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SMS Mailbox Full (iOS 4.0, Jailbroken), can't receive messages, help!

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SilentEcho13

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I have a 32gb iPhone 4 running iOS 4.0, recently jailbroken. I initially had the missing FaceTime and mms but installed the fix from cydia.

Today I synced my phone and I keep getting the "SMS mailbox full" prompt asking me to delete messages.

I went on and deleted atleast 1000 messages but I still get the error. A respring, reset, and a power cycle don't seem to fix the problem.

I'm able to send messages and people receive them, but I can't receive any responses.

I have sent nowhere near 75000 messages either.

Is there anything I can do to fix this issue?

Thank you!
 
SilentEcho13 said:
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I have a 32gb iPhone 4 running iOS 4.0, recently jailbroken. I initially had the missing FaceTime and mms but installed the fix from cydia.

Today I synced my phone and I keep getting the "SMS mailbox full" prompt asking me to delete messages.

I went on and deleted atleast 1000 messages but I still get the error. A respring, reset, and a power cycle don't seem to fix the problem.

I'm able to send messages and people receive them, but I can't receive any responses.

I have sent nowhere near 75000 messages either.

Is there anything I can do to fix this issue?

Thank you!
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I don't get it. There is no such thing as a "full" sms mailbox on an iPhone. Not sure what that's talking about
 
Here's the screenshot:

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Try SSHing into the iPhone and renaming /var/mobile/Library/SMS folder to SMSOLD. Then reboot your iPhone and see if the problem is still there.
 
I still have 4gb of space left, so space isn't an issue.

I tried the SMSOLD trick, didn't get a notice but ofcourse all my old messages didn't load up.

I did notice that in the SMS folder, there's an odd file named "sms.db.sg1bak" which doesn't come up in the new one.
 
Seems to have fixed it, I just have alot of messages on the phone that I refer back to and all that I can't afford to lose :/
 
SilentEcho13 said:
I still have 4gb of space left, so space isn't an issue.

I tried the SMSOLD trick, didn't get a notice but ofcourse all my old messages didn't load up.

I did notice that in the SMS folder, there's an odd file named "sms.db.sg1bak" which doesn't come up in the new one.
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Just gt rid of all your old messeges, what the hell do you need them for anyway lol.
 
Then the database is either corrupt (unfixable) or it is set to read only and needs to be set to read/write for the user mobile.
 
Intell said:
Then the database is either corrupt (unfixable) or it is set to read only and needs to be set to read/write for the user mobile.
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The sms.db file is currently set to:
User: Read/Write
Group:Read
World: Read

The third option, "Execute" is not checked for anything.

Permissions are 644 at the moment
 
If you are up to some heavy tinkering try this: Note it only works if your iPhone backup is not encrypted. Download a iPhone Backup Extractor for your operating system. Run the program, select the latest backup done before the problems occurred (maybe before you where jailbroken), extract everything/the system files to a folder on your computer's desktop, once extraction is complete navigate to the /Library/SMS folder and copy it's contents to your iPhone's SMS folder. Make sure you save a backup of your iPhone SMS folder first. Reboot your iPhone. If all done correctly you should have a working Text app.
 
The only problem with that is that I seem to only have a backup from 2008 which won't do me too good at the moment. The current backup from today was after the issue started happening.

After I jailbroke I never had a problem, not sure what's causing it now :/
 
So now after the SMSOLD trick, I have two databases.

I read on another site that it's possible to merge the two databases together into a working one using sqlite, anyone have insight on that?
 
Honestly man, a picture says a thousand words. In this case, you should take a picture of words.

You can do a lot more with a picture then a simple text message.
 
Here's my problem...lol

After opening up my sms.db, it seems that I have 92,316 messages (or rows?) inside the database.

I go back to old, old messaged very often, and finding and taking a screenshot of each would just take forever :/
 
SilentEcho13 said:
Here's my problem...lol

After opening up my sms.db, it seems that I have 92,316 messages (or rows?) inside the database.

I go back to old, old messaged very often, and finding and taking a screenshot of each would just take forever :/
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Dude holy**** no wonder why it's saying that.

It's better then getting none at all.

And honestly, I really don't know what would be THAT important. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's texts from your ex girlfriend.

Only reason I can think of. Even business isn't THAT important.
 
lol i had no idea i had that many, i don't even know where they came from.

on my 3gs, when I used irealsms, it actually only counted to something like 10,000 or so.

I'm not sure where this 92k came from within the past few months, but I know I couldn't have possibly gone that far.
 
SilentEcho13 said:
lol i had no idea i had that many, i don't even know where they came from.

on my 3gs, when I used irealsms, it actually only counted to something like 10,000 or so.

I'm not sure where this 92k came from within the past few months, but I know I couldn't have possibly gone that far.
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Is it even possible to send 92,000 text messages in 2 months? Without actually trying?

That almost sounds like it added texts since you've had your phone.
 
That's what I thought, I couldn't have possibly sent so many texts in 2 months

I scanned through the database and nothing seems out of place, but there are random blanks
 
markyr17 said:
I don't get it. There is no such thing as a "full" sms mailbox on an iPhone. Not sure what that's talking about
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iOS has a limit of 75,000 SMS.

If you had an iPhone since launch and you restored from a backup onto a newer phone, then a heavy user could easily hit that!

Until iOS 1.1.3 the limit was 1000.
 
When I used irealsms a few weeks ago, the total came to about 12000 including sent and received. Since then, there's no way I hit 92,000 and I'm sure about that.

I've restored from all my old iPhones, but never texted that much lol

Keeping my messages never slowed down the SMS app or the phone, never noticed a bit of lag or anything.
 
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