Facebook screen HTC Sense - how does it work - General Topics

Hi
Does anyone know hot the facebook thing in HTC sense works? What data is transmitted? Is it just downloading the list of friends and comparing the name?
Does it send the names in your contact book? or the phone numbers?

does really nobody care?

It should recognise contacts shared between your phone and facebook then fill in info in contact cards like birthdays, email adresses etc, only if its shared on facebook of course.
Theres probably more to it than that but its not a function I use a lot.
Hope that helps!

Than you for your answer.
so nothing will be transmitted to facebook? it will only download the data from fb and then compare it to the phone book?

monnom said:
Than you for your answer.
so nothing will be transmitted to facebook? it will only download the data from fb and then compare it to the phone book?
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yes it wont send any data to fb

except for updating your status nothing is sent... as far as i know.

ok, thank you!

And to update your Status via HTC Sense, view my tutorial. [image in my signature]

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[Q] Help! can i added individuals facebook contacts to WP7?

I added my facebook account to my phone, and it has now added all of my faceb ook contacts to my phone. i dont want all of them on my phone. is there a way where i can just select a few or even delete the ones which appear in my people hub???
davidebanks said:
I added my facebook account to my phone, and it has now added all of my faceb ook contacts to my phone. i dont want all of them on my phone. is there a way where i can just select a few or even delete the ones which appear in my people hub???
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I don't think you can add them individually, but if you go to settings/applications/people you can limit it to just have facebook contacts for the people already in your contact list. It'll still show updates for all your facebook contacts tho.
Sorry if this doesn't make much sense....I'm not great at explaining these things!
Thanks, thats exactly what i wanted all done!
No probs, glad it worked!
Now, back to Zune backgrounds!
oh, ive just noticed that people who write their names differently on facebook wont appear on my phone. anyone else have this problem? for example, if you have a "john smith" in your contacts, and if on facebook hes called himself john "smyth" on facebook, then WP7 wont be able to add the FB contact "john smyth" to the WP7 contact. anyone else have this problem?
Yep, I had that as well. I've a friend in my contact list called Jim but his facebook name is James. What I did was link the contacts together before I switched to just having facebook contacts that were already in my contact list.
Again, sorry if this doesn't make much sense!
Yeah, I was going to say you can link them manually - probably the way to go!

Facebook app

Which app do you advise ? The Samsung integrated in the Social Hub or the official one from the market ?
I come from a TP where I really liked HTC's integration of facebook in Sense. Not too invasive and living quite well with my exchange account
Right now my contacts in my outlook (2011) on my PC are linked with their facebook profile, and so are they in Sense. With my Tab I worry a little bit about putting a mess in a system that has found its balance
Any risk to duplicate contacts if I use the Samsubg app ? Or the Android app ? Will they merge properly with my exchnage contacts ? Stay aside ?
I just dont wnat to make the step to find out after I messed up my contact list (More than 1200 people so clenaing that up would take me a few days....)
Hi I use Facebook from the market and also use one called boo
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The built-in one is pretty much for synching only, any actual facebook viewing would need to be done via the browser.
I switched from the built-in SNS client to the official Facebook client and didn't experience any problems.
knightnz said:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The built-in one is pretty much for synching only, any actual facebook viewing would need to be done via the browser.
I switched from the built-in SNS client to the official Facebook client and didn't experience any problems.
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I haven't installed anything yet Not tryig to fix anything just trying to be sure what I'll do wont create troubles to my contact list
The built-in app is just meant to sync your existing contacts on the phone and match them with facebook friends ? Or it adds all the facebook friends ?
The official app doesnt do this ?
Don't get the account permissions confused if you install the market app. Its annoying to find you gave the stock app permissions that arent on the market app.
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Alcibiade said:
I haven't installed anything yet Not tryig to fix anything just trying to be sure what I'll do wont create troubles to my contact list
The built-in app is just meant to sync your existing contacts on the phone and match them with facebook friends ? Or it adds all the facebook friends ?
The official app doesnt do this ?
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Both versions sync contact pictures etc. The official app gives you the option to sync pictures+status updates with all friends, just those with existing contact entries, or none at all.
knightnz said:
Both versions sync contact pictures etc. The official app gives you the option to sync pictures+status updates with all friends, just those with existing contact entries, or none at all.
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OK, thanks. To be clear the Samsung one will not offer more and wont let me the choice about what I sync and what i don't sync
Alcibiade said:
OK, thanks. To be clear the Samsung one will not offer more and wont let me the choice about what I sync and what i don't sync
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Anyone ? Maybe I am making too much fuss about this but I dont wnat to mes up my exchange contact list...
Not 100% sure about this, but I don't think it will mess up any of your existing contacts.
When logging in using the official Facebook app, it will create a sort of 'profile' for all existing contacts -- it won't merge info with the actual contact. You'll see this when you edit a contact, there will be 2 (or more) tabs when editing the contact.
It's like a 'Metacontact' in Trillian wherein it's only a merged 'View' of a contact, but in reality the data is in separate 'profiles'. The Facebook tab is uneditable and will only display info.
The only problem I have so far is that when creating a new SMS, it will display -ALL- contact numbers and e-mail address of contacts, even if the number is exactly the same:
i.e. I have a contact named Bob Smith in my Google, Exchange and Facebook accounts, and they are merged as one account. In the Dialer, all the info is merged into one contact when displaying, but when editing, they are editable in 3 separate tabs.
However when I create an SMS and scroll to find Bob Smith, it displays all contact infos of Bob Smith, even duplicate ones, like if I have his number +123456789 on Google and Exchange and Facebook, it displays 3 same numbers when selecting a recipient.
Edit:
Also, when you sign out or remove the Facebook app, it will delete the Facebook 'profile' of the contact on your contacts list, maintaining the state of the previous contact before you logged in / installed Facebook.
Thanks a lot, that's good to know
I already saw the mess it was having google contacts and exchnage contacts (I usually maintain both... for 1200 contacts!) The worst is for contacts for which I entered only the first name... they happen to be all merged together (Well done samsung... They could have defined a merge key a bit larger than just the name........)
What about when you use the Samsung app ?? Someone knows ?

Facebook for myTouch contact issue

I have the facebook app installed on my phone. When i went to upload a photo onto facebook it gave me the option to use the facebook app or facebook for mytouch. i went ahead and tried it through the mytouch option and i signed into my account which seemed to add my facebook account onto my phone as something it automatically syncs. it synced my facebook contacts to my normally contact...a cool feature and all BUT i dont want it...
i deleted the facebook account off my phone but my facebook contacts are still mixed with my normal ones. i cant delete them either, i tried long pressing and also tried going INTO the contact to maybe edit it and it wont let you do a thing.
any advice?
Were the contacts linked with facebook accounts?
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You may want to sort you contacts, from the contacts > Menu> View and uncheck facebook. It won't delete them but you won't have to deal with them.
Also try clearing the data in the Facebook for MT app, not sure if it will do it but it should't hurt.
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Were the contacts linked with facebook accounts?
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They were these were contacts that i've never had in my phone before then they appeared on my actual contacts. Some did/didn't have contact numbers depending if they had them in their actual facebook and what i'm noticing is they all have the little circle by their name greyed out meaning i can video chat with them. I deleted all my video chat programs and cleared all my data for contacts/facebook/video chat and they wont go away.
These people have never been on my phone before it happened right when i tried out the facebook for mytouch.
*i wouldnt mind this but i play a lot of farmville and "those" games and half the people on my friends list are "neighbors" only*
Daguse said:
You may want to sort you contacts, from the contacts > Menu> View and uncheck facebook. It won't delete them but you won't have to deal with them.
Also try clearing the data in the Facebook for MT app, not sure if it will do it but it should't hurt.
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I did as you advised and i dont even have a facebook option. I just have the option to show tmobile, google, google (youtube), video chat, sim, phone.
ToterPunkt said:
They were these were contacts that i've never had in my phone before then they appeared on my actual contacts. Some did/didn't have contact numbers depending if they had them in their actual facebook and what i'm noticing is they all have the little circle by their name greyed out meaning i can video chat with them. I deleted all my video chat programs and cleared all my data for contacts/facebook/video chat and they wont go away.
These people have never been on my phone before it happened right when i tried out the facebook for mytouch.
*i wouldnt mind this but i play a lot of farmville and "those" games and half the people on my friends list are "neighbors" only*
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hmm any way you can post a screen shot.... Also when you go into the contact and click the name..... in the top right what does it say? Google? Linked? Facebook? And one last thing, once in the contact can you click menu and delete? if not what happen?
Daguse said:
hmm any way you can post a screen shot.... Also when you go into the contact and click the name..... in the top right what does it say? Google? Linked? Facebook? And one last thing, once in the contact can you click menu and delete? if not what happen?
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Sadly i'm not rooted and therefore can't post a screen shot...unless theres another route you can advice me on then definitely. Maybe ill just take a photo of it with my camera if there is no other way lol.
After clearing all my info again and uninstalling any qik updates it shows qik in the corner of all these contacts, none of them are linked, and about half have actual content info.
From the contact list - long press - call mobile, send contact as vcard, add a fave now!
From within the contact - clicked on the menu button - all, link, send contact, save to sim, set speed dial
From within the contact - tried pressing every item i could and i can only "Edit" the number to something else...i cant do much else with it.
thanks for the help =)
ToterPunkt said:
Sadly i'm not rooted and therefore can't post a screen shot...unless theres another route you can advice me on then definitely. Maybe ill just take a photo of it with my camera if there is no other way lol.
After clearing all my info again and uninstalling any qik updates it shows qik in the corner of all these contacts, none of them are linked, and about half have actual content info.
From the contact list - long press - call mobile, send contact as vcard, add a fave now!
From within the contact - clicked on the menu button - all, link, send contact, save to sim, set speed dial
From within the contact - tried pressing every item i could and i can only "Edit" the number to something else...i cant do much else with it.
thanks for the help =)
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Sorry man, I tried everything I could to recreate this on my phone with no go.....
Make sure to check your contacts on the gmail site, make sure they are not listed there.
If that does not work it looks like you will need to do a factory reset. Sorry
Daguse said:
Sorry man, I tried everything I could to recreate this on my phone with no go.....
Make sure to check your contacts on the gmail site, make sure they are not listed there.
If that does not work it looks like you will need to do a factory reset. Sorry
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I was afraid of that...
I went ahead and rooted my phone, deleted qik completely off my system. That took care of it. Hope this doesnt happen to anyone else =/
Thanks for your advice though, i'm surprised it didnt work. It was extremely "stuck" and quite stubborn.

[Q] Backup of Android Contact Links

Is there any way to backup your contact links? For instance, I linked a bunch of my phonebook contacts to my facebook contacts, but if I perform a full wipe those links do not get synced and I have to manually relink all of the contacts again (which takes quite some time!).
I noticed that the Facebook for Sense contact information gets synced, but after a wipe the regular Facebook link information does not.
I am running CM7 RC0.4 on HTC Thunderbolt.
Thank you!!
Bump...
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brucipher said:
Is there any way to backup your contact links? For instance, I linked a bunch of my phonebook contacts to my facebook contacts, but if I perform a full wipe those links do not get synced and I have to manually relink all of the contacts again (which takes quite some time!).
I noticed that the Facebook for Sense contact information gets synced, but after a wipe the regular Facebook link information does not.
I am running CM7 RC0.4 on HTC Thunderbolt.
Thank you!!
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Have you checked your databases located in your /data/system, /data/data/,,,,,,,,
areas of your rom?
Give me a little while so I grab one of my nand backup and go through it. I believe it is in either one of the databases (sqlite3) or its in an xml file like other things.
gostridr said:
Have you checked your databases located in your /data/system, /data/data/,,,,,,,,
areas of your rom?
Give me a little while so I grab one of my nand backup and go through it. I believe it is in either one of the databases (sqlite3) or its in an xml file like other things.
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Thank you for the reply and thank you for exploring it for me! I am an android noob so it is much appreciated...
Sent from my Thunderbolt using XDA app.
sorry for taking so long to get back to you but long hours at work.
I still havent found a way to keep the links and incorporate them into gmail contacts. I have a feeling that it is something to do with facebook preventing this.
But it has sparked an intrest and I am going to look at something and see what happens.
Here is something I came across. I tried it for syncing FB to existing contacts in gmail
www dot facebook dot com/apps/application.php?id=133934337558
gostridr said:
Here is something I came across. I tried it for syncing FB to existing contacts in gmail
www dot facebook dot com/apps/application.php?id=133934337558
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is there any other idea of backing up the link between contact list & facebook?
Ok, going to bring this up again. New version of cm7 for the tbolt and I would like to do a full wipe and not have to relink all of my facebook contacts with my phone contacts...any ideas?
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I want to bump this question again.
I am using haxsync on my s4, and I want to backup links. In haxsync settings, there is a menu item that adds HTCdata links info to save link status to google contacts. Would this suffice? If I wipe and restore again, using haxsync, would they be shown even though they are <htcdata> on my Samsung? or is there a proper solution ?
Note: The device is rooted, so I can easily export a system file/folder and restore.
Thanks in advance,

[Q] How many of you sync your Facebook Contacts with Phone?

Once last time, I sync my Facebook app with my phone contacts. Then it "mess" up my contacts such as changing for me names of my contacts to what the contact use in Facebook. Because of that, I had nightmare.
I am just curious how many of you do sync your Facebook app with phone contacts? I ask because with all the integration of Google with Facebook and Twitter or even with social media websites, I was wondering to try sync again or not.
Like what's the benefits to sync?
Share your views please.
Thanks!
Someone from androidforums.com commented that:
I do. I found that to solve the problem with Facebook last names, you link the Facebook contact TO your google contact, not the other way around. If you link the Google contact to the facebook contact, it will use the name that's on facebook.
I find it extremely helpful to have my facebook contacts right in my phone. That way, if I need to contact somebody that isn't in my regular phonebook, i can contact them quickly.
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While waiting for his reply there, maybe I like to ask here too... how do I link FACEBOOK to GOOGLE? (right?) =D

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