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is it even possible SD card - memory txt swapping

so i have about 20000 (yes, 20,000) sms and its eating up a lot of my phones memory. However, I have a 1gb sd card thats 99% free on my phone.. Is it possible for me to transfer all the txt msgs to the SD card and still be able to view them somehow.
I have txt all backed up, I just don't know how to view them if i just store them on the SD card. is there a text viewer or whatever?
Thanks for the help.

wowcheesestick said:
so i have about 20000 (yes, 20,000) sms and its eating up a lot of my phones memory. However, I have a 1gb sd card thats 99% free on my phone.. Is it possible for me to transfer all the txt msgs to the SD card and still be able to view them somehow.
I have txt all backed up, I just don't know how to view them if i just store them on the SD card. is there a text viewer or whatever?
Thanks for the help.
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Wow! Well, the WM app wont let you store them on the memory card, from searching it looks like a security measure. (todo with remote wiping ect it seems)
Maybe a 3rd party SMS program might be able to, not sure as of right now.

veyka said:
Wow! Well, the WM app wont let you store them on the memory card, from searching it looks like a security measure. (todo with remote wiping ect it seems)
Maybe a 3rd party SMS program might be able to, not sure as of right now.
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oh of course of course.
i don't want the new messages to be stored on the SD CARD.
however, i want to store all the old sms on the SD card and be able to view them through a software on my phone
and for the new sms, they can be stored on the memory as usual.
the reason i want to do this is because i have a habit of looking up my old sms to remind myself some of the tasks.

WHOA!!
20000 SMS?? hmm I have that many in my email box but not SMS? will be watching this with interest

zocster said:
20000 SMS?? hmm I have that many in my email box but not SMS? will be watching this with interest
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i know this is rare. i been doing research regarding to text viewer on a removable memory however nothing found

Try "export", I'm sure there are programs that can export your messages to a plain text file so it can be read by *anything*

This looks promising, but you may have to pay.

Touch Pro 2 sms memory

Is it me or does this thing fill up really fast? any want to store sms on the sdcard.

Why do you think it's your SMS that's occupying all the storage space?
Some crude math:
-Given 100 MB of storage (this is a conservative figure, you should have much more than this)
-Given each SMS is 2 kb (this is a generous figure; many of my SMS are less than 1 kb)
In this scenario you should have enough space for over 400,000 messages...
Sorry, if you do have that many messages, you need to delete 75% of them. You're never going to refer back to them...

I keep getting a notification saying "delete some messages your memry is full"
or something along those lines and i checked the memery on the phone and it sais like 10 mb free!! wtf

ohyeahar said:
Sorry, if you do have that many messages, you need to delete 75% of them. You're never going to refer back to them...
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75%!? it would take an age to read 100,000 messages!

madman1520 said:
75%!? it would take an age to read 100,000 messages!
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ya i have this phone for a couple days...........

Haha, yeah, I should've said "you need to delete 99.9% of them". That would still leave you with about 400.
So are you saying you really have that many messages clogging your inbox? Can it be that it's just because you are saving multimedia files in your storage memory rather than on the SD card?

I have a sdcard 8gb calss 6. but I dont have any mms. all i know is that is says
Storage
total: 260.29
in use: 251.64
free 8.65
is this because only the sms? Also does anyone know how to auto save sms to sd? like on my g1? my g1 was the first phone i ever had that could keep like thousands of sms. and if not is there a better way to delete..

How do I check what exactly is saved on the phone memory, as opposed to how much is used.
So I just deleted like 500 txt messages, and the phone memory is still at 8 mb. what am I doing wrong?

Is your memory problem with emails/email attachments and not sms messages perhaps? Go to your email account "options" and then to the storage tab. It will show you the current size of your email attachments, and whether or not you have them saved to device memory or your storage card.

ya i have em saving to sd card

Where is mail stored?

Hi folks. I've had my HTC Desire for about two months now and I just love it. However lately something has come up: although I only have about 10 apps installed, the phone started to warn me that its reaching its internal storage limit. When I check the apps list, cache etc, I see that Mail is taking over 22mb of space.
My question is: are all my emails being stored in the phone internal memory? I have four accounts configured in the device and three of them are work related so I need to have old messages always at hand. I tried looking through menus and settings but did not find any option to select where email messages are stored.
I'm worried that as more messages are stored it will eventually require all of the phones internal memory space (that is, assuming that the messages are indeed stored there, as it seems to me right now). Furthermore I already had to uninstall a few apps just so I could have the Navigon satnav app in the phone.
I know Froyo is expected to fix such issues when its released to the Desire devices, but until then what should I do? Any help is greatly appreciated!
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My question is: are all my emails being stored in the phone internal memory?
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Yes, they are (many had the same problem as you before, myself being one). Make sure your deleted ones are deleted again from each accounts Trash folder.
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Move gmail data to SD card?

Hey there,
I am equipping two Google Apps a.k.a. Gmail accounts on my Desire. Unfortunately, though I have a FroYo release that supports native a2sd, my phone has no internal space left due to Gmail downloading all messages to the phone memory. With a ****load of labels, this is really annoying.
I searched back & forth, but I couldn't find any solution to this problem - does anyone have a clue as how to make the Gmail data kindly move (and stay) onto the SD card? I tried 'Move cache for Root Users' (http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/it.tautility/) but it just didn't move my two accounts cache data to the SD card.
Thanks in advance!!

I surely don't mean to grab the whole forum's attention here (which I won't achieve anyway), but since 68 people viewed this topic and nobody replied... - does nobody have the same problem? Don't you ever use labels, or don't you sync them and get in trouble with disk space? Or does nobody have it on the internal storage and have some clever solution that I miss?

Do you really need all the e-mail of your account? Mine just synchronizes with the mail of the last 4 days and if i want anything beyond that it will automatically load it via my data connection.
you can change the amount of days by pressing menu when in the gmail app then choose settings and then labels.

Reminds me of Steve Job's 'you hold that phone the wrong way'....
Yes and no, it somehow worked well on the stock ROM, and I surely had some folders sync completely. I don't know why it does not work on the current ROM I use ([ROM-FroYo] Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM (16/07 v1.0c | OpenDesire Team)), but it doesn't seem to do anything strange anyway...

Problems with Whatsapp on a new phone with the same phone number

I'm editing my original message. I'm keeping it below in case it provides detail but I apologize that it was too complex. Here are three simplified questions:
1) My old phone stopped working. I have a new phone. Where are old Whatsapp messages (are they stored on internal memory and thus unretrievable, available on Whatsapp servers)?
2) I have a copy of all files on my old phone. It's not recent but if I have a Whatsapp database file is there an external viewer to see my old messages? I read about a "key" but I don't have my old phone.
3) It was a month gap before I finally had a working phone. Why are messages that were "waiting" in some Whatsapp groups now visible to me only by sender and thus completely out of chronological order?
Hello,
My unrooted Galaxy Note stopped working. It was replaced by an unrooted Galaxy Note. I've kept the same number but Whatsapp is giving me problems. Thank you for any help.
1) When I installed Whatsapp on the new phone all old conversations were missing in all chat groups. Why?
2) I thought that Whatsapp autosaved databases nightly to the SD card. My SD card only has a few database files from years ago and this was on an older phone (not either of the Galaxy Notes I've owned). Why?
3) If Whatsapp stores database files to the internal memory I can't do much (as my old device did not turn on and is gone). But why then does the new phone not yet have a Whatsapp folder (or any databases) in the internal memory?
4) On the new phone now, only chat groups with new conversations were visible when I installed Whatsapp. I'm assuming that the missing chat groups will appear when they get new conversations?
5) In one chat group chronology was lost. All conversations by one sender were followed by all conversations by another. Why? It's impossible to make sense of what is being said.
6) Because of the above I thought I might remove and reinstall Whatsapp? Would I lose any "unread" messages (so far most of my messages are "unread" as I am trying to sort out why I am having so many problems with Whatsapp)? If I save a backup before removing Whatsapp would it save the "unread" messages?
7) I have a database file on an external drive from a few weeks ago. I read that attempting to merge it with the "unread" messages on Whatsapp on my new phone probably would not work. Is that correct?
8) I assume with encryption there is no way to view my old messages right (that old database file on the external drive is useless and there is no viewer to view the messages and images)? That bothers me a lot as some last communications from family members who passed away were in that important database file.
9) In the future what should I do to preserve my Whatsapp messages, pictures, and groups?
10) At least Whatsapp didn't delete all my messages that were unread. My text (non Whatsapp) messages and phone messages in the gap between sending in the old phone and getting the new one are completely gone so I don't even know who wrote to me or called me. It seems like none of that gets saved to the SD card?
I appreciate your help very much.

To update why I am asking. When my phone stopped working my new phone had none of my old Whatsapp message. Some of the communications were final messages I exchanged from people who have passed away. Is there any way to restore those messages?

nopgalaxy said:
To update why I am asking. When my phone stopped working my new phone had none of my old Whatsapp message. Some of the communications were final messages I exchanged from people who have passed away. Is there any way to restore those messages?
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When I changed phones but kept my number, I installed Whatsapp on my new phone and it asked if I wanted to retrieve my old messages and I hit yes and it downloaded them

Thank you for the reply. It didn't ask me for that unfortunately. Do you think it might be worth reinstalling Whatsapp or would I lose the messages I've gotten over the last few days if I "retrieve old messages" now? Thank you very much.