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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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 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
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.
Hi all,
I use Leedroid GB Rom in my desire. I added Facebook account through Friendcaster and it appeared under accounts and sync option in account settings and i synced the contacts of FB via friendcaster. In my people app, under the view option, that account is not visible. But when i install Go contact, i can see all the contacts. Why does this happen. IS this a problem with Friendcaster or Leedroid GB Rom. Help Appreciated.
Thanks
I think you must sign in via 'Facebok for HTC Sense' for the contact sync to work....
Or, if adding your account to the Facebook for Sense doesn't work at all, try deleting your Facebook accounts and re-add them. Sometimes that does the trick. I don't know why, but it helped me with similar sync problems.
Hello,
I'm not sure if this a HTC One X specific problem, but I didn't have it on my old Samsung Galaxy. If I open the preinstalled (I guess official) Facebook app on the HTC One X, it asks me what I want to sync. I don't want to sync anything, so I choose that option an press "done". However, the stupid things still keeps syncing all my Facebook friends to my phone contacts (it adds a Facebook phone book). I don't want this. If I delete the Facebook account under "Accounts & Sync" the synced data is removed, however, if I open the Facebook app after that, it will ask me again what I want to sync and the whole things starts over. Is there any way to avoid this?
Many thanks.
It'll add the friends but it won't sync them to your existing phone contacts. Just untick the Facebook contacts in 'People' and they won't show up
But there is now way of not even allowing it to import the Facebook phone book?
Well, yeah - telling it not to sync should do that...if it doesn't then I'd say no
I had the same problem and fixed it with removing that annoying app forever ...