My facebook contacts no longer sync with my contact list. Gone are all of my pictures on my contact list. in settings i went to the Accounts and Sync and tried to add account but when i hit the facebook icon it just backs to the previous screen. how can i fix this?
Get the Facebook app, that creates a new account in the OS
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should be noted that for it to work correctly you have to have the same name in your contacts list as it shows on their facebook.
and also i believe there is a privacy setting on facebook that allows users to block the facebook app from pulling information
had facebook app installed but ended up removing it and reinstalling it and now it works like it used to. contacts all have pics with them now
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As title.
I can't seems to get the latest facebook profile pic for my contacts listed in the People application.
I tried clear the cache for People and Facebook for HTC Sense in the application settings but to no avail.
I am able to get their latest contact number and facebook status message.
Is there a way to manually update the picture?
Please advise.
I have the same problem.
The only solution I found is that I delete the account "Facebook for HTC Sence" and I re added it. This way I force the Sense to synchronize itself with the latest pictures.
Thanks, it works, though the sync take quite a while.
just go into the gallery, switch to Facebook and then update after pressing menu
Only problem I got is that MY pic is not really syncing..
I use an app called syncmypix
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Thanks for more suggestion
What may help, before syncing your contacts with HTC Sense Facebook, ensure that "People --> View --> Only contacts with phone numbers" is unchecked!!!
For some reason, when syncing contacts, this option comes into play.
Cheers,
Charles
Now that I'm running a 2.2 blur-less ROM (RubiX), I'm using the actual Facebook App again instead of the Blur social networking. However, when I open the Facebook app, I don't get the option to sync contacts anymore. My Droid 1 running the same exact facebook app does, so I'm guessing it's some sort of build.prop check that it does on whether to hide the sync or not.
Is there any build.prop solution to get this to re-appear?
Here's what I did.
First I removed any Facebook account from contacts.
Then, uninstalled the native Android Facebook app.
Next, created the account again for facebook contact sync (the one that comes with the DX).
Waited 30 minutes for all pix/contacts to sync.
Re-installed native facebook app.
My guess is that you'll still have a few issues but give that a try and see what happens.
I've never used the facebook sync with contact options on my phones cuz I thought it would be annoying, but it's pretty cool.
So, I added my facebook account to 'Accounts & sync' in the settings menu and only a few Google contacts have matched up to the facebook profile even though most of them have profiles. I see that you can go one by one and 'link' the Google contacts to the corresponding facebook profile, but does anyone know what needs to match up in the contacts/profiles so that this is done automatically?
Btw, the ones that matched up I hadn't even listed the last names for in my Google contacts and some had emails and phone numbers and some only one or the other. Thanks.
Whoa. Nevermind. I'm removing the sync after finding that it clogged up my entire Google calendar with people's birthdays. Now that's definitely annoying.
You can go into your calendar and just exclude the FB calendar, that will solve your problem.
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The presence of fb friends showing in your contacts depends on a couple of things. The names must match for them to sync without creating redundant entries. Also, depending on how your fb friends set their privacy settings, you may only get certain info synced. Sometimes none at all if privacy is totally locked down on their end in fb. Savvy?
Cool. Thanks.
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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Wondering if anyone else has noticed this when you go into a contact, there are two Facebook icons in the "Joined contacts" section of the contact info? I only have one Facebook account. I've installed the Facebook app but I've also added my Facebook account directly into the Social Hub app, so it shows in my accounts that I have a regular Facebook account and then a Social Hub for Facebook account. Could the Skyrocket be pulling my contact list separately from both of these "accounts" even though it's the same account?
On another note, when I've unjoined a contact who has multiple accounts I'll see one of the accounts is a green icon with a little white head in it, the account says Unknown. Anyone know what this is?
Yes...it is pulling the info from each.
Open contacts
Press menu
Look around through the options and there is a setting where you can exclude one of them
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