Using oxygen 2.0 and so far VERY impressed, however one small snag, I'm struggling to find how to manually link Facebook contacts with Android contacts (for picture purposes)
Since this is my first "Sense-less" ROM I'm a bit lost
Any help would be appreciated!
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Download the Facebook app, go into the settings of the app and choose the syncing option which allows you to link phone contacts with contacts. It will only link some contacts that have similar names, or you can do it manually by going into you phone contact, menu, edit, press menu again and press join. This will allow you to link your contact with a Facebook contact. Hope that wasn't confusing for you.
Beautiful! Thanks, this Android contacts is baffling compared to HTC people lol, thanks again
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Yes it is. SenseUI makes it a lot easier to set up. You just got to get use to Android
Took me a while to figure out how to do that. It is only because Android doesn't come with Facebook installed. Once you install it, you can sync it. That is why it is easier on SenseUI because it is already there.
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hey guys so its my first time using sense, so bear with me, how do you do the auto contacts linking with facebook? stock android does it pretty well where if the name matches identically it'll pull facebook info like pictures and stuff to supplement your contacts. on Sense I can't figure out how to do that. Only way i got it to link was to link it manually in every contact which is a huge pain in the ass.
Go to Accounts and Sync and add a Facebook account. You should have had the option in the initial setup also.
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yea did that since first boot, it syncs the contacts, but its not linking it. what I mean by that is when you go through your contacts list, it doesn't show their facebook pictures n stuff.. until you manually go through each contact n link it with their facebook profiles. Its really quite stupid. Stock android does this wonderfully btw
This has always worked flawlessly for me so I can't really help you on that one.
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In the contacts app go to the updates page, and it'll show partial matches, hit that and it gives you a checklist of everyone to sync with facebook.
i don't see an updates page, and by contacts do you mean people?
Hey guys, finally tried Cyanogen and WOW. Been up all day and night playing around with it but haven't found any way to sync Facebook contacts like the HTC Sense Facebook app. Damn, HTC really pulled that app off well.
I realize that I can try another custom ROM but this seems to be the bees knees. Any help for this Cyanogen newb would be greatly appreciated. Happy holidays!
Facebook for Android can sync all your friends to contacts or only sync existing contacts.
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Hm.. I'll tinker around with it a bit more. It's not updating the contact pictures immediately. Dialer is a little lack luster compared to the Sense one but I'll be content if I can get the contact pictures to update without much fuss.
Thank you!
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Facebook for Android can sync all your friends to contacts or only sync existing contacts.
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it really doesnt do a good job tho. you have to have your contacts saved as their exact name on fb - which can be annoying. Plus, sense gets hi res pics as opposed to blurry fb app pics.
i used to have an app by which you could manually sync your contacts to fb - but i dont have it any more and cant remember the name
anyone know the app?
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it really doesnt do a good job tho. you have to have your contacts saved as their exact name on fb - which can be annoying. Plus, sense gets hi res pics as opposed to blurry fb app pics.
i used to have an app by which you could manually sync your contacts to fb - but i dont have it any more and cant remember the name
anyone know the app?
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There were a couple that I recall..... but I don't recall the names either lol. I used them on my Xperia X10.
It seems that Sense has put "Notes" in all the contacts and binds them to the respected Facebook profiles, even if you manually link it to another account. My wife has an English and a Vietnamese name for instance. And it's a nuisance when an old broken image of her from my SD card pops up. HTC Sense was fantastic for this.
Maybe someone will be willing to port it over. I have some ****ty coding skills and was looking into doing a few Android apps. Maybe I could figure something out but I doubt it.
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Nevermind... turns out the Sense Dialer is heavily tied into the Sense framework. Looks like I may need to look at another customer firmware. I never knew how attached to the Social phonebooks and other Social aspects of my Android phones.
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
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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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Hii!!
A bit new to the forums, but I'm having a biggg headache with contacts on my phone. Went from a Sense ROM to meXdroid and now my contacts are a mess! There's duplicates of hundreds of contacts, and Facebook automatically synced everything (I forgot to turn it off..). I want my contacts to sync with Facebook data, as in their pictures on my phone sync with the profile pic of their FB profile.
I cannot find a reliable way to merge duplicate contacts, as well as link FB profiles to my contacts! Exactly how does FB decide which profile to link to which contact? Some contacts I have have 2-3 phone numbers as separate contact entries, (Bob 1, Bob 2, Bob 3 being the same person), but only want FB to sync the profile pic to 1 of those contacts?
Sorry for the long post >.>
I have the same problem. I would like a answer too
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Select a contact (Bob) you want to merge with another contact (Bob1), select menu, then edit, then menu again, and then join; from there select the contact you want to join it with (Bob1). You'll also be able to join Facebook contacts to your regular contacts this way.
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Select a contact (Bob) you want to merge with another contact (Bob1), select menu, then edit, then menu again, and then join; from there select the contact you want to join it with (Bob1). You'll also be able to join Facebook contacts to your regular contacts this way.
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Do note that I'm not on a Sense ROM. I'll try with the next update of meXdroid.
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Do note that I'm not on a Sense ROM. I'll try with the next update of meXdroid.
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Neither am I, that's how it should work on anything based off of AOSP; worked like that on my stock "with Google" ROM as well as on CM7.
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Hello everyone... I apologize if this is a repost, but can't seem to find it.
My wife has an Galaxy S3, I have an One X. all of our accounts are synced and linked. (Facebook, Whatsapp, Gmail, etc) our problem is that in my ONE X in the people app I can't see her Updates nor can I see her Gallery from FB. I can se other peoples updates and gallery, and on her side, on the S3 contacts, she only sees my update from Google Talk, which we dont use at all, and cant seem to change it to any other account.
we both come from iPhones and this is a little frustrating having so many options now in android and not being able to use them right....
anyone having similar issues?
thanks beforehand ....
yes yes yes... I am a noob.....
Phon C said:
we both come from iPhones and this is a little frustrating having so many options now in android and not being able to use them right....
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A couple of things.
First, go in to "Settings>Accounts & sync" and make sure FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn are all set up to sync and that their settings are correct. Within each of them you should have choices about what to sync. For Twitter and LinkedIn there should be two of each of them. One for the standard app and one for HTC Sense that's used to keep the FriendStream updated. The LinkedIn connector for Sense isn’t installed by default. Go to “HTC Hub>Applications>Categories A~Z>HTC Essentials” and you’ll find it there.
Next, go in to "People" and at the top of your contact list there should be a "Notification" bar. Sense does a background scan looking for similar contacts that should be potentially linked (EG: phone, Twitter, FB). Go through that list and link or ignore the recommendations.
Lastly, go to "People>Manage contacts.
Go through "Merge Contacts" and consolidate any shown. If you have contacts that Sense doesn't recognize as similar you can also manually merge them to the correct contact so you don't have multiples for a single person. You should also run "De-duplicate." If you long press on a contact it will give you options to manage it also. This seems cumbersome and I had to stumble upon it at first but it works pretty well at keeping your contacts linked properly and current.
Thanks for the reply.
All of this is done. The problem comes when I go into a specific contact. I can see the linked accounts under the specific contact and on the bottom it shows tabs for Detail Thread Updates Gallery.
Under updates we should be able to see the updates from social accounts, like Facebook. Which I can see from other contacts, under gallery O should be able to see the photo gallery from my wife's Facebook account as well. The thing is nothing comes up. Only a message saying no updates or events and no albums when trying to access the gallery
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check your settings on the facebook websites for what you want to see and for which you want to be notified and also delete sense from the allowed apps and retry again
Go to settings>apps>people>and erase data and force stop, it could help.
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When I go there I see 3 People Apps. One has 348 kb the second one only 8 kb and the third one 0.0. Why would I have 3? Is it normal?
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