Contacts on Android: Delete limit exceeded

A few days ago I deleted all of my Android contacts (using the "Delete Contacts" app). Not a mistake, I really want to delete them.

From that day, Android always shows a notification "Sync: Too many contacts deletes".
When I click on it, a menu comes:

Delete limit exceeded
There are 3960 deleted items for contacts, account [email protected]. What would you like to do?
- Delete the items.
- Undo the deletes.
- Do nothing for now.

When I click Delete the items, the menu disappears, and nothing seems to happen. The contacts are gone but the notification still sits there. It has been like this for days. What should I do?

Topic contacts sync android

Category Android

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Your phone is linked to your Gmail account? If you log into your account in a web browser and click on "Contacts" in the lower left, does it still show your deleted contacts there? If you can fix up the list there, it should (?) sync to your phone.

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This happened to my wife's phone too, but I don't remember exactly how she fixed it. I think what she did was disable contact sync, then go to Gmail on the web and delete all the contacts from there, then re-enable contact sync on her phone.

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