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Get rid of gmail contacts

phonefiend

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Oct 11, 2010
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I moved over from a BlackBerry and had the Verizon tech transfer my phone contacts from my BlackBerry to my Samsung Fascinate. However, he also had me link my phone to my gmail account at the time and set it up so my contacts synchronized with my gmail account. Now I have my BlackBerry contacts mixed in with some garbage contacts from my gmail account. I realize I can choose not to display gmail contacts, but is there any easy way to remove them?
 
Also, everytime I email someone in gmail it adds them to my contacts so I will keep getting unwanted contacts on my phone.

Theres an option to turn that off, I cant think off hand where it is though.

I guess I'm not a fan of this whole syncing with the cloud.

you dont have to sync with the cloud if you dont want to. Its just MUCH easier to backup/organize your contacts
 
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Theres an option to turn that off, I cant think off hand where it is though.



you dont have to sync with the cloud if you dont want to. Its just MUCH easier to backup/organize your contacts

I actually already turned off that option. The odd thing is none of the contacts from my phone made it to gmail but all of my gmail contacts made it to my phone. I thought if my gmail contacts were downloaded to my phone my phone would also sync with gmail.
 
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