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Facebook for myTouch contact issue

I have the facebook app installed on my phone. When i went to upload a photo onto facebook it gave me the option to use the facebook app or facebook for mytouch. i went ahead and tried it through the mytouch option and i signed into my account which seemed to add my facebook account onto my phone as something it automatically syncs. it synced my facebook contacts to my normally contact...a cool feature and all BUT i dont want it...
i deleted the facebook account off my phone but my facebook contacts are still mixed with my normal ones. i cant delete them either, i tried long pressing and also tried going INTO the contact to maybe edit it and it wont let you do a thing.
any advice?

Were the contacts linked with facebook accounts?
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You may want to sort you contacts, from the contacts > Menu> View and uncheck facebook. It won't delete them but you won't have to deal with them.
Also try clearing the data in the Facebook for MT app, not sure if it will do it but it should't hurt.

imabrokendownload said:
Were the contacts linked with facebook accounts?
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They were these were contacts that i've never had in my phone before then they appeared on my actual contacts. Some did/didn't have contact numbers depending if they had them in their actual facebook and what i'm noticing is they all have the little circle by their name greyed out meaning i can video chat with them. I deleted all my video chat programs and cleared all my data for contacts/facebook/video chat and they wont go away.
These people have never been on my phone before it happened right when i tried out the facebook for mytouch.
*i wouldnt mind this but i play a lot of farmville and "those" games and half the people on my friends list are "neighbors" only*

Daguse said:
You may want to sort you contacts, from the contacts > Menu> View and uncheck facebook. It won't delete them but you won't have to deal with them.
Also try clearing the data in the Facebook for MT app, not sure if it will do it but it should't hurt.
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I did as you advised and i dont even have a facebook option. I just have the option to show tmobile, google, google (youtube), video chat, sim, phone.

ToterPunkt said:
They were these were contacts that i've never had in my phone before then they appeared on my actual contacts. Some did/didn't have contact numbers depending if they had them in their actual facebook and what i'm noticing is they all have the little circle by their name greyed out meaning i can video chat with them. I deleted all my video chat programs and cleared all my data for contacts/facebook/video chat and they wont go away.
These people have never been on my phone before it happened right when i tried out the facebook for mytouch.
*i wouldnt mind this but i play a lot of farmville and "those" games and half the people on my friends list are "neighbors" only*
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hmm any way you can post a screen shot.... Also when you go into the contact and click the name..... in the top right what does it say? Google? Linked? Facebook? And one last thing, once in the contact can you click menu and delete? if not what happen?

Daguse said:
hmm any way you can post a screen shot.... Also when you go into the contact and click the name..... in the top right what does it say? Google? Linked? Facebook? And one last thing, once in the contact can you click menu and delete? if not what happen?
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Sadly i'm not rooted and therefore can't post a screen shot...unless theres another route you can advice me on then definitely. Maybe ill just take a photo of it with my camera if there is no other way lol.
After clearing all my info again and uninstalling any qik updates it shows qik in the corner of all these contacts, none of them are linked, and about half have actual content info.
From the contact list - long press - call mobile, send contact as vcard, add a fave now!
From within the contact - clicked on the menu button - all, link, send contact, save to sim, set speed dial
From within the contact - tried pressing every item i could and i can only "Edit" the number to something else...i cant do much else with it.
thanks for the help =)

ToterPunkt said:
Sadly i'm not rooted and therefore can't post a screen shot...unless theres another route you can advice me on then definitely. Maybe ill just take a photo of it with my camera if there is no other way lol.
After clearing all my info again and uninstalling any qik updates it shows qik in the corner of all these contacts, none of them are linked, and about half have actual content info.
From the contact list - long press - call mobile, send contact as vcard, add a fave now!
From within the contact - clicked on the menu button - all, link, send contact, save to sim, set speed dial
From within the contact - tried pressing every item i could and i can only "Edit" the number to something else...i cant do much else with it.
thanks for the help =)
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Sorry man, I tried everything I could to recreate this on my phone with no go.....
Make sure to check your contacts on the gmail site, make sure they are not listed there.
If that does not work it looks like you will need to do a factory reset. Sorry

Daguse said:
Sorry man, I tried everything I could to recreate this on my phone with no go.....
Make sure to check your contacts on the gmail site, make sure they are not listed there.
If that does not work it looks like you will need to do a factory reset. Sorry
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I was afraid of that...
I went ahead and rooted my phone, deleted qik completely off my system. That took care of it. Hope this doesnt happen to anyone else =/
Thanks for your advice though, i'm surprised it didnt work. It was extremely "stuck" and quite stubborn.

[Q] How to insert a picture near the "Me" mention withing SMS threads ?

Hey all.
I love myself so much that I would love to see my face near the "Me" mention within SMS threads.
However, while all my contacts have their own contact icon showing up near their names, I only get to have a grey square near the "Me" mention when I send SMSs (check screenshot above).
Anyone knows how to fix this ?
Thanks !
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I'd like to know this too. I have my google profile set up with some info including a pic. The google calendar does seem to pick up my bday from there, but the Messaging app don't appear to be using my picture on my nexus s.

I've tried to do this too on my Hero to no avail.

WTF? for real?
Go in your Contacts and find the first contact card named Me. Then just insert your own photo by clicking the box and selecting it, you are done.

STHNS said:
Go in your Contacts and find the first contact card named Me.
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There is no "Me" entry in my contact list.
EDIT : tried to manually create a "Me" contact. I'm still having a gray square near the "Me" mention in SMS threads.

WTF? Thats more retarded idk what google doing these days.
Do it manually then by going to your SMS thread and clicking "Me" and by adding yourself via New Contact. Then put whatever you want in data input and click on the User Avatar and pick your photo.

You need to ensure your mobile number is attached to the contact.

If you're using handcent you can
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You just need to sign in to your google profile and add a picture there. Then it will change.
www.google.com and sign in.
Click settings > account settings. Click Edit Profile.

If you change it with handcent it will work for all SMS apps even after uninstall of handcent. Works for me on the stock message app.
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AtomicPC said:
You just need to sign in to your google profile and add a picture there. Then it will change.
www.google.com and sign in.
Click settings > account settings. Click Edit Profile.
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I already have an image on my Google profile and it is not showing up.
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theophane said:
I already have an image on my Google profile and it is not showing up.
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Do you have a contact created with YOUR mobile phone number attached to it?
You may also need to ensure that "My Phone Number" in about -> phone shows your number (search for a guide if you need it).

fchipm said:
If you change it with handcent it will work for all SMS apps even after uninstall of handcent. Works for me on the stock message app.
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Just tried this. Not working either.

Highland3r said:
Do you have a contact created with YOUR mobile phone number attached to it?
You may also need to ensure that "My Phone Number" in about -> phone shows your number (search for a guide if you need it).
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Yes, I do have a contact with my phone number attached to it.
However, I'm not able to change the "My phone number" setting in the "About" menu.
See screenshot above :

Guys - this is in other threads - you need to assign your phone number on your SIM. You CANNOT do this form the NS. So - find some old phone, plug your SIM in and write the phone number to it - then when you use it back in the NS you'll get your picture...

rakh1 said:
find some old phone, plug your SIM in and write the phone number to it
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How do I do this ?
Just inserted my SIM card in an iPhone, and I cannot edit the "My number" entry.

As the chap above said this is discussed elsewhere. Sony erricson phones will let you do it.

OK I worked around the issue in this way:
From my gmail (on a computer), I created a contact for myself. I added my phone number, and my gmail account as the email. Then for the picture, the contact manager let me use "their picture". In this case, "their picture" is the picture I assigned to myself in my google account profile.
This really isn't a "solution", just a workaround. You also really shouldn't have to use 2 phones to sync your own google account profile to your own "pure google experience" phone. Android should automatically have a contact that syncs your google profile info, so you don't have to type it in twice. Right now only the profile pic is auto-sync'd.

ravidavi said:
OK I worked around the issue in this way:
From my gmail (on a computer), I created a contact for myself. I added my phone number, and my gmail account as the email. Then for the picture, the contact manager let me use "their picture". In this case, "their picture" is the picture I assigned to myself in my google account profile.
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Not working for me, still have that damn grey square in SMS threads.
ravidavi said:
You also really shouldn't have to use 2 phones to sync your own google account profile to your own "pure google experience" phone.
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Indeed.
That's pretty unacceptable for a high-end flagship device.

theophane said:
Not working for me, still have that damn grey square in SMS threads.
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Which part isn't working? The part you do on your computer (setting picture as "use theirs"), or the sync to your phone?

[Q] Looking for App to sort Contacts

Hi Guys,
i got a serious problem, i synced my contacts with google, now i got the problem, that i got every number like 5 times (all the same nr.) @ the contact list.
This is pretty annoying, because of this issue i got around ~4000 contacts saved..
Is there any app or so, that lets me just check/uncheck the contacts i want to delete so i can easily resort my contact list.
All the apps i found so far are only able to delete a single contact per task.
Thats a bit awful with ~4k contacts, thats why i ask you now
thx in Advance
Syther

Hey
really no one?
Bump ^^
thx in advance !

I'm calling shenanigans on the 4000. I just manually deleted my contacts. I found a multiple select contacts app so I could batch delete contacts.
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Simple steps: make sure all your contacts are on Google, wipe data, login to Google, fixed!
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Hello Guys,
thx for the responses.
I already did several wipes (installed different builds) but google automatically syncs all ~4k contacts to my mobile phone.
Maybe someone had this problem too and could solve it easier then delete every single contact alone.
regards

andrew.cambridge said:
I'm calling shenanigans on the 4000. I just manually deleted my contacts. I found a multiple select contacts app so I could batch delete contacts.
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What is the app's Name?
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I had the same issue as you, syther.
I didn't think about looking for an app that would do that.
1) Go online (using GMail) to the Google account your phone is linked to.
2) On the left there should be a button called "contacts."
3) Click it and it should bring you to all your contacts that are synced to it.
4) Click the "more actions" button and go to "find & merge duplicates."
It won't merge all of the duplicates, but it'll merge most of the ones you have hopefully.
An example of a contact not merging would be
Joe-Bob (555-555-5555) and Joe-Bob (+1555-555-5555)
For that scenario I just went and deleted it manually through GMail to ensure it will never sync those contacts again.
Hopefully that will lessen the burden of deleting your contacts manually.
-lilhugo

you will also want to create groups in Google's contacts. What you may have happening is the ton of random one time emial addresses that got saved.
I've created a "main" group that only has legitimate contacts and haven't had any issues since.
You can also export all of the contacts out of Google into a .csv file that you can open in excel and fix to your hearts desire.

Thank you !
I could´ve come on that idea on my on lol - most time, the simplest things you cant find hehe
awesome i solved it through gmail directly really thank you people!

[Q] My phone contacts cannot be visible to whatsapp

Dear all,
I use google account to input my contacts. Now, when I input a contact to my android phone. The contact does not show in whatsapp. I am sure the user is having whatsapp installed. How can I make my contacts visible in whatsapp.
Thanks.

peterhon said:
Dear all,
I use google account to input my contacts. Now, when I input a contact to my android phone. The contact does not show in whatsapp. I am sure the user is having whatsapp installed. How can I make my contacts visible in whatsapp.
Thanks.
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in whats app setting, contacts, check the show all contacts...(maybe its hidden contact with this check its ok)
if not worked, maybe the one you think had whats app, registered with another phone number,

peterhon said:
Dear all,
I use google account to input my contacts. Now, when I input a contact to my android phone. The contact does not show in whatsapp. I am sure the user is having whatsapp installed. How can I make my contacts visible in whatsapp.
Thanks.
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Go to Whatsapp settings>contacts>tick show all contacts.. if the problem persists then try syncing your contacts again with whatsapp servers by going to phone settings>accounts& syn>tap whatsapp account then sync contacts... it will solve your problem...Click Thanks if i helped you.

Hi all , for days now im trying to fix this problem , i tried almost everything but nothing works.
Can't see my contact list on whatsapp , viber , line etc , it just doesn't want to sync. The apps are working fine but i can't see any contacts , i only see the number if someone msges or calls me , and even if i add it manually to my contact list nothing happens.
I imported my contacts from my SIM , synced it with the google account , whatsapp account , everything is up to date.
It might be a ROM problem (can't ask in the development sections need 10 posts )
Im on cm-10.2-20140104-Sultan-pyramid.zip (with ION) (HTC sensation XE)
Last ROM that worked: cm-10.2-20131117-Sultan-pyramid.zip (no ION)
It seems no one has the problem cause no one is complaining about it.
Is there a possible fix? Or it's just the ROM that is not compatible , but why is no one reporting the problem?
(Google couldn't help me, i hope XDA can! )
Thank you very much

Suggestions are welcomed, thanks

I guess i gonna have to try my luck elsewhere , thank you anyways

You can only share your contacts in whatsapp!
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It's not about sharing contacts its about having a visible contact list on whatsapp/viber and co
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You can only share your contacts in whatsapp!
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No whatsapp contacts on CM 11
I do not have contacts, only telephone numbers in whatsapp chat, but nothing in contact list. Any idea ?

I think we have the same problem, im using CM 10.2 with ION
When someone messages me i do see the phone numbers without names , but yes my whatsapp/viber contact list is empty as well :/
jonnybcn said:
I do not have contacts, only telephone numbers in whatsapp chat, but nothing in contact list. Any idea ?
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BliZzArD_420 said:
I think we have the same problem, im using CM 10.2 with ION
When someone messages me i do see the phone numbers without names , but yes my whatsapp/viber contact list is empty as well :/
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Indeed! I have checked Viber and the same issue. Also my voip phone (Zoiper) does not keep call log. I have moved to CM 11 M2 Snapshot but in vain.

jonnybcn said:
Indeed! I have checked Viber and the same issue. Also my voip phone (Zoiper) does not keep call log. I have moved to CM 11 M2 Snapshot but in vain.
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SOLVED!!!!
Check your Privacy Guard setting per App under security or turn it off completely.

Solved here as well privacy guard kept turning on, so turned it off completely, thank you for the reminder
jonnybcn said:
SOLVED!!!!
Check your Privacy Guard setting per App under security or turn it off completely.
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BliZzArD_420 said:
Solved here as well privacy guard kept turning on, so turned it off completely, thank you for the reminder
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I've different problem, Suddenly all but few of my contacts disappeared. I ticked "show all contacts" and they are back again. But the problem now is, I can see their status updates, online time but cant see their photo.. Few contacts photos are still visible and updates also when they change it. But 90% contacts photos are gone now.
btw I'm using slim ROM on nexus-s

hiya all i have this prob only a couple contacts showing and i am using phoenix rom on galaxy note 2
anyone have any ideas?
thanks flobz

I just imported my contacts from my SD card on the last ROM flash and every one appeared

same problem is happening wid me i am a htc 626g+ user
BliZzArD_420 said:
Hi all , for days now im trying to fix this problem , i tried almost everything but nothing works.
Can't see my contact list on whatsapp , viber , line etc , it just doesn't want to sync. The apps are working fine but i can't see any contacts , i only see the number if someone msges or calls me , and even if i add it manually to my contact list nothing happens.
I imported my contacts from my SIM , synced it with the google account , whatsapp account , everything is up to date.
It might be a ROM problem (can't ask in the development sections need 10 posts )
Im on cm-10.2-20140104-Sultan-pyramid.zip (with ION) (HTC sensation XE)
Last ROM that worked: cm-10.2-20131117-Sultan-pyramid.zip (no ION)
It seems no one has the problem cause no one is complaining about it.
Is there a possible fix? Or it's just the ROM that is not compatible , but why is no one reporting the problem?
(Google couldn't help me, i hope XDA can! )
Thank you very much
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I too have the same problem, i have updated whatsapp and now i can see the phone numbers and msg but no name, and my contacts in whatsup also show empty.

[Completed] Android Contacts

Hi All,
Very new to XDA, first of all a grant thanks and appreciation for all the developers and management team of XDA, for creating such platform to share thoughts and each and everyone's questions.
My issue here is the contacts management in Android. I think Google hasn't given that much importance in that section while upgrading to Lollipop. And even in Marshmallow too, the same story. If you are using a stock android or a GPE version in any of your handset, you might have end up with your phone showing all the contacts from your gmail account, including the email account that you only use in gmail for your mails. Yes its ok in a regular basis for those who want to show all their contacts contents in one place, but will be too confusing rather annoying if one wants to have only their phone contacts to show up there.
I hope it was there in KitKat but somehow missed when we upgraded to Lollipop. I seriously would like to know from all of you is it there for all of you or just i am one of the few ended up with not knowing the correct settings somewhere hidden inside.
If anyone there can help or else need to wait fingers crossed to wait for any of the forthcoming updates from Google to have this option enabled.
Thanks & Regards

sanp7409 said:
Hi All,
Very new to XDA, first of all a grant thanks and appreciation for all the developers and management team of XDA, for creating such platform to share thoughts and each and everyone's questions.
My issue here is the contacts management in Android. I think Google hasn't given that much importance in that section while upgrading to Lollipop. And even in Marshmallow too, the same story. If you are using a stock android or a GPE version in any of your handset, you might have end up with your phone showing all the contacts from your gmail account, including the email account that you only use in gmail for your mails. Yes its ok in a regular basis for those who want to show all their contacts contents in one place, but will be too confusing rather annoying if one wants to have only their phone contacts to show up there.
I hope it was there in KitKat but somehow missed when we upgraded to Lollipop. I seriously would like to know from all of you is it there for all of you or just i am one of the few ended up with not knowing the correct settings somewhere hidden inside.
If anyone there can help or else need to wait fingers crossed to wait for any of the forthcoming updates from Google to have this option enabled.
Thanks & Regards
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Hey,
There is an option to customize which contacts you want to show up.
Open the contacts app, click on the overflow menu button (3 dots) and select "Contacts to display".
From there you can choose which contacts you want to show up.
Hope it helps.
Cheers.

dagger said:
Hey,
There is an option to customize which contacts you want to show up.
Open the contacts app, click on the overflow menu button (3 dots) and select "Contacts to display".
From there you can choose which contacts you want to show up.
Hope it helps.
Cheers.
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Yes, but it just gives you the option to select the account, like Gmail accounts, whatsapp, skype....etc. And don't dont have an option to select to show the contacts in SIM, or even cant create a new list in phone memory too...

sanp7409 said:
Yes, but it just gives you the option to select the account, like Gmail accounts, whatsapp, skype....etc. And don't dont have an option to select to show the contacts in SIM, or even cant create a new list in phone memory too...
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Well, there is an option to display only SIM contacts there.
Also there is an option to customize the contacts to display there, try it out.
Cheers.

dagger said:
Well, there is an option to display only SIM contacts there.
Also there is an option to customize the contacts to display there, try it out.
Cheers.
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May I know which android version you are using...?? I am Currently on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.