Android Contacts and GMAIL app

thegirlintheattic

Ok this has been driving me nuts.

I recently purchased a car which accesses my phonebook on my Android phone. Brilliant - except I have to search through 100s of contacts to get to the person I want - most of these are e-mail contacts from GMail.

I've factory resetted my phone and only added the contacts I want which is great but now I can't use my GMail app because if I do it automatically syncs my contacts from GMail.

Any ideas how I stop it doing this!?!

Lokolo

You can stop Syncing.

Go to Settings (usually pressing Menu button and Settings) -> Accounts & Sync.... Turn off Auto-sync. My gmail isn't in there though. My facebook is.

thegirlintheattic

Lokolo wrote: »

You can stop Syncing.

Go to Settings (usually pressing Menu button and Settings) -> Accounts & Sync.... Turn off Auto-sync. My gmail isn't in there though. My facebook is.

Tried that but most of the apps won't work if you turn off auto synch.

Didn't realise there was a seperate Mail app, using that now and deleting Gmail.

pelirocco

While we are on the subject of android and annoying things they do I have a problem when people reply to my texts some of them when they reply their numbers change to **44 and I cant reply to them , I have 'un syncd' everything done a factory reset but it hasnt solved everyones number ......can any one help ?