Hey all,
Just received my Desire and loving it. My only issue so far is that even though I've selected in the People app only to display Google contacts there seems to still be Facebook contacts appearing, albeit only the ones who have entered phone numbers into their Facebook profile.
This causes duplicate entries for the same person in messaging apps (default and Handcent) and in the People app it seems to prefer to show the Facebook contact details rather than the Google ones.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Russ
I have exactly the same problem
are those the contacts that are LINKED to facebook contacts, but not actually facebook contacts?
oh, and you will get du0plicates appearing in third party apps. all that unticking them in people does is hide them in that app. the rest can still see them.
Yes, the linking has happened automatically, unfortunately it doesn't stop the contact showing up twice. For example, I have a friend Hailei, she has an entry in my google contacts with her phone number, this contact is linked to her facebook profile on which she has a fake contact number.
If I create an SMS and type in Hailei as the recipient I get presented with both the real number and her fake facebook number and there's no way to stop this happening. This happens with the standard Messaging app or with Handcent.
in the sms you will get that, yes.
like i said, just because you have hidden the facebook contacts in people, it does NOT hide them in any other application, as they are still downloaded to the phone.
the only way to get rid of the duplicates is to sing out of facebook for HTC sense. not ideal, but hopefuuly it'll get fixed later as it's not an ideal way for it to work.
this is far from ideal esp if numbers match sat tmobiles ie every time they send me a text it date it'd from a contact and my fiancee is then why they sending you texts and I have to show her to prove it. we need to pressure HTC on this to get a fix or at least the ability to delete them from the phones address book. also a side question if anyone knows a way to link the phone button to the people app so o get that come up instead it would be great ie remaping it or something
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Anybody know anyone with a Nexus One to confirm if this is an Android 2.1 issue or a HTC Sense on 2.1 issue?
It would be nice if you could import the facebook contacts one at a time into your phonebook, not just as a whole.
I was lucky and found out the whole facebook thing as soon as I started my phone, managed to delete my whole contacts, uncheck the facebook contact sync and start again. No more pointless numbers from people I would never want to phone anymore, but means I can't get pictures up for my contacts.
Handcent SMS now has an option to hide social network contacts, although I don't actually have access to that option, it's in the release notes for the latest version which I have but the option in Settings doesn't appear, I'm not alone on this so must be a bug, hopefully quickly fixed and that puts an end to my problems!
roakes said:
Anybody know anyone with a Nexus One to confirm if this is an Android 2.1 issue or a HTC Sense on 2.1 issue?
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Syncing Facebook contacts into phonebook is actually a Sense function, i.e. part of the HTC's "People" program.
Yeah, agreed: this is an annoying issue... Just because I want to get Facebook photos for my contacts and their status update does not mean I want ALL their details of EVERY Facebook friend being stored on my phone as a contact.
Even more problematic is how Sense handles phone numbers... It will pull phone numbers from Facebook and (seemingly randomly) may overwrite your setting for their phone number.
Example:
For contact "Bob", you set his phone number as +447900000, however, Bob has his Facebook phone number set as 447900000 (notice how the + is missing, because Bob doesn't know that you need the + there and anyway, who cares, it's only Facebook!)
Well, when Sense syncs the phone numbers, it may very well overwrite Bob's correct phone number (with the + prefix) with his Facebook phone number (which you will be unable to successfully dial)... and there is no way to turn this off without disabling the whole Facebook syncing functionality...
Very annoying!
Yup couldn't agree more. I did a reset like 5 mins after starting the phone, just because I didn't want to see the facebook armada on the list. While yes I did aggree to friend requests from my students ... I don't want to have all 200 of them as contacts in the phone prog ...
[jon] said:
Yeah, agreed: this is an annoying issue... Just because I want to get Facebook photos for my contacts and their status update does not mean I want ALL their details of EVERY Facebook friend being stored on my phone as a contact.
Even more problematic is how Sense handles phone numbers... It will pull phone numbers from Facebook and (seemingly randomly) may overwrite your setting for their phone number.
Example:
For contact "Bob", you set his phone number as +447900000, however, Bob has his Facebook phone number set as 447900000 (notice how the + is missing, because Bob doesn't know that you need the + there and anyway, who cares, it's only Facebook!)
Well, when Sense syncs the phone numbers, it may very well overwrite Bob's correct phone number (with the + prefix) with his Facebook phone number (which you will be unable to successfully dial)... and there is no way to turn this off without disabling the whole Facebook syncing functionality...
Very annoying!
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yes this is a massive problem for me. is there any solution?
callummc said:
yes this is a massive problem for me. is there any solution?
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OK so this is what I did, but I have no idea whether it will work for you. I had a specific contact who I simply couldn't dial so I tried to find a solution.
NOTE: This does NOT solve the problem for all contacts, but read on and it may help...
First thing I did was go into my Google Contacts on my computer and deleted all the Facebook metadata in the "notes" section for each contact (as this was already pulled over from my HTC Hero tagging, and it seemed to have a different format.) << so if you are migrating from an older HTC Sense handset, then this may help you but WARNING: this will take a long time to do for each contact, and you will then need to re-associate every contact.
Next thing was to delete all the contact info off my device which you can do by going to Manage Applications > Contacts Storage and delete all the stored info.
Now go to sync settings and hit "Sync All" (or whatever it's called), or just wait and your phone will automatically re-download all of your contacts.
Now... some contacts will automatically get linked to their respective Facebook accounts and some will need to be set manually (I have no idea why they can't ALL be linked automatically, it seems kind of random...)
Anyway, what I have now found is that:
- Any contacts who were linked automatically: my settings override the Facebook settings
- Any contacts who were linked manually: Facebook settings override my settings
Either way, this is incredibly annoying and I think that HTC really do need to provide 2 extra options:
1. To not download ALL Facebook contacts, only to fetch additional attributes for existing contacts
and:
2. To give us greater control over what these attributes are (i.e. I do NOT want all of my contacts random/invalid phone numbers being imported to my device and cluttering everything up, just because I want their image & wall updates...)
I think you have to LINK the person.
I had the same, but when I LINKED the two 'names', it became one. I could choose which name I wanted to use, the Facebook name or the Google entry name.
You told in a previous post that the LINK was automatically done. This is not true. It only suggests, but you have to confirm by clicking the broken chain behind the name. Then it becomes a chain and the two entries becomes one.
I hoped this helps ya all.
I realised mine wasn't automatic, it was just already linked from when I had my Hero, I forgot it stores the link on your google contacts
Workaround:
Not ideal but fixes problematic phonnumber
When you have linked your gmail contact with fb account
Edit your gmail account and add any number as that persons phone.
Now you should see 2 numbers from that person.
Chosse that fake number as primary number.
Now edit gmail contact again and edit fake number with real one.
It will override fb number if it is in wrong format
Not ideal but at least you have proper number for that person
Using Sense 2.0 here.
Apart from the sms number suggestion thing (i can live with it, but is annoying...)
The real problem is that every facebook contact that has a phone number is synced without the + in the area code. This makes all contacts undialable!!! I checked that on facebook via browser the numbers are correct (they are without area code)!
We really need a solution for this problem, a solution that isn't disable facebook people sync (i want to keep photos etc.)
My company has an alerting SMS system. Usually you receive a reminder. The special thing in the SMS that instead of the number in the "Form" field it shows the text "alert".
When I receive this SMS it shows that I received it one of my friends from facebook contacts :s His profile also not contains number under the phone field just characters.
How this huge bug could pass the test?!
I reported this issue to HTC support, but of course no response.
This happens with me when receiving texts from t-mobile, it always says that they are from a random facebook friend. The only way to stop it, is to stop the phone syncing facebook contacts.
I too am having the same problem.
It seems very odd that it should pick up a random facebook contact.
I don't sync my facebook contacts to the Desire, but do remain logged into facebook and it still picks up the random contact despite the mobile numbers used etc all being different!
A fix would be great!
I had this bug, I had the contact delete their phone details seeing as they only entered garbage. Don't hold your breath on it ever getting fixed.
Sorry to ask so many Qs but new...
have synced with facebook and of course there are many people there I never want to call or mail. How do I delete them? The manual says People>Menu>Delete then select, but every time I press Delete it defaults to one contact only (the last person I called and coincidentally a favorite) I must be doing something wrong? Can I do it by connecting to my PC and just editing the list?
If you go into your contacts then press the menu button, there is an option called show/view (an eye). There you can hide your contacs from facebook.
And if you want to link some of your normal phone contacts, you can go into each contact and link to facebook to get status updates and contact picture from fb.
Atleat thats how i did.
i have a different problem
someone i know has "yeah hold on" as their phone number on facebook
this results in any sms coming from a company (e.g. offers, discounts, junk etc) having her picture and details as the sender
how can i remove that one? it's bugging me, but before i tell her to sort out her FB account, i want to remove her from my phone book
bigviv said:
i have a different problem
someone i know has "yeah hold on" as their phone number on facebook
this results in any sms coming from a company (e.g. offers, discounts, junk etc) having her picture and details as the sender
how can i remove that one? it's bugging me, but before i tell her to sort out her FB account, i want to remove her from my phone book
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lol, i have the same
i find no way to remove it
THAT's why a text from Natwest showed up as a random FB contact!! lol!!
I have the exact same problem.... anybody know a fix?
One solution, ... a radical one though, ..... hard reset your device and dont sync your facebook contacts
not really a solution though is it?
anyone have any idea how to sort this problem out?!
you could try deleteing her from your facebook as your friends then resync your phone.
this may help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=659385
I'm running the EvolutionV8 ROM and I made the fix to get Facebook to sync my contacts and all the contacts got synced except for 1.........myself. I have no contact entry for myself and if I create a new contact and try and merge it with a FB contact I don't see the facebook contact representing myself. Any ideas?
Wait wait...what?!
You want a contact on your phone for, yourself? If my human brain is confused, imagine how the phone feels!
Dang man..don't need to mess with it like that!
Anyhow, let me try and get it right. You want a Facebook contact for yourself to show up on your phone (I guess some people talk to themselves, but this kinda goes a little far.)
I'll bet if you create a new Facebook account, and add all the contacts to it, including yourself as a contact, it'll work. I think it probably has something to do with Facebook not really putting YOU as an actual contact. I don't know if that makes any sense or not. I'm just confused now.
You are not a contact on Facebook, you are you, you can't contact yourself on facebook. Ie, you can't send yourself a poke! Unless you had 2 accounts of course, sending pokes back and forth (yeah, thats just weird.) SO since you aren't a contact on Facebook, a contact on your phone with your name isn't going to sync with Facebook!
I think that answers the question, let me know if I'm waaay off base here.
Let me clarify:
I want my phone to know that my facebook account represents the same person that owns the phone. When I type a MMS message I want to see my FB profile picture representing me in the MMS conversation.
RickBaller said:
Let me clarify:
I want my phone to know that my facebook account represents the same person that owns the phone. When I type a MMS message I want to see my FB profile picture representing me in the MMS conversation.
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Ahh, gotcha. Hmm. I'm running Toast .03 and it works just fine for me, but I think the ROM you're talking about has Facebook issues (or you wouldn't have had to "get it to work")
Might be an issue best fixed in that ROM's thread? The maker of the ROM probably needs to integrate a full Facebook fix.
Hi,
I have seen various topics on contacts syncing and how to avoid sync with Google account to pollute the Contacts on the phone with what is not part of "My Contacts". I have been to apply most of this but it seems that it is only partial:
I can get the People application to show only the contacts I want, this is fine.
The issue is that when I send an email and I start typing in the To field, I'm offered all possible contacts, even the ones I explicitly filtered out and which are not appearing in People application...
Is this the expected behaviour? I hope no Is there something I can do to avoid that?
Any chance it could be a left over for a first sync? If yes, how can I clean it for good?
Thanks a lot for any help on this,
If you're talking about the Gmail app... it works the same way it does online, so you'll get all the contacts. I don't think you can change this.
I was talking about email and sms apps.
For Gmail, I'm clear it works as you say (even if the proposed contacts are not sorted in the same way on Android than in the browser, and it is a bit less convenient).