I disabled the Facebook sync because it seemed to be using up a lot of space on my phone and I kept getting the "low storage" notification. So it doesn't sync any new contacts, but all the ones that it already downloaded are still on my phone. Is there any way to get rid of them, without clearing my Google contacts too?
I think you have to clear Contacts Storage:
Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All > Contacts Storage > Clear data
spile said:
I think you have to clear Contacts Storage:
Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All > Contacts Storage > Clear data
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Won't that delete my Google contacts too?
rpimps said:
Won't that delete my Google contacts too?
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all your contacts will return next time your device syncs with google
AndroHero said:
all your contacts will return next time your device syncs with google
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But when I delete a contact from my phone, it deletes it from my Gmail too. So if I delete all of them from my phone, won't it delete all of them from Gmail too?
I think that if you disable syncing of google (under Settings>Accounts & Sync)...then clear contacts...then re-enable syncing. After you re-enable google sync it should restore all your google contacts. Do a backup before hand just in case.
Rumball said:
I think that if you disable syncing of google (under Settings>Accounts & Sync)...then clear contacts...then re-enable syncing. After you re-enable google sync it should restore all your google contacts. Do a backup before hand just in case.
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Alright I did that. Actually clearing the contacts data just deletes the Facebook contacts, so I had to go to the phonebook and choose "select all > delete". Then I restarted my phone and it synced on startup and got all of my Google contacts back.
I went from 20mb of contacts to 2mb. It looks like Facebook takes up a lottttttt of space.
just pics uses somuch space?
kmetek said:
just pics uses somuch space?
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It must be the pics. I have about 600 Google contacts and 650 Facebook contacts, yet the Google contacts take up 2mb and the Facebook contacts took up 18mb. I have pictures for about 5% of my Google contacts whereas Facebook downloads the pictures for 100% of its contacts. Facebook also downloads other info like their status updates and birthdays and stuff, so I guess it's all of that put together that takes up all the space.
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This is so annoying!!! I logged into the facebook app on my evo and now when I try to open my contacts, they're bogged with all these contacts from facebook. IS there a way to remove them without logging out of your facebook?
Please Help!
Thanks
gokuman56 said:
This is so annoying!!! I logged into the facebook app on my evo and now when I try to open my contacts, they're bogged with all these contacts from facebook. IS there a way to remove them without logging out of your facebook?
Please Help!
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Yea go to people hit menu view and then uncheck facebook. Lol that happened to me when I first synced fb I have 4998 friends imagine that lol
if you want to remove them totally, not just hide them do this:
Set Facebook to NOT import your contacts, go to applications, manage applications, all. then scroll down untill you see contact storage, then clear cache and wipe data. this will clear EVERY contact on your phone, then back out of that and go to accounts and sync then make sure your google acct is syncing and it will reload all of your google contacts. Presto no more FB contacts.
WARNING, this will erase ALL of your contacts, so you WILL lose everything that is in Phone also, so make sure all your contacts are backed up to google or a vcf.
Ok sorry but somebody would wipe everything without being backed up to google ...
Course if you just want to hide em, what nuggy said.
Ok, so I'm sick o my picasa albums showing up in my gallery. And under accounts and sync I turned of the picasa syncing as well but they are still there.
Is there a way to remove them? I also tried to delete the google account off my phone then re add it and quickly uncheck the picasa web album sync but I can't be fast enough haha.
I know there's a solution! Help me!
Thanks!
Go into Accounts & Settings -> Your Gmail -> Uncheck Picasa Sync [you already did this].
Go into apps and find gallery. Clear cache and data.
Reopen gallery, you're good to go.
This should work:
- Settings / Accounts & sync / your google account / uncheck Sync Google Photos
Then:
- Settings / Apps / All / Gallery / Clear data, then Force Stop
just tried both of those things didn't work
guitarevan07 said:
just tried both of those things didn't work
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Same for me...
can anyone offer some help here?
Yep,
Go to Apps and click on Google+
Click on uninstall updates.
Go to Accounts and Sync and check if Sync Google Photos is ticked or even present. Make sure it isn't.
(If you're using google+ continue reading)
Go to the Google+ app
Log in but make sure you do not choose Instant Upload
After logging into the app, go to setting and double check if the Instant Upload setting aren't ticked. Then go the Account and Sync and check there as well if Sync Google Photos isn't ticked.
Go to Gallery to confirm the Picasa albums are gone.
I just got my Galaxy S3. As usual, when I set up my main google account it defaulted to syncing my gmail contacts and calendar. I sync my contacts and calendar to an exchange server and don't want them synced to my google account.
On other devices I could go into the account settings, uncheck contacts and calendar, then go into the app manager and delete the data from contacts storage and calendar storage and they would all be gone.
When I did this on my S3, the contacts app still shows all my Google contacts. I can't figure out how to remove them.
Can anyone explain?
Thanks!
tmagritte said:
I just got my Galaxy S3. As usual, when I set up my main google account it defaulted to syncing my gmail contacts and calendar. I sync my contacts and calendar to an exchange server and don't want them synced to my google account.
On other devices I could go into the account settings, uncheck contacts and calendar, then go into the app manager and delete the data from contacts storage and calendar storage and they would all be gone.
When I did this on my S3, the contacts app still shows all my Google contacts. I can't figure out how to remove them.
Can anyone explain?
Thanks!
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This should have taken care of the issue. Can you make sure that you go to settings > accounts > your google account and uncheck contacts and calendar sync FIRST and than go to settings > app > contacts and clear data. (Same for calendar)
Also, if you have Google+ (or facebook) installed, it could be syncing contacts too. Make sure you uncheck and clear all contacts.
Strange. No matter what I did those contacts would not disappear. Then I rebooted the phone and they were gone. Seems to be working fine now...
Thanks.
Every now and then my contacts will be lost and in setting > Google > Sync Contacts will say it synced but all my contacts are gone. Some times I can just re sync and it works but other times it doesn't. Is there a way for this to not happen?
Or sometimes it will say Sync Contacts has an error and will not sync to Google and I'll have different contacts on my phone and on Google contacts
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Every now and then my contacts will be lost and in setting > Google > Sync Contacts will say it synced but all my contacts are gone. Some times I can just re sync and it works but other times it doesn't. Is there a way for this to not happen?
Or sometimes it will say Sync Contacts has an error and will not sync to Google and I'll have different contacts on my phone and on Google contacts
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make sure when you save a new contact that the name is saved as a gmail contact and not on your phone. there are actually two contact "books" on you phone, the internal phone contacts and the gmail contacts.
b11aze said:
make sure when you save a new contact that the name is saved as a gmail contact and not on your phone. there are actually two contact "books" on you phone, the internal phone contacts and the gmail contacts.
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Yeah that is not it. I always save new contacts under gmail not phone. I think its something to do with syncing with google
mroien said:
Yeah that is not it. I always save new contacts under gmail not phone. I think its something to do with syncing with google
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Personally never had that issue. Occasionally sync goes down for a minute, then comes back up. If you are like me and keep sync off and changes roms, if you added a contact and didn't sync, you could miss a few that were added.
So i'd jut double check to be safe.
mroien said:
Every now and then my contacts will be lost and in setting > Google > Sync Contacts will say it synced but all my contacts are gone. Some times I can just re sync and it works but other times it doesn't. Is there a way for this to not happen?
Or sometimes it will say Sync Contacts has an error and will not sync to Google and I'll have different contacts on my phone and on Google contacts
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What ROM are you using? Stock, Stock rooted, TW-based, AOSP (4.1.2, 4.2.1, or 4.2.2)? I've ran all of these (and then some) and haven't run into anything like this, but if it's ROM-specific, knowing what you're running will help narrow it down.
Cheers!
same thing here
Sometimes my phone log just shows numbers and when I check my contact list it's empty.
Reboot phone and they are all back. My contacts are on Google but was wondering if there is a way to store them on the phone also.
Some way to download to a file on the phone?
loaderboy said:
Sometimes my phone log just shows numbers and when I check my contact list it's empty.
Reboot phone and they are all back. My contacts are on Google but was wondering if there is a way to store them on the phone also.
Some way to download to a file on the phone?
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Go to the contacts app, press menu > export
Then select the account and it'll export to your scarf as a CSV file
There are also apps that let you import/export your contacts as an XML file
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Go to the contacts app, press menu > export
Then select the account and it'll export to your scarf as a CSV file
There are also apps that let you import/export your contacts as an XML file
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Thanks. Done. I don't think I will ever find all the little tweaks and tricks to this thing. Every time I use it I learn something.
loaderboy said:
Thanks. Done. I don't think I will ever find all the little tweaks and tricks to this thing. Every time I use it I learn something.
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Hahaha, its actually a general Android feature, not just specific to the S3
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Go to the contacts app, press menu > export
Then select the account and it'll export to your scarf as a CSV file
There are also apps that let you import/export your contacts as an XML file
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Lol "scarf", sorry about that i meant "sdcard"
Dang autocorrect!!
I have the stock rom and for some reason my photos are being synced from my old phone and some from fb. I do have some photos that got sync that I do not want on there if you know what I mean but I can't remove them and for some reason there synced photos. Can't figure out how to remove them.
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I have the stock rom and for some reason my photos are being synced from my old phone and some from fb. I do have some photos that got sync that I do not want on there if you know what I mean but I can't remove them and for some reason there synced photos. Can't figure out how to remove them.
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Go to System Settings > Accounts, then choose your google account and uncheck "google photos" or "web albums". Then go System Settings> Apps go to ALL tab, tap on Gallery then force stop, clear data and last clear cache (don't worry about your photos being deleted), then open the gallery app and hopefully your problem is solved. I had this problem with picasa web albums syncing photos and also I could not delete them
Hope it helps!
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Go to System Settings > Accounts, then choose your google account and uncheck "google photos" or "web albums". Then go System Settings> Apps go to ALL tab, tap on Gallery then force stop, clear data and last clear cache (don't worry about your photos being deleted), then open the gallery app and hopefully your problem is solved. I had this problem with picasa web albums syncing photos and also I could not delete them
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Had already figured it out. thanks though