Loosing Facebook contacts - Vibrant General

I'm Loosing Facebook contacts, that im still friends with, the contact manager no longer shows them as a facebook contact just a phone contact with no picture and stuff.
tried to resync didnt do anything

Do you possibly have the option selected to only show contacts with phones numbers? When you're in contacts hot the menu button and then display, and check your contacts display settings. If you have only show numbers selected or facebook deselected then you won't see those contacts.
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i was not set to only show contacts with numbers, and some of the contacts had numbers anyway.
i resynced facebook, retstarted phone and went to find more contacts and they showed up again weird...

Perhaps the sync was the key? Don't know, glad you got it working again though
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scooterman said:
I'm Loosing Facebook contacts...
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Don't you mean "loosening"?

I would love to say I can ignore it, but it catches my eye every time. People that can't spell losing properly...they vex me. I am terribly vexed...
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[Q] sync is driving me nuts

the fist time i synced my facebook when taking my vibrant out of the box it worked fine, but i did a factory reset on my phone and now when i sync my facebook it only imports 192 people, (the same people everytime) i have around 600 contacts on fb and i dont know why it is doing this. i have tried everything in the world to get them to sync, i have removed samsung from facebook, did a hard reset and still the same 192 contacts. i have clicked the select contacts i wont to sync and it still gives me only the 192. someone please help before i throw my phone in the furnace at work. thanks alot in advance
Which facebook are u using ? Built-in or app from market ?
I noticed that they don't work together. I have enabled sync in built-in and disabled in app. Also there was a recent update to new version of facebook 1.3.1, maybe that fixed something......
mines doesn't sync AT ALL now... I can't even get pictures on my contacts or nothing
dq13 said:
mines doesn't sync AT ALL now... I can't even get pictures on my contacts or nothing
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Same here. It's really pissing me off!
dang it.. i just did a factory reset as well and its not able to pull all my fb contacts. I'm using the app and the newest out that was just released. will report back if I figure it out
Mine doesn't sync neither. But you can manually set your contacts to your facebook contacts. click on contact> Media> Link contact> Get friends then you can scroll to whoever you want to sync
Mine is fine, I did a factory reset also. Did you guys go to "Accounts and sync" and added your facebook account there?
The fix for this I'd that you have to delete the samsung application from the main facebook (under setting I believe) and twitter using your computer.
Just wait I few minutes and sync from your phone...that worked for me.
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that didnt work for me... is it safe to assume that its facebook with the issues, not our phones?
jesse_wildcat said:
that didnt work for me... is it safe to assume that its facebook with the issues, not our phones?
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no. It's probably Samsung's hacked-together TouchWiz that's causing the fail.
Could it be that you have your contacts app set to show only contacts with phone numbers? Try disabling that option and see if you have all of your FB contacts.
figured it out!
This was frustrating me too! But i figured it out:
Ok from contacts you press menu, then press the "get friends" button. Add your facebook account, or if it's already there select it. Now you can choose which individual facebook contacts you would like to add, or you can choose "select all"!

Phonebook and GMail

I just picked up the Samsung Vibrant and so far I love it. I came from the myTouch Slide. Now, I have all my contacts entered into GMail so every time I switch phones I don't need to manually type everything in. With the MY3GS, it only showed the group My Contacts, but in the Vibrant, it shows all the contacts which I don't want it to. Is there a way to only show the group My Contacts? I also noticed that the FaceBook link is kind of annoying as well (need to enter first and last name for it to sync, no first names only)
In contacts, hit menu, then display option. Check the providers you want to see ( I assume your google account only) and uncheck the rest.
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elkavayo said:
In contacts, hit menu, then display option. Check the providers you want to see ( I assume your google account only) and uncheck the rest.
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That's what I did, but it shows all my contacts in GMail as oppose to the My Contacts in GMail from the MT3GS
This is one of the big aggravations with Samsung's Touchwiz interface. The contacts app does not allow the listing of specific groups within Google contacts. Nothing can be done at this time.
I guess I'll live with it, I rooted the phone and flashed it to Eugene's firmware.

Activities Tab under contacts

Does it work for anyone. I have my facebook account setup and set to sync but when I click on the "Activities Tab" under contacts there is nothing.
Is it just me or am I overlooking something? I did disable Touchwiz, I'm not rooted and everything is stock. Not sure if that makes a difference
Same here...not even sure what that is supposed to do...
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mine only works for myspace friends that are not merged with an existing google contact. This phone merging of contacts and social networks is wack sauce.
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i got my phone linked with facebook. for some reason not all the contacts will display there activities or there media but other they will. the activities tap display there status and picture changes threw facebook.
mysteryemotionz said:
i got my phone linked with facebook. for some reason not all the contacts will display there activities or there media but other they will. the activities tap display there status and picture changes threw facebook.
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I can't even get my facebook contact pics to sync. Boo
in contacts, under activities tab, i pressed menu, add account, than added my facebook account, and bam, its all there...

[Q] contacts messed up

Hey guys
I am currently running stock froyo on my legend. for some reason, sync with gmail is acting weird. not all number from the same contacts are syncing. for example 1 contact has 3 numbers on my phone and only 2 show up on gmail.
I also have encountered lately another problem: my country code is +961, some of the contacts numbers that start with +961 currently show 1961 instead. i m not sure of the origin of this problem.
Any help would be much appreciated
Go on a computer, login to gmail, go in where all your contacts are and choose remove all duplicates and all should be fine ;-)
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thats not it man. i have no duplicates. I use gmail at work so my contacts are nice and tidy. no duplicates
Aha I see. Hmmmm.
I had something like that a while ago. I had to fix that **** manually. :-/
After looking further into the problem, it turns out that those numbers with the wrong code are imported from facebook. Those numbers cannot be edited.
I turned off facebook sync yet the stupid numbers remain there.
Any ideas?
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[Q] Start Dialing a number, facebook contacts show up

Whenever I start dialing a number, all my facebook contacts with that area code and first few digits start showing up as people to quick-select. In reality, only about one or two of these numbers are actually stored to my google account.
I have my contacts list to display only contacts with a phone number, and facebook contacts are set to be hidden, so if I were to search these people that auto-display when I'm dialing a number, they don't show up.
How do I prevent these facebook contacts from showing up when I'm dialing a number? Why do they show up when I'm dialing a number, but they don't show up in my contacts list? It's quite annoying.
PS) I'm running SRF 1.2 with genocide.
Probably because you have your facebook mobile linked to your phone
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masaidjet said:
Probably because you have your facebook mobile linked to your phone
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Bingo. When you install Facebook on your phone, just don't sync it. That would drive me friggin' nuts.
Hmm... but then what about maintaining contact pictures? The only way they can be updated is to sync your facebook contacts, to my knowledge. Right??
Is there any way to sync existing contacts' images with their facebook accounts, but prevent ALL of my facebook friends with phone numbers from popping up when I dial a number? It's TOTALLY driving me crazy!
Also, in the account settings I have my facebook listed TWICE. One must be with a built in facebook thing, and the other is from the facebook app. I'm not sure which is which. One of them only gives me an option to sync contacts. The other lets me set the sync interval, sync the calendar, and sync contacts. Both of these have sync set to OFF on the main accounts screen.
Open your facebook app. Press the "back" button once. Press the menu key. Select options. Find the option for syncing facebook contacts and turn it off.
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Right, I'm aware of that option. Thank you, but it's not the solution I'm looking fir.
Let me put it this way... How do I have my google contacts' pictures stay updated to their Facebook profiles without all my Facebook contacts coming up when I dial numbers? I feel like this should be an easy fix...
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traxtar944 said:
Right, I'm aware of that option. Thank you, but it's not the solution I'm looking fir.
Let me put it this way... How do I have my google contacts' pictures stay updated to their Facebook profiles without all my Facebook contacts coming up when I dial numbers? I feel like this should be an easy fix...
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Your google should've saved the fb contact photos on your contacts...I don't use fb anymore but the contacts in my phne whom I synced with fb a long time ago still have their last display photos lol
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traxtar944 said:
Whenever I start dialing a number, all my facebook contacts with that area code and first few digits start showing up as people to quick-select. In reality, only about one or two of these numbers are actually stored to my google account.
I have my contacts list to display only contacts with a phone number, and facebook contacts are set to be hidden, so if I were to search these people that auto-display when I'm dialing a number, they don't show up.
How do I prevent these facebook contacts from showing up when I'm dialing a number? Why do they show up when I'm dialing a number, but they don't show up in my contacts list? It's quite annoying.
PS) I'm running SRF 1.2 with genocide.
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I believe Its in the sync options. Make sure you pick sync existing contacts only and not all. All puts all your facebook friends into your contacts
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traxtar944 said:
Right, I'm aware of that option. Thank you, but it's not the solution I'm looking fir.
Let me put it this way... How do I have my google contacts' pictures stay updated to their Facebook profiles without all my Facebook contacts coming up when I dial numbers? I feel like this should be an easy fix...
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Try this:
Contacts > Menu > More > Display Options
Under Choose contacts to display click on Facebook, uncheck All Contacts.
Reboot. All the contacts you have in google should still sync with facebook and keep their contact picture updated.
Yeah, I did that quite some time ago, ringold. Only my google contacts show in the contact manager, which is great. But as soon as I try to dial a number my facebook contacts show up as options to select. Therein lies my problem... and I doubt I'm the only one who has it...
Blazinan, That's a good workaround for getting pictures linked to my google contacts, but what about keeping them updated? I know it's not a huge issue and probably sounds nit-picky and trivial... but it seems like it should be an easy thing to accomplish:
Google contact's pictures sync with facebook profile images, but my entire facebook contact list doesn't show up when dialing a number. wtf...
traxtar944 said:
Yeah, I did that quite some time ago, ringold. Only my google contacts show in the contact manager, which is great. But as soon as I try to dial a number my facebook contacts show up as options to select. Therein lies my problem... and I doubt I'm the only one who has it...
Blazinan, That's a good workaround for getting pictures linked to my google contacts, but what about keeping them updated? I know it's not a huge issue and probably sounds nit-picky and trivial... but it seems like it should be an easy thing to accomplish:
Google contact's pictures sync with facebook profile images, but my entire facebook contact list doesn't show up when dialing a number. wtf...
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Thanks a lot for bringing this to my attention
Now this is bugging the crap out of me. The steps that I suggested in my previous post don't work. My facebook contacts still show up when I'm dialing
This is bugging the crap out of me too!
You are oh so welcome... doesn't it seem like a quick line of code could add an option to filter out facebook contacts from popping up in the dialer? I feel like this should be a standard feature in all roms.
traxtar944 said:
You are oh so welcome... doesn't it seem like a quick line of code could add an option to filter out facebook contacts from popping up in the dialer? I feel like this should be a standard feature in all roms.
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I think I know why it's doing this. If you do the steps I outlined in my initial post, it will only show the phone numbers listed in facebook that actually have their number listed on their facebook profile. I don't think there is any way around this. But it does block the rest of the numbers who don't have their phone number listed on facebook.
Small consolation but at least it's not all my facebook contacts like I originally thought.
"Start Dialing a number, facebook contacts show up..."
It's ciq lol
I was actually about to open up a new thread about the very question but then I found this! I hope it's okay to post in this even though it's a month old.
I just got this phone recently and I hate how my Facebook contacts show up in the dialer too! I chose "sync only existing contacts" or whatever, which is what I wanted (to keep all their info and pics up to date), but I don't understand why Facebook contacts with phone numbers that I DON'T have in my existing contacts are showing up as well! Has anyone found a solution to this? Or have you guys just un-synced Facebook contacts? =/

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