Why won't my Load Earlier Messages button appear on my iphone5

Why won't the Load Earlier Messages button appear anymore on my iphone5

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Thank you for your Reply. I found out the problem was with the USB cable supplied. I swopped it for a different one and the Colorfly C3 icon appeared on the desktop.
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IPhone 4S - No "Load Earlier Messages" Button

My Problem:
I purchased an iPhone 4S about a week ago. Since then, I have been texting various people, with the assumption that all of our conversations would be saved. Much to my surprise, this morning while checking previous conversations, I noticed the Load Earlier Messages button was missing on a lot of conversations. It was as if what we have previously talked about never existed.
I know there was more than 50 messages in the conversation, but they seem to have been deleted automatically. The Messaging App was only displaying about 10 previous messages, with no option to load earlier ones.
I know the messaging database has been reduced to 15MB, but there is absolutely no way I have sent 75,000 text messages in the past 7 days.
I only have the option to Load Earlier Messages on 2-3 contacts. The rest of them have their conversations automatically deleted.
My Questions:
Is there an option on the iPhone 4S to store ALL messages?
Would an application like PhoneView be able to recover all of the deleted text messages?
Is there any way I could get the Load Earlier Messages button to appear on ALL conversations?
Any help is greatly appreciated, just please don't repeat any information I have already addressed in my discussion.
Mark

Hello, I believe I figured outthe issue with the LOAD EARLIER MESSAGE BUTTON. Bare with me please. This is going to be kind of lengthy but I will try to explain the problem the best I can.
First, I think the PROBLEM is because iMessage is turned ON for your device. When iMessage isactivated it only allows you to view and scroll 50 messages on the screen. Youcan count the messages to make sure. Once iMessage is turned on, it will notallow the user to view or scroll more than 50 messages; however, your messagesfrom months ago are still there unless you deleted them. They appear to behidden.
This is a test which allows youto see an older message to make sure that they are still there. First theconversation between you and your friend must have more than 50 messages in the log.
Now go to the top of themessage screen. You should see the buttons (Call, Facetime, and Contact) Youwill notice that LOAD EARLIER MESSAGE BUTTON is missing.
NOTE: Remember your First message.
If you delete a recent message,one of your older messages will appear at the top of the screen.
You will notice that the first messagethat you had before has now become your second. Basically, the messages shifteddown.
In contrast if you receive anew message the your oldest message on top will shift up making you think youlost your message on top; however, they are still there. Do not worry. They arehidden, but they are still there. This was the test.
NOW the important part. How tofix the problem? Some people like reading messages from months back. To read all your old messages you must have the LOAD EARLIER MESSAGE BUTTON. In order to make this appear, make sure your iMessage is turned OFF. By turning OFF iMessage, you will not receive any iMessagesanymore. Your messages sent will not be BLUE but GREEN SMS messages.
This may be bad for those of youor your friends who do not have an unlimited text messaging plan
Since the recipient turned off their iMessage every message sent and received will be a SMS text message. Tell your friends that you turned OFF iMessaging, otherwise when they text you, they may be charged for sending you text messages if they go over their plan notknowing that it is not Free. MOST people have unlimited text messaging plansanyways so it does not really matter much.
NOTE: iMessaging is only FREE ifboth you and your friend have an iphone 4/4S with ios5 with iMessaging turned ON.
Just a reminder.
They may think that sending atext to you is free because both of you have an iPhone 4/4S while it is not.
If your friend sends you a textmessage when you have your iMessage turned OFF, the message sent will from yourfriend will be a SMS message. This cost money depending on your friends plan.
NOTE: If someone sends an iMessage,there should be an iMessage notification on top of the conversation.
Now to make the Load Earlier Messagebutton appear, with iMessage turned OFF, you must send out a message to yourfriend for example: How are you? This message will be sent as a SMS textmessage. Also remember, the conversation with this friend must have more than 50 messages otherwise you would not have any earlier messages to be shown.
Sorry, I apologize but I do notremember if you have to receive a message from your friend as well to make theLoad Earlier Message appear.
Either way with iMessage turnedOFF, once you send and receive a text from your friend, Load Earlier Messageappears.
There is probably a bug in thesystem. Since I have unlimited text messaging, I do not even bother withturning iMessage on anymore. I think, but I am not certain for those that just use SMS text messaging and have never ever used iMessage they will not have this problem. However, if you went from iMessage to SMS in a conversation whichI did for some individuals you might see some messages that are blue and green.This means that some were iMessages and others were SMS. To read your oldmessages you must unlock the LOAD EARLIER MESSAGE BUTTON.
I followed the steps that Imentioned earlier and my LOAD EARLIER MESSAGE BUTTON appeared for ONE of my friend's conversations. Now I have to fix it for the other ones. I think once the LOAD EARLIER MESSAGE BUTTON appears you can turn iMessage back ON and your LOAD EARLIER MESSAGE BUTTON should still be present. I am not a 100% sure though.
I hope this helps.

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