Hi all,
in the sense directory, we can link our contacts with there facebook account. This is great, so we can access to there album and all there information directely. Unfortunately, I have found the same think for our personnal facebook account, our personnal card is linked with the facebook account, so we can post on the wall, bet no access to our album and facebook information!
Is that right? Did I missed something?
No if you go to contacts then all people you will see a contact called Me scroll to the bottom and then link to your facebook profile. You can then update your profile by hitting facebook tab at the bottom of Me contact page.
THank Buffystar,
That's right that there is a Facebook button, but the only thing I can do is to post on my wall. I do not have profile info, neither access to my own album....
have you tried updating the facebook app on the phone? if you go into the marketplace and download the facebook app from microsoft (its usually in featured apps) it will update the one on the phone and this might help
Is that a new version, or the same as what comes installed on the phone?
he means the intergrated one.. I can't see my own albums also.. quite anoiing.. all settings in facebook are open.. I can see only one album from one friend and it's just his uploaded profile picture.. never did anything to it.. it displays as two folders uploads and profile pictures.. so apparently it can work.. but why not for my own account? also never seen an event or update in the intergrated facebook.
Simples! Open HTC Album, Press "Albums" at the bottom left, move the slider over to Facebook, then click on "My Photos" at the top
Spot on mate!
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Simples! Open HTC Album, Press "Albums" at the bottom left, move the slider over to Facebook, then click on "My Photos" at the top
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Now I know why I should have read the manual.
I can't believe I had missed this feature.
Top tip mate.
lol you got a manual with yours??
Karlos G said:
lol you got a manual with yours??
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It's on the SD card, in the "Manual" folder. I'll be fair though, that's practically the first thing I deleted xD I never read manuals... I think it's a guy thing or something to not read em'
Oh! Would of been handy to know that was there, as the first thing I did before even starting the phone was install my new 16Gb card!! My 2Gb never even made it out the box! lol
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Simples! Open HTC Album, Press "Albums" at the bottom left, move the slider over to Facebook, then click on "My Photos" at the top
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So you guys can view your own albums with the method above?
If I do that, I get a "The user has no albums to display".
Help anyone?
warnold007 said:
So you guys can view your own albums with the method above?
If I do that, I get a "The user has no albums to display".
Help anyone?
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Despite being surprised that I didnt know that this option existed...it doesnt work...actually...while I am typing this, maybe it is because I changed my Facebook password recently!....
EDIT: Yep, my password needed updating. No wonder the status never ever updated!
EDIT2: The photos within the Facebook albums wont even load up...may be I need to be on WIFI.
Thats what I want... thanks a lot.
But it is realy bad that from the address book, we can access all friend's album eccept mine.....
I too have only just discovered this, and I think it's great!
It works fine for me, so I can confirm that it does work. No special settings in facebook, and nothing special on the phone. Just the usual login info.
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Simples! Open HTC Album, Press "Albums" at the bottom left, move the slider over to Facebook, then click on "My Photos" at the top
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aaaah, that's how you do it!
This has been annoying me! thought it was impossible
Nice find !! didnt know that
Now all we need is updates notifications and calender integration for events !!!
I still cannot get the photos within the albums to load up. Are you all using 3G or WIFI?
morpheus1982 said:
I still cannot get the photos within the albums to load up. Are you all using 3G or WIFI?
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I can do it over any connection type.
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Okay so could someone help me.
Link a contact with their facebook - BUT their picture doesn't come up - well only three of my contacts have. Also on the long list of facebook contacts when you click link with profile, barely any of the pictures load up even when I press refresh/update... any ideas?
Also their statuses never pop up?
Am I missing something??
simplymee said:
Okay so could someone help me.
Link a contact with their facebook - BUT their picture doesn't come up - well only three of my contacts have. Also on the long list of facebook contacts when you click link with profile, barely any of the pictures load up even when I press refresh/update... any ideas?
Also their statuses never pop up?
Am I missing something??
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I've had this before. Are you using data or wifi? Sometimes it waits for all the contact pictures to be downloaded in the background, I had that with my Hero and then it worked fine.
What I did was just link them all, then leave it for a while, say an hour or so.
I also did mine initially on wifi to get them downloaded quicker. All ok on data too though.
Not much help, but it should just be a waiting game tbh
I recently got my HTC HD2 and I tried to add all of my contacts from my old phone and sync them to facebook to get contact photos. While some of the people worked fine and I got the photos and the birthdays, for some I got no information at all.
This is annoying because it is mainly those that I would like to add to my favourites that do not recieve their profile picture or birthday or any information.
I've searched this forum for a similar problem but could only come up with problems with earlier builds. This seems to be a problem for some people running the palm pre as well.
Interestingly if I use the facebook app I also cannot get the profile pictures for these people either.
Is it a privacy settings thing, or am I doing something wrong?
This is the same on my HD2 and my HTC Hero as well.. maybe facebook need to fix something?
Anyone else having this problem?
Yes I had this problem.
Think it is more of a problem with facebook mobile to be honest.
I had this, but then found a solution (for me anyway).
Go into all people then select your contact. Then select Edit Contact. Then press where the profile picture should be. A 'Set Contact Photo' option should pop up. Next to the Facebook profile it should have a downloading icon. Once that was done i selected Facebook Profile and all was working.
Hope this helps
ahh you sniped this comment in just before i posted kanesw
yea that works for me too.
I've tried that, when i click on the download button the option just stays greyed out. (the facebook profile option) I can see it trying to find the data but it doesn't work.
I've the same problem with some contacts, you can link it to the fackbook contact but it just won't download any info about them. Works fine for most facebook contacts.
kanesw said:
I had this, but then found a solution (for me anyway).
Go into all people then select your contact. Then select Edit Contact. Then press where the profile picture should be. A 'Set Contact Photo' option should pop up. Next to the Facebook profile it should have a downloading icon. Once that was done i selected Facebook Profile and all was working.
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I've tried this but the facebook profile option is greyed out after i click the download button. I can see it trying to get the photo but it doesn't manage it.
You dont have to click the download icon, just leave it for a minute or so and see if it downloads it
I've found the above usually helps and if it doesnt I deleted the contact and remade it and linked it and then it worked.
I've tried everything and I still can't get some of them to work. I also can't get their albums to work or their birthdays, and they don't have a profile picture when using the facebook app either. Must be a problem there somehow.
I've noticed when I go to link a contact to a facebook profile the friend is missing. I have 400+ friends and it only shows me as having 235 friends when it goes to find the contact. I'm not sure if this is something to do with users having privacy settings on facebook and not showing up or what. However I too have several contacts with no link to facebook as they are not listed as facebook contacts thru the HTC facebook link app.
There is a privacy setting in facebook that allows users to stop other apps using their details. I guess its that as i have friends i know are on facebook but dont show up.
Definitely a privacy setting in some cases. I have a couple of friends whose profile pictures never show and I know from talking to them that they're all using the 'don't use my picture in external applications' option.
that sucks man, i have the same problem here. I guess the only way is to convince them to turn that privacy setting off, i absolutely LOVE the fact that our HD2 can grab the info from their facebook pages, it looks so cool
Settings > Privacy Settings > Applications > Settings...
They need to tick Profile picture there and tick anything else you want access to via the HD2.
Also is there any way to actually save the contact pics into outlook. It seems that the pics only stays on he phone and the outlook is not updated after syncing.
cheers
WPY
Yes, if you use the facebook pictures application in spb mobile shell instead of sense, then the facebook picture is saved to outlook as well! Dont know why this does not work in sense, it definately should!!
in HTC Albums I can only see a facebook album from one of my friends which works really good, but that's the only one.. also the intergated updates/events don't seem to work.. thumbnails and birthdays work fine..
I can't even see my own pictures.. while I'm almost sure I've tried every facebook privacy/sharing and aplication setting I could find..
any tips are much appriciated..
Hey guys
I tried searching the forums, but found nothing on this. I'm looking to refresh all the facebook photos that are used in the sense contacts. I have done the link/unlink and sign out of facebook for sense in the past, but these get annoying because I then have to relink all the accounts. Now that I have root, is it possible to clear a cache of these photos somewhere so that they refresh? I'm really trying to avoid having to re-link so many accounts again.
Thanks
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I was wondering the same thing, myself
Yeah, that **** doesn't update at all.
They are also pixelated as ****.
Well this kept bugging me too, but I just keep doing the sign out of facebook and resign in trick...
I don't know why this would unlink all your contacts to their facebook accounts, as whenever I sign out and sign back in, nothing changes except the contact pictures...
I also am not deleting the account then creating a new one if that helps...
If you have the contacts backed up to Google remove the face book account then clear contact storage under manage applications then re-sync Google then re add Facebook. Hope that helps.
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It has something to do with Friend Stream and the way things are linked with it.
I know I have done it before and when I choose refresh it does go out and update their Contact photo's to their latest Facebook photo.
I just sat here playing with it and I can get them to update as long as they are linked. However if you have a photo saved into an Outlook contact, it will not update, it will force to what Outlook has set. (I know this is true for Exchange, but not sure if it is same for a Desktop Sync)
Hope this helps !
From Android Central.... (I cant post links)
If your facebook contact has changed their picture and you want to update it on your phone, go to
People > Online Directory > Facebook > Click refresh.
siverson said:
From Android Central.... (I cant post links)
If your facebook contact has changed their picture and you want to update it on your phone, go to
People > Online Directory > Facebook > Click refresh.
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Damn they make it so difficult.
Thanks.
Syncmypix app...works great even with froyo and non sense roms
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ncwildcat said:
Syncmypix app...works great even with froyo and non sense roms
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I second this... What is really weird is my wife doesn't have this problem, all of her contacts sync perfectly, it definitely frustrates me lol.
Refreshing them through the facebook directory only refreshed them in that screen, not in my normal contact list. The app was a great suggestion though, thanks!
Akuehner said:
Refreshing them through the facebook directory only refreshed them in that screen, not in my normal contact list. The app was a great suggestion though, thanks!
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What I found is that once you scroll over a contact it will add them to the 'to update' list. So if you scroll through your contacts when refreshing then it will update them all ----very slowly though.
Hi all,
Maybe I haven't enabled some setting (still new to the android game, even newer to the Timescape UI) but is there some way to search and link your phone contacts to facebook friends?
I've seen this integration being done using a built-in HTC feature.. wondering if there's something similar in Timescape that i've just missed.
Go to Contacts --> Settings --> Accounts & sync
There you can add your Facebook account
kymochi said:
Hi all,
Maybe I haven't enabled some setting (still new to the android game, even newer to the Timescape UI) but is there some way to search and link your phone contacts to facebook friends?
I've seen this integration being done using a built-in HTC feature.. wondering if there's something similar in Timescape that i've just missed.
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search the market for life.contacts by sony ericsson, it's a gr8 app and lets you sync contact with facebook, it also emails you if you miss a call or text
AndroHero said:
search the market for life.contacts by sony ericsson, it's a gr8 app and lets you sync contact with facebook, it also emails you if you miss a call or text
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how do you guys get status updates to sync with contacts? i can get twitter updates to sync, but not facebook.
hey thanks for that guys.
@ thomassafca: yep i've done that, but what i mean is an app that runs through ur contacts, compares them to your facebook contacts and suggests whether u should merge the two.. not sure if that's what's happening atm tbh LOL but so far it doesn't look like a lot of contacts have fb details.
@androhero: thanks will give that a go, sounds promising.
haha tried life.contacts but if your contacts don't have the same name (e.g. first and last; most of my contacts in my phone are nicknames / first names only) it doesn't play too nice. would be great if you hv a clean contact list though, thanks for the heads up.
also (i'm an idiot) if you long-press a contact name in contacts it pulls up the context menu where you can select 'join contacts'. not quite what i was looking for (an automated suggestion app) but it'll do for now.
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haha tried life.contacts but if your contacts don't have the same name (e.g. first and last; most of my contacts in my phone are nicknames / first names only) it doesn't play too nice. would be great if you hv a clean contact list though, thanks for the heads up.
also (i'm an idiot) if you long-press a contact name in contacts it pulls up the context menu where you can select 'join contacts'. not quite what i was looking for (an automated suggestion app) but it'll do for now.
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life.contacts works great, as long as the first name of the person in you contacts is exactly the same as there first name on facebook
hey! if you're still looking for a way to merge phone contacts with facebook IE their picture or status, what i did with mine was go into contacts, click on a contact and select edit. once you're in the editing screen for the contact press the menu button and at the bottom of the screen it will say join with two funny looking arrows..and then if your contact name is similar to any of your facebook contacts, it has that persons profile and you just select it!
if you know the person's on facebook and it doesn't show their name, sometimes you can edit the phone contact so it has the same name as their facebook page and join the two, then rename the contact in your phone so not every person has a first and last name lol.
hope this helps!
AndroHero said:
life.contacts works great, as long as the first name of the person in you contacts is exactly the same as there first name on facebook
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I second this as Life.Contacts widget/account-sync does work. However, I would just as soon have native Facebook sychronization. It works on my Thunderbolt, it works on my Moto Droid A855 (OG Droid), it works in my dev environment Android Emulator. _WHY_ Doesn't it work on the Xperia Play? Even on the "stock" Android 2.3.2 on the Verizon version (R800x). The facebook app works fine, except it has no settings under the "other settings" option inside the app, and if you try and add an account listing under your system Accounts menu, it just goes right back to the account list.
(Also, no it is not moved to SD, installed to a SD-Ext partition or anything else, just normal internal storage install directly from the Android Market)
Anybody have any ideas as to why?
Why would anyone want to put there phone numbers and personal contact data on facebook? That is just stupid. Why not just post your credit card information while your at it?
ncaissie said:
Why would anyone want to put there phone numbers and personal contact data on facebook? That is just stupid. Why not just post your credit card information while your at it?
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No, we are not putting phone numbers and personal contact data on facebook. It is putting facebook data on your phone.
For example. I have a friend John Doe in facebook. He is also in my phone. When he calls me, his facebook photo automatically shows up. Same for all other friends.
It's nice to see new facebook profile pictures when people call me.
I c. But there are to many people in my Facebook that I wouldn't want on my phone. A lot of them I don't even know. They just add me because we know someone in common. LOL
I had a similar problem with gmail on my iPhone all of a sudden I had everyone I ever emailed on my phone. Even people I only emailed once to buy something on kijiji.
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Why would anyone want to put there phone numbers and personal contact data on facebook? That is just stupid. Why not just post your credit card information while your at it?
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Because your only meant to add your friends. People go crazy and add anyone they can its up to them.
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I c. But there are to many people in my Facebook that I wouldn't want on my phone. A lot of them I don't even know. They just add me because we know someone in common. LOL
I had a similar problem with gmail on my iPhone all of a sudden I had everyone I ever emailed on my phone. Even people I only emailed once to buy something on kijiji.
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That is why you just integrate the facebook info with only people from your contact list.
Hey all I'm new here...
Just wanted to point out some woes with the new OTA 2.3.4 update with the contacts. Although it seems the views have a few more options the bad part is they took away the option to flip the screen left or right to see social or history... that sucks but the worst part is... it seems that you can't link with social accounts anymore either!!!
Any insight on this... am I doing something wrong?
Use GO Contacts, it's just plain better.
your probably right... though 2.2.2 was fairly decent.
Just wanted to add... as I'm going through account and contact stuff, the ability to sync facebook or twitter pics with contacts is gone as well I know there are other ways (manually) but this was a nice feature... why would the take it out? What reason do we have now to add any of the social/pic stuff with motoblur? Again, Myspace, facebook, LastFm, twitter, Picasa, Photobucket, flicker, Linkedin... its all broken now, none of them sync with contacts now. (or is it fixed... was there issues with this before, did folks not like it?)
Note: If you long press any of these accounts in settings it states.... "To Fully integrate "account" into your mobile experience, click Add Account." What experience are they refering to? All I can see is that your widgets (which suck) will populate their feeds....
Update... I did find some settings for anyone looking.... if you edit a contact and press menu the option to join pops up.... so maybe its not a total loss also not as I used an app to sync FB pics to existing contacts (synced to google) not sure if you "join" if the pic syncs as well....
If they took out linking contacts period, IMO that would be a HUGE step forward.
My contacts got severely f*cked up because of that, and I'm still trying to fix that mess.
If I hadn't bought so many Apps under my current account, I just would have just created a new Google account already...
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If you unlink your accounts, the contacts should go back to the way they were. Linking doesn't actually modify any account info.
i can't seem to find where to set custom ringtones for contacts now
used to be on the edit screen but not now
viper98 said:
i can't seem to find where to set custom ringtones for contacts now
used to be on the edit screen but not now
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Go into your contact, then menu->Options
Altough it is still possible to link the contacts, I prefer the older Contacts.
It was easy to see where did each info came from (small "f" or "t" logo near the contact data).
Will try to get used to the new interface.
Anthony, I agree with you. The option to flip right and left was very useful and I used it all the time to keep track of my communication with a contact. I was hugely disappointed to see that missing. I do not understand why they would remove that. I also liked the contact photo syncing. It was nice that most of my contacts had photos added automatically.
Has anyone else had issues with webtop working after the update? Via HDMI or any of the docks...
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Go into your contact, then menu->Options
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nothin there any more
installed go contacts and it had it though so it's a non issue
I like new Contact App.
Just a small bug: birthday date is showed as an INTEGER (many times negative) and not more as a Date.
Example: "Birthday: -609994887"
I'm not sure if the wrong "import" of newer Contact App is about Facebook's birthday date or Google's Account, however something is wrong...
What the... they just took out the most usedlful feature in blur, contact history. Man thats so bad...
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So how do you link your contacts with facebook now? My facebook contacts don't even show up anymore. It was so easy on froyo...
devize said:
So how do you link your contacts with facebook now? My facebook contacts don't even show up anymore. It was so easy on froyo...
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Settings > Accounts > Motoblur Accounts/Facebook
Remove the facebook account. Reboot the phone.
Then Settings > Accounts > Add Account > Facebook
Reboot the phone.
Phone App > Display Options > Facebook
Make certain All contacts is checked.
Press Save.
DarrellRaines said:
Settings > Accounts > Motoblur Accounts/Facebook
Remove the facebook account. Reboot the phone.
Then Settings > Accounts > Add Account > Facebook
Reboot the phone.
Phone App > Display Options > Facebook
Make certain All contacts is checked.
Press Save.
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Not working for me, when I click on the facebook icon in accounts under 'other accounts' nothing happens.
devize said:
Not working for me, when I click on the facebook icon in accounts under 'other accounts' nothing happens.
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Select the one under motoblur accounts not the one under other accounts (which makes me question the wisdom of Moto for having it listed twice on the same page).
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Select the one under motoblur accounts not the one under other accounts (which makes me question the wisdom of Moto for having it listed twice on the same page).
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I tried that too but I had the same problem as before, no contacts showing up. Why must motorola make things so difficult?
Edit: Read on droid x forums that it can take a couple hours for them to show up, so I'll wait and see.
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I tried that too but I had the same problem as before, no contacts showing up. Why must motorola make things so difficult?
Edit: Read on droid x forums that it can take a couple hours for them to show up, so I'll wait and see.
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Be sure to be on a wifi network and ensure you can sync social apps. I would reboot the phone once all of that is checked and then see if it all comes down or not.