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?
Wow. That seems like an atrocious amount of storage for contacts. If your contact app has the capability to import/export to .vcf, try that. I wonder if such a cycle might clean up deleted but un-reclaimed space in the contacts db. You could also explore the exported .vcf file and see if you can determine where the bloat is. Is is dumb enough to store a multi-mB photo for a contact maybe? As a point of reference, my ~90 item android (2.1) contact list exports to < 1MB. -t _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
