Whenever I get new friends on Facebook, they do not sync into the People-Hub. I have choosen to show all my facebook friends in People. Any solution?
Go to Setting/ Email & Account, then tap and hold your Facebook to sync
hoaisonongame said:
Go to Setting/ Email & Account, then tap and hold your Facebook to sync
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Thanks! However that did not work. I choose sync but nothing happened. I deleted the account and created a new one. Seems to work now
New friends won't appear instantly though, it'll take time for them to appear, not sure how long.
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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!
ephumuris said:
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+
profet said:
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.
Hi everyone,
I've just bought this new Desire phone.
I need some explanation about how the contacts are working:
I linked the phone number of my sister with facebook and now, in the contact folder, I see her number twice.. 1 from google account, 1 from facebook? Is there a way to avoid this?
I also tried to excanghe (with bump) our contacts (from Legend to Desire) and now in the contact folder i see this note: "added by bump on 08/05/2010 etc." 3 times!!! And I cant find how to delete these notes.. anywhere!
Tried also to delete the contact, and re-add it but at the time i sync with google, notes comes back again!
This is strange... anyone can help me about that?
Bye bye and tnx in advance.
For your first problem, you can merge the two contacts by selecting the first contact, clicking on the top right link icon, and choosing the second contact.
I don't understand your second problem so cannot help.
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do you know how I can keep Desire contact pictures updated via facebook?
To OP, you can manage your contacts on your computer by going to google.com/contacts - organize them, merge them, etc, and then they'll sync to the phone.
To JuSteR, if you enable Facebook sync, their Sense contact pictures should automatically be updated with their FB profile picture.
Facebook sync is enabled. It updates status, news, messages but contact piuctures
adjei7 said:
For your first problem, you can merge the two contacts by selecting the first contact, clicking on the top right link icon, and choosing the second contact.
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Contacts are merged.. But still shows the same number twice. The copy-number disappears only if I unlink the facebook profile from the contact page
(note: the facebook profile does not have a phone number).
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I don't understand your second problem so cannot help.
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The Bump(tm) application from market, added to the contact a note (actually 3 notes) but if I try to modify the contact I don't find any note where are them? (see images for a better explanation)
Tnx all for help!
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Facebook sync is enabled. It updates status, news, messages but contact piuctures
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That's a bug. The contact pictures will not be updated automatically. You have to go to setting option, sign out then sign in facebook sense again to make the contact pictures updated.
tnx for the advise!
Forced to use FB picture
I actually has the opposite problem, I managed to sync Facebook contacts with my Google contacts on my Desire.
But now I'm forced to use Facebook contact picture on contacts that linked to their Facebook accounts, even if I select one of the contacts to use it's Google picture, it stays until the next sync, right after that it pops back to its Facebook picture.
Anyone knows how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
To hide contacts from unwanted accouts(google), you go to
People -> press meni button -> View
and select witch accouts will be visible.
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LPT said:
That's a bug. The contact pictures will not be updated automatically. You have to go to setting option, sign out then sign in facebook sense again to make the contact pictures updated.
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I do not have so sign out of my facebook account. My contact pictures (all linked to FB) are updated each time I go online, sometimes, here you may be correct, it takes time and not all are updated.
if you find your FB contact pics are not updating.
> unlink them from Facebook
> back out of contacts
> enter contacts again
> re-link the contact and select Facebook at their picture.
Any ideas regarding forced FB contact pictures issue I noticed above?
I transferred all my contacts from my old phone which was fine, when setting up facebook I think I must have selected sync facebook data with my phone.
So now in my list when I hit the phone key I have alot of facebook people that I dont even talk to anymore which I dont want in my phone list, is there a way to delete these?
Figured out the problem for anyone who is interested.
Go to settings - sync & accounts - facebook - remove account - click ok
Restart phone
Add the Widget for friend stream, resetup facebook account, quickly go into the account settings and stop the contacts sync!
Done.
In people-menu-view you should be able to select which contacts and their details you would like to see
yeah and you can select 'only show contact with number' there
BUT
a lot of idiot people fill in their number field on Facebroke with random nonsense which carries through to the phone.
Its a real real shame there isn't a decent contact manager.
I was spoilt on my c905 with MyPhoneExplorer which gave me full wysiwyg control of my phone, on my computer.
Android is great, but its far from perfect.
Luckily I found it wasnt too difficult to sort out, now I have no issues.
kevinsmbuk said:
Figured out the problem for anyone who is interested.
Go to settings - sync & accounts - facebook - remove account - click ok
Restart phone
Add the Widget for friend stream, resetup facebook account, quickly go into the account settings and stop the contacts sync!
Done.
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Won't this just stall it and repeat later when your phone does a sync...
I'm trying to add a new calendar within the same account.
I have my own calendar, a calendar for holidays and stuff, and others - I got them since the beginning.
Now I added a new calendar in my own account (I mean...it's within the same calendar, just another group) - but it doesn't appear on my phone.
I'm using the HTC Calendar - when I press menu I can select calendars - but the new one doesn't appear. When I sync, nothing happens and when I press "add calendar" there is nothing to select.
Well...maybe you guys got an idea?
I want to know how to export my birthdays from Facebook to my phone to calander app so ill add this to this thread. Will be handy if anyone knows
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Eggcake said:
I'm trying to add a new calendar within the same account.
I have my own calendar, a calendar for holidays and stuff, and others - I got them since the beginning.
Now I added a new calendar in my own account (I mean...it's within the same calendar, just another group) - but it doesn't appear on my phone.
I'm using the HTC Calendar - when I press menu I can select calendars - but the new one doesn't appear. When I sync, nothing happens and when I press "add calendar" there is nothing to select.
Well...maybe you guys got an idea?
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the last i know using hero was to re-setup the phone again like when u got the phone first bootup. i do not know of any way to add new calendars without re-setting up the whole phone again
taz5176 said:
the last i know using hero was to re-setup the phone again like when u got the phone first bootup. i do not know of any way to add new calendars without re-setting up the whole phone again
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Wow, now that's BS...
i've also experiencing the exact same problem.. is there any setting that i missed? i also got 1 more problem. I've link my phone contact with facebook. i've set my facebook to auto sync. it works well syncing event & updates & contact picture of my contact but when my friends changed the profile pic on their facebook, my desire won't change the contact picture according to their facebook profile pic.
The new update seems pretty good, except facebook......
I can not figure out how to just use the facebook app without automatically syncing all my contacts/pictures etc.
I can remove the accounts (yes automatic 2 accounts in the sync menu) but then there is no facebook at all.
when I just use the normal facebook app, the other account pops up again..
then it asks for my permission, witch I don't want to give (that option is there).
So when I give permission that I don't want to sync my contacts an pics.
I get the message every time again that there is something wrong with the syncing with facebook..
I need ROOT fast, so I can delete this stupid facebook ****
bartbla said:
The new update seems pretty good, except facebook......
I can not figure out how to just use the facebook app without automatically syncing all my contacts/pictures etc.
I can remove the accounts (yes automatic 2 accounts in the sync menu) but then there is no facebook at all.
when I just use the normal facebook app, the other account pops up again..
then it asks for my permission, witch I don't want to give (that option is there).
So when I give permission that I don't want to sync my contacts an pics.
I get the message every time again that there is something wrong with the syncing with facebook..
I need ROOT fast, so I can delete this stupid facebook ****
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You should be able to turn it of in contact settings. There you can choose wish phonebooks to use. Same in calender.
I can't find any settings, too. Neither in the "SE settings", nor in the apps using the FB integration.
Settings / account and uncheck "contact" sync in Facebook
sausalito said:
Settings / account and uncheck "contact" sync in Facebook
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I can only uncheck the whole sync, not separate ones. :/
Edit: Found it. I had "auto sync" turned off, so there weren't any checkboxes to deselect specific syncs, of course. ^^
Thanks, i will prove
Facebook privacy
The new integration in 2.3.3. update looks very good on paper but:
When I want to enable sync it gives me a webpage that wants access to just about anything from me and my friends on facebook. The list goes on and on. from access to my friends list to being able to send me emails and post messages on my wall and access to all my photo's
Why do they need access to all this privacy related stuff.
I choose to NOT give permission and therefore I can not use the facebook integration, too bad but it keeps asking me to give permission every time even when I have switched off the sync on the facebook account.
are more people having this issue?
Yeah... I know what you mean... I did grumpily just give it the access.
Photos -> Gallery
Post on Wall -> Like-Button
Friends List -> update Contacts
Email -> ???
Shame that you can't deselect them seperately.