The built-in SNS functionality has support for Twitter & Facebook (as well as myspace), but neither can update the actual sites or do much more than sync contacts.
If I install the official Twitter/Facebook apps, then I get another 2 account options, which can also sync contact info.
Any preference over which one is better to use for syncing contact/calendar info?
The SNS service seems to be running all the time even if the built-in SNS accounts are removed.
I am using the official twitter app and facebook app, and am syncing contacts with them.
The advantage of these apps i find over the default ones, is they are apps and have proper widgets, which gives you acces to you account. Here i can view photos, profile pages, search, view notifications, etc etc.
The default ones, i managed to get into feeds only as widgets. When i click a feed item, i can only see that specific feeds comments, like it or make a comment on it.
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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.
I finally got Facebook to sync with my Vibrant, but what's the point of linking with your contacts if you can't message or view someones profile from their contact name? I was able to on my N1 am I just not looking in the right spot?
anyone know?
Homotechual said:
I finally got Facebook to sync with my Vibrant, but what's the point of linking with your contacts if you can't message or view someones profile from their contact name? I was able to on my N1 am I just not looking in the right spot?
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How did you get them to sync? I am still unable to sync my Facebook contacts. Setup up the sync just like on other android phones. Thanks.
I have noticed that this phone has some issues with syncing info from facebook and twitter at times. The best way to confirm this is to go to your "accounts & sync" settings and see if any accounts have failed to sync. There is another issue which could be happening. Depending on how your individual contacts have set up their facebook privacy settings, you may or may not be able to see their info. Since facebook's recent security debacle, they have included a lockdown option for all applications and websites. Many facebook users have since opted not to allow any external apps to use their info. If that is the case with one of your contacts, you will not be able to see their stuff using your contacts no matter how you've set it up. So it's completely dependant on how your friends set up their privacy in facebook. This is why you may notice you can see some peoples photos and not their status updates or visa versa. If you have not allowed facebook to use external apps and websites in your own facebook account, you will not be able to sync your phone with facebook at all. Go to the facebook website and make sure you have allowed use of platform applications in your privacy settings. Sorry for the long reply but there are a few factors working together here. good luck.
I have the facebook application syncing with my contact data.
When I pull up my contacts and look under the linked accounts, each user has 5 linked accounts.
How is this possible? Is this a glitch?
The only other contact sync I have is Google.
same here.. when I look, there are five icons "linked" one google, one facebook, and THREE little green icons (WTF are those?)
dq13 said:
same here.. when I look, there are five icons "linked" one google, one facebook, and THREE little green icons (WTF are those?)
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Yes, that is exactly what I have too. Very annoying.
I have noticed this issue as well. In my accounts and sync settings I somehow have two facebook accounts, which I think was caused by the last upgrade to the facebook app.
Unsyncing and/or deleting one of the facebook accounts solved the problem.
I am also showing lots of account sync icons in my contacts. Thought maybe I just did something wrong. If deleting them and then syncing them worked for you I'm going to try it and see what I come up with.
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Happens on mine too. If you set up your Facebook account from the Accounts and Sync settings, then you won't have any problems with multiple linked accounts. When you use the Facebook Android app and widget and login, it'll ask you if you want to sync your contacts and calendars. That's where I saw that all the duplicate linked accounts appear.
The big problem I've seen is that either way, if you go to your contacts and try to access their Facebook page it will only open your profile and not go to their page.
Kind of sucks.
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Happens on mine too. If you set up your Facebook account from the Accounts and Sync settings, then you won't have any problems with multiple linked accounts. When you use the Facebook Android app and widget and login, it'll ask you if you want to sync your contacts and calendars. That's where I saw that all the duplicate linked accounts appear.
The big problem I've seen is that either way, if you go to your contacts and try to access their Facebook page it will only open your profile and not go to their page.
Kind of sucks.
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I get that too! Now because I have multiple links to each contact, I have 5 links to facebook profiles under each contact. Each time I click on any of them, it simply takes me to my own page. Great...
I Just double checks a few of mine and it shows 3 right now but I think that's because I have it showing on specific accounts. I have a Google, Facebook, and unknown account listed per person. The unknown one is the one I don't get. I can also see their recent updates, pics, and profile pics again. Idk wtf happened lol.
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I get that too! Now because I have multiple links to each contact, I have 5 links to facebook profiles under each contact. Each time I click on any of them, it simply takes me to my own page. Great...
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Yep, I meant to edit my post with how I got rid of them but because I'm a n00b here I get limited to one post every 5 minutes including editing :\
The way I found to get rid of the duplicate contacts is having to go into the Accounts and Sync settings and delete the Facebook Android account. If you're using the Facebook widget that will also log you out of it. You can then log back in using the widget or app and make sure to uncheck the contacts sync so that way it doesn't sync at all (especially since your phone already is doing so if you added your account using the Accounts and Sync setting). Reason I wanted to get rid of them is when you access your contacts through something like adding a new contact from an unknown text message, it pulls up all the synced contacts that are connected with your phone (duplicate entries stored on your phone/sim/facebook account(s)/twitter/etc)
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?
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