Text message stuck on loading screen

[rrvaca]

My Droid Incredible refuses to load my text messages. I click on someone's name to read the text and it just stays on the loading screen. I have tried taking out the battery and restarting the phone. Nothing works.

[HawaiiBKC]

How many text messages do you have in that specific thread?

How many people do you text?

You may have too many texts to open it.

[sherilynn81]

that makes sense but how do you delete them if they won't load??

[ErinO]

I installed Handcent, a free app from the play store, and it was a functional text interface when the built-in app wasn't loading. It has an easy batch delete mode if you have texts you need to keep in a long thread where you don't want to delete the entire thread at once.

[Siobhan719]

Thanks for the Handcent mention.  Much easier solution than dealing with Verizon.