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Facebook Linked Contacts Update Interval CAN IT BE CHANGED??

EDIT: After having no luck getting it to auto update like it is suposed to i'm thinking maybe if we can change the interval that it updates (default is 2hours) then it might kick start it into working?? Bit of a stretch I know but have nothing else to try! lol
How do you set the update interval for contacts linked with facebook?
When I look at a contacts facebook tab their status is always at least a day old!
Thanks!

Slide along to manila settings click on data services..
Click on facebook logo or line, not the icon on the right..
No option to increase download interval only to allow automatic downloads.

Yeah that is already on but clearly it's not updating every 2 hours or my contacts status' would not be over a day old!!

Definetly not updating as often as it should on my phone either. Can go a whole day without automatic updates of facebook...

Yeah I only got round to linking my contatcs to the FB profiles the other day and I may as well of not bothered!! lol

In fact it appears that there is no regularity to the updates, mine has now not updated since I manually did it on the 7th!!

Ok a few days on and I can confirm that it does not update at all unless I do it manually!

This seems to work fine on my phone. I haven't actually made sure it's up to date every two hours or not, but checking my contacts their status always seems to be within a few hours.

Karlos G said:
... contacts linked with facebook?...
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Dumb question: How do you link contacts with facebook? And do the contact photos get updated if the person changes its photo in FB?

Karlos G said:
Ok a few days on and I can confirm that it does not update at all unless I do it manually!
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Are you using any sort of auto disconnect on your data connection?

murks_muell said:
Dumb question: How do you link contacts with facebook? And do the contact photos get updated if the person changes its photo in FB?
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open up a contact and press the tab that looks like a person with a clock, then click link!
NeilM said:
Are you using any sort of auto disconnect on your data connection?
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Yes i'm using Bandswitch it disconnects 3G Data if idle for 30 secs, this has not effected any of my other updates though like Twitter, Email, Weather, etc... it's just Facebook that does not update at all

Just found out why I think it is!!!
FB doesnt remember my login details, each time I open the app it asks me to login!
Like this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5353521#post5353521
EDIT: Although that doesnt explain why it works if I press update?! Hmmm.....

why is it functionless

i cant believe thatit doesn't auto update an add a little notice anywhere is it just me or is this £495 phone not pulling its weight, starting to think about selling this and getting an iPhone or going back to my 8900 have I set everything up correctly? why use is it if it doesn't notify you of anything
sigh......

It might just be me but that seems to be quite a vague statement...what doesn't it update that's upsetting you? I found this:
http://www.montecristoff.com/hd2tweak.htm
earlier today and its got a nice feature which will automatically update any apps that you've installed...how cool is that? (I do hate calling progs "apps"...its so apple dont you think?)

Wel on some hand I can agree .. But did you know you can tusrm notifications on and off, quite easy actually.
In sence env go to SETTINGS > Display Notifications sounds.
And there you should find it.
And sorry for the name of the menu. I got the dutch version over here.
And please explain more about the auto update. What exactly is it that you want to "autoupdate"
regards

Martyn Day said:
i cant believe thatit doesn't auto update an add a little notice anywhere is it just me or is this £495 phone not pulling its weight, starting to think about selling this and getting an iPhone or going back to my 8900 have I set everything up correctly? why use is it if it doesn't notify you of anything
sigh......
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why update automatically and update everything,,, instead of what you want to update

Martyn,
Can you come back with a more concise statement of what your problems are please? If its what I think it is there are tons of threads on here about that AND solutions which you can easily search for.
However let's start at the beginning and get our heads round what your problems are.
Cheers
WB

i just want things like facebook and twitter to update automaticly without me having to get an email first...
on my bb 8900 i would have an icon at the top stating facebook 1,2,3 etc
this phone seems to only notify me of sms,email? no app like facebook or twitter interaction at all??? and my facebook is ment to update every 2 hours, (cant seem to change this )

Your signature bemoans the price the HD2 cost you - but you dislike it because it's default settings limit data connection use, persumably to cut costs?
To your issue, I don't know what facebook app was running on your blackberry but if it's that important to you why not add an rss feed with your facebook updates or open a gmail account that's mailed whenever something happens on facebook and setting it as an exchange "push mail" account?
And that's before the obvious suggestion of googling for an appropriate application O_O
I hope I'm not too reproachful. My point is that Windows Mobile is more like a desktop os than it is like whatever blackberry uses or osX mobile. Solving your "issues" shouldn't take more than half an hour's browsing in the HD2 Themes and Applications forum.

you don't have the twitter tab? and the intergrated facebook? not that its working in all aspects but still I like it..! The standalone facebook application works. The phone also notifies me for twitter and facebook messages..

go to settings in htc sense then choose the data option (says set up sync schdules or similar under the heading) then click on facebook or twitter and set up sync settings to automatic.
they will both now update at the intervals you set.
twitter is available in sense via it's tab and facebook inegrates itself with your contacts in the people tab in sense by pairing your contacts on your device with the contacts of matching names from your facebook. names have to be the same to auto integrate otherwise you have to manually select which contacts to add to which facebook friend.
hope this helps a bit

All the above, plus make sure you don't use any form of 'Auto-disconnect' program to turn your data connection off, or all 'pushed' updates like FB and Twitter will fail till the next time a polled update occurs.

bel_z_bub said:
you don't have the twitter tab? and the intergrated facebook? not that its working in all aspects but still I like it..! The standalone facebook application works. The phone also notifies me for twitter and facebook messages..
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how does it notify you as.mine doesn't !

Johnston411 said:
go to settings in htc sense then choose the data option (says set up sync schdules or similar under the heading) then click on facebook or twitter and set up sync settings to automatic.
they will both now update at the intervals you set.
twitter is available in sense via it's tab and facebook inegrates itself with your contacts in the people tab in sense by pairing your contacts on your device with the contacts of matching names from your facebook. names have to be the same to auto integrate otherwise you have to manually select which contacts to add to which facebook friend.
hope this helps a bit
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I got Twitter setup for every 30 min but Facebook is at 2 hours an I'm unable to change?
NeilM said:
All the above, plus make sure you don't use any form of 'Auto-disconnect' program to turn your data connection off, or all 'pushed' updates like FB and Twitter will fail till the next time a polled update occurs.
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I got bsb installed

Martyn Day said:
I got bsb installed
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I don't use that- have you got any settings for data disconnect active? If so, it might be worth disabling any auto-disconnect

As far as I know Twitter and FB do not notify you of anything?!
Only emails, SMS, Missed Calls, etc... get a notification.

Karlos G said:
As far as I know Twitter and FB do not notify you of anything?!
Only emails, SMS, Missed Calls, etc... get a notification.
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Twitter has notifications. Facebook does not, unless you install the facebook instant messenger application from this site.

where is that app?

Martyn Day said:
how does it notify you as.mine doesn't !
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I was about to ask the exact same thing about Facebook, because mine doesnt either, and I have been playing with this phone for long enough to not have missed it!

[FACEBOOK] Automatically link contacts to facebook ?

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?

johncmolyneux said:
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 )

ZaZu90 said:
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..

eddie_wakey said:
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 ?

johncmolyneux said:
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!

Updates and Events problem

I'm having a problem with the 'events and updates feature' retrieving updates from facebook.
When I select the 'update now' option in the 'updates and events' section for a contact it never retrieves any facebook information for any of the contacts.
All of my contacts are correctly linked to their facebook accounts but the application never picks up ANY updates.
Any ideas? I'm on O2 btw

your "me" contact card needs to be logged in, check that, also in the pictures tab, albums, switch to facebook tab..can you see their pictures?
if not you're not logged in.

Hi thanks for replying
yes I can see my 'me' contact card in the updates and events and can also see the facebook pictures in the facebook tab so it appears to be logged in fine.
samsamuel said:
your "me" contact card needs to be logged in, check that, also in the pictures tab, albums, switch to facebook tab..can you see their pictures?
if not you're not logged in.
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I dont use facebook so cant really suggest anything else. I do know from the missus that fbook website has been flakey for her this past week or two, and i'm sure i read they are currently moving datacenters or something, so who knows. Maybe your friends just all stopped updating!

I dont really know how the application itself works, but for me, the updates seem to take a while (as an indication, about 3 or 4 minutes for 500 friends over wifi - dont know how big a difference the number of friends make). I've got to keep touching the screen so that it doesn't go into "sleep" mode otherwise it stops and I have to start again.
If I leave the screen on the "Updates and Events" page while it says "Updating...", the info will not automatically update even once all the data has been downloaded. I have to move across to another page (eg, Favourites, Groups, etc and then scroll back to see the actual updates.
Hope this helps .
btw.. I'm on Dutty's V1.5, if that makes any difference.

I have the same problem
it say ( updating...) when i click update now
but then the (updating ..) dissapears and nothing updated !!!!
but when i click update on a selected contact .. it become update !!!!
it was working fine ..i dont know what happened ?

Facebook updates working only for some contacts
For me it works for some contacts but not for all.
Just got my HD2 2 days ago, so so far only 10 people/contacts are linked to facebook.
- 9 fail to deliver/retrieve updates,
- 1 works
I noticed that the one status update that I received was really new, so I just wonder if there is somewhere a setting on how old the status updates can be, to be seen on the HD2.
I also had on unanswered event request, that one worked well.
One more issue, I can browse the album of almost all facebook contacts, but it's not working for one. does anybody know what could be the reason. Are only alboms which are set to be viewed by anybody browsable by HD2 (not the ones only visible to friends)?

I had the same issue, worked for a few days then would attempt to update, appeared to do so but no new info present.
Ended up having to go to Start/settings/data services/social networks and turn off facebook and then do it again.
After this for some strange reason it now works and has continued to for weeks.

OTA 2.3.4 Update... Contacts

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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knigitz said:
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).

DarrellRaines said:
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.

devize said:
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.