[Q] Contacts hang with 25,000+ contacts - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is there a problem with the contacts when using more than a few thousand contacts?
hope you guys can help me, been looking everywhere but can't find a solution :S
I am trying to sync a Galaxy S2 (completely stock) with outlook using kies, the thing is that there are about 25,000 contacts in outlook, Kies takes about 1 hour to complete, sometimes it doesn't even complete, it hangs at different % (at 0% or 25% or 65% or 70%, randomly) but once it does, I open the contacts in the Galaxy s2 and it hangs when I want to do anything with the contacts, like search them.
This is what I have tried so far:
Clear Contacts storage cache
Clear Contacts storage completely and re-sync again
used go contact EX form the market
the owner does not want to soft-reset the phone,I don't think it would work anyway because the phone is literally days old everything is fresh and completely stock.
the owner does not want to root the phone and changing a ROM is completely out of the question.

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A few thousand.... But it's 25000 with a plus... LOL

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Obviously it hangs. Why do you need 25000 contacts??
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The only people with that many contacts are Spammers. Seriously.

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Not necessarily. If he has his device hooked up to a corporate account, there could easily be that many employees in Outlook. I think I'd have the same issue if I chose to sync my work contacts.
niabi, I think you'd be better off NOT syncing contacts for that account to the phone. You don't need to. At least, I don't.

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wow thanks for all the "nice" replies... first of all I am not a spammer, second it is not my phone, its the company owner's phone... why does he need 25,000+ contacts? god knows! but then again... company owners usually don't explain stuff, but I am sure it is not to send spam, its he's list, and only he has access to it.
I tried explaining it would hang with so many contacts, but the problem is he had an HTC that had the same amount of contacts on it and the phone worked fine, so (without being asked a spammer, thank you) ... is there any chance, anyone knows any way of how to make this work ? or should I just tell him its impossible?

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ctomgee said:
Not necessarily. If he has his device hooked up to a corporate account, there could easily be that many employees in Outlook. I think I'd have the same issue if I chose to sync my work contacts.
niabi, I think you'd be better off NOT syncing contacts for that account to the phone. You don't need to. At least, I don't.
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Thank you!
I agree with you, I think I will try to explain him that, and he has to make a decision.

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atifsh said:
A few thousand.... But it's 25000 with a plus... LOL
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hehe isn't 25,000+ a "few thousand"?

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niabi said:
wow thanks for all the "nice" replies... first of all I am not a spammer, second it is not my phone, its the company owner's phone... why does he need 25,000+ contacts? god knows! but then again... company owners usually don't explain stuff, but I am sure it is not to send spam, its he's list, and only he has access to it.
I tried explaining it would hang with so many contacts, but the problem is he had an HTC that had the same amount of contacts on it and the phone worked fine, so (without being asked a spammer, thank you) ... is there any chance, anyone knows any way of how to make this work ? or should I just tell him its impossible?
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As I said, he doesn't NEED the contacts on the Exchange account synced. I don't have contacts synced to my Exchange account, but when I start typing names when composing emails, the app still finds Exchange contacts that are NOT in my phone.
Why else would he need them synced?
If he needs it to look up company contacts' phone numbers, you could recommend the "Corporate Addressbook" app from the Play Store. I use it. It means I have to update my password in two places when I change it, but I prefer that to having tens of thousands of company contacts on my phone.

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This stinks... of really dodgy BS

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LenAsh said:
This stinks... of really dodgy BS
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I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. If I synced my Exchange contacts, I'd have tens of thousands of contacts as well.

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ctomgee said:
As I said, he doesn't NEED the contacts on the Exchange account synced. I don't have contacts synced to my Exchange account, but when I start typing names when composing emails, the app still finds Exchange contacts that are NOT in my phone.
Why else would he need them synced?
If he needs it to look up company contacts' phone numbers, you could recommend the "Corporate Addressbook" app from the Play Store. I use it. It means I have to update my password in two places when I change it, but I prefer that to having tens of thousands of company contacts on my phone.
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Ok, first of all he doesn't use exchange, he does use Outlook, why would he need them synced ? as I said before, I do not know. Thanks for the reply

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LenAsh said:
This stinks... of really dodgy BS
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whatever... keep your judgment to yourself, I will just add if this was to "spam" why the heck would he do it on his phone?...

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ctomgee said:
I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. If I synced my Exchange contacts, I'd have tens of thousands of contacts as well.
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hes got contacts from 15 years of clients