New Phone- only want specific gmail contacts to sync over to phone

[Brian Thornton]

I recently got a new galaxy. I want to do an initial sync from my gmail account to the phone. I have hundreds of contacts in my gmail account and I do not want them all in my phone. Is there a way I can filter or hide the unwanted contacts in my gmail so that they do not transfer over to the phone?

i tried to search this but could not find the thread.

 

[Brian Thornton]

TRY using the search button!!!!!!!
Make Android syncing selective:
By default, your Android phone syncs your entire "My Contacts" group?great if you've kept it tidy, annoying if you only want a certain whitelist of friends and contacts to show up. Open the Contacts app, head to the Contacts tab, hit the Menu button, and select "Display options." From this screen, you can choose which Google or Facebook accounts to sync, and which sub-groups inside those accounts you want shown. A master switch at the top also allows syncing only of those contacts with phone numbers, though that seems like a kind of drastic dead man's switch for such a Gmail-savvy phone. (via Droidie, which also explains the sync fix procedure for HTC Sense-skinned phones).