SMS mailbox full

[dsam99]

Moved from Sprint to AT&T for the iPhone. On Sprint I never had an issue with the number of SMS messages on my phone. For the past couple of days I am receiving a message that my SMS mailbox is almost full. Does anybody know if these are all stored server side too and appears that a limit is in place? I would figure the limit would just be the memory of the phone.

[TrippalHealicks]

Moved from Sprint to AT&T for the iPhone. On Sprint I never had an issue with the number of SMS messages on my phone. For the past couple of days I am receiving a message that my SMS mailbox is almost full. Does anybody know if these are all stored server side too and appears that a limit is in place? I would figure the limit would just be the memory of the phone.

Jesus christ! I'm not making any assumptions, but there is NO WAY you had conversations and # of SMS messages that the iPhone can store, on any other phone, and not have storage issues. Dude, i've had SMS conversations that go on for 2 days with the iPhone, with no storage messages. Are you deleting your old conversations??

[ColsTiger]

Moved from Sprint to AT&T for the iPhone. On Sprint I never had an issue with the number of SMS messages on my phone. For the past couple of days I am receiving a message that my SMS mailbox is almost full. Does anybody know if these are all stored server side too and appears that a limit is in place? I would figure the limit would just be the memory of the phone.

This is the first time I've heard of this. How many conversations do you have saved?

[dsam99]

This is the first time I've heard of this. How many conversations do you have saved?


Have 22 conversations with some of them being IM forwarding from AOL IM and Yahoo! IM. Sounds like there might be some limit somewhere. Be interesting to see if others get this message. I cleared some of my chat messages and the notification goes away for about a day.

[wildonrio]

I have some conversations that takes me minutes to scroll up to the top and I still haven't gotten any warnings...

[jordan]

i haven't erased any of my messages either and i have a had a lot of conversations too. and still no warnings..

[TrippalHealicks]

I pretty much erase mine within about 24 hours of the conversation ending. Helps me keep it under control.

[alb0zf1n3st]

Damn there is no way that there is a 22 Message limit lol good god Now im gunna start smsin liek crazy just to try it lol

[ebrunn]

Kids these days

[TrippalHealicks]

Damn there is no way that there is a 22 Message limit lol good god Now im gunna start smsin liek crazy just to try it lol

i think they meant conversations, not individual messages.

[mactastic89]

Ive had to delete some conversations already but ive gone through over 5000 texts since i got my phone

[dsam99]

Damn there is no way that there is a 22 Message limit lol good god Now im gunna start smsin liek crazy just to try it lol


I had 22 conversations and some probably had easily couple hundred txts in them. ....

[m2bpro]

I txt all the time and I still haven't receive any warning messages. I've only deleted a few conversations but I still have a lot saved. I'm sure there's a limit but I would assume it will take a while to get there.

[xSoNiCcRaCkErSx]

i keep getting the warning 2, only 5 conversations, about 100 texts in 1, 100 in another 50 in another 20 another and like 40 other, just estimates though.. whats going on here.

[wildonrio]

I get the warnings every day. Hasn't anyone found out which file in the file system specifies the limit and then changed it? I bet we could find it. We know we have the space for it, it's just some dumb limit that they put in there that isn't necessary. I wish I knew a hacker...

[murfeye]

Ive had to delete some conversations already but ive gone through over 5000 texts since i got my phone

Are those conversations that have been deleted, available somewhere for retrieval in the i-phone disk space?

[IphoneTony]

thats crazy... why not just deleted some... im sure you dont need it unless its going to be some type of evidence against someone

[bubbamorgan91]

i think that the sms limit is roughly 75,000 messages. but i could be wrong.

http://expertlancer.com/iphone-1-1-3-update-75-000-sms-limit-two-finger-touch-typing/

[Buffy]

I get this warning quite a bit, too. Once thing I've noticed is that when people text from the same number, it creates a conversation, but if they're sending sms from their computer, it creates a new conversation for every text, and it's annoying to have to go through and delete them. I wonder if this is what is taking up more room?

Edit: But there's still no way I have over 75000 messages...

[hexonxonx]

i think that the sms limit is roughly 75,000 messages. but i could be wrong.

http://expertlancer.com/iphone-1-1-3-update-75-000-sms-limit-two-finger-touch-typing/
This limit was increased with 1.1.3 but I'm positive some of these people are using other versions.

[murfeye]

thats crazy... why not just deleted some... im sure you dont need it unless its going to be some type of evidence against someone

Evidence.....could be. Do those conversations exist somewhere? Even though they were "cleared" from the i-phone. Is there a difference between clearing conversation and deleting messages? Whats the real facts?

[Buffy]

Evidence.....could be. Do those conversations exist somewhere? Even though they were "cleared" from the i-phone. Is there a difference between clearing conversation and deleting messages? Whats the real facts?

It's extremely difficult to get texts once you've deleted them. AT&T will give conflicting responses when asked about this; I've heard that once they're deleted they're gone for good, and then I've heard that the only way to retrieve them if you want to use them in court is to subpoena them. ???

[murfeye]

It's extremely difficult to get texts once you've deleted them. AT&T will give conflicting responses when asked about this; I've heard that once they're deleted they're gone for good, and then I've heard that the only way to retrieve them if you want to use them in court is to subpoena them. ???

Thats good to know! So even some data retrieval company couldnt pull up something from a back up folder synced to i-tunes? Or hidden somewhere on 8GB of memory on the phone? I'm surprised I dont see more questions on this subject.

[Buffy]

Thats good to know! So even some data retrieval company couldnt pull up something from a back up folder synced to i-tunes? Or hidden somewhere on 8GB of memory on the phone? I'm surprised I dont see more questions on this subject.

I think it depends on who is doing the retrieval. For instance, I doubt that the mayor of Detroit kept those incriminating texts on his phone, but they were found.
For the average Joe, there are devices that can retrieve deleted texts from SIM cards if you can get hold of the SIM card in question (or get a court order, I suppose).
As for the backup sync to iTunes, I'm still new to the iPhone to stab a guess at this... Anyone?

[murfeye]

I think it depends on who is doing the retrieval. For instance, I doubt that the mayor of Detroit kept those incriminating texts on his phone, but they were found.
For the average Joe, there are devices that can retrieve deleted texts from SIM cards if you can get hold of the SIM card in question (or get a court order, I suppose).
As for the backup sync to iTunes, I'm still new to the iPhone to stab a guess at this... Anyone?

Thanks Buffy. My understanding is that the SIM card in the i-phone has no data on it at all, its only there for phone activation. Anyone?

[themanofthedark]

in versions 1.12 down - the limit was 1000 text messages.

in 1.13 it was increased 75 times.

to 75,000

[NeoNemesis]

75,000!?!

That should be able to store enough of my girlfriend moaning about me being late home...

[iJailbreak]

75,000!?!

That should be able to store enough of my girlfriend moaning about me being late home...

Hahaha. I know what you mean :smile: