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A friend borrowed my phone when they forgot theirs. They had to log into their Gmail to get their contacts to find where they left the phone. When they added their account, it was synced to my phone.
I have deleted the account, but their contacts are still on the phone. I have tried to clear the cache and re-synced the account.
I do not want to do a factory reset unless that is the last resort. Any suggestions or ideas?
Removing the Google account should have invariably deleted the contacts linked to that account, from your phone.
If not, go to Contacts, choose "Contacts to display" and select the Google account of your friend. This should bring up only those 'unwanted' contacts. Select all and delete. In case if the account does not show up in "Contacts to display" then you can try adding the account once again. But this may delete all the contacts from your friend's Google account. Make sure to ask him to take a backup / export all contacts, in case if he needs to restore in his Google.
Hope this helps.
This is lifted from jpolito's 2017-03-15 reply here. It is the only thing trick has worked for me - not wanting to risk deletion of contacts for the second account.
- Phone Setting> Accounts> Google> Select your SECOND email account> "Remove account"
- Phone Settings> Accounts > Turn Off Auto Sync
- Re-establish account.
- Turn on Airplane Mode
- Phone Settings> Accounts > Turn On Auto Sync (Without autosync turned on, there is no option in manage accounts to uncheck syncs)
- Open the Gmail app.
- On the top left, click on the 'Menu' icon.
- Click on the dropdown next to your email address.
- Choose 'Manage Accounts'.
- Select 'Google' and select your SECOND account.
- Uncheck the 'Contacts' checkbox and all other unwanted information.
- Turn off Airplane Mode
I finally was able to get rid of the unwanted contacts. What I had to do was have my friend add their e-mail back onto my phone. I then turned off the Sync for this phone. After that I deleted all the unwanted numbers and contacts. Once that was done I removed the e-mail account. I then forced a Sync and then restarted my phone.
In the left sidebar, press More
Press Undo changes. Then it will open a dialogue where you can choose when to reset it by. I personally like choosing custom and then you can set it exactly.
I was able to do this several times and I even accidentally deleted all the synced contacts but still this feature helped get it back for me.
Go to Contacts, click the 3-dot button on the top-right, go to Settings, click on Contacts to show, and select the email you want only to show.
