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Facebook Integration question

Hello there
I have one little question about the integrated facebook contacts with the phonebook contacts
when I associate a contact it takes only the photo for 1-2 months ..
I already tried a several roms with different manilas (2.1 & 2.5) but everywhere is the same, the association downloads only the photo of the person, but in the past it takes and the birthday which is very useful I think.
Does somebody know whats happening, and is it possible to configure it again to takes and the Bday info. Thanks a lot.
Regards,
patzkata

Yes,it happens to me to. When I click Update Now on all the contacts, only photos are synced. It used to be able to sync everything. What has changed?

my touch pro will be here Thursday, so though I can't help with your issue, a possible temporary solution would be to use booksync.

JValmont said:
my touch pro will be here Thursday, so though I can't help with your issue, a possible temporary solution would be to use booksync.
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Yes, may be this works, but HTC offers the same thing which was already imported in the HTC contacts app. I don;t want another application

some of my contacts do not even sync the facebook profile photos to Contacts.... any chance this problem is caused by the new Facebook privacy settings?

Mesquire said:
some of my contacts do not even sync the facebook profile photos to Contacts.... any chance this problem is caused by the new Facebook privacy settings?
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Good call, that could be the reason why pictures stopped syncing.

Contact picture Google/Facbook problem

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.

lumpaywk said:
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.

Philosoma said:
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?

setspeed said:
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

Calendar does not delete birthdays for facebook friends removed

I have removed some friends from facebook, however, the calendar on my htc desire (froyo) does not delete entries for these people and still has their birthdays listed in the calendar.
I have tried re-syncing with no success.
Does anyone have a solution to resolve this issue?

HTC provided me with this lame solution:
The HTC Desire does not have an option to remove the birthday entries of your deleted friends. We recommend that you remove your facebook account from your phone and clean out and make sure you have removed the deleted friends from your facebook account on your computer. After that, please sync your facebook account again on your computer. If you still encounter the same issue, it would be best to contact the developers of facebook.

Its not like their birthday doesnt exist anymore, even if you're not their "friend" ;]

CharlesDaBeast said:
Does anyone have a solution to resolve this issue?
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Stop falling out with people.

[Q] Facebook for htc sense sync with contacts

Hey guys, I want to sync Facebook contacts with my phone contacts. Should I use the Facebook Application to sync or log into HTC Sense for Facebook to do the syncing?

I used the facebook to sync with my contacts, however they did not link my contacts (from my sim card) with my facebook's contacts. Might be the sim card's problem.

But is it able to sync to your phone contacts?
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Yea, but only those who included their phone no. in their facebook's profile. To see the complete list of your FB's contact, including those who didn't include their contact no., you can find them through "people" > "online directories" > "facebook".
Not sure if it's of any help.

I see. How about using htc sense for Facebook? How does it works?
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Ohno, I'm so sorry! I realise I'm using Facebook for HTC Sense all the while. I had to manually link the my contacts.
Sorry for the confusion!

Oh I see. So what's the process like? Under Accounts and Sync, add a HTC Sense for Facebook account first is it? And let it sync?

I would use Facebook sence. The reason I say this is because it should suggest auto links for your contacts. However I still found it got a little confused and was better to link manually. Also it will give you more options with other HTC features. Also if you then use Facebook for android make sure you chose not to sync contacts. This is because your contacts will get two lots of Facebook info, one from sence and one from android. Found that a right pain.
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Oh I see. So what's the process like? Under Accounts and Sync, add a HTC Sense for Facebook account first is it? And let it sync?
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Yea, I think that's what I did. Under Accounts & Sync > Facebook for HTC Sense > Sync contacts.

This will auto sync the phone contacts with the Facebook one? Or need to manually sync?
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Yea, I think that's what I did. Under Accounts & Sync > Facebook for HTC Sense > Sync contacts.
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I use both, as I've had issues syncing at different times. As long as the names are similar or there is something similar about the contacts it will ask to link them, least it did for my 300 contacts on the phone.

Hi,
I've had the same problem which I can't resolve.
I have both a "Facebook" account and a "Facebook for HTC sense" account. I can sync the facebook account to my contacts in my cellphone (HTC DHD) just fine. All my contacts will be sync'd and it will get me their pictures from facebook, however those pictures are zoomed in and of bad quality.
Therefore I chose to sync "Facebook for HTC sense" to my contacts. It gives me better pictures (except there is a Facebook logo on them), and it writes their last wall post in my contacts list.
The issue is that it doesn't sync all my contacts (which are in both my facebook friends and my phone contacts of course), I have 2 or 3 people missing...
I looked on the Internet for hours and didn't find any solution. It's either all the contacts with bad pictures, or most of them with good pictures but F logo on them.
If anyone gets more info about all that, please answer.
Thank you.

I could not understand the exact logic difference between Facebook & Facebook for HTC Sense and also Tweeter & Tweeter for HTC Sense and how to sync them (both or only select one).
All I want to see my "Favoruites" widget update my contacts status on a regular basis from facebook or tweeter (whichever one is most updated).
How you guys use this?

Joss-21 said:
Hi,
I've had the same problem which I can't resolve.
I have both a "Facebook" account and a "Facebook for HTC sense" account. I can sync the facebook account to my contacts in my cellphone (HTC DHD) just fine. All my contacts will be sync'd and it will get me their pictures from facebook, however those pictures are zoomed in and of bad quality.
Therefore I chose to sync "Facebook for HTC sense" to my contacts. It gives me better pictures (except there is a Facebook logo on them), and it writes their last wall post in my contacts list.
The issue is that it doesn't sync all my contacts (which are in both my facebook friends and my phone contacts of course), I have 2 or 3 people missing...
I looked on the Internet for hours and didn't find any solution. It's either all the contacts with bad pictures, or most of them with good pictures but F logo on them.
If anyone gets more info about all that, please answer.
Thank you.
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Agree with this 100%, I prefer using the official Facebook app, instead of Facebook for HTC Sense, however I'm thoroughly annoyed that the picture qualities are awful and zoomed in.
Googled it up and found that Facebook app was update in version 1.4 to allow high-res pictures to be linked to the contacts, but for some reason on the DHD even though the Facebook app is at version 1.5 the image qualities are still terrible.
Anyone managed to sync their Facebook contacts/pictures to their DHD without using HTC Sense and still getting good quality images?

Contacts not showing

Hey xda,
I've got a little issue with my one X
I'm almost sure its just being my fault but I can't find it.
Anyways, i've got many contacts, and I want those synced.
Now i've set facebook to sync ALL contacts. And so did I for skype, but they just don't show up.
For example I have an contact called 'chris'
It's linked with my google contact, the fb contact, and the skype contact.
But it's just not showing up anywhere.
I've set everything to auto-sync, but it doesn't even work when I sync it manually.
I've also got this issue with facebook, whenever I want to upload a photo, and want to tag someone, my facebook contacts just aren't up-to-date.
Doe anyone experience this issue? Or have a solution?
Kind regards,
ShadowAS1
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