Did anyone find a way to sync back facebook information to google contacts? If you get birthdays, email and phone numbers from facebook in your phone, it would be great to have that back in google contacts when using the desktop.
Even when properly linked, this kind of information is only in the phone and gets lost, when you loose a contact as facebook friend.
Did anyone find a way to sync it back and preserve this information?
I looked already from Pontius to Pilatus on the web and can't find anything. ;(
Looks like nobody found any way yet...hmmmmm. :-/
Hm i think that you shoud sync phone contact with facebook, using Facebook aplication from market, and then try synching phone contact with google, I think this will work. Cause it works both ways, Google -> phone an Phone->google. Then if your contact list in the phne doest include contact photos from facebook, you should google for aplication Facebook Sync, or try to find it on market, this aplication will sync contacts photos, based on name comparisn. I hope this will help you.
Unfortunately that's what doesn't work at all. It should in theory.
But Facebook information is not synced back to Google Contacts this way. It's only in your phone. If you loose the facebook friend or they just deactivate their profile, you will loose the facebook link and the bits of info (email, phone numbers, birthdays) that may come with it.
It looks like the facebook info is not stored in the phone contact application (htc's 'people' app), but in a separate data base. It's really just a 'link' and nothing else. To be fair, it doesn't look like a pure htc sense problem, as stock android also doesn't do it.
the cool thing to do is to have an app that will copy the facebook info permanently to the contacts
check this tool out, maybe it helps AddressBookSync
or for windows try Fonebook
you could try also: memotoo which is webbased like soocial
or this greasemonkey script: facebook_phonebook_export.user.js
Hey I've managed to sync facebook birthday data about my friends into google account with app called EboBirthday Sync, it is free on market, and download a plugin EboBirthday Contact Sync too.
Thanks for the tips! Now we just need something to sync back emails and phone numbers from facebook back to google contacts.
There is today an article in golem.de, a german online magazine, that google would love to connect a new service called Google Me with facebook contacts and data. They are asking for facebook to open up for that.
Lol, what a joke! We have that data already in our google phones. Just add the option to sync it back to Google Contacts for gosh's sake!
No need for another 'buzz' or 'wave'.
Edit: and here is the WSJ article, golem was referring to.
I synced my contacts yesterday but now I have duplicates of every contact. Plus it's a shame that pictures don't sync.
nomad4ever said:
There is today an article in golem.de, a german online magazine, that google would love to connect a new service called Google Me with facebook contacts and data. They are asking for facebook to open up for that.
Lol, what a joke! We have that data already in our google phones. Just add the option to sync it back to Google Contacts for gosh's sake!
No need for another 'buzz' or 'wave'.
Edit: and here is the WSJ article, golem was referring to.
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Facebooks TOS does not allow for that, that's what they want Facebook to open up.
Any source for that info? I mean, the facebook info is in our phones already.
Is that not a violation of the TOS then also? I just want to have a backup of that data.
And if google can't do it, some modder should be able to, no?
Ah, that's frustrating! ;(
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I synced my contacts yesterday but now I have duplicates of every contact. Plus it's a shame that pictures don't sync.
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I'm using SyncMyPix to sync facebook photos with my contacts, seems to work okay, found on Market.
3 years gown the road - has anything changed? No!!
It's end of 2013 now, more than 3 years and the problem still persists.
Whenever I set up my phone or flash a new ROM, Facebook will mess up my phonebook with duplicate entries for the same person.
Did anyone find a way meanwhile, to extra emails and phone numbers from the Facebook contacts and sync them back into Google Contacts?
I can't believe this annoying problem hasn't bothered any capable programmers until now?
Hi community.
I think everything is in the title. Pictures of My contacts does not show up anymore. I tried reboot, erase all messages, clear data and cache of the app... It works with Handcent.
Pictures are in the contact app.
If someone understand .
Thanks.
Are these pictures from contacts synced with Facebook & Twitter? Or are they actual photos from your SD Card?
Both .
Some people on Facebook, others pictures from gallery...
Try removing the sync from Facebook & Twitter, reboot and then re-establish the sync.
Ok I do it now.
I will let you know if it worked.
Out of interest, are you using the stock android contacts app or HTC's people app?
It worked !
Thanks !
I don't understand what happened.
I used the HTC contact app.
Does anyone have an issue where it suggests contacts to link from different apps (facebook, sense, whatsapp etc) and even though you accept the link it shows back up suggesting the same thing continuously?
I have the same problem since the 1.72 update.
It's whatsapp, i had the same problem, remove whatsapp and it'll be ok again. I also got duplicate contacts on mine cos of whatsapp.
So does this mean whatsapp needs to be installed then reinstalled or just permanently uninstalled?
It is not syncronising everything from my google accoun. After a while( 2 hours less or more, I don't know exact) is stopping checking my google+, drive, calendar etc and is checking only mail, contacts and application data.
What is to be done?\
Thank you!
I also have that problem or a similar one. Sometimes I change contact details in my phone and they never show up in Google contacts. After a while a sync happens and my changes are lost, just disappeared and old contact details are restored. I had that with 4.2.2 but even now with 4.4.2 it still happens sometimes, not so often anymore, but it happens. I did a full wipe after KK, but there's a problem with my sync.
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I am using RedMI note (3G). Suddenly from today morning, the gmail, playstore, google photos apps aren't coming up. When I tried clicking these apps in my mobile, they try to open and close abruptly without showing any message for the abrupt closure. I tried restarting my phone, cleaning up the cache, removing the external memory card, etc. But nothing solved this. Can you please help me to know what could have went wrong only with these apps?
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