Another TEXT Problem...

I have posted this over at XDA before but I got no such help so I will try here. (I dont recall posting it on here before)

Ok so I got my TELUS IQ sent out not to long ago and one thing I always put on first after flashing is the threaded messaging... Its awesome compared to the standard LG crap. BUT What I wanted to talk about is why cell phones are such wimps to handling 1000 texts or more?

On my IQ, when I hit a few hundred text messages total or in one thread it will open the thread and allow me to receive texts and reply fine... But then when I try and leave the messages or that thread, the phone locks up. (Every single time, some times requiring a soft reset)

Now... I was also able to test this on my loaner phone the HTC Hero... I believed this ones packing 600 MHz? What I noticed here is it will just get slower and slower and slower when opening and closing threads, depending on how many texts you have. Then I can NOT stress this enough about how horrible it is to delete those few hundred texts on the Hero... It took me several hours to delete a total of 2000 texts from a few threads.

Now on the Hero its got Android 1.5 and 600 MHz so I can kind of forgive it a little, but what I dont get is why our phone cant handle dealing with large threads.

I mean comon, were packing 1 ghz! And 256 MB RAM here! We got power!

Any suggestions other then the obvious deleting them everyday?

the myphone suggestions a good one

technically/underneath, I believe the issue is the api for handling messages. Needing to iterate and delete each individually is what's time consuming.

Hilariously, I find the LG app actually does deletes quickly and had re-enabled it on occassion to delete stuff (before i discovered myphone wasn't something i needed to avoid).

I guess so not really what I want to do to read a text though, I just wish that someone would find a way of making it easier on the phone...

Which is kind of odd because My phone can handle word documents like 20 pages long yet it cant handle  a bunch of text messages... Although I will admit I do sometimes hit around 5000 texts.

Yeah, I have found myself between MS and LG apps... Like LG apps look really fresh and nice yet run slowly or drag around. Then MS runs fast, but looks dull boring and doesn't always work.

They do, but it should run better...without the need for additional applications.

They really need to fix up that crap with phones these days...isnt HTC like that to?

The problem with our phones never really was hard ware... Its always been soft ware...Its quiet a shame really We got so much potential!