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
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We are EVO
ARE WE NOT PHONES?!
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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
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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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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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?
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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.
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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
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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.
I went on deployment for about 3 months and had my phone in airplane mode for the entire time...once i returned to the states, it seems as if all of my contacts have gotten messed up. Numbers I had are no longer in my contacts, Facebook won't sync contact pictures, numbers, etc. Number I have aren't showing up as the persons name...i.e. 123-657-3828 should show up Mr. Mister but instead it shows up as the number...Anyone have any idea what's going on and how to rectify?
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I went on deployment for about 3 months and had my phone in airplane mode for the entire time...once i returned to the states, it seems as if all of my contacts have gotten messed up. Numbers I had are no longer in my contacts, Facebook won't sync contact pictures, numbers, etc. Number I have aren't showing up as the persons name...i.e. 123-657-3828 should show up Mr. Mister but instead it shows up as the number...Anyone have any idea what's going on and how to rectify?
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Maybe try removing your Google account from accounts and sync and then add it again and sync up.
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Thank you
Don
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Oh god, don't use facebook sync, its horrible at this point. Rely on google and all your problems will be solved.
I recently did a factory reset on my phone and ran into this problem after the phone froze and restarted. I knew the contacts were on my SIM card as I moved them there in case my backup failed. If all your contacts are on your SIM, try taking the card out, put it back in, then start up the phone again. I've had to do it twice since my reset. Hope that helps.
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Hello.
Is there an app that would show complete details of a contact, everything such as spouse, children, anniversary, etc?
[EDIT] also contact picture showed during scroll as on HTC Inspire would be a big plus as well[/EDIT]
This kind of got lost in the midst of bigger stuff in the other thread so I figured I'd try one specifically for it, since it's my main issue.
My contacts were saved to my device (or SIM maybe?), not my google account. I know, bad idea, but it was unintentional and it's done. Due to another issue I had to remove and re-add my google account to my phone. When I did this, all of my contacts disappeared. Nothing shows up in my contacts app and when I get a call from someone that I had as a contact I only see their number, not their name/contact info.
I don't know what the relation is between my contacts that were stored on my device and my google account being temporarily removed from my phone, but I don't think those contacts are actually deleted. If I go into the app manager I see something there called "contacts storage" that is 9.2mb in size. I'm guessing this still has the contact's info? Is there any way to retrieve this and/or get them to show up again?
You can change which storage you want to use for contacts. While in contacts hit the menu button.. From there it's relatively easy..
When you get your contacts to didplay it's worth merging with google and filter the storage to google only.
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You can change which storage you want to use for contacts. While in contacts hit the menu button.. From there it's relatively easy..
When you get your contacts to didplay it's worth merging with google and filter the storage to google only.
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None of these work for me. If I change the contacts to display to "device" it shows only the built-in AT&T contacts (view your bill, etc). If I choose SIM card it displays nothing.
Same deal with import. Shows nothing found.
If you have an American model of the s3 then you are in the wrong forum, this is for the i9300 only.
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