[HLUG] android phone swamped with gmail contacts

[Tim Spivey]

Apparently the 'pattern lock' is fairly unbreakable (on Android phones)
On Nov 20, 2012 11:36 AM, "Steve Horsfield" <horsfield.steve at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have the same problem i.e. every bloody email address to pass through my
> mail box in the last six years appears in my contacts. However grouping my
> contacts and the friends, favourites categories surmount this problem. I
> have 1253 addresses in the 'not-assigned' category. I understand a near
> neighbour of mine inadvertently allowed linkedin to comb through his gmail
> account sending invitations to all manner of people he did not know
> requesting they join him on linked in. It is so easily done.
>
> Returning to the plot however, you need to be extremely careful with the
> Google security, what there is of it. Since I started using the Android
> Google has begun to log me out on my laptop daily and on every reboot. That
> is quite right. It is detecting that the account is being used elsewhere,
> on the Android and demanding an active login. Google does not do that on my
> Android, there is no active login. Once anyone is in to my phone they have
> access to my mail, my contacts, my documents, everything. The only security
> I have on that is the password protection on the phone.
>
> Steve Horsfield
>
>
>
> On 20 November 2012 11:00, george dicegeorge <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > When I synced my android phone with my gmail
> > it cluttered up the contacts with zillions of old email addresses.
> >
> > But I want to sync the calenders.
> >
> > Is the only way to start a new google account just for the phone
> > and sync the calendar with that?
> >
> > [george]
> >
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