HTC Desire 70MB contacts storage - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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:
any other solution?
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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.

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HTC Mail - Low On Space

My G2 is complaining about it being low on space (less than 12MB left) - I've got a number of apps installed but nothing too crazy.
In the Manage Applications HTC Mail is showing as currently using 79MB. However when I go in to the Mail application I have one account defined, with 13 emails in my inbox currently totalling around 250k. All the other folders including trash are empty.
So what's using up this space, and more importantly how do I get it back?
I know I could probably use the "Clear Data" button, but won't that clear my inbox, and wipe all my account settings?
TIA - Rufus.
RufusA said:
My G2 is complaining about it being low on space (less than 12MB left) - I've got a number of apps installed but nothing too crazy.
In the Manage Applications HTC Mail is showing as currently using 79MB. However when I go in to the Mail application I have one account defined, with 13 emails in my inbox currently totalling around 250k. All the other folders including trash are empty.
So what's using up this space, and more importantly how do I get it back?
I know I could probably use the "Clear Data" button, but won't that clear my inbox, and wipe all my account settings?
TIA - Rufus.
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Hi I used to get this problem once a week before the ROM update. Very annoying, I found the only way to resolve it was to clear the data and set up the account again. I have only seen it once since the ROM update. Using SBS 2008 (exchange 2008).
s4vva said:
I found the only way to resolve it was to clear the data and set up the account again.
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Bit the bullet and cleared the data. Space is now available on my phone, but annoying to have lost my inbox contents and settings.
I'm on the latest Modaco rom, pulling email from my ISP's pop3 server (demon) so all mildly worrying!
Will keep an eye on the space usage going forward and just hope it was an oddity.
Rufus.
RufusA said:
Bit the bullet and cleared the data. Space is now available on my phone, but annoying to have lost my inbox contents and settings.
I'm on the latest Modaco rom, pulling email from my ISP's pop3 server (demon) so all mildly worrying!
Will keep an eye on the space usage going forward and just hope it was an oddity.
Rufus.
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same problem, figured that the mail app downloads attachments, although i said "never download attachments", but not only once, it downloads the attachments many times.
every attachment is stored in /sdcard/.easc/Attachment a lot of times.

[Q] Contact Storage eating up all internal memory.

I had about 309mb of internal storage free a couple days ago. Yesterday, even though I didn't install anything new. It shrunk to 235mb and I noticed "Contact Storage" had grown a bit. Didn't think too much of it until I woke up this morning to a "low internal space" warning. I had only 2mb left! Contact Storage had ballooned to 315mb! All by itself. I went in and hit clear data and it shrunk back down to just over 1mb. But I lost all my contacts and pics.
So.... Anyone else have this? Wtf happened? I'm running Shooter Rewind and RCmix 2.2.3
Are we not Phones?
We are EVO
ARE WE NOT PHONES?!
3.Dee.V.O.
When you put in your contacts, which option did you use? Did you check off phone or google?
Did you accidentally sync all your facebook contacts or something of that nature
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Seems like either you sync all your social network contacts or your saving them to your phone. Save it to gmail brotha! and try hitting menu while in contacts and then view.
select only contacts with phone numbers and see if that shrimps it down a bit

APP for managing contacts

Im having issues trying to clean up my contacts Ive got many doubles and I want to clean up my phone and SIM contacts its Ive tried before to delete them but they never seem to delete from my contacts.
EDIT: NVM fixed it
For those of us that might be having the same problem, would you mind enlightening us on how you fixed it?
Do it from a PC. Yes it is painful but it only has to be done once. I do not recommend using SIM contacts for a very simple reason. Many people today have email and phones plus IM etc datafilled with their contacts. Only phone numbers are supported on the SIM and even that has a limit of 1 number per contact. so if you have a contact with 4 phone numbers, that will be 4 contacts on your SIM and in your device when you import them.
I know this is the way it worked for GSM long ago and I don't think this has changed.
Best workaround is sync to Google. If you want a local copy after cleaning things up on a PC, export you contacts to your external SD card...
I cleared the data from contacts and contact storage from manage applications and then I synced my google contacts
There is app to delete duplicate contacts ..sorry I forgot the name...but its very effective...and also just like others stated always use google to sysnc contacts...this way when getting new phones...its easier and you wont have duplicates...

[Q] 100s of duplicate Phone Contacts that are not the same as regular contacts

My phone dialer has some contacts repeated literally 100 times. They are not that way in the Contacts app, just the phone. Just ran a dedupe app that did find some in my Contacts, but didn't touch the phone contacts list. I did not realize they are two different lists, which makes no sense.
Would appreciate a hint as to getting rid of all the dupes, and especially if there is something I can do to make the phone contacts and "regular" contacts the same database.
Use Google account to sync your contacts and remove them from your sim card/phone internal storage.
The stock dialer app does not store contacts. Are you sure you aren't looking at the call history?
Miami_Son said:
The stock dialer app does not store contacts. Are you sure you aren't looking at the call history?
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Wouldn't that be something... lol
Miami_Son said:
The stock dialer app does not store contacts. Are you sure you aren't looking at the call history?
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Yep; pretty sure I did not call my son 100 times in a row!
Mike
Phalanx7621 said:
Use Google account to sync your contacts and remove them from your sim card/phone internal storage.
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Well, now I'm really confused. Ran a de-dupe app, following which my dialer Contacts was empty, but desktop Contacts fine. Now my desktop contacts do seem to be the same as the phone, though it has 29 instances of the same person, whom I never call. I have a Google account with Contacts, but it has some that are not on my phone and the other way around. Also, when I look at Google Contacts at Google.com the right side shows no duplicates, but the left side scrolls though dozens to a few hundred of the same entry.
So, phone and Google not syncing, and Thunderbird is totally different from them both. Sure would loke to get all three the same.
Mike
OldMike60 said:
Well, now I'm really confused. Ran a de-dupe app, following which my dialer Contacts was empty, but desktop Contacts fine. Now my desktop contacts do seem to be the same as the phone, though it has 29 instances of the same person, whom I never call. I have a Google account with Contacts, but it has some that are not on my phone and the other way around. Also, when I look at Google Contacts at Google.com the right side shows no duplicates, but the left side scrolls though dozens to a few hundred of the same entry.
So, phone and Google not syncing, and Thunderbird is totally different from them both. Sure would loke to get all three the same.
Mike
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Maybe you were restoring contacts from a backup app causing one to show up then google synced the one that it had before making the total 2. Then it just went exponentially higher as it went on. As in it would go from 1 each to 2 each to 4 each to 8 each etc
Check you contacts in your Gmail account.i bet that's where all the duplicates are.
there are lots of free apps in the market to delete duplicate contacts.
please try 1 of them..
Hope helps
bqudamith said:
there are lots of free apps in the market to delete duplicate contacts.
please try 1 of them..
Hope helps
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Dude read the thread he has used them multiple times
Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
Google Contacts, Oh My
Dove back into this today. At Google, I don't have all that many duplicate contacts (though some posters report as many as 25K; up to 2K of the same contact), but have several thousand totally empty Contact Groups! The groups are actually a person's name, anywhere from 8 to 30 times. So their name is a group name, not really a contact, and that is what is showing up on my dialer Contacts list because not a one of them actually has a phone number.
Postings at Google and all over the internet *****ing about his since 2009. No prevention, no way to clean them out. All I can find is to delete the empty folders one at a tine (no mass delete, no way to tag multiple groups); 00 times would take forever, and I guess would have to repeat weekly.
I've tried all the merging / de-dupe stuff, and they are for duplicate contacts, not duplicate groups, unless someone knows an app that would. If I could batch delete them on my phone, perhaps that would also wipe them out at Google.
Resolved!
Found two fixes (but don't know about prevention or reoccurance). There is a popular utility that deletes all groups. The text at the site where available says that it deletes all groups, cannot skip any. So the first fix: download my one group with contacts to a CSV file, delete everything, then recreate the group, empty, and bring back the CSV data. However, I found that the utility did delete everything except the group "My Contacts", which seems to be the standard group, created by GMail, which was left untouched. So the utility deletes all customer-created groups, but not the one created by Google, which is what I wanted anyway.
So here is the utility: http://blog.scrappydog.com/2009/01/deleting-4000-gmail-groups-or-repairing.html
Thanks to all.
Fixed!
Thought I posted this, but doesn't seem to be showing up, so I want to close this out with a solution for others to find. If this is a duplicate, my apologies.
For customer created groups, 1) download to a CSV file, 2) run the utility found below to delete all custom groups, then 3) make the group again and copy back the CSV file.
Here is the utility: http://blog.scrappydog.com/2009/01/deleting-4000-gmail-groups-or-repairing.html
However I wanted to keep the Google standard My Contacts, so I did the above. But after running the utility I found that it does not touch the My Contacts group (I assume Google prevents it from every being deleted), so I did not need the CSV file, just the utility to get rid of my 600 empty groups.

[Q] How to sync contacts to cloud

Ok - this will sound like an incredibly newbie question. I have a bunch of contacts created on my phone (ie: when I created a new contact, I chose to save it in Phone). I was expecting this to sync automatically with gmail contacts, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There don't seem to be listed anywhere in my google account.
Is there any way to easily sync these contacts? I am running Gingerbread 2.3.3 and am very surprised at this.
Thanks,
Eric
ebenze said:
Ok - this will sound like an incredibly newbie question. I have a bunch of contacts created on my phone (ie: when I created a new contact, I chose to save it in Phone). I was expecting this to sync automatically with gmail contacts, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There don't seem to be listed anywhere in my google account.
Is there any way to easily sync these contacts? I am running Gingerbread 2.3.3 and am very surprised at this.
Thanks,
Eric
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Open contacts and export your contacts to your SD card. Go to settings, accounts and sync, uncheck background data transfer. Go back to settings, apps, all, contact storage and choose delete data. Turn background data transfer back on. Import your contacts from your sd card and make sure to choose google.
I had to do this on a family members phone the other day.
Dermen said:
Open contacts and export your contacts to your SD card. Go to settings, accounts and sync, uncheck background data transfer. Go back to settings, apps, all, contact storage and choose delete data. Turn background data transfer back on. Import your contacts from your sd card and make sure to choose google.
I had to do this on a family members phone the other day.
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Thanks for the tip. Very helpful. Although, I think you mean to export your contacts to your SIM card - I don't have an option to export to SD Card.
The other way I found was to use Kies. I've pretty much avoided it, but it did a great job syncing everything to my gmail contact list. Once there, I was able to disable sync, wipe the contacts clean on my phone and renable sync. Now everything is listed as a google account and sync'ed to the cloud.
Tx,
Eric
I think it just automatically creates a file on your sd card when you hit export. I also had to do some digging online a while ago to find this out, seems like a pretty big oversight on Google's part, but once everything is synced up, it's like butter.
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