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How to quickly delete messages
Android is not very good at deleting messages. There is a tipping point at about 600 where if you have more than that, it can only process about 10 per minute. I had 3000 so did not want to wait several hours!
I think this will only work if you are S-OFF, but YMMV.
# mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock5 /data # rm /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db