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How do you delete the Contact history in the Droid X

does anyone know of any way to delete the contact history, it displays all the history from phone calls to text messages, even after you delete the conversation of a text, its still displayed in the history, it also displays all facebook history and old messages, how do you delete this out of the phone??

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capthowdy

This is the same issue I am wanting to figure out my self, after finding this slide screen by accident?

Wildman

1. Open Phone

2. Goto Recent Tab

3. Click far left button to display menu

4. Select Clear List

5. Click Clear from option menu

All will recents will be cleared after this...

zombieguy

reent tab??? there is no recent tab?? do u have droid x or just a droid??? The closest thing I found to a recents tab is a recents folder. If you touch the screen and hold it a "add to home screen" menu pops up and there is a "recents" folder but even when bringing up the menu there is no clear button just, add, search, notificadtion, wallpaper, settings, nothing anywhere to clear the history list

user46516

On my Dorid X there is a "Recent" tab at the top. This was a useful solution for me and I only knew how to delete individually.

dirkbonn

zombieguy wrote:
reent tab??? there is no recent tab?? do u have droid x or just a droid??? The closest thing I found to a recents tab is a recents folder. If you touch the screen and hold it a "add to home screen" menu pops up and there is a "recents" folder but even when bringing up the menu there is no clear button just, add, search, notificadtion, wallpaper, settings, nothing anywhere to clear the history list

Wildman is talking about the "Dialer" screen, not one of your home screens. There are 4 tabs at the top, Dialer, Recent, Contacts, & Favorites.

skullface8

Wildman wrote:
1. Open Phone
2. Goto Recent Tab
3. Click far left button to display menu
4. Select Clear List
5. Click Clear from option menu

All will recents will be cleared after this...

The discussion is about when you touch contacts and then slide to the left it says contacts history. It seems that you can't delete them. If you try it will delete the contact

capthowdy

Well until someone who knows what there talking about comes with an answer, you can always change the history that is displayed to favorites instead of all contacts, by pressing the contacts bar at the top of the "left slide screen" then select what you want to show there. But still will not delete all the history which Im worried will fill up my phone storage with unwanted info / data?

southpaw

Capt....have you tried going thru the universal inbox and checking off all the messages you want to delete?

...just trying to help.

OhNoway2

I called Motorola this moring, and there is no way to delete the contact history as of right now. The rep said they have a lot of people calling in about this, so the are working on the software update. There is no ETA yet.

TheGuyUpNorth

I just deleted my whole SMS History. When you open the SMS app, you need to his the MENU button in the lower left corner. Then select multiple. Hit the MENU button again, and select all.

Rescue814

That just deleted the active text messages you have currently.

Go look at your contacts and scroll to the left. You can go back and see everything.

zombieguy

They need to just get rid of it altogether, there is no need to have Contact history like that

c0r3w2i2n

I've found no way to delete this history. The only thing i have been able to do is when you're on that screen press your menu button(farthest button to the left) and one of the tabs that pop up will be display group. Once in there click create new group and basically just make up a fake folder name. Set that folder as the one to be shown and as long as you don't add any contacts to it no history will be shown.

benzero

So, they do say they are working on a fix for this? That's a BIG issue to me.

lib020

When I select the far left button on the recent screen, I only get a keyboardopen up. No menu at all.

Scrotaltorment

If you delete a contact, the history will be removed.... that's as much as I know. I only noticed that because I had problems with my brother and texting (It kept adding a +1 to his number) and then i went to check my history, and he isn't on there at all.

lib020

How do you select the fake folder to be shown?

Silvrsurfr

Now that I have found this screen, I am not finding some that I have erased far back as Friday evening or Saturday morning. But I still have ones from contacts that upon reading this, I deleted and was still able to find under the Contacts History area.

Does this only hold so much info then its purged?? I keep trying to find a sampling of those texts from a couple of people that I had deleted and cannot find them in this "contacts history" area back from Fri/Sat, just the ones I just deleted yesterday/today.

lib020

Does make it not quite as obvious but it's not hard to figure out to just select "all contacts" to view them. Don't understand why they would even put this feature on the phone if you have chosen to delete your txt messages. Lame.

lib020

That did delete call history but not the history on the first slider screen where it displays txt messages.

lib020

Select your contact icon on your phone (not the phone) and scroll it to select the far left screen. You'll see the history there.

Suzukster129

For every Droid X user trying to delete the message history:

I found a way that works as a temporary fix.

~First off: Write down the number of the contact you're trying to delete from the history (ex girl/boyfriend, secret lover, whom ever)

~Secondly: Delete the contact

~Finally: Re-enter the contacts info

You'll notice the history for that contact is gone and even though this is a rather long route to take to delete the history it works.

I hope this helps you guys and girls out. Now lets just hope there's an update soon.

Adam2817

Thats the only thing I found that works, so where the hell is this crap being stored? its gotta have a memory somewhere! **bleep** feature I agree!!

Suzukster129

I wish I knew, I sure do hope there is an update soon. I can only keep deleting my contacts for so long, it doesn't seem right and it is a pretty big topic which only seems to only keep growing. Great phone, just a little hickup

zombieguy

I figured out immediately that if you delete the contact the history will go away, but thats a pretty big pain to have to do that, and then put it back in again, especially since it holds history from facebook from like 6 months ago, just seems so unnecessary to have this feature, I wouldn't go so far as to say "Death grip" proportions as someone above mentioned, but definitely needs to be fixed. Mjor privacy issue.

nicelady

Hey everybody i found out how to delete your call history on the Droid X . GO to Setting and click on about phone and then go to system update and click it and download it . Then you can delete all the history contacts

dirkbonn

nicelady wrote:
Hey everybody i found out how to delete your call history on the Droid X . GO to Setting and click on about phone and then go to system update and click it and download it . Then you can delete all the history contacts

I'm shocked!!!!! lol

mattessig22

Go to the contacts history and push the 1st button on your phone(next to the home button) Not on the screen the the actual 4 buttons you have on your phone. and it will say clear history. And thats it. Bada bing Bada boom its gone. :smileyhappy:

datadude

Hit contacts icon to pull up all contacts list. Scroll screen to the right until it will no longer scroll. This should be the contacts history showing all deleted calls and texts. Press the lower left hard button for settings. Select clear history. This works on version 2.2. However since I've updated to 2.3.3 this no longer works and I'm still trying to find out how to access contact history with this os.

Cody21

The only way I see yo can now do this is on a Contact by Contact basis. You just select any specific Contact - there is an option "CONTACT HISTORY" for every contact. You click on CLEAR ... unfortunately, it doesn't appear there is an option to just CLEAR ALL ..

mudlump

Ok, I have version 2.3.340. After browsing this forum and messing around a bit with the phone I was able to delete the contact history two ways:

While on a contact, scroll to the left to the History screen, press menu hard key (the first one all the way to the left), hit "Clear history" tab.
From main screen hit contact icon (the one that looks like a person on the bottom right). "Contacts:All contacts" screen appears. Scroll to the left screen - "History" screen. Press menu hard key (first one all the way to left on bottom of phone), hit "Clear history" tab.

I am assuming, after reading the threads posted over the past year, that they have corrected the problem of not being able to delete the history. Only now, you have to do it manually which is still asinine considering you have to delete everything twice!!

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