cdouble

HTC EVO 4G Running Gingerbread

Google automatically created a group in my contacts file (contacts.google.com) called "Circles." It contains everyone in my Google+ circles. Problem is that when I sync my contacts file on Android, it pulls all of these contacts (2,000+) onto my phone. The contacts application allows me to filter them (so they don't display), but these contacts (with their thumbnail images) consume over 30MB of precious storage space on my phone! Note I do NOT have Google+ installed on my phone (memory issue). If I delete that group from my contacts, my understanding is those people will be removed from my Google+ circles.

How can I stop this group from downloading? I will never email or call any of these people and this is making my phone almost unusable (memory issues), if I can't resolve then I'll probably be forced to delete my circles in Google+. Don't want to do that but it's more important that my phone works...

Ideas?

artaxerxes

Try going into 'Accounts' and change the sync settings.

cdouble

Tried that but only setting I could find toggles contact sync on/off. It's all or nothing, couldn't see any way to selectively exclude the circles group.