I want to sync my existing contacts with facebook, but I dont want my facebook friends with phone numbers added to appear in my phonebook how can this be done?
Phone>menu>people>menu>view> untick Facebook
I've done that and I don't see Facebook contacts in People tab. But in dialer I see facebook contacts wich entered their phone number in facebook.
Bump! Isn't there a way to do this. The contacts I don't want to see in my phonebook are very annoying.
I hate it too, and I've tried to find a way to get rid of it myself. No luck so far!
Facebook>settings>Sync Conacts>Existing Contacts
I've done that already. Even desync and sync existing a couple of times and same story again... I hope if there isn't any fix it won't be that way in ICS.
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Has anybody else been having issues with the built in Facebook app on Nexus? Every time I try to retrieve notifications I get an error telling me it cannot retrieve.
Getting the same issue. Uninstalled using root explorer and tried reinstalling - no dice. The other version was from the Droid dump.
I wasn't ever able to get notifications working on my MT3G on the Facebook app.
Yes, I think it is some bug Google didn't quite work out before the release. I emailed them and got the standard response that they are aware of the problems...ie facebook...ie...polar clock dynamic color...and is working on it! Let's see how long they take to get it fixed!
I am having exactly the same problem with the facebook app on my hero. Its not a phone specific problem here, but either a facebook issue or an issue with the app itself.
It worked fine on my MT3G, just not so great on the N1 hopefully a patch rolls out soon
works on my N1
Facebook- Synced Contacts Name Issue
After syncing Facebook contacts with phone contacts, it changes the name of the contact to whatever it is in Facebook and 'overrules' whatever other name you have in phone.
I.e.- if you have your dad saved as 'Dad' in your phone and sync with his Facebook contact, it will overrule the name 'Dad' in your phone and display it as his full name a la his Facebook name.
This is ANNOYING as who searches parents by full name?? and others of course.....
Any help??
I don't like this either... there needs to be an option in the settings to make Gmail contacts the dominant/controlling information.
Eager for a solution to this.
lp1527 said:
After syncing Facebook contacts with phone contacts, it changes the name of the contact to whatever it is in Facebook and 'overrules' whatever other name you have in phone.
I.e.- if you have your dad saved as 'Dad' in your phone and sync with his Facebook contact, it will overrule the name 'Dad' in your phone and display it as his full name a la his Facebook name.
This is ANNOYING as who searches parents by full name?? and others of course.....
Any help??
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im still trying to figure out how to sync facebook with my contacts. can you help me figure that out? no ones nexus really came with a manual lol.
Yeah...found out about this the hard way too Oh well..now I have no idea who is who in my phone.
RussianSolja said:
im still trying to figure out how to sync facebook with my contacts. can you help me figure that out? no ones nexus really came with a manual lol.
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Go into your contact list. Hit menu, then accounts. Add an account, select Facebook.
Don't think it's a FB Client for N1/Android. I'm having issues with checking notifications directly on the facebook mobile client (which I prefer). This isn't the first time that FB have made changes to the interface without notifications and somethings things are broke for awhile.
My notifications were working again, last night, both the FB Mobile and FB for Android for a very short time and are now broken again.
It's not your phone nor the client. it's the FB developers.
running android on my touch pro (winmo device), facebook app worked fine. facebook status update, when checked online thru pc, says 'status updated with facebook for android). widget works fine too, scrolls right through everyone's status
Yeah, getting the same errors, too.
Facebook Pics + Sync with contacts?
Is the Facebook app that is installed supposed to take a facebook profile and sync and apply the picture with a contact card on the phone? I notice that it adds a facebook section when editing a contact and you could choose to use the facebook picture, however, it doesn't sync the picture to the contact. I check google.com/contacts to verify and there is either 1) no picture, or 2) an old picture that can be updated. I know it mentioned facebook syncing in the app for pictures, status, and contact info, however, the picture doesn't seem to get applied to the contact.
So, did some poking around and found the SyncMyPics. Is this app redundant to what is featured in the facebook app? Or, is it necessary to achieve what I would like?
Thanks!
I'm not sure why you are having that issue. Mine worked perfectly. The only issue I had was where I got dupes because names were incorrectly spelled.
I know that with the Hero ROM on my G1, not all of my contacts would sync pics from Facebook. It probably has to do with the level of security those users have. I'd say only a third of my contacts' pics from FB would sync. This could be the same issue? Are only some of your contact pics syncing?
Well...
My previous phone was a Touch Pro and using custom ROMsm I would use the facebook feature a lot where it would update the FB picture to the phone contact, then, it would get synced to Google using MS Exchange.
I just noticed a few friends changing their pictures. Did a force sync under accts and sync and noticed the contect picture didn't get changed... Sp, I'm wondering what is going on here?
Basically, shouldn't the FB app be updating the contact icons when there is a change.. then syncing them with google contacts?
I noticed on the 2.1 roms (Fresh and DamageControl). It syncs all your Facebook Contacts, not just the linked ones. I know you can prevent them from showing up in Contacts by adjusting your view settings, but whenever I goto compose a new e-mail or a new text and start typing in a contact, it still polls my Facebook friends and shows them on the dropdown as choices which is kind of annoying. Also for people that are linked it doesn't seem to cares, i.e. for people I have both on my phone and on Facebook it shows them twice on the drop down with the same information. Is this the intentend use or is this a bug and is there anyway to turn this off?
Thanks
this is my most annoying problem with 2.1 thus far. unknown numbers show up as a random person in my facebook, too.
i like the 1.5 way of dealing with facebook.
i think you can go into accounts & sync and unsync FB contacts, although I don't know if that will mess up current contacts or not. i also don't know if current contacts FB pics will never be updated again until manual sync.
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this is my most annoying problem with 2.1 thus far. unknown numbers show up as a random person in my facebook, too.
i like the 1.5 way of dealing with facebook.
i think you can go into accounts & sync and unsync FB contacts, although I don't know if that will mess up current contacts or not. i also don't know if current contacts FB pics will never be updated again until manual sync.
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yea if i unsync it, i lose pics and birthdays for the contacts that i linked manually which i wanted to keep.
My contacts sync correctly with damageless 2.1
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My contacts sync correctly with damageless 2.1
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see thats the trouble it's not happing to everyone its random
The Contacts sync correctly on DamageControl as long as you're looking through the People app like he said because the Facebook option isn't checked under view but when you're composing a new message, be it email or sms, all the Facebook contacts show up. Even when you click "Phone" and scroll past your call history they show up.
Im using the damagecontrol rom and facebook sync isnt working at all. I have zero facebook contacts. Any suggestions?
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The Contacts sync correctly on DamageControl as long as you're looking through the People app like he said because the Facebook option isn't checked under view but when you're composing a new message, be it email or sms, all the Facebook contacts show up. Even when you click "Phone" and scroll past your call history they show up.
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yea that's what im trying to figure out who to disable
Yes yes yes to the original post. We all know that the Facebook syncing is buggy. But pulling in all the contacts is horrible (Facebook and Gmail contacts). I can't figure out how to only sync My Contacts from GMail either. It pulls on all 500+ and then I can select only view those with a phone number. But syncing only My Contacts was so easy with 1.5. Why would they do away with that? Or am I stupid and overlooking it?
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Yes yes yes to the original post. We all know that the Facebook syncing is buggy. But pulling in all the contacts is horrible (Facebook and Gmail contacts). I can't figure out how to only sync My Contacts from GMail either. It pulls on all 500+ and then I can select only view those with a phone number. But syncing only My Contacts was so easy with 1.5. Why would they do away with that? Or am I stupid and overlooking it?
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I want that option too and can't find it. I don't want to have to go through my GMail contacts (700 of them) to weed it down to 75
When I was using 2.0b, EVERY SINGLE CALL, not just unknowns, showed as the same person...but with the correct number for the person calling showing under the pic. What was really funny was that I don't actually have the number for the person whose pic was showing, lol!
I've noticed that if the FORMATTING of a number on facebook is different from your Google contact, it will take the facebook formatting over the Google formatting.
i.e. my wife's number on FB is formatted 17045551234 and on Google it's 704-555-1234.
when i view her contact and/or she calls, it shows 17045551234.
i wish we could disable importing the phone numbers or have that fixed
as soon as i unlink her FB it shows up right.
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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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!
Ok i did not sync my facbook with my contacts now when ever i go to my contacts or start to type in a text for a name all my fb contacts pop up...... how do i get rid of this? Its very annoying
rumdada said:
Ok i did not sync my facbook with my contacts now when ever i go to my contacts or start to type in a text for a name all my fb contacts pop up...... how do i get rid of this? Its very annoying
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I've had to clear data on my calendar several times due to some sort of Sense "sync" with an unknown data source. I'd try that with your contacts, then make sure you have no facebook login info stored anywhere on the phone. FB is like a cancer...it will get into everything as the recent email scandal showed on the iStuff.
Some one ? Any one? This is so annoying i might just go back to the iphone...... Even people i simply email show up when ever i go to send a text this is insane.......
I've had this problem. Log into facebook and I think its either under friends or settings or account, but there is an option you come across that allows you to choose what you sync from facebook. Just uncheck everything and tahdah. Takes a while to find it I recall, but I can't tell you exactly where it is because i just screwed up my phone. Keep searching, its there.