So i Synced up and linked all my google and facebook contacts to my phone..
Then i started playing around with the stock widgets, one being that Favorites bar thats there when you start the phone for the first time. Just for ****s and grins i loaded the first contact with a picture.
Now i want to get rid of it. But it seems the kid with the water wings and helmet was assigned to this part of the build, its ****ing impossible to get the favorite to go away. I went to edit contact, went to groups, and there it listed two copies of the same name, both for google, both groups set for favorites. I unchecked favorites in both and it said None in groups for both.
Lo and behold, that contact is still a ****ing favorite. Picture and all, no way to get them out. I go to contacts, go to groups, and wow, only 1 assigned to any groups, favorites, whose in favorites? the contact i just removed from favorites. No other way to turn favorites off anywhere else, i though ill try delete.
It deleted that contact from my facebook page, and also deleted that contact from my google account, and also deleted the contact from my contacts, when i go to groups, that contact is still there as a ****ing favorite! and that is THE ONLY place i can see the contact.
Way to go HTC,, keep on inbreeding your employees.
I wish I could better help you with the problem, this sounds very familiar. I'm almost certain I had the same issue a while back, no idea what rom I was using though. I'm just chiming in to verify that I did encounter this too.
Haven't seen it since it first happened, but this was so many flashes ago I couldn't give you any more details on the specifics behind it.
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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.
facebook pic in contacts
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 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'm trying to short through all my contacts. Put them in groups and all that good stuff.
I have all my gmail contacts in my phone, all ungrouped.I read that setting up the att address book helps with this problem. Only for the life of me I can't seem to set it up. I even found the user guide online. It says that when you first click on contacts that it should ask you for this n that. I don' recall doing any of that. Doesn't say anything on how to get back to it if you didn't do it the first time.
So, would someone help this no0b out please.
If there is a better way that I don't have to go through AT&T to get my contacts in groups please let me know.
Thank you.
Go into your contact list and click the Menu button, More, Settings, AT&T address book, click OK.
then go to att.com/addressbook. Register for a MEdia account if you don't have one. Then you can sign in and see them. The phone should automatically throw your contacts up on there, then you just have to organize them.
Or you can get on your computer, log into your Gmail account, select "Contacts," and use that interface to place them into groups.
It is very easy to do. You just need to look around the screen for the control buttons as they aren't always where you expect them. The benefit to doing this is that the interface is on your computer and easy to use.
Don't have any experience with the ATT contacts app.... I deleted EVERYTHING I could that was proprietary ATT as most of that stuff costs more money and much of it doesn't work as well as the stock apps anyway!
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Or you can get on your computer, log into your Gmail account, select "Contacts," and use that interface to place them into groups.
It is very easy to do. You just need to look around the screen for the control buttons as they aren't always where you expect them. The benefit to doing this is that the interface is on your computer and easy to use.
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That doesn't seem to work.
This is what I have for my brother.
Groups: Starred in Android, Family (taken from my gmail contact)
I have zero contacts in my Family group.
How do I get my HTC Incredible (w/ Froyo 2.2) on Verizon to stop overriding my pictures? I want my contacts "linked" to their Facebook profile, but I want to use the picture that I have selected and not the one that Facebook feels I should be using without warning.
I am very anal about my profile pictures and have selected nice pics for everyone in my book. I have went in to each profile picture and selected my Google picture (my personal selected picture) and the contact picture becomes my picture. No problem...
I open my contacts sometime in the near future (day/less than a day) and magically some (not all) random contacts revert back to the Facebook picture without warning!
This is making me utterly crazy! Does anyone have any idea how to get this to stop?!?
I have tried:
Unlinking the facebook profile, saving, updating picture, saving, relinking to facebook, saving.
Screaming loudly
Searched every thread known to man with no look (if you know where the answer is, please point me there! PLEASE!)
Rebooted
This was happening before Froyo as well, so this is an existing problem for a while I suppose.
I honestly don't think there's a way to stop this. Atleast I never found one.
A workaround would be to not allow Sense to sync your Facebook contacts.
The whole point of his post though was he wants the contacts linked with their Facebook profiles, just doesn't want the picture switched on him when he's already selected one he likes.
I really feel where you're coming from OP, this has been driving me nuts for awhile now. I think it's an HTC Sense UI issue though. At least, that's what I have gathered from other forums/posts.
The thing which did work for me - open the contact main page, then press the link icon, then a new screen will pop up, there is a slider next to the picture, click on it and it will let you chose a picture. I needed to do it a couple of times so just do it 2-3 times if it doesn't come up the first time
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What is the best way for me to go through and organize my contacts for my Google account?
My list is so sloppy and looks bad with duplicates, some several duplicates. I know sometimes in the past I would attempt it just with manually deleting and checking all names/numbers and I would often get some sort of message saying I couldn't delete this contact for some reason(I forgot what the reason it said was).
I would prefer to edit this list on my PC, but if this easier done with some sort of app then I'm down. I also want my new organized list to sync across all my devices that sync contacts from my google account.
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On the website (https://contacts.google.com) you can identify duplicates.
You can also export your contacts on your PC (CSV or vCard format).
And you can pretty simply merge duplicates so that if, for example, one has a landline number, a second has a mobile, a third has an address, etc., you can put them all in a single entry with a mouse click.
I was in your position a few months ago and it took me about half an hour to whip my contacts list into shape.
I exclusively use contacts from my gmail/Google account. I never ever have them on the phone or the sim. In case I lose or break or change the phone, I never lose a contact and never have to re-enter them. I'm very OCD about things like that and being able to sit at my PC and standardize all contacts is worth a ton to me. Using the above cited Google contacts link is my preferred method.