I'm currently running the Desire port on my N1 but I'm starting to think its dead and I need to move on to froyo. The only thing holding me back is all my friends Facebook info that's synced with their Gmail contact info (picture, email, birthday, whatever else) and contact pictures in general too. If someone deleted their FB profile then I lose their email too, so its not really "synced" with their gmail contact info..same for pictures, after a a wipe the resync the contacts you lose all contact pics..
The same even goes for names, for example if I have 'john' in my phone but sync it with his FB account his name is 'John Doe,' so I can select to display that name instead.now if he deletes his profile it does back to just 'john' no profile pic, no email, etc...
So is there some application that will allow for a more extensive contact sync/backup? Or just sync contact pics, email, and names off their Facebook accounts?
I just dont want to lose a lot of my contacts info when I switch to froyo..
Any help is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance!
(I hope this is the right spot to post this)
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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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Once last time, I sync my Facebook app with my phone contacts. Then it "mess" up my contacts such as changing for me names of my contacts to what the contact use in Facebook. Because of that, I had nightmare.
I am just curious how many of you do sync your Facebook app with phone contacts? I ask because with all the integration of Google with Facebook and Twitter or even with social media websites, I was wondering to try sync again or not.
Like what's the benefits to sync?
Share your views please.
Thanks!
Someone from androidforums.com commented that:
I do. I found that to solve the problem with Facebook last names, you link the Facebook contact TO your google contact, not the other way around. If you link the Google contact to the facebook contact, it will use the name that's on facebook.
I find it extremely helpful to have my facebook contacts right in my phone. That way, if I need to contact somebody that isn't in my regular phonebook, i can contact them quickly.
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While waiting for his reply there, maybe I like to ask here too... how do I link FACEBOOK to GOOGLE? (right?) =D
Hi
I have heard some saying that their twitter contacts show in their personal contacts but i have not been able to get that to work can someone who gt it to work eplain what they did? also when speaking of twitter contacts would this be people you are following? or people who are following you?? or something else..
thanks
rruffman said:
Hi
I have heard some saying that their twitter contacts show in their personal contacts but i have not been able to get that to work can someone who gt it to work eplain what they did? also when speaking of twitter contacts would this be people you are following? or people who are following you?? or something else..
thanks
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here's the deal..
If you were on 7661.. you won't get twitter contacts showing up unless you do a hard reset* on your device.
*Twitter feeds for these people will show up without doing a reset, but you won't get them in contacts and they won't show up if you have the "what's new" feed limited to people in your contacts list.
The ones that show up in your contacts will be the people that you are following already at the time you add your twitter account.
Currently you have to delete your twitter account from the phone and re-add it to pick up people you've started following since you added your account to the phone.. (or at least I have to.. they don't show up for me otherwise)
Andrmgic said:
here's the deal..
If you were on 7661.. you won't get twitter contacts showing up unless you do a hard reset* on your device.
*Twitter feeds for these people will show up without doing a reset, but you won't get them in contacts and they won't show up if you have the "what's new" feed limited to people in your contacts list.
The ones that show up in your contacts will be the people that you are following already at the time you add your twitter account.
Currently you have to delete your twitter account from the phone and re-add it to pick up people you've started following since you added your account to the phone.. (or at least I have to.. they don't show up for me otherwise)
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Sorry for the n00b question:"What's a "hard reset"?
I used the Reset button on the phone, I also restored the NoDo backup and went to 7712... is that what you mean, or do I have to format the device?
I found out a way to do it without hard-resetting. Look for the account you're syncing your contacts with (for me gmail). Delete the account from the phone and go to your Contacts settings and filter your contacts to show twitter ones.
Your twitter contacts should now show, re-add your original contact account (gmail again) and sync its contacts and everything should be good from there.
Hi guys,
I've answered the issue in the subject below. PLEASE do not factory reset your phones.
A similar answer has been posted in Google help forums.
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The reason why your factory resets work and after that, you skip any other account information and key in only your google account first is simple.
The first time the picasa upload is invoked, it parses your accounts list for account information to use. If any other accounts are in there, for example, motoblur, htc sense... perhaps even facebook(which was the case in my situation), it won't work anymore.
Solution?
Dont need to factory reset.
1.) Go to your accounts list and remove ALL other types of accounts there and only leave your primary google account there. I also suggest killing all apps using task manager cept those you've ignored(like droidwall etc).
2.) Open gallery and attempt to upload a picture via picasa, you should now see that it's able to show in the drop down list, all your albums.
3.) After a successful upload, which will happen because of steps 1 and 2, go to your account information list and add back your other accounts(facebook, whatsapp and whatever else).
Now you've got picasa uploads working permanently. Youtube should also work automatically(although i never had a youtube problem because my youtube account used in the app is diff from my primary google account used on the phone and for picasa).
Hello. Thanks. I tried your method and it actually worked. However, when I re-added my other accounts, the problem re-occurred. I am currently using Picasa tool for pic uploads and the browser for youtube uploads. Any ideas on how to solve this. I works perfectly with my Galaxy S II.
Do you have more than one Google account to add?
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same thing. worked when I removed other accounts, stopped when I added them back
other accounts
Facebook
Twitter
Whatsapp
going to try it! let you guy know!
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it works! only problem is that once i install the account again the problem continues!
I am having this issue when Dropbox is in my "accounts" list.
I was experiencing the issue, removed all accounts but gmail and was able to send to picasa, added them all back after and again i was unable to.
I changed the email used for facebook to another different than the gmail one and i was able to upload to picasa again.
It seems the issue is with sync accounts sharing the same email/login as gmail.
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It seems the issue is with sync accounts sharing the same email/login as gmail.
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I had the problem with dropbox. Couldn't upload things to Picasa.
Changed my dropbox email address login (which was the same as my google account email) and voila... everything works now as it should!
Thanks jsolares!
Same account name
Thx for this!
I removed endomodo account, which had same name (using google account) as account used for picasa upload and it works.
So basic advice is to remove/change name of all accounts which have same name as your google account.
Nowadays, facebook account in my xperia neo V with ISC is causing that problem. When I sync it with my FB account, im unable to upload pics to picasa. THAT sucks.
LinkedIn App is the problem
I have a Galaxy Nexus with 4.0.4
I removed all the account and repeated an upload after adding each account.
Right after adding LinkedIn account, the upload started to fail. Removed it and tried again, not surprisingly, it works.
Added twitter, added another google account, etc. No issues.
Ok, let's try again... then it fails. Again, remove the LinkedIn app, it works.
So the problem is the linked in account.
Thanks. it worked
actually it didnt, it stopped working after I added facebook and skype
Please google... Fix this fast!
Does anybody have solution?
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Does anybody have solution?
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Google
jastonas said:
Google
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google can find solution?! no, there have no solution for this issue, it depend on google, without google release fix, we can not fix this issue, unless you lose some account
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really helpful
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The reason why your factory resets work and after that, you skip any other account information and key in only your google account first is simple.
The first time the picasa upload is invoked, it parses your accounts list for account information to use. If any other accounts are in there, for example, motoblur, htc sense... perhaps even facebook(which was the case in my situation), it won't work anymore.
Solution?
Dont need to factory reset.
1.) Go to your accounts list and remove ALL other types of accounts there and only leave your primary google account there. I also suggest killing all apps using task manager cept those you've ignored(like droidwall etc).
2.) Open gallery and attempt to upload a picture via picasa, you should now see that it's able to show in the drop down list, all your albums.
3.) After a successful upload, which will happen because of steps 1 and 2, go to your account information list and add back your other accounts(facebook, whatsapp and whatever else).
Now you've got picasa uploads working permanently. Youtube should also work automatically(although i never had a youtube problem because my youtube account used in the app is diff from my primary google account used on the phone and for picasa).[/QUOTE]
robhingston said:
really helpful
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The reason why your factory resets work and after that, you skip any other account information and key in only your google account first is simple.
The first time the picasa upload is invoked, it parses your accounts list for account information to use. If any other accounts are in there, for example, motoblur, htc sense... perhaps even facebook(which was the case in my situation), it won't work anymore.
Solution?
Dont need to factory reset.
1.) Go to your accounts list and remove ALL other types of accounts there and only leave your primary google account there. I also suggest killing all apps using task manager cept those you've ignored(like droidwall etc).
2.) Open gallery and attempt to upload a picture via picasa, you should now see that it's able to show in the drop down list, all your albums.
3.) After a successful upload, which will happen because of steps 1 and 2, go to your account information list and add back your other accounts(facebook, whatsapp and whatever else).
Now you've got picasa uploads working permanently. Youtube should also work automatically(although i never had a youtube problem because my youtube account used in the app is diff from my primary google account used on the phone and for picasa).
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Not true. As soon as you add your other accounts back the Picasa upload is broken once again. My research says it has to do with your other accounts having the same login credentials as your Google account. As a test, change your accounts in the sync section to an email address other than your Gmail account email address and you should be working properly. This is a band-aid fix however and it's something that Google needs to address as this should NOT be a conflict. Everyone complain to Google for an actual fix to this bug.
Ticket
Has anyone place a request? Opened a ticket we can refer to?
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There's a bug report at http://code.google.com/p/android/is...s Owner Summary Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=18340
Let's vote this one up everyone! Don't know if it's fixed in jellybean. A bit early to flash those ROMS on my phones yet
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