Something weird is going on. For some reason, I am unable to link certain friends' contact information with Facebook (Sense). I'd say 95% of my contacts are syncing fine where their information and pictures are updated through their Facebook profiles. However, I noticed that about 5 of them aren't listed on the Facebook link search list: even though they're on my Facebook app friend list.
What could it be? Is there a setting in Facebook that doesn't allow this information to be synced to people's phones?! Only thing I figured it could be.
Thanks in advance...
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Yep. I have one who I cannot link. He has the highest level of privacy on his account vs. the rest of my friends. So I am pretty certain it is a security setting. Not sure which one though.
edufur said:
Yep. I have one who I cannot link. He has the highest level of privacy on his account vs. the rest of my friends. So I am pretty certain it is a security setting. Not sure which one though.
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Gotcha. I guess it makes sense. Alright then. Thanks for the help!
I imported my contacts from a save file on my sd card recently, and noticed some contacts not syncing with facebook.
Later in the day I checked it again and they were synced fine. No idea why it was like this. I stored my contacts through google, and not to my phone.
Weird. The thing is, with my, it's only like 5 contacts out of the hundreds that are syncing fine. It's been months too and they're still not linked. I guess there's a setting on Facebook for that.
i'm having a similar issue, although my phone is an HD2. but there are some facebook contacts that will not be available for me to sync them with my phone contacts. and even i add more friends to my facebook profile, when trying to sync the contact, it only shows 53 facebook contacts. even though more friends were added recently. any ideas?
I have cm6 and downloaded Facebook. I don't have last names but 30% get linked. I just want their pics on contacts. I downloaded I used syncmypix app from appbrain which I'm sure is in the market. Does Facebook sync for pics. Got all of them on there. It will attempt to sync them. After and if it doesn't do all of them go to results. Will show the list of friends and who's picture worked. You can go through and if there is no pic next to the name and is on your phone contacts, click their name.. it will pull the pic from Facebook. Hit the back button to to exit pic and press and hold on their name. Will bring you to your phone contacts. Scroll and click. Bam you synced their pic. It will ask to crop or skip.
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Just in case any facebook users aren't doing this, you should give it a go.
This has to be my favourite feature on the phone so far. I get their picture, automatically updated, and their latest status in my phonebook. Amazing!
1) You add your contacts as normal (manually, or from Gmail).
2) Tap on a contact, then select link at the top right.
3) If you have a facebook friend with the same name, it will suggest that person. Just tap on that person and the two will become linked.
4) If the name is different, just find the right person and tap on them.
yeh its fun but it also makes your phonebook filled up with people you dont normally have there but they are in your fb list which is really annoying me
cez10 said:
yeh its fun but it also makes your phonebook filled up with people you dont normally have there but they are in your fb list which is really annoying me
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yeah thats wot im worried about but the OP said that he added his contacts first and then linked the ones with facebook. I also know that you can sync to FB when you first switch it on so it imports all FB contacts to your phone. I have not got a Desire yet but I hope you can just manually link the some contacts with facebook.
It replaces all my nicely chosen contact photos from my Google account with crappy Facebook ones :-(
This is nothing new to me as i had it on my HTC Tattoo too. Mine only has my Google contacts if i go to "people" the only way i see the anoyying FB contacts that i never added is if i press "phone".
Oh and if yours show when you go to "People" then try pressing menu, then view then untick Facebook. If i had my FB ticked i'd have 305 more that i don't want!
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This is nothing new to me as i had it on my HTC Tattoo too. Mine only has my Google contacts if i go to "people" the only way i see the anoyying FB contacts that i never added is if i press "phone".
Oh and if yours show when you go to "People" then try pressing menu, then view then untick Facebook. If i had my FB ticked i'd have 305 more that i don't want!
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yeah ive done that but any idea how to get rid of the ones from FB that are not on your contact list but they still show up on the list when you re in the phone 'menu'
also how can i delete a number thats been linked to the account? cuz my mates number on facebook is his old number he's not using at the moment and it even set it as a primary number :< and ill keep forgetting which one is which lol
I don't have this problem. When I click on 'people' I get just the Gmail contacts. there are other tabs along the bottom, such as 'groups' and 'online directories' which is where the facebook contacts are listed.
I've just tested, and I do get all the facebook numbers when I push the phone button. It is kinda annoying, though I never make calls that way. I couldnt find the option to turn this off.
There is an option to not sync facebook contacts at all, but I guess that would stop me linking the contacts from Gmail as well.
you guys are lucky. Mine says i dont have any friends when i know i have about 300+
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I don't have this problem. When I click on 'people' I get just the Gmail contacts. there are other tabs along the bottom, such as 'groups' and 'online directories' which is where the facebook contacts are listed.
I've just tested, and I do get all the facebook numbers when I push the phone button. It is kinda annoying, though I never make calls that way. I couldnt find the option to turn this off.
There is an option to not sync facebook contacts at all, but I guess that would stop me linking the contacts from Gmail as well.
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yeah thats what im talking about, i will probably ring people through people widget but still it be good if it was slightly improved
and i do want to sync them, but want to remove some of the sync data which is outdated
agent.m said:
you guys are lucky. Mine says i dont have any friends when i know i have about 300+
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sorted problem out. did a refresh and it loaded. phew
setspeed said:
It replaces all my nicely chosen contact photos from my Google account with crappy Facebook ones :-(
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Yep, that's my main problem with it. It has its uses and I do like it, but boy do my friends have some crap pictures up!
At least you can choose not to have your 'Facebook only' friends on the phone's contact list, by deselecting Facebook from the People/View option.
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?
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
Does Anyone have multiples contacts being created and linked every single time the app initiates a sync. So for example under Joe smith it would create a contact named com.facebook.auth.login under joe smith. And this is created everytime it syncs, so overnight i had about 5 for each contact. It also doesnt pull the picture for each contact. is this just me?
seeing the same behavior here
Same thing here
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I will add a few things in case my configuration is similar to others:
I am running DC 3.5 and have banned:
DCUpdater
SprintTV
SprintNFL
SprintNascar
Sprint VVM
Twitter
Facebook
Friendstream
I then installed the market versions of Facebook and Twitter. Everything seems to work perfectly except the Facebook contact Sync. I am getting duplicate entries and profile photos are not being sync'd in.
It did that to me also. The new update IMHO is crap. I uninstalled it and went back to the old version.
I just turned the contact sync off for now. What I would really like is just a way to sync photos and contact info straight into my gmail address book.
I have a lot of my Google contacts synced with my Facebook account but I set them to show the Google picture rather than the Facebook picture. Some of them work fine and show the Google picture but some of them show the Google picture for awhile and then switch back to the Facebook picture, and it stays on the Facebook picture until I go and switch it again. And then it switches itself back to the Facebook picture 5 minutes later.
This really frustrates me and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. Anyone know what's wrong?
Facing the same prob....
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How do you switch between google photo and facebook photo for a linked account?
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How do you switch between google photo and facebook photo for a linked account?
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In the contact details tap the "linked" icon in the top right hand corner, then you can tap the contact photo itself and choose which one you want to use
as the OP states though, for some reason it doesn't always stick... for me it works for all contacts where I've done this (maybe 7 or 8) except one, which always switches back to the facebook photo...
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Ah!!! Good its not just me being an idiot then....i have this exact same issue!!!
only way to stop the pictures from changing is to switch off the facebook contact sync in account & sync settings.
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only way to stop the pictures from changing is to switch off the facebook contact sync in account & sync settings.
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So it's just a bug in Android? Like popkid said, some of them stick with the Google picture, and some of them switch back to the Facebook picture. And it's usually the same ones, like the ones that stick to Google for awhile usually stick to Google forever, and the ones that are gonna switch back to Facebook will do it almost immediately.
One thing I tried is just unlinking those specific contacts from their Facebook accounts, but if they have their phone numbers in their Facebook profiles, now that the contacts are separated the Facebook contact will override the phone/Google contact and it will show the person's full name and Facebook pic, so it still doesn't help.
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So it's just a bug in Android? Like popkid said, some of them stick with the Google picture, and some of them switch back to the Facebook picture. And it's usually the same ones, like the ones that stick to Google for awhile usually stick to Google forever, and the ones that are gonna switch back to Facebook will do it almost immediately.
One thing I tried is just unlinking those specific contacts from their Facebook accounts, but if they have their phone numbers in their Facebook profiles, now that the contacts are separated the Facebook contact will override the phone/Google contact and it will show the person's full name and Facebook pic, so it still doesn't help.
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I have the same problem as you are, I don't think it's a bug in Android but the Facebook sync itself. At the moment I just left the facebook contact sync off to stop the picture from being changed.
Look it's easy people.
Go to the contact. Choose link, choose desired photo, save and job done.
Took me a while to figure out too but the functionality is there.
sbdags said:
Look it's easy people.
Go to the contact. Choose link, choose desired photo, save and job done.
Took me a while to figure out too but the functionality is there.
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As I said, that's exactly what I've been doing ...
1. I go to "link."
2. I click on the picture and choose the Google picture.
3. The picture changes to the Google picture.
4. A couple of minutes (or sometimes a couple of hours) later, the picture changes itself back to the Facebook picture.
I love my Evo but one problem I seem to have is getting my pictures from my people to match their current Facebook picture. When I originally linked all the contacts in my people it was correct to their pictures at the time but that was 2 months ago. Now, everyones picture is still the same as it was back then even though I go to accounts->sync every day and have it on auto sync for every 4 hours. Does anyone know how to fix this bug on my phone? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
I've done it by selecting settings, applications, manage applications, all tab, then select contacts storage and clear data... now your contacts must be backed up on google otherwise you'll lose all your contacts.. and just sync, sync sync
sorry for the noob response but how do i back them up with google?
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sorry for the noob response but how do i back them up with google?
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If your contacts are created in your google account, meaning if you can log into gmail on your computer and your contacts are there, then they are already backed up.
If you create contacts on the internal phone storage, you are sol.
Go to people and hit menu and choose import/export. Back up the contacts that are on the internal phone storage to your sd card. Open up gmail in your pc browser and import those contacts to your gmail contacts, using the file that you backed up to the card.
Or what you can do is go to settings, accounts & sync and select facebook for htc sense, remove account, the add the account back
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Or what you can do is go to settings, accounts & sync and select facebook for htc sense, remove account, the add the account back
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okay i did that and now only like 1/4th of my people have the little FB icon on the bottom left and only the people with the icon have statuses under their name. Also, when I try to link the people without the facebook icon, that person's name will not be on the list but if i choose someone else to link that first person's name is there. sorry if im confusing you guys haha I know its something small I just like to have everything right on my phone.
Wow people here are doing this the hard way. There is a facebook picture app that syncs your FB contacts picture. The other way is to just log out of facebook AND AND AND AND AND facebook for htc sense. then just log back into them both. easy as pie.