Stumped.....in need of 3rd party help

[Guest Andyroid]

Running the SF on Paul's r3, all has been fine for long enough till now.

For several days I have been unable to receive text messages, i'll hear a notification sound from the SF and its telling me a text has been refused due to insufficient space.

I have no messages whatsoever on the SF, deleted them all but it still persists to bounce text messages due to insufficient space.

I dont know where messages are stored but on the device internal memory there's 20mb free, and over 1gb on the SD card.

Another issue thats started in tandem and may well be related is the System telling me I'm low on space, I delete apps but after a short time the warning comes back even though I haven't added any new apps since I cleared some out in summary my amount of Apps on-board keeps decreasing yet the space warning keeps re-appearing, doesn't make sense. Is there something on the phone thats caching data? I dont do much with the phone tbh barring text and call, the odd shufty of news, a blast of Angry Birds, and the odd browse....or is it possible its seeing the internal memory as full when its not...anyway i give in.

Any help appreciated, using handcent

*edit

Just picked up the SF and took it out of sleep to see two warnings on the notification bar

1) Phone storage space is getting low

2)Text Message Memory Full

Incoming message rejected due to full memory. Please delete old messages

Internal phone storage shows as 18.45MB

[Guest steve1221]

Do you have the messages being saved to the sim rather then the phone ? The sim will only hold 20 messages...

[Guest Rem1x]

Delete what you have

Messages>Settings>Delete Old Messages>Text message limit to 999.

Should be a bit better, I think.

[Guest Andyroid]

@steve1221

No idea where they're being stored

@Rem1x

Messages>Settings>Delete Old Messages>Text message limit to 999.

I cant find this mate, can you elaborate / shove me in the right direction?

If I open Handcent and hit the menu button and there's a 'settings' button but no 'delete old messages' option from within it.

Thanks for the reply fellas

[Guest Rem1x]

@steve1221

No idea where they're being stored

@Rem1x

I cant find this mate, can you elaborate / shove me in the right direction?

If I open Handcent and hit the menu button and there's a 'settings' button but no 'delete old messages' option from within it.

Thanks for the reply fellas

Go in to the stock one and do it, I think they share the same database ;)

[Guest Ash_P]

I dont know where messages are stored but on the device internal memory there's 20mb free, and over 1gb on the SD card.

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/mmssms.db

Check the directory/file exists above using something like root explorer. You haven't removed the stock sms app have?

[Guest Matty-p]

@steve1221

No idea where they're being stored

@Rem1x

I cant find this mate, can you elaborate / shove me in the right direction?

If I open Handcent and hit the menu button and there's a 'settings' button but no 'delete old messages' option from within it.

Thanks for the reply fellas

go to the stock messaging app menu button settings delete old messages set limit also now go manage sim card messages to check there not all stored on the sim not many can be stored on sim ;)

Edited December 4, 2010 by Matty-p

[Guest Andyroid]

Sorry for taking so long to feedback, it took a while before I realized l needed some other app to fully explore my SF

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/mmssms.db

Check the directory/file exists above using something like root explorer. You haven't removed the stock sms app have?

Ash_P, I eventually found that string you mentioned with a different explorer, it was all present and correct.

No, the stock Android sms is still on-board.

go to the stock messaging app menu button settings delete old messages set limit also now go manage sim card messages to check there not all stored on the sim not many can be stored on sim :)

There were no messages to delete and the message limit was set to 200 (moved it to 999) and mo messages were stored on the sim.

I dont think anything I've done will help as little was changed apart from the 200>999, and as times i get the message quota full with three text messages saved never mind the 200 ceiling lol. Had another notification last night saying a message was rejected due to low space, pls delete old messages blah blah, I only had 1 text message stored...weird.

Thanks for all the input :)

[Guest tyrol_gangster]

Andyroid I wonder if you have found the solution to this, exactly the same thing has been driving me crazy for weeks... UNINSTALLED HANDCENT today and all problems gone ;-)