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Hello everyone.
Can you please let me know how nexus one integrate with Facebook? does it fetch my all of friend list from facebook and add them to my contact list or it let me specify which group of friend I want to integrate into my contact list.
Thanks.
Yes it pulls all the known contacts you have from Facebook and add it to your phone contacts, it even pulls there picture, it will also combine contacts if you have duplicates, ie a Bob h from phone is combined with Bob h of Facebook to make one contact onyour phone with all the data of both.
Unfortunately it's not perfect. It combined my Danny and Daniel contacts (both on my phone previous to FB sync) into a single Danny Lopez contact
What about if you only want the google contacts to be synced with facebook? Will it do that? and if you already have pictures for the contacts, will the sync replace the pictures with their Facebook profile pic?
You have to manually turn Facebook Sync on, so if you don't want it to sync your facebook contacts, simply don't enable that function. That's the only thing the facebook sync does that I can see. It gives you some options when you add the account on how you want it to sync, but I can't remember what those options are, and can't figure out how to change them after I already added my account
you can choose to sync only those contacts that are already in your contacts list.
i think it works like this:
for all contacts in your list, find facebook friends with that email address. if no google contact image, then pull facebook image.
for all contacts in your list without email addresses, find facebook friends with that name. pull email addresses, adn if no google contact image, then pull facebook image.
Here are the options Facebook gives you:
Sync All (Sync data about all friends to Contacts)
Sync with existing contacts (Sync data only about friends already in Contacts)
Don't Sync (Use information about friends only in Facebook)
If the Nexus One incorrectly combines two different people together into the same contact, just edit the contact and select Separate in the menu. Then you can manually rejoin if you want.
For example, I have a couple of friends who have the same name as their fathers (except of course name suffix) and so I ended up with two contacts instead of four. I just went into those two, separated them, and then did the rejoining manually. I wish there were better options for this (for example, if there's only one contact you want to separate out, you have to separate the whole contact instead of only being able to separate one out) but it's not particularly difficult to do.
Do you guys know how to unsync it? I synced it to see what it was and now I do not want all their pictures on the phone.
Does anyone know how to manually connect facebook accounts? Not all of my friends have their full names (or have alternate names) on facebook, it would be nice to link them.
Re: XfrostX in Settings, go to Accounts & Sync and just remove the Facebook account.
Re: Over Achiever in Contacts, long-press on the contact you want to connect a Facebook account to, select Edit contact, push menu and Join. It'll show a list of suggested contacts, or you can push Show all contacts and just select the one you want.
Over Achiever said:
Does anyone know how to manually connect facebook accounts? Not all of my friends have their full names (or have alternate names) on facebook, it would be nice to link them.
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Not without a 3rd party.
Asurion works great but never goes away and is a resource hog.
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Not without a 3rd party.
Asurion works great but never goes away and is a resource hog.
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I must be misunderstanding the question or we're thinking of different things. You can very easily connect a facebook friend to a contact through the method I posted above.
Has anyone else found the photos from facebook sync are stupidly small? Mine have come through so small that when someone calls they're just a mess of pixels, and even when they appear as a little thumbnail in quicksearch they're just a tiny square. Seems like they're 20x20 or something.
Does anyone know of a way of uninstalling the Facebook app? I can't find it in the app list and I'd really rather not have it.
I'm able to join the Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, but no matter what I do, it always seems to change my contact's name to display what they have on their Facebook. For example, my mom and dad both have Facebook accounts, and after joining thier profiles, it doesn't show them as "Mom" and "Dad", but as their names. It's kind of annoying, because now whenever I try to find them, I have to look under their names. Has anybody else figured out a way around this?
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I'm able to join the Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, but no matter what I do, it always seems to change my contact's name to display what they have on their Facebook. For example, my mom and dad both have Facebook accounts, and after joining thier profiles, it doesn't show them as "Mom" and "Dad", but as their names. It's kind of annoying, because now whenever I try to find them, I have to look under their names. Has anybody else figured out a way around this?
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Same for me BUT!!! my girlfriends nickname has remained and I cannot figure out how or why, I would like to have everybody else's nicknames showing rather than their full names!
nanu*1 said:
Same for me BUT!!! my girlfriends nickname has remained and I cannot figure out how or why, I would like to have everybody else's nicknames showing rather than their full names!
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i also need work around on this .. anyone ?
in my xRom (still without facebook integration) the phone have joined some contacts into one too! (both from google contacts)
I didn't know that split option I will try to find it when I found another contact joined
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Same for me BUT!!! my girlfriends nickname has remained and I cannot figure out how or why, I would like to have everybody else's nicknames showing rather than their full names!
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Is her name on Facebook the same as that in your Google contacts? The only names that stayed the same when my contacts integrated were my sisters, and parents. In my Google contacts list, I have the words "Sister", "Mother", and "Father" written after their first name (so that if I get into a bad accident or something, emergency personnel can quickly notify the right people). I figured the phone recognizes those as keywords and doesn't change them.
I know I am possibly overlooking this, but with my iPhone I was able to assign a ringtone to a specific contact. Is there anyway I can get that setup on the Galaxy S?
I must confess I didn't try before and it took me some time to find it ( not so much time actually but I am surprised to have less possibility than the iphone)
On the iphone you had easily the possibility to set one ringtone by person ( it was not that easy to get a ringtone )
In the samsung you can set a ringtone by group.
So you could create a group per person to get one ringtone per person
On my side I will just put my wife in a group and set the ringtone from Jaws movie
Ok, that is kind of complicated ;-)
another question to ringtones... Maybe I just didn't find it. But how can I set a mp3 as a ringtone. If I try to select a ringtone it only shows me the shipped ones. Or do I have to copy the mp3 to the folder where the shipped ones are stored (and that would be?)?
Thanks, Kai
This is indeed complicated
For the first question, SGS allows setting ringtone to both contacts and groups. However, they will only work with ringtones created in the phone. They will not work with ringtones synced over from Google or outlook. In order to assign ringtones to these contacts, you need to
1. Create a contact in your phone and assign the ringtone
2. Link the contact to your synced contact
For assigning MP3 as ringtones, you can try ringdroid. Alternative is to copy to /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones.
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This is indeed complicated
For the first question, SGS allows setting ringtone to both contacts and groups. However, they will only work with ringtones created in the phone. They will not work with ringtones synced over from Google or outlook. In order to assign ringtones to these contacts, you need to
1. Create a contact in your phone and assign the ringtone
2. Link the contact to your synced contact
For assigning MP3 as ringtones, you can try ringdroid. Alternative is to copy to /sdcard/media/audio/ringtones.
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I have assigned MP3 ringtones individually just by doing a long hold on the contact, choosing Edit, and then touching Ring tone, and choosing sound. I can then choose my MP3 that is stored anywhere on the phone, even on the external SD.
For individual SMS tones, I use SMSPopUp, very customisable.
I have been trying to assign ringtones to a particular contact but cannot achieve this. I know there is an options under Contact - menu - Edit, but nothing. I get some strange message that ' I cannot edit SNS...'. I'm thinking this have something to do with facebook, as my contacts are synced with facebook. Does this have an effect on having to assign different ringtones to contacts?
I have also a problem with individual ringtones each contact.
If I use the standard app in SGS, i am able to set a ind. ringtone for a contact. But I want to use a app like touchdown or roadsync for do my mail stuff. And I dont like to have contacts in more than one place so I habe all my contact in my outlook. I set the sgs that only the contacts in my business mail client are shown and I cant set a individual ringtone. Is ther no possibility for do that without copying contacts to the phone? No app? Cant belive that this is not? On handcent sms I can set ringtones per contact, no matter where its saved.
Thanks for replying!
To be able to assign a ringtone to a contact, it has to be stored in the phone. It doesn't work for contacts synced from Facebook or Gmail. Just create a duplicate contact on your phone, assign a ringtone to it and link them together.
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Really no alternative?
I dont want to see the contacts twice in the phonebook.
You can link them together so you'll only see one.
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Ok thanks
Now I have to find out how i can copy s contact to the phone
Hi there
I'm running touchdown 2.0 on my sgs and there is a function to copy all contacts from touchdown account to the phone book on the phone. I did that, touchdown is processing all contacts, but if i go contacts an put the settings to see only the contact located in the phone, I dont see any contact. Are they not copied or is my phonebook corrupt? How can I find out where contacts are located, which folder in the system, i.e. with root explorer?
Thanks in advance for helping
While cleaning up my contact list from transitioning from my old blackberry, I was trying to add contacts to specific groups (family, friends, work, etc). However, when in the contacts app, I click on groups at the top, click on a group, then tap Add Member, which takes me to a blank screen that says No contacts.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Going to gmail and editing my contacts' groups on my computer doesn't change it on my phone.
Yep. I have the same problem and so do a lot of other people from what I've heard. Haven't found a way to fix this yet. The only workaround I've found is add a new contact to your phone with the same name and link it with your existing contact.
There are two ways to fix this. One is to create at least 1 "dummy" contact for each category. THEN you can manually move contacts to categories correctly, though this is very tedious...
Or, you can use an app. Look for GROUPY in the market. This will allow you to reassign all contacts to the groups you desire.
I think found out the issue. You can't put the contacts that are from your google account into groups, they have to be contacts stored on the phone. This is just stupid, and I can't find a way to copy all of my contacts to the phone.
I tried out Groupy as you suggested, masterotaku, and it doesn't seem to do what I'm looking for.
I was able to move all my google (and facebook, and twitter, and phone stored) contacts to categories with Groupy, so I guess I don't understand what you mean...
What this app appears to be doing is creating phone stored contacts that link to the existing sync accounts (google, facebook, myspace, twitter in my case). I've been able to categorize all of these contacts seamlessly with Groupy. Took me a couple of minutes to un-mess the whole affair.
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I was able to move all my google (and facebook, and twitter, and phone stored) contacts to categories with Groupy, so I guess I don't understand what you mean...
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Groupy puts your contacts into a folder on your home screen. What I'm looking for is a way to get my contacts (all of which are either from my google account or facebook account) into groups inside the Contacts app on the Vibrant, which you can see on the pic I attached I took of the groups screen in the app itself. It appears you can only do that using contacts that are stored on the phone itself.
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Groupy puts your contacts into a folder on your home screen. What I'm looking for is a way to get my contacts (all of which are either from my google account or facebook account) into groups inside the Contacts app on the Vibrant, which you can see on the pic I attached I took of the groups screen in the app itself. It appears you can only do that using contacts that are stored on the phone itself.
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And I'm telling you that this app does precisely that.....All of my contacts are in the Contacts app's categories. I've since removed Twitter and Myspace contacts from the contact sync because it was entirely too many lol.
Groupy creates phone stored contacts and links them to their existing sync groups...notice the contact in the second snapshot..it's linked to the google and facebook sync's. Groupy does this....
I'm thinking you've downloaded some other app. search for "com.kigate.groupy" This app has NOTHING to do with putting contacts in a folder on the home screen.
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And I'm telling you that this app does precisely that.....All of my contacts are in the Contacts app's categories. I've since removed Twitter and Myspace contacts from the contact sync because it was entirely too many lol.
Groupy creates phone stored contacts and links them to their existing sync groups...notice the contact in the second snapshot..it's linked to the google and facebook sync's. Groupy does this....
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I see why I didn't notice. I searched for Groupy, and downloaded Groupie. lol
Thanks a bunch, GROUPY is doing exactly what you said.
Under the contacts menu of the streak everything is fine, but if I use another app or widget that access' my contacts, such as facebook sync or picture dial, I have multiple entries for each person, none of which are what is shown in my actual contacts list. For example someone has their phone number, email and picture (synced from facebook) in my actual contacts list, but in the program theres 3 versions, one with email and picture, one with just email and one with phone and email. It means when i try and use picture dial I cant select one that all the info it needs.
I also noticed that in the actual contacts list it doesnt seem to matter what sync options i set or what sub group im currently supposed to be looking at, it always shows the same contacts. For instance it won't show my gmail contacts even if i tell it to. It doesn't bother me, but I don't know if the two issues are related.
Any ideas anyone? Is there anyway to bulk get rid of all contacts? Then i could just get my computer to sync all the contacts back on again, though I'd have to go through and link them to facebook again so I'd rather not if i can avoid it.
Any help appreciated!
I've been trying to figure out how to add custom ringtones to certain contacts and no matter what I do, I haven't been able to find the option. Then I looked at one of my two contacts synced to my Google account, and there was the option. So it would seem for some reason, "corporate" contacts synced with my Exchange server can't be assigned indivdual ringtones. Does anyone happen to know why, and if there's any way to make it work?