This one is weird...
I have Facebook for Sense setup in the Accounts & Sync settings so that I could get the contacts to sync with the corresponding facebook profiles.
That worked perfectly. All is well there.
The weird thing is that when I go into phone, where it lists all of the contacts above the keypad, ALL of my facebook "friends" are listed even if I don't actually have them entered in my contacts.
So, contacts = just my contacts linked with facebook, but phone-app list = all of my contacts + all of my facebook "friends".
Is there a way to make this NOT happen? I only want my actual contacts (from google) to sync with facebook. I don't want all of my facebook "friends" to load to the phone.
I agree, this facebook sync is a good idea but needs more options.
froyo has more settings for things like this, you can select "don't sync", "sync only with contacts i have on my phone" or "sync all facebook friends", something to those effects anyways.
so wait for the OS to come, or root and flash a rom.
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I am using fission 2.4.3 ROM and i like the way it looks and all but is there a way to edit the Facebook syncd contacts like the factory Global contact list settings? it says facebook contact information is no editable on this device... am i missing soemthing? before the root and rom i syncd my contacts and was able to add numbers, emails and drag them onto the home tabs for shortcuts..
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Doesn't seem like such a great idea now does it? LOL
Here is what you do, it will require having or making a Yahoo Mail account but it will solve your problem.
If you use Outlook (like I do) it will be way more complicated but only because you probably want to use Outlook as your master list.
Step One - Go to Yahoo mail and import your facebook contacts into your yahoo mail contacts. (they have a wizard that does this for you) Then export Yahoo Mail Contacts to a CSV file. (This will work for myspace and linkedIn as well!)
Step Two (Google) - Import that CSV file into Google contacts and have your phone sync if it doesn't automatically (sometimes it takes awhile to sync)
Step Three - Look in your phone contacts you will now see dupliacte contacts of all your facebook friends. One will be from Google and the other will be from facebook. Select the facebook contact and JOIN or LINK (depends on your rom) it to the other duplicate.
You will now be able to edit all the fields not filled in by Facebook and a have a single contact for that person. (If you look you will see in the contact which profiles are linked together. You will have one profile for each contact source that has been linked. (one for Google and one for Facebook)
If you have Fission running you need to go into EDIT contact before you will get the JOIN button in the menu.
I have found that it is best to do most of your editing in Google Mail and then syncing anything else (such as outlook) to that (I use Companion Link).
And while it is ok to add contacts into outlook and sync with Gmail it is better to check those contacts for correctness in Gmail.
If they are correct in Gmail they are correct on the phone. And should you ever have to factory wipe data you will be sure to get all your contacts back when you resign into GMail on your phone.
As you all know the nightmare of the BIG contacts list that appears when you hit "Phone" on the home screen which is due to grabbing both, the Contacts and Facebook friends...
And it is just not so handy to disable Facebook sync at all because you want the pictures, the link between existing contacts and Facebook contacts..
And if you tried to disable the "Sync Contacts" feature from Facebook for HTC account... It works... but just till your next restart of the phone, if you switched it off and back on... Bamm!... the Tick for "Sync Contacts" is back on again and you will soon have the big long list again :S
So is there any script or something that runs on startup to force disable the "Sync Contacts" feature??
Tried to post it on the development section but I wasn't allowed because I'm a new member.. If anyone could post as a request, to develop the script if possible.. I think it will be the end of this nightmare..
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Tried to post it on the development section but I wasn't allowed because I'm a new member.. If anyone could post as a request, to develop the script if possible.. I think it will be the end of this nightmare..
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This is a question and therefore should be posted here in Q&A not Development section, that's why that rule is there....(thankfully).
If you only sync Facebook contacts where they exist in actual contacts...you don't such a big list to start with.
Or setup a favorite contacts group within your main contacts they will then appear first, along with the recently contacted people, so shouldn't be a problem. (ah I've just realised that this could well be a Sense 3.5 only feature....in which case time to unlock, root and flash some Sense 3.5 ROMS).
Plus the Phone is enabled for Smart dialing which permits you to whittle the contact list down in no time.
The thing with flashing other roms is the arabic support, I read it is not fully supported. I still can't understand why. I bought my phone from egypt and it has excellent arabic support..
Can't they just extract whatever from it and integrate it to their roms!
Anyway, About syncing only with existing contacts... When I updated the Facebook app, I was left with two accounts in the "Accounts & Sync"
1. Facebook for HTC (Old): Sync contacts, Sync live feeds
2. Facebook (New): Sync contacts, (Sync live feeds is missing from this account so the old account is necessary for any widget with a Facebook stream)
The Facebook for HTC has the whole problem, It loses its settings on every startup. I tell it to Not sync contacts and use the other account to sync contacts because I can set it to sync only existing contacts. But nothing, everything is lost with the restart.
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The thing with flashing other roms is the arabic support, I read it is not fully supported. I still can't understand why. I bought my phone from egypt and it has excellent arabic support..
Can't they just extract whatever from it and integrate it to their roms!
Anyway, About syncing only with existing contacts... When I updated the Facebook app, I was left with two accounts in the "Accounts & Sync"
1. Facebook for HTC (Old): Sync contacts, Sync live feeds
2. Facebook (New): Sync contacts, (Sync live feeds is missing from this account so the old account is necessary for any widget with a Facebook stream)
The Facebook for HTC has the whole problem, It loses its settings on every startup. I tell it to Not sync contacts and use the other account to sync contacts because I can set it to sync only existing contacts. But nothing, everything is lost with the restart.
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I can't comment on Arabic support as I don't use it myself, it might be worth inquiring within the custom ROM thread that you consider using to see what the current users say, some might be using Arabic support.
When I was on Sense 2/3 (ie not 3.5) I only ever used the account type Facebook for HTC Sense and I avoided the un-secure HTTP facebook application, I used the secure HTTPS m.facebook.com website to access facebook.
In sense 3.5 there is only one Facebook account type and all is easier.
How come when I set facebook to sync only data for contacts I have it does under contacts. But if you tap the phone icon in contacts it brings up all of the facebook contacts. I have even tried unselecting sync data in the settings and in the pull down menu. It is starting to piss me off. The only way to get rid of it is to remove account from settings, then the ones I wanted to sync are.gone with the rest of my 300 facebook contacts I did not want on my phone. Now they are still there under "contacts'
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I believe if you disable the full sync in facebook, and uninstall it-it should bring your sync'ed data off of it. Otherwise you could manually delete it within the system. I'd think its not that big of a deal though. Just my opinion.
Cant you just go into Contacts, click the phonebook button and deselect your Facebook account from the list. This would make it so it only shows your phones contacts in the contact list, but everything will still be synced with your facebook account.
You can go into sync under settings and click facbook and uncheck contacts I believe. This will remove facebook contacts from your contacts list. You can also filter the contacts list itself and tell it to only show contacts with phone numbers.
In my contacts, I have my google contacts, my Touchdown, my facebook, my google+ contacts. As you can assume, there are tons of duplicates from contacts with the same name that is in google, touchdown and facebook, sometimes google+. I set in contacts to ONLY show my google contacts, but still when I search, I see 3 of my friend name.
Its really annoying...I'm almost inclined to wipe the contacts database.
How do I clean it up? Also, for anyone that use Touchdown, how can I prevent the contacts to show up on the phone contacts in the future?
Thanks!
You could try to long click a contact, select join contact, and then find the duplicates to join.
Something that has been bugging me is the way Facebook and Google don't play nicely when it comes to contact syncing.
In the past it wasn't really a big issue as I only used one device and everything just sync'd in the background, now as I prefer to manage all of my contacts via the gmail contacts page, rather than via my phone I set about trying to figure out how I could get both Gmail and Facebook contacts to sync to my Google account.
I tried a few of the tools available, such as ubersync, contacts+ and haxsync, these all do a great job of mixing your Facebook contacts in with your gmail contacts on your device, but they are still treated as seperate when syncing back up to gmail.
I found a way to get around this by using Google's sync along with haxsync and a bit of dirty ol manipulation, and I thought I'd share it if others are wanting to do the same. I take no responsibility if you mess things up, so if you are not confident then make sure you make backups before you start.
Also before you start just realise you will loose any group sorting you may have done but this can be edited again via the gmail contacts pagee quite easily)
First of all, sync all the gmail contacts into your android device from google.
Install Haxsync from the Google Play store (contacts+ and ubersync may give the same results)
Goto advanced settings for haxsync and set things up the way you want (I selected to have the htcdata backup entry put into the notes field, but this is optional)
now sync with haxsync to get all the facebook details and wait for the haxsync to finish.
Now you have all the data into your device if you look at an entry you might see some of the users data is listed under the google account, and other parts are listed under the haxsync account. From here on only the google data will sync back up to google.
Now to perform some manipulation
Go to settings on your android device(s) and disable syncing for both Google and haxsync. (note I said device(s) this means disable sync on all other device you might have that also sync to Google)
Go into People on your main Android device and export your contacts to storage, this will make a vcf file on the Android device containing all of the data for each person (minus the account it's associated with)
On the android device(s) go to settings - applications - contacts storage and clear data- (remember to do this for all android device syncing to google)
load gmail in your web browser on your PC, go to contacts, select them all and delete them.
Now go back into People on the Android device and import the data you saved to your storage.
You will now see you have merged the data that was previously seperated by the gmail and haxsync accounts
Go back into settings on the Android device and re-enable sync for gmail.
Wait for this to finish.
once your device has synced with Google again go into gmail and select contacts
On the left of the page look under 'other contacts' select all of them and choose add to My Contacts.
Now go up to My Contacts and you can start sorting everyone into different groups again if you wish.
Now you have synced both gmail and Facebook information into your gmail account which will flow down to any other Android devices you have.
If you add more people on Facebook and want their data in gmail, you'd have to repeat this process again.
If you decide to re-enable Haxsync again you may need to manually join some of your contacts in your phone again, such as where friends also have Google+ and Facebook accounts under different names.
It's not perfect but if you have 100's of contacts / friends it saves a lot of manual data entry saving everything into gmail.
Good luck and have fun.