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I have a HTC vivid and need to delete about 30,000 texts. Every time I try to do it, it freezes my phone. The same thing happens when I try to create a backup.

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Factory reset? Much quicker, as for 30K texts, I find that hard to believe. No wonder Android freezes as their data store holding the texts is struggling to perform the operation in deletion! – t0mm13b Dec 15 '12 at 3:41
its true is there a way to only delete a certain amount of texts at one time that you know of? – Hunter Dec 15 '12 at 4:07
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did you try deleting batches of conversations? (i.e. try to delete 5 or 10 conversations at a time) – Sid Dec 15 '12 at 6:22
Could possibly help if you tried 3rd party apps to manage the SMS. – Power-Inside Dec 15 '12 at 16:00

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You might also try using a phone manager via your PC that works over Wifi, such as AirDroid. You should be able to delete from there, but not all of them at once I don't think, but in batches at least...

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If a factory reset isn't acceptable, you might try an app such as Handcent, which allows you to set a limit on how many messages are kept for each sender. Set the limit to 29000 and see if it trims them down in a reasonable time. If that works, try dropping the limit 2000 at a time until you get to the number you want. This won't work if your messages are from many different senders.

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