Any way to manage text messages other than individually on the phone?

[mattt181]

In preparation for switching to a replacement phone, I'd like to go thru my older text messages and dump/delete the ones I no longer need. The only way I have been doing it so far is to go into each thread and manually delete each un-needed message.   I have done a few text threads on the phone and it's very time consuming that way.  If I could just delete the whole text thread, it would be easy & quicker, but there are some text messages in each thread that I need to hang onto. 

Is there any sort of tool or utility that I can sort thru texts when plugged into my PC, and mark which to delete and which to keep?

As I said, it can be done on the phone, but it's very time intensive to go thru each message thread.  I have to delete the un-needed messages one at a time.

Thank you in advance.

[Salisbury]

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[mattt181]

Ok, downloaded and installed that on my desktop PC.  Nothing there....even with the phone plugged in via USB.  How do I manage texts that are on the phone with Verizon Cloud Windows?

I'd like to delete a bunch of old texts on the phone, but do it from the desktop where I can just click which to keep, and which to delete.  Hoping there is more to it than the previous reply...which is very vague.

[vzw_customer_support]

mattt181 I certainly understand text overload! We can certainly see what options are available here. What kind of phone are you using? Are you using the Message+ (Verizon Messages) app or one that came preinstalled on the phone?
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[mattt181]

I have a Casio Commando 3g.  Whatever messaging utility came on the phone is what I'm using.

[vzw_customer_support · Accepted solution]

What a great phone to have, mattt181.
Now that you have Verizon Messages installed, you should be able to access Verizon messages from your computer http://vz.to/1ybUH4M.


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[Snn5]

One might recommend an app to surely work better than VZW cloud...SMS Backup from the Play Store.  You can back up to the phone, cloud, PC, email, etc...and then bring them all back to the new phone with the same app and importing them.