I am having a hard time working this out. When I used my HD2 with Android and Sense, I had an option for linking FB contacts. I have researched this and done much of what has already been suggested. I even use Syncmypix to link contact photos to those of FB.
With my HTC and sense, I could choose to link an FB contact with any contact in my phone book. This makes sense as in some cases, people may not use their real names on FB... I would like a way to personally link them on my Galaxy tab but have NO idea how... On some contacts that are already linked, they have an FB tab when I click edit... but I have NO idea how to link those that are not already linked there is no option when I click on the menu button...
I have FB for Android installed. I do not have all my FB contacts on my phone. Instead, for sync, I chose sync only contacts which are already on my phone. Obviously, some did sync and others did not... I want to manually link them.
Can someone help?
I solved my own question... but with an error showing (but also with the result I needed).
Open contact, Go to the groups tab, look up the contact on the facebook group, click on the part that says joined contacts with the colored green icons... it will then open the phone book contacts for you to link them too.... it does not seem to work the other way round (click on phone contacts then link to FB or social network contacts)...
For me, once I did this, my phone screen went black and the phone vibrated a couple of times and then showed an error msg. Closing the error made the phone exit to the main screen... but the contacts were linked ofter that...weird! But hey, it works...
By installing the latest version of the Facebook by Facebook app and synchronize your phone contacts with your Facebook contacts.
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Hello everyone.
Can you please let me know how nexus one integrate with Facebook? does it fetch my all of friend list from facebook and add them to my contact list or it let me specify which group of friend I want to integrate into my contact list.
Thanks.
Yes it pulls all the known contacts you have from Facebook and add it to your phone contacts, it even pulls there picture, it will also combine contacts if you have duplicates, ie a Bob h from phone is combined with Bob h of Facebook to make one contact onyour phone with all the data of both.
Unfortunately it's not perfect. It combined my Danny and Daniel contacts (both on my phone previous to FB sync) into a single Danny Lopez contact
What about if you only want the google contacts to be synced with facebook? Will it do that? and if you already have pictures for the contacts, will the sync replace the pictures with their Facebook profile pic?
You have to manually turn Facebook Sync on, so if you don't want it to sync your facebook contacts, simply don't enable that function. That's the only thing the facebook sync does that I can see. It gives you some options when you add the account on how you want it to sync, but I can't remember what those options are, and can't figure out how to change them after I already added my account
you can choose to sync only those contacts that are already in your contacts list.
i think it works like this:
for all contacts in your list, find facebook friends with that email address. if no google contact image, then pull facebook image.
for all contacts in your list without email addresses, find facebook friends with that name. pull email addresses, adn if no google contact image, then pull facebook image.
Here are the options Facebook gives you:
Sync All (Sync data about all friends to Contacts)
Sync with existing contacts (Sync data only about friends already in Contacts)
Don't Sync (Use information about friends only in Facebook)
If the Nexus One incorrectly combines two different people together into the same contact, just edit the contact and select Separate in the menu. Then you can manually rejoin if you want.
For example, I have a couple of friends who have the same name as their fathers (except of course name suffix) and so I ended up with two contacts instead of four. I just went into those two, separated them, and then did the rejoining manually. I wish there were better options for this (for example, if there's only one contact you want to separate out, you have to separate the whole contact instead of only being able to separate one out) but it's not particularly difficult to do.
Do you guys know how to unsync it? I synced it to see what it was and now I do not want all their pictures on the phone.
Does anyone know how to manually connect facebook accounts? Not all of my friends have their full names (or have alternate names) on facebook, it would be nice to link them.
Re: XfrostX in Settings, go to Accounts & Sync and just remove the Facebook account.
Re: Over Achiever in Contacts, long-press on the contact you want to connect a Facebook account to, select Edit contact, push menu and Join. It'll show a list of suggested contacts, or you can push Show all contacts and just select the one you want.
Over Achiever said:
Does anyone know how to manually connect facebook accounts? Not all of my friends have their full names (or have alternate names) on facebook, it would be nice to link them.
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Not without a 3rd party.
Asurion works great but never goes away and is a resource hog.
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Not without a 3rd party.
Asurion works great but never goes away and is a resource hog.
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I must be misunderstanding the question or we're thinking of different things. You can very easily connect a facebook friend to a contact through the method I posted above.
Has anyone else found the photos from facebook sync are stupidly small? Mine have come through so small that when someone calls they're just a mess of pixels, and even when they appear as a little thumbnail in quicksearch they're just a tiny square. Seems like they're 20x20 or something.
Does anyone know of a way of uninstalling the Facebook app? I can't find it in the app list and I'd really rather not have it.
I'm able to join the Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, but no matter what I do, it always seems to change my contact's name to display what they have on their Facebook. For example, my mom and dad both have Facebook accounts, and after joining thier profiles, it doesn't show them as "Mom" and "Dad", but as their names. It's kind of annoying, because now whenever I try to find them, I have to look under their names. Has anybody else figured out a way around this?
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I'm able to join the Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, but no matter what I do, it always seems to change my contact's name to display what they have on their Facebook. For example, my mom and dad both have Facebook accounts, and after joining thier profiles, it doesn't show them as "Mom" and "Dad", but as their names. It's kind of annoying, because now whenever I try to find them, I have to look under their names. Has anybody else figured out a way around this?
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Same for me BUT!!! my girlfriends nickname has remained and I cannot figure out how or why, I would like to have everybody else's nicknames showing rather than their full names!
nanu*1 said:
Same for me BUT!!! my girlfriends nickname has remained and I cannot figure out how or why, I would like to have everybody else's nicknames showing rather than their full names!
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i also need work around on this .. anyone ?
in my xRom (still without facebook integration) the phone have joined some contacts into one too! (both from google contacts)
I didn't know that split option I will try to find it when I found another contact joined
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Same for me BUT!!! my girlfriends nickname has remained and I cannot figure out how or why, I would like to have everybody else's nicknames showing rather than their full names!
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Is her name on Facebook the same as that in your Google contacts? The only names that stayed the same when my contacts integrated were my sisters, and parents. In my Google contacts list, I have the words "Sister", "Mother", and "Father" written after their first name (so that if I get into a bad accident or something, emergency personnel can quickly notify the right people). I figured the phone recognizes those as keywords and doesn't change them.
Hi.
I tried to link one of my contacts to his facebook account but instead it linked him to ALL my facebook friends so all their details showed up under his contact info dozens of emails, phones numbers etc. Going into his contact profile and "unlinking" these others had no effect, all I could do was delete my face book info from the Accounts and sync settings and this removed the extra contact info. However his contact is still linked to two other contacts (google contacts) on my phone and I cannot remove the links for these no matter what I try. Any suggestions.? I'm using Villain 5.2 ROM.
Edit:. Also contacts I create on the phone don't appear, but appear on Google contacts. Contacts I create on Google don't appear on the phone.
Thanks
Hey folks,
On the cupcake hero, you could get a nice overview of all the contacts you could link from google contacts and the facebook contacts (it was in one of the screens of the people app)
With the 2.1 update, I can't seem to find such an overview... is it available anywhere? I know you can get a notification per contact that it can be linked up, but other than that...
Thanks!
It linked it for me automatically (probably by email). If you want to link/unlink manualy, you have to open a contact in "people" and there will be "link" simbol in the right top corner. Click on it and link any contacts together, including multiple phone contacts.
That I'd discovered too, but there's no more handy list like in 1.5 :/
Bummer.
Hey everybody....
since saturday im i proud owner of an i9000 and i love it. What a great phone! But i have two problems with it:
Im syncing my phone with my google account... There i have my calender und my contacts without contact pictures. So i synced it and evereything is fine, until now.
Now the second step: ive got a facebook account and after installng the facebook app, i can sync my contacts on my phone (my google contacts) with facebook and link them. In the facebook sync-settings i choosed to only sync all available contacts. Everything seems to be fine, facebook finds some contacts for itself and i had to link some contacts manually. But now the first issue... The contact pictures of the facebook contacts arent shown in the contact list. i can see that the contact is linked to 2 profiles (google and facebook) but it doesnt show the fb-picture. So the priorities arent right for that. But okay.. I found syncmypix and this is doing this job. its a workaround, not more!
Now my big issue... a couple of hours later i had a look in my contact list again. The people that were linked with two profiles (google and facebook) were now linked with 3 profiles. (1 google, 2 facebook). Still a couple of hours later, they were linked with 4 or 5 profiles... What is this? Can someone explain this?
Thx ín advance!
Donald
Same problem here ... except I have 3 time the facebook profile
You can forget the settings sync all contact which is inside the facebook app.
You just need to go in sync account and select the sync with facebook contact
With this I managed to have only one time the facebook profile
I still don't have the photo but I will try your workaround
FYI, I think this is a problem related to the new version of facebook 1.3.1. I never had these 2 issues before ( but as I changed also the firmware to JM5 ... I am not 100% sure of the reason ...)
nicoloco said:
You can forget the settings sync all contact which is inside the facebook app.
You just need to go in sync account and select the sync with facebook contact
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Hu? Where do i have to go? When i go to settings - accounts and synchronisation my facebook account is deactivated when is disable the sync within the facebook app... when i enable it in the settings i also activate it in the facbook app. and now, if i try to link a gmailcontact to a facebook contact, there are only my gmail contacts and i cant choose one of my facebook contacts...
? just a little confused... its my first android phone and everything is ... confusing. (before i was a WM-junkie)
Thx in advance!
Donald Nice said:
Hey everybody....
since saturday im i proud owner of an i9000 and i love it. What a great phone! But i have two problems with it:
Im syncing my phone with my google account... There i have my calender und my contacts without contact pictures. So i synced it and evereything is fine, until now.
Now the second step: ive got a facebook account and after installng the facebook app, i can sync my contacts on my phone (my google contacts) with facebook and link them. In the facebook sync-settings i choosed to only sync all available contacts. Everything seems to be fine, facebook finds some contacts for itself and i had to link some contacts manually. But now the first issue... The contact pictures of the facebook contacts arent shown in the contact list. i can see that the contact is linked to 2 profiles (google and facebook) but it doesnt show the fb-picture. So the priorities arent right for that. But okay.. I found syncmypix and this is doing this job. its a workaround, not more!
Now my big issue... a couple of hours later i had a look in my contact list again. The people that were linked with two profiles (google and facebook) were now linked with 3 profiles. (1 google, 2 facebook). Still a couple of hours later, they were linked with 4 or 5 profiles... What is this? Can someone explain this?
Thx ín advance!
Donald
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maybe you should try this.
1. Uninstall syncmypix (because I don't need this to have FB picture and contact)
2. Go to Facebook -> Setting > Don't Sync
3. Go to Contacts > Get Friends > Add Account > Add Acount (you may see 2 different FB setting, but a little bit different in colour) -> Facebook (under "Integrated contact Accounts")
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maybe you should try this.
1. Uninstall syncmypix (because I don't need this to have FB picture and contact)
2. Go to Facebook -> Setting > Don't Sync
3. Go to Contacts > Get Friends > Add Account > Add Acount (you may see 2 different FB setting, but a little bit different in colour) -> Facebook (under "Integrated contact Accounts")
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hmm, sound good, but does not work for me either... Now i dont see any facebook contacts in my contact-list. When i pick one of my contacts (that have facebook) i click add link, but i cant choose from facebook contacts, only my google contacts are shown. I found the reason for that... When i go to Contacts > Get Friends > Add Account > Add Acount and add my account i get a sync error....
Good idea, but does not work....
No i did the following, but no success:
i uninstalled this crapy facebook app. after that i go to contacts - get friends - and added facebook again. then i had a look at settings - accounts - see my facebook account but get an error with the sync....
For me, the only way to stop this from happening is to stop the Facebook app from syc-ing contacts. In the Facebook app, go to settings > other settings > don't sync contacts. This should remove the repeated number of Facebook profiles in your contacts. if it doesn't you'll need to reboot. At least until a fix is found.
With every reboot, it adds one more repeated profile to the contact list; if you reboot your phone 3 times you'll see 3 fb profiles.
if you installed facebook app and asked it to sync it can kinda mess up your links.
sgs dont need facebook app to sync contacts and calendar from facebook, it's built-in already so just disable sync in facebook app and then resync all accounts. should fix. worked here anyway.
Same problem that you.
I use European ROM and try to change the firmware several times but it stilll doesn't work.
The problem isn't due to the app 1.3.1 facebook cauz i've already try to synchronise with a fresh Flash, the app wasn't installed yet, but still no success
GREGDL08 said:
Same problem that you.
I use European ROM and try to change the firmware several times but it stilll doesn't work.
The problem isn't due to the app 1.3.1 facebook cauz i've already try to synchronise with a fresh Flash, the app wasn't installed yet, but still no success
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i can confirm this... I also use european ROM, uninstalled fb-app and tried to sync via buildin Facebook connection. No sync possible!
Same here. FB-app 1.3.1 fault?
GREGDL08 said:
Same problem that you.
I use European ROM and try to change the firmware several times but it stilll doesn't work.
The problem isn't due to the app 1.3.1 facebook cauz i've already try to synchronise with a fresh Flash, the app wasn't installed yet, but still no success
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Same to me.
everything was perfect, then I upgraded to FB 1.3.1
I started looking in the settings menu, and I noticed a sync option. I activated it, not knowing it was a different thing from the built in FB contact sync of the Galaxy S.
Well, it added several instances of Fb links for each contact (one more every 3 hours).
So I uninstalled FB-app and widget, I cancelled all references to FB from my address book contact list, I deactivated the built-in sync as well, restarted the phone and I tried to use only the built-in sync... IT DOESN'T WORK!!!
There's no way to get the phone sync the contacts/pictures with FB afeter that... I tried everything except reflashing the phone or resetting it to factory defaults
The bug is probably related to FB app 1.3.1+
Does anyone know if there's a directory in the internal memory to wipe in order to "reset" all this mess?
TeoLinuX said:
Same to me.
everything was perfect, then I upgraded to FB 1.3.1
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The bug is probably related to FB app 1.3.1+
Does anyone know if there's a directory in the internal memory to wipe in order to "reset" all this mess?
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Facebook relaesed FB app 1.3.2... No possibility to sync anymore... But you can use, like i said before, Syncmypix to get the pictures from your FB contacts to your phone contacts.
Another optins is uning Phonebook 2.0 (but i personaly dont like it). For me syncmypix works great is is doing exactly want i want it to...
Greetz, DN
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The problem I found is actually the FB app. I think by now most of you would know this. I uninstalled the FB app, and instead just use the Contacts native sync to add in FB account contacts...every one on FB with photos is now loaded into my phone...once...
The failure is fixed.. I think facebook changed someting, now you can sync via buildin facebook sync.. and update faecbook to 1.3.2! Then everything will work fine!
All of my Facebook contacts get imported & properly linked with my phone but one. I logged out of the Facebook app and even went as far manually deleting the contact from my telephone (I thought it may be a linking issue). Still, for some odd reason, the Facebook contact will not get imported into the telephone. I removed the Facebook account multiple times and have not had any luck. Any ideas?
Add that contact manually and link it to facebook
How would I go about doing that. I remember trying to edit the contact and linking them to Facebook (and I did not see any corresponding field that would let me do that).
Also, the individual sent me a PM on Facebook. I got the alert in the notification bar. When I tried reading the messages we had sent to each other back and fourth, the individual appeared as 'Facebook User.' I can see all my Facebook contacts through the Facebook app, including them. I deleted the contact. Will try adding them again. In hopes that the issue will be resolved... Keep in mind I have over 100+ Facebook friends and this is the ONLY person I am having issues with.
I have deleted them from all of my Google Contacts etc. So far, their name is just added as a contact in my phone. That's all...
Anyone? Ideas?
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Add that contact manually and link it to facebook
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I can't do that because they don't even appear in the Facebook subgroup of contacts although I SEE them as a contact through the Facebook app.
Same problem here with a couple of contacts.