Hey all,
Having moved from SenseUI to the OpenDesire ROM I am loving it but finding one SenseUI feature is sorely missed whenever I have to do a wipe.
Basically it seems that with SenseUI it stored a sort of Facebook link to each contacts profile on the Notes of the contact in Google Mail so when you wiped and it re-loaded your contacts it would automatically know which Facebook profile to link it with. With OpenDesire only a few contacts manage to pick up their Facebook profiles due to their contact names perfectly matching their Facebook profile names, problem is I have a lot of nicknames etc. in my contacts so everytime I wipe I have to go back into contacts and re-associate the majority of my contacts with Facebook profiles.
Is there any way to automate this or back it up to be restored after wipe?
Thanks
Russ
Hi
Sorry for bumping this thread but i have the same issue but with the new Gingerbread rom.
Anybody know a solution?
If you want to back up the contacts storage which saves these settings use titanium backup from market.
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Hi - I have created many phone-only (not gmail) contacts with high res profile photos.
How can i backup these phone only contacts?
I tried mybackup pro but that does every contact, and fails on restore anyway.
I dont want to have to create all of them again when i do full wipes...
Have you tried stock option "export to sd"? I took a backup by using this feature which is native in Desire thanks to either android or Sense, not sure which one is correct though, anyway.. u don't need to use any 3rd party app for this. (i have been using contact pics too, all of them restored after hard reset)
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I'll give it a go - thanks!
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There must be an option to add them to gmail account, I always create GMail/Some other MS Exchange contacts, keeps my life easy.
Well if you want to keep the mentioned hig res contact pics then the solution mentioned above is not very usable, as you will just get your contacts on a list, which the phone can import again.
If you dont need to keep those pics, just make the backup from the contacts app, and import the file to your google account through a browser. Then sync them back to your phone. And just create all future contacts as google contacts.
Hello,
Just wanted to use the Gingerbread custom ROM, which worked the best for me on my phone, however after some time of using HTC Desire with original ROM(Or later from ReflexTSense) I got pretty much used to the PEOPLE application, which links contacts from Facebook and Gmail together, now when I install the Gingerbread ROM, I do really miss this application. Is there somewhere application that does the same thing? Or better, is this application available for Gingerbread somehow? I tried to look, but no luck as of yet.
Thanks for replys
I'm using Oxygen 2.0 RC7 which I think has the standard Gingerbread contacts app. There is a way to link accounts but it is not as obvious... Here's how when viewing a contact...
Menu > Edit Contact > Menu > Join
Doesnt work, Installed REDUX ROM (RC6) go to contacts, hit menu button, and then theres button 'accounts' so I click that and then I have two accounts, Gmail and Facebook in there, both of them are synced, but Facebook contacts wont shop up in my list
Zheiko said:
Doesnt work, Installed REDUX ROM (RC6) go to contacts, hit menu button, and then theres button 'accounts' so I click that and then I have two accounts, Gmail and Facebook in there, both of them are synced, but Facebook contacts wont shop up in my list
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you read his responce wrong. you need to be IN the contacts info, then follow what he said.. Menu > Edit Contact > press Menu Again > and click Join.. this will then bring up your list off all your contacts on your phone.. you can join as many as you like by following the procedure again.
If your problem is that your Facebook contacts arent showing up.. that is a different problem all together.. You need to go into your Accounts and Sync settings, choose your FB account, and check Sync Contacts.. In the FB app, you need to goto Settings, and at the very bottom is Sync Contacts, set it to ALL. Next time your phone sync's it'll add all your contacts and their info, you can then follow the previous instructions to link them.
This was weird, I had done it just as you said earlier as well, and it didnt show up, so I went step by step and followed what you wrote, and kaboom, my contacts are there... brilliant, thank you
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And here goes another one, I'd like to sync calendar with facebook birthdays, just like its on sense calendar... any tips?
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Unfortunately, that you can't do. You need a seperate app for that.. there are a couple on the market. Alternatively, if you have a yahoo account you can log into that, import everything from fb including birthdays.. then log into google contacts ands import it from yahoo and it will take the bdays
Those are the only ways I've found at least..
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Do you have some app that you could recomend? I dont have yahoo account, but guess, that if I wont get any other choice, I'll create one...
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I used MyBackup Root to back up all my contacts on my phone while I was using leedroid. When I've reloaded them into cynogenmod each contact has about 4 copies.
Is there a way to sort my contacts and remove the duplicates? or is there an alternative contact list like that on sense I'm missing having peoples profiles linked with their contact data. The non sense contacts in cm7 rc2 is weak in comparison to the sense verison.
Any ideas are much appreciated.
Thanks
The way I did it I setup my contacts to sync with my Google Account so no matter what rom I have I always have my contacts. Then I just link Facebook and Twitter and I get the contact pictures. It's much easier than using 3rd party apps to do it for you.
Ignore this i've posted my question elsewhere.
Sync all your (multiple) contacts contacts to gmail.
Log into gmail on a pc, click contacts on the left side bar. Then click the drop down box "more actions", and select "find & merge duplicates".
Having your contacts synced to gmail works really well for swapping and changing roms, and also pretty much guarantees you will never loose them.....
I recently flashed my EVO 4G and running CM7 rom. I'm enjoying it, but miss a certain feature from the default factory EVO. I was able to sort contacts by & create groups for my contacts (business, personal, work, family, etc) before the flash occured. This allowed me to view the groups very easily. Contacts were also able to go in multiple categories. Is anyone able to assist me in doing so with the contacts i have on cm7, which are simply alphabetized at the present? Thanx in advance...
Rocket Dialer uses the contact groups that have been synced from your account. I'm sure there are other replacements that do as well.
I think that when you sync your contacts from Google on CM7, the groups sync as well. The stock contacts and phone apps just don't show them.
I could be wrong, though.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
Thx...I will give it a try
I have been using GO Contacts and like it very much. Does groups, etc... not sure if it is synced with any contact groups saved with Google. Gonna give Rocket Dialer a shot, too.
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Dialer One is very similar to the Sense Contacts/People apk.
The GO Contacts is working well for me...thx alot for the insight...
Hi Team,
I have differenced between sycronising in roms 2.3.5 and cm7.. When I have installed 2.3.5 automatically face book and my gmail accounts will get syhncronise with contact photos but in cm7 its not syncronising the contact photos.. Can anyone guide how to go head..I have used contacts syncronise from the market but no use..Please help me.
Sync the Facebook app probably.
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I have done...I am getting only contacts but not photos...
sorry posted on wrong thread
Sorry, I have posted in the correct section..Please guide me If I am wrong...
Nah you're in the right section.
I think I know what you mean. Like in Sense it will prompt you to link similar contacts so Facebook, whatsapp, twitter, gmail etc are on the same contact.
You can do that in CM7 but you have to do it manually for each contact.
When looking at a regular Google contact in your phone book, press menu and choose 'edit contact', then once in the edit mode, press the menu button again and select 'Join'. You can then choose other accounts to join to that account.
TBH My contacts got really f****d up by using the join in CM7 and people had random other accounts attached to them after moving from stock to CM7 so I reset all contacts and only used my google accounts in my phone book and use each respective application to use different accounts. CM7 is such a better ROM though that I don't miss that functionality as I'm not hugely bothered about having peoples pictures on the contact. You can always apply pictures manually if you get bored one evening!