My HTC hero will not allow me to delete text messages which is taking up all my memoery

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With that many texts, it will take the phone some time to delete, especially if you are trying to delete the entire thread. You will need to be patient and let the phone work through them all. Think that if it takes 3-4 minutes to load, how much longer the phone may need to load and then delete.
Good luck.

Basically either clear all your messages and then try. If it still says the same message then you will have to clear applications or mulitmedia from your phone to free some more space. I suggest you delete some applications as normally multimedia is stored on your sd card.

When you go into your MMS app, you will be presented with a list of people you have texted and the number of texts with that thread (conversation). Long hold on the thread you want to delete and you will get a dialog box. One of those options is Delete, and then another dialog box that will ask you if want to delete the entire thread. Hit ok, but keep in mind that if it's a long thread, it may take a couple of minutes to delete. Please be patient with this.

Good luck.

If you are deleting a thread of messages or multiple messages, it will take a long time. Just be patient and let it go for a few minutes. It should work.

Good luck.

try to use a 3rd party sms app such as handent sms from the market. it is very customizable and should cure your freezing problem

To delete a thread of messages, do the following:

-go into the messaging app and click into the thread you want deleted
-hit the menu button
-hit delete
-you will get pop up box that says "The entire thread will be deleted"
-hit OK.

If you want to delete individual messages, you will need to long-hold down on the message you want deleted, and then hit "Delete message" from the command list.

Good luck.

open the back of the phone. take out the battery. You will see six hole for screws. The one to the right beside the battery should not be a screw. press it 2 or 3 times with something small. Reinsert battery it should show a reboot screen. I just tried it and all my data is still there. let me know if this works. seems to be a problem cropping up with several others as well.

i don't think there is a way using the messaging app that comes with the phone, but there is a 3rd party app that will allow you to set a signature: handcent sms

one other nice thing, it's free! find it through the android market.