My nexus just erased all my TXT messages :(

[crackness]

What the heck? I had at least 600+ txt messages from all different people, and now they're all gone?!?! I sent a txt message (stock, not rooted, using google's Messaging app), put my phone into sleep mode, woke up my phone a few minutes later to send another msg, and was greeted by an empty thread (with a bud's phone number there but none of the prev. messages), and there were no messages/threads anymore

 

[jeffsaracco]

The exact same thing has happened to me twice so far...

 

[awesomeindeed]

Yep. This happens ALL THE TIME with me. I've been having MyBackup Pro run nightly backups so I don't lose important information. This is a serious bug for me and it's cost me some info that could not be recovered before that I really needed.

I've never had a smartphone that has done this but the Nexus does it about once a week. Now I only lose a few messages when it happens since I back up every night, but the fact the issue is there at all and it just happens randomly is really disheartening. Rooting and using a custom ROM has not helped.

 

[PhantomRampage]

Have all of you tried disabling auto delete?

 

[awesomeindeed]

Yeah, that's not related to this issue. You can have auto-purge off and it will still happen after a while. Just randomly erases everything.

 

[PhantomRampage]

That's odd, this is the first time im hearing of this. I've never had my phone delete anything i didn't want it to.

Maybe it's something to do with the ROM you're using or some tweaks you've done.

Try using a stock rom for a while or something and see if the problem persists

 

[RogerPodacter]

I've heard this happening many times now, and every time it was when using the built in messaging app. So I've used hand cent from day 1.

 

[thisguy10]

interesting. this happened to me also. only one time though so far..*knocks on wood.

 

[miketlo]

never had it happen to me (knock on wood) thats a very weird problem :\

 

[bgoldie]

This has happened top me once on my Nexus in three months.

It's on the buglist here - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5669 where they are asking for logs to help identify the issue.

 

[grandmasterethel]

There are already a couple of threads about this. It's not just the Nexus - it seems to be 2.x
see here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667800

 

[flarbear]

Maybe it's something to do with the ROM you're using or some tweaks you've done.

Try using a stock rom for a while or something and see if the problem persists

For the record, while it only happened to me once, it did happen to me and I've never rooted or installed any custom ROMs (I even waited for the official OTA for update 1 to hit me in due order).

Luckily I had a 2-week old backup of SMS to restore and I've since set a nightly backup schedule for SMS/MMS and call log via MyBackupPro.

One thing that may contribute is that I am a pack rat and so have every message that I've gotten since I got my G1 in 10/08 (ignoring that one purge due to this bug and the time when I forgot to turn off auto-deletes and didn't notice until a couple of weeks later). I have threads with several hundred messages in them for the friends I text most...

 

[grandmasterethel]

It does seem to happen to us pack rats, and not very often to those who don't hoard messages. I read somewhere that it was suspected to be an overflow error of some sort, and that people had managed to prevent it by keeping the auto-delete function active.

I am not prepared to do that however. I don't want to deliberately delete my messages that I have worked so hard to collect. I would rather google fixed it.

Hopefully froyo will bring a solution to our problem.