Delete old sms messages - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II

I've accumulated a couple years worth of SMS/MMS., that I always backup/restore with Titanium when switching roms.
I'd like to delete all messages in all threads except for the most recent 20 per thread. There is a Delete Old Messages option in the SMS app, but it doesn't work. (I'm on the new Lolipop rom). Anybody know how i might truncate my messages?
Thanks!

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Entire SMS Thread deletes on its own

I recently used Jeyo Mobile Companion to move all my text messages (sent and received) older than a certain date to a seperate folder. Now, at random, when I send a text message, that entire thread of messages will delete from my phone. All my other messages from other contacts are not affected, only the thread of text with the contact I texted.
Of course I did all of this before I took a vacation, and am not currently able to undo the move of messages.
I checked the archive folder to see if maybe my missing threads had been moved to there, but they have not, they are just gone. This only occurs when I send a message, it has not happened otherwise. And it is at random, not every thread deletes. Let me know if you need more details. Oh, stock AT&T ROM, WM 6.5. Thanks.
Nobody else has experinced this? I'd appreciate any suggestions for restoring the lost texts (if possible) and for preventing it from happening again.
Just an idea. Not sure since I don't use the particular software you mentioned to auto delete messages.
The reason for your problem may stem from having threaded messaging enabled. If you have it enabled, this means that in the default WinMo messaging app, you can't delete particular messages. You have to delete the whole thread. It's all or nothing. (Note, it's possible to delete individual messages via Manila)
Disable threaded messaging with Advanced Config tool and see if your problem disappears.
I moved the messages back to the correct folders (sent and inbox) and everything seems to have corrected itself.

Texts, my messages on top of conversation

I've searched for this, but can only find someone related topics for other phones/OSs.
I had to have my Touch Pro 2 (Sprint) replaced, so now I'm running WinMo6.5 with Sense UI 2.5.x. I backed up all my PIM data with PIMBackup (or whatever the program is called). Since I've gotten it, however, all of my text conversations are wonky.
In HTC's text manager, in any given conversation, all of my messages are at the top of the conversation, and all of the other person's messages are at the bottom This can make longer conversations, and past conversations very confusing.
Does anyone know of this error, or of a good fix for it? Thanks!
I've had the same issue before, after flashing a new ROM and enabling the HTC messaging before I restored my PIM file. Are you using a Stock or Custom ROM? If custom, there is a good chance you have Arcsoft messaging installed (if not, you can download it - just search XDA for a cab).
I would delete all messages, enable/install Arcsoft messaging, soft-reset, then restore your messages from your PIM backup file. That may not fix it, but it's worth a shot.
-Mark
AT&T Tilt 2
HardSPL 0.85
Jackos Evo ROM (August 1st)
Stock ROM, and yes, I did load the PIM backup after loading HTC messaging for the first time. I deleted most of the old messages (that copied over the 2016/17 bug, somehow...), installed another SMS fix for the message order, and tested it with a few friends back and forth. Seems to be working now.
I also found and installed an Overclocking program, and now this bad boy is twice as fast!

Same contact, multiple SMS threads?

I seem to be having a random problem with my GS3. For random contacts my SMS will create multiple threads for the same person and it gets annoying because I will have like 20 different threads for the same conversation. I tried searching but didn't come up with anything and was just wondering if this is something that has a fix or if its something that I just can't do anything about. Thanks.
I see this happen when I have a ton of messages, with that contact or otherwise. Try emptying your inbox and starting with a clean slate
I have this same issue with just ONE person. And we have no messages between eachother. It does it on a totally stock restored phone...
It seems to me that the sms program doesn't consolidate phone numbers with the International prefix with those that don't have the prefix. If you have multiple syncing with different services it can have variations of the same numbers. This can be exacerbated by people who have multiple mobile phones or things like Google or skype numbers.
I have to sit down and consolidate all my contacts because I have way too many valid instances of a large number of them.
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Mine did this when I restored SMS using SMS backup+... after installing a new ROM and receiving some texts immediately after the install. I ended up with pre-restore and post restore threads for from the same person, instead of SMS backup simply adding the old messages to the existing thread.
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I also have a lot of friends who uses different numbers to send sms from...and how hard can it be to fix google?! Just use contacts instead of numbers to locate what thread the sms should go in?!!?!
One workaround is to install contacts+. The have figured out how to solve this but not google?!
Typing handycent and go sms here to so they might find this thread and copy contacs+ in this matter

[Q] Messaging: Keep old SMS?

I'm not sure if it's a bug or a feature in the Messaging SMS app on LineageOS 14.1, but there doesn't seem to be a setting to permit keeping old SMS messages anymore.
I was on CM 13 on my i9100 and just migrated to LOS 14.1. I used the "experimental" migration LOS ROM (which I had saved in February: 20170226) as an interim before flashing the 0412 "weekly".
After the update everything seemed basically OK. There were a few system settings I had to redo by hand, but that wasn't a big deal. I checked my phone call log, and everything was there, but then I checked my SMS history in the Messaging app, and it was empty.
I don't use SMS a lot, but what I use, I like to keep. I had the default CM13 (and earlier) Messaging app set to keep all old messages, no automatic deletions. Never had a problem before, even during upgrades.
Anyway, after I found my old SMS missing, I went into Titantium Backup (latest update) and did a restore from the TWRP Nandroid backup I did before upgrading, only the Messaging app data. Then I went back into the Messaging app, and there were my old SMS texts. Great!
Then the strangest thing happened. The messages started disappearing! The screen refreshed a few times, messages appeared as others vanished, and in a few seconds I was staring at an empty list. I checked the "Archived" list just in case, but it was empty as well. (Later I found this action was reproduceable: restore from Nandroid, SMS appears at first, then dynamically disappears.)
So I wondered about the "keep old messages" setting in the Messaging app, and went to check it. But it's not there anymore! The LOS 14.1 Messaging app appears to have a lot fewer settings than the CM 13 app: no maximum SMS or MMS, no "delete old messages" to uncheck, nothing!
I've tried using other SMS apps from the Play Store, as well as Carbonite "SMS Backup and Restore", but I can't seem to get them to recognize the restored SMS. Only the new LOS 14.1 Messaging app seems to recognize them, and only long enough to delete them.
I've been trying various things like setting the default SMS app to something else, but I haven't been sucessful in keeping my SMS. It's very frustrating, knowing that they're there, but I can't access them.
Anyway, if anyone has any advice on what I should do, and why the new Messaging app won't let you keep old messages, I would appreciate it. Thanks!
Workaround found
OK, I managed to find a workaround. In my case it helped to have a second "spare" i9100 to work with, which allowed me to have one on CM13 and one on LOS14.1, but it should also work with a single phone, with a lot of overhead jumping between CM13 and LOS14.1 nandroid restores.
1) Restore CM13 with the working Messaging app, and all the old messages there. Install "Carbonite SMS Backup and Restore" and backup the SMS.
2) Go back to (or restore) LOS14.1, and use Carbonite to restore SMS.
3) Start LOS14.1 Messaging, and the SMS stays this time!
I'm not sure why this worked. Is the "delete old messages" setting gone in the Messaging app because the functionality is gone? Then why did the messages disappear when I did a Titanium nandroid extraction? It's all very confusing. At least now I have lots of SMS/MMS backups if something goes wrong again, about 500 messages in 1.5 MB.
Hope this workaround helps someone else in this situation.
I have the same issue now. Did someone find a solution as I don't have a CM13 to try the mentioned workaround?
BTW, I see the following messages in logcat, but I have no clue why the messages are deleted:
Code:
11-29 12:20:14.198 10203 10250 I MessagingAppDataModel: SyncMessagesAction: Updated local database (took 54 ms). Added 0 SMS, added 0 MMS, deleted 80 messages.
11-29 12:20:14.497 10203 10258 I MessagingAppDataModel: SyncMessagesAction: Updated local database (took 115 ms). Added 0 SMS, added 0 MMS, deleted 592 messages.
11-29 12:20:14.762 10203 10265 I MessagingAppDataModel: SyncMessagesAction: Updated local database (took 118 ms). Added 0 SMS, added 0 MMS, deleted 1000 messages.
11-29 12:20:14.914 10203 10267 I MessagingAppDataModel: SyncMessagesAction: Updated local database (took 33 ms). Added 0 SMS, added 0 MMS, deleted 544 messages.
Thanks in advance,
meiser
hey,
my comment will be a bit late, and apologyze for that.
As far as I can understand, you have a problem of synchronization when the backup application become the default message app. This is like you have zero message in archive and the system want the same on both side: archive and message store on your phone. It take long and progressively when there is a lot of messages.
Anyway, this is not a standard behaviour, unless you enabled a special option.
My best bet to solve it, would be to backup call and messages with SuperBackup, copy it on external storage. Then clean and re-install CM (or LineageOS).
If you use a Google account, let Google sync your messages and call log (Google messages backup is sometimes unreliable and archive uncomplete).
If you are not sure everything is here, just delete all call and messages. Then restore it from SuperBackup.
I leave all default parameters as is.
This is how I get it done.

Backup for RCS?

If you haven't heard by now, there's been some strings in the Android Messages app indicating that there are going to be some new features coming to the app, potentially including RCS enabled by Google.
That sounds all fine and dandy; there's a number of benefits to rcs over sms. One problem though, is there doesn't seem to be a way to back them up. I'm someone who likes to back up all of my text messages - I've been using SMS backup and restore to do weekly backups for a little while now, and can take the resulting xml file anywhere i need to, and carry my texting threads to a new phone if I need to.
So when RCS inevitably becomes available (i'm on project fi), how can those be backed up? I've been searching all over for a while, and there doesn't seem to be a solution to this yet. Are they stored in the same directory as regular text messages? Why can't apps that backup sms/mms messages also backup rcs messages? is it just a matter of them being updated to include the capability, or is there a technical limitation to that?
tl;dr How can you backup rcs messages?
Unfortunately, you will have to downloada third party texting app. I'm having the same issue with my tmobile s9. I'm using the Mood messenger app. So far so good. Hopefully sms back up and restore comes up with an update supporting this RCS crap..

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