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[Q] contacts delete

When I try 2 delete some contacts it says that I can not delete from read only accounts??

Nabisco_12 said:
When I try 2 delete some contacts it says that I can not delete from read only accounts??
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Are they contacts synced with google or facebook?

Nabisco_12 said:
When I try 2 delete some contacts it says that I can not delete from read only accounts??
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Those are facebook or twitter or something...unsync those and assuming all the rest are on google and not your phone you will be able to delete all contacts and sync your Google. This will remove all read only contacts. If you just don't want them listed I believe you can hide them.
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i am pretty sure i have fb un synced, but i do have the google contacts, i still c some numbers from my fb when i do a search, i would like 2 get them out also, however they dont show up in my contacts if this makes sense

Add Facebook Account

Trying to add a Facebook account to sync my info with my contacts. Why I go to add the account, the screen just blinks and takes me back to the accounts screen. It wont let me add it. I did it once when the Facebook app asked me if I wanted to, but cannot figure out how to get that option again on the facebook app.
I just rooted my phone and did not apply a custom rom or anything.

You can't add a Facebook account through accounts and sync.. it isn't built in unless you install a rom that has it enabled.
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Google has removed facebook sync so the only way to get it back is through a custom rom now.

Actually you don't have to change the ROM. Instead you can just use this app to sync your facebook contacts. Found it a couple of days ago and have been using it without any problems. Works like a charms for me. The only downside: You don't get the facebook icon but instead the icon of the app.
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.mots.haxsync

But that's not syncing through the app, which is what the OP is trying to do

EddyOS said:
But that's not syncing through the app, which is what the OP is trying to do
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He is trying to do that yes. But as he is not going to succeed I was showing him an alternative to installing another ROM. I think that is legitimate.

DoubleYou79 said:
He is trying to do that yes. But as he is not going to succeed I was showing him an alternative to installing another ROM. I think that is legitimate.
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I agree, I've been using HaxSync for a while now and love it. It does have a few little quirks with name matching, but it's easy enough to remedy by linking the contact to the correct account in Facebook, plus the dev seems to work pretty quickly on updates and bug fixes.

Here's a question which I think is on point with the thread.
I have a custom ROM on my GNEX which has Facebook Sync enabled (Winner00 ROM). But it doesn't seem to sync everyone, and certainly not with high resolution images. I also installed the Facebook sync app that so many have suggested, but that also doesn't sync everyone, nor does it sync high res images.
In total, only about 20 or so of my phone contacts are synced with their FB pictures.
Anyone know how to better tweak this? Or, what I'm doing wrong??
Thanks!

cokm4n said:
Here's a question which I think is on point with the thread.
I have a custom ROM on my GNEX which has Facebook Sync enabled (Winner00 ROM). But it doesn't seem to sync everyone, and certainly not with high resolution images. I also installed the Facebook sync app that so many have suggested, but that also doesn't sync everyone, nor does it sync high res images.
In total, only about 20 or so of my phone contacts are synced with their FB pictures.
Anyone know how to better tweak this? Or, what I'm doing wrong??
Thanks!
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I've not used a ROM that has Facebook syncing enabled, but I'm guessing it's the same situation as with HaxSync. My guess is that the name of the contact in your phone is different somehow than their name on Facebook so this is how you join them so the pics sync:
1. Open the People app and find the contact you want to join
2. Opent the contact then tap Menu>Edit
3. Then tap Menu>Join
4. Match the person to their Facebook name and select it
5. Tap done
The contact will now be joined to their facebook picture and the picture will sync.
As I said, I'm not positive that this is the same with Facebook syncing as all I have used is HaxSync but I'm guessing it's the same.

Thanks for the suggestion.
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Haxsync / Contacts -People help

Ok so I realize facebook won't sync with ICS so I get Haxsync that was recommended and its ok. However, I don't like this People app that ICS uses compared to the old simple Contacts. When I need to manually merge contacts I used to longpress and choose join contacts and now I cant . But I've seen posts where people say they manually join them, so there must be another way I'm not seeing. Menu options don't bring up merge or join either.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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it is a bit annoying managing contacts in ics...i haven't figured how to automatically join contacts but I have been able to do it manually...for example...let's say your friend's name is "Michael B. Jordan" in facebook and simply "Michael Jordan" in your normal contacts...you have to change the name to "Michael B. Jordan" in contacts facebook and press "space" after the name change..you should see the "facebook name" be suggested right under the contact being edit..click it and it should say "join"..it is pretty annoying way to join contacts (maybe there is a better way, I don't know)...
it took almost an hour to properly sync my 70 contacts and their pictures with haxsync...sorry for the horrrible grammar and I hope it helped..

Annoying it may be... But open "people" Menu> edit> menu> join. Then either pick a suggested person or scroll down to find the right person.
Sent from my CM9 Epic 4G.

Speedin07si said:
Annoying it may be... But open "people" Menu> edit> menu> join. Then either pick a suggested person or scroll down to find the right person.
Sent from my CM9 Epic 4G.
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Just made an already tedious process even longer. Damn girls and their stupid fb names. That's the only crappy part of wiping during ROM changes for me. Apps, data, ringtones, wallpapers, etc are all easy but damn having to manually rejoin contacts. Now even worse that's it's not native in ICS.

I'm at the point now where I think I'm just going to manually assign pictures to my contacts. Maybe download them from facebook assign them thru my contacts in google. This way the pix will stick from now on. Anytime I flash a rom, I won't need to go thru this tedious process any longer. I've given up lol.

big_bake said:
Just made an already tedious process even longer. Damn girls and their stupid fb names. That's the only crappy part of wiping during ROM changes for me. Apps, data, ringtones, wallpapers, etc are all easy but damn having to manually rejoin contacts. Now even worse that's it's not native in ICS.
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If you export your joined contacts to your sd card don't they come back joined when you import them?

Speedin07si said:
Annoying it may be... But open "people" Menu> edit> menu> join. Then either pick a suggested person or scroll down to find the right person.
Sent from my CM9 Epic 4G.
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This works, I knew it was there somewhere, thanks! For anyone else reading this. You have to click on the contact first, then menu, then edit, then the menu button again, then join. Ugh! lol

kennyglass123 said:
If you export your joined contacts to your sd card don't they come back joined when you import them?
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You know I think this would make sense, but I just tried an import and the only option is to import a single vCard file from bluetooth or email.
This used to work out nicely in the 2.x.x days. You sync your google contacts and then facebook contacts. Join a few that the names don't match (ie John Doe and John D). Now with ICS, it won't even try to join John Doe with John D. Doe or Johnathan Doe, even though they are the same person.
The other thing is that haxsync only does photos. I have friends that I don't have saved in my google contacts because their info is on their facebook. Guess I could go through them and manually save a duplicate contact and number to my google contacts, but that's something I didn't have to do in the past. Taking steps backward is not what integration is about.

big_bake said:
You know I think this would make sense, but I just tried an import and the only option is to import a single vCard file from bluetooth or email.
This used to work out nicely in the 2.x.x days. You sync your google contacts and then facebook contacts. Join a few that the names don't match (ie John Doe and John D). Now with ICS, it won't even try to join John Doe with John D. Doe or Johnathan Doe, even though they are the same person.
The other thing is that haxsync only does photos. I have friends that I don't have saved in my google contacts because their info is on their facebook. Guess I could go through them and manually save a duplicate contact and number to my google contacts, but that's something I didn't have to do in the past. Taking steps backward is not what integration is about.
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Then switch to Friendscaster or Friendscaster Pro.
Sent from my CM9 Epic 4G.

Anyone know of a similar program that will work for syncing twitter?
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Speedin07si said:
Then switch to Friendscaster or Friendscaster Pro.
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Well I got friendcaster then used it to sync and it copied over with crappy low res pictures, so that pissed me off. The haxsync ones looked decent at least. I'll be fine for now until there is stock integration built into to CM9. I know the OTA ICS guys have figured it out.

big_bake said:
The other thing is that haxsync only does photos. I have friends that I don't have saved in my google contacts because their info is on their facebook. Guess I could go through them and manually save a duplicate contact and number to my google contacts, but that's something I didn't have to do in the past. Taking steps backward is not what integration is about.
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Haxsync does have an option "Additional friends to sync" under "Sync Preferences" - the help text says "These friends will be synced even if they don't match any contacts on your phone". Does this do what you want?

I think he means their contact info from facebook. The main app syncs not only a contacts photo, but any contact info they have on their profile.
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For those who have multiple accounts and want to join them in a few easy steps:
Log into you Gmail account and go under Contacts.
Right above your contacts list, right in the middle, there is a button you click and have some settings come down. One of them is a "join multiple contacts". Hit it and it will automatically join all of them together. A lot easier if u have LOTS of multiple contacts and dnt want to merge them manually
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I would love to have it sync the phone numbers . Like the FB app does.

big_bake said:
Well I got friendcaster then used it to sync and it copied over with crappy low res pictures, so that pissed me off. The haxsync ones looked decent at least. I'll be fine for now until there is stock integration built into to CM9. I know the OTA ICS guys have figured it out.
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haxsync is not showing my entire friend list from facebook
what is to be done??

In the options their is a setting which by default only syncs people already in your contacts. You can change it sync all your friends from facebook.
Also to some of the people earlier in this thread, the latest version of Haxsync lets you write HTC tags to the notes section of your contacts so at least you won't have to do it all again manually when you change roms

CM7 Phone contacts into Google contacts

Anyone knows how to change phone (unsync) contacts into Google contacts without creating new ones on CM7? I am really bored to do that for all my contacts.
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LucidSomnia said:
Anyone knows how to change phone (unsync) contacts into Google contacts without creating new ones on CM7? I am really bored to do that for all my contacts.
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you can try exporting contacts to sd and importing them into google contacts from your pc.

LucidSomnia said:
Anyone knows how to change phone (unsync) contacts into Google contacts without creating new ones on CM7? I am really bored to do that for all my contacts.
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not exactly sure if I understand you right do you mean contacts from a different phone which cannot sync with Google? If so: can you get an internet connection with the other phone? Because a lot of (non-android) phones can sync with Google contacts, too.
If you can't do that, I'd guess export and import into Google would be the best bet. Google supports a lot of formats to do so - csv, outlook specific csv and vcard - details here: https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=14024
What phone is it exactly?

eventcom said:
not exactly sure if I understand you right do you mean contacts from a different phone which cannot sync with Google? If so: can you get an internet connection with the other phone? Because a lot of (non-android) phones can sync with Google contacts, too.
If you can't do that, I'd guess export and import into Google would be the best bet. Google supports a lot of formats to do so - csv, outlook specific csv and vcard - details here: https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=14024
What phone is it exactly?
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On the same phone, unsynced to make them google contacts. I dunno if i can explain it better but anyways, i'll try exporting to sd, importing into google. The one in my signature. Buzz.
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LucidSomnia said:
On the same phone, unsynced to make them google contacts. I dunno if i can explain it better but anyways, i'll try exporting to sd, importing into google. The one in my signature. Buzz.
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now I seem to be really confused lol: if you want to make contacts of your phone Google contacts you have to *sync* then instead of unsync - what am I missing?
Swyped from my HTC Wildfire (Buzz)

eventcom said:
now I seem to be really confused lol: if you want to make contacts of your phone Google contacts you have to *sync* then instead of unsync - what am I missing?
Swyped from my HTC Wildfire (Buzz)
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From what I understand, he saved his contacts as phone contacts rather than google contacts. So these phone contacts wont sync with google.
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saadislam said:
From what I understand, he saved his contacts as phone contacts rather than google contacts. So these phone contacts wont sync with google
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Well, there are only two three conditions this could happen: 1) if someone not in your contacts calls you and you don't add him to your contacts (but that's only a phone number then), 2) if the contacts are on your SIM only (to be honest I'm just assuming so - haven't tested), 3) if you disable syncing or are not logged into your Google account - right - or am I still missing something?

On cm7 when you add a new contact, it used to ask whether to save it as google or phone contact.

saadislam said:
On cm7 when you add a new contact, it used to ask whether to save it as google or phone contact.
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Ah, I see - too bad, seems I haven't added any contacts manually when I used CM7 (I use Google apps on the PC for a long time now - usually I do the contact entries there...)
Thx for enlightment (and if this is the case exporting and import to Google contacts should be the way to go).

What app to use for deleting multiple duplicates of contact entries

What app to use for deleting multiple duplicates of contact entries?
Something that will let me see the contact number & name...

Sync all your contacts to Google. Then use Google Contacts from your GMail. It has an option to delete the duplicates in the contact list.
I found this method to be the best. There are other apps in the market but they take way too much time. HTC Sense People app has this feature built in.

if4ct0r said:
Sync all your contacts to Google. Then use Google Contacts from your GMail. It has an option to delete the duplicates in the contact list.
I found this method to be the best. There are other apps in the market but they take way too much time. HTC Sense People app has this feature built in.
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Very informative, thank you. I will definitely try this.