Is there a way to have Facebook for HTC Sense without it syncing with all of your contacts...or even getting them to shop up on your phone at all. I like the friendstream widget and some of the other features, but I hate seeing crappy profile pics when i text/call people and all my facebook contacts in my dialer.
Please help.
Thanks!
Utopia73 said:
Is there a way to have Facebook for HTC Sense without it syncing with all of your contacts...or even getting them to shop up on your phone at all. I like the friendstream widget and some of the other features, but I hate seeing crappy profile pics when i text/call people and all my facebook contacts in my dialer.
Please help.
Thanks!
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If you go into Menu/settings/account sync you can go into the Facebook sync portion and uncheck to have it sync with you contacts.
I guess i should have stated that in my question... I have done that a million times and they still connect...ITS SO ANNOYING!
you could uninstall it using titanium backup i did that with all the social networking ****... friend stream included peep all are gone from my incredible...
But you want to have it... did you try using the one on the market?
When you're in Contacts, if you go to the "View" menu, you can configure what's shown, maybe you're getting some multiples from there. I find it's annoying too that all my auto-added GMail contacts show up when I'm trying to dial.
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Hey guys, I want to sync Facebook contacts with my phone contacts. Should I use the Facebook Application to sync or log into HTC Sense for Facebook to do the syncing?
I used the facebook to sync with my contacts, however they did not link my contacts (from my sim card) with my facebook's contacts. Might be the sim card's problem.
But is it able to sync to your phone contacts?
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Yea, but only those who included their phone no. in their facebook's profile. To see the complete list of your FB's contact, including those who didn't include their contact no., you can find them through "people" > "online directories" > "facebook".
Not sure if it's of any help.
I see. How about using htc sense for Facebook? How does it works?
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Ohno, I'm so sorry! I realise I'm using Facebook for HTC Sense all the while. I had to manually link the my contacts.
Sorry for the confusion!
Oh I see. So what's the process like? Under Accounts and Sync, add a HTC Sense for Facebook account first is it? And let it sync?
I would use Facebook sence. The reason I say this is because it should suggest auto links for your contacts. However I still found it got a little confused and was better to link manually. Also it will give you more options with other HTC features. Also if you then use Facebook for android make sure you chose not to sync contacts. This is because your contacts will get two lots of Facebook info, one from sence and one from android. Found that a right pain.
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bryant_16 said:
Oh I see. So what's the process like? Under Accounts and Sync, add a HTC Sense for Facebook account first is it? And let it sync?
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Yea, I think that's what I did. Under Accounts & Sync > Facebook for HTC Sense > Sync contacts.
This will auto sync the phone contacts with the Facebook one? Or need to manually sync?
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Yea, I think that's what I did. Under Accounts & Sync > Facebook for HTC Sense > Sync contacts.
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I use both, as I've had issues syncing at different times. As long as the names are similar or there is something similar about the contacts it will ask to link them, least it did for my 300 contacts on the phone.
Hi,
I've had the same problem which I can't resolve.
I have both a "Facebook" account and a "Facebook for HTC sense" account. I can sync the facebook account to my contacts in my cellphone (HTC DHD) just fine. All my contacts will be sync'd and it will get me their pictures from facebook, however those pictures are zoomed in and of bad quality.
Therefore I chose to sync "Facebook for HTC sense" to my contacts. It gives me better pictures (except there is a Facebook logo on them), and it writes their last wall post in my contacts list.
The issue is that it doesn't sync all my contacts (which are in both my facebook friends and my phone contacts of course), I have 2 or 3 people missing...
I looked on the Internet for hours and didn't find any solution. It's either all the contacts with bad pictures, or most of them with good pictures but F logo on them.
If anyone gets more info about all that, please answer.
Thank you.
I could not understand the exact logic difference between Facebook & Facebook for HTC Sense and also Tweeter & Tweeter for HTC Sense and how to sync them (both or only select one).
All I want to see my "Favoruites" widget update my contacts status on a regular basis from facebook or tweeter (whichever one is most updated).
How you guys use this?
Joss-21 said:
Hi,
I've had the same problem which I can't resolve.
I have both a "Facebook" account and a "Facebook for HTC sense" account. I can sync the facebook account to my contacts in my cellphone (HTC DHD) just fine. All my contacts will be sync'd and it will get me their pictures from facebook, however those pictures are zoomed in and of bad quality.
Therefore I chose to sync "Facebook for HTC sense" to my contacts. It gives me better pictures (except there is a Facebook logo on them), and it writes their last wall post in my contacts list.
The issue is that it doesn't sync all my contacts (which are in both my facebook friends and my phone contacts of course), I have 2 or 3 people missing...
I looked on the Internet for hours and didn't find any solution. It's either all the contacts with bad pictures, or most of them with good pictures but F logo on them.
If anyone gets more info about all that, please answer.
Thank you.
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Agree with this 100%, I prefer using the official Facebook app, instead of Facebook for HTC Sense, however I'm thoroughly annoyed that the picture qualities are awful and zoomed in.
Googled it up and found that Facebook app was update in version 1.4 to allow high-res pictures to be linked to the contacts, but for some reason on the DHD even though the Facebook app is at version 1.5 the image qualities are still terrible.
Anyone managed to sync their Facebook contacts/pictures to their DHD without using HTC Sense and still getting good quality images?
Hi,
I've got an issue, not a massive one but it bugs me nonetheless.
Currently, when I tap the Phone button from the home screen it brings up a list which shows my recent call list, if I scroll down I get a long list of all my contacts. The thing I find annoying is that the long list includes all of my Facebook "friends" that have a telephone number listed.
What I would like is for this list to only contain my contacts (copied over from my SIM), and for the ones that are linked to a Facebook account, to have their status etc updated. I do not want my random Facebook "friends" to be in the list.
The most recent thing I've done to try and solve this issue is to go into the Facebook app on the phone and change the 'Sync Contacts' settings (Menu-> Settings) to 'Don't sync'. I then went into (phone) Settings-> Applications-> Manage Applications-> All (tab)-> Contacts storage-> Clear Data. I then copied my contacts back over from the SIM. (I've also tried the 'Sync with existing contacts' option as well)
All was well for a while, my contacts linked up again and I got facebook details for my contacts when calling them. However I noticed to my annoyance that my Phone list now contains my facebook contacts again!
I notice under Settings->Accounts and Sync I have two (removable) Facebook accounts, one is Facebook, the other is Facebook for HTC Sense. Does anyone know if it would help to remove either of these accounts?
Can anyone help me find a way to solve this issue (preferably without extra software or going through the People menu)?
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Grim.
I just fixed this myself.
I think it's something to do with how HTC Facebook interacts with official Facebook. If I turned of syncing on both (but left contact sync disabled in both) I'd still get contacts in Phone (and also in suggestions in sms app). If I removed both, then added Facebook official only I'd still get them.
In the end, opening up Facebook on my PC and going into privacy then apps and disabling Facebook for HTC Sense seemed to solve it to me. I could then use the official Facebook app without getting all these contacts I'd never use.
I didn't care about getting contact pictures and stuff so I never tried letting official Facebook sync with existing contacts only, but it might work properly.
Hope this helps, completely unscientific but it seemed to for me!
jbrizz said:
I just fixed this myself.
I think it's something to do with how HTC Facebook interacts with official Facebook. If I turned of syncing on both (but left contact sync disabled in both) I'd still get contacts in Phone (and also in suggestions in sms app). If I removed both, then added Facebook official only I'd still get them.
In the end, opening up Facebook on my PC and going into privacy then apps and disabling Facebook for HTC Sense seemed to solve it to me. I could then use the official Facebook app without getting all these contacts I'd never use.
I didn't care about getting contact pictures and stuff so I never tried letting official Facebook sync with existing contacts only, but it might work properly.
Hope this helps, completely unscientific but it seemed to for me!
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Hi JBrizz thanks for your reply.
I didn't think of logging into the facebook website to disable anything. I'll give that a try.
In the meantime I've fiddled about with the accounts in 'Accounts and Sync'. I've tried deleting both the Facebook and Facebook for HTC Sense accounts.
After deleting both I went into the Facebook app and signed in, which recreates the account in Accounts and Sync. I set the sync options in the app to not sync any contacts. I waited around for a while and no extra contacts (from Facebook) appeared in my Phone list.
I then went into the Facebook app and changed the sync settings to 'sync with existing contacts' - which I assumed should only sync the data for the people currently in my phone book? Anyway after a few minutes I checked an all of my Facebook friends were now in my Phone list AGAIN
I started from fresh again and tried a similar thing with the other Facebook for HTC Sense account - I had to recreate this in the Accounts and Sync settings screen.
Again after a few minutes all my Facebook friends where there on my Phone list
Maybe this functionality isn't available with this phone / app?
Anyone else have any ideas?
It is a google problem, not a HTC problem.
The HTC app is doing what it should be doing. If you go to the people app, click on your contact (far left) and then menu -> view you can see the facebook option is unchecked.
However the Phone dialer (google product) just syncs everything.
There is a issue no for this, 10618 @
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10618&can=5&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
(unfortunately I can't post links as I am a newbie!!)
Best thing to do is you guys reply and make this defect more and more noticeable.
I've posted on the google issue site, cheers for the link!
Hey guys/gals,
I have facebook on the Evo and the Sync Contact menu/button is missing. I really do not know where to go from here. Any help?
delete the facebook account and then uninstall all updates and clear data through manage applications (a little extra to do but just to make sure) then reinstall the facebook app and under sync add an account under facebook for htc sense..
not facebook..
make sure its the htc sense facebook.
that happened to meit wouldnt sync.. so maybe itll work for you.
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I already did that, and still no "Sync Contact" button. its so weird...I dunno thanks for the reply though.
Anybody else have suggestions?
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ummm... try reflashing it??
its not in the facebook app. go to settings, accounts and sync, and hit add account. should be self explanitory from here.
then go to the contacts (people) app, hit menu, view, and check facebook for htc sense.
do the dance.
I like to have my contacts to have their Facebook profile pictures but, I don't want to have all my Facebook contacts on my phone. I have selected to only sync with current contacts. But, it still puts all of my Facebook friends on my phone. It wouldn't be a problem since under "People" I can select to see only "google contacts" but, they are there when I open my "Dialer" on my phone. It used to just sync with my phone contacts and wouldn't put all of them on my phone. This is highly annoying because it used to work when I got my evo last summer. Anyone have any advice to sync my current contacts with out all of my Facebook contacts being synced? Thanks!
Go into People. Then hit Menu, click view. At the bottom, uncheck Facebook contacts and they'll disappear. One other thing that you can do if you use your gmail for contacts as well as email is check "only with phone number. There are lots of other options in there.
Yeah tried it but they still show up and I still have to sort and search for my real contacts in the dialer. Guess ill just have to deal with it. Thanks for the help tho
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To start I would like to say search within this forum was down for me, so sorry if this has been answered already.
After the update to 3.11.605.1 I lost my facebook contacts and the HTC Sense Facebook app is not syncing them. I don't get any errors, my contacts for facebook just sit at 0. I am S-Off TWRP stock rooted.
I do use Appops and previously disallowed the Facebook app to touch my location and contact info, but didn't inhibit the HTC sense facebook app. Since then I turned on those capabilities, uninstalled and reinstalled the facebook app, and removed the facebook account from sense and added it back on.
Blink feed updates the news feed just fine, and the calendar syncs birthday and events just fine, but no contacts.
Any ideas???
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Never mind this eventually did sync on it's own. Or maybe something I did above fixed the issue....
androiddude81 said:
To start I would like to say search within this forum was down for me, so sorry if this has been answered already.
After the update to 3.11.605.1 I lost my facebook contacts and the HTC Sense Facebook app is not syncing them. I don't get any errors, my contacts for facebook just sit at 0. I am S-Off TWRP stock rooted.
I do use Appops and previously disallowed the Facebook app to touch my location and contact info, but didn't inhibit the HTC sense facebook app. Since then I turned on those capabilities, uninstalled and reinstalled the facebook app, and removed the facebook account from sense and added it back on.
Blink feed updates the news feed just fine, and the calendar syncs birthday and events just fine, but no contacts.
Any ideas???
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Never mind this eventually did sync on it's own. Or maybe something I did above fixed the issue....
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In case it do not sync for anyone than one have to use ubersync from android market to do that. It was removed due to some facebook policy change
did you try going to settings/accounts&sync/facebook and make sure contacts are selected? my .02
aer0zer0 said:
did you try going to settings/accounts&sync/facebook and make sure contacts are selected? my .02
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Yea, that was off by default, but I turned it on. My contacts still didn't sync until that night/next day.
But it's all good now. thanks for the reply.