Can your phone do this?

Typing this deletes all contacts in my phone, the famous Openmoko Freerunner, running SHR-Testing

for i in `seq 1 1000`; do opimd-cli c delete $i; done

How do you do it in your phone?

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5 Responses to Can your phone do this?

  1. Ivan Nedrehagen says:

    Isn’t there an app for this? (for the small price of only 9.99$ you can now delete all your contacts with a single shake of your IPhone)

  2. Marc Dubrowski says:

    My phone (simvalley RX-80 V.3) can. Even without me knowing it ! The option exists that deletes all contacts at once on your SIM card. I still haven’t figured why, as this phone doesn’t allow saving your data to some other place.

    I did erase all the stuff with my own bottom, while the phone was in my rear pocket. I think I was riding my bike.

    Not fun to recover the contacts from other places (Didn’t have any backup: it is only a phone to me, and will stay so for a long time).

  3. Jisakiel says:

    - Why the hell would I want to do that?
    - I can format the whole phone and remove therefore every non-sim contact. *#7370# in my Nokias , somewhere under settings on Android. Can’t really think of a reason wanting to do remove my contacts and not the rest of my data otherwise.
    - Probably I can rm -rf contacts.db somewhere on Android. If not set to synchronize contacts, that would nuke it.
    - How the hell would I type that on my touchscreen?

  4. I go to my contacts, open “right-click” menu and “select all” and then click delete. I bet that is faster than try to type that with touchscreen ;)
    Oh, phone is Nokia N70

  5. Ivan: Indeed, depending on the strength, each shake deletes 1, 10 or 100 contacts :)

    Marc: Autch! You must have broken the container where the numbers are stored and they’re all now in your rear pocket..

    Jisakiel: Sometimes you need to do things like this – and a nice way to type in that is on-screen keyboard:
    http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/6f2b917b902d42ac88c6a9a64b1fb197.png – or over ssh connection :)

    Juha: Not bad :)

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