I just got Galaxy S, and have one situation that bugs me a lot. I have all my contacts on Exchange account, so I set it up, and it synced it all, without any problems. But, I would like my Exchange contacts to be linked with their facebook pictures.
So, when I add FB account, it works fine with those people for which name matches in Exchange and FB. But for those that I listed with some short names (close friends, family) it didn't auto match (of course, didn't know how) so I manually linked them. When I link them, it changes their name, from Exchange name (nickname) to FB (full name), and it bugs me because I would like to leave the short names I added.
This bugs me even more because only those people that I input with a nickname, or just first name or some short name are those that are close to me. Any solution to this?
I tried both to first select their FB and link with Exchange, and vice versa, and it always displays full name taken from FB
Thanks in advance
Ok, I think I have the answer. I was in the same situation as you up until a few minutes ago when I was messing. Go to the contact that had the short name but now has their full name due to you linking them with their facebook account, open up the contacts details, click menu, click mark as default and there you will be able to set the default name of the contact as well as other defaults. Hope this has helped.
Thanks a lot!
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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?
trickinit said:
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
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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!
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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.
does anybody know i can sync or assign my friends profile pictures on facebook with my contact.is there any app that can make thumbnails bigger on the shortcut screen
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does anybody know i can sync or assign my friends profile pictures on facebook with my contact.is there any app that can make thumbnails bigger on the shortcut screen
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Not entirely sure what you are asking, but if you goto your nexus one contacts > Menu button > accounts > add account, you can add facebook in. then afterwards, just make sure there is a checkmark in your facebook account sync settings. This will sync facebook and your nexus one contacts profile pic and all. If your nexus can't figure out which google contacts and which facebook contacts are the same person, you can manually join them under the settings for each contact and the profile pics and info will stay synced forever more.
However, your nexus won't sync this unified contact info or the profile pictures back to Google contacts website. Just for your phones contacts app.
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Not entirely sure what you are asking, but if you goto your nexus one contacts > Menu button > accounts > add account, you can add facebook in. then afterwards, just make sure there is a checkmark in your facebook account sync settings. This will sync facebook and your nexus one contacts profile pic and all. If your nexus can't figure out which google contacts and which facebook contacts are the same person, you can manually join them under the settings for each contact and the profile pics and info will stay synced forever more.
However, your nexus won't sync this unified contact info or the profile pictures back to Google contacts website. Just for your phones contacts app.
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This is what I'm trying to do... where in the settings? There's either "Options", which just changes ringtone and such, or there's the option to Edit the contact. Don't see where to link Gmail contacts with Facebook.
go to the facebook app and add your account and then it will givey ou options to sync or not
I know I'm having this issue... I'm not sure if it beacse there is already a contact icon (this is what android call is) in place and facebook can't over-write a new photo or not. I know you can go an edit the contact and there is a facebook section where you can choose to use the icon/picture there.
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This is what I'm trying to do... where in the settings? There's either "Options", which just changes ringtone and such, or there's the option to Edit the contact. Don't see where to link Gmail contacts with Facebook.
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It will automatically merge the facebook contacts with matching google contacts. be sure to force a manual sync in case it didn't automatically do it after adding the facebook account.
for the facebook contacts it couldn't figure out which google contact to merge with, goto the contact, click on edit contact, and towards the bottom you should have a join contacts option to pick a contact to merge the info with for future syncs.
Also, if you have already assigned a contact picture, I think that will override the facebook synced one. SO remove any contact pictures you assigned locally.
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It will automatically merge the facebook contacts with matching google contacts. be sure to force a manual sync in case it didn't automatically do it after adding the facebook account.
for the facebook contacts it couldn't figure out which google contact to merge with, goto the contact, click on edit contact, and towards the bottom you should have a join contacts option to pick a contact to merge the info with for future syncs.
Also, if you have already assigned a contact picture, I think that will override the facebook synced one. SO remove any contact pictures you assigned locally.
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Thanks, that's the info I needed! I didn't know I had to click menu a second time after I was already in the edit contacts screen.
Edit: I was initially bummed when it started changing the displayed names of my contacts to match the Facebook profiles... but then I realized that it keeps your old name in the contact on the phone as well. So when I start typing Dad, it brings up my dad's name. Nice.
uansari1 said:
Thanks, that's the info I needed! I didn't know I had to click menu a second time after I was already in the edit contacts screen.
Edit: I was initially bummed when it started changing the displayed names of my contacts to match the Facebook profiles... but then I realized that it keeps your old name in the contact on the phone as well. So when I start typing Dad, it brings up my dad's name. Nice.
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Yeah, It doesn't actually change anything on facebook or google contacts, it just changes the view on your phone and syncs that view with any changes that come from facebook or google contacts. but both address books are still kept separate on their respective servers. Although it would be kind of cool if there was a an option to sync that data and profile pics back to the google contacts server since I use google voice a lot. But that would be a very difficult thing to do and a bug could be catastrophic.
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Yeah, It doesn't actually change anything on facebook or google contacts, it just changes the view on your phone and syncs that view with any changes that come from facebook or google contacts. but both address books are still kept separate on their respective servers. Although it would be kind of cool if there was a an option to sync that data and profile pics back to the google contacts server since I use google voice a lot. But that would be a very difficult thing to do and a bug could be catastrophic.
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Yeah... I assumed that sync was... adding the information (pic, email, phone number...) to your contact, then that information would be uploaded to google contacts. I guess all the facebook sync does is just creates a "Facebook" section in your main contact card and that information never gets really added to the main portion of that contact card... the fb information is just there for your phone...
Hello everyone!
This is my first post, but I was browsing through this forum a lot, it's great!
Anyway, here's my problem
I have imported all of my contacts form Outlook earlier. Now, when I sync them with facebook account, and after I set defoult name to be the old one (like old nickname, not facebook name) it stays that way for as long as I don't use it...
To make it more clear, every contact stays with it's old name until I send them a message or call them. Then facebook account takes over and makes it's name defoult.
I have changed that for several times, but every time I use a contact, it goes back to facebook name.
Has anyone had such problem before? It can be really anoying....
Thanks in advance!
I've done a lot of searching here and other places on the net, and haven't found a solid answer.
I've attempted to sync my hotmail/live contacts via exchange. I notice though, that the only fields available for my hotmail contacts, are things like first and last name. no phone number, email or any other information besides names. even when I try to add a contact, the only way to add things like number, email address, physical address is by syncing it with my Google account.
I don't use Google for much of anything. all my contacts and email are served through hotmail/live services.
How do I go about adding and syncing contacts with my hotmail/live exchange accounts?
thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me.
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smokeyb111 said:
I've done a lot of searching here and other places on the net, and haven't found a solid answer.
I've attempted to sync my hotmail/live contacts via exchange. I notice though, that the only fields available for my hotmail contacts, are things like first and last name. no phone number, email or any other information besides names. even when I try to add a contact, the only way to add things like number, email address, physical address is by syncing it with my Google account.
I don't use Google for much of anything. all my contacts and email are served through hotmail/live services.
How do I go about adding and syncing contacts with my hotmail/live exchange accounts?
thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me.
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HMMM, not sure what to tell you but mine sync up just fine...
Try going to accounts and sync and erasing the data and then the email address, reboot the phone, and then add the address again...
just a suggestion though.... not a problem with android though because it works just fine for me....
you could also try going through the "email" client and setting up your email there instead of through "accounts and sync"
lemme clarify a bit.
I am able to sync my contacts, but if I want to edit or even add a new contact to my hotmail-exchange account, I can only add (in this order:
Name prefix
First Name
Middle Name
Last Name
Name suffiX
Phonetic given name
Phonetic middle name
Phonetic family name
there are no options available for e-mail, phone, address or any other fields that are normally available for a contact.
When I open the contact to view it though it will show me the information stored in hotmail/live information, but I CANNOT edit it. If I try to, I get the screen described above.....
So in order for me to have an updated address book, I have to add/edit contacts from the google account I have (which I don't use for anything, except to download from Market or whatever)
Are you able to add a new contact and save it to your contact book in hotmail/live?
I have tried things like removing my hotmail and live accounts and then readding them.
I think the difference between your account and mine is that you are syncing yours through your google account where as I am not... to be clear, I am not syncing my emails nor contacts nor calendar through my gmail account. I only have my hotmail account set up on the phone to sync. Except for on the phone, the two accounts don't know the other exists. IF you are syncing your hotmail contacts through your gmail account, then you are tied to the fields provided by your google account.
TO answer your question, yes, I can make any modification the phone allows to my hotmail contact and it is reflected in my hotmail account.
I just wanted to say thanks for the insight....
I had to unlink everything that was syncing, and then resynced accounts, starting with my Hotmail/live accounts....all fixed now.
thanks again.
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Lemme get this straight. The issue is present only if two contact syncing services are enabled?
I tried. Setting Hotmail as the very first contact sync service and adding Google account without contacts sync does't work around the issue.
On my Nexus 6P's Google Contacts, there's a "ME" Contact.
Is there anyway to sync or link it to my own personal contact details?
If you already have a contact entry for yourself with your email address in it, then adding your email address to the Me contact should link/join the two together.
I do but it doesn't work for some reason
There is no way to sync it. I've been sending feedback about it for years.
does this affect the image on the phone's user profile as well?
try this:
put your gmail into 'me' contact, link this local contact with your g+ profile. Eventually, open g+/settings/yourgmail/contact switch on contact access.
thanks! will this affect the User Account on my phone as well?
If you turned on the contact optionin Google+ it will sync that photo across devices. But one you chose from the device should only be usable on the device itself. But correct me if I'm wrong here.