So I am liking my Atrix. But I dont understand MotoBlur Accounts.
I am coming from my N1. Do you have to set up the syncing through MotoBlur Accounts to get the contacts syncing in Facebook, it is not present in the App.
Also, Twitter shows up under other Accounts but Facebook does not when you put your user/pass in the app itself.
I guess I just need an explanation on how Accounts work with MotoBlur.
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One thing that I liked about my Cliq (believe it or not there is something good about it) was that it synced all my contacts with various social sites including Myspace. A lot of my contacts don't have Facebook accounts so is there any way to add a Myspace account to the Evo or to Friendstream?
Am I really the only one who wants to see Myspace synced?
I want it too lol.
but no way.
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)
Does anyone know how to merge Facebook phone numbers to the phone contacts itself or Gmail contacts? Most of my contacts are linked through Facebook but I don't want to be logged in 24/7. Is there a way to do this?
Well, once you've linked your Facebook contacts, I don't think you have to stay logged in to Facebook for them to stay there. You just need to keep your account registered on your phone. As to actually transferring the data to the other contact iterations, I don't know of a way to do that with the tools built into the phone, though there might be an app that does, I've never looked.
IT doesnt mean your logged in,
When I logout of my Facebook it removed all the contacts except the ones in my Gmail.
Yes, but I don't think Facebook registers you as being logged in just because you have your login information stored on the Facebook app on your phone. Think of it like... storing your login information on your computer's web browser with cookies. Whenever you navigate to Facebook, it will log you in automatically and send you straight to your pages, but you're still "logged off" as far as the website is concerned when you're not actually using Facebook. It's the same thing with the Facebook app. At least, that's how I understand it.
I just got a corporate phone that is Android based. There are a few paid apps I would LOVE to put on it, like Beautiful Widgets.
Is there anyway for me to get those without repaying for them? I don't mind using my personal email for the shop, but I don't want my calendars to sync (company and personal).
Just add your gmail account under Accounts and Sync under Settings and uncheck the box for syncing your calendar.
Hi everyone, my first message here. Been lurking for a while though.
I have a question about how the Motoblur account management works. I have never used any Android devices except for my new Atrix, and so I don't know which parts of the system I am encountering are stock Google apps, and which ones are Motorola's. So, when I click on the Accounts app (or select Accounts from the Settings menu), I have two sections: MOTOBLUR Accounts, and Other Accounts. When I just bought the phone, I didn't know enough about MOTOBLUR (and didn't realize that it pushed the login information through its servers), and so I added my social network (i.e. Facebook, LinkedIn) accounts to MOTOBLUR. I think I may have added a GMail account as well (same as my Google account, which also supports my Google Calendar, Google Contacts, etc.). In the Other Accounts, I added Google only.
After a while, I realized that MOTOBLUR is a horrendous idea that should have never existed, and deleted all of the accounts that were listed under my MOTOBLUR accounts section (except for the MOTOBLUR account itself, which is locked). The Google account, which is under Other Accounts, stayed.
So my questions are:
- Does MOTOBLUR still have continued access to all the syncs that my Google account does to the text messaging application, calendar widgets (not MOTOBLUR calendar), etc.? I.e., is the Google account under "Other accounts" exposed to MOTOBLUR's servers?
- What is the role of MOTOBLUR on the phone if it's not doing anything with the social network applications, and the e-mail is configured through the Google account, and not through MOTOBLUR's GMail account?
Thank you.