I have a new N5 where contacts were transferred by Sprint from a dumb phone. The contact/number is there but there are some I want to delete but I get an error saying it is read-only.
Two questions:
1. where are these contacts stored?
2. how can I delete them?
Thanks!
Log into Gmail on a computer,go into contacts tab, delete it from there. Or just Google "Google contacts" and sign in into the first link. You need a computer for it.
Then come back and resync on your phone.
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I accidentally restored my contacts without deleting my existing ones and now i have 2 of each contact.
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You may can try deleting the account and re signing in
They're not stored on the phone so there's no filepath to them. You'd have to delete them off your sim if they're on there and then go into your google account online and edit the contacts.
Somehow everytime I backed up my contacts on my s2 last year via Google they duplicated every time. Is there any app that can delete contacts by choosing them with a check box? I have + 900 contacts now on my n5
are they duplicated in gmail contacts? if so, highlight them all and merge contacts.
if they are just on the phone, go to settings > apps > all, then click on contacts storage and clear data. the phone should resync with google at that point
Hopefully you have your contacts synced with gmail op you can merge them or check mark them and delete in batches
I used the app 'contact remover' to delete all the duplicated contacts (750) and synced with Google. Hopefully it should work now, Google asked me to remove the contacts on the servers that I removed from my phone. For the case it didn't work I made a backup. vcf file.
If it synced to Google you should be able to clean it up from gmail.com. You may need to do it with a computer though.
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Hi all,
Few days back i was trying to root my HTC one. In order to play safe i saved all my contacts in my phone memory. Later i transferred that file containing my contacts to my system. That file was saved with an extension ".VEF". Usually contacts file get saved with VCF (never heard about VEF before).
In order to synchronize my Samsung phone book i transferred that file from my system to my samsung galaxy S5. But i am getting an error with this? This file is not opening. Kindly suggest me how to open that VEF file?
Regards,
averma60
Hi
Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. As far as I know you can use a .vef file to import contacts to your Google account using your PC. Open the contacts section of your Google account on a desktop browser and you'll see the import contacts option at the bottom of the left sidebar.
Once you've done that just sync your Google contacts on any of your Android devices and your contacts will appear. And in future make sure you save new contacts as a Google contact instead of on your phone memory, it makes things a lot easier.
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Mom gave me her S7. Synced with Google, all my contacts are in. Now I realize there are still 2000 of HER contacts in the DEVICE storage. Some are automatically linked to MY google contacts.
How can I delete all the device contacts? If I set it to view device contacts only, select all, and delete, it says "all contacts will be deleted from linked accounts" ... doesn't this mean it will also delete the linked Google contacts?
That always trips me up too. What I actually do is make a backup of my Google account contacts. Save them safely somewhere on a computer. Then blow away all the phone contacts. If the Google contacts online are messed up I re-import the saved contacts online, then re-sync with phone. My way may be overkill, but it works for me lol. There may be an easier way.
I think I found an easier way.
1. Go to Settings > Applications > Application Manager
2. Tap More > Show System Apps
3. Scroll down to "Contacts Storage" (NOT "Contacts"), tap it
4. Tap "Storage", Tap "Clear Data"
That will delete all contacts, including Google, but then within minutes Google contacts will get restored via Sync.
Export your contacts from contacts.google.com before deleting anything, I deleted my phone contacts and lost them from gmail too (Luckily made a backup first) - but when you select contacts to be deleted it should only delete the ones you have selected, no others
Personally I would have factory reset the phone when your mom gave you it, before adding your own account
So export from gmail
Delete from phone
If all is well that's all you need to do, if it deletes them all you have your backup to import again
To some extent，Whatever data can be easily deleted from the phone, it's easy to recover on the phone, isn't it ?
As you said , how to delete contacts from Android phone , what is more that how do your make sure these deleted data can not be recovered back any more ?
You may be insterested in : https://www.safewiper.com/tutorials/android-data-eraser.html
Hello,
I have tried factory resetting my GS 8+ and the watch to start from scratch, but the watch will NOT pull contacts from my phone or sync messages. At this point, I feel there is nothing more I can do, so I am asking here.
Is there some magic I can pull to get this to work? Sucks I cant look at conversations or contacts on my watch.
Anyone?
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Hello, I'm now experiencing the same issue with a Note 8 and upgrade to Tizen 4 on a Gear 3, did you get a resolution to this issue? Thanks.
Same here, except for contacts, they came back after I reinitialized the watch again...
Hello all, so following a comment regarding new contacts got transferred to the Watch, I thought what can I do for all my contacts be transferred to the watch. I thought what can I do, well deleted my contacts in my all accounts. So I did the following, but use at your own risk:
1. Backed up all my contacts in all my accounts on respective websites, google, office etc.
2. Tested I could restore above backups
3. On my phone, deleted all the contacts in all my accounts
4. Wait until the accounts resysnc
5. Import backed up contacts into each account
6. Wait until the accounts resysnc on your phone
7. Wait until the accounts resysnc on your watch
8. Repeat 5-7 for each of your accounts
Hopefully a fix will be released shortly.
Got them to show up!
So, I basically did what cabbage65 did.
It appears that the only contacts that were showing on my galaxy S3 classic watch were the ones I added AFTER the tizen 4.0 update. So, we need a way to "re-add" all of our current contacts. Just back them up, delete your contacts, then import them from the back up file.
-I backed up my contacts from google to a .csv file (after you export it, make sure the file has all the info in it before you delete google contacts! Jut open it up and see); exporting is incredibly easy to do, once in google contacts, click on "more" on the left side menu and "export" should be there.
- delete all your contacts; simply select one, then on top menu you'll see a few new icons to click, one will give you select all options. then delete them.
- after that, go back to that "more" options on the left side menu, and you'll see "import" right next to where export was.
The only thing that sucks is you can't back up and import profile pics. So if you have any pics, you'll have to reapply them. I had 340 contacts, all are now showing up on my watch after this process (non with profile pics). I had profile pics for about 40 of them, which, when I have time, will do from my PC on google contacts instead of my phone. But this process works, no ifs, ands, or buts. And the profile pics do sync to your watch if you add them after importing contacts. I have tried it and it works like a charm.
Good Luck!