advance.
Edit...I just fixed the problem...I had downloaded a Tmobile voicemail app that was causing a conflict. I uninstalled it and I'm golden again. I appreciate the help. Thanks.
I've had this come up intermittently since rooting, and haven't been able to nail it down to one specific action or app, etc. It's happened since doing perma-root, and doesn't seem to matter if I'm running stock ROM or CM6.1 Alpha (which I flashed last night - had this pop up once or twice since).
It's annoying, but hasn't caused any real problems so far.
Would be nice to figure out why it's happening, and find a resolution.
What apps, if any, have either of you deleted since rooting?
Does it write any useful exception information in the log file?
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What apps, if any, have either of you deleted since rooting?
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I haven't deleted any apps...just hid them under general settings using Launcher Pro...the only other thing I did different today was unlock the SIM using the code Tmobile sent me but I can't imagine that has anything to do with it....Just can't access the Phone at all or the Contacts without a force close...I'm stumped...
Trying to figure out a good way to upload a log file...
I think it might have something to do with permissions..it said among other things...
W/dalvikvm*3381):Refusing to reopen boot DEX'/system/framework/com.htc.android.pimlib.jar
not sure what that means....
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Yep, I'm having the same issue. It does it when I'm using a few applications like Twidroid, even ChompSMS, and another one. I'm thinking it has less to do with what applications I'm using at that time (meaning it would do it no matter what application I had open) but those 2 I use 95% of my time on the phone.
& I as well have not deleted any applications only freezed them with Titanium Backup Pro.
I just spent some time trying to figure out what had broken my contacts functionality and this was it. Again, removing "blur_yahoo.apk" and the associated .odex file will break the contacts app. After removal, clicking on a contact in the dialer/contact app will just shut the app down. I've no idea why, since the yahoo app is for yahoo mail.
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F**k...I just noticed that too
I noticed that freezing some of the messaging/social services also seems to force close the built-in message app too. If you use something like ChompSMS then it isn't a big deal b/c that still works.
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F**k...I just noticed that too
I noticed that freezing some of the messaging/social services also seems to force close the built-in message app too. If you use something like ChompSMS then it isn't a big deal b/c that still works.
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Hm, I deleted all of the messaging/social stuff and my moto text app (conversations.apk) still works...
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Really? Hmm...might be something else then that you'd think wouldn't affect it but does.
guys which apps should i delete that won't mess with the software....that will get rid of the bloatware
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won't mess with the software
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Translation? That request doesn't exactly make sense
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Translation? That request doesn't exactly make sense
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like it doesnt delete important apk's and things needed that will make the phone crash or delete files needed to make the phone functional
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like it doesnt delete important apk's and things needed that will make the phone crash or delete files needed to make the phone functional
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You should probably do some more research before you start messing with that b/c it can brick the OS requiring a full install of the ROM. In this case, if you don't do a restore before removing stuff you'll be restoring the SBF file a lot.
But to answer your question though...the app you want is Titanium Backup Pro (aka the pay version b/c of the "Freeze" option.)
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Translation? That request doesn't exactly make sense
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im not that stupid i know what an SBF is and i know how to do it ive done it all the time!...
i just didnt know which apps would be best to freeze
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im not that stupid i know what an SBF is and i know how to do it ive done it all the time!...
i just didnt know which apps would be best to freeze
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Well since the GB build for the DX just came out, I haven't been able to find a definitive thread anywhere (including on MyDroidWorld) listing what is save to remove or at least freeze. As of right now I think it's safe to say that its going to be a trial and error situation.
There are threads somewhere (droidforums?) about which of the 2.1 and 2.2 apps are safe to remove. While there are some new apps, those that were safe before are still safe. Of the new apps, the blur_yahoo is the only one that's given me trouble. Be warned, though, that while you can remove Backup Assistant and Blur Home, if you do a factory reset from within Android (rather than from clockworkmod), your initial install will break and you'll need to sbf if you can't get back into clockwork.
Also, bluremailengine is needed for blurcalendar to work properly. I remove bluremail, all the third party crap, all the social crap, swipe, and various other things I don't use like universal inbox, widgets, etc. Really, you just need to play with it.
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There are threads somewhere (droidforums?) about which of the 2.1 and 2.2 apps are safe to remove. While there are some new apps, those that were safe before are still safe. Of the new apps, the blur_yahoo is the only one that's given me trouble. Be warned, though, that while you can remove Backup Assistant and Blur Home, if you do a factory reset from within Android (rather than from clockworkmod), your initial install will break and you'll need to sbf if you can't get back into clockwork.
Also, bluremailengine is needed for blurcalendar to work properly. I remove bluremail, all the third party crap, all the social crap, swipe, and various other things I don't use like universal inbox, widgets, etc. Really, you just need to play with it.
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Yea I know about those threads (I have one open right now actually) but since this is a whole new version of Blur & version of Android w/ a lot of changes & new options...who knows what Motorola changed or buried deeper into the system.
Thanks for being the guinea pig though I've never had a reason to use factory reset after a ROM is installed so removing BA & Blur Home isn't a big deal.
One question...have you removed the Messaging & Text Messaging apps at all? I still can't figure out what it was that caused the Text Messaging app to quit on me as soon as it was opened. Not that it's a big deal...b/c ChompSMS worked fine for me
Does anyone else notice a SEVERE amount of lag immediately after you reboot the phone? Lasts about 3-4 minutes every time I reboot then goes away. Affects everything from changing home screens, to opening apps, even turning the ringer volume up and down lags...
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Does anyone else notice a SEVERE amount of lag immediately after you reboot the phone? Lasts about 3-4 minutes every time I reboot then goes away. Affects everything from changing home screens, to opening apps, even turning the ringer volume up and down lags...
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That's always been a problem with MotoBlur (and even HTC Sense)...it's all the services that load in the background all at once (even after freezing or removing some services.)
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Yea I know about those threads (I have one open right now actually) but since this is a whole new version of Blur & version of Android w/ a lot of changes & new options...who knows what Motorola changed or buried deeper into the system.
Thanks for being the guinea pig though I've never had a reason to use factory reset after a ROM is installed so removing BA & Blur Home isn't a big deal.
One question...have you removed the Messaging & Text Messaging apps at all? I still can't figure out what it was that caused the Text Messaging app to quit on me as soon as it was opened. Not that it's a big deal...b/c ChompSMS worked fine for me
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I removed all the messaging crap except the default messaging app (conversations.apk). I use Google Voice so I don't use the default app, but I sent myself a message using it and it worked just fine.
Note: you can do a data wipe/factory reset from within clockwork and you'll be fine.
If someone can produce a list of everything in /system/app (well, just the .apks would do), I can mark the ones I've successfully removed without problems.
Ditto to that...I'd be happy to contribute what I've frozen.
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Does anyone else notice a SEVERE amount of lag immediately after you reboot the phone? Lasts about 3-4 minutes every time I reboot then goes away. Affects everything from changing home screens, to opening apps, even turning the ringer volume up and down lags...
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That's always been a problem with MotoBlur (and even HTC Sense)...it's all the services that load in the background all at once (even after freezing or removing some services.)
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Mine takes about 10-15 seconds from the appearance of the homescreen until it's at full speed. Of course, I've overclocked to 1.2 GHz, debloated, zipaligned, implemented drod's rubix tweaks, and used autostarts to kill unnecessary apps from loading at boot.
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Mine takes about 10-15 seconds from the appearance of the homescreen until it's at full speed. Of course, I've overclocked to 1.2 GHz, debloated, zipaligned, implemented drod's rubix tweaks, and used autostarts to kill unnecessary apps from loading at boot.
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Hmm. 10-15 seconds seems a tad excessive then. I'm still running stock speed, LPP 0.8.4.1, debloated most major apps and also used Autostarts to kill some apps at boot (as well as in the Widgets menu)...and while I see a slight lag it's not 10-15 seconds.
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Hmm. 10-15 seconds seems a tad excessive then. I'm still running stock speed, LPP 0.8.4.1, debloated most major apps and also used Autostarts to kill some apps at boot (as well as in the Widgets menu)...and while I see a slight lag it's not 10-15 seconds.
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You're right. I just timed it. About 38 seconds from red M to full appearance of desktop (I've got the boot animation disabled) and about 25 seconds from full desktop to all widgets loaded and ready to go. I underestimated by 40-60%! I'm using the blur launcher, btw.
Something must be wrong with mine then...because mine lasts a good 3 to 4 minutes...and that seems very long for services to be starting...
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This issue has been brought up in the GingerBlur thread, but i'm wondering if it is more widespread. to elaborate, randomly i will get a message on my phone while i am in an SMS App (I use Handcent, but it carries over to the stock messaging as well) saying that the "Phone storage is full! delete files to free space" and i have AMPLE room for messages, none of any of the storage options on my phone are even half way full. This also sometimes causes the message to be deleted from the thread and i have to ask the sender to resend it. the app then proceeds to force close after i try and open it until i reboot. i also use watchdog to monitor my CPU usage, and it says that the "Base System" uses 99.9% CPU after this happens. if this has happened to you or if you know how to fix this, PLEASE chime in.
I unfortunately don't have a solution but I also get this error. It happened a little less frequently on stock 1.8.3 and was a little less catastrophic. Now on gingerblur it happens at least 4-5 times a day and I HAVE to reboot to fix. In the past I could get away with force closing both apps and just reoopening.. its really frustrating. It will happen randomly as well..
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I unfortunately don't have a solution but I also get this error. It happened a little less frequently on stock 1.8.3 and was a little less catastrophic. Now on gingerblur it happens at least 4-5 times a day and I HAVE to reboot to fix. In the past I could get away with force closing both apps and just reoopening.. its really frustrating. It will happen randomly as well..
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i also have noticed the increase in this happening with gingerblur as opposed to stock. i need to reboot to fix as well. i report the error to handcent every time it happens.
So I froze my stock app and am just using GoSMS alone now. It seems to be better, and I can send and receive MMS just fine (unfortunately no message per convo limit but whatev). But last night I opened the app and it wouldn't show any messages, so I'm pretty sure it's doing the same thing. At least this time it didn't crash and I didn't have to reboot... I think its a variant of the "phone storage full, delete files to make room" error... but I have a ton of room on all storage areas of my phone. I deleted a bunch of texts and it helped.. I shouldn't have to limit myself to like 500 texts total to avoid a retarded error..
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Which storage space are you looking at?
No area of storage in any way, shape or form is even close to being full. Regardless of what the error says, it's NOT because I am low on space anywhere...
this has also happened for me.. im getting text message is full, and also the application memory low on storage too.
I strangely don't have any application storage issues here.
I just removed go SMS temporarily and I'm gonna run the gb app alone and see what happens
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This is really starting to bother me. I have handcent installed on the internal, so it's not anything that has to do with the sdcard. I have a thread with over 4k texts in it, and a few mms. Most are below 1k though. I don't know how to recreate the error, but the latest handcent update has an option to "replace default system app" and I have that checked, hopefully it will help.
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Lemme know how that goes for you..Like I said, I deleted my system app and used Go SMS alone (with the appropriate settings I believe...) and it still gave me softer versions of the error...I didn't have to reboot as much but eh...
Now I'm just running the gingerblur stock app or whatever it is, and it still gets the error sometimes, but for some reason it's not happening as often. And a reboot has only been necessary about half the time. soon I'm just gonna revert to Motorola stock 1.8.3 or whatever to get ready for all the updates and stuff, and hopefully since the bootloader will be unlocked a custom ROM will solve our issue haha!
SALVATION IS HERE.
i believe i have solved this problem. many android users are familiar with task killers. some love them, some hate them. but for some reason, when i get this error and handcent fc's countless times upon opening, all i did was open ATK and kill all. the problem was gone just like that!
Hi guys,
I've been using the HTC U Ultra for the past month and it's been fine, fast and stable, but SMS apps are slow to open, I've tried stock app and Google messenger app, both take a few seconds to open, takes long to open the app and then long as well to open a sms thread, is anyone else experiencing the same thing? I'm running the latest 1.64.400.3 build.
Thank you all =)
Not at all, even though i received >200 SMS from different Numbers in The Last week
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Not at all, even though i received >200 SMS from different Numbers in The Last week
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Thanks for the reply, I don't have that many SMS right now, I might get about 5 sms a day and that is it, interesting is Whatsapp, which I use a lot more, opens almost instantly, it is just the SMS apps, maybe the database for the sms's is a bit dodgy, I might try and do a factory reset at some point... I saw a review from Damir Franc on youtube and he also had the same issue, just wanted to know if this is the same with everyone, or just some units...
Does the same thing happen when the sms app is still open in background? did you already try a reboot? or maybe there is a thread with many messages or even pictures that you could try to delete.. just some ideas
i have same problem with messanger app in htc u ultra!
any body have a solution?
Ive found using HTCs Boost+ app and "clear Junk" once a week helps sometimes, but not always.... yeah... it can be slow..
Im also having the same problem with the People/ Dialer app... Pressing someones name and it actually connecting takes about 2 - 3 seconds..
Im running 1.64.401.3 in UK... but still on 7.0 with security 1st July 17.... Why arent we getting updates?.... I do realise HTC update over Play Store, so its only Firmware the Ultra gets.... but alot of the apps are being updated for 7.1 / 7.11 and even 8.0 now.. so these newer updates are going to effect older Android builds.... but seriously.... 6 months and still nothing..
Come on HTC.. Show the U Ultra some love
finally i solved this problems you should Wipe data/factory reset and next delete boost app after that!
then just use google store app and update your apps!
i do these work and all app work without any problem...
i hope my answer helps every one have these problems...:angel: