Contacts: I loved the sense contacts (People) app. I liked that I can assign a facebook account for each contact. I used it for getting my contacts' facebook profile pic as their display pic. worked fairly simple and if a user updates his profile facebook pic, his/her contact pic is also changed. I didn't use the other functions of Sense's facebook integration though. The status updates was poorly implemented and displays "this person has updated their facebook profile" for whatever that friend does on facebook.
Now with vanilla , the sync with all contacts that the official facebook app offers doesn't work as I want, cause:
- I have some facebook friends that I don't want them as contacts in my phone. facebook will always sync the contact if he/she has a phone number in their profile. Which, for some friends, I don't want.
- If the same person has different names in facebook and in my contacts list, I won't get his picture.
So, is their a way to fix this sync issue?
Or, can I get the sense Dailer/People app in vanilla?
Or, Is there a good alternative in the market?
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Hey everyone,
In the old custom roms with facebook integration, when you synced a contact it automatically set their picture to the facebook profile picture. For me this was very handy as most of my contacts have a facebook account. In the new ROMs with facebook integration, if seems as though you have to set the profile picture yourself which is very tedious for 100 contacts (although I love how you can sync all the contacts at once now instead of going one by one). My question, is there anyway, whether a reg tweak or some option that I missed, which would automatically set a profile pic to the facebook picture?
Much thanks
try booksync....
booksync
u can get it from here
http://www.booksync.co.uk/
also i have found syncing one contact at the time works. quite time consuming....but it works, also their status updates.
I have a Facebook and a twitter account, among others, added in "my accounts" and Facebook is the default source for pictures (this works fine).
I have several friends who have Facebook and twitter accounts, some of whom were already in my phone. I know the easy way to deal with this is to link the contacts, but the problem I have is this: if I link a twitter contact and a Facebook contact, the entry in my contact list shows the twitter name instead of the Facebook and/or already listed in my contacts with their name, number, and e-mail.. This seems odd since most of the time people's real names are on Facebook, or at least much more so than twitter. Even more odd is that the picture associated with the contact is still the Facebook picture since I set Facebook as the picture source.
This does not occur with all of my contacts that I try to sync with Twitter either, it's only a select few.
Example:
Google Sync Name: John Doe
Facebook Name: John Doe
Twitter Name: johndoe
Is there any way I can change the order of precedence so that contacts display facebook names?
P.S. I hate the way syncing has been done with the Droid X. I don't want all of my Facebook contacts in my Dialers contact list.
You and I are in the same boat with this frustration. I just removed my twitter and facebook from" my accounts" and just installed the official twitter and facebook apps.
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Yea, it's pretty frustrating. I see no pattern either of why it chooses to do this to some contacts and not others.
Hi Guys
I am running cm6 rc1. This is my first asop rom. I have a HTC Hero from Sprint. The contacts app (people) in sense allows you to link a contact to its facebook account if the contact has one. This allows you to pull in their facebook photo and birthday information. I do not see this ability in the asop contacts app; is there anyone to link somone's contact card to their facebook profile?
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I am running cm6 rc1. This is my first asop rom. I have a HTC Hero from Sprint. The contacts app (people) in sense allows you to link a contact to its facebook account if the contact has one. This allows you to pull in their facebook photo and birthday information. I do not see this ability in the asop contacts app; is there anyone to link somone's contact card to their facebook profile?
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The Facebook app itself will allow you to synchronize your Facebook contacts on your phone. When in the app, press menu > Settings > Sync Contacts. This will pull in Facebook pictures and statuses to your existing contacts and optionally add all of the ones not present from your friends list.
Strange thing is that it does sync the pictures but pictures do not show up in any people-contact widget!
Same thing with Miui, Defrost, Opendesire, CM.
1st of all, I like HTC Sense feature to link all contacts together. But there is a problem.
When I have a Google contact WITH picture linked to Facebook contact W/O picture, every time Sync happens - it defaults to contact's FACEBOOK profile (which has no picture assigned). That means that this contact now has NO picture to show.
Sure I can go to Contact details, edit it and assign Google's picture to that contact. Until next Sync
This is really annoying. Any solution, trick, etc ? Except NOT using Sense
Not much you can do about that except tell this person to add a Facebook profile picture?
I though may be there is some sort of a trick which I dont know about
Hey folks, I was looking for a way to sync facebook pictures to my existing google contacts; the way HTC and Samsung phones did.
I tried Contact sync for facebook; but instead of syncing pics to your google contacts; this app just downloads another set of contacts with no phone numbers.... I would have an entry with no photo from google contacts; and 1 entry with a picture from facebook.
This is not what i'm looking for.
How does haxsync work? does it actually retrieve facebook pics and add them onto your existing contacts??
Just wanted to find out before I purchase.
THanks!
Haxsync also download another set of contacts (to your phone's contact book) however with address, pictures, birthday, phone numbers, etc. Most of the contacts will be automatically merged properly, however you will have to do some manual editing (you know, since some people are on your contact as "sister" while on FB she may be "Jane Doe", Haxsync can't know that)
Haxsync has a lot of options to customize, and the new version has the ability to merge the contact photo from FB with Google contacts, which is rather awesome (no longer have to redo Haxsync when flashing new ROMs).
I highly recommend Haxsync.
I second haxsync. It works great and it also syncs your calendars from Facebook to your phone. So once you accept an invite to an event, it'll be in your phone with dates, times, and location.
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I just want the high resolution contacts pic *google sux
and Contact Sync for Facebook is good enough for me
Emama said:
I just want the high resolution contacts pic *google sux
and Contact Sync for Facebook is good enough for me
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same here