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[HOWTO] Free your phone - Take everything into the cloud

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Hey guys!
It's 2011, so if you haven't already taken a step into the cloud, it's time to get started! This guide shows you how to take all your data automatically in the cloud to free your phone storage for things like apps and games, which cannot be accessed through a cloud (yet).
Before I start, I just want to make it clear that this thread should NOT be used to discuss what things are safe in the cloud and all that privacy related stuff. If you have passed your ego and realized that you are not the most important/secret person on this planet with all your documents and stuff being soo secret, then go on, the cloud is waiting for you. If you have problems concerning privacy related topics open a new thread and simply CTRL + W out of here right now.
A second note concerning availability of Internet in some areas:
Before you synchronize everything through a cloud you have to ask yourself how often you loose your internet connection with your mobile. If you find yourself often in areas without coverage or poor connection, or if you have a limited data plan you maybe only should sync your Contacts & Calendars, but not Movies since it would become unusable, or at least very frustrating. In Germany and U.S.A. (I guess) you don't have to worry anymore, I've got full speed connection no matter where I go, but you have to know this for yourself.
Personal Stuff - Contacts, Calendars and more
First of all, let's start with the obvious stuff. Things like Calendars, E-Mail, Contacts not only can be stored in the cloud, it would be foolish not to do so! In a time when people have more than one device that can access the internet and are "smart" (i.e. can display calendars & stuff, don't blame me for calling that smart, blame the ads ) it would be terrible when devices can't communicate with each other to sync changes. When your appointment get's delayed it should show up directly on your PC, shouldn't it? But enough of the reasons, let's get this started.
Setting this sync up maybe the easiest of all, because Android is all about syncing these stuff almost by default. You simply have to use the Google Apps GMail for your mail and contacts, Google Calendar for your schedule and so on. Feel free to discover all of the Google Apps and decide for yourself what you need and want.
To set the sync up on your phone simply
Goto Settings -> Accounts and sync -> [email protected] -> Sync Contacts, Calendar, Gmail, ...
And boom! there you go. All your information is now synced between your devices, no matter where you change any of it.
Photos
The next thing to sync would be your pictures. For this media type, I have chosen to write a guide about setting up a sync with Google's Picasa Webapp. Although you might choose other Photohosting sites like Flickr or SmugMug, Picasa enjoys a deep integration in the Android system. To set this sync up, you need to go through 2 steps:
1. (Automatic) Upload of your pictures
Like fruit-fanatic Jobs said: "There's an app for that". For this task (and the movies later) the app "Pixelpipe Post and Upload HD" seems to be perfect, since it also got a feature to automatically upload your pics to your Picasa web albums right after you've shot one.
Set-Up Guide:
1. Create a Pixelpipe account
2. Create a "pipe" for your Picasa account
3. Enable "auto upload" in Settings (works like a charm on the Galaxy S)
4. Shoot some pics and try
2. Sync your Picasa web albums to the phone
After we got our Photos up in the cloud, we need a way to view them on our device. Thanks to Google, we can integrate them in our SNS sync in the settings menu:
Goto Settings -> Accounts and sync -> [email protected] -> Sync Picasa Web Albums
After your next sync (i.e. immediately ) you can find all your Picasa web albums in the Gallery app indicated with a small Picasa logo. This is the major advantage of Picasa, because with your photos being integrated in the gallery, every third party app can use them to modify or distribute your images.
Movies
In syncing movies, we take a similar way like Photos, also using the Pixelpipe app. Our destination will be Youtube because it delivers us unlimited space. Disadvantages of Youtube are a 15 min limit, but if you don't have a problem with that, Youtube is fine.
To set the sync up, simply add a "pipe" in your Pixelpipe app to Youtube and enable autosync. I recommend to set the video to private or not listed, because but that is again your own choice. You have to choose wether you want to have the whole Youtube Community watching your pretty vids or not . You can choose to opt-out on autosync, and only upload when you are on Wifi, since this could really take up some bandwith. The advantage of uploading with the Pixelpipe app over the built in "Share to -> Youtube" option is that you can upload HD video. The built in share option uploads your videos in minor quality.
To view your videos simply fire up your youtube app and enter your Username. Your videos will then be displayed under the "My Videos" tab. To download them again, simply use any of the Youtube video downloader apps available on the market.
Music
For our favorite tunes, we will use mSpot to access and stream our whole library directly from our phone. First of all you have to download the sync app for your Computer from www.mspot.com and select what you want to send up into the cloud. Note that free Users gain 2 GB of storage, so maybe you need to make a selection on what you want to take with you and what not.
After your music is placed in the cloud you can download the mspot Music app for Android, enter your Username and PW and gain direct access to your music. The only lag I encountered was when starting a song, it takes about 1-2 seconds longer than a local media player like Winamp, but mspot can also access files that are directly stored on your phone.
NOTE: Galaxy devices are having a playback issue right now, where the song sometimes just goes silent and you have to tap on pause and resume to hear something again. Mspot is aware of this issue and working on it.
Data
Tired of connecting your phone through USB to copy stuff to your device? The answer to that is "Fiabee"! This works best with Google's Browser Chrome since you can directly put images and more into your Fiabee space or send them directly to the device (Link). The advantage of Fiabee is: Space. They are throwing free space away like hell, I just got 16GB because I was an early user -> Try it!
Another service of choice could be DropBox. Here you have a volume that syncs to every device that is connected the cloud, wether it is a desktop computer, netbook, mobile or tablet. An extremely reliable and fast service, which makes sharing with specific persons or groups very easy.
That's it! If you have any suggestion, comment or question, feel free to share your thought!
bye, Smirny
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Google Apps by space-for-thought
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Smirny said:
If you have passed your ego and realized that you are not the most important/secret person on this planet
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Well, this leaves me out.

w98seeng said:
Well, this leaves me out.
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Don't be sad, I'll send you a golden USB cable for next christmas

for Galaxy S owners all of the above are optional
as it requires either an unlimited 3G plan, or wifi access all the time
for Nexus S owners, it's almost a must to have everything on the cloud

well I have quite unlimited 3G here @Vodafone. And my HD videos only get uploaded through Wifi, it simply would take too long through 3G sometimes.

1) good one, thanks!
2) Does pixelpipe delete the uploaded photos? Otherwise you would see them twice. Picasa and on the phone ?!

MrBusiness said:
1) good one, thanks!
2) Does pixelpipe delete the uploaded photos? Otherwise you would see them twice. Picasa and on the phone ?!
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No it does not delete the photos. Currently you have to do it manually :/

Smirny said:
well I have quite unlimited 3G here @Vodafone. And my HD videos only get uploaded through Wifi, it simply would take too long through 3G sometimes.
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Is it sad that my upload bandwidth from 3G+ is faster than my Wifi at home?

AllGamer said:
for Galaxy S owners all of the above are optional
as it requires either an unlimited 3G plan, or wifi access all the time
for Nexus S owners, it's almost a must to have everything on the cloud
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Are you saying this sure to the nexus s memory limitations or for some other reason?

Mortify1 said:
Is it sad that my upload bandwidth from 3G+ is faster than my Wifi at home?
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No, of course not ^^ At some places even I reach faster cellular upload rates than at home, but it still takes some time, so I don't want to walk around the Munich airport in circles to upload my videos =)

Thanks, any chance of a fiabee invite?

of course. Isn't registration open any longer?
https://sync.fiabee.com/i/4d210e4c11af1

thanks, just read somewhere that invites get you more space? but it doesn't seem that is the case anymore But still 1gb storage is better than nothing

well then maybe you should rely on dropbox, fiabee syncs well, but for some images you can't do stuff with them in other apps because you can't put them in the gallery :/ but in combination with the google chrome webapp it's beautiful.
btw. just realized that I forgot to link that chrome app in the original post ^^

Smirny said:
To set the sync up, simply add a "pipe" in your Pixelpipe app to Youtube and enable autosync. I recommend to set the video to private or not listed, because but that is again your own choice. You have to choose wether you want to have the whole Youtube Community watching your pretty vids or not .
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Is there an option to automatically make the uploaded videos private on YouTube or does it take a manual setting?

hetp0st said:
Is there an option to automatically make the uploaded videos private on YouTube or does it take a manual setting?
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I haven't found an option yet, I'd be curious about that too :/ Right now you have to set it to private manually, and the particular bad thing about this is that you can't do that neither in the app nor the mobile website, you have to go to the desktop website to do that :/ Or maybe I have missed a setting ...

great news:
the mSpot App now got rid of the Playback issue and it works perfectly on the SGS now =)

I've been looking all over for a comparison between Fiabee and Dropbox. Anyone?
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bump this great thread.

How the heck do you just view pictures on the actual phone (as opposed to cloud)

I tried to look for a permanant setting for the Gallery to just show pics on the phone itself but it keeps reverting to "ALL" view where it shows my picassa / dropbox. Thank you!

boodies said:
I tried to look for a permanant setting for the Gallery to just show pics on the phone itself but it keeps reverting to "ALL" view where it shows my picassa / dropbox. Thank you!
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From within the gallery
Menu>View by>Content in device
this is on the T889 Note II. ALJ1
EDIT: oh but look at that. it doesn't stick. how stupid.

crazy talk said:
From within the gallery
Menu>View by>Content in device
this is on the T889 Note II. ALJ1
EDIT: oh but look at that. it doesn't stick. how stupid.
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I know that, but it doesn't stick lol... wtf right?

I found the answer myself lol. You need to go in to Cloud in settings and then disable Dropbox sync to gallery.
Now i just have to figure out how to NOT SHOW picassa images

boodies said:
I found the answer myself lol. You need to go in to Cloud in settings and then disable Dropbox sync to gallery.
Now i just have to figure out how to NOT SHOW picassa images
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Settings>Google>'Your E-mail here'>Picasa
I don't know if it actually works since i don't use Picasa. but it's worth a shot.

My Sync Internet doesn't seem to sync
desont seem to work ;(

I managed to do it with an app called QuickPic and some adjustments in the settings!
After downloading Quickpic, you go to Settings>S Cloud. There, as the first screenshot shows you disable pics and video sync. (I belive you did that already.)
Then, you go to Settings >Google then you select your mail address and you'll have the options as you can see on the second screenshot. Untick picassa and google photos.
Now it is possible you still see some of your cloud pics on your device. I'm pretty sure you can't delete some of them with the stock galery app. So use Quickpic to delete them.
Hope it helped
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Thanks to Greige from android central
Make sure the synching for the Picasa albums is still off, then go into Settings > Application manager. Select the All tab, find Gallery and hit the Clear data button. Next time you open the Gallery, it will take a moment to rebuild it but the Picasa albums should finally be gone.
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Thanks for this thread all. This was really annoying me, now fixed

Any way to stop Facebook photos showing in the gallery?

[Q] ?? Samsung GALLERY app not remembering "View by" settings??

Hi.
Just a quick question will clear this up for me.
In the Gallery settings there is a menu choice to:
View by
a) All content
b) Content in Phone
c) Content in Drobpox
d) Content in Facebook
e) Content in Picasa
By default it seems to show 'All content'
After selecting the option to show just "Content in Phone" it then reloads only the images in my Phone. BUT.. after closing the application and the next time I open the Gallery it's back again to showing "All content" as though it didn't remember my "View by 'Content in phone' selection"
QUESTION is: Is this normal behaviour? Or have my permissions being screwed with somewhere or somehow?
thanks in advance for any response

ItsMeD said:
Hi.
Just a quick question will clear this up for me.
In the Gallery settings there is a menu choice to:
View by
a) All content
b) Content in Phone
c) Content in Drobpox
d) Content in Facebook
e) Content in Picasa
By default it seems to show 'All content'
After selecting the option to show just "Content in Phone" it then reloads only the images in my Phone. BUT.. after closing the application and the next time I open the Gallery it's back again to showing "All content" as though it didn't remember my "View by 'Content in phone' selection"
QUESTION is: Is this normal behaviour? Or have my permissions being screwed with somewhere or somehow?
thanks in advance for any response
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Its normal mate.. im experiencing this also.. I guess it automatically refresh everytime you exit the app ..
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gabamoner said:
Its normal mate.. im experiencing this also.. I guess it automatically refresh everytime you exit the app ..
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Cheers buddy. I wasn't sure. I'd been having some 'permissions' issues elsewhere (mostly resolved now), but was wondering if this was perhaps still one of them. GLAD to know it's not, but on the other hand not so glad that we can't save this damn setting. thanks again

ItsMeD said:
Cheers buddy. I wasn't sure. I'd been having some 'permissions' issues elsewhere (mostly resolved now), but was wondering if this was perhaps still one of them. GLAD to know it's not, but on the other hand not so glad that we can't save this damn setting. thanks again
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Yeah .. Samsung must do something about it..
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This has been driving me nuts also. I thought I had it figured out; I assumed that the problem must be with syncing. I went into sync settings and unclicked "google photos" and "picasa" and was confident that would solve it, but noooooooooooooooooo.

I got the answer. I'm sure everyone else already knows this because a) last post before mine earlier was over a month ago, and b) I got the answer in the AT&T Note 2 forum, (which is where I should have been in the first place since that's the model I have! :silly so perhaps everyone saw it over there.
ANYway, if not, here you go:
As I assumed in my previous post, you need to uncheck Picasa/Google Photos from sync settings, THEN (the important part), clear the gallery's data.
Bye!

Sv: [Q] ?? Samsung GALLERY app not remembering "View by" settings??
Same on my Note. Really sucks. Another thing is that sometimes the phone completely delete the gallery's cache, wich means all thumbnails are gone. Really annoying. Samsung needs to update the Gallery App asap. It's overall perfomance sucks...
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Same here. Loading the gallery take pretty long, especially when you have lots of facebook albums..

[Q] google nexus contact sync problem

Friends i have a Google nexus and im running paranoid ROM 3.1 (latest) ,on 4.2.2 droid had the same same problem with carbon ROM and the custom ROM.
I flashed my phone with PA 3.1 a few days back and the phone syncs all contacts with gmail a few days down the line and the same problem again every thing else on the same account syncs well but the contacts just don't wanna sync anymore , although a short while solution would be to delete all entries by emptying the people and contacts data from system app and it re-syncs for a few days but that's not a perrinial solution . had the same problem with carbon ROM and even in Custom ROM (although here it started a like 3 months after i bought the phone was fine till then.)
and my Facebook contacts show as synced from the account sync place but 0 contacts appear when i see Facebook contacts in people???
please help
Thanks & Regards

I had a very similar problem. Contacts would sync after clearing data, but then randomly stop syncing.
The issue was that there was a corrupt contact entry from a new Gtalk contact being merged with an existing normal one for the same person. What caused the syncing to stop was when this particular contact had its high resolution picture pulled from Google servers (by receiving a SMS from them), as the initial sync only pulls the low resolution image.
This sounds odd, but was reproducible with the corrupt contact. Deleting and recreating it was the fix, but unfortunately I only stumbled across which one it was by chance. So if you have a hunch that a particular contact has issues then it may be corrupted.

mzxx said:
I had a very similar problem. Contacts would sync after clearing data, but then randomly stop syncing.
The issue was that there was a corrupt contact entry from a new Gtalk contact being merged with an existing normal one for the same person. What caused the syncing to stop was when this particular contact had its high resolution picture pulled from Google servers (by receiving a SMS from them), as the initial sync only pulls the low resolution image.
This sounds odd, but was reproducible with the corrupt contact. Deleting and recreating it was the fix, but unfortunately I only stumbled across which one it was by chance. So if you have a hunch that a particular contact has issues then it may be corrupted.
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You might be right with what you say but now a bigger problem pops in , how to identify the corrupt entry?
plus the Facebook contacts still don't show up?

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thanks sir , id keep that in mind here on . Please let me know if you have a solution to my problem though .
appreciated

bilalvoh said:
thanks sir , id keep that in mind here on . Please let me know if you have a solution to my problem though .
appreciated
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no one to answer my qestion???

bilalvoh said:
no one to answer my qestion???
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Ping. Anyone has a solution?

lisan said:
Ping. Anyone has a solution?
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PING

bilalvoh said:
Friends i have a Google nexus and im running paranoid ROM 3.1 (latest) ,on 4.2.2 droid had the same same problem with carbon ROM and the custom ROM.
I flashed my phone with PA 3.1 a few days back and the phone syncs all contacts with gmail a few days down the line and the same problem again every thing else on the same account syncs well but the contacts just don't wanna sync anymore , although a short while solution would be to delete all entries by emptying the people and contacts data from system app and it re-syncs for a few days but that's not a perrinial solution . had the same problem with carbon ROM and even in Custom ROM (although here it started a like 3 months after i bought the phone was fine till then.)
and my Facebook contacts show as synced from the account sync place but 0 contacts appear when i see Facebook contacts in people???
please help
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its sad to know in such a big community of biggies no one has a solution for my small problem:crying:

I guess I can only help you with the Facebook contacts being empty:
As far as I know Facebook is unable to sync contacts due to changes made to Android.
Changes that were specifically made because of Facebook.
From what I can recall (and that might be completely wrong) Facebook didn't really sync any information, it just linked some information and showed that info.
But as soon as you removed the app all that info would be gone too.
And that behaviour was not desired. (Although certain ROMs might still do that I guess.)
I can't help you with the other problem though.
What kind of changes are not synced? And where are you doing them?

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Fabur87 said:
I guess I can only help you with the Facebook contacts being empty:
As far as I know Facebook is unable to sync contacts due to changes made to Android.
Changes that were specifically made because of Facebook.
From what I can recall (and that might be completely wrong) Facebook didn't really sync any information, it just linked some information and showed that info.
But as soon as you removed the app all that info would be gone too.
And that behaviour was not desired. (Although certain ROMs might still do that I guess.)
I can't help you with the other problem though.
What kind of changes are not synced? And where are you doing them?
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Thanks but i figured out the Facebook sync issue its just because the app in all does not have the sync nature but u can do the same with a few sync app available on app store . the bigger issue is Google contact sync , everything else does but this just does not wanna sync after a few days span . i can delete all data it syncs again but that's not the real solution . its a short term fix .. i just want contacts to sync with my embedded account plain and simple.

Well i tried what you said i went thru all my 500+ contacts on the list to my as expected there were no entry with hi def pic except my own on from the Google + servers.
To make sure i even deleted my pic and tried to sync again but still the same old crap . I'm attaching a screen of the sync page which might give you a look.
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Plus I'm attaching a second pic of contact as it pops in my phone which sure ain't high def here
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Man I'm not too sure how to as one of my friend unlocked it for me. I just flashed the custom ROM and kernel. it's better of you ask someone who knows how to
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mzxx said:
I had a very similar problem. Contacts would sync after clearing data, but then randomly stop syncing.
The issue was that there was a corrupt contact entry from a new Gtalk contact being merged with an existing normal one for the same person. What caused the syncing to stop was when this particular contact had its high resolution picture pulled from Google servers (by receiving a SMS from them), as the initial sync only pulls the low resolution image.
This sounds odd, but was reproducible with the corrupt contact. Deleting and recreating it was the fix, but unfortunately I only stumbled across which one it was by chance. So if you have a hunch that a particular contact has issues then it may be corrupted.
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Please check my last post , i tried what you said but nothing works ...

Finally the issue is sorted, all thanks to Google team who sorted it for me
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Facebook Contacts not Syncing

my M8 is not syncing the facebook contacts after the facebook app update... Are others facing the same problem??? Do help if there is any solution to it...

saiz136 said:
Finally got it working for Facebook contacts, surely Facebook really know how to piss off people. Just FULL uninstall your current Facebook app and then download and install this old version of the app. http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/facebook-2/facebook/facebook-27-0-0-0-15-android-apk-download/ The app has its old Sync Contact options on the Setting menu and it will sync contacts on your phone book. Now I've heard that after syncing all contacts, it should be OK to update it on the Play Store.
Just updated Facebook to the latest version it the Sync Contacts sticked on the app itself.
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Thanks a lot Man!!! It Worked!!!1

im trying this and installed it on my nexus 6p got the old.27 version installed but its not showing any option to sync contacts, is that cause im on marshmallow, realy miss this feature

Try out social contact sync app... That works boss to sync contact pictures and like from Facebook and other social media apps was well

Worked for me, thanks!

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im trying this and installed it on my nexus 6p got the old.27 version installed but its not showing any option to sync contacts, is that cause im on marshmallow, realy miss this feature
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Facebook sync never worked on Nexus devices.

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Hi. Thanks for post. I now have option to sync fb contacts, but list is empty. Any ideas?

I mean, I now have fb sync option in my phone book menu, but the list is empty if I try to link a fb contact with a phone book contact. I still have no contact sync option in my Facebook. Help?

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This worked! It takes a bit for my FB contacts to load up again on my phone, but once they load, they have been automatically linking to their corresponding contacts in my contacts list (the default Contact List that comes with the original HTC One Android OS). I do not display my FB contacts with "All People" but the pictures from their FB profiles are starting to all flood in once again! Thank you so much for this! Now I just have to keep my phone from updating to the latest version of FB for Android, or else I will run back into the same issue.
Side Note: I called HTC regarding this issue, and the lady I spoke with said that HTC IS aware of the problem, HOWEVER, it is a Facebook problem, not a HTC problem, and all we can supposedly do is wait for FB to fix it. Ha! FB sucks, but I like having the pictures with the names, so until they get their heads out their asses, this is the best solution.
Cheers Mate!
EDIT: Before posting this reply I checked my phone because I was going to give my HTC One M8 info and Android OS info, but as I looked, Facebook must have already automatically upgraded to the newest version, putting right back in the same place... UGH! I hate FB. Maybe I can find another Contacts App that can handle this. SMH. FU FB!

fuglynutlock said:
I mean, I now have fb sync option in my phone book menu, but the list is empty if I try to link a fb contact with a phone book contact. I still have no contact sync option in my Facebook. Help?
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HTC told me to contact Facebook directly, which I just did... Apparently they know about it, but it is an issue directly with Facebook's app. I will post any information I receive from them, IF I receive any... See my post from earlier today.

BumblinMumbler said:
EDIT: Before posting this reply I checked my phone because I was going to give my HTC One M8 info and Android OS info, but as I looked, Facebook must have already automatically upgraded to the newest version, putting right back in the same place... UGH! I hate FB. Maybe I can find another Contacts App that can handle this. SMH. FU FB!
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Turn off the auto updates in the playstore app's settings. Problem solved.

robocuff said:
Turn off the auto updates in the playstore app's settings. Problem solved.
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So far so good. That is what I just did, before repeating the above process. I did not realize I could turn off auto updates globally; I had FB Auto-Update off, but not globally for all my apps. Since I was connected to WiFi earlier, it instantly ignored my request not to update, and that is when it failed again. This is working so far, I will let you know if it ends up failing, again... Thanks much! :good:

I still have no fb contacts showing in my phone book. Sync is enabled. I'm puzzled! I have also noticed that I can't sync my htc account and the restore function is also greyed out.......

fuglynutlock said:
I still have no fb contacts showing in my phone book. Sync is enabled. I'm puzzled! I have also noticed that I can't sync my htc account and the restore function is also greyed out.......
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Hey man, sorry to hear you are having so many difficulties here. First off, I suggest you call HTC Support, which won't take long, they don't have any hold times, and they are typically very helpful, at least when I have called. Their number is 1-866-449-8358. They can help with the HTC account part you previously mentioned. IF not, let me know and I will post a fix for that. I am referring you to them because it may be an issue related directly to your personal account. If we can rule that out, then we can work on other options.
Now... regarding Facebook... did you install the older version suggested above in this thread? Once you have installed the older version, turn contact syncing on, choose "Sync with Existing Contacts," as shown in the picture provided. This will get your current Phonebook Contacts linked to their FB profiles and profile pics. Next, go into "Accounts and Sync" in Settings, and make sure you have Facebook listed there, click on it, and make sure that your actual account is listed there. If it is not there, you can easily add the account using the "+" symbol at the top right of "Accounts and Sync." Click that "+" symbol and follow the onscreen instructions. That is pretty easy. Now if it is already there, make sure "Auto-Sync" is turned on, you should see a switch at the top of "Accounts and Sync" for this, and it just has to be in the "On" position.
If you follow those steps above, there are just a few more steps, to make sure you get your Facebook contacts to appear in your contacts list/phonebook. First, you will have to open your contacts (if not already open), and then click the top left icon labeled "Phonebook," and under that word should most likely be "Multiple Sources," unless you only have one source of contacts selected, like I do, in which case it will just say the name of that source, which in my case is Google. To give you an idea of what that looks like for me, in Contacts, it says at the top left, "Phonebook" with "Google" below that, and these words are one big link for a drop down list. Now click on the drop down link (again, top left icon in Contacts, just under notification bar), and this drop down list will have all of your accounts that you have signed into in "Accounts & Sync" in Settings (which you should have set up previously when you visited that area, if you are following these steps in this order). Make sure "Facebook" is checked off, and that it has a number in parenthesis next to it (which is the number of Facebook "Friends" you have). You can also check off other contact lists that you would like to appear in your overall list, i.e. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Google+, Phone Contacts (which in my case is the AT&T Address book), SIM, etc. Once you select Facebook, and/or the other contacts, they should auto-populate your entire Phonebook/Contacts list. If you have duplicates, you may want to "Link" the contacts and/or "Merge" the contacts, which we can get into further later on if need be. (If you want to try this part alone, go to "Manage Contacts" in the top right drop down menu.
Quote this message in your next response, so I can see how you made out. IF you are still having issues, I will try my best to solve your problem(s). By quoting me, I get an email and I can respond faster. Also, if you can, send me your phone Model, and Android version. We can get this figured out for you, I promise, one way or another. Best of luck. :fingers-crossed:

Photos are back! I had done everything that you said but my phonebook list showed that I had 0 Facebook contacts. Since my last post my phone updated to 6.0. And I still had no fb contacts showing. I then allowed fb to update. All that was remove the option to allow link fb in my phonebook . Iuninstalled fb and reinstalled the earlyversion again and then the fb photos stated appearing... However, I still do not have the contact sync section showing at the bottom of the fb app setting menu. (Not that I'm worried by that )Thank youvery much for your help.

Facebook got back to me. They "no longer support Contacts Sync on the Facebook Android app." So the only way to do this is to follow the above steps. It is still working for me, as long as I do not update the app.
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fuglynutlock said:
Photos are back! I had done everything that you said but my phonebook list showed that I had 0 Facebook contacts. Since my last post my phone updated to 6.0. And I still had no fb contacts showing. I then allowed fb to update. All that was remove the option to allow link fb in my phonebook . Iuninstalled fb and reinstalled the earlyversion again and then the fb photos stated appearing... However, I still do not have the contact sync section showing at the bottom of the fb app setting menu. (Not that I'm worried by that )Thank youvery much for your help.
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Congrats mate! See what Facebook told me?