ETA 2: I've fixed it... for now. I went to my hospital's Gift Shop and bought an $11 cable to back up any files onto my laptop; in the process, I discovered I had quite a few (about 20-25) .wav files I didn't know I had. They were all voicemails (including voicemails I left on other people's voicemails/answering machines, for some reason...) or recorded calls I didn't know were recorded. None needed anymore, so I nuked the lot of them. Then, I had my Mom send me a short text as a test, and it went through successfully! Weirdly, it was an SMS text, so I was doubtful I'd genuinely fixed the issue at first. But then I found the "Message capacity" screen again, which indeed showed me my MMS memory is now "0.0M/0.0M" (yes, not MB, just "M")—in other words, cleared! Anyway, Thank you all for your patience and well wishes! I'm just so relieved to have been able to fix this issue. I don't know why my phone was saving all those voicemails/recorded calls, and my brain is pretty much "done" for the day. But I believe I can work on that on my own... later! In the meantime, I can always clean out my phone just as I did above. While a tad annoying, that's totally doable task for me and will be an easy stopgap solution!
ETA 3: I had 71 .wav files, not 20-30! I don't know how I came up with that smaller number. I'd blame my illness and brain fog, but that discrepancy's a bit of a leap even for me right now! Regardless, it certainly explains why I was out of memory!
I have an ancient Maxwest NeoFlipLte flip-phone on Koodo service. It worked fine for me just with talk and text, but recently, it's been refusing to receive MMS texts, saying, "MMS memory is full, please clear memory." If I receive an MMS text, it offers a download option, but when I try to do so, the same message comes up: "MMS memory is full, please clear memory."
I've found where I can view the memory (provided I have an MMS text—which I don't, currently, as I deleted all my texts and call logs in a futile effort to free up memory), which is indeed full: 0.1/0.1 MB. However, on that same screen there wasn't any option to actually clear the full memory! I'm pretty sure I've gone through everything I possibly can, but I simply can't find a "clear memory" option. This affects me because I can no longer get texts from my Mom, who uses a smartphone that sends out MMS texts.
SMS texts still come through fine.
I'm hospitalized and can't physically go out to fix this issue. My Dad, who gave me this phone and is paying my talk-and-text bill, is a techbane who's useless at these sorts of things. I'm, frankly, not much better than him (though at least I can text someone without ragequitting mid-way through). And I'm on disability, which means I don't have much financial resources, either. My health issues have made me mentally foggy and easily overwhelmed, so please keep any explanations as simple as possible!
ETA: I'm not a member of Public Mobile; I just found this board randomly by Googling. My apologies if I can't be helped here, but I saw others ask similar questions, so I thought I'd try. Also, I went through my phone's Manual, which I also found online, but of course, it didn't have anything on clearing the MMS memory.
