delete contaacts

[teknomanelvis]

i want to delete all the contacts on the phone, please tell me there is a way to do it in one shot and not go through each one and delete it individually

[-=pestilence=-]

Pretty sure if you log into your GMail account, you can delete them all from there. They sync together, so whatever happens there, should happen on your phone.

[teknomanelvis]

thanks alot, however is there anyway to do it from the phone without doing into gmail

[probigeorge11]

if you delete all the contacts from gmail, they will stay on your g1.........i already tried it

[toplessgt]

yeah after messing up and getting 315 dupes I had to do a factory reset... didnt take me long to get the settings back and d/l the apps again...

[DjMikeWatt]

I wish there was a way to do a remote contact delete or phone wipe... I have several sensative phone numbers in my phone and if I lost it I would feel much better if I knew that I could go online and wipe the handheld (assuming it was still on, of course)...

There really should be an option for something like this... it's not that "out there" to think that people may prefer their phones wiped to having some stranger reading all their emails and contacts...

Just a thought.

Also, what about a "private" checkbox for each contact? I had a sprint phone 7 years ago that did that... any contact marked "private" could still be dialed from the contact list, but it would not display the number unless you knew the phone's security password... Anyone know where I can suggest this as a feature/app?

[constellanation]

i know you probably don't want to do this if you use your gmail account but you could get rid of the contacts there

[constellanation]

I wish there was a way to do a remote contact delete or phone wipe... I have several sensative phone numbers in my phone and if I lost it I would feel much better if I knew that I could go online and wipe the handheld (assuming it was still on, of course)...

There really should be an option for something like this... it's not that "out there" to think that people may prefer their phones wiped to having some stranger reading all their emails and contacts...

Just a thought.

Also, what about a "private" checkbox for each contact? I had a sprint phone 7 years ago that did that... any contact marked "private" could still be dialed from the contact list, but it would not display the number unless you knew the phone's security password... Anyone know where I can suggest this as a feature/app?

that would all be pretty sweet, try in the app forum here, or emailing a developer in the market that is working on something similar.

theres a handful of successful developers on this board