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So I did the RUU flash for 2nd time so I could update with the MR, and this time I skipped the google sync options at startup.
And let me tell ya, that alone has made my phone 10x faster!!! WTF!?!?! most noticeable when dialing, but the keyborad rotates faster, the browser loads pages faster, etc...
I am thinking its mainly because of the large number of contacts, since I use the gmail app not the phone's. So my new goal is to limit the amount of stuff that gets stuffed into the phone by google. I haven't decided how I am going to do it but I dont need all 500 contacts in my phone thats for sure.
Try it out for yourself.
Go in to your gmail contacts and create a group only for the people you want to actually have on your phone. I have over 1000 in gmail but only about 50 in my phone. I created a group called "people i talked to" and assigned those people to that group.
Then on your phone go in to People and scroll over to groups and only pick the "people i talk to" group and uncheck anything else. Done.
Nice. I will be doing that.
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Go in to your gmail contacts and create a group only for the people you want to actually have on your phone. I have over 1000 in gmail but only about 50 in my phone. I created a group called "people i talked to" and assigned those people to that group.
Then on your phone go in to People and scroll over to groups and only pick the "people i talk to" group and uncheck anything else. Done.
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Great tip!
flipzmode said:
Go in to your gmail contacts and create a group only for the people you want to actually have on your phone. I have over 1000 in gmail but only about 50 in my phone. I created a group called "people i talked to" and assigned those people to that group.
Then on your phone go in to People and scroll over to groups and only pick the "people i talk to" group and uncheck anything else. Done.
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um...There isn't a checkbox in the people group page for me, just a name of the group and a "group" icon next to it. Also, I still have 328 contacts listed, even after making the group. I'm going to just go to the "view" options in menu and turn off google contacts altogether. Any other suggestions, or am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks!
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um...There isn't a checkbox in the people group page for me, just a name of the group and a "group" icon next to it. Also, I still have 328 contacts listed, even after making the group. I'm going to just go to the "view" options in menu and turn off google contacts altogether. Any other suggestions, or am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks!
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I did it off the top of my head. My phone is in the middle of flashing right now. Heh. Let me double check for you once it flashes and boots up. I'll edit this post.
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I did it off the top of my head. My phone is in the middle of flashing right now. Heh. Let me double check for you once it flashes and boots up. I'll edit this post.
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thanks homie! I thought I was going crazy for a minute
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um...There isn't a checkbox in the people group page for me, just a name of the group and a "group" icon next to it. Also, I still have 328 contacts listed, even after making the group. I'm going to just go to the "view" options in menu and turn off google contacts altogether. Any other suggestions, or am I looking in the wrong place? Thanks!
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He meant go into your contacts on the Gmail web site. There should already be a group called My Contacts. Move the contacts you actually talk to into that group.
Then, on your phone, go to People, then go to the Groups tab. Hit Menu and then Sync Groups. Uncheck all of them except My Contacts.
Done.
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He meant go into your contacts on the Gmail web site. There should already be a group called My Contacts. Move the contacts you actually talk to into that group.
Then, on your phone, go to People, then go to the Groups tab. Hit Menu and then Sync Groups. Uncheck all of them except My Contacts.
Done.
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Yup. Thanks jonnythan. I guess that's where the confusion was. You first create the group and assign the contacts on gmail's website. And then on your phone you enable that group and disable the other groups in People < Groups (tab) < Menu (button) < Sync Groups
I don't even have a single google contact and only use my exchange contacts. Phone is still slow w/o a custom rom...
Sounds to me like you've loaded the new firmware. A lot of people are claiming these are benefits of the firmware. Faster page loads, faster keyboard flip etc....
I don't use google contacts either, but i've never had a problem with slownes..
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Yup. Thanks jonnythan. I guess that's where the confusion was. You first create the group and assign the contacts on gmail's website. And then on your phone you enable that group and disable the other groups in People < Groups (tab) < Menu (button) < Sync Groups
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I finally got this figured out, but there's one step to add to your process in order to get it to work. I originally had 328 contacts (i never use gmail contacts anyway :/)
Even after choosing sync groups and choosing the "people I talk to" group which had 65 contacts, going back to the main people app and going to Menu --> View I still saw Google(328) and it was checked. To finish it, I unchecked google, chose ok, and then all contacts were removed. I went back in by Menu --> View and checked it again. Now it says Google (65.)
Thanks everyone! Good tip anyway, I was getting pissed at all of those extra email contacts I don't use.
kmartburrito said:
I finally got this figured out, but there's one step to add to your process in order to get it to work. I originally had 328 contacts (i never use gmail contacts anyway :/)
Even after choosing sync groups and choosing the "people I talk to" group which had 65 contacts, going back to the main people app and going to Menu --> View I still saw Google(328) and it was checked. To finish it, I unchecked google, chose ok, and then all contacts were removed. I went back in by Menu --> View and checked it again. Now it says Google (65.)
Thanks everyone! Good tip anyway, I was getting pissed at all of those extra email contacts I don't use.
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You just didn't wait for it to sync. So impatient
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You just didn't wait for it to sync. So impatient
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Yup lol. Once you add it on the site you won't see it until it syncs on your phone.
Come on guys, we live in the "NOW" age. Patience is a lost virtue.
j/k, I'm actually really patient, I think it's just because it's friday. That, or I'm just in a good mood to make excuses
thanks
thanks guys this really helped out alot
Title says it all...in the All Contacts Updates tabs it's not showing the option to link all contacts with my Facebook.
It works when I do it manually, but I obviously don't want to go through 250+ contacts and link them one by one.
Anyone had this problem or know how to fix it?
I dont think it's a problem as such, rather just the way it is!
I agree though it's a mission to link them all, and TBH it's not worth it..... I've linked mine and none of the automatic updating of profile photo's, status', or events works unless i press update on each contact manually!!
Others are having the same problem and so far no solution
Karlos G said:
...TBH it's not worth it...
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Works fine for me and I have never updated a contact manually since creating the link.
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Works fine for me and I have never updated a contact manually since creating the link.
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Same here, and only 2 of mine wouldn't link automatically. 1 of them uses a different name on facebook than in real life and there's no email address for her, and the other one has a double-barreled surname and he only uses the 2nd part of it on facebook.
I've found the facebook integration pretty much perfect and have none of the issues that others have reported. It updates for me on a very regular basis, both status updates and contact photos.
To make sure it works fully, just make sure that your contacts have email addresses that match their facebook account emails. That way, it can match the majority of them with no problem.
Yeah it would be really nice if it could link contacts to facebook itself but that would require that all your facebook contacts have chosen to show their phone number in their facebook profile and allow everyone to see it. That is highly unlikely that all your contacts would do that.
Another possibilty is maybe to enter peoples facebook mail in your Contacts. However, I dont store email adresses in my Contacts.
Therefore you need to link manually. However, I miss a feature to backup the link when you install a new ROM.
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Yeah it would be really nice if it could link contacts to facebook itself but that would require that all your facebook contacts have chosen to show their phone number in their facebook profile and allow everyone to see it. That is highly unlikely that all your contacts would do that.
Therefore you need to link manually. However, I miss a feature to backup the link when you install a new ROM.
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That's not true.
Mine have been linked by email address.
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Works fine for me and I have never updated a contact manually since creating the link.
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Hmmm that is strange why mine does not
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I've found the facebook integration pretty much perfect and have none of the issues that others have reported. It updates for me on a very regular basis, both status updates and contact photos.
To make sure it works fully, just make sure that your contacts have email addresses that match their facebook account emails. That way, it can match the majority of them with no problem.
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I had no problem linking them and 90% of them were found automatically by name ( i do not have email address stored with contact details), it's just the auto update feature that does not work at all
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That's not true.
Mine have been linked by email address.
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Yeah, but not all people save email adress in their Contacts.
Yeah I just went through and manually linked like 100+ of my contacts.
When I go into each contact's Facebook link page it automatically suggests the correct person to link to. The issue is not that it can't match up the contacts with my Facebook friends, it just doesn't show the option to do it all at once.
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Yeah, but not all people save email adress in their Contacts.
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Then how do you expect to make the link, based solely on name?
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Then how do you expect to make the link, based solely on name?
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Read my first post - thats why I write it would be impossible to make a link unless the facebook contact has entered his/her phone number and made it avaiable.
back to the OP, was this resolved because I have the same problem, it doesnt show the link all facebook option in the updates and events part, just my facebook profile pic and when i press it it goes to my updates? How do i get this option to link all because i cba linking 200+ contacts?
Mine linked 39 contacts to Facebook automatically and seems to do it by name (since I don't have emails stored for them).
Shame it doesn't fetch any telephone numbers listed on their Facebook profile though.
Mine only did 2 or 3 automatically. What annoys me the most is that the Facebook link only updates HTC Contacts automatically, to save the information to Outlook Contacts you have to go in manually - and this means that when syncing via MyPhone or ActiveSync the pictures and birthdays etc aren't always synced.
And not adding birthdays to the calendar automatically bothers me too.
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Maybe not before it became normal to send and receive emails on phones, but it's very common now, so I'd imagine more and more contacts are getting email addresses added to them.
It's the most obvious way to link a contact to a facebook account, after all, it is what you sign into facebook with! And as you yourself pointed out, not many people have their phone number publicly available on facebook, and quite right too!
If they're your friend on facebook then you've got their email address. Just add it to the contact details and it works.
Anyone experience this problem where after u link a particular contact to his/her facebook, the whole phone becomes very laggy when u try to edit the contact info again? Any solution to this?
Hi, I have another problem with FB on HD2. I added some new friends and I try to link them manually but they are not shown in my list for choosing FB link(when I try to edit contact options and link it with FB account). If I start FB client however the new friends are there. Another problem is that I have deleted some friends and they are still listed as friends on my FB client.
Anyone can help?
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I found a solution in my case.
I had the exact same problem, and then I found that in "All Contacts" if I go to the "Updates and Events" scroll-tab in the bottom I can select to link multiple accounts, and voila - all is well. It even auto-detected all of them:
I cant find that " .. to link multiple accounts"
Nope nor me!
Hey guys, Is it possible to allow the phone to automatically link people in contacts to their facebook accounts ? Its a hassle to link dozens of accounts manually :S
Thanks.
ZaZu90 said:
Hey guys, Is it possible to allow the phone to automatically link people in contacts to their facebook accounts ? Its a hassle to link dozens of accounts manually :S
Thanks.
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There's ongoing discussions about this with people all reporting different results.
Personally, I have email address for most of my contacts and it links them effortlessly to the matching facebook accounts. It works every time I flash a new ROM, so I'm 100% sure that email addresses is the way to go. Besides, facebook uses email addresses for login so everyone on there has an email address on their account.
Hope this is of some use
Yeah true, but does that mean I have to link each contact with their email address ?? Thats the same thing dont you think ?
ZaZu90 said:
Yeah true, but does that mean I have to link each contact with their email address ?? Thats the same thing dont you think ?
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No - it does it automatically as long as they have matching email addresses.
Go to the people tab, all people, and then go along to the updates and events tab. There should be an option at the top "Link Profiles" and it should say "x match facebook friends" or something like that. Just click it and it does all 'x' of them.
Does that help?
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No - it does it automatically as long as they have matching email addresses.
Go to the people tab, all people, and then go along to the updates and events tab. There should be an option at the top "Link Profiles" and it should say "x match facebook friends" or something like that. Just click it and it does all 'x' of them.
Does that help?
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Hmm I did that, and all I get is "ME", I just linked my account, but I see no option to link all my friends, could it be a privacy issue from facebook settings ?
All I did is go to ALL PEOPLE > EVENTS AND UPDATES > Click on Link facebook (but its mine only )
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Hmm I did that, and all I get is "ME", I just linked my account, but I see no option to link all my friends, could it be a privacy issue from facebook settings ?
All I did is go to ALL PEOPLE > EVENTS AND UPDATES > Click on Link facebook (but its mine only )
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I can't explain it then. If I unlink a couple of my contacts and then go to that tab it offers to automatically link them again for me.
It could be down to the new privacy options that facebook recently added. I think if people accepted the new privacy options then this won't work, but if that was the case then I wouldn't expect you could do it manually either.
Doesn't make sense to me. Sorry mate .
Thanks for trying anyway, appreciated
You know whats weird ? when I open the facebook application and go to phone numbers, I see most of my friends' numbers and contact info :S
So confuzzling ..
Hmmm I found something even more weird ..
When I click on a contact, and go to link their account, "Suggested" accounts appear ... WHy doesnt it do that automatically to all of them ??
also, if your contacts have full names ie, "Joe Bloggs" instead of Joe, then it iwll come up with those suggestions at the top..
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also, if your contacts have full names ie, "Joe Bloggs" instead of Joe, then it iwll come up with those suggestions at the top..
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I will try editing one name and see if it works.
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That worked !! But now the name is displayed in [ Lastname, Firstname] Can I change that ?
Plus that means I have to edit all my contacts to have both first and last names ? Cant I just link them according to their first name only ? ahhh
I couldnt find another way to fix the issue.
All my friends MUST have a first and last name registered or else i have to link them manually.
Is there a tweak or a way I can force the recognition of facebook accounts by the first name only ?
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I can't explain it then. If I unlink a couple of my contacts and then go to that tab it offers to automatically link them again for me.
It could be down to the new privacy options that facebook recently added. I think if people accepted the new privacy options then this won't work, but if that was the case then I wouldn't expect you could do it manually either.
Doesn't make sense to me. Sorry mate .
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You know, when I got my HD2 last week I got a lot of link suggestions together, with this new ROM I don't get any, with or without emails. Just single suggestions if you go into a contact. Strange!
Hi,
There is one thing that driving me nuts. Lets say I have a friend, whose names is John. In google, I have saved his email ID with name j.smith .. .. then his another email ID with johns .. .. and then finally his cell number with name john ..
After, I linked up all accounts in my HTC Desire People. I can see these three accounts in one single contact. Fare enough and perfect. But is there anyway, I can merge these three accounts into 1 so that it is synced to my Google Account and to my HTC Contacts?
Not sure if I understand correctly what you want to do but its something I've struggled with as well. There was a perfect app for this on iPhone/iOS but I have yet to find anything that comes even close on Android. Try Contacts Analyzer available on Market but it's dismal. Doesn't allow you a preview of the changes you're about to make before you commit them!
Didn't help that .. :s
Gmail Contacts
Your best bet is to just do it in Gmail from your computer, then let the phone sync. It's easy and you will have them all in the same format, and you can add pictures for caller ID, etc.
You're in trouble if you have 1,000 contacts like I used to...the idea I think is to use an app that auto-works and gets the job done as a batch without you having to edit every single contact...then you can sync to Facebook and pull in some photos IDs...
Hi,
Anybody knows of an app that merges / joins contacts?
HTC Sense has this function if you know what I mean, sometimes a chain-link icons shows up in the notification area.
I´d like to have an app that does this on a batch basis so that I can chose to do so for all my contacts instead of merging / joining one by one.
I know I can do this one by one. Go contacts Ex gives this function without doing it for everyone at one batch job. You have to acceppt one by one...
I am using , Google, ActiveSync, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. contacts
Ideas?
Tiznom said:
Your best bet is to just do it in Gmail from your computer, then let the phone sync. It's easy and you will have them all in the same format, and you can add pictures for caller ID, etc.
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This. Plus there is an option on Gmail to merge duplicates so you can at least have google do most of the sorting and merging for you. And if possible, don't let any HTC app mess with my Google contacts.
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And if possible, don't let any HTC app mess with my Google contacts.
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I think that's the most important idea about merging. My opinion's that any given app could mess things up and leave you with a lot of different linked contacts. Personally I prefer to edit all my contacts at my Gmail account so that I don't have to merge them again everytime I flash another rom for example.
If you're willing to take the time and patience for it it'll pay off to manually manage your contacts at Gmail.
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Hi,
HTC Sense has this function if you know what I mean, sometimes a chain-link icons shows up in the notification area.
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+1
I've been searching that function for long time since I moved from the stock sense rom to others, and still no app is giving me this. I even tried a lot of different contact manager but no one works really well.
About G contacts: I really care to keep the list "clean" and every contact linked with whatsapp, email, facebook etc, but sometimes it just lose the info, even if I've just merged that contact with the app I'm currently using (I'm running MildWild) and rsynced the G account.
Try Go Contacts Ex (free), it has various functions on merging contacts (by number, email etc.)
Thanks, this works nearly perfect.
Mine im using contapps free from market, try it if you want too!￣ω￣
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yeah try go contact ex it work for me
I think you should sync with gmail.
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!
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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
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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?
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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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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.