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How to delete specific sms ?

ptitLU — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:27:18 GMT

Hello everyone !

I have a problem with sms with one person in particular. I think it's because I have too many sms. So when I open the discussion, it takes a long time to open and sometimes it blocks. Idem when I want to write a sms.

So my question is : how to delete specific sms without deleting the entire discussion or deleting the sms one by one ?

And an other question : is it possible to store the sms on the sd card ?

Thank you for your response and sorry for my English

Re: How to delete specific sms ?

sunfury — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:41:31 GMT

Hello, touch and hold down over the message and delete it from the menu.

Re: How to delete specific sms ?

ptitLU — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:48:42 GMT

thanks, but with this way I can delete sms just one by one. And I have hundreds of sms to delete, so I'm looking for a faster way to do it.

Re: How to delete specific sms ?

tors — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:51:30 GMT

You could backup all your SMS to sdcard using for instance the application SMS Backup & Restore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore

Then you could edit the backup file (I think it is in XML) using your computer.

And then you could restore the modified backup.

Re: How to delete specific sms ?

ptitLU — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:53:03 GMT

Thanks ! But how can I edit the backup file ? (I'm no expert in computer's stuff...:smileyconfused:)

Re: How to delete specific sms ?

tors — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:53:51 GMT

Aww, too bad 😕

The suggested solution does require some skills in file manipulation.

Other options:

1. Wait until someone else posts a suggestion.

2. Search for other SMS-applications which allows multiple delete.

3. Become a master of file manipulation (xml processing, regular expressions, etc)