Owners of Sony-Ericsson cell phones have had to go through a lot of annoyance and irritation because of the low message storage limits on the phones. Even thought the phones have large storage space, and some even memory cards, there is a limit at approximately 100-200 messages. As we all know, SMS are plain text, and does typically not take up more than 300bytes (including headers).
In theory, a K750i is able to store at least 40,000 messages, but our experiences is that you can not store more than approximately 1000 messages - which should be enough for most people. When the phone is filled up with more than 1000 messages it starts to get extremely slow when opening message boxes. When even more messages is stored, the phone starts crashing when working, and opening inbox is not possible because it crashes. Sometimes, some messages will also disappear after crashing! Some of the messages got corrupt when storing more than 1000 messages.
We've not experienced any problems when storing less than 1000 messages, but it will of course take a little more time to open the message boxes. We would recommend to keep the storage below 500 messages.
To increase the messages limit just follow the simple steps.
By this u can increase the messages limit size to MAXIMUM(to MAX of Free memory in phone)
1) Open notepad, type /tpa and save it with file name pref_store.txt.
2) Open XS++ and connect the phone.
3) Select FSX and click Start FSX
4) Paste or replace the file pref_store.txt into /ifs/settings/messaging.
5) Create directories Under /tpa using Make Dir button
NOTE:-
1) Be sure to backup your messages using MyPhoneExplorer.
2) You can experience some sort of delay when you try to open messages(when there are more messages)
Opening inbox with 1 message: 0.3 seconds
Opening inbox with 200 messages: 0.7 seconds
Opening inbox with 300 messages: 0.9 seconds
Opening inbox with 500 messages: 1.6 seconds (K750i: 0.9s)
Opening inbox with 1000 messages: 5.0 seconds (K750i: 2.2s)
Opening inbox with 2000 messages: approx 4 minutes
Messages will now be stored in the sm directory you created in the tpa partition. This trick will most probably work on all ARM-based Sony-Ericsson phones.
To see the details see the attachments(Free size and Messages Limit)
cant you just backup and messages to a simcard reader or pc? who needs 200 messages?
04-11-2008
cvhbsk
Re: Increasing The message limit
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aszbaz
cant you just backup and messages to a simcard reader or pc? who needs 200 messages?
For people like me its more important to want more message space.
Daily i will get messages nearly 150-250 messages.
Can u give me a solution for this type of problems without changing my phone???
If you know any other solution tell me also.
04-21-2008
EzZn0
Re: Increasing The message limit
Quote:
Originally Posted by ama95
I wrote /card instead of /tpa in pref_store.txt and I uploaded it to phone. Now the number of free SMS space is over 60 000.
Did you then do as the tutorial say? Did you create the maps
On what phones does this work on? Does it work on newer phones? Does it work on w580i??
I have found a patch for w580i anyway but I haven't tested it.
Code:
;W580 R8BA024
;Possibility to store more SMS (was 1000)
; Romove the; on the one you wish to have
;(c) demion
;(p) Adow
;(p) Lo Little
+44140000
;FED776: FA229200 7d221201; 2000 SMS
;FED776: FA229200 FA221201; 4000 SMS
;FED776: FA229200 9D229201; 10000 SMS
04-27-2008
mohdumer
Re: Increasing The message limit
Quote:
Originally Posted by EzZn0
On what phones does this work on? Does it work on newer phones? Does it work on w580i??
I have found a patch for w580i anyway but I haven't tested it.
Code:
;W580 R8BA024
;Possibility to store more SMS (was 1000)
; Romove the; on the one you wish to have
;(c) demion
;(p) Adow
;(p) Lo Little
+44140000
;FED776: FA229200 7d221201; 2000 SMS
;FED776: FA229200 FA221201; 4000 SMS
;FED776: FA229200 9D229201; 10000 SMS
Yeah It Works! Make Sure You Remove ";" Before The Line You Want To Apply eg For 10000 SMS The Patch Goes Like This:
Quote:
;W580 R8BA024
;Possibility to store more SMS (was 1000)
; Romove the; on the one you wish to have
;(c) demion
;(p) Adow
;(p) Lo Little
+44140000
;FED776: FA229200 7d221201; 2000 SMS
;FED776: FA229200 FA221201; 4000 SMS
FED776: FA229200 9D229201; 10000 SMS
04-28-2008
Don Stefan
Re: Increasing The message limit
is this patch available for k310i@w200?
04-28-2008
EzZn0
Re: Increasing The message limit
cool, but cant you make so that the messages saves on the m2 card so you dont run out of memory?
04-29-2008
Sanket
Re: Increasing The message limit
Its not possible with w810
05-01-2008
Kurele
Re: Increasing The message limit
Quote:
Originally Posted by EzZn0
On what phones does this work on? Does it work on newer phones? Does it work on w580i??
I have found a patch for w580i anyway but I haven't tested it.
Code:
;W580 R8BA024
;Possibility to store more SMS (was 1000)
; Romove the; on the one you wish to have
;(c) demion
;(p) Adow
;(p) Lo Little
+44140000
;FED776: FA229200 7d221201; 2000 SMS
;FED776: FA229200 FA221201; 4000 SMS
;FED776: FA229200 9D229201; 10000 SMS
Nice but,
Can anyone covert to W580i R6BC002?
05-01-2008
senter
Re: Increasing The message limit
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurele
Nice but,
Can anyone covert to W580i R6BC002?
Code:
;W580 SW-R6BC002
;Possibility to store more SMS (was 1000)
;(c) demion
;(p) senter
+44140000
;00FE8286: FA229200 7d221201; 2000 SMS
;00FE8286: FA229200 FA221201; 4000 SMS
00FE8286: FA229200 9D229201; 10000 SMS
05-01-2008
dandi12
Re: Increasing The message limit
Can anyone covert to W200 R4HA014?
05-05-2008
darac_os
Re: Increasing The message limit
Can I do this on k510@w200?:)
05-05-2008
SaShko0 ~
Re: Increasing The message limit
Code:
;W610 SW-R6BC002
;Possibility to store more SMS (was 1000)
;Romove the; on the one you wish to have
;(c) demion
;(p) Virusmater
+44140000
;FF813A: FA229200 7d221201 ; 2000 смс
FF813A: FA229200 FA221201 ; 4000 смс
;FF813A: FA229200 9D229201 ; 10000 смс
05-06-2008
fiezell
Re: Increasing The message limit
how bout k800i is it working?
05-06-2008
darac_os
Re: Increasing The message limit
Its not working on k510@w200! I tried!:mad:
05-06-2008
dyker837
Re: Increasing The message limit
Sony Ericsson's limit when compared to some other phones are better at the messaging limit because there are phone that offer much less space for messages.
05-09-2008
SSyar
Re: Increasing The message limit
nothinf for.... w810...!!!!!?????????? yet!
05-09-2008
SSyar
Re: Increasing The message limit
Quote:
Originally Posted by ama95 View Post
I wrote /card instead of /tpa in pref_store.txt and I uploaded it to phone. Now the number of free SMS space is over 60 000.
Did you then do as the tutorial say? Did you create the maps
Quote:
Originally Posted by ama95 View Post
I wrote /card instead of /tpa in pref_store.txt and I uploaded it to phone. Now the number of free SMS space is over 60 000.
Did you then do as the tutorial say? Did you create the maps
