SMS - Full my a#@!

[iPhoneGuy]

I just received the following message on my iPhone today stating my SMS mailbox was almost full. What gives? I have almost 2GB available...

[420greg]

I just received the following message on my iPhone today stating my SMS mailbox was almost full. What gives? I have almost 2GB available...

I am thinking the OS base features. Email, SMS, Browser Cache, etc are in a separate partition then the music and video, a small partition.

The SMS storage area probably has a set size.

[iPhoneGuy]

I am thinking the OS base features. Email, SMS, Browser Cache, etc are in a separate partition then the music and video, a small partition.

The SMS storage area probably has a set size.

Well that blows....

[Silverado]

Wow. How many messages would you say you have?

[abohsali]

Hello,

I noticed a lot of people are suffering from this issue. It definetely seems that the OS allocates limited memory space for SMS. Personally I have not reached my SMS quota on the iPhone. I

I suggest we all submit a feedback on apple's website requesting improvement in this matter. Here's the link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I already did myself but if more people do then Apple might consider it in upcoming software updates.

Cheers,

-Bohs

[Twitchthroe]

I got the same message after having a 15 day conversation in text with my ex-girlfriend. she was my only sms conversation as well. weird....

[Silverado]

I got the same message after having a 15 day conversation in text with my ex-girlfriend. she was my only sms conversation as well. weird....

Roughly how many messages were they?

[GeorgeStewart88@gmail.com]

I came across this 3 days after I got my iPhone and constantly have to clean my inbox. It sucks.

[kdarling]

On some GSM phones, the SMS messages are stored on the SIM... so you can take both your contacts and messages from phone to phone.

No idea if they're doing that here or not. Has anyone moved their SIM to another phone, and looked to see if the contacts/sms carry over?

Just one possibility...

[Silverado]

So nobody wants to answer the question of how many messages there are when it asks you to delete some? 15 days worth or 3 days worth doesn't tell us how many. 100? 500? 2000?

[stevetim]

So nobody wants to answer the question of how many messages there are when it asks you to delete some? 15 days worth or 3 days worth doesn't tell us how many. 100? 500? 2000?

It may not be number of messages either, though. It may be number of characters total in the SMS system.

[ciaran00]

So let's get some data....

[Fred87nc]

talk about beating around the bush....NUMBERS! people

[Maaz]

Jesus what's the big problem? Just clear the messages, why would you need old conversations 15 days old?

[Silverado]

I think the numbers are TOP SECRET! :)

[alexster]

Hey guys, I got the same problem today. I deleted some txts and started getting important txts from 2 days ago (got like 40 txts at once when i deleted stuff). This is while it was still saying ALMOST full. Well, according to my bill, I had sent/received about 1200 txts when it started getting full and eventually got full.

I think we should all call them up or something and request unlimited txt storage (I have 8 freakin GB) or at least archiving conversations. Also, forwarding txt messages and being able to send a single message to multiple people would be nice too.

[Silverado]

Hey guys, I got the same problem today. I deleted some txts and started getting important txts from 2 days ago (got like 40 txts at once when i deleted stuff). This is while it was still saying ALMOST full. Well, according to my bill, I had sent/received about 1200 txts when it started getting full and eventually got full.

I think we should all call them up or something and request unlimited txt storage (I have 8 freakin GB) or at least archiving conversations. Also, forwarding txt messages and being able to send a single message to multiple people would be nice too.

Thank you for finally posting numbers!! :)

Yes, I think they should definitely allow more messages to be stored! I had a Treo with 32 megs and it held many more messages than this. In fact, I never deleted my messages and could look back at really old conversations. This is silly and only a little excusable with it being the first version.

[iPhoneGuy]

So nobody wants to answer the question of how many messages there are when it asks you to delete some? 15 days worth or 3 days worth doesn't tell us how many. 100? 500? 2000?

I had 4-5 conversations. Most are very small. A couple have about 15 days of stuff... But since an SMS message is limited in size the device should not care how many message you have.

[petalmom]

Jesus what's the big problem? Just clear the messages, why would you need old conversations 15 days old?

I agree! I can't understand what the problem is :)

[brianlamar]

I agree! I can't understand what the problem is :)

Because some of us need to keep a log of text messages for business purposes. Most of all its our prerogative.

[mc751n]

I had about 750 when I first started to see the "almost full" message. Oh and I also learned that it NEVER tells you that it IS full, so you just stop getting texts until you delete some then they all sporadically arrive.

[xSoNiCcRaCkErSx]

I had about 750 when I first started to see the "almost full" message. Oh and I also learned that it NEVER tells you that it IS full, so you just stop getting texts until you delete some then they all sporadically arrive.


couldnt have said it better, there needs to be an option for this saving to sim and to fone, i need to keep some of these conversations, they are very important.

[ps49556n]

On some GSM phones, the SMS messages are stored on the SIM... so you can take both your contacts and messages from phone to phone.

No idea if they're doing that here or not. Has anyone moved their SIM to another phone, and looked to see if the contacts/sms carry over?

Just one possibility....



I have and it DOES transfer my texts over.......

[methcat]

I have a tonnn of long text convos on my phone and I haven't gotten that message! that's weird. I didn't know there was a limit!

[wildonrio]

We've gotten pretty far in iPhone modification to the point where we can explore the file system of the iPhone using WinSCP or iBrickr and edit system files. Why can't anyone find the system file that specifies the sms inbox limit? I guarantee it's just a simple value somewhere that says something stupid like "<smsinboxlimit> = 200 KB" or something. Just change that 200 to 9999999 and we're good.

What's the best way to find the file that specifies the limit size?