Hello.
I have been using cm7 and loving it. Only thing I miss from original Tom is how facebook was tied together with Facebook and would provide updates and show recent picture.
Is there a way to have this on cm7?
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No. One of the trade offs
Install Facebook from Market and turn on contact sync for existing contacts. Make sure the contacts on your phone have an email address to match with an email address listed in Facebook.
Thanks. Also I have seen Facebook picture sync apps are they any good?
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I tried doing that, downloading Facebook and hoping it would sync everything but it didn't.
So I downloaded an app called 'Contapps' and through the settings you can sync your contacts with your Facebook account, and if theres contacts that don't automatically sync, you can do it manually.
facebook app will aloso sync if the names match exactly. I have mine all set like that and they sync just fine.
Mine seem to be syncing. They all show up as being linked under the contact, but for some contacts their picture doesn't show even though it is linked. Any ideas? And also is there a way to make it so those facebook pics don't show up so blurry in the caller id?
just upgrade to google plus and kiss Facebook Bye Bye.
If you need to see what person look like prior to calling them, you don't know them well enough.
Just edit the contact, and if they're already linked to their Facebook account, click the Facebook photo and choose to "Use this photo."
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Does anyone know how to make the Vibrant show the Facebook photo as a contact photo instead of the Google contacts photo? On CM5.0.8 all you had to do was edit the contact and choose the facebook photo as the default?
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Does anyone know how to make the Vibrant show the Facebook photo as a contact photo instead of the Google contacts photo? On CM5.0.8 all you had to do was edit the contact and choose the facebook photo as the default?
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you can use SyncMyPix from the market or you can go into. each. contact. and. select. "link contact". then. go. to. FB. and. link. them... one... by... one...
FARK!
I can not NOT wait until we get a stock Froyo rom on this thing.
I believe you go to accounts and sync and add facebook.
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I forgot to add the part after you go to accounts and sync, you have to add the facebook account.
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mine did this automagically...
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I forgot to add the part after you go to accounts and sync, you have to add the facebook account.
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What do you mean by "add the facebook account"?
Under Accounts and Sync you select add account. FB will be one of the options. Add that and select contacts from its settings and it will automatically link your phone contacts and sync the FB profile pictures to your phone contacts pictures. It is pretty easy and works great!
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Clarification I think
I think that I have the same question and its has not been answered yet. The problem is that the acounts are already linked; facebook and google. But it is using the google picture as the default. I have tried changing it manually but it always revert back to the goole picture. Is there a way to change the default setting, Any sugestions?
i recently moved from a mt3g to the vibrant. on my mt3g, after downloading the facebook app, i was able to see my friends' facebook profile pictures in the contact list. on the vibrant, it doesn't do that.
is there any way to make it so it does?
try out syncmypix from the market
I think you open the facebook app and you go into settings then sync contacts. If I remember correctly. I've done it without an app for sure.
I think you have to go to contacts and choose Get Friends from the menu - that will give you the option to import your Facebook contacts and then the phone will automatically link as many as it can and then the ones with linked profiles will have the Facebook pictures.
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Kevnkate is correct. Assuming you have your facebook info stored in the Accounts app you just hit get friends and it pulls all that info. You also have the option to view different contacts. All/phone/facebook/etc
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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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sj_martin said:
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)
Hi guys,
On my Desire, I sign in to the facebook account sync and also the facebook app and it syncs all my contacts with pictures from facebook.
This doesn't seem to happen, at least not automatically on my GFs X10. I can link the contacts to facebook accounts but it doesn't pick up their profile pictures like the Desire does.
How can I achieve this?
Ta
lucero79 said:
Hi guys,
On my Desire, I sign in to the facebook account sync and also the facebook app and it syncs all my contacts with pictures from facebook.
This doesn't seem to happen, at least not automatically on my GFs X10. I can link the contacts to facebook accounts but it doesn't pick up their profile pictures like the Desire does.
How can I achieve this?
Ta
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Well, that option was supposed to be included in the now delayed update So if there are no more delays you'll get this feature sometime in october.
Right now, you can use an app like syncmypix which is free on the market. it will check your phonebook and try to automatically link your facebook friends' pictures to your phonebook contacts. You can manually cange the linking if it's making a mistake.
Sometimes, the Facebook app lets me choose someone's picture and add it as a contact picture (not exactly a sync I know) and most times it doesn't...
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curious_yellow_eyes said:
Sometimes, the Facebook app lets me choose someone's picture and add it as a contact picture (not exactly a sync I know) and most times it doesn't...
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edit: never mind, misread your post...
you can sync your facebook pics to contacts through "Full Screen Caller ID" aswell
or Syncmypix
or 'fb sync'
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