This doesn’t have anything to do with being a Dad, but I found a solution to something that was driving me crazy that I couldn’t find the answer to, so I figured I would post it.
This is for folks with an Android phone who are getting the error message: “Too Many Contacts Deletes”
This occurs when you try to delete a large number of contacts and then your phone tries to sync with your Gmail account. If you don’t do anything about it, it won’t go away.
Here’s the Fix
1. Make sure your contacts are still in your Google account. You can see this by visiting http://www.google.com/contacts
2. On your Android phone > Go into Setting > Applications > Manage Applications > Contacts Storage
3. Inside contacts storage choose: Clear Data
That’s it, next time your phone tries to sync with Google it will repopulate your contacts with no annoying error message.
Tagged with: android • cell phones • technology
December 12th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I appreciate this tip. It worked nicely for me. Thanks!
March 5th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Perfect! This has been aggravating me for months. Thank you!
March 14th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Thanks a lot. I got my phone back in November and this finally worked for me!!
April 5th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Worked like a charm! Thanks.
November 24th, 2011 at 9:48 am
[...] several hours that said ‘too many contacts deletes’. So, I googled the error, and found this page: Too Many Contacts Deletes – Android Solution | Notorious D.A.D. Cleared the contacts, like it suggested, and sync’d. Now, I have all my contacts! Yay! Been using [...]
November 26th, 2011 at 6:23 am
Great. Thank you. Wish I’d seen this before my futile decision to reset the phone to factory settings. That did not work. I can now see that’s because the cache (deleted with your advice) is stored on the memory card.