Help Sync Feature

[RonJason73]

Greetings!

I am new to this forum and to the Android O/S as well, having just purchased an Samsung Galaxy S-III yesterday. I've got a couple of questions and if I have not posted them in the correct place please forgive!

SYNCH: I use Gmail as my main email account and am using the App for same as it ships with the phone. I noticed today that there is virtually every contact from the 12,000 plus emails I have, and this includes addresses from Spam as well. (This is because I automatically have Gmail save contact information within emails I receive...this is going to change real quick).

As an example, if I go to Contacts --> Search and enter in "CON" it pulls up some 1,000+ entries. Much of it Spam.

I do not want all these Contacts. How can I disable Synch AND get rid of these contacts? If I need to reset this phone back to factory defaults, then so be it.

Going forward I intend to just open a browser and type in mail dot google dot com and retrieve my mail that way.

[II] GOOGLE PLAY: I may be in the entirely wrong Forum, period, for this but thought I would ask anyway. I have uploaded my music as taken from iTunes to Google Play. Is this publicly accessible?

Many thanks and I look forward to frequenting this forum.

Best,

Ron

 

[SebaKL]

Been there, done that.

First of all, I cleaned up my gmail account using my desktop. Go to Gmail and delete the unwanted contacts from the Contacts section. I also did proper e-mail clean up, and only kept the one I really want. Tho, the 12K e-mail might be a bit time consuming 0_0

Once you sort the contacts in your gmail account, you can go to setting - accounts - Google, and sync it. It will clean up your address book on your phone. Then under the same setting you Un-Check the Contact Sync to prevent it from happening in the future. Most important is, to keep the Gmail organized, phone is mere reflection of your gmail account status.

Regarding Google Music, I'm sorry I can't be of much help. This service is not available in my region.

 

[RonJason73]

Been there, done that.

First of all, I cleaned up my gmail account using my desktop. Go to Gmail and delete the unwanted contacts from the Contacts section. I also did proper e-mail clean up, and only kept the one I really want. Tho, the 12K e-mail might be a bit time consuming 0_0

Once you sort the contacts in your gmail account, you can go to setting - accounts - Google, and sync it. It will clean up your address book on your phone. Then under the same setting you Un-Check the Contact Sync to prevent it from happening in the future. Most important is, to keep the Gmail organized, phone is mere reflection of your gmail account status.

Regarding Google Music, I'm sorry I can't be of much help. This service is not available in my region.

That did the trick! Unwanted contacts are gone. Many thanks!

 

[SebaKL]

That did the trick! Unwanted contacts are gone. Many thanks!

I just like to add something about Gmail adding contacts automatically.

I was just doing my regular Gmail Contacts clean up, because after participating in few forums and g+, I have got about 50 new contacts, added to my account automatically by replying the mails or chatting in Hangouts.

I found a setting in the Gmail account to prevent that from happening. Perhaps you might be interested.

Open the gmail settings, GENERAL tab, and scroll down to "Create contacts for auto-complete:"
Check the box that reads, "I'll add contacts myself"

This should stop auto adding them to your list and populating the phone contacts upon Sync.

Have a good day,

cheers