When I go to my Pictures hub, I do not see any of the albums that I have from my facebook like in other WP7s (it should have an album titled "from facebook"). It's been synced and everything else works fine, anyone have any ideas as to what the issue is?
Did you ever work this out? I have exactly the same issue, and really do not want to hard reset if I can avoid it. I have tried removing and re adding the facebook settings. What else can I try?
Just to add, I have now hard reset the device and entered my login info from scratch, and I still do not get my facebook photos showing in the pictures hub. I have not changed any settings in facebook. Can anyone suggest anything else I can try?
I had my facebook albums show up in picture hub. One day they just vanished. So I deleted my facebook account in 'email and accounts' in Settings menu and then re added it again in Contacts and the albums came back. So far they are still there.
Thanks. I've deleted and added the account quite a few times now both from 'email and accounts' and the applications -> people menu with no joy. All my contacts, my news feeds and the 'what's new' pictures work fine. What else could be the problem?
I never had my Facebook pictures showed up in the picture hub.. Didn't even know that could happen... I don't know how to make it work..
My question:
If I add facebook account, will it ask me to add or not to add FB contacts to my contacts? I just don't want any of my FB contacts to be in my contacts hub...
How does it work?
if you add facebook, it automatically pulls everyone to contacts and tries to tie as many to your current contacts stored in windows live. you can hide ones it didn't tie, but that's it. you can't choose what to sync.
I really wish that I could help you guys with the facebook pictures things (Though for me the only pictures that showed up are the ones the I uploaded... not ones that others did, and I know if you go the the pictures you want you can save them to your phone,) but if you don't want your contacts to be synced with FB go to Settings>Applications>people and hit the option that says "only add facebook info to existing contacts"
Hope that helps!
Just an update on this. I hard reset again, and it's working as it should. Bit of a hassle, but happy now
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hey has anyone have issue with bringing in pictures into the contacts. it shows that i am connected but i cant see any of the picture in my contacts. i also can see any updates. any ideas?
I tried this today on a VZ version.
Same problem as you, first page of my FB contacts will load the pics, but nothing under that (page where you associate them).
Also, if you remove their FB link here, I think it removes them as a friend.
It was hit or miss for me on the Sprint version. Probably 75% of my fb contacts imported pictures while the rest whom I know have pictures, failed to load and save.
Also, I did remove a couple associations and it didn't removed them as a friend on fb.
If anyone knows why, let us know!
it doesn't remove them as a friend, it just doesn't let you associate the same person the next time you try. It may even be that you just have to back out of the edit contacts and then return to editing the contact again. I don't remember how picky it was. baffled me at first too.
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it doesn't remove them as a friend, it just doesn't let you associate the same person the next time you try. It may even be that you just have to back out of the edit contacts and then return to editing the contact again. I don't remember how picky it was. baffled me at first too.
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Just noticed a bit ago, logged in on the pc, and that contact is still a friend. I'll have to check to see if I can try to associate later.
Linking a profile will temporarily remove the person from your list of available friends to link with. If you wait a minute or two after removing their link, they will reappear in the list.
I also have had issues with some friends' photos not importing. My only theory was that I was linking the friend too quickly .. if I waited for the small thumbnail image to load next to their name before linking, it seemed to work every time. I didn't test this extensively, though.
Also, some for some friends I was able to get a photo to load by using the "Update Photo" button. Oddly, for a couple of contacts that still didn't work.
There are definietly a few bugs in this functionality.
When I had major problems with my facebook manila, I broke my activesync partnership (thus deleting all my contacts) recreated and relinked my facebook friends. Everything good after that. Backup your PIM if you're not on Exchange.
I had problems with Facebook to in the beginning. Conatcts pictures wouldn't show up. I found with a few people there pictrue showed up next time they logged on. A few didn't show up though but as soon as I went to edit and add photo and birthday I saw there pic and they were added. I see there status now in my contacts list or I can go to updates and events and click on there name to go to there profile to read there full status. I like it and have the Sprint version. My 1st smartphone/windows mobile phone and I really like it.
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you must soft reset your phone "power button at the top" you know power it off then back on , but any way this will add the pic to the contacts
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you must soft reset your phone "power button at the top" you know power it off then back on , but any way this will add the pic to the contacts
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This is not true.....I have never had to do this mine sync with FB in about a minute or two....
I have a HTC Legend with Android 2.1 and Sense with around 450 Contacts, about 150 of them with photos, all stored and synced with my Gmail Contacts.
My Contact Database is the biggest single application in Android, with 13.7 MB shown, 0.00 for the application and all for data (in Settings/Application/Manage - 'Contacts Storage version 7').
Besides the point, that even with more pictures it should be much less (most of it is text anyway and the Google Pics are small low-res squares) - it seems, that there is a bug or leak somewhere.
When I add a contact with pic, syncing it to Google, it will increase the Contact Database. But after deleting the same contact and syncing again - it's not back to the original size. It's 0.1 MB more than before adding the contact.
That looks, like some garbage or overhead is stored still in the device, regardless of the number of contacts or if some are removed.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, what I could do, to erase that overhead and get my contact database size back to a reasonable size?
Thanks a million!
Am I the only one with this problem?
i have the same problem on the stock cdma hero 2.1 (.5) room, rooted.
mine is like, 30mb
think its the 900 or so facebook friends
here was my fix (or workaround, rather, since you can't sync all your stuff or use fb photos for your contacts DAMNIT)
under accounts and sync, disable google and facebook contacts sync
under contacts, export the ones you would like to keep to the sdcard
under settings, click applications, manage applications, then contacts storage
clear data
open contacts, import the rest from your sd card
if you want to keep all your fb numbers, use the fb live folder from the fb app
Hm, your problem sounds similar, but it's also different.
I didn't add any FB contacts. If I click on 'view' in the People app, I only have 446 Google contacts and nothing else.
But how big is your contact storage now, after you eliminated the FB contacts? And how many contacts you have in the phone and how many with pics?
Maybe we can get a bit closer to the root of the issue. Thanks!
i don't think i ever synced my gmail contacts, or meant to, but if i did, there's like 1000
and 900 fb contacts all with photos
now that i only have 23 contacts, all not connected to fb so no photos, im at like 225kb of storage.
Oh yeah, I have the FB Phonebook Folder, but in there are only 35 of my FB contacts, probably only those who publish their phone numbers.
i'm going to just sync my fb contacts now and see where it puts me
i have a feeling every time you delete a contact the data still stays there even if you can't see it.
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i have a feeling every time you delete a contact the data still stays there even if you can't see it.
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Definitely it is like that. I tested it....about 0.1 MB remains in my device, that doesn't sound like much, but can add up pretty fast.
we can't be the only two having this issue? i wonder why no one else has chimed in... i even mentioned it in the hdma hero threads...
i'd really like to have the 1.5 contacts app back, it didn't seem to act this way... i tried to push it to my phone but it never worked properly, either did an install
I deleted the database and let it rebuild from Facebook and Google. It rebuilt back up to 10Mb!
So I guess we are stuck with it.
I'm having the same issue as well.
I have the same problem on my HTC Hero 2.1 (stock rom). My contacts database is over 12mb, even after deleting more than 100 contacts. I'm constantly having to uninstall apps I want in order to deal with the increasing size of the contacts database. This was never an issue before upgrading to 2.1.
I find that a percentage of my contacts do not display. But if I do a search, I can find them in contacts.
Contacts are set to display Google contacts, and the contacts are in my Google My Contacts. They have phone numbers, and email addresses.
Anyone else see this, and have you found a fix?
I wonder if a different contact program will help.
I was experiencing a similar problem; however, mine was associated to having grouped certain contacts in other groups, such as 'Coworkers', but those contacts were not actually in 'My Contacts'.
My fix was by going to my google contacts online, going to 'All Contacts', Selecting 'All' and 'Moved to My Contacts'. Within a few seconds, the phone refreshed and all is well.
Well Darn!!!
Now, I'm back to not having all contacts show up on the list. Even though they are in My Contacts.
I just tried another fix: I cleared them all through Manage Contacts, and let it synch again. But still no go.
I may try another contact program, but I serious doubt that will help.
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I just discovered something else. First let me say, all this thread is initiated by the same contact not different ones. It is my wife who has been appearing/disappearing. No comments now ...
I found her in the list, but it has her last name as first name. But looking at the other contacts, they are fine, for the most part. But I do see some others with this problem.
So the issue is trying to figure out why Google Contacts mixes up the front/last names.
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I just discovered something else. First let me say, all this thread is initiated by the same contact not different ones. It is my wife who has been appearing/disappearing. No comments now ...
I found her in the list, but it has her last name as first name. But looking at the other contacts, they are fine, for the most part. But I do see some others with this problem.
So the issue is trying to figure out why Google Contacts mixes up the front/last names.
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It's simple
The phone contacts from SIM card and have mixed up last and first name. Synced from Google have proper order. And if you have the same phone number in any SIM card contact and phone book contact, you will discover some strange things too. Incoming call screen will use information from phone book, but history will use SIM card info.
So I fixed this issue - just deleted all contacts from SIM card
You have to check to see what "Group" they are in. I had the same issue for a while. Some were in Group work, some were in friends, some were in family, etc. I had to go into my gmail account and then fix all my contacts' info in there, then re-sync and it's worked fine from then on.
Thanks guys. I"m going to delete the SIM contacts.
Regarding groups: I was in fact 30 seconds ago looking again and notice I had my daughter in the Family group and in My Contacts.
The contacts book on the Captivate (don't know if it is Android, or Samsung) is strange. When I select groups at the top, it just has "Google Groups" as selection, as opposed to each separate group. She does show up there, and all groups are intermixed.
I installed Phonebook 2 contact manager, and on it I do have the various groups, but they are not populated.
Seems its messed up. I just cleared all contacts and let it resynch. Didn't help.
Just tried to find how to erase contacts from SIM, not finding how to do that. All I find is how to copy them to or from the SIM. I suspect I need another special app.
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I am also having issues with contacts and groups. It looks to me like an issue with the address book in the phone. I had a brand new SIM with no contacts, a wiped phone and sync'd with gmail contacts. They all appear to be there but none of my groups show up, just a gmail group that I didn't create.
I even tried using the AT&T Address book and syncing to the phone, still couldn't get groups to show.
I am pretty sure the issue is with the contact manager on the captivate. I was using the gmail contacts with the Aria I had for a few weeks before I returned it for the captivate and everything, including groups, worked perfectly.
I really hope we can get this resolved, I have several hundred contacts and really depend on groups. There was another thread that said if you used the phone storage and manually did everything on the phone it would show properly. With this many contacts that isn't even an option!
I too want it resolved.
I tried installing a different contacts program and same thing. But I suspect it uses the contacts DB that is native to the phone.
I'm a bit surprised there are not more posts or issues from others on this issue.
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,
New android user here after 4 years with an iPhone. I am extremely happy with my skyrocket and have no plans on going anywhere
Slight problem I could use some help with. I am a gmail user and keep 'my contacts' pretty organized and updated since this was the contact list that i synced with my iPhone. I would have thought moving to an android would be even easier, however I have a slight problem that I cannot seem to figure out.
I synced my main google account and chose 'contacts' as one of the items to sync. My contact list was imported just fine, however, upon composing of a new message, when I type a few characters, rather than attempting to match those characters with one of 'my contacts', the system seems to pull suggestions from every single email address i've ever used in my gmail account (over 1400). Obviously I would only rather the system pull from 'my contacts', but I have no idea how to fix this. I've deleted the contact syncing and restarted the phone, verified that there were no contacts in my contact list, but still got the same results when attempting to compose a text message.
Is there a way to delete those contact suggestions for good?
Much appreciation
under groups in the contacts app select your account and arrow down. I believe u can then select exactly ehat syncs. You will have to delete all, and I mean. ALL the contacts on your phone, becuz all 1400 emails on there. Then resync with mew settings. That's should work.
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under groups in the contacts app select your account and arrow down. I believe u can then select exactly ehat syncs. You will have to delete all, and I mean. ALL the contacts on your phone, becuz all 1400 emails on there. Then resync with mew settings. That's should work.
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Thanks, I will try that. Do you know of a way to bulk delete contacts?
icenight89 said:
under groups in the contacts app select your account and arrow down. I believe u can then select exactly ehat syncs. You will have to delete all, and I mean. ALL the contacts on your phone, becuz all 1400 emails on there. Then resync with mew settings. That's should work.
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I couldn't seen to find anything called 'groups' in my contacts settings