hey, quick question: does touchwiz only access my facebook contacts and puts them on the phone or does it also send my contacts, including phone numbers, to the facebook servers?
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Hi everybody, I just like to know if it would be possible to create an outlook contact starting from our facebook contacts.
I mean, I could have a contact on Facebook, and the same contact maybe it's not in my phone's address book...basically I would like to achieve this so that I could manage all birthdays directly on my phone...does exist any app for this?
Thanks in advance
Hi,
I'm a bit annoyed by the way the Galaxy S works with Contacts:
All contacts are synced to Gmail instead of My Contacts
Gmail Groups are not synced, all Gmail contacts are in one group
No easy way to convert phone contacts to Google contacts or to merge contacts into a google contact
Essentially, I want to use GMail exclusively to manage contacts and have all of them synced between GMail and the phone.
I would appreciate any suggestions on how to achieve this, or maybe there is a better Contacts app out there?
This is not SGS issue, but the Android platform has been designed in the way that it's cloud computing centralised, in this case, Android phone is just the "client", you still need to maintain your contact in Gmail (web).
I tried delete a GMail contact in the phone, but that action will not delete the Gmail contact in Gmail server, sadly.
I've searched for solutions and found that the first two issues are solved on some phones, but that the Samsung Galaxy does not have the option to change the sync behaviour.
I want to maintain my contacts in GMail, but the problem is that the phone does not respect the GMail groups and it syncs "All contact", which means everyone I ever sent a mail. It should sync "My contacts", which only contains Contacts I created in GMail.
I hoped that there is maybe an alternative contacts app that does what I want.
_Fabian_ said:
I want to maintain my contacts in GMail, but the problem is that the phone does not respect the GMail groups and it syncs "All contact", which means everyone I ever sent a mail. It should sync "My contacts", which only contains Contacts I created in GMail.
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I was also annoyed by that fact. But fortunately you can select to display only contacts with phone numbers associated in the contacts
application.
Just hit menu button while showing the list of contacts -> Display options -> only contacts with phones.
This at least solved my major issue with the google synching. Nice: typeahead in the gmail app still works for all people you ever sent a mail.
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Try this , it did the trick for me
_Fabian_ said:
I hoped that there is maybe an alternative contacts app that does what I want.
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I have tried Contacts Evolved in the Market. It is a littly buggy, not even sure if it is actively supported. But it does display Gmail contact groups, segregated in tabs.
The actual syncing is still being done by the brain dead Samsung Contacts app, which cannot be uninstalled. It apparently does download the groups data element from Gmail contacts, but fails to do anything with it.
When I tried jp3 2.2 firmware the google groups showed, looks like it will be fixed in the 2.2 update.
Thanks for the answers. Displaying only contacts with phone numbers helps, and if the group thing is fixed in Froyo, thats alright for me.
Now I only need to convert my phone contacts to Google contacts, there should be an easy options like Phone to SIM and vice versa, but I could not find it. Looks like I may have to do it by hand.
This is like the only bad thing for me. Do more people confirm that it is fixed in Froyo?
Hey guys,
I've synched the Vibrant with my facebook account and I have a problem.
The Dial pad has options such as call log, favorites, contacts. When I click on contacts my contacts show up, but so do the options of Groups History and activities.
Under History all my messages regardless of what like email, sms, or facebook, show up.
I really don't want my facebook messages to show up cause it's annoying. I get at least 10 new messages a day. Is there anyway to make history not include facebook messages?
I think if I don't sync my phone with facebook that's what would happen.
Any idea?
Am i missing something ? for some reason i cant get my facebook contacts (account) photos to synch up with my google /phone contacts and merge them together. previously on my HTC Evo this was done automatically and i had the option to sync all contacts, sync with existing contacts and this would allow peoples pictures to synch up properly. Is there something with the N4 thats different thats not allowing me to do that. thanks for the advice
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Am i missing something ? for some reason i cant get my facebook contacts (account) photos to synch up with my google /phone contacts and merge them together. previously on my HTC Evo this was done automatically and i had the option to sync all contacts, sync with existing contacts and this would allow peoples pictures to synch up properly. Is there something with the N4 thats different thats not allowing me to do that. thanks for the advice
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This phone doesn't have native Facebook integration as do HTC phones, it's vanilla android after all. So its an issue with the Facebook app and eventually Facebook will fix it but don't hold your breath waiting for them they are slow. Most of my contact pictures synced up but I had some that refused to so I downloaded the app Contact Sync for Facebook and problem solved. This is the best sync app for Facebook I've seen.
kzoodroid;35008465 the app Contact Sync for Facebook and problem solved. This is the best sync app for Facebook I've seen.[/QUOTE said:
thats exactly what i was looking for. Perfect thanks so much i appreciate it !!:good:
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I use HaxSync. It's also very good.
I also use HaxSync.
Hi there,
this is my first android device. I've noticed in the settings, under "Accounts", you can activate "Sync" for various Apps, for example WhatsApp, Facebook, and all the Google services (Google Drive, Gmail, Photos, ...)
I don't really understand what this does. For example i can activate to "sync" my WhatsApp contacts, and then it does that every couple of minutes, but what does this even do? Or what does it do when i sync Facebook?
Does anyone know that?
Examples:
Contacts keeps your contacts on your phone up to date with your google contacts if you were to check them via a web browser.
dmorand said:
Examples:
Contacts keeps your contacts on your phone up to date with your google contacts if you were to check them via a web browser.
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I still dont get it. Whats the sync for things like facebook or gmail or whatsapp for example?
jb91 said:
I still dont get it. Whats the sync for things like facebook or gmail or whatsapp for example?
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Gmail would always pull down the latest emails and give you a notification when you get a new email
Just look up the definition of Synchronization
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Just look up the definition of Synchronization
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This.
Sync makes your phone periodically match it's data for certain services- Facebook, contacts, calendar, pictures, etc. - to the database for that service. Its name implies exactly what it is.
Sync takes data from your phone and sends it to your online accounts like facebook and if you change data on facebook it will update the data on your phone to match your online account.