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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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.
Which app do you advise ? The Samsung integrated in the Social Hub or the official one from the market ?
I come from a TP where I really liked HTC's integration of facebook in Sense. Not too invasive and living quite well with my exchange account
Right now my contacts in my outlook (2011) on my PC are linked with their facebook profile, and so are they in Sense. With my Tab I worry a little bit about putting a mess in a system that has found its balance
Any risk to duplicate contacts if I use the Samsubg app ? Or the Android app ? Will they merge properly with my exchnage contacts ? Stay aside ?
I just dont wnat to make the step to find out after I messed up my contact list (More than 1200 people so clenaing that up would take me a few days....)
Hi I use Facebook from the market and also use one called boo
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The built-in one is pretty much for synching only, any actual facebook viewing would need to be done via the browser.
I switched from the built-in SNS client to the official Facebook client and didn't experience any problems.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The built-in one is pretty much for synching only, any actual facebook viewing would need to be done via the browser.
I switched from the built-in SNS client to the official Facebook client and didn't experience any problems.
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I haven't installed anything yet Not tryig to fix anything just trying to be sure what I'll do wont create troubles to my contact list
The built-in app is just meant to sync your existing contacts on the phone and match them with facebook friends ? Or it adds all the facebook friends ?
The official app doesnt do this ?
Don't get the account permissions confused if you install the market app. Its annoying to find you gave the stock app permissions that arent on the market app.
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I haven't installed anything yet Not tryig to fix anything just trying to be sure what I'll do wont create troubles to my contact list
The built-in app is just meant to sync your existing contacts on the phone and match them with facebook friends ? Or it adds all the facebook friends ?
The official app doesnt do this ?
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Both versions sync contact pictures etc. The official app gives you the option to sync pictures+status updates with all friends, just those with existing contact entries, or none at all.
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Both versions sync contact pictures etc. The official app gives you the option to sync pictures+status updates with all friends, just those with existing contact entries, or none at all.
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OK, thanks. To be clear the Samsung one will not offer more and wont let me the choice about what I sync and what i don't sync
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OK, thanks. To be clear the Samsung one will not offer more and wont let me the choice about what I sync and what i don't sync
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Anyone ? Maybe I am making too much fuss about this but I dont wnat to mes up my exchange contact list...
Not 100% sure about this, but I don't think it will mess up any of your existing contacts.
When logging in using the official Facebook app, it will create a sort of 'profile' for all existing contacts -- it won't merge info with the actual contact. You'll see this when you edit a contact, there will be 2 (or more) tabs when editing the contact.
It's like a 'Metacontact' in Trillian wherein it's only a merged 'View' of a contact, but in reality the data is in separate 'profiles'. The Facebook tab is uneditable and will only display info.
The only problem I have so far is that when creating a new SMS, it will display -ALL- contact numbers and e-mail address of contacts, even if the number is exactly the same:
i.e. I have a contact named Bob Smith in my Google, Exchange and Facebook accounts, and they are merged as one account. In the Dialer, all the info is merged into one contact when displaying, but when editing, they are editable in 3 separate tabs.
However when I create an SMS and scroll to find Bob Smith, it displays all contact infos of Bob Smith, even duplicate ones, like if I have his number +123456789 on Google and Exchange and Facebook, it displays 3 same numbers when selecting a recipient.
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Also, when you sign out or remove the Facebook app, it will delete the Facebook 'profile' of the contact on your contacts list, maintaining the state of the previous contact before you logged in / installed Facebook.
Thanks a lot, that's good to know
I already saw the mess it was having google contacts and exchnage contacts (I usually maintain both... for 1200 contacts!) The worst is for contacts for which I entered only the first name... they happen to be all merged together (Well done samsung... They could have defined a merge key a bit larger than just the name........)
What about when you use the Samsung app ?? Someone knows ?
All right so heres the deal:
With my Fascinate and Droid 1, I was able to sync up the contacts I WANTED to (manually) with Facebook, and the rest wouldn't show up in my address book. Well, HTC Sense has the account you link up, and it matched people automatically, cool, I'm fine with that. However, it dumped EVERYONE that was on my fb into my address book, not cool. So I went in, hid the fb people, no biggie, thought it was done with.
Not so. When I go to compose a text or email, it still shows me EVERYONE on fb who has a # on there, which I DON'T want. Is there any way to manually link the people I DO want, but not have it link EVERYONE ???? I've unchecked link people from the account settings, but as soon as I link one person manually, it dumps all the #'s on there. Its rather frustrating....any help or ideas would be appreciated, thanks.
when you first install fb it asks you if you wants contact sync for all contacts our only ones on your phone.. mightve picked the wrong one.
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That's for Facebook app syncing, which is different.
I'm talking about Facebook for Sense syncing.
But that option does the same thing to my contact list, dumps my #s in there
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All right so heres the deal:
With my Fascinate and Droid 1, I was able to sync up the contacts I WANTED to (manually) with Facebook, and the rest wouldn't show up in my address book. Well, HTC Sense has the account you link up, and it matched people automatically, cool, I'm fine with that. However, it dumped EVERYONE that was on my fb into my address book, not cool. So I went in, hid the fb people, no biggie, thought it was done with.
Not so. When I go to compose a text or email, it still shows me EVERYONE on fb who has a # on there, which I DON'T want. Is there any way to manually link the people I DO want, but not have it link EVERYONE ???? I've unchecked link people from the account settings, but as soon as I link one person manually, it dumps all the #'s on there. Its rather frustrating....any help or ideas would be appreciated, thanks.
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Try going into people/view/ and un-check facebook for sense.
Did that. Removes them from People view, but composing a new text displays all my fb contacts who have their numbers on there. It's really annoying.....
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What all has the green swirliest under accounts & sync?
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go into people-menu-view and pick the contacts you want to view or just manually sync the people you want by clicking the contact and picking them on facebook. thats what i did.
I'm feel he has it set to sync with ALL contacts, not sync with existing contacts.
@leoingle: ????
@albotz: I just tried deleting the HTC fb account. I readded it. It automagically started syncing ALL the contacts to the phone book. If you uncheck the sync contacts button, it just goes and resyncs them anyway.
If they aren't in your address book, try composing a message, and then you will see ALL your contacts, yours + the people with a phone number listed on fb, from the available contacts you can choose to send a text to.
@g00s3y: I'm not an idiot, I assure you its set to sync with existing, but after I try to manually sync a contact, it just syncs EVERYONE. I go back to check the app, and its mysteriously changed itself to "sync all contacts"
Don't use Facebook for HTC then, use the Facebook app, which is available off market. The apps do virtually the same thing
I have been trying to get my google contacts to jive with my htc sense facebook contacts for two damn days. I manually deleted and recreated each and every one of my google contacts. It took four hours. It was the only way to get google voice actions to work on my phone. I entered the exact same data for each google contact that was there before, but deleting and remaking the contacts fixed all of the problems. Before deleting and rebuilding my google contacts, when I said "Call John Smith", the voice actions app would search the internet for him, not call him. When I said, "Send Text to John Smith", the app would put John Smith in the body of the message instead of in the address box. There must have been hidden data imported from the phone into my gmail contacts which was obstructing the voice actions app. I tried everything, and deleting the whole contact and remaking it from scratch was the only thing that worked to correct the issues I was having with google voice actions.
What I don't understand now is why all of my contacts who put their phone numbers on facebook have multiple numbers on their contact cards. Even though the person only has one phone number, the number is duplicated on the contact card, one from google and one from htc facebook. It's playing hell with my 2011 VW Jetta's Bluetooth sysem. My Tilt2 worked perfectly. I tried editing the google contacts to make them look exactly like the facebook numbers, but I still get duplicated numbers for each contact, such that only people who don't put their phone numbers on facebook will work with my car's bluetooth system.
Any suggestions?
On the FB Sync tab, only sync w/ existing contacts not Sync all. See if that works.
I'm not using the facebook app. I'm using the HTC Sense facebook app.
I'm not sure that it has that option. When I synced facebook too, it duplicated everybody's status update. The facebook app is not synced, just the HTC facebook app, which appears built in because I don't think you can access it directly.
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On the FB Sync tab, only sync w/ existing contacts not Sync all. See if that works.
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Hey all,
I'm brand new to the Samsung world - Eris to Droid 1 to Droid 2 to Incredible and now the Charge..
Question: has anyone else had issues with the stock SMS app NOT displaying Facebook synced pictures? They all show up just fine in my contacts list but not in the Messages. I have syncing enabled in both the market FB app and the built in system and still no dice.
I am running rooted EP4D, PB&J kernel, EXT4.
Any help would be appreciated!
** by the way, I now realize that I totally forgot to add a title - I apologize!!! Added!
Phone contacts/google contacts tend to have trouble syncing with each other, from my experience. Syncing your FB contacts with your phone will add them to your contacts list, but they will still be separate from corresponding google/phone contacts. This is partly because people use different formats for names on facebook and also don't have their cell phone number info on FB.
Basically what you would have to do is click on each contact, go to info tab, joined contacts, and then join another contact. While this may seem tedious, just do it every time somebody else texts you, and it will eventually sort out.
If this doesn't work, then I don't know what else could be wrong...
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Phone contacts/google contacts tend to have trouble syncing with each other, from my experience. Syncing your FB contacts with your phone will add them to your contacts list, but they will still be separate from corresponding google/phone contacts. This is partly because people use different formats for names on facebook and also don't have their cell phone number info on FB.
Basically what you would have to do is click on each contact, go to info tab, joined contacts, and then join another contact. While this may seem tedious, just do it every time somebody else texts you, and it will eventually sort out.
If this doesn't work, then I don't know what else could be wrong...
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Thanks for the suggestion but most of my Google contacts that matched up with FB friends have been properly joined by Android automatically.. I have manually joined a few, but even the ones that are already joined and DO show images in the contacts app, still don't show images in the SMS app.
It's like the SMS app is not synced (image wise) with the contacts app...
The contacts app will display the latest picture, because it can "talk" to the Facebook app to grab the pictures. However, it is not saving the contacts with updated pictures, it's just displaying a different image. If you would delete the Facebook account info, all images would be the same. If you want them to link up, you need something that will copy the Facebook profile pics and save them to your contacts.
Thanks for the reply imnuts,
I actually got this crap working by signing in and enabling full sync with both SNS facebook and the app itself. Now, all my contacts that are joined with FB have images showing up in contacts and messages.
We're good to go!