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Contacts & FB

How do you link contacts to FB, it seems that some of my contacts are linked and some arnt that once were...Is this a rom issue, because i followed the steps to fix FB sync issue, and some of the contacts do sync. But now i cant even create a new contact and link them to facebook
Thanks In Advance...

I read in the forum here that it was doign that because the autokiller setting were too strick (Sorry Cant remember who said it so cant give credit). So change that to default then click the sync button. I did this and about 4 hours later all my facebook contacts pictures synced. hope that helps
also update facebook in the market

yeah i did the auto killer setting adjustment, but i cant link new contacts with FB...is there another method?

Not sure exactly what you are asking, but I think I know.
You have contact A, and they also have a Facebook account, but they are not linked at all. You want them linked. Open up "People" go to contact "A", then move the slider to the right to the Updates tab, and it should say something along the lines of "Link to a Facebook Profile". Click that, and select the profile.

go into settings and accounts and delete facbook then re-add it.

Exactly ! Thanks it was driving me nuts ... it used to be @ edit contact screen , now its moved , thanks for the info , I can relax now

I had problems early on with not all of my facebook contacts showing up. I deleted the facebook account. Before adding it back I went to applications and scrolled down to facebook for htc sense and cleared the data.

[Q] Contacts on WP7

I know WP7 is all about connecting people and stuff, but why is "formally known as contacts" now merged with "people"?
I have tons of contacts associated with my email address and scrolling through hundreds of contacts just to find my home number is ridiculous.
So my question is:
Is there a way to only display SIM contacts? Not facebook and email contacts..
EDIT.. I gave up, reseted my phone and made my primary email address my google (which i have no contacts on)
Then later added my windows live account..
Microsoft really needs to step their game up

ceo4eva said:
I know WP7 is all about connecting people and stuff, but why is "formally known as contacts" now merged with "people"?
I have tons of contacts associated with my email address and scrolling through hundreds of contacts just to find my home number is ridiculous.
So my question is:
Is there a way to only display SIM contacts? Not facebook and email contacts..
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Apparently SIM contacts can be imported but have no idea what about seeing them.
As for scrolling, you have Search button in People so no need to scroll.
You can also select by letter.

doministry said:
Apparently SIM contacts can be imported but have no idea what about seeing them.
As for scrolling, you have Search button in People so no need to scroll.
You can also select by letter.
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Yeah i know what you mean but in almost every letter category there are at least 20-39 contacts, since im using my business email for my phone...
I have imported my contacts and they are right in the mix in the overkill of contacts. Searching for them is meh, but if its the last resort i dont think Windows Phone 7 is for me. I just wanted the ability to slide straight to my contacts on the go without the hassle. Theres no reason my boss should be even there lol

If I understand correctly, you want only the contacts on your SIM to appear, but not contacts from your email accounts and facebook?
Not exactly sure how to show the SIM contacts, or if they show up by default. You could try going to Settings-->Email & Accounts, and clicking on the listed email accounts and unchecking "Contacts" under "Content to Sync". Also, going to Settings--> swype right to applications --> people, you can select to "Only add Facebook info to existing contacts" under "Include Facebook friends as contacts", assuming you haven't tried these steps already. That should prevent the contacts on your email account from being seen on your phone.
As for the SIM contacts, i would assume they show up once they are detected? Maybe someone else could verify, since I don't have any way of checking.

Yeah I know about those settings, I even removed my Facebook account from the phone. But with my windows live account under content to sync it only has "email" as an option. Nothing else.. I also heard that since its the primary email It does everything by default and cannot be removed without a factory reset.. Which i just cannot do :[
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[Q] contact list question (specifically pictures)

in my contact list i see photos/icons beside a contacts name. some of those icons carry over when i text message some people and show up under messaging. a vast majority of the photo/icons dont populate when in messaging but will if i call them or look at their contact information.
something i can do to fix this?

Crickets....
Is this not happening to anyone else?
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It only carries over to texts if they have a gmail account photo (also known as a google profile pic)....even though your contact list will show profile photos from facebook, gmail, phone storage, etc.
Only way to fix this is get all your contacts to add a gmail profile picture
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SSJ_Gomike said:
It only carries over to texts if they have a gmail account photo (also known as a google profile pic)....even though your contact list will show profile photos from facebook, gmail, phone storage, etc.
Only way to fix this is get all your contacts to add a gmail profile picture
Sent from my Samsung Infuse 4G
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ahhhh... nice. who the hell doesn't have a gmail account and/or picture by now? apparently half my contact list.
stone age weirdos

actually i think you have to set the photos in gmail.
but its weird because on my atrix and any other android pictures would be linked automatically via facebook,gmail,twitter.
my who contact list has pictures except when in messages no pic shows up.

Yeah I noticed it too, My Captivate didnt have this problem, its weird Ive noticed that in some areas the Infuse actually took a step back.

Make sure the contacts are in the phone and not on the sim card. I changed that setting and all my pictures appeared....
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Hey guys try this. Today I acedently screwing around trying to edit a contact I tried deleting it and I coulndt and a pop up came up about read only and hit okay r confirm whatever and I really didn't pay attention to it. So I had to unsync my Facebook to get my contact back. Pics started showing up in my messages. So try to remove Facebook and add t again
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For the Facebook/Social Networking Sync issue: I just got the Infuse a couple of days ago and noticed this issue. By going into the Facebook App and bringing up the settings, I determined that by default the Sync Friends withContacts is set to "Sync with existing contacts" which while it makes sense actually doesn't do squat. So, by changing to "Sync All" I was able to get everything populated over.
To the OP's post: As is stated, messaging only seems to go off what you've got in your Gmail account for account pics. It's annoying, but maybe an update is forthcoming to fix this.

Try this:
Go to:
Settings > Accounts and sync
Make sure facebook "sync contacts" is unchecked.
Now press the "Add Account" button at the bottom.
Choose the Facebook SocialUpdates account. Should be right at the top.
Make sure Sync Contacts is checked under this one.
Let it sync and be AMAZED!
Note: I see everyone's facebook profile pics in the messaging app.

I had this problem and it really bothered me. All I did was backup my contacts to Gmail and then I let in sync. After that I just unchecked all the display options for Gmail so it would just show Facebook contacts

Facebook Contacts - not wanted

hi all,
I read many forums regarding my issues, but none of them helped..
after I installed fb and adding my account in the "phone" dialler (top left icon) all my fb contacts there, even I unchecked sync...
thanks a lot,
ric

Hi,
I had the same problem and I resolved it after a long time of research.
To resolved this problem, you must reset your phone and choose "manual sync" and when you have the opportunity to add your facebook id, you skip this. When you have finished the configuration, launch facebook application and enter your id.

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hi,
could you tell me step by step?
newbie for android
thanks a lot!

instead of wiping the phone, Go to settings > apps > all apps
Find contact storage and clear data. (This will delete all contacts so make sure they are backed up, Gmail usually does this automatically but make sure)
also, find facebook and clear data for that too..
This will remove all facebook contacts too.
Simply log back into facebook and select dont sync with contacts, And get your normal contacts back from gmail...
worked for me

ace! this is the solution...
although I had to do it again after the fb update.. what a [email protected] btw ...
azzledazzle said:
instead of wiping the phone, Go to settings > apps > all apps
Find contact storage and clear data. (This will delete all contacts so make sure they are backed up, Gmail usually does this automatically but make sure)
also, find facebook and clear data for that too..
This will remove all facebook contacts too.
Simply log back into facebook and select dont sync with contacts, And get your normal contacts back from gmail...
worked for me
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you could just deactivate the facebook contacts in the contact menue so you dont see them... guess thats the easier way, just tap the top left corner and there you can select it

Gaba90 said:
you could just deactivate the facebook contacts in the contact menue so you dont see them... guess thats the easier way, just tap the top left corner and there you can select it
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Does not work for the SMS part. Facebook contacts still appear in quickfinder.

It is a nuisance. I don't use fb, but when I went to log my wife in, it transfered all of her contacts!! Yuk! Had to erase them all...
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I F'in HATE this!! Facebook get out of my life!!

i still cant get them off my phone,, I have wipe all contacts, all facebook, all people apps i have deactivated autosync. selected DO NOT SYNC CONTATCS.
re activated autosync. They just re appear.
i fking hate this ****. i have about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000(approx) contacts in my phone..

If you only log to facebook through the browser, then you wouldnt turn the mobile fb app, and it wouldn't sync, right?
Thank god I don't have a facebook page!
sent using HTC1S

its a ball ache using the browser tho
especially when you have the app lol

Can you go in the application itself to get rid of the sync feature?
I had a nightmare transferring myillions of gmail contacts from one phone to another only to realise that they had been duplicated soany times I ended up with about 10.000 of them! Eventually afte doing some manual work and using some of the phone's features I ended up with the contacts I need and backed them up in 2 places toake sure....
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yes inside the app there is an option to not sync contacts..
but even if i select that, they still sync.. if i delete them, they just resync even if i uncheck it in facebook and settings.
its really pissing me off

Annoying FB Contacts

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.