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this may sound odd but i cant seem to find a way to delete the contact that Facebook dragged onto my phone. I have people on my friends that put any garbage into there phone number field i.e. 118118. personally i think if you don't want to put your number on there leave the field blank arg. Anyway i don't really want them cluttering up my phone book so is there a way of just ditching the ones i don't want without Facebook dumping them?
I am having the same problem with no solution in sight....
In the people app, press menu. Choose View. Untick Facebook.
this is great thank you. the only problem is it just hides them i really need the contacts gone from the phone as for example i had a message from t mobile saying welcome to our network etc however my desire says that the message is from one of my Facebook friends. The other issue is although they are now hidden from the contacts they still show when i press the phone button. This is probably something i will have to live with but my fiancée will ask questions if it keeps telling me i'm getting texts from random people lol.
The other thing is then to copy specific contacts from facebook into my normal contacts or is it just going to be easier to put them on manually and link them to there profile?
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The other thing is then to copy specific contacts from facebook into my normal contacts or is it just going to be easier to put them on manually and link them to there profile?
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I think thats the only way around it, so dont import from facebook and just manually link contacts from your phone book. Yeah it can take time if you want to link alot of people but will also be annoying to have lots of unwanted contacts.
Any news on how to get rid of these Facebook contacts from the phone yet? It is only when I press the "phone" button that I see them, but it is rather annoying!!!
think i have sorta solved this problem. You have to clear the contact cache though and then deselect sync Facebook contacts.
jock23 said:
think i have sorta solved this problem. You have to clear the contact cache though and then deselect sync Facebook contacts.
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Can you expand on how we do this please?
I have completly removed Facebook friends in "people":
Menu -> settings -> Accounts & sync --> Facebook --> Remove account
Before I got my desire I sorted out my Google contact just right and added lovely edited pictures, mostly from Facebook. They all synced fine. However, after linking said contacts with Facebook it uses that picture instead. Some people have awful pictures, so I click the link on the top right of the contact, and then click the picture on the left and select the Google picture.
Job done, or so I thought. It then later reverts to Facebook. Does anyone else have this problem? Any fixes?
I have no fix for this but if anyone also knows how to only sync specific Facebook contacts and get rid of others that I don't want clustering up my phone that would also be great
This is one thing that I hate Android and Google.
Why can't they implement a good way, crisp and nice contact photo?
Look at Google Contacts from GMail, the photo contact is bloody ugly in terms of image quality. And the resolution is small.
I just cannot believe this, that after 2 - 3 years, the Android google contacts is awful.
I am proudly show Android to people, make them say "Wow" ... but I shamely hide showing them the contact photo. When I got a call, the photo is damn blurry.
Is this a storage issue? No!
Network speed issue when syncing over the air? Probably! But why not add a way to select custom picture from phone and mark it to be NOT OVERIDDEN when [email protected]
And what's that automatic contacts addition on GMail! Duplicate contacts!
Then came HTC trying to do Facebook integration and whatnot, bloody mess up with linking contact, photo not shown.
I spent some hours to sort this out, and finally gave up. I accept that this is one of the weakness of Android ... contact photo is awful.
People screamed already since long ago, but no fix from Google.
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I have no fix for this but if anyone also knows how to only sync specific Facebook contacts and get rid of others that I don't want clustering up my phone that would also be great
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That is another issue with this Facebook intergration. I don't need all the people on FB on some of the phones contact list.
I have a fix of sorts for the contact pictures. Goto the Facebook sync settings, and uncheck 'Sync contacts'. Syncing Facebook no longer changes contact pictures! Not sure how it will effect Facebook once new people are added though.
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That is another issue with this Facebook intergration. I don't need all the people on FB on some of the phones contact list.
I have a fix of sorts for the contact pictures. Goto the Facebook sync settings, and uncheck 'Sync contacts'. Syncing Facebook no longer changes contact pictures! Not sure how it will effect Facebook once new people are added though.
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Where is Facebook sync settings?
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Where is Facebook sync settings?
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Settings, Accounts & Sync, Facebook for HTC Sense
I think the low res photo problem is an HTC dialer problem. the contact photos looked fine on my Milestone.
i have the same issue, everytime i sync with my pc it changes the contactpicture to the one from facebook.
i have automatic sync deactivated. so after every sync with my pc, i have to set all the pictures again, and i get tired of if.
no solution for that problem? i dont know why they let you choose a picture, and after a sync its overwriting your setting again. it should be somehow protected, after a manual set of the picture.
i am very new to android, so maybe somebody else knows.
my pics have been fine i think that the facebook intergration is a usefull feature but when u click the pic choose phone instead of the other options
I have really, really annoying problem, or two in fact, but they're probably related, in the People / contact app.
It doesn't remember all my settings.
For unknown reasons, it forgets my settings on many contacts, but not all.
If I open one contact, and change it to show it's name as the one reported from Facebook, it's fine for a while, but then without any warning, it just changes back to what's stored straight on the Phone.
No matter how many times I try setting it back to showing it as the one reported by Facebook as it's name, it just reverts back sooner or later (within couple minutes, though)
It never forgets the sync/link with Facebook though, the updates the statuses fine, the photos appear normally etc
And then the other, I originally had just Phone contacts enable, but I decided to save myself some time and just use Facebook contacts as addition, instead of manually entering them first to my phone and then linking.
So, I opened up People, clicked menu > view, and ticked "Only contacts with phone number" and "Facebook" in addition to already ticked Phone, and then Done.
Boom, the facebook contacts who have their phonenumber there are listed!
But just like with the issue above, couple minutes, and they're gone.
If I go back to People > Menu > View, the Only people with phone numbers and Phone are still ticked, but Facebook isn't.
And yes, I do have all the sync options enabled in Accounts & Sync settings for Facebook for HTC Sense (and even though I've added the "just" Facebook, too, it doesn't appear in the accounts list separately)
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Then another, probably not related issue.
In people, if I go to Facebook directory, it only shows 205 contacts total, while in reality it should show 207 contacts.
I know for a fact that at least one of the missing contacts used to be there, and still is on my "normal facebook"
I had somehow gotten 2 contacts mixed into 1, with 2 numbers, 2 facebook links etc, after trashing that and re-creating the 2 as separate contacts, only one of them could be found from Facebook directory, while the other couldn't.
I've tried uninstalling Facebook updates (it doesn't allow uninstalling the whole thing), removing all the data & cache files etc, same for Facebook for HTC Sense, and even removed the account(s) alltogether from my phone, with no luck.
After re-creating the account, getting all the updates etc, it still doesn't show the 2 missing contacts (which of at least 1 was definately there in the beginning)
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Any suggestions how to fix these issues?
Is there any other way than removing all possible backups from SD and doing "hard reset" on the phone?
try running the friend stream app, friends tab, menu, options, update
I did a hard reset of the phone tonight, and even after that, I'm missing 2 contacts from the facebook list
Now I also know which 2 are now missing, and I know that one of them wasn't missing just before hard reset, and that his contact information (which I backed up on my comp) has the HTC-made link for Facebook in it, but it's not showing up on the phone, probably due the fact that the phone thinks such facebook profile ID isn't my friend.
After the reset, the phone seems to remember the other settings, though.
Hey I've got the exactly same issue with one of my Facebook friend's not being recognised as a friend. I have her on my normal Facebook, but not via the phone so can't select her to add and sync profile Joe details. It is so annoying. I've tried everything apart from hard reset, but no joy.
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Hey I've got the exactly same issue with one of my Facebook friend's not being recognised as a friend. I have her on my normal Facebook, but not via the phone so can't select her to add and sync profile Joe details. It is so annoying. I've tried everything apart from hard reset, but no joy.
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Well, via hard reset I apparently got one friend that was missing back, lost another and one that was missing is still missing
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Scratch that, it doesn't remember the settings anymore, don't know why, now it resets to showing only contacts with phone numbers, exchange and phone. It clears Facebook tick by itself, and adds exchange tick by itself.
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I have the same issue. I can actually see the contact in the facebook app. However, it is not there when I try to link my people contact with the facebook contact. It simply isn't displayed...! Annoying!!
Ha! Actually I have similar problem as you but it happened with Gmail contact and Exchange contact.
I prefer the contact to display my Exchange contact name, since it's a real name I input, then link the person with Gmail contact. However, after sync with Gmail contact, the Desire contact always forget my setting and display people by Gmail name.
It seems the Desire contact has a rule that favor Gmail name >Exchange name>Facebook name
The only way for me to resolve this is once all Gmail contact are sync, I disabled Gmail contact sync. (Gmail sync for mail is okay to keep) without Gmail contact sync, no more name setting lost issue.
Hope this helps!
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Have the same problem, htc facebook shows 4 friend less than facebook web... and something curious, when i enter flickr app and the missing contacts are here!
Using DJ droid, wiped lots of times losed friends keep losed, but only in htc contacts, flickr app show all
I am pretty sure that it is your friends' Facebook settings that are blocking them from appearing in the HTC Sense contact list. My wife just disappeared a few weeks ago, and she confirmed that she had recently updated her Facebook profile to block 3rd party apps from accessing her contact information. This makes sense, as she was there one day, and disappeared the next. My guess is that this will start to happen more and more as people begin to lock down their Facebook accounts for security reasons.
Finally i knew how to solve this...
Actually WE knew it, me and my wife went crazy because suddenly out of no where she is no longer appearing in my HTC Desire (facebook for HTC sense) contacts!
I did everything you can think of even complete RESET for my phone!
But REJOICE Android HTC users, IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT.... or better say, it is NOT HTC's fault, it is because of the Privacy Settings of that friend in his/her facebook account.
He/She has activated the (Turn Off All Platform Apps) under Privacy Settings -> Apps and Websites -> Apps You Use !!!
Once the user changes their settings and you Sync, they will appear back again, but you have to re-link them.
Many thanks for this information.
This setting has take some hourse of try and error to solve the problem on my device.
Hi,
I've got an issue, not a massive one but it bugs me nonetheless.
Currently, when I tap the Phone button from the home screen it brings up a list which shows my recent call list, if I scroll down I get a long list of all my contacts. The thing I find annoying is that the long list includes all of my Facebook "friends" that have a telephone number listed.
What I would like is for this list to only contain my contacts (copied over from my SIM), and for the ones that are linked to a Facebook account, to have their status etc updated. I do not want my random Facebook "friends" to be in the list.
The most recent thing I've done to try and solve this issue is to go into the Facebook app on the phone and change the 'Sync Contacts' settings (Menu-> Settings) to 'Don't sync'. I then went into (phone) Settings-> Applications-> Manage Applications-> All (tab)-> Contacts storage-> Clear Data. I then copied my contacts back over from the SIM. (I've also tried the 'Sync with existing contacts' option as well)
All was well for a while, my contacts linked up again and I got facebook details for my contacts when calling them. However I noticed to my annoyance that my Phone list now contains my facebook contacts again!
I notice under Settings->Accounts and Sync I have two (removable) Facebook accounts, one is Facebook, the other is Facebook for HTC Sense. Does anyone know if it would help to remove either of these accounts?
Can anyone help me find a way to solve this issue (preferably without extra software or going through the People menu)?
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Grim.
I just fixed this myself.
I think it's something to do with how HTC Facebook interacts with official Facebook. If I turned of syncing on both (but left contact sync disabled in both) I'd still get contacts in Phone (and also in suggestions in sms app). If I removed both, then added Facebook official only I'd still get them.
In the end, opening up Facebook on my PC and going into privacy then apps and disabling Facebook for HTC Sense seemed to solve it to me. I could then use the official Facebook app without getting all these contacts I'd never use.
I didn't care about getting contact pictures and stuff so I never tried letting official Facebook sync with existing contacts only, but it might work properly.
Hope this helps, completely unscientific but it seemed to for me!
jbrizz said:
I just fixed this myself.
I think it's something to do with how HTC Facebook interacts with official Facebook. If I turned of syncing on both (but left contact sync disabled in both) I'd still get contacts in Phone (and also in suggestions in sms app). If I removed both, then added Facebook official only I'd still get them.
In the end, opening up Facebook on my PC and going into privacy then apps and disabling Facebook for HTC Sense seemed to solve it to me. I could then use the official Facebook app without getting all these contacts I'd never use.
I didn't care about getting contact pictures and stuff so I never tried letting official Facebook sync with existing contacts only, but it might work properly.
Hope this helps, completely unscientific but it seemed to for me!
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Hi JBrizz thanks for your reply.
I didn't think of logging into the facebook website to disable anything. I'll give that a try.
In the meantime I've fiddled about with the accounts in 'Accounts and Sync'. I've tried deleting both the Facebook and Facebook for HTC Sense accounts.
After deleting both I went into the Facebook app and signed in, which recreates the account in Accounts and Sync. I set the sync options in the app to not sync any contacts. I waited around for a while and no extra contacts (from Facebook) appeared in my Phone list.
I then went into the Facebook app and changed the sync settings to 'sync with existing contacts' - which I assumed should only sync the data for the people currently in my phone book? Anyway after a few minutes I checked an all of my Facebook friends were now in my Phone list AGAIN
I started from fresh again and tried a similar thing with the other Facebook for HTC Sense account - I had to recreate this in the Accounts and Sync settings screen.
Again after a few minutes all my Facebook friends where there on my Phone list
Maybe this functionality isn't available with this phone / app?
Anyone else have any ideas?
It is a google problem, not a HTC problem.
The HTC app is doing what it should be doing. If you go to the people app, click on your contact (far left) and then menu -> view you can see the facebook option is unchecked.
However the Phone dialer (google product) just syncs everything.
There is a issue no for this, 10618 @
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10618&can=5&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
(unfortunately I can't post links as I am a newbie!!)
Best thing to do is you guys reply and make this defect more and more noticeable.
I've posted on the google issue site, cheers for the link!
Hello,
I'm new here. I'm not sure, if i'm on the right place. But hopefully someone can help me...
I've have a SGS2. I installed GO launcher, with GO Contacts...
The strange thing is, my facebook contacts won't show up in GO Contacts. However in the normal original contact application of my phone, they show up, no problem. Some are merged with my gmail contacts, some are not merged...
Does any know why it will show up in the original contact application and not in GO Contacts?
Here my configuration:
- in my settings of syncronisation: facebook contact are auto synced.
- settings of GO Contacts EX => Checkbox of "Show Facebook contacts" is checked.
Did i forgot something?
Same issue!!
ryoen said:
Hello,
I'm new here. I'm not sure, if i'm on the right place. But hopefully someone can help me...
I've have a SGS2. I installed GO launcher, with GO Contacts...
The strange thing is, my facebook contacts won't show up in GO Contacts. However in the normal original contact application of my phone, they show up, no problem. Some are merged with my gmail contacts, some are not merged...
Does any know why it will show up in the original contact application and not in GO Contacts?
Here my configuration:
- in my settings of syncronisation: facebook contact are auto synced.
- settings of GO Contacts EX => Checkbox of "Show Facebook contacts" is checked.
Did i forgot something?
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I seriously wish that someone would respond to this, because this is my EXACT issue. Same phone, same app, same problem! I can't seem to get any answers....
same prob here...
oh i mean the facebook sync works in my s2. but what it do is add another contact instead of merging it with my existing contact..
Wrong posting area.
Hi!I just wanted to tell u that u posted in the wrong area for your queries,Click on "forum" on the upper left under the XDA logo.Then go to answers and questions.You may also search for this problem first,am sure u r nt the 1st one with this problm.