Facebook Photo as Contact Photo - XPERIA X10 General

Dear all members,
I just switch over from HD2 and I cannot find there is any option whereby I can set my contact's Facebook photo to be his photo in the contact?
Is there such an option or am I missing something? Please advise me accordingly, thanks.

chongbh said:
Dear all members,
I just switch over from HD2 and I cannot find there is any option whereby I can set my contact's Facebook photo to be his photo in the contact?
Is there such an option or am I missing something? Please advise me accordingly, thanks.
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I use an app called "SyncMyPix" which is free on the market. It updates at regular intervals. Try searching the "Themes and Apps" section of the X10 forum for more choices.

big_raji said:
I use an app called "SyncMyPix" which is free on the market. It updates at regular intervals. Try searching the "Themes and Apps" section of the X10 forum for more choices.
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Thanks for your prompt reply.

Just to feedback, I have download the SyncMyPix application and it is very good whereby you can link your facebook contact photo to your contact photo.

chongbh said:
...SyncMyPix application...
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thanks for the feedback chongbh! i might have to try this out myself

Yeah, it's really good but it works best if you change the setting so it uses a higher resolution than the default.
I also don't let it sync automatically as it is annoying when you've got a good pic for someone and they change it to a "comical" pic or something!

While were on this topic; is there any way to automatically make your phone find and sync your contacts with Facebook? Instead of hitting "Link" then searching your contacts for the person

I think the name in your contact list has to be exactly displayed as it is on Facebook.
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Yup all of the names are spelled right. Just I have to go into Edit-> Link Contact and then choose the name

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Personnal facebook

Hi all,
in the sense directory, we can link our contacts with there facebook account. This is great, so we can access to there album and all there information directely. Unfortunately, I have found the same think for our personnal facebook account, our personnal card is linked with the facebook account, so we can post on the wall, bet no access to our album and facebook information!
Is that right? Did I missed something?
No if you go to contacts then all people you will see a contact called Me scroll to the bottom and then link to your facebook profile. You can then update your profile by hitting facebook tab at the bottom of Me contact page.
THank Buffystar,
That's right that there is a Facebook button, but the only thing I can do is to post on my wall. I do not have profile info, neither access to my own album....
have you tried updating the facebook app on the phone? if you go into the marketplace and download the facebook app from microsoft (its usually in featured apps) it will update the one on the phone and this might help
Is that a new version, or the same as what comes installed on the phone?
he means the intergrated one.. I can't see my own albums also.. quite anoiing.. all settings in facebook are open.. I can see only one album from one friend and it's just his uploaded profile picture.. never did anything to it.. it displays as two folders uploads and profile pictures.. so apparently it can work.. but why not for my own account? also never seen an event or update in the intergrated facebook.
Simples! Open HTC Album, Press "Albums" at the bottom left, move the slider over to Facebook, then click on "My Photos" at the top
Spot on mate!
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Simples! Open HTC Album, Press "Albums" at the bottom left, move the slider over to Facebook, then click on "My Photos" at the top
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Now I know why I should have read the manual.
I can't believe I had missed this feature.
Top tip mate.
lol you got a manual with yours??
Karlos G said:
lol you got a manual with yours??
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It's on the SD card, in the "Manual" folder. I'll be fair though, that's practically the first thing I deleted xD I never read manuals... I think it's a guy thing or something to not read em'
Oh! Would of been handy to know that was there, as the first thing I did before even starting the phone was install my new 16Gb card!! My 2Gb never even made it out the box! lol
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Simples! Open HTC Album, Press "Albums" at the bottom left, move the slider over to Facebook, then click on "My Photos" at the top
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So you guys can view your own albums with the method above?
If I do that, I get a "The user has no albums to display".
Help anyone?
warnold007 said:
So you guys can view your own albums with the method above?
If I do that, I get a "The user has no albums to display".
Help anyone?
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Despite being surprised that I didnt know that this option existed...it doesnt work...actually...while I am typing this, maybe it is because I changed my Facebook password recently!....
EDIT: Yep, my password needed updating. No wonder the status never ever updated!
EDIT2: The photos within the Facebook albums wont even load up...may be I need to be on WIFI.
Thats what I want... thanks a lot.
But it is realy bad that from the address book, we can access all friend's album eccept mine.....
I too have only just discovered this, and I think it's great!
It works fine for me, so I can confirm that it does work. No special settings in facebook, and nothing special on the phone. Just the usual login info.
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Simples! Open HTC Album, Press "Albums" at the bottom left, move the slider over to Facebook, then click on "My Photos" at the top
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aaaah, that's how you do it!
This has been annoying me! thought it was impossible
Nice find !! didnt know that
Now all we need is updates notifications and calender integration for events !!!
I still cannot get the photos within the albums to load up. Are you all using 3G or WIFI?
morpheus1982 said:
I still cannot get the photos within the albums to load up. Are you all using 3G or WIFI?
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I can do it over any connection type.

Unleash Your Social Phonebook Power

I would like to share about stock Social Phonebook on the new 2.1 update.
This is what I found so far. And please share what you found too.
As far we know Social Phonebook will automatically Join our contacts from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo Messenger, Spotify, etc.
I. Facebook Integration
The most annoying one is when it change my phonebook name with the name from facebook. This is what I found about it.
1. SP (Social Phonebook) will automatically join contact from phonebook when it has the same name (first and last) or phone number or email. And it will show us the name from facebook.
2. If we join manually and our phonebook first name has the same name as the facebook first name, it will show you the name from the facebook. Example: phonebook name John, facebook name John Doe, it will show as John Doe.
3. If we join manually and have different first name from phonebook and different name from facebook, it will show us the name from phonebook. Example : phonebook name JOE, facebook name John Doe, it will show as JOE.
II. Yahoo Messenger, PingChat, and ... (haven't try more than that) Integration
Our new SP is a more complicated than the last phonebook. It has a lot more feature. It can even integrate with YM, PingChat and I assume a lot more.
1. If you put Yahoo IM in your phonebook and have YM official app at the same time. It will integrate seamlessly. Everytime you click your contact YM it will automatically in the chat mode at your YM app. You can even directly sms your contacts from YM app (if the phone number is support by YM). And if you choose Contacts Detail at YM it will show you whats in your phonebook contact accordingly including FB status from your contacts.
2. If you are using PingChat, you can link using PingChat app, or add it manually via phonebook. To add from PingChat app you could click link contact inside of the app. To add from phonebook you could add field->IM->Custom and type in PingChat insie the Custom Field Name and type in your friend PingChat ID for example : onetwothree (PingChat) <<== yes type (PingChat) too.
III. Powerful Contacts Avatar/Pic.
At the left side of your contacts name inside the phonebook lies your contacts avatar/pic. If you click the avatar, it will show you various pop up menu (most basic one is Dialer, Phonebook, and Messanging).
1. If you join your contacts with facebook it will show you facebook icon and when you click it, it will call FB official apps. (I guess this also applied with other join contacts? )
2. If you have either IM (mine is YM and PingChat), it will show you one of the icon whether it's YM or PingChat. When you click it, you can choose between the app and it will directly call the in the chat mode.
3. If you have address, it will show you Google maps icon too. When you click it of course it will show you the map location. ^_^
4. If you have email (I'm using K-9 Mail) it will show you K-9 mail and when you click it, it will bring the app in the send mode. (I'm using K-9 mail and Handcent, with the stock messanging and email the icon it's the same so rather confusing).
Will post more if I found anything else. Please share yours too. ^_^ .
Still have a Blurry Contacts Pic in call though (even using Timescape method <== thanks to tigermrk for mention it).
blurry contact pictures can be cured for facebook contacts at least by setting up timescape to your facebook and then that should automaticcaly sync to your phonebook then each contact will have 2 pictures when u click edit, then just long click the timescape picture and set as contact picture, save and exit
fully tested and working it really bothered me those blurry pictures lol
tigermrk said:
blurry contact pictures can be cured for facebook contacts at least by setting up timescape to your facebook and then that should automaticcaly sync to your phonebook then each contact will have 2 pictures when u click edit, then just long click the timescape picture and set as contact picture, save and exit
fully tested and working it really bothered me those blurry pictures lol
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Yeah already try that method, better than default but still it's blurry. Should be more crisp. Our device capable more than that. ^^
yep agreed there.
i thought you meant the first stage with no timescape setup were its even worse
Awesome guide Thank you so much... But how to join phonebook contact to Facebook manually? :-/ Sorry, i tried & i got all facebook contacts in my phonebook, and most of them have not any phone number
Mano1982 said:
Awesome guide Thank you so much... But how to join phonebook contact to Facebook manually? :-/ Sorry, i tried & i got all facebook contacts in my phonebook, and most of them have not any phone number
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You could long press on phonebook contact or facebook contact and choose Join Contacts. And choose which one you want to join. Hope it help ^_^ .
try to re-add the phonebook pictures again and your contact pictures will be better, so far it works for me
epinion said:
You could long press on phonebook contact or facebook contact and choose Join Contacts. And choose which one you want to join. Hope it help ^_^ .
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Thank You so much it helped <3
Mano1982 said:
Awesome guide Thank you so much... But how to join phonebook contact to Facebook manually? :-/ Sorry, i tried & i got all facebook contacts in my phonebook, and most of them have not any phone number
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There's an option somewhere that you can show only contacts with a phone number... although I quite like having Hulk Hogan in my phonebook!
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curious_yellow_eyes said:
There's an option somewhere that you can show only contacts with a phone number... although I quite like having Hulk Hogan in my phonebook!
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You could click three people button at the top left on your phonebook and there where the option sit.
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epinion said:
You could click three people button at the top left on your phonebook and there where the option sit.
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But when you send a text, and go to add contact, it shows everyone, and some multiple times over. Anyone know how to set that to only your phone numbers? Super annoying
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The phonebook actually don´t work when you have two friends with the exact same name...
For some reason i have the problem that i have 8 friends, that in pairs of two have the exact same name (on facebook), in my phone i have given them alternative last names, or used their middle name when they have one, but the phone have combined them so they both is in the same contact now.
Pretty stupid system...
I can´t be the only one in the world with that problem...
Also an other annoing thing, is if eg. my gf have her phone number and e-mail on facebook, and i allready also had it in contact on the phone, then it will be there two times in a row when they are combined.
The system should be able to figure out that the same phone-number/adress/e-mail only have to be under a person once....
SE can make face recon., but can´t see that eg. two email-adresses is 100% identical...
I tried the system 4-5 days, but decided to shut it down again, as it was too annoing to use for real...
epinion said:
2. If we join manually and our phonebook first name has the same name as the facebook first name, it will show you the name from the facebook. Example: phonebook name John, facebook name John Doe, it will show as John Doe.
3. If we join manually and have different first name from phonebook and different name from facebook, it will show us the name from phonebook. Example : phonebook name JOE, facebook name John Doe, it will show as JOE.
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I am experiencing the opposite, When I have my friend name in my phonebook stored in his nickname for example his name in the phonebook is NOOB! and his real name on facebook is John it will show up as john in my phonebook contacts! Tried to do several times but it still replaces the phonebook name
kbadone said:
I am experiencing the opposite, When I have my friend name in my phonebook stored in his nickname for example his name in the phonebook is NOOB! and his real name on facebook is John it will show up as john in my phonebook contacts! Tried to do several times but it still replaces the phonebook name
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Just call people by their right names. Problem solved!
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Visspui said:
But when you send a text, and go to add contact, it shows everyone, and some multiple times over. Anyone know how to set that to only your phone numbers? Super annoying
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I saw this too, it seems like it is showing their email addresses, home numbers, every field we have some sort of contact details?!
Would love to know how to stop this too...
pshdo said:
The phonebook actually don´t work when you have two friends with the exact same name...
For some reason i have the problem that i have 8 friends, that in pairs of two have the exact same name (on facebook), in my phone i have given them alternative last names, or used their middle name when they have one, but the phone have combined them so they both is in the same contact now.
Pretty stupid system...
I can´t be the only one in the world with that problem...
Also an other annoing thing, is if eg. my gf have her phone number and e-mail on facebook, and i allready also had it in contact on the phone, then it will be there two times in a row when they are combined.
The system should be able to figure out that the same phone-number/adress/e-mail only have to be under a person once....
SE can make face recon., but can´t see that eg. two email-adresses is 100% identical...
I tried the system 4-5 days, but decided to shut it down again, as it was too annoing to use for real...
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Have you tried reverse join? The default one is join your phonebook contacts with your fb contacts. Try to join your FB contacts with your phonebook contacts. Sometimes if I can't join, I did it this way.
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kbadone said:
I am experiencing the opposite, When I have my friend name in my phonebook stored in his nickname for example his name in the phonebook is NOOB! and his real name on facebook is John it will show up as john in my phonebook contacts! Tried to do several times but it still replaces the phonebook name
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Have you tried reverse join? Join your FB contacts with your phonebook contacts.
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Visspui said:
But when you send a text, and go to add contact, it shows everyone, and some multiple times over. Anyone know how to set that to only your phone numbers? Super annoying
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Yeah true. Haven't found solution yet. Anyone?
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epinion said:
Have you tried reverse join? The default one is join your phonebook contacts with your fb contacts. Try to join your FB contacts with your phonebook contacts. Sometimes if I can't join, I did it this way.
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Can you explain a little more how to do this?
I tried viewing my contacts in the Facebook app itself then long clicked everywhere, tried menu button too, and found no option to link to my phonebook. Maybe I'm just missing something or don't quite understand what you mean :S Thanks
rvictorg said:
Can you explain a little more how to do this?
I tried viewing my contacts in the Facebook app itself then long clicked everywhere, tried menu button too, and found no option to link to my phonebook. Maybe I'm just missing something or don't quite understand what you mean :S Thanks
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I'm sorry if I make you or others confuse. Generally what show at phonebook is only our phonebook contacts, meanwhile now we had other contacts such as facebook, twitter, etc contacts. We can enable it by clicking three people pics at the top left of our phonebook.
For example if you check all fb contacts, the phonebook will now show your facebook contacts as well. From here you could long press your fb contacts and join it with your phonebook contacts. That what I mean before. ^_^
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Contacts pictures sync with facebook

Hey guys!
Does anyone know if there is a way to take contacts pictures from facebook to phonebook.Some app that i can connect the pone number with specific picture from facebook?
Till now i had htc magic with sense ui and there is easy to do this.
Try SyncMyPix
matheprat said:
Try SyncMyPix
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Thank you for your reply.
I have tryed some apps (and this one too) but my frends name's aren't the same in my contacts....Just i want to choose (not the app) wich contact with what pictures to be;-)
I'm pretty sure that SyncMyPix has the option to manually link Facebook contacts with Google contacts. Long press on an unlinked Facebook contact.
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matheprat said:
I'm pretty sure that SyncMyPix has the option to manually link Facebook contacts with Google contacts. Long press on an unlinked Facebook contact.
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Thanks man i did it at the end
pileto said:
Hey guys!
Does anyone know if there is a way to take contacts pictures from facebook to phonebook.Some app that i can connect the pone number with specific picture from facebook?
Till now i had htc magic with sense ui and there is easy to do this.
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Not Android Development
Please post in the Correct Forums
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How to sync a single facebook contact to a single phone contact? (NO SENSE)

Hello guys.
As the title, would like to know how to sync a single facebook contact, with a name chosen by me, to a single phonebook contact, to keep updated on the status and photos.
Attention please:
1) I KNOW THAT THE APPLICATION "Facebook to Android" ASK ME TO SYNC ALL CONTACTS OR ONLY THOSE I HAVE IN PHONEBOOK. THIS DON'T INTEREST ME BEACAUSE THE APP SYNC ONLY FEW CONTACTS AUTOMATICALLY.
2) I'M TALKING ABOUT ANY ROMS "WITHOUT SENSE INTERFACE.
I would simply like to know, (FOR EG) if I have a contact in the phonebook like "John Vodafone", how to connect it to the facebook contact "John Smith" doing it manually, to be able to update his status, his photo etc etc ...
Thank you all for your help
PS. Sorry for my poor english...
hi.. as i know first u have to sync fb contacts..then go to your contact and press menu>edit then again press menu>join then u see a list of all contacts sync from differents accounts.just search a profile then click it thats all
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namila007 said:
hi.. as i know first u have to sync fb contacts..then go to your contact and press menu>edit then again press menu>join then u see a list of all contacts sync from differents accounts.just search a profile then click it thats all
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thanks but, in the new miui 2.3.3 when I sync a fb contact with phonebook one, the contact photo remain the same.
erestor6 said:
thanks but, in the new miui 2.3.3 when I sync a fb contact with phonebook one, the contact photo remain the same.
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if u want to dispaly fb photo in ur contact just edit the contact and click on the fb photo and select use as contact pic
namila007 said:
if u want to dispaly fb photo in ur contact just edit the contact and click on the fb photo and select use as contact pic
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This metod don't work for me, do not display new choise photo.
Android 2.3.5 on HD2

[Q] facebook contact integration

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!
AndroHero said:
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?
ncaissie said:
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.
ncaissie said:
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.

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