I use only google contacts in my phonebook and have them very organized with birthdays and all. What made me sad was the inability to sync my contacts info (mainly birthdays) to either the built in calendar or preferably the google calendar.
Does anyone have any idea if that is possible either with a setting or app...am I missing something? I thought android was all about integration and I'd think google contact data would naturally sync with google calendar data
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For anyone who is interested in the same feature (though no one replied so I doubt it), I found the solution.
Go to calendar on the browser and add an "interesting calendar." From there you can add a calendar with your contacts info.
If you want to see the results immediately just go on the phone now and sync the calendar. Hope this was helpful to anyone!
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I can't even begin to express how much this pisses me off. That BS is "feature phone" leftovers. When making a new calendar event I STILL cannot make my gmail account the default. Just another reason why I cannot wait for a fully functioning 2.2ROM..... MAN I HATE FEATURE PHONES.....
Oh, and to the post just before this one - I have no idea what the hell you just said....maybe its just me, but your post was incomprehensible...
Droidicus said:
I can't even begin to express how much this pisses me off. That BS is "feature phone" leftovers. When making a new calendar event I STILL cannot make my gmail account the default. Just another reason why I cannot wait for a fully functioning 2.2ROM..... MAN I HATE FEATURE PHONES.....
Oh, and to the post just before this one - I have no idea what the hell you just said....maybe its just me, but your post was incomprehensible...
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????????? Wow
cocaine is a hell of a drug. :.. :..
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????????? Wow
cocaine is a hell of a drug. :.. :..
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Then you should seek help. that stuff will mess you up.
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Hi,
There is one thing that driving me nuts. Lets say I have a friend, whose names is John. In google, I have saved his email ID with name j.smith .. .. then his another email ID with johns .. .. and then finally his cell number with name john ..
After, I linked up all accounts in my HTC Desire People. I can see these three accounts in one single contact. Fare enough and perfect. But is there anyway, I can merge these three accounts into 1 so that it is synced to my Google Account and to my HTC Contacts?
Not sure if I understand correctly what you want to do but its something I've struggled with as well. There was a perfect app for this on iPhone/iOS but I have yet to find anything that comes even close on Android. Try Contacts Analyzer available on Market but it's dismal. Doesn't allow you a preview of the changes you're about to make before you commit them!
Didn't help that .. :s
Gmail Contacts
Your best bet is to just do it in Gmail from your computer, then let the phone sync. It's easy and you will have them all in the same format, and you can add pictures for caller ID, etc.
You're in trouble if you have 1,000 contacts like I used to...the idea I think is to use an app that auto-works and gets the job done as a batch without you having to edit every single contact...then you can sync to Facebook and pull in some photos IDs...
Hi,
Anybody knows of an app that merges / joins contacts?
HTC Sense has this function if you know what I mean, sometimes a chain-link icons shows up in the notification area.
I´d like to have an app that does this on a batch basis so that I can chose to do so for all my contacts instead of merging / joining one by one.
I know I can do this one by one. Go contacts Ex gives this function without doing it for everyone at one batch job. You have to acceppt one by one...
I am using , Google, ActiveSync, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. contacts
Ideas?
Tiznom said:
Your best bet is to just do it in Gmail from your computer, then let the phone sync. It's easy and you will have them all in the same format, and you can add pictures for caller ID, etc.
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This. Plus there is an option on Gmail to merge duplicates so you can at least have google do most of the sorting and merging for you. And if possible, don't let any HTC app mess with my Google contacts.
stankyou said:
And if possible, don't let any HTC app mess with my Google contacts.
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I think that's the most important idea about merging. My opinion's that any given app could mess things up and leave you with a lot of different linked contacts. Personally I prefer to edit all my contacts at my Gmail account so that I don't have to merge them again everytime I flash another rom for example.
If you're willing to take the time and patience for it it'll pay off to manually manage your contacts at Gmail.
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Hi,
HTC Sense has this function if you know what I mean, sometimes a chain-link icons shows up in the notification area.
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+1
I've been searching that function for long time since I moved from the stock sense rom to others, and still no app is giving me this. I even tried a lot of different contact manager but no one works really well.
About G contacts: I really care to keep the list "clean" and every contact linked with whatsapp, email, facebook etc, but sometimes it just lose the info, even if I've just merged that contact with the app I'm currently using (I'm running MildWild) and rsynced the G account.
Try Go Contacts Ex (free), it has various functions on merging contacts (by number, email etc.)
Thanks, this works nearly perfect.
Mine im using contapps free from market, try it if you want too!￣ω￣
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yeah try go contact ex it work for me
I think you should sync with gmail.
My stock calender keeps showing the forecast like its a appointment.. I even did a hard reset and it still shows up.. I have installed smooth calender for my home screen so I can remember my appointments.. but the weather is there and its maing me forget about the actual appointments that I do have. Is there something that I'm syncing that's doing it that I don't know about.. I have gmail account synced and facebook.. but with facebook I don't do the calender because I don't use it.. I really don't use gmail calender either.. could it be gmail that's doing it and if so how do I stop it??
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bigdreco said:
My stock calender keeps showing the forecast like its a appointment.. I even did a hard reset and it still shows up.. I have installed smooth calender for my home screen so I can remember my appointments.. but the weather is there and its maing me forget about the actual appointments that I do have. Is there something that I'm syncing that's doing it that I don't know about.. I have gmail account synced and facebook.. but with facebook I don't do the calender because I don't use it.. I really don't use gmail calender either.. could it be gmail that's doing it and if so how do I stop it??
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It's the Google calendar.
stud_muffler said:
It's the Google calender.
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Okay, I'm really sorry, but please, pretty please, spell it "calendar"? Yes? (You even have the icon in front of you - it's like a cheat sheet! )
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Okay, I'm really sorry, but please, pretty please, spell it "calendar"? Yes? (You even have the icon in front of you - it's like a cheat sheet! )
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Lol sorry.. I even tried to make sure I spelled everything right so I didn't look like stupid.. I guess I just thought I knew how to spell it that I didn't even think to check that word.. but I got it now.. "CALENDAR"
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stud_muffler said:
It's the Google calendar.
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Thank you.. I thought it was.. now how do I get it to stop???
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Try to login into your Google account, go to the calendar and on the left side in the Other Calendars click settings.
Then just unsubscribe from weather calendar.
stud_muffler said:
Try to login into your Google account, go to the calendar and on the left side in the Other Calendars click settings.
Then just unsubscribe from weather calendar.
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Or, on your phone go to settings in the calendar and deselect the "Weather" calendar.
Jason
Actually thanks for the tip- now I have weather on my calender!!
My CALENDER has displays the weather too. gotta appreciate CALENDERRRRRSSSSSS......
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
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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?
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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.
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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.
What I would like to do is get something like my GSII phone contacts in Nexus 7, to use for Google Voice calls. Any ideas?
Thanks!
doesn't it come with a stock contact app? It synced all my google contact as soon as I added my google account.
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doesn't it come with a stock contact app? It synced all my google contact as soon as I added my google account.
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Exactly what he said, they'll come up as soon as u sign in
Thanks, all. Most of my contacts are not google contacts -- it is phone database merged with Facebook (merged by GSII). All my google stuff is sync'd, but seems to only have phone #s for people I have called with GV before.
p.s. I don't see any stock app for contacts.
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Thanks, all. Most of my contacts are not google contacts -- it is phone database merged with Facebook (merged by GSII). All my google stuff is sync'd, but seems to only have phone #s for people I have called with GV before.
p.s. I don't see any stock app for contacts.
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The stock contact app is called "People"
BaronInkjet said:
Thanks, all. Most of my contacts are not google contacts -- it is phone database merged with Facebook (merged by GSII). All my google stuff is sync'd, but seems to only have phone #s for people I have called with GV before.
p.s. I don't see any stock app for contacts.
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Then make them Google contacts
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Thainks again! I exported/imported to Nexus and all is happy. (Didn't get the FB contacts, but that is OK.) :good:
BaronInkjet said:
Thanks, all. Most of my contacts are not google contacts -- it is phone database merged with Facebook (merged by GSII). All my google stuff is sync'd, but seems to only have phone #s for people I have called with GV before.
p.s. I don't see any stock app for contacts.
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Ummm... you might want to stop putting your contacts in the phones phonebook and start putting them in your Google one... then they're backed up automatically.
As far as how to move them, you might want to post in the section for that phone.
But the days of having local phonebooks are past for me...
Hey guys,
I could not find any recent related issue
Basically Contacts sync for facebook is not pulling a single record into my contacts. All other account contacts show up, but facebook's
I already tried turning fb sync on and off, clearing app cache and data, uninstalling, reinstalling... Turning off all other sync services... Clearing data and cache from my contacts... And all of that
This is happening on my nexus 10 as well :\
Any ideas, suggestions?
Thanks
I noticed fb app was recently updated!
Is this a confirmed bug?
BestiaAgnostica said:
I noticed fb app was recently updated!
Is this a confirmed bug?
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Its a Facebook issue as syncing isn't natively supported in stock android. Unlike HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz which support it as its baked into their phones. I use an app called Contact-sync for Facebook, it fixed all my FB syncing problems.
use a app named haxsync
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use a app named haxsync
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haxsync is worth the price. Gets nice high res contact pictures and adds events and birthdays into your regular calendar app. perfect.
Get haxsync. It not only syncs contacts it syncs Facebook calendars too. Well worth the dollar or two.
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Thanks guys,
This wasnt really the answer i was looking for, however the app has been a great workaround so far
Thanks for the recommendation, if u ever hear fb gets fixed post an update please
Best!
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Thanks guys,
This wasnt really the answer i was looking for, however the app has been a great workaround so far
Thanks for the recommendation, if u ever hear fb gets fixed post an update please
Best!
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It's between Facebook and Google - they had a hissy fit on who 'owns' the contact data on your phone and until they make up it's never gonna be (officially) fixed
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Thanks guys,
This wasnt really the answer i was looking for, however the app has been a great workaround so far
Thanks for the recommendation, if u ever hear fb gets fixed post an update please
Best!
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Your question was answered by kzoodroid.
Android Jelly Bean does not support contact syncing with facebook.
Device manufacturers like HTC and Samsung added the facebook contact sync into their own devices.. Because they have a contact app (phonebook) that pulls your contacts status updates and such.
Nexus 4 is LG, so no Facebook Contact Sync.
Sidenote: The Contact Sync & Status Updates work for those contacts that have Google+ Profiles though.
Just open the contact, and swipe over, and you'll see their Google+ Info.
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Your question was answered by kzoodroid.
Android Jelly Bean does not support contact syncing with facebook.
Device manufacturers like HTC and Samsung added the facebook contact sync into their own devices.. Because they have a contact app (phonebook) that pulls your contacts status updates and such.
Nexus 4 is LG, so no Facebook Contact Sync.
Sidenote: The Contact Sync & Status Updates work for those contacts that have Google+ Profiles though.
Just open the contact, and swipe over, and you'll see their Google+ Info.
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Is funny how the sync facebook contacts option still there if jb doesnt support it
The recommended app is doing some funny things... I need to get more into it
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BestiaAgnostica said:
Is funny how the sync facebook contacts option still there if jb doesnt support it
The recommended app is doing some funny things... I need to get more into it
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What app did you go with? I've never had any problems with Contact Sync for Facebook.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync&hl=en
Also the new 2.0 update of Facebook supposedly was written with native code for Android but it still doesn't sync all my contacts.
Haxsync is still the best option in my opinion, the added functionality plus jellybean works too. Also I emailed the dev with an issue and received a response to resolve it the next day. Can't beat that!!
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Is funny how the sync facebook contacts option still there if jb doesnt support it
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It's actually there for a reason. I'm not sure if you heard, but since a few months ago Facebook has been syncing your phone contacts with your facebook contacts. Not to add any info to your phone, but to add phone numbers and other information to your facebook contact book. It's really dodgy, and facebook was called out on it for not clearly informing users when they first started doing it. A lot of people still have no idea that their contact's phone numbers/email addresses/etc. are being used by facebook in that way.
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What app did you go with? I've never had any problems with Contact Sync for Facebook.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync&hl=en
Also the new 2.0 update of Facebook supposedly was written with native code for Android but it still doesn't sync all my contacts.
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Wait, so Facebook 2.0 syncs status updates and such now, and you're just having a problem with a few of your contacts? or did you mean to say that it still doesn't sync?