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HD2 Not Showing Link All Facebook Contacts Option

Title says it all...in the All Contacts Updates tabs it's not showing the option to link all contacts with my Facebook.
It works when I do it manually, but I obviously don't want to go through 250+ contacts and link them one by one.
Anyone had this problem or know how to fix it?

I dont think it's a problem as such, rather just the way it is!
I agree though it's a mission to link them all, and TBH it's not worth it..... I've linked mine and none of the automatic updating of profile photo's, status', or events works unless i press update on each contact manually!!
Others are having the same problem and so far no solution

Karlos G said:
...TBH it's not worth it...
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Works fine for me and I have never updated a contact manually since creating the link.

emigrating said:
Works fine for me and I have never updated a contact manually since creating the link.
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Same here, and only 2 of mine wouldn't link automatically. 1 of them uses a different name on facebook than in real life and there's no email address for her, and the other one has a double-barreled surname and he only uses the 2nd part of it on facebook.
I've found the facebook integration pretty much perfect and have none of the issues that others have reported. It updates for me on a very regular basis, both status updates and contact photos.
To make sure it works fully, just make sure that your contacts have email addresses that match their facebook account emails. That way, it can match the majority of them with no problem.

Yeah it would be really nice if it could link contacts to facebook itself but that would require that all your facebook contacts have chosen to show their phone number in their facebook profile and allow everyone to see it. That is highly unlikely that all your contacts would do that.
Another possibilty is maybe to enter peoples facebook mail in your Contacts. However, I dont store email adresses in my Contacts.
Therefore you need to link manually. However, I miss a feature to backup the link when you install a new ROM.

DonDolowy said:
Yeah it would be really nice if it could link contacts to facebook itself but that would require that all your facebook contacts have chosen to show their phone number in their facebook profile and allow everyone to see it. That is highly unlikely that all your contacts would do that.
Therefore you need to link manually. However, I miss a feature to backup the link when you install a new ROM.
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That's not true.
Mine have been linked by email address.

emigrating said:
Works fine for me and I have never updated a contact manually since creating the link.
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Hmmm that is strange why mine does not
johncmolyneux said:
I've found the facebook integration pretty much perfect and have none of the issues that others have reported. It updates for me on a very regular basis, both status updates and contact photos.
To make sure it works fully, just make sure that your contacts have email addresses that match their facebook account emails. That way, it can match the majority of them with no problem.
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I had no problem linking them and 90% of them were found automatically by name ( i do not have email address stored with contact details), it's just the auto update feature that does not work at all

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That's not true.
Mine have been linked by email address.
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Yeah, but not all people save email adress in their Contacts.

Yeah I just went through and manually linked like 100+ of my contacts.
When I go into each contact's Facebook link page it automatically suggests the correct person to link to. The issue is not that it can't match up the contacts with my Facebook friends, it just doesn't show the option to do it all at once.

DonDolowy said:
Yeah, but not all people save email adress in their Contacts.
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Then how do you expect to make the link, based solely on name?

pedmond said:
Then how do you expect to make the link, based solely on name?
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Read my first post - thats why I write it would be impossible to make a link unless the facebook contact has entered his/her phone number and made it avaiable.

back to the OP, was this resolved because I have the same problem, it doesnt show the link all facebook option in the updates and events part, just my facebook profile pic and when i press it it goes to my updates? How do i get this option to link all because i cba linking 200+ contacts?

Mine linked 39 contacts to Facebook automatically and seems to do it by name (since I don't have emails stored for them).
Shame it doesn't fetch any telephone numbers listed on their Facebook profile though.

Mine only did 2 or 3 automatically. What annoys me the most is that the Facebook link only updates HTC Contacts automatically, to save the information to Outlook Contacts you have to go in manually - and this means that when syncing via MyPhone or ActiveSync the pictures and birthdays etc aren't always synced.
And not adding birthdays to the calendar automatically bothers me too.

DonDolowy said:
Yeah, but not all people save email adress in their Contacts.
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Maybe not before it became normal to send and receive emails on phones, but it's very common now, so I'd imagine more and more contacts are getting email addresses added to them.
It's the most obvious way to link a contact to a facebook account, after all, it is what you sign into facebook with! And as you yourself pointed out, not many people have their phone number publicly available on facebook, and quite right too!
If they're your friend on facebook then you've got their email address. Just add it to the contact details and it works.

Anyone experience this problem where after u link a particular contact to his/her facebook, the whole phone becomes very laggy when u try to edit the contact info again? Any solution to this?

Hi, I have another problem with FB on HD2. I added some new friends and I try to link them manually but they are not shown in my list for choosing FB link(when I try to edit contact options and link it with FB account). If I start FB client however the new friends are there. Another problem is that I have deleted some friends and they are still listed as friends on my FB client.
Anyone can help?
Cheers

I found a solution in my case.
I had the exact same problem, and then I found that in "All Contacts" if I go to the "Updates and Events" scroll-tab in the bottom I can select to link multiple accounts, and voila - all is well. It even auto-detected all of them:

I cant find that " .. to link multiple accounts"

Nope nor me!

[Solved] Contact FC

I have one specific contact that gives me a FC when I try to view/edit it. I can't figure out what would cause that. I can edit it from GMail and nothing looks out of the ordinary there.
Any ideas?
here is the logcat: pastebin.com/j90SAwuv
See image for error.
Edit: Solved!
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I remember reading something about this, there is a known issue involving the contact having a picture and having a birthday set but having no year and every time you view the contact the contacts app will force close. I'm not clear on the details but I remember those being the key point.
Edit: I was able to fully replicate the issue, just have to add a contact through gmail without a year on the birthdate and tack on a photo and you'll see the problem. Of course this may not be your issue, you may be having a separate problem, I'm interested in hearing if this fits your situation.
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Is there a special character in the name? A hypen or an apostrophe? I heard the contact app sometimes gets tripped up over this.

MMcCraryNJ said:
Is there a special character in the name? A hypen or an apostrophe? I heard the contact app sometimes gets tripped up over this.
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No, just a plain normal first and last name. I didn't have this problem on my G1 with or without CyanogenMod (that I remember anyway).

I would try deleting the contact from your phone, then deleting it from wherever it is syncing from. Then re-add and see what happens. If you cannot delete it from the phone itself if it's FCing constantly, try deleting it from the server and re-sync the phone, it should remove it.

I was told that if you have any notes in your contacts that it would fc.
That was from a tmo rep

lemarg said:
I was told that if you have any notes in your contacts that it would fc.
That was from a tmo rep
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Hmm. I don't know if I had any notes in that contact, but I can't check now since I've already deleted it and re-created it.
Well, the issue is solved for now.

FYI: I have notes on almost all my Google contacts and none of them cause FC's.
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I remember reading something about this, there is a known issue involving the contact having a picture and having a birthday set but having no year and every time you view the contact the contacts app will force close. I'm not clear on the details but I remember those being the key point.
Edit: I was able to fully replicate the issue, just have to add a contact through gmail without a year on the birthdate and tack on a photo and you'll see the problem. Of course this may not be your issue, you may be having a separate problem, I'm interested in hearing if this fits your situation.

Aphotix said:
I remember reading something about this, there is a known issue involving the contact having a picture and having a birthday set but having no year and every time you view the contact the contacts app will force close. I'm not clear on the details but I remember those being the key point.
Edit: I was able to fully replicate the issue, just have to add a contact through gmail without a year on the birthdate and tack on a photo and you'll see the problem. Of course this may not be your issue, you may be having a separate problem, I'm interested in hearing if this fits your situation.
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That's exactly what the problem was. I had day and month, but no year for that contact's birthday. There was also a contact pic set from GMail. An interesting bug!
Deleting the contact and then setting it up on my phone prevents this problem. Android forces you to specify a year and it picked up the photo from facebook.

[Q] Galaxy S4 Stock Email App. So many flaws?

Got my new Galaxy S4. What is up with the email app? are you able to have it push email? i dont want it to poll every 5 minutes, i need my emails instantly...
I turned on sync in the email app, which apparently this is not push, anyways, throughout the day when i open the email app i get a popup saying email sync disabled. Why?
Can anyone confirm that the search function works?? I have my email set up as an imap account, whenever i want to search something in my email i get 0 results, and if i hit the search on server, it does not bring up anything either. This happens with all my email accounts on my phone, and my wife's accounts on her GS4. Any idea why??
I have a rooted S4, not using a custom rom. I have tried K9 email but it is just plain ugly. I actually like how the stock email app looks but nothing works!
I searched all over the internet and i dont see anything on most of these issues so im assuming im doing something wrong if nobody else is talking about this. Please, any help would be awesome. My wife wants her iphone back because of this.

I use the stock email app with no issues. I have it set to recieve from my work exchange account, my outlook and gmail accounts. All are push, and all of mine are searchable with no issues.
You may try erasing the account, and then resetting it. I know my outlook account is also an exchange server, but the gmail I think is IMAP. All mine have the check box "sync email" checked, and I set all to push notifications. Be sure you are setting up the account in the email app itself, that may help.

aawshads said:
I use the stock email app with no issues. I have it set to recieve from my work exchange account, my outlook and gmail accounts. All are push, and all of mine are searchable with no issues.
You may try erasing the account, and then resetting it. I know my outlook account is also an exchange server, but the gmail I think is IMAP. All mine have the check box "sync email" checked, and I set all to push notifications. Be sure you are setting up the account in the email app itself, that may help.
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Where do you see the email push setting? only see sync, and whenever i turn on sync, i get a popup a few hours later when i open the app that sync has been disabled. Even when i enable sync, it gives me the option for sync schedule for at most every 15 minutes.
As far as the search, i use godaddy imap and yahoo. I cant search anything out of what is showing when i open the app. It shows me default of i think 25 emails when i open the app and if i scroll to the bottom it starts to load more. When i do a search, it only searches through what is loaded and when i do continue searching on server i get nothing more. The only results is what is in the 25 loaded messages, or 50 messages if i scroll down at let it load more...

crammer04 said:
I searched all over the internet and i dont see anything on most of these issues so im assuming im doing something wrong if nobody else is talking about this. Please, any help would be awesome. My wife wants her iphone back because of this.
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The email app on the iphone is far better than the stock email app on the SGS4. I think the stock email app on the SGS4 is utter crap, at least with IMAP. Maybe it works better with exchange. I use Kaiten, which is an upgraded/updated version of K9. Another one that I looked at briefly was AquaMail.

GeorgeP said:
The email app on the iphone is far better than the stock email app on the SGS4. I think the stock email app on the SGS4 is utter crap, at least with IMAP. Maybe it works better with exchange. I use Kaiten, which is an upgraded/updated version of K9. Another one that I looked at briefly was AquaMail.
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The thing is i actually really like the email app on the GS4. I think the layout is nice and the email app is one of the few times i actually feel that the air view feature is really useful. The problem is, is that it is not reliable. I need my emails instantly and the email app is not getting it for me. I just figured out the search problem i was having. If i just change in the settings messages to load from 25 to "total" all of my messages will be there and search is fine. I still wish there is a way to have my emails come instantly rather than every 15 minutes. Aside from the push issue, what else do you dislike about the stock app that the other apps have? The only thing i noticed on the iphone is the push option...

GeorgeP said:
The email app on the iphone is far better than the stock email app on the SGS4. I think the stock email app on the SGS4 is utter crap, at least with IMAP. Maybe it works better with exchange. I use Kaiten, which is an upgraded/updated version of K9. Another one that I looked at briefly was AquaMail.
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on the app go to settings, tap on the account, then on Sync Schedule, set it to Push.

aawshads said:
on the app go to settings, tap on the account, then on Sync Schedule, set it to Push.
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You must be talking about an exchange account. You don't have that option with IMAP.

I dont see the push option, here is what i see
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on the app go to settings, tap on the account, then on Sync Schedule, set it to Push.
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I dont see the option for push, this is what i get-
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crammer04 said:
Aside from the push issue, what else do you dislike about the stock app that the other apps have? The only thing i noticed on the iphone is the push option...
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Four major issues are (and there are other minor issues):
- Lack of IMAP IDLE (push)
- When you reply to someones message, the text in their message is reformatted in your reply (font changes and line spacing changes). Looks unprofessional for work email.
- html hyperlinks are sometimes not properly parsed and are unclickable. I get a news service hyperlinks to articles. None of the hyperlinks work on the stock email client. I have to forward the message to gmail or something to click on the hyperlinks.
- emails sent from stock email client do not sync properly and have a different format on my outlook client.
Kaiten has none of these problems. These are not problems with the iphone app either.

GeorgeP said:
You must be talking about an exchange account. You don't have that option with IMAP.
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plus, to update on the syncing being disabled. I set the sync to on, reboot my phone, opened the mail app and i get the pop up that says sync disabled. I open the settings and the sync option is no longer checked.

Just tried Kaiten...It was downloading so many copies of my emails. It showed each email at least 4 times...uninstalled...

They are correct, the one I looked at was my Outlook.com email address, and my work address. The gmail address shows the same thing as yours.

I guess the news hasn't gotten around fully. Gmail accounts to do not support push with anything other than the native stock android gmail app anymore (since, when exactly, I don't remember. March or April of this year?). In that particular case, it's not the fault of the Samsung email app. No other app besides the official "gmail" app will receive emails by push from a gmail account, and that includes any email applications on any other system from iphone to any other operating system. Blame gmail.

The only thing I miss by using the stock email app is that I can't get it to come up in the combined inbox by default...I have to select it each time which is a bummer.

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I guess the news hasn't gotten around fully. Gmail accounts to do not support push with anything other than the native stock android gmail app anymore (since, when exactly, I don't remember. March or April of this year?). In that particular case, it's not the fault of the Samsung email app. No other app besides the official "gmail" app will receive emails by push from a gmail account, and that includes any email applications on any other system from iphone to any other operating system. Blame gmail.
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If this is true its embarrassing.
Is there any workaround?

hmmm
this is strange cause i have a s4 and only get the 15 minute option, but on my note 3....i get the push option!!! that very strange

Use solmail....
Works with gmail and has neat interface

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you think you got it bad, i paid for unlock code on a rogers 1337m and had the push option.
when i inserted a telus sim and and unlocked it, it force reset the phone, force factory reset rather, and now i dont have push.
i also picked up some crappy apps from telus
confused.

Stop Contact Picture Auto Updating

This is more of a general Android question. I am trying to blank out the picture of one of my contacts on my phone and it keep resetting back to the picture associated with this person's gmail account. Is there any way to stop that from happening?

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It's pulling the picture and possibly other information from their G+ account.
I have a similar issue, except mine is reverse. My business cell phone number is listed on my G+ account. So when someone with Android adds me as a contact, it automatically pulls my profile picture.
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I found setting a static pic from my phone vs leaving it blank stopped it from happening.

Hangouts Contact picture issues, tried everything i know...help?

Ok this is infuriating. Some days ago i noticed the contact picture of my fiancee disappeared in the conversation with her on Hangouts. It just shows a green circle with a white head/body. But in the list of conversations, the contact picture shows up, as well as any notifications from messages she sends. Her contact picture still works 100% correctly on my work phone that has the same google account on it as well. I logged into contacts.google.com and updated her photo there, and it syncronized on both my phones but on my main phone (Galaxy S7 Edge), in the actual conversation it still shows the blank contact pic, but in the conversation list and notifications the contact pic i set does appear. I check my settings and it says Contacts sync is having a problem. Turning it off and back on a few times gets that error to go away, but still nothing. Everything from clearing cache, to clearing data, to disabling hangouts and renabling it, rebooting my phone multiple times....nothing. So then i add a different account on my phone to hangouts, and add my fiancee there and her contact picture works 100% like it should. What the heck is going on? Id say its isolated to my account but my account on my work phone (galaxy s4) has her contact picture working just fine. My account on my s7e is the one not showing her contact pic in conversation, but a different account on the same phone works fine? This is driving me nuts. Ive also verified that the contact picture shows up properly in both conversation list and actual conversation on the integrated hangouts messenger on gmail.com. I even watched it update there, both ways. She doesn't have a google+ photo set, however that was never an issue before.
Does anyone have any solutions to this issue? Thanks

Having the same issue in Hangouts on my Nexus 6. For some of my contacts, their photo shows correctly in the conversation list and in the conversation list itself. Others have the issue as you described. I've tried some of the same things you mentioned. Can't figure it out either but it is annoying as heck not being able to tell at a glance who said what in a conversation. I realize the names are below the messages but the pictures are a lot easier to use.

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Having the same issue in Hangouts on my Nexus 6. For some of my contacts, their photo shows correctly in the conversation list and in the conversation list itself. Others have the issue as you described. I've tried some of the same things you mentioned. Can't figure it out either but it is annoying as heck not being able to tell at a glance who said what in a conversation. I realize the names are below the messages but the pictures are a lot easier to use.
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What makes it worse is that my work phone that had my Google account on it synced, everything's working as it should be. But not my personal phone. It doesn't make any sense.
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There was some update to Hangouts couple of days ago and I think Google changed where the picture come from. Now only contacts with Google+ picture are show correctly and it ignores pictures assigned trough gmail contacts. It's the same on my wife's Galaxy S7 and mine Motorola Droid Turbo.

SotYPL said:
There was some update to Hangouts couple of days ago and I think Google changed where the picture come from. Now only contacts with Google+ picture are show correctly and it ignores pictures assigned trough gmail contacts. It's the same on my wife's Galaxy S7 and mine Motorola Droid Turbo.
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That is unfortunate. Updated hangouts on my work phone and the same exact thing happened. Guess you're right. Who do we complain to to try to get that changed back?
What I find especially odd though is that the assigned contact pic still shows up in the hangouts notifications and conversation list, just not the conversation itself.
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Helgaiden said:
That is unfortunate. Updated hangouts on my work phone and the same exact thing happened. Guess you're right. Who do we complain to to try to get that changed back?
What I find especially odd though is that the assigned contact pic still shows up in the hangouts notifications and conversation list, just not the conversation itself.
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Same here, I really dislike it.
It does it when using hangouts on the desktop as well. It makes it difficult when I have multiple chats open to quickly tell which chat belongs to which friend.

I'm having this problem as well. I've temporarily switched to Messenger until I can find a fix.