Best way to sync contact pics and info - Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]

I'm currently running the Desire port on my N1 but I'm starting to think its dead and I need to move on to froyo. The only thing holding me back is all my friends Facebook info that's synced with their Gmail contact info (picture, email, birthday, whatever else) and contact pictures in general too. If someone deleted their FB profile then I lose their email too, so its not really "synced" with their gmail contact info..same for pictures, after a a wipe the resync the contacts you lose all contact pics..
The same even goes for names, for example if I have 'john' in my phone but sync it with his FB account his name is 'John Doe,' so I can select to display that name instead.now if he deletes his profile it does back to just 'john' no profile pic, no email, etc...
So is there some application that will allow for a more extensive contact sync/backup? Or just sync contact pics, email, and names off their Facebook accounts?
I just dont want to lose a lot of my contacts info when I switch to froyo..
Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance!
(I hope this is the right spot to post this)
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Backup contacts + fb link

I have all my contacts saved as Google contacts so they sync with gmail automatically, but it seems like it doesn't copy the contact picture from the phone to the gmail account. Is there any way to sync the pictures too, or at least to back them up somewhere so that if I flash a new rom, I can get back my contact pictures without having to manually reassign all of them?
Also, is there a way to backup the Facebook contact links (the ones I had to assign manually) so that I don't have to assign them all again after I flash?
Thanks!
as the big guys say... search http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=876190
Big guys also say dont dig up two years old thread...
Lol... Was excited to share knowledge and be useful for once :-D
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[Q] Facebook contact syncing

All right so heres the deal:
With my Fascinate and Droid 1, I was able to sync up the contacts I WANTED to (manually) with Facebook, and the rest wouldn't show up in my address book. Well, HTC Sense has the account you link up, and it matched people automatically, cool, I'm fine with that. However, it dumped EVERYONE that was on my fb into my address book, not cool. So I went in, hid the fb people, no biggie, thought it was done with.
Not so. When I go to compose a text or email, it still shows me EVERYONE on fb who has a # on there, which I DON'T want. Is there any way to manually link the people I DO want, but not have it link EVERYONE ???? I've unchecked link people from the account settings, but as soon as I link one person manually, it dumps all the #'s on there. Its rather frustrating....any help or ideas would be appreciated, thanks.
when you first install fb it asks you if you wants contact sync for all contacts our only ones on your phone.. mightve picked the wrong one.
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That's for Facebook app syncing, which is different.
I'm talking about Facebook for Sense syncing.
But that option does the same thing to my contact list, dumps my #s in there
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mexiken said:
All right so heres the deal:
With my Fascinate and Droid 1, I was able to sync up the contacts I WANTED to (manually) with Facebook, and the rest wouldn't show up in my address book. Well, HTC Sense has the account you link up, and it matched people automatically, cool, I'm fine with that. However, it dumped EVERYONE that was on my fb into my address book, not cool. So I went in, hid the fb people, no biggie, thought it was done with.
Not so. When I go to compose a text or email, it still shows me EVERYONE on fb who has a # on there, which I DON'T want. Is there any way to manually link the people I DO want, but not have it link EVERYONE ???? I've unchecked link people from the account settings, but as soon as I link one person manually, it dumps all the #'s on there. Its rather frustrating....any help or ideas would be appreciated, thanks.
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Try going into people/view/ and un-check facebook for sense.
Did that. Removes them from People view, but composing a new text displays all my fb contacts who have their numbers on there. It's really annoying.....
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What all has the green swirliest under accounts & sync?
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go into people-menu-view and pick the contacts you want to view or just manually sync the people you want by clicking the contact and picking them on facebook. thats what i did.
I'm feel he has it set to sync with ALL contacts, not sync with existing contacts.
@leoingle: ????
@albotz: I just tried deleting the HTC fb account. I readded it. It automagically started syncing ALL the contacts to the phone book. If you uncheck the sync contacts button, it just goes and resyncs them anyway.
If they aren't in your address book, try composing a message, and then you will see ALL your contacts, yours + the people with a phone number listed on fb, from the available contacts you can choose to send a text to.
@g00s3y: I'm not an idiot, I assure you its set to sync with existing, but after I try to manually sync a contact, it just syncs EVERYONE. I go back to check the app, and its mysteriously changed itself to "sync all contacts"
Don't use Facebook for HTC then, use the Facebook app, which is available off market. The apps do virtually the same thing

[Q] contact list question (specifically pictures)

in my contact list i see photos/icons beside a contacts name. some of those icons carry over when i text message some people and show up under messaging. a vast majority of the photo/icons dont populate when in messaging but will if i call them or look at their contact information.
something i can do to fix this?
Crickets....
Is this not happening to anyone else?
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It only carries over to texts if they have a gmail account photo (also known as a google profile pic)....even though your contact list will show profile photos from facebook, gmail, phone storage, etc.
Only way to fix this is get all your contacts to add a gmail profile picture
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SSJ_Gomike said:
It only carries over to texts if they have a gmail account photo (also known as a google profile pic)....even though your contact list will show profile photos from facebook, gmail, phone storage, etc.
Only way to fix this is get all your contacts to add a gmail profile picture
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ahhhh... nice. who the hell doesn't have a gmail account and/or picture by now? apparently half my contact list.
stone age weirdos
actually i think you have to set the photos in gmail.
but its weird because on my atrix and any other android pictures would be linked automatically via facebook,gmail,twitter.
my who contact list has pictures except when in messages no pic shows up.
Yeah I noticed it too, My Captivate didnt have this problem, its weird Ive noticed that in some areas the Infuse actually took a step back.
Make sure the contacts are in the phone and not on the sim card. I changed that setting and all my pictures appeared....
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Hey guys try this. Today I acedently screwing around trying to edit a contact I tried deleting it and I coulndt and a pop up came up about read only and hit okay r confirm whatever and I really didn't pay attention to it. So I had to unsync my Facebook to get my contact back. Pics started showing up in my messages. So try to remove Facebook and add t again
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For the Facebook/Social Networking Sync issue: I just got the Infuse a couple of days ago and noticed this issue. By going into the Facebook App and bringing up the settings, I determined that by default the Sync Friends withContacts is set to "Sync with existing contacts" which while it makes sense actually doesn't do squat. So, by changing to "Sync All" I was able to get everything populated over.
To the OP's post: As is stated, messaging only seems to go off what you've got in your Gmail account for account pics. It's annoying, but maybe an update is forthcoming to fix this.
Try this:
Go to:
Settings > Accounts and sync
Make sure facebook "sync contacts" is unchecked.
Now press the "Add Account" button at the bottom.
Choose the Facebook SocialUpdates account. Should be right at the top.
Make sure Sync Contacts is checked under this one.
Let it sync and be AMAZED!
Note: I see everyone's facebook profile pics in the messaging app.
I had this problem and it really bothered me. All I did was backup my contacts to Gmail and then I let in sync. After that I just unchecked all the display options for Gmail so it would just show Facebook contacts

[Q] Managing Contacts, simple options?

Hi, Just got my charge today and synced up my contacts from my gmail (primary contacts list), facebook and twitter. But my contacts seem to be a mess. Many of them were automagically linked together but many others just show repeats of each other and when I link them manually, it seems as if I am loosing some information. Also, many of my google contacts show up multiple times with repeated info, when I link them it just ends up doubling up on everything. Moving from an old HTC windows mobile phone, I am stuck with these ridiculous notes in contacts that HTC used for its sync.
An example, My friend Becky has two contact entries, both from google (despite only one entry in my google contacts). One contains most of the info and the other just an email address, when I join them I loose the number and name and just end up with her email address as the contact. What gives? My question:
Is there a decent contact manager recommended that will join contacts as one contact (not multiple) and remove redundant information?
Is there any logic to joining contacts that will prevent me from loosing information like that or am I doing something wrong?
How do I add my google contacts "into my phone" so that I can use it to create groups and the such? I believe I can just export a contacts file and import it but I am afraid I would run into the same problem of multiple contacts with the same information in them.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
ok heres what i would do, remove all the accounts with contacts from the phone and then reboot. now add your google account back and check it. if every thing is good. move on with Facebook and such.. i dont let Facebook sync with my phone after what happened to me. anyways check it again.
this fixed my problem with google and hotmail, and other accounts. hopefully it will work for you.
Or you can open up contacts, hit menu and set the privcey filters..like don't show Facebook contacts etc
I dont think so
If you download the Facebook app from the market it gives you different options to sync. I sync only with exsiting contacts that are in my phonebook. That way I don't have a million people in my contacts list.
I followed your advice and got it the way I like. I had to sync twitter and facebook through the phone and manually combine contacts. At least now when I user the message app, I don't have four or five of the same people. Out was word when I first noticed the facebook and twitter apps both have an additional sync option. This is my first android smartphone too. Thanks for the advice.
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[Q] FB Pics not syncing with SMS

Hey all,
I'm brand new to the Samsung world - Eris to Droid 1 to Droid 2 to Incredible and now the Charge..
Question: has anyone else had issues with the stock SMS app NOT displaying Facebook synced pictures? They all show up just fine in my contacts list but not in the Messages. I have syncing enabled in both the market FB app and the built in system and still no dice.
I am running rooted EP4D, PB&J kernel, EXT4.
Any help would be appreciated!
** by the way, I now realize that I totally forgot to add a title - I apologize!!! Added!
Phone contacts/google contacts tend to have trouble syncing with each other, from my experience. Syncing your FB contacts with your phone will add them to your contacts list, but they will still be separate from corresponding google/phone contacts. This is partly because people use different formats for names on facebook and also don't have their cell phone number info on FB.
Basically what you would have to do is click on each contact, go to info tab, joined contacts, and then join another contact. While this may seem tedious, just do it every time somebody else texts you, and it will eventually sort out.
If this doesn't work, then I don't know what else could be wrong...
BattsNotIncld said:
Phone contacts/google contacts tend to have trouble syncing with each other, from my experience. Syncing your FB contacts with your phone will add them to your contacts list, but they will still be separate from corresponding google/phone contacts. This is partly because people use different formats for names on facebook and also don't have their cell phone number info on FB.
Basically what you would have to do is click on each contact, go to info tab, joined contacts, and then join another contact. While this may seem tedious, just do it every time somebody else texts you, and it will eventually sort out.
If this doesn't work, then I don't know what else could be wrong...
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Thanks for the suggestion but most of my Google contacts that matched up with FB friends have been properly joined by Android automatically.. I have manually joined a few, but even the ones that are already joined and DO show images in the contacts app, still don't show images in the SMS app.
It's like the SMS app is not synced (image wise) with the contacts app...
The contacts app will display the latest picture, because it can "talk" to the Facebook app to grab the pictures. However, it is not saving the contacts with updated pictures, it's just displaying a different image. If you would delete the Facebook account info, all images would be the same. If you want them to link up, you need something that will copy the Facebook profile pics and save them to your contacts.
Thanks for the reply imnuts,
I actually got this crap working by signing in and enabling full sync with both SNS facebook and the app itself. Now, all my contacts that are joined with FB have images showing up in contacts and messages.
We're good to go!

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