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My contacts storage is about 70MB. It keeps getting bigger every day. Any ideas why ad any ideas how I can reduce the size? I have to keep deleting apps because my phone storage is getting low.
how many contacts u have? 10 million? keep the contacts pics on sd card might help if u have a lot of them
I appear to have the same problem, currently 28.58MB.. I have my contacts sync with Exchange server and FB but pretty much all the images are tiny..
Any help would be v.much appreciated
i seem to have the same problem
i didn't notice this before, but after i updated my desire to froyo, i became quite annoying as, for some reason when the phone is on low space, the phone doesn't sync my gmail and other mail accounts, it can't download any applications, and gtalk just crash even before opening. so i tried to remove the apps that i didnt really need but every single time it when went to low space within 3 to 4 hours of the deletion of apps, i finally noticed that it was the contact storage that was ever increasing, it was 52.88MB while i was registering on the forum.....it's now 53.14MB. so if someone knows a way around it that doesn't include deleting all contacts , your help will be very much appreciated.
i have a feeling that the reason the contact storage is so big is because of all the data the UI pulls from facebook and twitter, but then again I might be wrong.
I too have problems with this. My phone is now running ridiculously slowly due to what reminds me of a memory leak.
I just removed both the Facebook application as well as removing my Facebook for HTC Sense account in 'Accounts and Sync'. I then deleted Contacts Storage from running applications, and having deleted these, I now only have my Google and SIM card contacts (and phone).
I think the new Facebook is what's responsible for this ****up.
EDIT: I think the new Facebook is definitely what's causing this. A workaround that seems to fix it for me is to select 'Don't sync' in the Facebook settings (not the native Facebook but the one you get through Market). On the other hand, if you let Facebook for HTC Sense sync with contacts, you will still get the information in your contacts screen (Facebook 'link', photo, birthday etc.)
A ****ty solution but at least a somewhat working one.
I think i have the same problem, i noticed that when my FB starts synching my contacts (coming from a fresh wipe, for example) my phone memory starts to decrease dramatically (38MB down to 17 MB to 15 MB ...)
I say "i think" because I do not know of a solid way to measure how much Facebook contacts actually eat up? any suggestions on where to find this info?
I have my phone contacts linked with their FB profiles so I get bday info, profile pics and stuff, this might be quite a lot (well i only have 500+ FB contacts)..
Is there anyway to have a workaround with this- maybe to store these FB profile pics and info to SD instead? or something, i dunno...any opinions would be really appreciated.
UPDATE 1: so I went into Manage Applications > Running (sorted a-z) and found out that "Contacts Storage eats up 50+ MB - is this the culprit?
If so, here are some questions:
1. If i clear do "clear data" on contacts storage - will it delete all my FB contcts and make it go back to 0 (under view menu on people app)? If so, then how can I "link" my phone contacts to their FB profile pics if they'll not be listed in my contacts?
2. Is there a way toa ctually move these info to SD? (i see that the "move to SD option is greyed out on this one)
Thanks!
UPDATE 2:
So I did try clearing the data for my contacts storage, but backed up all my contacts first. After clearing, it indeed deleted everything. Right now I am not ready to let go of my phone contacts to facebook contacts linking, thus, I still resynched them, but this time I left my Google contacts unsynched (those were like 500+ contacts) so now contacts storage is just taking up 22MB- not bad.
If there will soon be a way to move contact storage data to SD (and, say that process keeps the "read lag" to a minimum) then that would be great!
HTC EVO - contacts using too much memory
I am having a similar issue. I sync the HTC Evo with ACT! with about 2700 contacts. I dont sync with Google or FB - I use Companionlink via DejaOffice. When I first sync the People application (contact storage) displays about 7.9MB used. Within a few days this number jumps to 294MB and the device warns of low memory. I dont include pics on contacts or anything that might blow up the memory. Any ideas?
I have this problem too.
73.5mb contact storage size... really annoying.
Mine is around 3-400 phone contacts and then 3.500 facebook contacts, and it's the facebook contacts that's the big problem here.
****ty.
If just the contact storage could be saved on the sd card?!?
found this: http://android.modaco.com/content/t-mobile-pulse-pulse-modaco-com/315662/contact-storage-move-to-sd/
but i dunno if indeed there is any truth to that thread...still hoping any genius would find a way to move Contacts Storage to SD...
I just unsynced my facebook contacts... (the facebook app on android is garbage anyway..)
contact storage instantly jumped from 18mb to 10mb
still, 10mb seems really high for just a few hundred contacts....
I've got all my contacts in Gmail and have them synced to the phone.. i dont have any numbers stored on the phone or the sim.
Could this be why?
h2o pete said:
My contacts storage is about 70MB. It keeps getting bigger every day. Any ideas why ad any ideas how I can reduce the size? I have to keep deleting apps because my phone storage is getting low.
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I had 40 mb! I got it to 2m with 250 contacts. Here is how. I have my contacts backed up by saving them top google. If you didn't do it that way back them up some how. Then I went to settings then accounts and sync. Then I went to facebook and removed the account. Then I went to settings then applications then manage applications then contacts storage. I cleared the data. then google synced and put them back in. I downloaded an app off of the market called SyncMyPix and that put all of the facebook profile pictures back on my contacts. Plus my battery lasts four hours longer.
any other solution?
Reduced Contacts Storage
kmetek said:
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I had 25mb of Contacts storage used. I exported my contacts to the SD card as a vcf using export option in menu under People app . Then using Application Manager cleared all data in contacts storage. Then imported contacts back in. Result was reduction in contacts storage down to 1.68mb.
Well, my contacts storage is a whopping 378 MB!
I can't believe it myself.
ok, being new to this I should expect hiccups in the process, but when I upgraded to Bionix Frost over the weekend from stock, I LOST ALL MY CONTACTS! I did everything that the guides said I should (backups with Titanium backup, etc) and apparently did not properly back up my contacts. If I did, I have no way of figuring out where the back up is, or how to recover them. Any ideas where back ups get put?
Also if I switch to another rom, what is the proper way to back up contacts so this never happens again, lol.
Sounds like you saved your contacts to your device, when adding contacts in the future save them as Google contacts/Gmail contacts, that way they are always at gmail.com under contacts and go from device to device. Yours are more than likely gone for good
I usually make sure that when contacts are created that they are saved to my google account and that usually works for me without any hiccups.
also, in the contacts app, if you hit the menu button and select import/export, there is an option to back up to the sd card.
Try put you contact on gmail or SIM card.
jackhuny said:
Try put you contact on gmail or SIM card.
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save you contacts on sim card
1.go in to contacts
2.press menu
3.navigate to import export
4.press export to simcard (will save on your simcard)
5.press SD (will save it to SD so u can copy over on to computer)
hello everyone , i bought a new samsung galaxy s3 but the problem is i cannot send email with attachement . i have 3 accounts hotmail gmail exchange these all same problem i get send error ????
anyone a suggestion? thanks by advance
djramc said:
hello everyone , i bought a new samsung galaxy s3 but the problem is i cannot send email with attachement . i have 3 accounts hotmail gmail exchange these all same problem i get send error ????
anyone a suggestion? thanks by advance
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I have the exact same problem. I have looked into every setting to find out what it can be but to no avail. Try to see if you can send it over wi-fi, cause I can, as soon as I'm on mobile data the problem starts, and I know it's not carrier related have tested different carries and phones and all OK accept this one.
I'm beginning to think it may be a problem with the stock mail app, don't know about other guy's, but I'll see if this thread can help with the problem, or else I'm just going to try K-9 or something and see if that solves the problem.
I cannot send also via wifi , dropbox also cannot upload . Sometimes it does but 100/1 chance
Thank you for reply .
email sending problem
Hello ,
I've also this strange problem.
It doesn't matter which eMail account, Application (standard/K9) or network (provider/WiFi) I use, I get to 95% the message, that the email is to large.
New is, that I get this message now also on eMails with just only text inside, means no attachments.
I searched everything through, no solution.
So, the S3 is useless.
Anybody fixed this?
attachment not going using Gmail on my Galaxy S3
Please help. While composing new mail I can attach files to my mail. But it's actually not going to the recipient.
If sending from hotmail it's working perfectly.
Using S3 international version.
Hi,
Same problem here and cant seem to find an answer anywhere?
I am able to send emails without attachments on 3g or wifi with no issues, I can send emails with attachments on wifi. However I cannot send emails with attachments on 3g file size 1mb, I have tried gmail and active sync with no luck.
I can also receive emails with attachments with no issue on 3g and wifi?
Any help appreciated on this as cant seem to figure out what's causing it, tried several roms all with same problem, currently running XXDLIB.
Can't attach files from external memory card to email.
Trouble attaching files to emails with my new Galaxy S3.
If I use Gmail's file attachment option, the only choices I get are Gallery and Dropbox. Shouldn't there be an option for me to use the "My Files" App to browse to the location of the file that I want?
If I start with the "My Files" App and browse to my External SD Card and to the file I want and then press and hold the file, I get a dialog that will allow me to "Share Via". If I choose Gmail it will place the attachment on the email. However, the attachment doesn't go with the email and there are no errors to let you know that it did not go.
If I perform the same steps and browse to a location on the Internal Storage and choose "Send Via" the file attaches and successfully transmits with the email.
It seems that the phone cannot attach files from an external SD Card. Could this be true?
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It seems that the phone cannot attach files from an external SD Card. Could this be true?
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Hello,
I'm in the same situation...yes I confirm this issue on my S3 4.1 stock rom...
I can send from sdcard only pictures, not any others types of file...
I also try to use this paths /mnt/extSdcard and /storage/extSdcard over "File expert" and "ES File manager" without success!!
Any solutions?
Bye!
Esaone
Today a gmail update was released, after the installation I can attach all kind of files from my sdcard.
Good!!
Bye
Esaone
According to Titanium BackUp, I've got 1.5 GB of media files that I can't account for. Some might be the dozen or so ringtones and notification files I have (in mp3 format). Some might be my GMail account, but I can't find where on the internal storage drive the GMail files might be to verify this (and maybe do some creation deletions or re-directs). I've wiped out all my photos after transferring them to Dropbox, except for my wallpaper. Texts are routinely deleted, so that's not it.
I have the Samsung Galaxy Blaze, and if this needs to be re-directed, please do. The phone was successfully rooted, but my memory issues still stand (argh) in spite of the deletion of numerous bloatware programs and pushing most, if not all, of my user apps to the SD card.
Any help and/or thoughts would be appreciated.
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I need to restore my phone contacts and i'm looking for a program with which to read all phone memory - especially the "free memory".
Phone operating system has been installed in service, but have not saved contacts before, so I need your help.
Thanks
marian_dumitra said:
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I need to restore my phone contacts and i'm looking for a program with which to read all phone memory - especially the "free memory".
Phone operating system has been installed in service, but have not saved contacts before, so I need your help.
Thanks
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It's hard for me to understand what you mean but let me guess, you have changed devices and you want to restore your contacts from your previous device to this device.
Method One - Google (If your previous phone is a smartphone with android)
Log into your Google account on your old device. Go to Settings, look for the "Accounts" section. Select Google. Once in the new window. Select your account (usually displayed as an email).
Open it, and and touch "Contacts" wait for it to sync. Once done. Log into your Google account from the DX and do to settings look for accounts. Open Google. Open your account. And select "contacts" it should sync every contact from the old device to your new one.
Method two - sim card.
Simply go into contacts in your old phone (make sure your sim is in there) mark all contacts and save it to sim.
Take sim out and insert in DX, go to contacts, and import the contacts from sim.
To see all your free memory. Go to settings>storage.
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I was not very explicit, so i'm back with clarifications:
- my phone, a HTC Desire X, had problems with screen and I went to the service;
- before that, I sync contacts with gmail account, but I didn't copied more than 500 contacts from 2000 and I saw this only after I took the phone from the service;
- the service has changed the screen and reinstalled the operating system Android 4.1.1, so I can not see contacts;
- I restored the phone book - only 500 contacts from gmail and for the rest I need a program to read the memory of the phone which now appears to be free;
- I tried with wondershare dr. fone for android but it didn't work. I think I need a program wich "read the memory", not "restore the memory".
Thanks again
Marian
marian_dumitra said:
I was not very explicit, so i'm back with clarifications:
- my phone, a HTC Desire X, had problems with screen and I went to the service;
- before that, I sync contacts with gmail account, but I didn't copied more than 500 contacts from 2000 and I saw this only after I took the phone from the service;
- the service has changed the screen and reinstalled the operating system Android 4.1.1, so I can not see contacts;
- I restored the phone book - only 500 contacts from gmail and for the rest I need a program to read the memory of the phone which now appears to be free;
- I tried with wondershare dr. fone for android but it didn't work. I think I need a program wich "read the memory", not "restore the memory".
Thanks again
Marian
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The memory doesn't "seem" free, it IS free. Your contacts are not stored in any special place, they are stored along with your other settings on your android data partion, the one they would've wiped. Due to the nature of the ext4 filesystem it's not even worth it to try and recover them (I've had experience with this before , just a bunch of hashes). It's vital to always check the validity of backups before going through anything that may destroy the original data. Sorry.
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Thanks for the advice. I will listen them in the future, but now we have to put right what was wrong.
I need a program to read phone memory byte by byte. I interpret the information myself if I have something to interpret!
Thanks
Try using dd to backup the partition of phone memory, use cat /proc/emmc first to determine it.