Deleted contacts keep re-appearing in my Contacts. Why??!!! Backup assist failure.

Every morning when I wake up, I have an alert on my Droid Razr M that says the backup assistant failed. So I delete some old contacts to make room so I don't have to pay for an upgrade. Same thing the next day. I look, and ALL the contacts I deleted have been re-populated to my phone! How do I get them to stay gone?

I want to ensure you have positive experience with Backup Assistant. Let's ensure your contacts back up at the time of removal. To backup current contacts head into Settings > Backup Assistant Plus > Backup Assistant plus Contacts > Sync Now.
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Hi,
My brother gave me his BB 8900. I've deleted his contacts every way I know how, and his contacts keep re-appearing on the phone.
1. I've deleted the contacts through the Desktop software
2. I've a clean list of my contacts on Gmail and Yahoo address book for syncing.
3. I've deleted my bro's contacts on the back-up folder contacts.
4. I've no entries in my SIM Phone Book.
5. I set the Address Book Wireless Synchronization field to No.
I get to the point where everything looks clean on handheld and phone ... and 30 minutes later the unconnected phone has somehow restored the (600) deleted contacts into the address book
Any idea what I'm missing? Thanks.

Interesting. A clean start could help because I don't know whats causing it. You've done some good troubleshooting so far.
I recommend wiping the device so you can setup from scratch. This guarantees nothing from your brothers settings remain.
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go with option 5
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So you suggest I go to Gmail and set up accounts ( I assume they will walk me through ) (starting from my current gmail acct that my android uses-- or start from scratch?) to receive email addressed to my current email addresses? Then by not transfering out of goDaddy, I won't lose lots of email and mail files, folders in the transition?
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