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Editing facebook contacts...

I am using fission 2.4.3 ROM and i like the way it looks and all but is there a way to edit the Facebook syncd contacts like the factory Global contact list settings? it says facebook contact information is no editable on this device... am i missing soemthing? before the root and rom i syncd my contacts and was able to add numbers, emails and drag them onto the home tabs for shortcuts..

Welcome to the CLOUD!
Doesn't seem like such a great idea now does it? LOL
Here is what you do, it will require having or making a Yahoo Mail account but it will solve your problem.
If you use Outlook (like I do) it will be way more complicated but only because you probably want to use Outlook as your master list.
Step One - Go to Yahoo mail and import your facebook contacts into your yahoo mail contacts. (they have a wizard that does this for you) Then export Yahoo Mail Contacts to a CSV file. (This will work for myspace and linkedIn as well!)
Step Two (Google) - Import that CSV file into Google contacts and have your phone sync if it doesn't automatically (sometimes it takes awhile to sync)
Step Three - Look in your phone contacts you will now see dupliacte contacts of all your facebook friends. One will be from Google and the other will be from facebook. Select the facebook contact and JOIN or LINK (depends on your rom) it to the other duplicate.
You will now be able to edit all the fields not filled in by Facebook and a have a single contact for that person. (If you look you will see in the contact which profiles are linked together. You will have one profile for each contact source that has been linked. (one for Google and one for Facebook)
If you have Fission running you need to go into EDIT contact before you will get the JOIN button in the menu.
I have found that it is best to do most of your editing in Google Mail and then syncing anything else (such as outlook) to that (I use Companion Link).
And while it is ok to add contacts into outlook and sync with Gmail it is better to check those contacts for correctness in Gmail.
If they are correct in Gmail they are correct on the phone. And should you ever have to factory wipe data you will be sure to get all your contacts back when you resign into GMail on your phone.

[Q] I don't understand how contacts work

In my contacts, I have my google contacts, my Touchdown, my facebook, my google+ contacts. As you can assume, there are tons of duplicates from contacts with the same name that is in google, touchdown and facebook, sometimes google+. I set in contacts to ONLY show my google contacts, but still when I search, I see 3 of my friend name.
Its really annoying...I'm almost inclined to wipe the contacts database.
How do I clean it up? Also, for anyone that use Touchdown, how can I prevent the contacts to show up on the phone contacts in the future?
Thanks!

You could try to long click a contact, select join contact, and then find the duplicates to join.

[REQUEST] Sync google contact groups between accounts

Apologies if this exists and I can't find it, but I would like to be able to sync one or more Google contacts groups between accounts.
For example, my wife and I both have a "family" contacts group. I would like to sync her family contacts with mine so that we both have identical contact lists and any changes made by one of us is propagated to the other's contacts.
I don't want to sync all my contacts because she has no need to see my work contacts and vice-versa. This could also be useful among co-workers or other groups.
I know I can do this manually with export and import, but it's time consuming, a pain to work out all the duplicates, and doesn't account for changes. There are also solutions for Google apps users, but I'm not one.
This wouldn't have to be an android app, but it could be. The Google contacts API seems to have all the necessary calls. If the contact information was stored in a shared location (Google drive?), each person wouldn't need access to the other's account, just to the exported group data.
For configuration, you would:
Grant access to your Google contacts,
Choose which of your groups you want to share and where the shared export files would be located.
Choose which of the other user's files in the shared location you want to sync.
Choose how often to sync.
The app could:
Run once on boot, or perhaps daily and manually.
Export shared groups file to a shared location (Google Drive). Could be called <username>.<group_name>.csv
Look for other shared groups in shared location. If the exist, compare them. If there are differences, attempt to sync and re-export. Also generate notification if there was a sync attempt to allow user to review changes.

Duplicate contacts from multiple accounts

Hi all, I have a Nexus 6 with Android 5 (Lollipop) and I am using the standard app for phone (dialer) and contact list.
The contact list includes contacts from several accounts, such as Gmail, Exchange, Skype and LinkedIn.
The contact list can be configured to only display contacts from one given source or just some of them. The dialer always displays all of the sources, ignoring the contact list settings.
The problem, and my question, is why my contacts are duplicated in the contact list (and the dialer contact list)?
If I have "John Doe" in Gmail, Skype and LinkedIn - then I have three John Does in the list. To be clear: I do not have duplicates within each source (e.g. Gmail).
Any tips?

Noone?

Note10+ clickable contact inside calender birthday

I HAVE CARRIED OUT FOLLOWING
A) SYNC GOOGLE CONTACTS ( HAVING BIRTHDAYS) WITH MY NOTE10+
B) ENSURE THAT ALL THE CONTACTS ARE APPEARING IN THE CONTACTS LIST.
C) INSIDE CALENDAR, SEE ALL THE BIRTHDAYS OF CONTACTS APPEARING.
WHEN I CLICK ON A PARTICULAR BIRTHDAY OF A CONTACT INSIDE CALENDER..
IN THIS THE TEXT THAT IS WRITTEN AS " CONTACT" IS NOT CLICKABLE
I WANT THIS CLICKABLE ( SO I CAN CALL OR SMS DIRECTLY FROM WITHIN THE CALENDAR)
WHAT SHOULD I DO ??
note : The same is workable if the contact is saved on phone and not "imported" from google contacts.
PLEASE GUIDE