just out of curiosity since i can't find an option.
Is there any possible way to enable the facebook sync but NOT use the facebook pictures and/or last names
It seems that once it syncs theres no possible way to change it since everytime i change a picture or a last name it just gets added right back on.
but i do like seeing the status updates and having the quick link to the profiles, i just hate the other stuff it does
it'd be nice if the facebook sync just added info to the standard gmail contact card and not "sync it with another account"..i wish it would allow you to delete facebook phone numbers and save email addresses from facebook to the gmail contact card and save contact pics and names easily..this feature needs a lot of work imo...
yeah. well judging from the no yes answers i'm just going to assume that this is impossible
For pictures, YES it's possible and easy to do!
Background:
I have my Gmail contacts with pictures I customized for each contact.
Contacts with Facebook have their own pictures and get automatically chosen as the default picture if Facebook Sync is enabled.
Here's how to fix it.
1. Launch CONTACTS and select the contact that has the facebook picture.
2. Press MENU, then EDIT CONTACT.
3. You will notice that the contact picture that is NOW SHOWN is the original gmail contact picture!
4. TAP on the picture, and choose "USE THIS PHOTO".
5. Tap DONE, now your gmail contact picture is the default picture!
You have to do this to all your Facebook contact pictures that you don't want.
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For pictures, YES it's possible and easy to do!
Background:
I have my Gmail contacts with pictures I customized for each contact.
Contacts with Facebook have their own pictures and get automatically chosen as the default picture if Facebook Sync is enabled.
Here's how to fix it.
1. Launch CONTACTS and select the contact that has the facebook picture.
2. Press MENU, then EDIT CONTACT.
3. You will notice that the contact picture that is NOW SHOWN is the original gmail contact picture!
4. TAP on the picture, and choose "USE THIS PHOTO".
5. Tap DONE, now your gmail contact picture is the default picture!
You have to do this to all your Facebook contact pictures that you don't want.
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pft. figures it's something as simple as tapping and i never did that. aye. gonna have the girlfriend smack me for this one lol.
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Hi there,
After finally getting the Android Stock Contacts app on my Desire, I'm finally able to use the "Sync Group" option to only show one group (let's call it "cormie) in the phone book. This is all fine, I have ticked off all other groups and only "cormie" is ticked on. It displays the "cormie" contacts and the contacts on the SIM (I can delete them off it later I guess) but the main objective is to just use the "cormie" contacts and nothing else.
However, when I go to add a new contact and save it, when I sync it to Gmail, the new entry doesn't show up in "cormie" but only in "all contacts" and once the contact is saved on the phone, it doesn't appear in the phone book because I'm only showing "cormie" contacts and it's not there To see the entry I have to go back in and to show all contacts, then I see it.
This puts a great hindrance on the purpose of the Sync Group option. The guy in post 10 here seems to have got it going, but as you can see in my reply, post 11, it's not saving to the desired group for me!
I'd really appreciate if anyone has a solution for this and could explain how to get it working properly. Or is there an alternative contacts program that will do it? Also, if anyone knows how to not display SIM contacts in the phonebook please share too
Any feedback appreciated at all!
Brilliant! I think I got a workaround
When I first started using the phone after rooting it, I selected "contacts" to be the default for all the options and it actually turns out that the Sense "people" app allows you to save a contact to a group even though it doesn't allow you to "sync groups", choosing which groups you want to sync only, so I needed to get the "people" app to be the default for adding contacts.
What I had to do was go to the main menu > settings > applications > manage applications > scroll down to contacts > and press "clear defaults"
This clears "contacts" as being the default for all the phonebook related actions. If you go back to the home screen and click "phone" you can set "contacts" as the default for this, but then when you go to add a new contact in contacts, it will ask what app you want to add a contact with, click set as default and click the "people" app. Now all "add to contact" actions will be carried out using "people" app, here you can select the group you wish to save it to and then it will show up perfectly in the "contacts" "contacts" menu and will be synched correctly to the chosen group on Gmail!
I think, after 18 days of buying it, I'm finally ready to put my normal sim card in the phone and start using it as a phone! Finally!
I realize this is WAY later than the original post, but have any of you found a solution to not being able to add a new contact to the group you want to add it to? I'm using an HTC Hero (cdma) that I Froyoed with aospmod 2.2.1, so I cannot use the htc "people" app - at least I read that. Sorting by groups is mucho importante to me and I find the default contacts app built into aospmod lacking in this area.
Thanks if you even reply to this!
So, this is my dilemma.
1. I have a SIM Card. It has contacts on it. Android automatically recognizes them.
2. I have my contacts saved to Google. Android also automatically recognizes them.
If I go to enter in a name to send a text, it brings a pull-down menu, with duplicates of everyone. One is for SIM, and one is for Google Contacts.
The Contact list IS slow with Google instead of it being saved directly to my phone. I want to save them directly to my phone. If I do so, the "send a text to" list triples, so each name appears three times.
The contact list, I can exclude everything but phone contacts. Is this something I can do in Messaging? Should I give up on Messaging and its many issues and move to Handcent and deal with its own issues?
I check before I go to bed and it is bumped off the main page?? Where are the people who can help at XDA anymore? It seems every topic I post gets pushed away
So... anyone?
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Merge Google contacts then uncheck Google backup. Then make sure there's only one of each,then save to ur phone.worked for me!
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Why don't you just go to your contacts page from Gmail on your PC, sort them all out how you want them and then let them automatically sync to your phone?
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Why don't you just go to your contacts page from Gmail on your PC, sort them all out how you want them and then let them automatically sync to your phone?
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this is the easiest method!
Go into your contacts, for every contact that has a duplicate, do this:
1. Press Menu Button and select "Edit Contact"
2. When in the edit contact area, press the menu button again
3. Select "Join" and pick the associated duplicate contact.
This worked great for me with all my duplicate Facebook and Google contacts.
Hope that helps.
I accidentally regged the same account in both Facebook and 'FB for Sense" (it felt logical at the time, but I have a secondary acc for work). Is it possible to replace one of the two accounts with the correct one, without losing the now synced contacts? They are now part of my merged contacts and I don't want it to touch them, if possible.
I'm actually asking two different things, but so closely related that I figured I'd only post a single thread.
1. Can I have two separate FB accounts on the phone?
2. Can I replace one currently active account, without losing the synced contacts? Losing only the "connection info" linked to the old FB account isn't a problem, as long as I don't lose the actual person from my contacts.
As a follow-up on Q2, if that is possible, which FB-app should I use to replace the acc, FB or 'FB for Sense'? Will either of them affect my contacts less?
Seriously, nobody knows?
I can understand nobody really having the need for several FB accounts, but not so much that nobody actually knows if it's possible or not, or which (if any) of the two standard clients would be best to use to setup the secondary account.
I'm struggling to get ONE facebook account to work and sync properly.
I only have about 20 phone contacts, close friends and family, but I have about 300 facebook friends.
Every time I try adding my facebook account, all 300 of my facebook friends appear when I press the PHONE button to make a call.
Is there any way of linking my 20 phone contacts to their facebook accounts, without all the other fb friends appearing in the phonebook?
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I'm struggling to get ONE facebook account to work and sync properly.
I only have about 20 phone contacts, close friends and family, but I have about 300 facebook friends.
Every time I try adding my facebook account, all 300 of my facebook friends appear when I press the PHONE button to make a call.
Is there any way of linking my 20 phone contacts to their facebook accounts, without all the other fb friends appearing in the phonebook?
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there are two ways to do it. first would be to go under your contacts, hit the menu button on your phone, view and uncheck everything that links to facebook.. another way is go to your facebook app, go to main page by clicking the back button once, then hit the menu button on your phone, settings and go to the bottom where it says other settings facebook sync contacts and select "remove facebook data anc hit ok.
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there are two ways to do it. first would be to go under your contacts, hit the menu button on your phone, view and uncheck everything that links to facebook.. another way is go to your facebook app, go to main page by clicking the back button once, then hit the menu button on your phone, settings and go to the bottom where it says other settings facebook sync contacts and select "remove facebook data anc hit ok.
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Neither of those work, they either leave loads of FB contacts in the phonebook, or remove all the facebook data including the links to my phone contacts.
I just want the 20 people in my phonebook to be linked to their facebook profiles.
Hello,
I have many phone book accounts synchronized on my phone (Google, Funambol, Twitter, etc.) and I would like to know if it is possible to set the default picture for all the address book.
In other words, I would like that every contact would show the picture which is memorized in my Funambol Account.
I know that to modify the picture I can go to the single contact's details, press the "chain" (which means such contact is linked) and select the picture I want to be shown, but this is not persistent and I have to re set every time the picture to the one I want.
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Hello,
I have many phone book accounts synchronized on my phone (Google, Funambol, Twitter, etc.) and I would like to know if it is possible to set the default picture for all the address book.
In other words, I would like that every contact would show the picture which is memorized in my Funambol Account.
I know that to modify the picture I can go to the single contact's details, press the "chain" (which means such contact is linked) and select the picture I want to be shown, but this is not persistent and I have to re set every time the picture to the one I want.
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+1
Even i would like to find out if there is any way you can automate this process to set pic account by default rather than doing it manually for the 600 or so contacts i have...
With Syncmypic you can add Facebook contact pictures to your phonebook. Maybe there is a tool like this for you in the market.
Mmm. An option for default source or sources with selectable priority would be nice
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It sounds very strange to me that Android doesn't have something to customize that! I don't think it would be so difficult to implement.
Maybe send this as a wish list item to your favorite ROM dev?
Hi,
using the stock HTC dialer i have "bad" contact pictures there is a grid of dots on the pics. Even uploading a high res pic in google contatcs there is still this dots gird.
Any idea how to fix this ?
Raul74 said:
Hi,
using the stock HTC dialer i have "bad" contact pictures there is a grid of dots on the pics. Even uploading a high res pic in google contatcs there is still this dots gird.
Any idea how to fix this ?
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At first step you have to decide where you will be keeping your Contacts - in VCF file on your phone away from Google's hands and never sync them to Google Acc (as I do for instance), or in Google Account.
If you decide to keep them in the Phone and backup them let's say weekly into VCF file which you may store localy or in Dropbox, then install Contacts Organizer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.compelson.optimizer
and move all your Contacts to your Phone, deleting them in Google afterwards.
After that install HTC GALLERY and add nice beautiful photos to each contact, after that make backup of your Contacts to phone storage as VCF file with help of HTC People App.
If you decide to store all your Contacts in Google Acc then move all of them to Google with help of Contacts Organizer.
Then log in to your Google Contacts from PC.
Move all your Contacts to Category called "Starred in Android" or something similar.
Then add thru PC high resolution photos to your contacts (it's important it's must be initially done thru PC), then sync them back to your smartphone when it's connected to internet thru Wi-Fi. Profit, Enjoy.
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Thank you jauhien for the super answer, I try do something in Gmail contatcs but I can't fine "starred in android" group
I have my group : Family, Friends ecc ecc but not starred
Raul74 said:
Thank you jauhien for the super answer, I try do something in Gmail contatcs but I can't fine "starred in android" group
I have my group : Family, Friends ecc ecc but not starred
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You can star them by making Favorite, can't you?
After that asign the high res photos thru the web interface.
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