SMS messaging constantly crashes -- unusable!

[jwissin]

just started happening to me today. i was one step before throwing my phone across the room before i decided to check this forum (figuring i would have no luck with such a crazy problem, but walked right into it this thread). just from habit did a soft reset, went back into sms and got two words and one space before crashing. then it wouldnt even let me open sms.

this is so frustrating, i started out battling the ringer not working and having to do a hard reset to fix that. i ended up going without a ringer for about four months before reseting it the second time and downloading from the link the solution for the problem. now another hard reset problem. *Palm treo pro for sale! good condition for mileage, few minor problems/mechanic special, no reasonable offer refused, haha.* let me know if anyone has found a permanent solution. thanks guys

[jwissin]

well the guy at springt showed me how to do a hard reset at home (since this was the fourth time i've had to do it). If you are sure that you have all things backed up(contacts, files, pictures, etc.) you can just remove the battery, press and hold the circular red power/end button on the right side of the front of the phone, and replace the battery while still holding. This will clear all memory by reseting the phone. I dont know if this is something that everyone knows or not, but i didnt and figured i would share the info since the guy at sprint was nice enough to do that for me. hope to save someone a trip. i can use spaces and all my puncuations now

[jfa]

very good and thanks for posting your solution sorry you had to hard reset but glad its working again.

[dorr1]

My daughter's Treo Pro has the same spacebar problem, but I found it also happens in Pocket Word, as well as a new contact, but did NOT happen in the today screen search field. The last time this happened, the boys at Sprint did a hard reset. This is NOT a solution! I disabled the auto-complete feature (input settings) as they have specific settings relative to the spacebar, but alas, it still crashed. I decided to show her what i did to her phone anyway, and lo and behold it started working fine again! I wasn't confident with this inconsistent result so I tried it again....CRASH!
Hopefully one of you smart guys will figure out something legitimate. I'm baffled!