Guys, how the hell can I stop Facebook syncing contacts to my phone?
I want it to see what contacts I have in my phone and then sync them to Facebook, but I really dont want Facebook pushing all my friends to my phone.
Is there anyway this can be turned off? I know you can hide them in "People", but thats not the point. I dont want them on my phone in the first place
No way apart from removing sense all together in the sync settings. I wish htc would sort this out I want to chose who goes into my dialer
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Just choose to see only SIM and phone contacts. That way the rest ( google, facebook etc. ) won't be visible.
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Just choose to see only SIM and phone contacts. That way the rest ( google, facebook etc. ) won't be visible.
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Yeah but thats not really the point. You can still find people if you search for them. I just dont want them all together
Evostance said:
Guys, how the hell can I stop Facebook syncing contacts to my phone?
I want it to see what contacts I have in my phone and then sync them to Facebook, but I really dont want Facebook pushing all my friends to my phone.
Is there anyway this can be turned off? I know you can hide them in "People", but thats not the point. I dont want them on my phone in the first place
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I like htc sense, but don't like facebook contacts being synced to my phone and wish they'd update it so that you get the option. There are two ways to stop it, one is permanent and one is permanent until you reboot the phone and have contacts synced to a cloud, such as google mail. The only problem is when you reboot the phone it then switches facebook contacts sync back on!
Method 1 (Permenant)
Under settings menu, in Accounts and Sync. Remove the account Facebook for HTC Sense.
Method 2 (Not Permanent - Will remove all contacts unless you have a them synced to a cloud)
Under settings menu.
1. In Accounts and Sync, tap on Facebook for HTC Sense and untick option to sync contacts
2. Under settings menu in Applications, tap on Manage Applications and then Tap on Running Applications, at the top of the screen. Select menu, just to sort them in abc order.
3. Wait for the screen to update the icons with images and then scroll down and find Contact Storage. Tap on Contact Storage and then tap on Clear Data, in the options. This will remove all contacts, and then the cloud base contacts will update your phone back with your normal contacts.
Method 2 is not permanent and is only effective until you reboot the phone, or replace the battery. Once this has been done then the contacts sync in Facebook for HTC Sense get's reenabled for some reason. Be nice if it didn't!
I hope HTC will get wind of some people are annoyed that Facebook contacts sync with phone contacts with Sense and they may just update the app with a more permanent solution to stop it if you don't want it to.
I want my dialer list to show only the contacts on my sim / phone and not add my facebook friends.
I'd also like it if the contacts that are on my sim / phone would update status etc.
There is a page over on the google code site about this:
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...c=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars&id=10618
Can't you just log out of Facebook in the Sense apps? Unless Sense is also talking to the official Facebook app, that should work.
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this may sound odd but i cant seem to find a way to delete the contact that Facebook dragged onto my phone. I have people on my friends that put any garbage into there phone number field i.e. 118118. personally i think if you don't want to put your number on there leave the field blank arg. Anyway i don't really want them cluttering up my phone book so is there a way of just ditching the ones i don't want without Facebook dumping them?
I am having the same problem with no solution in sight....
In the people app, press menu. Choose View. Untick Facebook.
this is great thank you. the only problem is it just hides them i really need the contacts gone from the phone as for example i had a message from t mobile saying welcome to our network etc however my desire says that the message is from one of my Facebook friends. The other issue is although they are now hidden from the contacts they still show when i press the phone button. This is probably something i will have to live with but my fiancée will ask questions if it keeps telling me i'm getting texts from random people lol.
The other thing is then to copy specific contacts from facebook into my normal contacts or is it just going to be easier to put them on manually and link them to there profile?
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The other thing is then to copy specific contacts from facebook into my normal contacts or is it just going to be easier to put them on manually and link them to there profile?
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I think thats the only way around it, so dont import from facebook and just manually link contacts from your phone book. Yeah it can take time if you want to link alot of people but will also be annoying to have lots of unwanted contacts.
Any news on how to get rid of these Facebook contacts from the phone yet? It is only when I press the "phone" button that I see them, but it is rather annoying!!!
think i have sorta solved this problem. You have to clear the contact cache though and then deselect sync Facebook contacts.
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think i have sorta solved this problem. You have to clear the contact cache though and then deselect sync Facebook contacts.
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Can you expand on how we do this please?
I have completly removed Facebook friends in "people":
Menu -> settings -> Accounts & sync --> Facebook --> Remove account
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.
Hi, with my stock ROM i was able to synchronize contacts from Facebook. I moved to GigenVillain and I'm not able to do this anymore. Is it because of non-Sense ROM ? Do you think it will come anytime soon ?
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No it's just you. Sense masked it more easy, for noobs basically whereas native Android is more advanced shall we say.
Anyway, to sync contacts install the Facebook app and sign into the app. When it asks you to sync pick an option and it will sync your contacts just fine. If it doesn't sync to a contact, edit the contact your want then press menu, join and select a Facebook contact so it can join with your regular contacts.
Its just more or less the same as sense but like I said, sense is designed for noobs.
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I tried this but facebook doesnt even sync the contacts to my phone.
i had this problem when making my own rom. i found if i left facebook app in the rom, i could add it to the sync menu. if i removed it, then when in the sync menu, i would press facebook but nothing would happen and it wouldnt appear in the contacts either.
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Well if Facebook isn't syncing then it's a problem with either Facebook or your phone or something not contacting Facebook. Something along those lines. Just uninstall it then install it again but wipe the data in Settings > Applications first. See if that works. If not then go to Settings > Accounts and Sync and see if you can do anything in there once Facebook is installed.
Hi,
I'm a bit of a custom rom newbie, so please be gentle!
I am currently using stock 2.3 on my unbranded DHD, however it is rooted and has radio and Eng S-off (I hope).
What I am looking for:
I want to be able to tap the 'phone' button on my home screen and view my contacts, and for any contacts that I have linked to a Facebook account I would like to see their profile picture and get updates.
Currently when I sync my Facebook account with my phone, no matter what settings I change, nor whether I use the Facebook app or the Facebook for HTC app, it syncs ALL of my Facebook friends to the phone and adds them to the list under 'phone'. Once this has happened, tapping 'phone will bring up my recent call list at the top, however if I want to find a contact that hasn't recently been called I have to scroll through all of my phone contacts and my Facebook contacts in one long list.
It may seem petty, but I don't want to have to go through the 'People' app to access my contacts - there's a giant 'phone' button taking up real estate on my home screen and I want to use it!
Does anyone know of a Custom Rom with the functionality to either choose which Facebook contacts to sync, or some sort of work around for this?
Any help appreciated,
Grim.
im running stock-ROM too and my phone one shows the facebook status of only my contacts.
Its an option when adding you account to the phone.
Try deleting your account, and adding it again. it'll give you 3 options.
1 - Sync All facebook contacts
2 - Sync facebook contacts that are on the phone (or something like that)
3 - Dont Sync.
Just choose the 2nd.
As for a custom ROM that does this, well im not sure, but i think most of them will be the same since its facebook for HTC Sense that Syncs its.
And to make SURE you have ENG and radio S-OFF, in bootloader, make sure you have
'ACE PVT ENG S-OFF'
at the top.
And your CID is 111111 (not sure how many one's) in the System Info choice.
Most of the custom roms will sync your contacts, when you first flash it. In facebook it will ask you which type of sync you want, choose only contacts you have on the phone. Some still won't show up, either because the name is a bit different then their facebook name.
There is a way to link up the contacts facebook didn't already link, but I'm still trying to remember. Ill get back to you
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im running stock-ROM too and my phone one shows the facebook status of only my contacts.
Its an option when adding you account to the phone.
Try deleting your account, and adding it again. it'll give you 3 options.
1 - Sync All facebook contacts
2 - Sync facebook contacts that are on the phone (or something like that)
3 - Dont Sync.
Just choose the 2nd.
As for a custom ROM that does this, well im not sure, but i think most of them will be the same since its facebook for HTC Sense that Syncs its.
And to make SURE you have ENG and radio S-OFF, in bootloader, make sure you have
'ACE PVT ENG S-OFF'
at the top.
And your CID is 111111 (not sure how many one's) in the System Info choice.
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Hi, thanks for your replies guys.
Ok I just tried exactly what you said - I opened the Facebook app and entered my email and password for the first time since I updated to 2.3. The app gave me the 3 choices just as you said it would, I chose the second option to sync only data for my contacts. I then exited the app and went back to my home screen, tapped the 'phone's button (at the bottom of the screen) and it brought up my recent calls and Lo and behold a few of them with accounts that auto-linked showed their Facebook pics.
However, when I scroll down past my recent calls and into the a-z of my contacts, the list includes most of my Facebook friends - which include people whose numbers are definitely not in my contact list.
For completeness I went into 'accounts and sync' under settings and deleted my Facebook sync account. I then chose to add an account but chose 'facebook for HTC sense' (as opposed to just Facebook), entered my email and password and it did exactly the same thing as the Facebook app.
Can anyone have a play with theirs and see if It's the same, or suggest a work around for this?
Any help appreciated.
Grim
This is happening because your phone has already synced those contacts you.didn't originally want with Google so they will always re download no matter how many times you delete the fb account or which options you choose again.
Press your big phone button that you want to use. Then press log button on bottom right. Move slider at bottom to far left. You should now be in people. From there press menu> view and choose the options you want. You can include the top button which says only those with numbers if you want.
Hope this gives you what your looking for.
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This is happening because your phone has already synced those contacts you.didn't originally want with Google so they will always re download no matter how many times you delete the fb account or which options you choose again.
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That sounds strange, but plausible - Is there any way for me to view / change this synced account? I've logged into my gmail account and I don't have any contacts listed there?
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Press your big phone button that you want to use. Then press log button on bottom right. Move slider at bottom to far left. You should now be in people. From there press menu> view and choose the options you want. You can include the top button which says only those with numbers if you want.
Hope this gives you what your looking for.
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Unfortunately it doesnt by changing these options it will only show either all of my facebook contacts plus my phone contacts or just my phone contacts.
It seems to me like the option in the facebook app to sync only the info for my phone contacts is broken.
I wish that I could find out where the actual data was being held on the phone so that maybe I could copy all the facebook contacts over and then edit the list to only include the ones that I want to link to my phone contacts.
If I understood correctly, what You are trying to achieve is to have only Your phone contacts displayed, but with images from facebook? If so, all You have to do (as stated before) is turn off facebook accounts in contacts, menu view, but link your phone and facebook contacts (if the names are the same, sense should have offered You to link those already). By default, contacts that are linked and have pictures both in the phone and facebook account should use facebook pictures. You can change this by opening a contact, pressing shain links icon in the right top corner of the phone, then pressing the image in the top left corner, and making a selection You want. By unchecking facebook accounts in Your View option in contacts manu, You will have all the pictures from facebook for linked contacts, but won´t see any contacts what are not in Your phone or gmail account whichever You use.
Hello,
I'm not sure if this a HTC One X specific problem, but I didn't have it on my old Samsung Galaxy. If I open the preinstalled (I guess official) Facebook app on the HTC One X, it asks me what I want to sync. I don't want to sync anything, so I choose that option an press "done". However, the stupid things still keeps syncing all my Facebook friends to my phone contacts (it adds a Facebook phone book). I don't want this. If I delete the Facebook account under "Accounts & Sync" the synced data is removed, however, if I open the Facebook app after that, it will ask me again what I want to sync and the whole things starts over. Is there any way to avoid this?
Many thanks.
It'll add the friends but it won't sync them to your existing phone contacts. Just untick the Facebook contacts in 'People' and they won't show up
But there is now way of not even allowing it to import the Facebook phone book?
Well, yeah - telling it not to sync should do that...if it doesn't then I'd say no
I had the same problem and fixed it with removing that annoying app forever ...