Well, if you look at the third People Widget when you're trying to pick it, you see that the contacts are linked to Facebook. I understand how to do that, but when I do that, it changes their name to their Facebook name, instead of what I have under my Contacts.
For Example, my gf. Her name is *Jessica XXXXX*. In my contacts, I named her Babe. Once, I link her to fb to her contact her name now displays as "Jessica XXXXX*
How can I just link my friends to their facebook's, but still keep the name I gave them in My Contacts?
Thanks for any help!
Don't think you can, or if you can I don't know!
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So...I have a contact named Iris. I pin Iris to the home page. Fine. Now when I go into her contact I have the option to link her to another. Fine. I link her to David. I back out to the homepage. WTF?...Iris is now David?..Ok what and why has my Iris "pane" changed to David? I dont understand this. Not only that but if i search my contacts for Iris that name no longer shows up.
Very odd and I really hate this.
Is there a solution?
Hi,
I use the link option only to join together 2 entries in my contact list for 1 person.
For example, I have a friend in my contacts called Jim but his facebook contact name is James, i can link these 2 together to have just 1 entry in my contact list. I think I know what your trying to do - mabye link together a husband and wife or something, I'm not sure if you can do that?
If you unlink your contact you should get both back.
Hope this makes sense.
Hi there,
The link contacts feature is more for linking the same contact but from different sources together.
Say you have Iris on Exchange, the same Iris on FB but with slightly different info including differing email addresses, and say you have the same Iris (but spelt Irisss) in Live. The Link feature enables you to join all these sources together in one view.
Please remember though that this is a "view" and not a single physical contact. All three contacts will remain as they are in their respective areas in the cloud. There is no auto update or merging of data. I've asked this question on another forum and as yet, no response.
dov74 said:
If you unlink your contact you should get both back.
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Our posts sort of crossed and I forgot to put in what you mentioned above
Yeah! I think yours makes more sense tho lol!
I understand what you guys are saying but if u select links from your contact it suggests names that you should link to...which results in the original contact name disappearing
harsaphes said:
I understand what you guys are saying but if u select links from your contact it suggests names that you should link to...which results in the original contact name disappearing
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They are only suggestions and you don't have to link to those. You can continue to search for them.
Funnily enough..... I have a contact for myself on the phone for when you could send your details as a BT transfer or over SMS. Used to use that alot. I'm also on Facebook, but the phone only shows my contact on the phone not the FB contact as well to link too. In fact I cant search for my self either lol.
chubnut said:
They are only suggestions and you don't have to link to those. You can continue to search for them.
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Yes I know you can search for anyone but what I'm pointing out is that it presents itself as being able to link to separate contacts and that when you do that the original contact "disapears". The way it presents itself isn't the way it works.
it does not disappear only one of the contacts would be showed and the other contacts details is merged in the contact you linked in.
If you want Iris to show than first unlink the contacts and then select David and link Iris...
No it doesn't disappear but if you search for that contact name it doesn't show up any longer.
chubnut said:
Funnily enough..... I have a contact for myself on the phone for when you could send your details as a BT transfer or over SMS. Used to use that alot.
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Is there any way at all to send contact info to a third person via vcard, sms or anything? No cut and paste either - so, do we really have to write it down on paper, then enter it into an sms?
harsaphes said:
Yes I know you can search for anyone but what I'm pointing out is that it presents itself as being able to link to separate contacts and that when you do that the original contact "disapears". The way it presents itself isn't the way it works.
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You're missing the point.
The suggestions are there because the OS thinks that the contacts are the same person. This might be because of similar name, similar E-mail or whatever. Personally it has never suggested the wrong people before.
The original contact doesn't disappear, linking is done to link accounts of the same person together. The reason why your original person "disappeared" was because you linked 2 people together who weren't the same person.
How can you specify which Name should be displayed when linking contacts in WP7?
According to MS this should be possible (see ***.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/people/link-two-or-more-contacts.aspx)
"When you link two or more contact cards that have different profile pictures or names, you can choose which picture and name will represent the whole. To learn how, see Add a picture to a contact."
But there is only a description for the contact picture, not for the names...
Does anybody know how to do that?
Cheers
Meinrad
mjeanrichard said:
How can you specify which Name should be displayed when linking contacts in WP7?
According to MS this should be possible (see ***.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/people/link-two-or-more-contacts.aspx)
"When you link two or more contact cards that have different profile pictures or names, you can choose which picture and name will represent the whole. To learn how, see Add a picture to a contact."
But there is only a description for the contact picture, not for the names...
Does anybody know how to do that?
Cheers
Meinrad
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Open the desired contact and then tap "edit" in the bottom bar. Right beneath the profile picture you'll find "name". Tapping that opens a form where you can enter first name, last name etc. That name will be displayed in your contacts hub according to the settings you made for how your contacts are shown (last name first and so on).
Thanks for your reply, but i doesen't quite answer my question. I know that I can edit this information, but thats not what i want.
I'll try to be a bit more specific:
I have a Windows Live contact with the name 'abcd' and an Outlook contact with the name 'Aaaa, Bbb'. On my phone i linked these two contacts (since they represent the same real person). But my phone always uses the name from the Live contact. When I edit the image, i can choose if i want the image from the Live account or from the Outlook contact (and from what i understand from the MS doc this should be possible for the name as well).
-> the only workaround I found so far, is to delete the name entry form the live contact. (Contact -> edit -> edit Windows Live -> delete)
Can't test it right now (on a different phone) but it depends on what linked profile comes first.
For example I link a Live and Facebook contact and to show the Live name, it needs to be the first one... if any of that made sense.
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Yeah,... I know what you mean, but the live contact is always the first in the list. It doesn't matter if I select the Outlook contact first and then add a link to the Live contact or the other way round.
Can you reorder them?
Something not quite right linking contacts.
Linking contacts seems only half implemented.Ive also had this problem,renaming the linked contact card only works sometimes, but always renames the first linked contact, I dont wont that.Also there does nt seem to be any logic to which name it chooses for the card.I ve stopped linking contacts anyway because in text messages you get several message threads from the same person with no idea of what number its from to text or call back ( if they have more than one mobile number ). Lastly I would like to be able to rename the catergory of the number ( Mobile,Company, etc ).Because I would like moblie 2 or Work Moblie.I Hated having to look at the phone numbers all the time to decide which one is right to use.
Call Mobile
**********
Call Mobile
**********
Call Mobile
**********
Text Mobile
**********
Text Mobile
**********
Text Mobile
**********
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Yeah,... I know what you mean, but the live contact is always the first in the list. It doesn't matter if I select the Outlook contact first and then add a link to the Live contact or the other way round.
Can you reorder them?
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Sorry if I can't see it on my WP7 device atm, but I do remember being able to use the Facebook profile first and the Live profile came second.... have ya tried open Outlook contact, press link and then chose the Live contact ?
im not quite sure what u mean but here goes:
if you have 2 contacts. One is named ABC and the other one is AB. If you want to link them both but keep the ABC name, then you need to go to ABC and link it with AB.
Similarly if you want to keep the AB name, then u need to go to AB and link it with ABC.
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im not quite sure what u mean but here goes:
if you have 2 contacts. One is named ABC and the other one is AB. If you want to link them both but keep the ABC name, then you need to go to ABC and link it with AB.
Similarly if you want to keep the AB name, then u need to go to AB and link it with ABC.
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Unfortunatley that method dos nt work for me
I have the same problem, I want to view my contacts by the facebook name and I can't... :/
I've done some searching and I haven't seen anyone with a similar problem as I have.
I had a HTC Magic a couple of months back and some of the contacts were listed as favorites. I lost that phone and just bought Evo 3D and all my favorites were transferred to this phone, which is good. However, I wan't to remove some people from favorite and when I look at the contact it says "Groups: Favorites" and when I hit edit contacts and want to remove him from Favorites it says "Groups: None". If I add that same contact to let say, friends group it says "Friends" in the edit section but "Favorites, Friends" in the contact information. I've also checked Gmail contacts and he's not in the "starred in Android" section.
Does anyone know how I can remove this person as favorite?
Thank you.
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Nvm, I got it solved. Resolved.
It's somebody who I added to my circles on G+. I had to reset my phone because of some prob, but forgot to take contact backup. When I reinstalled WhatsApp! I was still in all the previous groups, but the only contact I had was this person. So I ran to my contacts to hide all my GMail and G+ contacts but I found this person listed under WhatsApp! contact. So I removed the person from my circles (the person is not in my GMail) and now the person is no longer in the WhatsApp! contact list but they are still listed under WhatsApp! contacts in my Phonebook. I can't edit the contact at all. I really want to delete this contact help!
Hello, frequently I recieved sms from certain companies (google calendar notifications, my home banking, my football club, etc) and these sms came already with name of the sender and they are not in my contact list.
How can I add an image to these contacts?!
I've manually add Google as an contact and put the Google's logo but the avatar doesn't appear in the hangouts.
dinistic said:
Hello, frequently I recieved sms from certain companies (google calendar notifications, my home banking, my football club, etc) and these sms came already with name of the sender and they are not in my contact list.
How can I add an image to these contacts?!
I've manually add Google as an contact and put the Google's logo but the avatar doesn't appear in the hangouts.
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the messages you are getting are different sms... not like others i guess... like we get for promotional ads... they automatically have name in them.. and you can't see there no so you can't save them... and i guess you just can't apply picture to them..
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The way I did it it, for example Google Calendar, added Google Calendar to contacts in gmail using +148368 as the mobile phone number and then changed the photo to one of a calendar (or whatever). Then I followed Google Calendar on G+, I also on the Google Calendar G+ page added that same number (+148368) not sure if you need to do the last step or even if you have to follow on G+ but there was a delay on it changing on hangout so I'm not quite sure if you have to follow. Sometime adding the +1 to the phone number is what works, and sometimes you just need to use the short code, for example US Bank uses a short code of 872265 and I didn't need to add the +1 for that. So for example Twitter, you need to use +140404 and if you already follow Twitter on G+ the avatar will also show up in gmail contacts. The whole think is convoluted but it finally is working for me except Google Voice sent sms.