Hi,
I have a little annoying problem with my contacts. SMS from Google Calendar and from my mobile provider show up as if they where sent from a Facebook account. The facebook contact has bogus phone numbers ("ob" for landline, "07 no idea" for mobile). Both the messages from Google and my mobile provider don't have real sender numbers ("Google" and "Orange CH", respectively), so I guess the contact app thinks that "ob" is close enough to "Google" and "Orange CH".
I feel kind of stupid to go ask my facebook contact to remove his bogus phone numbers simply because my phone has a bug. Are there any other options? I haven't linked that facebook contact to any other contact, I wouldn't bother if that single contact wouldn't get synced to my phone, but I haven't found such a setting.
Same problem here.That particular contact exist only as FB contact.I would like to remove all FB contacts from my phone which is not linked with phone/Google contacts,but if I remove FB sync,all other contacts lose their pic from FB.
Hope HTC or Google will found a solution soon.
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I have this too. And messages from voicemail all come from a friend called Abi!
Is there any way to change the contact's "location" (SIM, Google, Phone) ?
I would like to get all my "Phone" contacts synchronized with Google, but i can' find any way how to change the setting from "Phone" to "Google".
I can't find any way to sync all the contacts (SIM+Google+Phone) with Google.
Is it a bug or do I missed somthing ?
Have you tried Contacts > Menu > Import/Export?
that doesn't work, I've tried. There are a few threads here asking exactly the same question.
All we'd like is to be able to put all the contact links we have from google, facebook, phone, phone, phone and phone for one contact to go under one contact, hopefully, the google one, to include all the relevant info from all the places like facebook. I don't believe anyone has said how this can be done yet.
Bandare said:
that doesn't work, I've tried. There are a few threads here asking exactly the same question.
All we'd like is to be able to put all the contact links we have from google, facebook, phone, phone, phone and phone for one contact to go under one contact, hopefully, the google one, to include all the relevant info from all the places like facebook. I don't believe anyone has said how this can be done yet.
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That's really not the same thing as what the OP was asking. Mind me asking why you want to change that, tho? It's only a horrifying mess in the edit contact screen, when viewing the contact I only see one entry (Name, phone, email, address, nickname, facebook profile).
Of course, when I hit edit I have
Google contact with phone, email
Google contact with another email
Google contact with phone, email, address, nickname
Facebook contact
It's all very derp.
I don't want to link all the contact accounts for one person (his twitter, phone, gmail accounts) together.
what i want is to move all the "Phone" contacts to "Google" contacts location.
Example: when I click on People->Menu->View, then i have
SIM 0
Google 41
Phone 123
contacts
I want to have 41+123= 164 Google contacts only.
because i want automatically backup contacts on Gmail (e.g. to be able to restore them after ROM flash)
When i click on individual contact, then i see "Phone" on the right upper corner of the contact screen. i want to see "google" there. But it's not editable. Its only linkable ...
When i restored my contacts using mybackup pro they all restored as google contacts as well as phone contacts, so then i just deleted all of my phone cntcts using a contact deleter app from the market.
Google contacts all the way!
The google contacts have the phone and facebook info combined so photo birthday and all that.
thanks for the tips.
unfortunately my myBackup trial has allready expired.
but i have exported all "Phone" contacts to a *.vcf file, then deleted all contacts and finally imported them from *.vcf into "Google" contacts.
hopefully it will not mess up after synchronization with google (which is running in this moment)
I recently kinda done this, I just exported all contacts, and then imported multiple rather than one or all, and when you import it asked you where you wish to save them, Gmail, phone or sim, This is the ONLY way I can see about doing this
It's probably the only way to do this and it worked for me.
problem solved.
I had to hard reset my phone and before I did this I had all my contacts (phone and google) saved to my sd card. Well I can no longer find them. And when I synched my FB acct to my Evo, some contacts only have an email and no number. When I try to link the FB name to their acct they are unsearchable. Also when I manually go to a FB contact and try to edit to add the number, the eidt option is not available. One other thing when I go to the ppl icon and hit menu and vie, next to phone ther is ZERO entries. But Google and FB have a ridiculous amount of contacts......CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME???
"Facebook Account" widget, it’s incredibly useful, except it overwrites my contacts, for example.
I have a contact saved, with a mobile number, but my contact also has their number saved on their facebook profile.
So the number imported from facebook always begins with 44 and that’s the default (in the uk) and I can’t reply to any sms from these because it has to be either 07 or +44
I can’t delete the number imported from facebook or edit it, and it’s made itself the default number so if I want to text this contact, I have to start a new conversation every time.
Removing the Facebook Account widget solves this problem, but I don’t want to remove it, I just don’t want it to overwrite my phone numbers
is there any other way around this problem
I found this exact problem too, bit of a fatal bug if you ask me.
I didn't really find a solution per se. I just exported all my contacts from my old phone, then imported them into my google account.
Then in my phone book, most people were linked automatically (so they had the right number from my Google contacts). But all my facebook friends still have the wrong number (no leading 0 or +).
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Why not just edit the contact after importing it? What i mean is, just click edit and then add the same phone number that you alreday obtained from facebook as the main mobile phone number for that contact and your problem should be solve no?!
Myself I have done this from my contacts and that works great and is quite a small amount of work, even more i dont really trust most facebook phonenumbers as many people just add some random number many times i experienced
Hope this helps....
you cant edit it once it's linked to facebook because the facebook number takes over
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you cant edit it once it's linked to facebook because the facebook number takes over
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Ok i start to see your point now actually, sorry, what you mean is that you cant make any other number than a facebook number the default number for a phone contact once it is linked. That is pretty stupid...
This has bit me in the a** twice now.
How do I get all my contact say from Google linked to be permanently on the phone? I've either unchecked some setting or unlinked so connection and a bunch of phone number become unlinked and appear in the "unknown numbers" section. How can I make it so even if I delete my email accounts the contact will still be there?
I've lost a lot of contact information this way and now I have 20 numbers that I have no clue what contact they goto. And even if the contact is kept, the phone number has just disappeared.
Does this make any sense? Do I need to go in with all my google accounts and add them to the address book and still then group the original contact?
So frustrated....