So a couple of things:
First off I'm not new to android but I am new to jelly bean (skipped from 2.3 to 4.2.2 soooo ya)
Second, I understand that google has removed the ability to sync your contact photos with facebook but, I'm running Carbon 1.4 and just yesterday I went to add a contact who I'm friends with on facebook to my gmail contact list through the people app and as I was typing her name her facebook contact popped up and I was asked if I'd like to merge the two and I did so I got her contact photo, the whole shebang. Which was highly unexpected but equivalently awesome.
But now I have the problem of in the quick settings panel there's the profiles button with, what's supposed to be my contact listing, has no picture, no number, nada also it's saved on my local "SD" not my gmail so it cannot be synced when flashing new ROMs. So when I go to edit my contact information I can add everything manually, but I have my own contact listing in my contact synced with my gmail that I'd prefer to link it to so I don't have to re-setup my own picture and stuff each time I reflash a rom.
SO my question is, is there a way to sync my personal contact information with facebook and gmail or even just gmail so the information never changes?
thank you
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Firstly i'm new to these forums and the exciting concept of flashing ROMs, so hello! I feel like a giddy child.
I've noticed that WinMo 6.5 (and Android) give you the option to link your contacts to Facebook accounts, unfortunately i discovered that for alot of people i know, when associating Facebook accounts through your address book, profile pictures don't all load up in the look-up. This means they can't always be used as Caller images for your contacts.
Currently i'm accessing this featuring by going into edit contact details and clicking the 'Link, Associate with Facebook account' button at the bottom.
Anybody had the same problem or have a work around? Its a very useful feature and something which i was looking forward to using. Maybe there's a method to link facebook accounts en masse?
stationunderground said:
Firstly i'm new to these forums and the exciting concept of flashing ROMs, so hello! I feel like a giddy child.
I've noticed that WinMo 6.5 (and Android) give you the option to link your contacts to Facebook accounts, unfortunately i discovered that for alot of people i know, when associating Facebook accounts through your address book, profile pictures don't all load up in the look-up. This means they can't always be used as Caller images for your contacts.
Currently i'm accessing this featuring by going into edit contact details and clicking the 'Link, Associate with Facebook account' button at the bottom.
Anybody had the same problem or have a work around? Its a very useful feature and something which i was looking forward to using. Maybe there's a method to link facebook accounts en masse?
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Facebook integration depends on which manila you're using. 2.5 vs 2.1 act differently when it comes to facebook. 2.5 lets you sync all the contacts at once but doesn't set the picture as the default profile pic so you have to go back and set it (also, it only sets it in manila not wm). 2.1 doesn't have mass sync but automatically sets the picture as your default profile pic.
I used MyBackup Root to back up all my contacts on my phone while I was using leedroid. When I've reloaded them into cynogenmod each contact has about 4 copies.
Is there a way to sort my contacts and remove the duplicates? or is there an alternative contact list like that on sense I'm missing having peoples profiles linked with their contact data. The non sense contacts in cm7 rc2 is weak in comparison to the sense verison.
Any ideas are much appreciated.
Thanks
The way I did it I setup my contacts to sync with my Google Account so no matter what rom I have I always have my contacts. Then I just link Facebook and Twitter and I get the contact pictures. It's much easier than using 3rd party apps to do it for you.
Ignore this i've posted my question elsewhere.
Sync all your (multiple) contacts contacts to gmail.
Log into gmail on a pc, click contacts on the left side bar. Then click the drop down box "more actions", and select "find & merge duplicates".
Having your contacts synced to gmail works really well for swapping and changing roms, and also pretty much guarantees you will never loose them.....
Hi Team,
I have differenced between sycronising in roms 2.3.5 and cm7.. When I have installed 2.3.5 automatically face book and my gmail accounts will get syhncronise with contact photos but in cm7 its not syncronising the contact photos.. Can anyone guide how to go head..I have used contacts syncronise from the market but no use..Please help me.
Sync the Facebook app probably.
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I have done...I am getting only contacts but not photos...
sorry posted on wrong thread
Sorry, I have posted in the correct section..Please guide me If I am wrong...
Nah you're in the right section.
I think I know what you mean. Like in Sense it will prompt you to link similar contacts so Facebook, whatsapp, twitter, gmail etc are on the same contact.
You can do that in CM7 but you have to do it manually for each contact.
When looking at a regular Google contact in your phone book, press menu and choose 'edit contact', then once in the edit mode, press the menu button again and select 'Join'. You can then choose other accounts to join to that account.
TBH My contacts got really f****d up by using the join in CM7 and people had random other accounts attached to them after moving from stock to CM7 so I reset all contacts and only used my google accounts in my phone book and use each respective application to use different accounts. CM7 is such a better ROM though that I don't miss that functionality as I'm not hugely bothered about having peoples pictures on the contact. You can always apply pictures manually if you get bored one evening!
I am the kind of person who appreciates/ is nit-picky about aesthics. This post is for people who like a profile picture of a contact on their AOSP People app. I spent a lot of time looking for an app to have a person's photo show up when using the MMS app or Phone app. I hope I can save some of you who are looking for this feature some time.
I was previously using "Facebook contact Sync". It was working real well. But after a while, it stopped syncing (if someone has a fix for this, please reply a "how to"). When I added new contacts to my Google account on my phone, I could not sync their Facebook photo to the contact card because the "Facebook contact Sync" app would no longer sync.
I have found that the app "Friendcaster" that has the same feature. This will sync your Facebook account with your People App and sync a person's photo with their contact card.
Practical:
- When someone calls, you can see their Facebook photo as opposed to the gray android guy.
- In the beautiful ICS MMS app, you are able to have a photo on the text thread you have with a person as oppsed to the gray android guy.
Hello, first post although i have used the site often, hopefully i haven't missed this in a search if it was already posted.
I have an AT&T SGS3 (i747) which i recently flashed with beanstalk and had flashed with a stock Rom with injected root. The problem i am having is its creating duplicate contact groups (friends and family are duplicated) after syncing with gmail's contacts. I cannot remove the duplicate empty groups (i think these are default built in groups) but i can delete the groups that are populated, which of course i don't want to do.
this also happened on my old Infuse (flashed with cm-10.2-20130830-UNOFFICIAL-infuse4g.zip). I manually, one by one, added all my contacts to gmail and created several groups but only the friends and family groups get duplicated. i guess its not syncing the contacts to the default groups of the same name actually.
When i first bought the phone and setup my google account in store the contacts synced perfectly, only after flashing beanstalk (BeanStalk-4.3.1001-20131002-d2att.zip and of course gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip also flashed along with beanstalk) did i run into this issue. Its not a big deal but it gets old and time consuming to move contacts from the synced group to the default group and deleting the old groups every time i flash and update or new Rom. Also is there any app that has the "briefing" option on the clock alarms like the stock rom did that anyone happens to know about?
feel free to ask if you need any more details and thanks in advance for any and all help.