Strange Mobile text message inbox behaviour. can anybody advise?

[Orionaut]

Basically I keep getting a message saying that the inbox is full and cannot accept any more messages.

This started with about 220 messages in store (I run a business, I like to keep my messages, if practical)

I have been deleting older messages to allow more messages to be received but the counter seems to be ticking down. I am now at around 160 messages before it locks out

What is more, When I hook up the the PC, the on-board memory (A pitiful 1.16Mb) still reports having 0.97Mb free!

The 3.66 gig memory card reports 3.6 gig free!

Now, 160 txt messages cannot be more than 100K (and probably nowhere near that!)

So, what exactly is going on here??

Can anybody please help?

 

[Myshra]

Any phone with that much memory is stone-age. Memory card is not a valid place for saving messages (user controlled, could be easily compromised by removing it, doesn't suit a database very well) so lets put that aside for now. Phones of that era have set memory partitions in their non-volatile storage, you're likely just reaching it's mem-max. You could also be saving them on the SIM (which if you are , please stop doing so ASAP - SIMs are not reliable storage) and SIMs have sod all storage.

If you run your business off it and it is important to your ongoing business functions then I would highly consider a cheap Android with SMS with an SMS auto backup all to mirror to something like g-drive / dropbox etc...