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Help Contacts Storage > 27MB!!

I have ~50 google contacts and ~150 Facebook ones. My contact storage size was ~27mb. Went and cleared data for the program and then had to re-sync contacts to get them back. It auto linked them to their facebook contacts. The contact size is now ~ 6mb. so thanks for the suggestion.
 
shv said:
I had this same problem. Contact manager was using 32MB. I cleared the data and let it sync again. Now it is using < 4MB.

Not perfect but it works.
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I was having the same issue - contact were 17MB, just using Google contacts, no phone or Facebook, though quite a few were linked to Facebook...

Anyway, I cleared the Contact data and voila, issue resolved...

I did get several force-close messages after clearing it, but rebooted and it was fine.

Contacts down from over 17 to under 6...
 
HI all

I could not be doing with having my 300 face book contacts in contacts on my phone. Un synced. Also, gmail is not my main email so no contacts linked there. Only have about 50 regular phone contacts and yet I am using 6mb. This sounds a lot. If I clear data, will it delete phone contacts?
 
Cleared data and re-synced, which brought it down to about 8MB which has managed to again swell to 11.9MB in two days... Sigh...
 
Well that's nothing so don't worry about it. If you're having memory issues, this isn't what you need to be looking at.
 
I have 43 Google 172 In Phone and 159 Fb contacts

Mine is using 11.50 Mbs

Thats not good

I had Motorola W180 Which could hold 600 Phone Book entries at even smaller memory

Why my Desire is using that High Memory.

And why cant I just use My SD Card to Store all those contact like I have seen in Nokia.
 
I have a constant issue with this. I don't even have my Facebook linked. I dont have Google contacts because I use hotmail. No contact photos. There is an issue somewhere. My missus has desire now too. She is only using 360kb with as many contacts as me
 
After a factory reset and re-syncing everything, I found that nearly all entries had at least duplicate entries - some at least four, one had eight entries, all google! I had to go through and unlink every entry by hand, then delete all the duplicates (which can be done in one go). Now it's manageable and for just 117 contacts I'm on 2mb of data
 
dawalker said:
I had over 50mb with only 112 contacts! Answer is simple. Export your contacts to SD card, then clear the data. Import them back in again, and bobs your uncle, 3 mb !

Don't know why file got so large,but seems easy to fix.
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Tried and tested :) now using 256kb. I had thought of this but worried that I would loose everything.
 
dawalker said:
I had over 50mb with only 112 contacts! Answer is simple. Export your contacts to SD card, then clear the data. Import them back in again, and bobs your uncle, 3 mb !

Don't know why file got so large,but seems easy to fix.
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Thank you!!! :eek:

Went from about 26MB down to 4.72MB :D
 
richcowell said:
I was having the same issue - contact were 17MB, just using Google contacts, no phone or Facebook, though quite a few were linked to Facebook...

Anyway, I cleared the Contact data and voila, issue resolved...

I did get several force-close messages after clearing it, but rebooted and it was fine.

Contacts down from over 17 to under 6...
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Thanks! It worked for me as well.

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If you use a Google account, please go to http://contacts.google.com and verify your limited list of contacts is not getting duplicated.

My wife's 125 contacts each had about 26 entries in the 'All Contacts' label. On her phone, this represented more than 100MB of internal storage and a grand total of >25000 (no typo there. 25K) contacts that apparently the phone was synchronizing or trying to synchronize.

What I did:

On the computer (mostly because her phone was so slow)
- Go to contacts.google.com and export the 125 contacts to a .csv file
- Deleted all the duplicate contacts (the limit seem to be 9999 at one time using 'Select All')
- Imported the 125 contacts from the file

On the phone
- Followed people's suggestion to do a 'Clear Data' on the 'Contacts Storage' application
- Then allowed the phone to sync the contacts with the gmail account -once
- Disabled the sync function with her google account

This will hopefully work for her and, if you've read this, hopefully will work for you too.

Here's one additional reference. An awesome post on how to manage google contacts. http://lifehacker.com/5499575/the-complete-guide-to-fixing-google-contacts
 
Mine reads 138mb x_x, only 130 phone contacts, deleted most, but fb is 2k, and then it tries to lik from the fb app, to the fb sense app, to twitter, so the 4k fb, and 1k twitter, and its driving me nuts, and i dont wanna unsync the sense fb, cuz it keeps my contact photos clean, and the fb app makes them loos clarity
 
Someone's just passed me their Wildfire S asking why it's telling them it's out of space even though they don't download apps.... he has 19 contacts, Contact Storage? 75MB - That's ~4MB per contact, nice!
 
Mine has improved, I've got over 500 contacts and the storage is only 4.5mb, pretty much over half of these have photos too.
 
I found the solution:

1) Go to Gmail settings > General
2) Find "Create contacts for auto-complete" and uncheck it, choosing "I'll add contacts myself"
3) Save changes
4) Go to your contacts, find group "Other contacts" and delete every contact there.
5) Re-sync your Android

It worked for me, let me know if it solves your problem too.
 
I suffered from bloated Contacts Storage due to the problem that I synch-ed my Android phone with Outlook Contacts and because I had added notes to 100s of contacts. Turns out that Android synch does not match them and therefore duplicates those contacts every time.

I recently successfully got my contact storage under control (i.e. reduced it significantly) by doing the following:
  1. I first of all copied all my Outlook contacts to an archive folder
  2. Then I copied only the contacts I wanted back into my main Outlook contacts folder
  3. I removed the notes attached to all contacts (in the majority of cases I copied them into the Job Title field)
  4. I deleted all my contacts on my phone by going into People app, select Menu Delete, Select all, then OK
  5. I re-synched phone with Outlook.
  6. However, my contact storage was still very large. So researched some more, and found the folllowing solution:
  7. I did an export of all my contacts to my SD card, then cleared contact storage and then re-imported contacts to my SD card. This is described on the following page android.appstorm.net / how-to / clear-space-without-rooting.
My phone is much happier now. It can finally update apps, etc.
 
If the (purportedly huge) contacts file is exported to SD card, why does reimporting them not reproduce the huge file?
 
lbandrew said:
If the (purportedly huge) contacts file is exported to SD card, why does reimporting them not reproduce the huge file?
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Because the database process was erroneously running an endless loop and appending null (empty, below empty) entries making the storage bloat up.

The export/import didn't include the null records.
 
Thanks! My contacts file (contained 353 names) is taking over 10 GB of my storage. That's a lotta null! So with great difficulty I thought I had exported to my "USB" (mine's an S5 Mini) and was ready to delete the files but I got a message that something failed to export (then the message disappeared). However, my USB does seem to have something more on it now. How can I find out if in fact it is my contacts so I can go ahead and clear the bloated contacts file from the phone?
 
I had the problem back with ICS and I'd used Google contacts so it was easy for me to verify everything. And yeah, same thing, a few hundred contacts would grow without limit until I couldn't call or text and everything would lag.

So - let's see, I guess you're using just local contacts ...

When you created the export file, that was in vCard format, iow, a .vcf file, yes?

If so, maybe search for a vcf reader for your pc?

Or, if you can get an add on address book for your pc that you won't care about, you can import the contacts into that to verify the export package.
 
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