Not deleting text messages in my phone finally bit me in the ass.

That's what happens when one does not clean up his phone inbox and let 5000+ messages accumulate. Lately, the phone is prone to suddenly freezing for several minutes.

Yesterday, it happened while I was on my way to an appointment; I couldn't access my client's text message so removed the SIM and microSD from the phone and let it run with minimal apps. I was able to and, after several restarts, was finally able to get the text message inbox to open and get the info I needed.

I plugged back the microSD and proceeded to back up the phone's data while on the road. I would've reformatted the phone too, but I didn't know the phone's security code to let me do that. It would've been awesome, completing a backup, complete reset and restoration in a phone while i a cab. That's my tech support self geeking out, sorry.

I just completed reformatting and restoring my phone. The 5000+ messages were backed up but I didn't restore them anymore. There were some stored messages there that I wish I could've retained to my phone, but there's no way to selectively message folders so they'll have to stay in my archives for now.