How to delete multiple contacts?

[thecowboy]

If you are having a problem syncing your contact with your Gmail account (mine happened after deleting duplicate contacts on the phone) here's what worked for me to get everything fixed:
Settings | Applications | Manage Applications | Contacts Storage | Clear Data
Settings | Applications | Manage Applications | {each email app} | Clear Data or Cache
After closing Gmail on my comuter I was able to successfully sync the phone by dong the following
Settings | Accounts & sync | Sync all

[Stormin]

There are now several applications in the Market Place for deleting contacts.

[E92Vancouver]

Just used:

Settings | Applications | Manage Applications | Contacts Storage | Clear Data

Thanks!

[meenf]

"Contacts Storage" is not showing under Manage Applications. New Samsung Captivate. Is this an application that needs to be downloaded? I cannot find it in the Marketplace search.
Using "Delete Contacts" it says Zero Contact deleted. Yet there are contacts on my Phone and SIM.
Any Help?

[TonyV125]

Just used:

Settings | Applications | Manage Applications | Contacts Storage | Clear Data

Thanks!

That worked beautifully for me.

THANK YOU
(Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S))

[ChrisSmithWebGuy]

Another alternative is a new service from Scrubly. The service scans and removes duplicate contacts from your Outlook, Gmail and Google Apps accounts. The nice thing about this service is that it gives you the option of viewing the contacts to be merged in advance and picking and choosing the info you want to merge so you have complete control over the merged data. It also keeps a backup of your contacts.

[steve e]

Gingerbread update from Verizon makes the "Clear Data" solution not work! Verizon and Moto support have looked at phones (DroidX, Droid 2, Bionic) and they all have the option to delete all contacts disabled.

Level 2 support at Motorola confirms that the "clear data" button under ManageApplications>ContactStorage no longer functions. They say Google did that, perhaps to force you into gmail sync instead of import from text file.

Moto and Verizon suggest doing a factory reset on the phone (which will wipe out all settings and free apps) TO SEE IF THAT DELETES THE CONTACTS. They're not sure it will, and I haven't tried it.

Verizon says they'll swap my DroidX for an HTC Thunderbolt, but while it has the same size screen it's not the same number of pixels...

but first maybe I'll look at the Delete Contacts app! Thanks for posting.
(found https://market.android.com/details?i...eteAllContacts
which seems to have better reviews and DID work for me)

NOTE: Contacts Storage app still shows 63MB of data after deleting all contacts!
Google gets your data and keeps it forever. Deleting contacts manually or
otherwise does NOT remove the contact data from the phone!!