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FACEBOOK app on contacts after ROM UPDATE

Anybody managed to restore the Facebook links to your contacts after a Hard Reset or a ROM UPDATE ?
Because I have like 177 contacts that also has Facebook links to their contacts.
I don't want to link each 177 contact one by one after the ROM UPDATE .
Anybody found a smart solution for this ?
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i found there is a file called facebookinfo.vol ..
is that the file records everything?
wait me a moment...
U can use splbackup to test it..

doublecheese said:
Anybody managed to restore the Facebook links to your contacts after a Hard Reset or a ROM UPDATE ?
Because I have like 177 contacts that also has Facebook links to their contacts.
I don't want to link each 177 contact one by one after the ROM UPDATE .
Anybody found a smart solution for this ?
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yes there s a quick way.
1. Make sure that you've configured your facebook account at settings->my ocntact card
2. go to all all people, then choose the 3rd icon "updates and Events"
3. Use this page to all TP2 to auto search facebook contacts to match with existing contacts (this assumes taht you've synced your phone and updated your contaacts already. thsi should be done before step 1)
HTH
Poch

my links are working after rom upgrade...

pochreyes said:
yes there s a quick way.
1. Make sure that you've configured your facebook account at settings->my ocntact card
2. go to all all people, then choose the 3rd icon "updates and Events"
3. Use this page to all TP2 to auto search facebook contacts to match with existing contacts (this assumes taht you've synced your phone and updated your contaacts already. thsi should be done before step 1)
HTH
Poch
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Yes and I have to do that 177 times, I'm just looking for a easier method.
Also there is another reality, not all of my contacts are stored in the same name as their Facebook accounts :
For example..... "Richard Mobile" as seen on my phone, but on his Facebook it shows Richard XXXX , so I must manually link the contact to facebook link.
The very best idea is to copy some files before Rom Update and then Replace these files with the new ones after the Rom Update.
I need to know which files are these ???

doublecheese said:
Yes and I have to do that 177 times
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Mine did it one pass with minimal intervention. It knew which ones weren't synced and made it made a best-guess and presented me with a list of them all in one go.
I suspect the Facebook integration is done via a hidden field in the Contact. If you can determine that you can reset it to force it.

just backup your facebookinfo.vol and pim.vol. Tried it and works.

shadixs said:
just backup your facebookinfo.vol and pim.vol. Tried it and works.
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Himmmmmm
This sounds interesting, can you confirm all contacts linked perfectly and updating correctly as it should do ?

facebook
I Don't even have anything to show a link with facebook in my people tab. On other HTC phones I have seen an "updates and events" tab, should this be present on the TP2?
I would like to retrieve the details from my Facebook frields list etc, but I can't see anyway of doing this in the people tab

lukestkd said:
I Don't even have anything to show a link with facebook in my people tab. On other HTC phones I have seen an "updates and events" tab, should this be present on the TP2?
I would like to retrieve the details from my Facebook frields list etc, but I can't see anyway of doing this in the people tab
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Same with me, i want to select a person and then browse for their picture from my facebook friends - SPB mobile shell 3 lets me do this, but i dont want to install that just to do it.......i might have to though

auto facebook to contacts intergration app request

each contact in manilla's contact manager you have to manual link each account "associate with facebook" and it downloads there picture etc
we need a program that can just link all these for you with out going in each one is there anything around ??

Funny... did a quite similar request 23 mins before ^^

how does manilla associate contacts with facebook? where is it stored?

think it depend on which phone/rom you have as i have diamond 2 and dont have that prob.

i use energy 2.5 rom and it does that on my touch pro *fuze* which am happy about because about half my contacts are on my face book, lol

How can I get back to my original contact photo after integrating it with Facebook? I don't want Facebook's avatars.

It's stored in the contact notes. I'm not sure what version of manila you're using but in 2.5, go into the contact, then edit details, click on the picture and you can choose where it grabs it from.

I'm curious about this as well. a friend of my recently changed their phone number and they updated it on facebook, I found it that way... Curious if there was a way to bring more then just what it's gathering now. Sense 2.5 seems to bring in the photo, birthday, status, and album info. If it was just looking at fields in facebook it would just need to know to look at additional fields...

matttytn2 said:
each contact in manilla's contact manager you have to manual link each account "associate with facebook" and it downloads there picture etc
we need a program that can just link all these for you with out going in each one is there anything around ??
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I found that after linking 1 contact I went through the buttons on the bottom. The contact button with the clock had the choice to link all with Facebook.

i go to 2nd contact tab. then click all people. then go to 4th tab. wait for a while. at the top part there.. it shud be showing 15 contact matched. and u can link all them at there.
but then, due to different last name / first name assign on ur phone n their facebook account, probably hardly got more than 20 facebook contact able to linked. i got myself 29 contacts only linked with my winmo by default match.
the rest i did it manually link n sync.
it remember ur link for latest manila 2.5 1921 version though. it saved the link and then u no nid to link another time even u flash / hardreset ur phone.
but for my xperia, rom isnt stable yet. sometimes it download contact display photo n sometimes it dun. but touch pro TAEL rom works great. it auto pull all the display photo for me.
once again, on 4th tab of 'HTC contact' application. u can see all facebook update.

in my HTC HD2 i have to update each contact photo and is very long to do....is there a way to update all contacts using a process like "bulk import" ?
thanks
Anbotta

anbotta said:
in my HTC HD2 i have to update each contact photo and is very long to do....is there a way to update all contacts using a process like "bulk import" ?
thanks
Anbotta
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Try booksync

facebook integration with winmo 6.5.3
is there a way to associate contacts with their facebook profiles in winmo 6.5.3. I know how to do it through the htc contacts...but ive looked at all the options in winmo contacts and i cant seem to find facebook integration.
thanks in advance

[Q] How to backup and restore contacts (etc)?

HTC Desire, FroYo, unrooted phone..
Is there a FREE app to accomplish this?
Thanks!

Yeah go to contacts > Press menu > Import/Export > select export to SD card that should to it.

cthdesire said:
HTC Desire, FroYo, unrooted phone..
Is there a FREE app to accomplish this?
Thanks!
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MyPhoneExplorer - http://www.fjsoft.at/en/

kirbz said:
Yeah go to contacts > Press menu > Import/Export > select export to SD card that should to it.
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funny as I only found this today...
I had been backing up with htc sync to outlook.
but found when i reimported them in - I was missing 6 contacts.
tried the same with the export/import
all contacts - but it has put a '-' in all the phone numbers
i.e. 07000000000 becomes 070-000-00000

im pretty sure if you have a google account and you sync your contacts it should be saved in your gmail and then you just sync again after you wipe/flash rom/switch phones (given its android) and it should work.

Lothaen said:
funny as I only found this today...
I had been backing up with htc sync to outlook.
but found when i reimported them in - I was missing 6 contacts.
tried the same with the export/import
all contacts - but it has put a '-' in all the phone numbers
i.e. 07000000000 becomes 070-000-00000
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To solve your phone number problem.. you should edit your contact and use a +31 (country code) first.. In the future.. this will stay the same when importing.

Ah - thanks - good tip!

How2 add numbers blur-facebook-contacts?

Hi @ all,
I have one Problem with my contacts (I am using official Gingerbread 2.3.4 on defy+):
I have all my Facebook friends in my contactlist, now I want to add their mobile phone numbers, but its Not possible to add numbers to Facebook contacts, so I have every contact 2 times(one for Facebook and one with number).
But this isnt a solution...
Is there any way to save numbers for Facebook contacts? Or any mod (i didnt find anything)?
LG Acceleracer

Idk how to add numbers to ur fb contacts ....its only possible if ur fb contacts have added their numbers to their profile ....also u can choose to hide ur fb contacts which don't have numbers to avoid double names
Sent from my MB525 using xda premium

Or you can join them so they will appear as 1 contact and have their number, facebook profile etc..

NITRO_100 said:
Or you can join them so they will appear as 1 contact and have their number, facebook profile etc..
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How can I join them? Can you explain me how to do it?

Acceleracer said:
How can I join them? Can you explain me how to do it?
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Just update your Google contacts with same email addresses used in Facebook. They will join automatically or you can use Link feature in Contacts.

Acceleracer said:
How can I join them? Can you explain me how to do it?
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menu - edit contact, menu - join - select contact - save.

Wow thats perfect! Never had such a usefull phonebook!

Choosing contact to text????

Hi,
This may sound really stupid but how the heck do you add your contact in text? I want to send a text but cant see where i can click to then pick the contact i want to send it to?
Matt

at the "to" at the top ?
http://androidage.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ice-Cream-Sandwich-type-keyboard.png

jvvpc said:
at the "to" at the top ?
http://androidage.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ice-Cream-Sandwich-type-keyboard.png
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Hi,
Yeah i can see the "To" but if i click it or in the box it does nothing. Surely i dont have to start to type the name in and then click it?

Thats exatually what you do
select the box and start type the name of your contact
What else would you do ?

jvvpc said:
Thats exatually what you do
select the box and start type the name of your contact
What else would you do ?
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Every phone ive ever had including the galaxy s2 when you clicked in the to box it would bring uo your contact list letting you choose the contact.
Matt

You can also go to the contact list and choose to text
Go to Phone Icon > People tab, then click on the left box where their photo is.
Then on the right side of the phone number is an icon i can't describe, but that lets you text.

yeah many phones do that
But i would always search in the list anyway so for me this is a step less

jvvpc said:
yeah many phones do that
But i would always search in the list anyway so for me this is a step less
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Yeah suppose it will just be getting use to it. Loving the Nexus up to yet , first day with it. Only thing ive noticed is that i cant add a facebook account in the accounts & sync and the facebook app doesnt have the option to sync the contacts
Matt

nah google and facebook have a fight going on about how to handle contacts so its disabled on nexus phones

jvvpc said:
nah google and facebook have a fight going on about how to handle contacts so its disabled on nexus phones
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really? will it ever be sorted?

dunno, its been going on for a while
but you can sync your gmail contacts with facebook profile pictures by using third party software just search here, there are lots of ways to do it

princepilot said:
really? will it ever be sorted?
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Probably not because Facebook are jerks..