deleting text contacts

How do I delete a contact from my TEXT contact list from the Charge? It seems to have saved every person and email address I've ever searched or had contact with.

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RoseDawson

Well, i do appreciate you trying! Thanks!!!

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Wildman

Can you give more info because text message is suppost to undicate who you texted and recieved text from, am I missing something?

Mercy

when I go to messaging and hit new message then hit contacts, I get a long list of every person I ever sent a text to or got a text from or email address i have imputted into google search or facebook.... i dont want some of these contacts in my phone and need to delete them. These contacts are NOT in my regular contact list, only under messaging. I NEED to delete them off this list. Is there a way to do this?

Mercy

BTW... Rose and Mercy are the same person.... this site made me register again....

Wildman

Try 1Tap Cleaner from https://market.android.com/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.acc.free&feature=search_result

History Eraser from https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.infolife.eraser&feature=search_result

Mercy

will these erase ALL the contacts? I only want to erase a few of them.

Mercy

neither of those apps worked. Usually when you want to delete a text or contact you press and hold on it. Under messaging contacts, it does not give you this option. I MUST delete some of these contacts. Can anyone help?

WCMack

Dear Mercy,

There does not seem to be a way to selectively erase contacts from the Contacts or Recent lists in the messaging app, at least not one that I could figure out.

I am also guessing that the apps Wildman suggested will perform a mass wipe of history and cache data from the phone, and will not allow you to select what you want to erase and what to keep. Also, I think the Contacts list in the messaging app imports all the contacts from elsewhere in the phone, so that if you have contacts in Google or Facebook, they will be on both the main Contacts list and on the Contacts list in the messaging app. I don't think these will be erased by the apps Wildman is talking about.

Mercy

no, those apps did not work. I specifically want to delete an email address from this contact list. It does not appear in my main contact list only the messaging app. this is very important that i find a way to delete this email from my phone. any other suggestions? I have searched EVERY setting on the phone and I could not find a way either.

Wildman

I think WCMack is right that it can not be deleted, the apps was a shot in the dark because they work for some apps but I never had to delete the info you are asking..

By the way when you said that the site made you make another login, I am guessing you open the page and it met you with a forum profile completion form... Actually you could close all browsers and then it would allow you to use your original log, this is a site bug for some while and happens when you log into your account and then go to forum without closing browser, I get it all the time and have reported this issue.