Hey,
I've currently got both the Facebook app and Facebook for HTC Sense set to sync with my phonebook. The problem being that with a lot of my contacts, something in the sync sets the phone number without the leading zero or leading "+" in the country code rendering the entry invalid to use. Which is a huge pain in the arse un-linking contacts in order to use the original entry.
Does anyone else get this problem? Is it the Facebook app, Facebook for Sense, or both? Any ideas how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Frank.
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I would love to know how to fix this, it's really annoying.
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I think its a problem on Facebooks end. If you check a friends profile on the normal website you'll see the number doesn't have a + or 0 of whatever needed!
I'd also only sync Facebook for HTC sense or Facebook for Android with your contacts. Not both! There's no point in doing it + it'll use some battery syncing both.
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Hi
I've linked all my phone contacts to their Facebook account.
There status updates work fine but I can never get my phone to update their profile picture if they change this.
Does anybody else have this problem?
The only way I've found to fix it is to remove the facebook link from all contacts them re-add, but this is a pain in the arse!
Anybody having the same problems?
Im not sure about for anyone elses in my contacts, but my pic doesn't seem to update automatically. I just switch phone off and back on and that does it.
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Wondering this too. Because right now it kinda sucks having the same pic all the time.
I have a weird recent issue where some contacts are showing up as '614...' rather than '04...' or '+614...', so they don't dial, even though the stored number is '04...' which dials fine. I noticed with one contact that if I de-lined Facebook it defaulted back to the actual stored number of '04...' - any thoughts? The Starburst ROM dev has not heard of this issue.
It's a known Facebook sync issue
EddyOS said:
It's a known Facebook sync issue
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Indeed, try this...
http://androidforums.com/desire-sup...orrupting-email-addresses-outlook-2010-a.html
Thanks guys! The thread is about HTC Sync corrupting Email Addresses in Outlook 2010 though, I searched Android Forums and couldn't see one about Facebook sync error, do you have a link handy or is that actually the right thread?
It seems to effect some contacts with phone numbers in their Facebook profile, that over-rides my contact details with the '614...' number that doesn't work. So i have to de-link Facebook for those contacts.
message deleted, wrong thread.
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Thanks guys! The thread is about HTC Sync corrupting Email Addresses in Outlook 2010 though, I searched Android Forums and couldn't see one about Facebook sync error, do you have a link handy or is that actually the right thread?
It seems to effect some contacts with phone numbers in their Facebook profile, that over-rides my contact details with the '614...' number that doesn't work. So i have to de-link Facebook for those contacts.
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Here is what I did, this is only a partial solution:
De link the accounts.
Now select the account on your phone which has the correct number and now link it to the FB account. I think the account which is chosen first overrides the info in the "linked" one.
OR
You have to do this everytime you have such a contact:
dial the number from facebook. hang up once the dial screen comes into play. Go to your "call history", long press the contact, select -- Edit number before call (I think this facility is only on sense based roms, correct me if I am wrong), punch in the correct number and now you can dial.
kinda sucks but this is my workaround.
sounds like I'm not alone. so first of parent account overrides?
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Tried going in to primary correct contact and linking, didn't work, will try the other way around.
edit, didn't work either, facebook always overrides.
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Try this, works for me (but not in the Sense Contact widget)
- Edit the contact in question
- Change the original number from mobile to fax
- Save the changes
- Back at the main contact view press and hold the 'fax' number and set to primary contact
- Edit the contact again and make it a mobile again
- Save changes
This should then show the correct format and allow you to ring the contact
If only Facebook would allow people to enter the number as they want, with or without international dialing code
Well as a workaround that actually works, thanks! At least I can hobble along now until this Facebook sync problem gets fixed. Any idea what's causing this or if it effects only some phones?
Another one here with the same problem. It's so damn annoying!
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reaperSKD said:
Another one here with the same problem. It's so damn annoying!
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Facebook sync?
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For some reason only one of my Facebook friends is not showing up in my contact list, i have, in settings, set it to show all Facebook contacts. It shows all except one. I go into my Facebook app and it shows him as a friend...i don't get it... I've cleared out my log in through accounts and then set it back up, waited for all the contacts to be linked up again, but he's still not there... really frustrating... any ideas?
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Same issue here. I've been searching for solution for months...without success
Go into the people app hit menu view. There you go !
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No.... that's not it at all.... I got all my facebook contacts showing... except the one..... I've even added new facebook friends and they show up, I've even unfriended him and then refriended him, and he still doesn't show up!
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cmckee.cna said:
No.... that's not it at all.... I got all my facebook contacts showing... except the one..... I've even added new facebook friends and they show up, I've even unfriended him and then refriended him, and he still doesn't show up!
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Yes! This is just the issue I've experienced too. One of my contacts doesn't show up no matter what I do. I've spent a lot of time playing with this. It's quite annoying. I think this is a problem on FB's side.
Well I don't know what exactly I did to fix it, but its working now... I went into my facebook albums to check out some pics and he was on the lost so I checked my contact list and he was linked again
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I think sometimes if the names don't match up perfectly it doesn't find it...I'm sure you verified this already though.
Facebook Sync/Contacts/Messaging
I am having a problem getting my contact picture to appear in messaging as well as caller ID.
I have synced my Facebook account with my contact list, joined all of the contacts, and have the Caller ID default set to the Facebook picture.
However, all of the pictures in my messaging and when someone calls me comes up as the blank default picture as if they do not have one set.
The pictures appear in the contact list fine, and are all marked as default for caller ID. How can I get their pictures to appear in my messaging and my caller ID?
Everyone here needs to say what ROM they are using. HTC Sense does things different then cm7. sense 3.0 may do thing different then 2.1 or 1.0. Also are you using the "Sync" in the facebook application or are you using the accounts sync in htc sense?
I dont think anyone here has enough information to answer your questions at this point.
One thing you may want to do is add that one contact as a contact in gmail (if that is what you sync contact with) and see if that contact gets linked with the facebook person.
Hope that helps, and good luck
SoBBie
i am having the same problem with only one fb contact not showing in my android samsung epic touch galaxy 2 stock OS not showing. THE NAME MATCHES PERFECTLEY.(even when names dont match perfectly... there is one contact for the fb name and one phone contact spelled differently and not linked.) i have done everything you have tried also with no results... im pissed. ive unfriended him and refriended him twice. PLEASE HELP
hi,
i've upgraded from a DHD, after syncing with facebook and putting my details in, the contacts in my contacts app dont all show the facebook profile picture.
Some do.....unsure why, but not the majority......
Never had this issue with my desire and my desire hd
i could wipe the phone and start again, or remove facebook data and then re-add
i'm also wondering about how HTC actually saves this data also, like since its related to my gmail account, some of the images may have saved to some of my contacts that way, making me think that they have the facebook profile pic attached, when in fact its not, its google saving this image to my address book, rather than the phone receiving this from my facebook contacts (yeah i know, i'm not too good at explaining this)
Bottom line, my phone address book includes facebook contacts, many of which dont actually have any profile pics attached to their contact on my phone.
PS: I'm just gonna wipe and start again, and see what happens
it happens on mine too. was wondering~
any solution so far?
I did a hard reset, it helped a little as now more of my contacts are showing facebook profile pic, but still not all
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I believe this is an ICS (Android 4.0) issue. Get Haxsync from the Market (argh, Play Store). It resolves this.
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I believe this is an ICS (Android 4.0) issue. Get Haxsync from the Market (argh, Play Store). It resolves this.
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Correct.
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Hey guys i have been using the One X for about a month now and been having this problem from day one.The facebook sync in my phone works but it only syncs the news feeds and calender .The contacts sync never works.It keeps on showing the syncing arrow mark but never gets the job done.I have tried everything.Uninstalling and reinstalling the app,logging in again and all.But still the problem persists.Do anybody else have the same problem?
Nobody!
do you have the facebook contacts enabled in menu>view from the people app?
lawrence750 said:
do you have the facebook contacts enabled in menu>view from the people app?
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I tried it but still it does not sync contacts!...
i have the same problem with my sensation and now i just bought one x ,
i still didnt install facebook on my one x but i guess it will be the same..
as much as i know it because you have alot of friends and the phone cant handle it.
i have 2700+ friends , as i work in public relations and know alot of ppl.
its a damn shame and i hope someone can fix this some how
Best I can say is turn on autosync, goto settings, accounts and sync, facebook, sync now on the top right.
If you notice errors within that then untick it
on xda for android and mistyping like a boss
On the home screen hit the phone, select People, top left, drop down Phonebook, tick Facebook?
Or, when you say it doesn't sync, does the circle turn red?
Try this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
Facebook uses the wrong API or something for ics. See this thread for info:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1577384
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