Hi guys,
I decided to set up my linkedin account with HTC sense after discovering the plugin in HTC Hub. I added my account as usual and discovered that instead of attaching the account to my existing own contact (i.e. 'Me' in the 'People' app), it created a new contact with my name just for my linkedin profile! This only happens for me, not my contacts...
Has anyone experienced this too or did I run into a weird bug? Do you guys have a suggestion or some sort of a solution to merge the two (somehow, I can't link the contact with 'Me')? Removing and readding the account doesn't seem to help. I know that's a small inconvenience, but it's quite annoying to have to scroll down to acceess my profile (got lots of contacts and my first name starts with a V :S).
Thanks
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I recently took delivery of my new HTC desire and am well pleased. However, yesterday I noticed something strange which has annoyed me a little
I generally store all my contacts on the exchange server. I synced the desire with the exchange server and it did download all mail, contacts and calendar. I noticed I could set the conacts widget to display contacts within a certain group, so I created a group called Favorites and edited frequent contacts so they appear in that group. I did this in outlook. Also around the same time, the desire linked them up with facebook and got the photos etc. So far, pretty cool
Now the annoying bit, checking my contacts in outlook again, I was horrified to see the entire Favorites group missing I checked my phone and the contacts were there. It is not in my google contact list. I can imagine that it has linked it to facebook or something. My question is how do I know the source for the contact now? I know I added a new contact yesterday and there was an option to specify if the contact should belong to my exchange account or the gmail one and as usual I always add it to my exchange account. Now when I view the new contact in outlook, it has a cateory of 'HTC Favorite' instead of just Favorite, even though the category in the desire says 'Favorite'
Sorry if this is a confusing post, but it has confused the crap out of me. I love the desire but if it is going to move my contacts about it will annoy the living daylights out of me
Anyone has any clues regarding this?
I installed the HTC synch manager, thinking that it would resynch the missing contacts back to my outlook. But to my horror, it has duplicated all the outlook contacts back to the phone. So now I have 2 of each contact. And the required contacts are still missing
I can't delete them all and resynch because I have missing contacts in my outlook and not even sure if it will delete the contacts from the exchange server
Why can't they make it just work, this used to work great with windows mobile, never faced any issues. Anyone know how I can get the source for the contact? and possibly how I can get it back to the exchange server?
Help, please
I have search this forum and the web and not found a solution... any help gratefully received....
I create a new contact on my Desire as a 'Google Contact' it can be anything someone I actually know or even a made up contact called 'Fred', I enter the details and save it and it shows up in the list of contacts. As soon as the phone syncs with the Google server the contact disappears off my phone and doesn't sync with the Google account.
I have seen other threads where Facebook or Skype is causing a problem, not here as they are not in use, but if I create the contact on the net using the Google contact manager BINGO they sync to my phone. I can't access the web everytime I want to add a new contact, can anyone help?
There is a bug (I think it's HTC Sense related) that means if you create a contact on the phone and add Birthday information the contact will be lost when the phone next synchronises with your Google account. Try adding the contact but not setting anything for the birthday, see if this solves the problem. Add birthday information through the contact manager in GMail for the moment.
I have removed some friends from facebook, however, the calendar on my htc desire (froyo) does not delete entries for these people and still has their birthdays listed in the calendar.
I have tried re-syncing with no success.
Does anyone have a solution to resolve this issue?
HTC provided me with this lame solution:
The HTC Desire does not have an option to remove the birthday entries of your deleted friends. We recommend that you remove your facebook account from your phone and clean out and make sure you have removed the deleted friends from your facebook account on your computer. After that, please sync your facebook account again on your computer. If you still encounter the same issue, it would be best to contact the developers of facebook.
Its not like their birthday doesnt exist anymore, even if you're not their "friend" ;]
CharlesDaBeast said:
Does anyone have a solution to resolve this issue?
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Stop falling out with people.
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!
Hi all,
I have rather strange problem or maybe not! I've used to my Hero so maybe this is a new "feature". I have a doubled facebook contacts - it is syncing them twice. It took me a few moments to realize that on Desire HD, the facebook app is syncing contacts in parallel with Facebook for HTC Sense (the integrated one). I've opened up Accs & Sync only to find out there are two entries for facebook one for "Facebook" and one for "Facebook for HTC Sense". I stood still for a while wondering "what the h**l"?! I figured out that the stupid Facebook app is trying to sync my contacts (because maybe it's thinking I don't have HTC Sense, but a phone without Facebook integration). After some comparison with the Hero I've noticed that in the Hero's FB App (FB v.1.5.0 - the same as the one on Desire HD) there is no Sync Contacts option in settings ....
So I am thinking maybe ... the phone is not recognized by the FB app and that's why it's adding a second sync profile and doubling my FB contacts.
This is not an actual issue because I can always turn off the sync into the FB app (I will still have the sync profile in Accs & Sync because if it's removed the facebook app stops working - it asks for login details). The real issue is, that I no longer can have notifications on the taskbar for facebook events (updates, reqests and so on ..) and I am thinking maybe theese are related somehow?
Or it is because of HTC Sense - in the Hero there is an option for the updates and events (Phone>People>Updates & Events>Setting). In Desire HD there is no such thing there. Instead similar setting are found when you open a contact and select "Updates & Events", but there are no options for updates and events notifications!
Is this the same on your devices !? Or I've messed something up.
Android OS version is the last OTA. Phone is not rooted.
Regards,
DeX