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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?

Contacts and Google Contacts

So I found that the Touchwiz contacts app does not use ANY groups from google contacts but the "starred" favorites are not even stored in the Starred in Android group either.
Does anyone know if there is a way to set this up that I am missing? Or did samsung completely fail at google contacts integration?

There's been a couple of threads about this, but I've yet to see one with a sure-fired answer. I'd like to know also though, because I went ahead and put all my contacts that I wanted to keep on my gmail before buying the phone, and now the phone shows all of them (gmail, and sim)

Main Target said:
So I found that the Touchwiz contacts app does not use ANY groups from google contacts but the "starred" favorites are not even stored in the Starred in Android group either.
Does anyone know if there is a way to set this up that I am missing? Or did samsung completely fail at google contacts integration?
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Yes, Samsung screwed the pooch on this one. It installed a brain-dead Contacts app of its own instead of the stock Android Contacts app, which suppresses display of the Gmail contacts. You can't uninstall the Samsung app or reinstall the stock Android app.
The groups data apparently is being downloaded in the background during a sync with Google, but not displayed.
There is a workaround. You can try using a free third-party app from Market called Contacts Evolved. It displays your Gmail groups, including starred favorites. A bit buggy, though, with force-close issues.

I don't have a problem with the contact manager as my contacts aren't terribly organized anyways. But I do wonder what on earth the "phone" sub-group is. Does that mean it stays on my phone exclusively? Why would anyone on earth want that? defeats the whole purpose of android

Can the contacts button in the phone app trigger different contacts apps? Its shame really, I relaly like the swipe to call/text feature.

[Q] Replace Samsung contacts with stock android contacts app

Hi,
the Samsung contacts app can not use groups defined in google contacts.
Is there a way to replace the app with the standard android contacts app?

Contacts
Did you sync your contacts with Google online? I have the Samsung Captivate and I did that at first since I could not get phone to sync with my computer and was in a hurry. I found that if you do it through Google you can't do some things like ring tones and maybe Groups (not sure about the groups tho). If you did sync through Google I would make sure they are in your Outlook, wipe the contacts from the phone and then sync to Outlook. I hope this helps.

I never sync my phone with my computer as I don't use Outlook or other PIMs.
There Vibrant and Captivate forums (here and elsewhere) are full people in the that describe the same problem, I hope that Samsung will fix this ASAP...

Bump on this question.
What might happen if I flashed the Google Addon EPE54B from CyanogenMOD's site which is intended for the Droid though possibly would work on other phones?
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/files/file/42-google-addon-epe54b/

I would love to be able to do this as I text message a group of people from work quite often. I have found that using handcent and clicking the "+" button in the send to field will allow me to pull up my "google groups".

Bump.
I'm running the SRE v1.3.1c ROM on my Captivate, and the only thing that's keeping me from loving this phone is how they managed to f up the contacts application.
Groupy has made things slightly more bearable, but I long for the stock Contacts that I gave up on my Nexus One.

try Contacts GroupU from the Market

Best alternative so far! Thanks for pointing me to that app. Not perfect, but pretty [email protected] good.

[Q] Nexus 5 won't sync gmail contacts?

Hi All,
I tried to find something similar but to the best of my searching abilities, nobody seems to be having the same issue.
I've been using an HTC One (a GNex before that) for the last few months. When I got it, like my other previous Android phones, at the initial setup it pulled down all of my contacts.
When I set up my N5, however, the contact list was the last one from my GNex! The hundreds of new contacts since then are not on the new phone. It's enough to make me want to just sell the phone instead of going through each contact individually.
On my HTC one in the People app it shows 494 contacts under my gmail address, and last sync was a few minutes ago. On the N5 I don't get the same screen, but I have a total of 123 people in the app, and it shows that it has synced with my gmail.
Does anyone know what's going on here, and how to get my contacts onto the N5?
Thanks!

You probably saved your new contacts on the htc on the phone not on google...
Change them to google or export them all and import into google.
ALSO, make sure you had the htc one set to sync contacts...settings..accounts...google...click on your email..

apristel said:
You probably saved your new contacts on the htc on the phone not on google...
Change them to google or export them all and import into google.
ALSO, make sure you had the htc one set to sync contacts...settings..accounts...google...click on your email..
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My contacts are saved to Google. In my People app on the HTC, When I click to choose source, "Google (my email)" is selected, with 495 contacts.
As I said in the original post, everything is synced, and the last sync was a few minutes before the post.
I tried the export and import but all that did was double the number of contacts under my Google account (gmail address).
Is there anything else I can try?

I am currently using an iPhone 4 and the idiots at Apple have removed the option to export contacts to Google in their iTunes program... SO now I have installed a little app called Bump, that should help me transfer all my contacts to the new Nexus 5 when i get it. You can try it with your two phones if you like. Seems pretty simple, however i have never used it yet...
Here is a link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bumptech.bumpga&hl=en

well if what you said is true, you should be in the htc one forum, not the nexus 5. Apparently your htc is what messed up.
I really have to go with user error here, its pretty basic stuff. I highly doubt your htc one failed to sync contacts even though it was set to sync google contacts...if so..you are the "one."
I know that sounds rude, but, really.....its basic stuff here.
GOOGLE how to backup contacts and restore them on an android phone, unless you want your hand held here.

Hey whatever happened to the OP's problem ? Did he/she fix it ? I have recently transferred all my contact from my iPhone to my new N5 with absolutely no problems with this app. I can confirm it works like a charm and totally recommend it. It takes less then 10 seconds to complete everything. The actual transfer took like 1 second !!!

I have a similar issue.
I too am coming from an HTC One, but I don't think that's the problem in my case. I've logged into my Nexus 5 using my Google credentials, but none of my Google contacts are appearing. I checked my contacts list in Gmail from my laptop to be sure, and all my contacts are there. I went back to my Nexus 5 and manually synced contacts in the settings, but nothing changed; my contacts are still not showing up.
I would love to know if anyone has found a resolution to this issue.

Have you made sure that "Auto-sync app data" is checked off,
"All contacts" is selected in Contacts to display,
and "Contacts" is checked off in your Gmail sync account.

Are you using a corporate Google account? You may need to ask your administrator for help.

Did you log into http://contacts.google.com and see if they are shown there? If so they must also be in My Contacts which the HTC might not be setting. Also on your phone, check settings and then check if they are in another folder just not being displayed.

Contacts app confusion

Hi All,
Just migrated from iPhone to OnePlus 7 Pro, and am enjoying my return to Android very much.
However, I'm really puzzled by how the inbuilt contacts app is working.
I've always kept my contacts synced with my Google account, so when I moved across I simply added my Google account and there were all my contacts.
So far, so simple. My expectation was that the Contacts app on the phone would simply display my Google contacts and that any edits would be reflected in the Google account.
I've recently tried to edit a contact, and I find that it's not so simple. For the particular contact, I appear to have 3 linked contacts. One from Google, one from WhatsApp and one from the phone itself.
To make matters worse, there appear to be more phone contacts than there are contacts in the Google account. How the hell did that happen? I've not added any new contacts, or told the phone to maintain any contacts locally.
I've now told the Contacts app to only show contacts that are in the Google account, and to use the Google account as the default for new contacts.
My questions are this:
1) Why does the phone appear to be maintaining a separate sets of contacts?
2) How do I know which field to edit in a contact. Attached screenshot shows show there are three identical sets of phone numbers. Which one is for the Google account?
3) Can I stop the phone from maintaining it's own local contacts database?
4) Can I make the phone only show the Google contacts when editing?
5) Can I get a view that shows which contacts are on the phone, but not in Google? I want to work out where the extra ones have come from.
Perhaps, I'm missing the point of how Android does this. If anyone could explain, that would be great.
Thanks,
Andy.