I remember seeing a thread on this somewhere, but I can't find it. Is there a rhyme or reason to which name is shown in the contact list? Generally the Facebook name shows since it's a first name and last name and this holds true if I link a Twitter account as well but occasionally it'll use the Twitter name even if a more complete Facebook name exists.
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You can link the names together
Go to the most complete name on your contacts list, tap on them, hit menu, then link
You can now link this person to their facebook/twitter/gmail/phone listing
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You can link the names together
Go to the most complete name on your contacts list, tap on them, hit menu, then link
You can now link this person to their facebook/twitter/gmail/phone listing
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If I link two people together sometimes it picks Facebook, sometimes it picks google, and sometimes it picks the twitter name to default to. That's the problem, there's no rhyme or reason.
I noticed if you start with the one you want as main, then it will keep that one as the default info
I merged 3 contacts that had separate google, facebook, and twitter accounts
I started with the google one, then linked facebook and twitter into it
It picked the facebook image always, since its the default image source
It seemed to work fine for me, if it fails, you can always unlink and check again
I haven't had the same results. I'd filter to just see Twitter contacts, and start linking. It would usually use the Facebook name, but a few contacts would default to the Twitter name, which was quite annoying. Even un linking then linking starting with the Facebook contact would cause the Twitter name to default.
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Well, I have no idea then. Sorry
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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
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...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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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!
Anyway you can sync the facebook contacts w/ the x10 phonebook??
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Nope fraid not
Yeah I tried everything, even online at Sony Ericsson sync's website. I matched up all my phone contacts with their corresponding facebook profiles (took a while), but this actually accomplished nothing on my X10. No updates, no extra contact info or photos synchronized, nothing.
You can link contacts on the device itself to their fb accounts and get status updates within the Dialer app and a facebook tab on a contact’s info page, but that’s it and it takes a LONG time because you have to scroll through EVERYONE you have on facebook to match them up, no way to skip to letters.
Thanks a lot guys, had to make sure
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Agree - facebook integration needs to be solved.
It should be relatively easy to program the contact list app to suggest the facebook contact with the most similar name...
I know that Desire automatically connects phone and facebook contact list (though, it makes a few mistakes). Do you know if that's android 2.1 or HTC?
no idea why to link with facebook/twitter contacts anyways if information can't be synced.
it should save phone number field on facebook to the X10 phonebook ..then it ll be awesome
In Timescape, when a user posts an update (be it Facebook or Twitter) press the infinity symbol in the top right of the update. It will then ask you to link to your contact.
There is a bar down the right hand side of the contacts screen that just has the alphabet shown in it, pressing anywhere in here will take you to that letter, meaning you can add Tom to Tom quite quickly by pressing T.
Then in your phone book you will have a picture, a facebook/twitter update and their normal information like phone number/address etc.
Downside is, you still have to go through one-by-one and if you have friends who don't update Facebook, you can't add their pic to the phone book.
Sorry, pictures don't add still.
My bad.
Download "facebook sync" from the android app store.. Works a treat.
Ooor, just add the folder Facebook phonebook to your homescreen. Longpress on an empy area and press folder, Facebook phonebook!
Facebook Pics
Curious every app I try - I find that the picture QUALITY is horrible. So I have downloaded all the pics manual and gone into each contact to crop them from a higher resolution... Anyone found a faster/easier walkaround?
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Don't waste your time trying to.
You can do it via "link profile" if you have your facebook a/c setup but the pics don't sync only status updates.
Full functionality was introduced in 2.1 which updates pics and numbers etc with your friends when linked on facebook (and it links the profiles/phonebook automatically if you choose).
Just hangfire, or use SyncmyPix (market) for free, which syncs the pics.
I just picked up the Samsung Vibrant and so far I love it. I came from the myTouch Slide. Now, I have all my contacts entered into GMail so every time I switch phones I don't need to manually type everything in. With the MY3GS, it only showed the group My Contacts, but in the Vibrant, it shows all the contacts which I don't want it to. Is there a way to only show the group My Contacts? I also noticed that the FaceBook link is kind of annoying as well (need to enter first and last name for it to sync, no first names only)
In contacts, hit menu, then display option. Check the providers you want to see ( I assume your google account only) and uncheck the rest.
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In contacts, hit menu, then display option. Check the providers you want to see ( I assume your google account only) and uncheck the rest.
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That's what I did, but it shows all my contacts in GMail as oppose to the My Contacts in GMail from the MT3GS
This is one of the big aggravations with Samsung's Touchwiz interface. The contacts app does not allow the listing of specific groups within Google contacts. Nothing can be done at this time.
I guess I'll live with it, I rooted the phone and flashed it to Eugene's firmware.
Whenever I start dialing a number, all my facebook contacts with that area code and first few digits start showing up as people to quick-select. In reality, only about one or two of these numbers are actually stored to my google account.
I have my contacts list to display only contacts with a phone number, and facebook contacts are set to be hidden, so if I were to search these people that auto-display when I'm dialing a number, they don't show up.
How do I prevent these facebook contacts from showing up when I'm dialing a number? Why do they show up when I'm dialing a number, but they don't show up in my contacts list? It's quite annoying.
PS) I'm running SRF 1.2 with genocide.
Probably because you have your facebook mobile linked to your phone
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Probably because you have your facebook mobile linked to your phone
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Bingo. When you install Facebook on your phone, just don't sync it. That would drive me friggin' nuts.
Hmm... but then what about maintaining contact pictures? The only way they can be updated is to sync your facebook contacts, to my knowledge. Right??
Is there any way to sync existing contacts' images with their facebook accounts, but prevent ALL of my facebook friends with phone numbers from popping up when I dial a number? It's TOTALLY driving me crazy!
Also, in the account settings I have my facebook listed TWICE. One must be with a built in facebook thing, and the other is from the facebook app. I'm not sure which is which. One of them only gives me an option to sync contacts. The other lets me set the sync interval, sync the calendar, and sync contacts. Both of these have sync set to OFF on the main accounts screen.
Open your facebook app. Press the "back" button once. Press the menu key. Select options. Find the option for syncing facebook contacts and turn it off.
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Right, I'm aware of that option. Thank you, but it's not the solution I'm looking fir.
Let me put it this way... How do I have my google contacts' pictures stay updated to their Facebook profiles without all my Facebook contacts coming up when I dial numbers? I feel like this should be an easy fix...
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Right, I'm aware of that option. Thank you, but it's not the solution I'm looking fir.
Let me put it this way... How do I have my google contacts' pictures stay updated to their Facebook profiles without all my Facebook contacts coming up when I dial numbers? I feel like this should be an easy fix...
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Your google should've saved the fb contact photos on your contacts...I don't use fb anymore but the contacts in my phne whom I synced with fb a long time ago still have their last display photos lol
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Whenever I start dialing a number, all my facebook contacts with that area code and first few digits start showing up as people to quick-select. In reality, only about one or two of these numbers are actually stored to my google account.
I have my contacts list to display only contacts with a phone number, and facebook contacts are set to be hidden, so if I were to search these people that auto-display when I'm dialing a number, they don't show up.
How do I prevent these facebook contacts from showing up when I'm dialing a number? Why do they show up when I'm dialing a number, but they don't show up in my contacts list? It's quite annoying.
PS) I'm running SRF 1.2 with genocide.
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I believe Its in the sync options. Make sure you pick sync existing contacts only and not all. All puts all your facebook friends into your contacts
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Right, I'm aware of that option. Thank you, but it's not the solution I'm looking fir.
Let me put it this way... How do I have my google contacts' pictures stay updated to their Facebook profiles without all my Facebook contacts coming up when I dial numbers? I feel like this should be an easy fix...
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Try this:
Contacts > Menu > More > Display Options
Under Choose contacts to display click on Facebook, uncheck All Contacts.
Reboot. All the contacts you have in google should still sync with facebook and keep their contact picture updated.
Yeah, I did that quite some time ago, ringold. Only my google contacts show in the contact manager, which is great. But as soon as I try to dial a number my facebook contacts show up as options to select. Therein lies my problem... and I doubt I'm the only one who has it...
Blazinan, That's a good workaround for getting pictures linked to my google contacts, but what about keeping them updated? I know it's not a huge issue and probably sounds nit-picky and trivial... but it seems like it should be an easy thing to accomplish:
Google contact's pictures sync with facebook profile images, but my entire facebook contact list doesn't show up when dialing a number. wtf...
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Yeah, I did that quite some time ago, ringold. Only my google contacts show in the contact manager, which is great. But as soon as I try to dial a number my facebook contacts show up as options to select. Therein lies my problem... and I doubt I'm the only one who has it...
Blazinan, That's a good workaround for getting pictures linked to my google contacts, but what about keeping them updated? I know it's not a huge issue and probably sounds nit-picky and trivial... but it seems like it should be an easy thing to accomplish:
Google contact's pictures sync with facebook profile images, but my entire facebook contact list doesn't show up when dialing a number. wtf...
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Thanks a lot for bringing this to my attention
Now this is bugging the crap out of me. The steps that I suggested in my previous post don't work. My facebook contacts still show up when I'm dialing
This is bugging the crap out of me too!
You are oh so welcome... doesn't it seem like a quick line of code could add an option to filter out facebook contacts from popping up in the dialer? I feel like this should be a standard feature in all roms.
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You are oh so welcome... doesn't it seem like a quick line of code could add an option to filter out facebook contacts from popping up in the dialer? I feel like this should be a standard feature in all roms.
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I think I know why it's doing this. If you do the steps I outlined in my initial post, it will only show the phone numbers listed in facebook that actually have their number listed on their facebook profile. I don't think there is any way around this. But it does block the rest of the numbers who don't have their phone number listed on facebook.
Small consolation but at least it's not all my facebook contacts like I originally thought.
"Start Dialing a number, facebook contacts show up..."
It's ciq lol
I was actually about to open up a new thread about the very question but then I found this! I hope it's okay to post in this even though it's a month old.
I just got this phone recently and I hate how my Facebook contacts show up in the dialer too! I chose "sync only existing contacts" or whatever, which is what I wanted (to keep all their info and pics up to date), but I don't understand why Facebook contacts with phone numbers that I DON'T have in my existing contacts are showing up as well! Has anyone found a solution to this? Or have you guys just un-synced Facebook contacts? =/
Has anyone else noticed this small but annoying ICS change?
I have always had a Google Contact called "me" with all of my info and my photo. So in my SMS conversations, etc... it always showed my picture for me. Now in ICS that doesn't work... all SMS contributions by myself are apparently done by this thing called "My Local Profile" which seems tied to the phone, because even if I do go through the hassle of filling it out, when I go to google.com/contacts, it does NOT show the "contact" I just created. So this seems like a step backwards if we really have to fill that info out locally every time we wipe the phone.
Am I missing something?
I've got the same problem. I'm sure that when i first updated, the bit at the top actually listed my 'Me' account there and recognised me. Now it just shows the 'Set up local profile' and my SMS messages etc don't know who I am.
On my phone I see "Me" in the People app. I think this was automatically pulled from my Google profile. Things are appearing fine for me.
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Do you also have a 'Me' contact listed aswell? If so, if you edit one does it update the other?
I've just done a factory reset and it asks for your name on startup. It then just puts that in the 'My local profile' bit. Doesn't seem to sync the two as far as i can tell.
I do not have a "Me" contact listed and I never have.
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I just renamed my 'Me' contact in gmail contacts to the same name stored under the local profile (My real first name and last name as apose to the word 'Me'), waited a bit and it has now sync'd the two together and appears to be normal again.
Although I also logged into google+ and now the contact has my google+ details against it too. Previously i had logged out of google+ and that's when it no longer showed my details. I'm wondering if its linked to google+ in some way.
I think you're right about it being linked to Google Plus. Here is what I did:
1) renamed my "me" contact to "Fname Lname" (to match my local profile)
2) waited 10 minutes... local profile still had name only, no other info
3) logged into G+ on the phone for the first time ever
4) local profile now has all my info from G+ (more info than my "me" contact had, plus a higher res picture)
5) renamed my "me" contact back to "me"
I'm guessing steps 3 and 4 were all I needed to do (renaming my "me" contact was pointless). It just auto-populates the phone's local profile from G+. Which is kind of inefficient... it should be more integrated with contact list so one sync covers everything including yourself.
Confirming that logging in to G+ from the phone populates the local profile info.