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.
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.
Hi,
I copied all files from my Omate from /dev/sdf via USB, now I want to find my phone numbers and all calendar events, the top directory looks following:
.android_secure
.watchMarket
Alarms
Android
DCIM
Download
FleksyImages
LOST.DIR
Movies
Music
MyFavorite
Notifications
Pictures
Podcasts
Recording
Ringtones
WhatsApp
bluetooth
foursquare
googleota
tencent
I tried grepping whole directory tree for some words that would occur in my calendar notifications and in my contacts, but no success. It means that they are not stored in plaintext (what a pity).
Also I tried this http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-reverb/777208-where-calendar-files-stored.html but really no success.
How do I find those files? And more importantly how do I export them and import them to other phones?
Try Airdroid
Many files like contacts are "hidden" in all Android devices. To get easy access to it, most useful app is Airdroid, imho
I am using Parallel Space app in Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.parallel.intl&hl=en
The purpose of this app is to allow dual account creation. Thus, I am able to use two different WhatsApp accounts on a single device, wherein one account is on Whatsapp app and second account is on emulated Whatsapp via Parallel Space app.
Now I want to switch the data from Parallel Space Whatsapp to originial Whatsapp on another device.
Is there a way to backup the Whatsapp account stored in Parallel space and copy it to original whatsapp app? Or else what all file do I need to copy from Parallel Space to original whatsapp?
Previously I tried using Titanium Backup but all I was able to do is to move Whatsapp.apk and Parallel Space.apk to newer device with the accounts.
I wish to discontinue using ParallelSpace and use Whatsapp instead.
Since, I am not having the registered mobile number stored on Parallel Space account, I cannot simply create a new account.
Move your backup from parallel space virtual account to new mobile real physical acco
@anuragkanase
Go in your parallel space whatsapp account create a chat backup on google drive.
Now put the sim card in your new mobile where you want to use real physical whatsapp without parallel space and then make sure the phone is connected to internet when you install whatspp on new phone.
Put the number and regester on whatsapp now it will ask you to restore backup, select the option of google drive.. now you will have a real physical account with all your data, chat history, and also all contacts intact..
Hope this helps..
Feel free to reply back.
@Vivjadx
@Vivjadx
Parallel space whatsapp doesn't have option to back up chats ln google drive. What can i do in this situation.
Hi,
Update parallel space. Because my parallel space showing back up options
IN whataApp
Settings->Chats->Chat backup ->BackUp
You can also select include video option for back up
I am also trying to do same thing. want to transfer data from parallel space to actual whatsApp. I backed up data, but haven't tried to restore it in actual whatsApp. But I think ,it will work
Hello everyone.
For a long time I am using quickpic(cmcloud) app. These days, the software was removed from google play store, cause some permissions issue, no I see that it is still visible.
App can auto backup photos, by keeping folder structure. The archive photos can be view in quickpic app also in web portal of cm cloud.
Since last updates, photos are backing up on web page, but not shown in to application. The has support of other clouds (gdrive, dropbox, samba and etc)
but it doesn't work correctly - didn't make auto backups (tried on two different devices)
I don't like google photos, cause I can't exclude folder and all photos are dropped in one global folder, no folder structure, date kept and etc.
Can you suggest some nice, pretty photo viewer, which supports auto backup or better sync photos with folder structure, using gdrive, dropbox, smb, ftp.. ?
Thanks in advance !