[vox-tech] Contacts app on Android

[Brian Lavender]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 05:39:17PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>    So I've got a T-Mobile 3G MyTouch Slide (an HTC phone w/ Google & HTC
>    Sense stuff preinstalled).
>    It's almost perpetually telling me it's almost out of space (internal
>    storage). If I tap that warning in the notifications, it launches
>    "Manage applications", which allows me to sort by storage use.
>    By far the largest is "Contacts," at over 60MB. I think this is because
>    my overzealous acceptance of its offers to link up contacts between
>    apps. (E.g., I can tie a phone contact to their Facebook contact info &
>    photo)
>    Unfortunately, I don't really know what I can do to reduce how much
>    space this behemoth uses, without deleting contacts...
>    Has anyone out here had a similar situation, and if so, any clues on
>    how to reduce Contacts' storage use?

Sounds like a case of Trapper Keeper 2000! Only solution is to permanently
destroy the device before it gets completely gets out of hand and sucks
up every thing in its path!

brian
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