Hi all. I just migrated from my "old" HTC fuze and got on board the Android train with a Samsung Vibrant. It's fantasic out of the box, but I'm sure after a few more minutes on the forum I'll find something that needs fixing.
One thing that does need fixing is that when it syncs the contacts, it adds anybody I've emailed or responded to, outside of my contact list.
GMail doesn't add these people as contacts, but the droid does. Any fix for this short of going through my contacts every couple days and purging???
I hope this works for you, this is with my Droid Contacts.
Open Contacts -> Settings/More/Options button -> Display Options
There should be a "Choose contacts to display". Select your GMAIL account. Mine is currently set to "My Contacts" and everything else is unchecked. Also check the others listed. Gmail will store random outgoing/incoming emails, as All Contacts, where your contacts are "My Contacts"
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, all my contacts are google contacts, and nothing on the phone.
Is there any way to get gmail to not store all the various random emails and people I have contact with? I've dug through the settings and even tried to find something in the labs tab that might stop storage of ALL contacts, but couldn't find anything.
kcfried said:
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, all my contacts are google contacts, and nothing on the phone.
Is there any way to get gmail to not store all the various random emails and people I have contact with? I've dug through the settings and even tried to find something in the labs tab that might stop storage of ALL contacts, but couldn't find anything.
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Double check my attacked image, else only other thing i can think of is to remove and readd your google account to your phone.
Ahhh, there's the problem. When I chose Contacts > Display Options, I get a checkbox for my google accounts - there is no drill down for which accounts I can select. I'm on the Samsung Galaxy.
BTW, what screen cap app are you using?
Ok if you can't stop the phone from, getting them then you need to delete them in gmail.
Cause gmail does save everyone you have every replied, or sent email to. It's under other contacts.
just go in there and delete all the ones you don't wont
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I know WP7 is all about connecting people and stuff, but why is "formally known as contacts" now merged with "people"?
I have tons of contacts associated with my email address and scrolling through hundreds of contacts just to find my home number is ridiculous.
So my question is:
Is there a way to only display SIM contacts? Not facebook and email contacts..
EDIT.. I gave up, reseted my phone and made my primary email address my google (which i have no contacts on)
Then later added my windows live account..
Microsoft really needs to step their game up
ceo4eva said:
I know WP7 is all about connecting people and stuff, but why is "formally known as contacts" now merged with "people"?
I have tons of contacts associated with my email address and scrolling through hundreds of contacts just to find my home number is ridiculous.
So my question is:
Is there a way to only display SIM contacts? Not facebook and email contacts..
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Apparently SIM contacts can be imported but have no idea what about seeing them.
As for scrolling, you have Search button in People so no need to scroll.
You can also select by letter.
doministry said:
Apparently SIM contacts can be imported but have no idea what about seeing them.
As for scrolling, you have Search button in People so no need to scroll.
You can also select by letter.
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Yeah i know what you mean but in almost every letter category there are at least 20-39 contacts, since im using my business email for my phone...
I have imported my contacts and they are right in the mix in the overkill of contacts. Searching for them is meh, but if its the last resort i dont think Windows Phone 7 is for me. I just wanted the ability to slide straight to my contacts on the go without the hassle. Theres no reason my boss should be even there lol
If I understand correctly, you want only the contacts on your SIM to appear, but not contacts from your email accounts and facebook?
Not exactly sure how to show the SIM contacts, or if they show up by default. You could try going to Settings-->Email & Accounts, and clicking on the listed email accounts and unchecking "Contacts" under "Content to Sync". Also, going to Settings--> swype right to applications --> people, you can select to "Only add Facebook info to existing contacts" under "Include Facebook friends as contacts", assuming you haven't tried these steps already. That should prevent the contacts on your email account from being seen on your phone.
As for the SIM contacts, i would assume they show up once they are detected? Maybe someone else could verify, since I don't have any way of checking.
Yeah I know about those settings, I even removed my Facebook account from the phone. But with my windows live account under content to sync it only has "email" as an option. Nothing else.. I also heard that since its the primary email It does everything by default and cannot be removed without a factory reset.. Which i just cannot do :[
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is anyone else having this issue? My FB photos show up just fine under the persons name in the people app, but dont show up in the standard messaging app. stock rom
make sure you sync the facebook that's integrated into the rom and not the one from the app. then you should see the pics in the messaging apps.
tq745 said:
make sure you sync the facebook that's integrated into the rom and not the one from the app. then you should see the pics in the messaging apps.
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you mean the one that comes with touchwiz
Open Contacts, go to Menu > More > Accounts
If facebook isn't listed, then click Add Account and add your facebook. Then make sure it's set up to sync.
Yeah I’ve been working on since I purchased the phone last week and I’ve been having the same issues. I did the contacts > more > account deal to no avail (syncing phone contacts only). The really frustrating part about that is when you open up the facebook contacts group, you see all of your facebook friends with their pictures…so I don’t understand why it won’t sync.
When you are in your contact list pick menu and check display options.
If you have contacts with numbers picked, take check mark off and see if you see them in your contact list now. If you see them now long press on the facebook contact and pick merge, look for the matching contact.
You con only merge from a maximum of 5 sources.
Hope this helps.
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ntxchick said:
Open Contacts, go to Menu > More > Accounts
If facebook isn't listed, then click Add Account and add your facebook. Then make sure it's set up to sync.
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facebook is listed twice, one from touchwiz, and one from the actual facebook app
drumice said:
Yeah I’ve been working on since I purchased the phone last week and I’ve been having the same issues. I did the contacts > more > account deal to no avail (syncing phone contacts only). The really frustrating part about that is when you open up the facebook contacts group, you see all of your facebook friends with their pictures…so I don’t understand why it won’t sync.
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exactly, when people call me, there facebook photo shows up. it also shows their info if I actually go into the contacts app. But text messaging? yeah right, the only photos that show up are the contacts where I have manually picked a photo from the album. None from facebook.
cmhjr said:
When you are in your contact list pick menu and check display options.
If you have contacts with numbers picked, take check mark off and see if you see them in your contact list now. If you see them now long press on the facebook contact and pick merge, look for the matching contact.
You con only merge from a maximum of 5 sources.
Hope this helps.
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thanks, but ive done all these things already. I really dont wanna wipe my handset if its not going to fix it. I would like some feedback from others to see if theres is working correctly or not. I never had this isse with any other android handset. its bugging the **** out of me.
going to bump this thread. i can't seem to sync my facebook contacts from the integrated accounts after flashing my new rom. not sure why, but i get the red error sync circle for it every time i try to sync. tried syncmypix, but the app only fc's...
I've never gotten that to work for my default SMS either. I don't really care for that anymore though, since I use handcent for SMS now anyways.
I had a problem with syncing my actual contact pictures once, but that was fixed by clearing my facebook data and relogging in.
yea, its definitely hit or miss.
so heres what happens for me...twitter contacts photos show up fine in the messaging app. Facebook still only shows from WITHIN contacts. But not in the messaging app.
I took someones recommendation and tried an app called syncmypic thats free from the market. It actually worked pretty good. Heres where it sucks though. I try to keep all of my contacts by first and last name to make it easier for apps to sync with fb and twitter. Well syncmypic syncs alot of data correctly. But some of them, it just cant get right. So it will tag the pictures to the wrong name. So i thought, "okay, no big deal, ill just manually fix em".
After I made all the corrections, the next time it went to sync, it changed everything i did back to what it wanted it to be. So in the interim, I have SOME FB photos for contacts in the messaging app, but they are a few weeks old, because Im scared to let syncmypix sync again and overwrite all the corrections ive made AGAIN. I dont know why I cant get the native messaging app to show FB photos. Ive tried countless roms, Ive tried every way recommended to fix it. Twitter works fine. FB just doesnt show in the messaging app for some reason.
Sucks because I feel like Samsung makes better phones, but HTC Sense phones have the contact sync feature down packed
The only pictures that show up for me with messages is people in my Google Talk list.
I tried something that worked, but its not 100%. First remove your facebook accounts in accounts and sync from both the program and the integrated accounts. Sign into the facebook app, but make sure not to sync contacts. Then go back to integrated accounts and login to facebook and when it asks to sync contacts, deselect "SYNC ALL CONTACTS". This will allow you to manually choose who to sync. When the new screen shows up that lists all of your friends, choose select all and sync. Do the same for twitter. Does this work?
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There is an app called syncmypix. It will download your friends' pictures and set them to the appropriate contacts in your phone. All of my contacts have pictures in stock sms and their picture shows on an incoming call too.
EDIT: Didn't see there was a second page with this info. My bad
yea, syncmypix fc's a lot on my rom no matter what i do. it does a good job when it works though.
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
I noticed today that none of the new contacts that I create on the Infuse sync back to my google account. I tested and if I edit an existing that is already in google it syncs and if I add on my google account online it sync back to my phone with no problem. I have went through all settings, but have yet to figure this out. I did some google searches and came up with lots of issues on others phones, but still no solution for the Infuse. I do notice that there is a g beside the contacts that are synced, but when I create a new one it doesn't have this. Also going through the setting I seen the option to back up contact to ATT so I did this and it only backed up the few new ones that I have that won't backup to google. Anyone no of a fix for this????
Stock Rooted Infuse
In contacts press menu (button) -> settings -> save new contacts to -> google
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halfnelson117 said:
In contacts press menu (button) -> settings -> save new contacts to -> google
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Ya I just found that. I had been through setting multiple times, but overlooked that I guess. Tested and all is working now. Thanks
scottyb0721 said:
I noticed today that none of the new contacts that I create on the Infuse sync back to my google account. I tested and if I edit an existing that is already in google it syncs and if I add on my google account online it sync back to my phone with no problem. I have went through all settings, but have yet to figure this out. I did some google searches and came up with lots of issues on others phones, but still no solution for the Infuse. I do notice that there is a g beside the contacts that are synced, but when I create a new one it doesn't have this. Also going through the setting I seen the option to back up contact to ATT so I did this and it only backed up the few new ones that I have that won't backup to google. Anyone no of a fix for this????
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first; open contacts >menu >settings>save new contacts to>google or ask every time.
edit: now you need to get the phone contacts you already created into google
now this will be sloppy. go to contacts>menu import/export>export to sdcard> menu>more>display options>now set phone and sim to off and google to on> back to contacts>menu>import/export>import from sdcard>if prompted choose your email account not phone
there will be duplicates that will be linked automatically, to fix it you probably want to merge them in gmail on a computer web browser.
you might also be able to email yourself a namecard where you can choose the contacts to eliminate backing up and re-syncing the existing gmail contacts. if you do this you may be able to more easily find the contacts not in google by changeing the display options settings, turning off the google contacts. you may also be able to use the groups to see only the ones that are not in google, havent tried.
edit:^this works much better.
open contacts>menu>more>display options>disable google for now>back to contacts>menu>import/export>send namecard via>slect all (unless you know there are some on your list also in google)>send>gmail>email to yourself>open your gmail>download attachment>save to your gmail account>go into contacts>menu>more>display options>turn google back on.
I apologize for the profanities in advance, but I'm really pissed off!
I avoid the facebook app like the plague, because once you turn it on it infects the entire phone. However, yesterday I was group-pressured into to checking something out on fb, so I installed it, and set up my account. I clicked in !!!!!!!!DO NOT SYNC ANYTHING!!!!!!!! only to notice that in about 10 minutes, fb took a big ****ing diarrhea right into my contacts lists.
Now I have around 1000 contacts in my phone, 98% of whom I will never call in my entire life. All contact pictures have been changed from the google image to the fb-image, and whats even more disturbing, is that when I make a call to a person with a facebook account, I see his fb-status or last wall-post in the dialer! WHY?! Why would I want to see this?!
I realize that clicking DO NOT SYNC ANYTHING doesn't matter, because HTC Sense ignores this and syncs everything anyway under "accounts". But I realized this too late and walked straight into the trap like a complete idiot. Now its too late, my phone is infected by the facebook diarrhea, and even if I remove the fb syncing in "Accounts", I have all the contacts left.
My question is, is there any way to remove all contacts, besides those in google, without doing a complete nandroid restore? (Im on stock sense.)
Thanks... Again, sorry for the profanities...
Nevermind me.... I solved it.
LOL you totally raged
I have this problem too!
How can I fix this and remove or hide my facebook contacts?
It should be in settings, accounts. There should be sync options there for all of you're accounts linked to the phone.
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Settings/Accounts&Sync/Facebook/
Just uncheck "Sync Contacts", and restart your phone.
Or....
From inside the facebook app
1. Press the menu key (the three dots that no one likes)
2. Select "settings" (the sprocket)
3. All the way at the bottom is an option called "Sync Contacts", select this.
4. Select the option "Remove Facebook Data".
5. Then select "sync" in the upper right-hand corner.
This should remove this facebook info from your contacts list only...
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Im logged into facebook and have it set to NOT sync. The facebook contacts dont show up in my phone contacts but when i go to send an email or manually type in someones name to call them the facebook contacts still show up!
i want to be able to be logged into facebook without having to log back in but i dont want to see my facebook friends in my phone contacts like... any advice?
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ToterPunkt said:
Im logged into facebook and have it set to NOT sync. The facebook contacts dont show up in my phone contacts but when i go to send an email or manually type in someones name to call them the facebook contacts still show up!
i want to be able to be logged into facebook without having to log back in but i dont want to see my facebook friends in my phone contacts like... any advice?
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Suggestion. Go to contacts. Click CONTACTS tab>settings> "find people you know" uncheck, "suggest contact link" uncheck also
This should solve it.
Also to show only people with phone number select "only with phone numbers" in the above same screen
sharkoparko said:
Suggestion. Go to contacts. Click CONTACTS tab>settings> "find people you know" uncheck, "suggest contact link" uncheck also
This should solve it.
Also to show only people with phone number select "only with phone numbers" in the above same screen
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Thanks for the help but it didn't do anything. As of right now I dont see my contacts from facebook in my address book since i've set the settings on that already but sadly if i go to manually dial a number those same facebook contacts still show up. same with emails. i guess ill just have to log in and out of facebook each time so they stop showing up. its a pain in the butt... i've accidentally text messaged/emailed people i never speak to thanks to this.
Don't use the facebook app and the facebooks friends won't show up. I use the browser to access facebook and its the same thing.