Can't Receive Texts

Thats exactly what I would do but I don't have any iOS 4 backups since about May because apple stopped allowing you to make multiple backups, they just continued to overlap each othere. My most recent update is only the one with iOS 5 which makes this process useless

Really? I have probably have 6 or 7 back ups stored. My last one goes as far back as June of last year.

I've had this same problem since I updated yesterday. I'd be alright with it if I knew Apple was working on a solution, but I haven't heard anything specific. Anyone else heard otherwise?

If you don't want to downgrade back to iOS4, here's a "solution" that has been working for me. I've been experiencing this problem for several weeks. It first started with iOS5 beta 6 for me.

1. Purchase and install Phone View
2. Plug your phone in and let phone view backup all your texts.
3. Delete SMS threads. I went through my SMS mailbox and deleted all old threads that hadn't been updated since January of 2011.
4. Quit messages (as in really quit, not just put in the background)
5. Power off, power on... messages come in.

I've had to repeat the steps of deleting and powering off a number of times as the mailbox full warning has returned every couple of days for weeks. I have now deleted all threads that hadn't updated since June 2011. According to phone view, I have around 50k messages. That seems to be the limit.

Of course, this is not the best solution as I'd have preferred to have kept all of my texts on my phone, but at least they're backed up and accessible on my computer. And for me, it's certainly better than restoring as a new phone and losing all of them.

I was ok dealing with this issue while iOS 5 was in beta... it was beta, after all. But since this issue has been present since beta, it means they released the OS without addressing this known issue. That's just poor business and it bugs the **** out of me.

...I, like all of you, am hoping that Apple will address this swiftly. If anyone else has a better solution than this, please post it.

If you don't want to downgrade back to iOS4, here's a "solution" that has been working for me. I've been experiencing this problem for several weeks. It first started with iOS5 beta 6 for me.

1. Purchase and install Phone View
2. Plug your phone in and let phone view backup all your texts.
3. Delete SMS threads. I went through my SMS mailbox and deleted all old threads that hadn't been updated since January of 2011.
4. Quit messages (as in really quit, not just put in the background)
5. Power off, power on... messages come in.

I've had to repeat the steps of deleting and powering off a number of times as the mailbox full warning has returned every couple of days for weeks. I have now deleted all threads that hadn't updated since June 2011. According to phone view, I have around 50k messages. That seems to be the limit.

Of course, this is not the best solution as I'd have preferred to have kept all of my texts on my phone, but at least they're backed up and accessible on my computer. And for me, it's certainly better than restoring as a new phone and losing all of them.

I was ok dealing with this issue while iOS 5 was in beta... it was beta, after all. But since this issue has been present since beta, it means they released the OS without addressing this known issue. That's just poor business and it bugs the **** out of me.

...I, like all of you, am hoping that Apple will address this swiftly. If anyone else has a better solution than this, please post it.

I have also noticed that I will not get texts from people when I turn off and on my phone UNLESS I have three waiting. I just did a test and found if I had someone text me and turn it off and on, I would not get the message. But if I had three texts from that same person or three texts from different people, I would get them after a shut down and re-power... not sure why

This is bs! Android here i come!

Android *****! but hey i have the same problem and ive been talking to apple for 3 hours now there quite helpful and they will probably resolve this issue soon enough

@XXSeven - so the Phone View website says they only support SMS deletion from below iOS 4.

Can you confirm you are able to delete SMS with the released iOS 5?

I ask because the PhoneView demo does not allow me to delete SMS off the phone.

Did the mention something about resolving it or did you just make an assumption? Just curious.

Thanks.

Yes they have been going over every single detail to try and fix it for me. They are aware of the situation and said if its a system wide problem then a new update would be available soon, because it is a huge feature that everyone uses.

You know what happens when you assume... Apple's "soon" is my "next week"...

Perhaps if they were paying attention to their own support forums they would have realized by now that it is not just 1 or two people or a specific set of circumstances causing this problem.

I am mildly appaled that no one from apple has replied to this yet.

I just did something that worked for me i restored my phone and did not use a back up but restored it as a "New Phone" and now i am going to try and put my information back to my phone! Fingers crossed!

@xxseven- THANKKKKK YOUUUUUU!! WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!

I DOWNLOADED PHONE VIEW.. GOT MY NUMBER OF MESSAGES DOWN TO 69,000

RESTARTED PHONE.. STILL DIDNT WORK

DELETED MORE TEXTS TIL IT GOT DOWN TO 61,000

NO NEED TO RESTART CUZ I WAS ALREADY RECEIVING MESSAGES!!

THANK YOU SIR!! I BELIEVE THE NUMBER TO BEAT IS 65,000.. GET IT UNDER THAT AND YOU'LL BE RECEIVING TEXTS IN NO TIME!!