Deleting Photos from iPhone

How do I delete synced photos from my iPhone? I don't have any problems deleting photos from my camera roll, but the "Devices Downloaded Files" and "My Photos" Folders i can't delete from. I've gone into iTunes and unchecked "Sync Photos from", and it says it will remove the photos from the iPhone when it syncs again but it hasn't yet. Any thoughts?

One thing that might help out.
When you sync photos via itunes, it tries to make a mirror copy of the source.
So, if you are syncing photos from a folder, this might help.
When you add photos to the folder and sync the iphone, itunes copies the new photos to the iphone.
To remove synced photos from the iphone, remove them from the folder you are syncing from.
Then sync the iphone.
Hope this helps.

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