Messages App Problem

[owen_legend]

Hey guys, new Xperia Z1 owner here and I've run into a problem.

I have come from using iphones for the past 4 years - the nature of iphones is that the text messages store in conversations like the Xperia. However I have all the conversations from when i first got my first iphone.

I used the PC companion to transfer my contacts and messages and stuff to my Xperia thinking nothing of it however the messsages app can be a little slow loading all the old conversations at times, so i tried to delete them, although I couldn't as the app froze. I tried deleting all the messages individually using "mark all" and deleting the whole conversations however the result is the same.

Is there any way to delete messages from the phone in an alternate way to this? Its quite annoying

Thanks

[Sam]

If there are a lot of messages it can be quite slow; however if you want to delete all of the messages you can always do this: Main Menu > Settings > Apps > All > Messaging > Clear Data.

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[owen_legend]

I have also tried that method, but it doesn't actually delete the conversations  

[Uliwooly]

You could just delete all the conversations and/or repair your phone if that doesn't hurt

Update Service (SUS)

http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/tools/update-service/

http://www-support-downloads.sonymobile.com/Software%20Downloads/Update_Service_Setup-2.11.12.5.exe

PC Companion (PCC)

Bridge (for Mac)

Alternatives on How to backup Xperias

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36355

[owen_legend]

Whenever I try to delete the conversations though the phone never actually deletes them but merely locks up usually forcing a restart.
I could technically delete them one by one but there's probably thousands of messages there haha

[Uliwooly]

open the messaging app > menu > delete conversations > drop down menu (left) mark all 

[owen_legend]

This freezes the phone almost immediately

[Archanos]

I found this one actually working:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vp.smsmanager

it's a bit plain app, extremely simple, but for me it does the job, I have tons of messages too - it is useless if you want to use it for receiving messages, but works fair with deleting (didn't hang on me yet)

[owen_legend]

Just tried that app and it failed, just locked up the app almost instantly

How hard can deleting messages be? lol

[Sam]

It sounds like you have some corrupt data in the messaging application. I would recommend following the advice of Uliwooly above and run a repair.

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