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Hi everyone,
Sorry if this is the wrong forum. I am super new at this but I dislike the way new Contacts are added. I think the "form" where one has to enter the Contact information such as the name, company, department, phone, email... etc is too long and it contains too much information.
Is there a program that can allow me to add new contacts and just prompts for just a few crucial details such as the name, phone number and maybe one or two other details?
Thanks!
if.away said:
Hi everyone,
Sorry if this is the wrong forum. I am super new at this but I dislike the way new Contacts are added. I think the "form" where one has to enter the Contact information such as the name, company, department, phone, email... etc is too long and it contains too much information.
Is there a program that can allow me to add new contacts and just prompts for just a few crucial details such as the name, phone number and maybe one or two other details?
Thanks!
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Try Yota contacts, its very simple and easy.
I can't seem to find the tread but, you should find it if you search around
Like the title says. Anyway to import all of your facebook contacts to the phones address book?
In the bottom of every contact (editing mode), you have a selection for this. You have to do this on every contact ..
Cheers for replying!. I figured that was the only way to do it (the hard and long way!). Took me about 10mins to finish it, though much happier now its done.
The facebook integration is pretty cool
Yes it is. I wish there was a easier way to add the FB info. But when your done, its pretty cool
On the people tab you go
All People > Updates and Events (face & clock tab)
you should have an item at the top "link profiles" where it will match up your local contacts against your facebook contacts.
Tick all that apply (well default is ticked, so detick those who you don't want to join) and click OK.
All of your facebook contacts linked at once.
mr_Ray said:
On the people tab you go
All People > Updates and Events (face & clock tab)
you should have an item at the top "link profiles" where it will match up your local contacts against your facebook contacts.
Tick all that apply (well default is ticked, so detick those who you don't want to join) and click OK.
All of your facebook contacts linked at once.
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Is this with an empty updates and events list? I can't see the option now the list has the entries I added in manually!
Luapo said:
Is this with an empty updates and events list? I can't see the option now the list has the entries I added in manually!
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Once I added all mine the option disappeared. De-link a few people if you want to try it out.
Just tried it, the phone only found one link! Oh well, i'm guessing that might be down to how the names are formatted on the phone and in facebook?
Luapo said:
Just tried it, the phone only found one link! Oh well, i'm guessing that might be down to how the names are formatted on the phone and in facebook?
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Possibly. Not sure how it makes the matches.
mr_Ray said:
On the people tab you go
All People > Updates and Events (face & clock tab)
you should have an item at the top "link profiles" where it will match up your local contacts against your facebook contacts.
Tick all that apply (well default is ticked, so detick those who you don't want to join) and click OK.
All of your facebook contacts linked at once.
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Thanks ! But it only finds ta few of the contacts this way.
Of some reason 11 of 76 was found and the rest must manually be added
scrabble8 said:
Thanks ! But it only finds ta few of the contacts this way.
Of some reason 11 of 76 was found and the rest must manually be added
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As great as the HD2 is, no phone as yet attained the ability to read your mind. Seems a decent sample size - did you notice a pattern in those that did/didn't auto match? Full name, email, phone number, etc. not matching?
It would be good to know how it's doing the matching, I've got a deady mix of being curious as to how it works ye being too lazy to de-link and subtlely modify some contacts.
MSN Live tip
Ive added all 700 FB contacts.. open MSN Messenger and within there is an option to add all FB Contacts.. then sign in on MSN on ya phone goto live and merge contacts ;-)
mr_Ray said:
As great as the HD2 is, no phone as yet attained the ability to read your mind. Seems a decent sample size - did you notice a pattern in those that did/didn't auto match? Full name, email, phone number, etc. not matching?
It would be good to know how it's doing the matching, I've got a deady mix of being curious as to how it works ye being too lazy to de-link and subtlely modify some contacts.
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Hehe.... thats true !
In my case, all the contact wasnt exactly as the FB profiles. I imported contacts from iPhone. And in the process some of the contact were listed as Lastname, Firstname. FB couldnt match the profiles then
Raising this thread up again.. I have some question re. the contact photo.
I have about 450 - 500 contacts. Roughly 150 of these have photos stored in Outlook that I'm quite happy with. Doing a Facebook link-up matches about 250 of these accounts. Some of these 250 linked accounts already had photos I liked. Still with me so far?!
Now I know you can go into each contact individually and select whether to use their Facebook picture or Outlook picture, but is there a way to set this behaver by default? My preference would be to use the Outlook one by default, unless there isn't one in which case to use the Facebook one. Surely this "wish" must be quite common?!
Also, is there a way pull said Facebook photos over to Outlook, so as they are stored and pop up on my laptop Outlook etc? I used a 3rd party app a year or so ago (hence the pictures in Outlook already) and while I could use this again it seems silly to have to do the link-up twice!!
Thanks in advance..
Is there some sort of application that allows me to link contacts to facebook pages from my computer, and then somehow mass updates the contacts on the phone? The link to facebook is just some XML in the contact notes, so in principle this should be possible.
The same question has been asked here yesterday - i can't post the link as there is a restriction from doing so *rubbish* but it's topic id is 636175 and isn't too far down the forum...
Anyways, it apparently works with myphone, but I don't seem the XML that everyone else does for some reason and so my facebook links don't save
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Is there some sort of application that allows me to link contacts to facebook pages from my computer, and then somehow mass updates the contacts on the phone? The link to facebook is just some XML in the contact notes, so in principle this should be possible.
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when you sync back your contacts after a flash/hard reset, the data to link them to their facebook equivalents should already be there. However, the links won't start to work until you have reassigned your 'me' contact card to your facebook account. When you do that, you should find the facebook links are restored. (not the facenbook app)
i'm afraid that's not what i'm looking for, myphone backs up my contact facebook associations just fine, i'm just looking for a simpler way to create those associations in the first place, preferably through the computer
Sorry if I misunderstand you, but doesn't the people/facebook app pop up and say 'click here to associate your contacts' and most of them are already pre-checked?
Note I'm NOT talking about the one on an individual person's page, but the one on the 'all people' list.
In the two seconds that process takes, 80% of my contacts were covered. The other 20% being people who I have as 'Jon XYZ' but they are 'Jonathan XYZ' on FB (or vice-versa.)
Or are you one of those people who doesn't do first name/last name and is looking for a way to get around that?
that's exactly what i need! it didn't do that with me, is there a way launch that synchronization manually?
I'm... not sure. I'm sure there is but I don't know how.
Just to make sure you're not missing anything obvious:
Go to the People tab
Click All People at the bottom
You're now at the "All" tab within a new screen -- you should see your fb contact as "Me" listed as the second contact -- do you see this 'link your facebook contacts' around here? (If it exists on this screen, it'll be one of the top three contacts.)
If not, use the slider on that same screen to scroll over to 'Updates and Events'. You'll see yourself at the very top here, and I'm almost positive that it was on this screen where it had 'link your contacts.' It wasn't in a menu or anything, it was very prominently displayed as one of the top items.
When/if you can find that screen, it's basically a dumb match that looks for Contacts(First Name,Last Name) = Facebook(First Name,Last Name). I'm not sure if it pairs on email address, but AFAIK it needs the full name to be exactly the same.
HTH.
**This all assumes you entered your facebook credentials when setting up your phone (or from the data sync menu under the settings tab afterwards) - completely separate from any fb app you may have on your phone. I'm pretty sure you have done this since you mentioned the XML in the contacts but just to be absolutely positive.
I've been looking at this problem since you first posted, and the main problem I see is that I can't see a way to un associate the me contact from face book (in order to re associate so that the contact association screen comes up)
dashed annoying!
i see what you mean, i'm going to look for a way to do that
Have you tried Fonebook!
http://www.developingtrends.co.uk/Software/Facebook/Fonebook/Default.aspx
I can do all the sync with facebook and Outlook. Give a look at this!
samsamuel said:
I've been looking at this problem since you first posted, and the main problem I see is that I can't see a way to un associate the me contact from face book (in order to re associate so that the contact association screen comes up)
dashed annoying!
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I think you could momentarily switch off the Facebook connection altogether do accomplish that. It's under "Data services" (on the settings tab).
Robrecht said:
I think you could momentarily switch off the Facebook connection altogether do accomplish that. It's under "Data services" (on the settings tab).
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Yea, thanks, that got it, however when i logged back in (through 'me' contact card) it doesnt ask about associations as when you do it the first time. Oh well.
i just found an option do associate the contacts for you! if u scroll to the contacts tab in HTC sense then scroll to updates and events (its the picture of the person with a clock next to their head) i had a button at the tob which said 'Associate contacts: XX new associations found (xx being the number of new associations)' tap this and select the contacts you want to update (by default it selects all) then tap ok. it will create the associations for any contacts that arnt associated. it will also set the default contact picture to the facebook profile. it will make your contacts lag a bit while it downloads the info but after that it runs fine
if it helps im running 1.66 official hd2 rom from HTC, with radio 2.08
mazzarin said:
Or are you one of those people who doesn't do first name/last name and is looking for a way to get around that?
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Sorry to reopen this thread, but I'm one of those people! I would also be interested in finding a way to add/backup my fb associations on the PC as MyPhone does not seem to sync them for me I get the fb id's in the <sn> field but not in the <facebook> ones =/
Hi,
I have have been a lurker here for a while as I have usually found all the info required by search. However I have a really odd problem on my HD2 whic I can not find the answer to?!
When I send images by mail my phone is adding on a email contact on every send. i only became aware as I received a reply recently. As it goes this person has received every image I have sent
My HD2 is a UK T-mobile handset with the latest T-Mobile ROM and a few regestry tweeks.
I am baffled and any help appreciated
I think I now know why this is happening... The phone seems to recognise the automatically added @ symbol when you go to send pictures via the album.
Any knowledge of how to stop this appearing? or removing the auto association?
Are you saying that you can send an email to "@" and it works?
you haven't got a contact saved as @ have you lol,
im quite confused by this
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Are you saying that you can send an email to "@" and it works?
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Yes, but for some reason when I am in the album and choose to send pictures by email the "@" is there by default, so I have been adding emails and the @ remains, I thought nothing of it, but now see it is associated to a contact
So I will have to manually remove this every time I send an image which is quite annoying.
htcnoop said:
Yes, but for some reason when I am in the album and choose to send pictures by email the "@" is there by default, so I have been adding emails and the @ remains, I thought nothing of it, but now see it is associated to a contact
So I will have to manually remove this every time I send an image which is quite annoying.
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Well I can't send emails to the address "@", so I suggest checking your contacts to see if there's one with that name, as mentioned above by Demon_man.
That's the only thing I can think of that would do that.
Just did a search in contacts and nothing comes up. However in email (via outlook) I just entered @ and it came up with an email address - so it seems this is an auto complete specific to my handset.
Is there a auto complete list I can access in the device memory? I searched in windows and could not find anything.
I just need to figure out how to delete the association, otherwise I am going to remove all contact details for this person and see if this resolves the issue.
OK, so I deleted the contact and tried it. Result no association with "@"
however upon re-entering the info it has returned. The email address is set up as [email protected] so I think because there is an [email protected] it recognised the @ on its own.
I would appreciate if anyone can add a dummy email with [email protected] and see if the HD2 picks up on this and feedback
Cheers!
htcnoop said:
OK, so I deleted the contact and tried it. Result no association with "@"
however upon re-entering the info it has returned. The email address is set up as [email protected] so I think because there is an [email protected] it recognised the @ on its own.
I would appreciate if anyone can add a dummy email with [email protected] and see if the HD2 picks up on this and feedback
Cheers!
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I just tried it - created a contact with the email [email protected] and sent an image from the album to @ and it sent it to the email address I entered. It would appear that the _ is causing it to recognise the @ symbol in the email address. If you go to a normal email and put @ as the email address, when you move to the subject or body, it "fixes" the email address for you (try it - you'll see what I mean).
So I guess email addresses ending with an underscore are out!
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I just tried it - created a contact with the email [email protected] and sent an image from the album to @ and it sent it to the email address I entered. It would appear that the _ is causing it to recognise the @ symbol in the email address. If you go to a normal email and put @ as the email address, when you move to the subject or body, it "fixes" the email address for you (try it - you'll see what I mean).
So I guess email addresses ending with an underscore are out!
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Thank you for testing it was driving me mad!
Yes I know about the normal email that was not a problem as it does not have the @ there by default. Only when you send images from the album
I don't understand why HTC enter an @ when you try to send an image from the album as it does not really help as you have to scroll past it to complete the address!
Thanks again
In my Contacts, if someone has more than one phone number, I store the separately because I find it easier to find and dial a specific number.
example:
John Doe (Mobile)
John Doe (Work)
John Doe (Home)
But I seem to only be able link John Doe's facebook profile to one of the numbers to use the 'contact picture'. When I try and link the same person's facebook profile to the other numbers, his/her name doesn't appear in the list to choose from anymore.
Does anyone know whether it's possible to link the same facebook profile more than once so that all three of the numbers show the contact's facebook profile pic?
To be honest, I don't think it's possible.
- and to be even more honest, I think you might be the only person on the planet thinking dividing people into more contacts than one combined is the easiest.
I just don't think HTC thought anyone would find it more logical that way...!?
FB contact pictures should be stored in Windows\FBContacts folder, try assigning those to your contacts manually
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... and to be even more honest, I think you might be the only person on the planet thinking dividing people into more contacts than one combined is the easiest.
I just don't think HTC thought anyone would find it more logical that way...!?
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hahaha.. i find it easier to find and dial someone's number like that... that is, one-press instead of two when someone has more than one number... may just be that i'm used to it that way..
Really, my contacts were only stored that way because the original list was exported from a whole range of different phones... some that didnt have the capability to store more than one number for a contact. There's hundreds of numbers that I really don't want to sort out individually... and of course I might end up going back to a basic phone in future.
oh wellz...
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FB contact pictures should be stored in Windows\FBContacts folder, try assigning those to your contacts manually
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thanks p107r0.. i gave that a shot, but when selecting the profile picture, there's no option to go into the Windows\FBContacts folder to get the picture...
I'm guessing if there was a way to acess that folder to select a file, it might work well because the pics in that folder would get updated accordingly (but the file name would remain the same) whenever someone changes their profile pic.
Can always copy that entire folder into an "Album", but it won't update itself if someone changed their profile pic.
my advise is to sync your contacts with gmail. gmail provides you with easy way off finding duplicates and also merging contacts. you'd be amazed how easy it is.