06-24-2010, 05:04 PM
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#181
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Victoria, BC
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I'm seriously considering switching to Android. Apple's quality control seems to have nosedived.
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06-24-2010, 05:04 PM
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#182
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by noel
You can't or you don't want to? I'd rather not have a conversation history over the course of a year saved on my phone.
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Who me? If so, I don't understand what you are asking.
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06-24-2010, 05:06 PM
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#183
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by OilKiller
Well, I like to keep things neat and tidy and really have no need to keep past conversations there. Oh well, guess it's not possible. I'm just someone who likes to delete something after I read it. I see people with 500 messages in their inbox in their email software and it drives me nuts. If you want to save something, create a save box and put it there. If you've read the email, delete it if you don't need it. Just my way of doing things.
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It's all good man.
I'm the opposite. Emails are mere kilobytes in size, and text messages are only bytes. It drives me nuts when people delete everything after they read it.
I'm especially fond of when my brother phones me to ask how to retrieve an online password... and when I ask him where the email is that has his login info, he tells me he deleted it.
Anyway, it ain't no thang.
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06-24-2010, 05:07 PM
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#184
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by OilKiller
Who me? If so, I don't understand what you are asking.
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It was WRT the post above yours.
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06-24-2010, 05:08 PM
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#185
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Anyway, it ain't no thang.
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Meh, wish there was an easier way...maybe I will have to look at an Android then...lol.
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Originally Posted by noel
It was WRT the post above yours.
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Gotcha'...
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06-24-2010, 05:09 PM
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#186
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by noel
You can't or you don't want to? I'd rather not have a conversation history over the course of a year saved on my phone.
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Of course you can delete your text messages. You just can't set up a bunch of crazy rules to auto-delete after certain thresholds have been reached.
That kind of stuff is akin to MS's "Auto-Archive" monstrosity in Outlook. I'd much rather just delete the messages I don't want on my own. Robot-Delete is never good.
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06-24-2010, 05:12 PM
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#187
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OilKiller
Well, I like to keep things neat and tidy and really have no need to keep past conversations there. Oh well, guess it's not possible. I'm just someone who likes to delete something after I read it. I see people with 500 messages in their inbox in their email software and it drives me nuts. If you want to save something, create a save box and put it there. If you've read the email, delete it if you don't need it. Just my way of doing things.
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Use the swipe to delete. That should save you a few gestures.
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06-24-2010, 05:16 PM
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#188
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by kermitology
Use the swipe to delete. That should save you a few gestures.
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Yeah I'm not sure what's so time consuming about deleting messages on the iPhone. If someone is the kind of guy who just deletes everything as soon as it comes in, then it'll be a pain in the ass regardless of the platform. Just let them build up for a week, since they all go inside one single little conversation string (from the same person), and then you just swipe to delete the one thing.
What's so difficult about that? You don't have to delete every single thing that comes in. This is like using a rain can for your flowerbed... but instead of letting it fill up before you dump it, you dump it after each drop. Of course that would be annoying.
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06-24-2010, 05:17 PM
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#189
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Nope. You can't micro-manage your text messages on the iPhone. I can't even understand why you'd want to.
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Ummm, what?
You want your text message conversations to turn into thousand of messages?
Setting the limit at 200 messages isn't micro-managing it. Its called being given the choice to manage your phone the way you want it.
Of course you wouldn't understand that.
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06-24-2010, 05:19 PM
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#190
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Of course you can delete your text messages. You just can't set up a bunch of crazy rules to auto-delete after certain thresholds have been reached.
That kind of stuff is akin to MS's "Auto-Archive" monstrosity in Outlook. I'd much rather just delete the messages I don't want on my own. Robot-Delete is never good.
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Seriously?
A rule that keeps message conversation limits at 200, or whatever you set it....is crazy?
Sometimes you really do come across as a fanboi.
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06-24-2010, 05:20 PM
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#191
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Yeah I'm not sure what's so time consuming about deleting messages on the iPhone. If someone is the kind of guy who just deletes everything as soon as it comes in, then it'll be a pain in the ass regardless of the platform. Just let them build up for a week, since they all go inside one single little conversation string (from the same person), and then you just swipe to delete the one thing.
What's so difficult about that? You don't have to delete every single thing that comes in. This is like using a rain can for your flowerbed... but instead of letting it fill up before you dump it, you dump it after each drop. Of course that would be annoying. 
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Oh please.
I don't delete everything either. But I don't want to keep conversations for a whole year.
The auto-delete works great. In fact it works exactly like I want it too.
200 messages reached, it deletes the oldest messages.
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06-24-2010, 05:22 PM
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#192
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by Azure
Ummm, what?
You want your text message conversations to turn into thousand of messages?
Setting the limit at 200 messages isn't micro-managing it. Its called being given the choice to manage your phone the way you want it.
Of course you wouldn't understand that.
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Maybe I'm confused... how do messages appear on the robot phone? Are they individual little messages all separate from each other... or are they all contained withing individual conversation strings (IM style)?
If you're talking about a thousand individual little text messages, then of course you'd want to micro-manage them. But the iPhone isn't like that. It treats text messages like an IM client. You don't have thousands of texts... you just have individual conversations that you can either keep or delete.
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06-24-2010, 05:23 PM
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#193
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Originally Posted by Azure
Oh please.
I don't delete everything either. But I don't want to keep conversations for a whole year.
The auto-delete works great. In fact it works exactly like I want it too.
200 messages reached, it deletes the oldest messages.
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That's not a bad idea, but what difference does it make really?
I guess that's what Apple does, they take out the things that you probably don't really care about all that much.
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06-24-2010, 05:24 PM
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#194
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by Azure
Oh please.
I don't delete everything either.
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Dude, you should read the thread. This whole conversation started because someone asked if there was an easier way to delete each message as it comes in.
My post had nothing to do with you directly. I'm having a conversation with someone else, and you're interjecting (which I don't mind).
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06-24-2010, 05:26 PM
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#195
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by kermitology
That's not a bad idea, but what difference does it make really?
I guess that's what Apple does, they take out the things that you probably don't really care about all that much.
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Auto delete is bad. What if the oldest message just happens to be something important I want to keep?
No thanks. I'd rather control my messages on my own. It's not like they take up any space, or that it's a pain to sort through them.
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06-24-2010, 05:29 PM
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#196
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Yeah I'm not sure what's so time consuming about deleting messages on the iPhone. If someone is the kind of guy who just deletes everything as soon as it comes in, then it'll be a pain in the ass regardless of the platform. Just let them build up for a week, since they all go inside one single little conversation string (from the same person), and then you just swipe to delete the one thing.
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I asked a simple question. I would like the option to delete a text message from the locked home screen. It's the way I like things. I don't care how YOU want to delete message or save them up, thanks.
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06-24-2010, 05:33 PM
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#197
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by OilKiller
I asked a simple question. I would like the option to delete a text message from the locked home screen. It's the way I like things. I don't care how YOU want to delete message or save them up, thanks.
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Seriously? What was wrong with what I said?
I wasn't insulting, or being derogatory. It's just a conversation... I don't know how you could possibly be insulted by anything I've said about this topic.
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06-24-2010, 05:33 PM
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#198
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FanIn80
Auto delete is bad. What if the oldest message just happens to be something important I want to keep?
No thanks. I'd rather control my messages on my own. It's not like they take up any space, or that it's a pain to sort through them.
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Auto-delete that is user controlled.
Before out and out dismissing this idea, think about how you have to access a text message in that conversation from 3 months prior; with 4-5 text messages a day.
You're scrolling and loading a lot. There's no search of them.. so auto-delete, if it's user enabled, isn't such a bad thing.
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06-24-2010, 05:36 PM
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#199
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GOAT!
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Originally Posted by kermitology
Auto-delete that is user controlled.
Before out and out dismissing this idea, think about how you have to access a text message in that conversation from 3 months prior; with 4-5 text messages a day.
You're scrolling and loading a lot. There's no search of them.. so auto-delete, if it's user enabled, isn't such a bad thing.
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I guess I understand the underlying need... I just have too many bad memories of auto-archive in Outlook and having to piece together people's PST files for them. I'll probably never be able to trust an auto-delete feature for something like messages or conversations or personal records, etc. When you combine that hesitation with the knowledge that these messages take up next-to-nothing in storage space and are contained in separate, searchable conversation strings... I just don't see the value in auto-delete.
...and searching text messages was just added in iOS 4.
Edit: For the record, I did not say that either way was right or wrong. In fact, I went out of my way to clearly state that neither way was right or wrong.
Last edited by FanIn80; 06-24-2010 at 05:39 PM.
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06-24-2010, 05:37 PM
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#200
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Seriously? What was wrong with what I said?
I wasn't insulting, or being derogatory. It's just a conversation... I don't know how you could possibly be insulted by anything I've said about this topic.
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I wasn't insulted. I just don't understand why it has to be something like:
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What's so difficult about that? You don't have to delete every single thing that comes in.
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Basically you are telling me what I want is something I shouldn't.. If you don't have a way for me to do it, then don't tell me how I should do it.
Thanks.
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