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can someone explain about nexus one integration with Facebook?

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

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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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.

Link Facebook Contact to Google Contact

Anyone know how to add a Facebook contact to a Google contact? It was easy as pie in Sense but I can't see how to do it in Froyo.

Sync using the FaceBook app?

Open Google Contact. Menu -> Edit. Once in the editing, Menu -> join. Choose the correct facebook/twitter contact you want to link.

ArcanaXVIII said:
Open Google Contact. Menu -> Edit. Once in the editing, Menu -> join. Choose the correct facebook/twitter contact you want to link.
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is there a way to add just one contact from facebook. F.eks. my gf is saved as 'Gf <3' on my phone. Obviously this didnt sync with her facebook account. When I do your thing with Join I can only join her to the contacts I already have in my Google contacts. Not seperately from Twitter or Facebook.

helfone said:
is there a way to add just one contact from facebook. F.eks. my gf is saved as 'Gf <3' on my phone. Obviously this didnt sync with her facebook account. When I do your thing with Join I can only join her to the contacts I already have in my Google contacts. Not seperately from Twitter or Facebook.
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rename the google contact to the name on facebook, join it with fb, and when it syncs just rename the google contact.
it allowed me to have custom names in my google contacts while having them synced to fb without showing full name.

dudebro said:
rename the google contact to the name on facebook, join it with fb, and when it syncs just rename the google contact.
it allowed me to have custom names in my google contacts while having them synced to fb without showing full name.
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I tried that then stoopid thing wouldnt sync with facebook. So I renamed her back and created a brand new contact to see if it would sync, but no

helfone said:
is there a way to add just one contact from facebook. F.eks. my gf is saved as 'Gf <3' on my phone. Obviously this didnt sync with her facebook account. When I do your thing with Join I can only join her to the contacts I already have in my Google contacts. Not seperately from Twitter or Facebook.
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You need to display ALL Facebook contacts temporarily. Then you can join any that have differing names and then hide the rest. In contacts hit the Menu button, choose Display Options, tap on your Facebook account user name, choose All Contacts, and then choose Done. Now all of your Facebook contacts should be visible. Once you have joined any that need joining, go back and uncheck All Contacts to hide the rest.

thx for the help. I FNALLY got it to work after.
First I deleted my gf completely from google contacts, then I imported all contacts from facebook, she still wouldnt show up. Dunno why that was. I had to delete my facebook sync account and add it again then I got her up and I could join the two.

Google - My Contacts

Why on my G1 could I select to only see those Google contact who are in "My Contacts" but on the MTS I can only select all of my Google contacts which is like over 900 people.
I only have my Google contacts selected. I have no other contacts checked. I tried the whole facebook thing, but it was just too much with the contacts!
I think the whole linking thing is ridiculous. Just give me my Goolge My Contacts and we can call it good!
Anyone know how to deal with this or if this feature will be added back in the update?

hit menu in the contacts app, view, put it to show only contacts with numbers

it's not the same as being able to use My Contacts because that way you get phone contacts and email contacts, but I can live with it cuz the MTS is so much better than the G1

We're running into the same problem here. My wife just got the Slide yesterday, and I put her contacts from her old Blackberry into a Contact Group on her Gmail account. In the standard Contacts app, you can choose which Google contacts groups to display...hopefully can figure out something similar here.

Google didn't automatically sync when I first started my phone. I had to log into gmail first from the phone. once i did that, then google contacts were there but they still didn't show. Like turboyo said, just go into contacts and hit menu. It will show a bunch of different options on which contacts to display such as phone, sim, google, facebook, and tmobile. For me, I only have it set to display google and facebook contacts.

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Google didn't automatically sync when I first started my phone. I had to log into gmail first from the phone. once i did that, then google contacts were there but they still didn't show. Like turboyo said, just go into contacts and hit menu. It will show a bunch of different options on which contacts to display such as phone, sim, google, facebook, and tmobile. For me, I only have it set to display google and facebook contacts.
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goodjob - yep, see that too. I'm looking for the ability to select individual Google contact groups to display (like on the G1 and N1, for example).

Does anyone else's Contacts icon keep changing? When I first got the phone, it was Contacts. Then sometime earlier in the week, it was People at one point. Now it says Contacts again...

For people who keep saying to just select Google in the contacts section... this is not what this post is about. On my G1, I could go into Google contacts and select specific contact groups such as My Contacts so it didn't show ALL of my Google contacts. I don't want to just select people who have phone numbers because I email a lot on my phone and it's nice to have the contacts I want to see!
Anyway... I can live with it, but I think it's a step backward in terms of the contacts interface.

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For people who keep saying to just select Google in the contacts section... this is not what this post is about. On my G1, I could go into Google contacts and select specific contact groups such as My Contacts so it didn't show ALL of my Google contacts. I don't want to just select people who have phone numbers because I email a lot on my phone and it's nice to have the contacts I want to see!
Anyway... I can live with it, but I think it's a step backward in terms of the contacts interface.
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We do understand that. And I guess to answer your question, it isn't an option anymore. However, this just seems to be because of the Sense UI having a different contacts interface. Hopefully either 2.2 changes that, or rooting will give us this option back because I also liked selecting the groups.

Can't put contacts in groups

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.

masterotaku said:
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.

HTC EVO 4g-Haxsync 4.x.x: Join all contacts

It has taken me ages to figure out how to sync my facebook contacts with my evo 4g running MIUI v4. So I am posting the steps to successfully sync all your contacts with with facebook.
First off it is obvious that you need haxsync.
I am not sure if you need the official facebook app but I had it install when I did this process so I'll say yes.
Steps:
You will need to download the Haxsync jellybean workaround which can be found on the market and is free.
With haxsync installed as well as the official facebook app, open the haxsync workaround through playstore. (The app will not open but install the workaround into your system files.)
Now go to system settings then click add account.
Select the haxsync account and enter your facebook account information. (Do not add facebook account as it will not work).
Set app permissions as you wish. I elected not to have hacsynx post to my feed.
Go to contacts and click menu then accounts.
Click the haxsync account and select sync contacts. (This will only sync the contacts that are exactly like the facebook contacts)
Go back to system settings then accounts and click the haxsync account.
Click preferences then contact settings
Turn off sync exisiting contacts only and any other settings you don't want to sync while you're here. (Turning off sync exisiting contacts will allow haxsync to sync all your facebook contacts)
Go back to contacts, and from here you can do one of two things.
Click menu, display options, click haxsync or custom then haxsync (depending on your rom) and uncheck the all contacts box. (This will hide all the facebook contacts) and now you have to manually join the contacts using the search bar or,
Begin to manually join contacts now-- once finish click menu, display options, haxsync or custom then haxsync (Depending on your rom) and uncheck the all contacts box (This will hide all the facebook contacts that you did not join).
Voila you now have all the facebook contacts that you originally had before the fight between google and facebook.
Look Below in Red for how to join contacts with and without the search feature.
Join Contacts without Search Feature
Long press contact you want to join another contact with
Click edit
Touch menu key on phone
Click Join
Scroll to contact you want to be joined and click it.
Click Save and continue to next contact.
Join Contacts With Search Feature
Long Press Contact you want to join another contact with
Click Edit
Click Join
In Search Bar type the name of the contact you want to join with the one you long pressed
Click Contact you want to be joined
Click save and continue to next contact