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Hey guys, Is it possible to allow the phone to automatically link people in contacts to their facebook accounts ? Its a hassle to link dozens of accounts manually :S
Thanks.
ZaZu90 said:
Hey guys, Is it possible to allow the phone to automatically link people in contacts to their facebook accounts ? Its a hassle to link dozens of accounts manually :S
Thanks.
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There's ongoing discussions about this with people all reporting different results.
Personally, I have email address for most of my contacts and it links them effortlessly to the matching facebook accounts. It works every time I flash a new ROM, so I'm 100% sure that email addresses is the way to go. Besides, facebook uses email addresses for login so everyone on there has an email address on their account.
Hope this is of some use
Yeah true, but does that mean I have to link each contact with their email address ?? Thats the same thing dont you think ?
ZaZu90 said:
Yeah true, but does that mean I have to link each contact with their email address ?? Thats the same thing dont you think ?
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No - it does it automatically as long as they have matching email addresses.
Go to the people tab, all people, and then go along to the updates and events tab. There should be an option at the top "Link Profiles" and it should say "x match facebook friends" or something like that. Just click it and it does all 'x' of them.
Does that help?
johncmolyneux said:
No - it does it automatically as long as they have matching email addresses.
Go to the people tab, all people, and then go along to the updates and events tab. There should be an option at the top "Link Profiles" and it should say "x match facebook friends" or something like that. Just click it and it does all 'x' of them.
Does that help?
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Hmm I did that, and all I get is "ME", I just linked my account, but I see no option to link all my friends, could it be a privacy issue from facebook settings ?
All I did is go to ALL PEOPLE > EVENTS AND UPDATES > Click on Link facebook (but its mine only )
ZaZu90 said:
Hmm I did that, and all I get is "ME", I just linked my account, but I see no option to link all my friends, could it be a privacy issue from facebook settings ?
All I did is go to ALL PEOPLE > EVENTS AND UPDATES > Click on Link facebook (but its mine only )
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I can't explain it then. If I unlink a couple of my contacts and then go to that tab it offers to automatically link them again for me.
It could be down to the new privacy options that facebook recently added. I think if people accepted the new privacy options then this won't work, but if that was the case then I wouldn't expect you could do it manually either.
Doesn't make sense to me. Sorry mate .
Thanks for trying anyway, appreciated
You know whats weird ? when I open the facebook application and go to phone numbers, I see most of my friends' numbers and contact info :S
So confuzzling ..
Hmmm I found something even more weird ..
When I click on a contact, and go to link their account, "Suggested" accounts appear ... WHy doesnt it do that automatically to all of them ??
also, if your contacts have full names ie, "Joe Bloggs" instead of Joe, then it iwll come up with those suggestions at the top..
eddie_wakey said:
also, if your contacts have full names ie, "Joe Bloggs" instead of Joe, then it iwll come up with those suggestions at the top..
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I will try editing one name and see if it works.
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That worked !! But now the name is displayed in [ Lastname, Firstname] Can I change that ?
Plus that means I have to edit all my contacts to have both first and last names ? Cant I just link them according to their first name only ? ahhh
I couldnt find another way to fix the issue.
All my friends MUST have a first and last name registered or else i have to link them manually.
Is there a tweak or a way I can force the recognition of facebook accounts by the first name only ?
johncmolyneux said:
I can't explain it then. If I unlink a couple of my contacts and then go to that tab it offers to automatically link them again for me.
It could be down to the new privacy options that facebook recently added. I think if people accepted the new privacy options then this won't work, but if that was the case then I wouldn't expect you could do it manually either.
Doesn't make sense to me. Sorry mate .
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You know, when I got my HD2 last week I got a lot of link suggestions together, with this new ROM I don't get any, with or without emails. Just single suggestions if you go into a contact. Strange!
im running CORE cell evo ROM and im trying to sync my friends FB pictures to my contacts, but dont know how, ANY HELP?
Go into phone app, tap all people, scroll to the right where there should be a facebook icon, link your contacts to profiles, and update. You also may have to login to your facebook account first in the Data Services option in the Settings tab.
pakistaniprince said:
im running CORE cell evo ROM and im trying to sync my friends FB pictures to my contacts, but dont know how, ANY HELP?
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I just log into Facebook on my phone and it automatically updates all of my contacts. If your FB buddies don't have the same phone number that your phone has for them then it won't do it...
Still no luck!
cu2cool said:
Go into phone app, tap all people, scroll to the right where there should be a facebook icon, link your contacts to profiles, and update. You also may have to login to your facebook account first in the Data Services option in the Settings tab.
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I went to where u said but i don't see that so i clicked menu it says
"update now" and settings.... so i hit settings it just gives me two options
"DL data automatically" and "DL data roaming"..... i hit update now also but nothing happened.....
crisisinthecity said:
I just log into Facebook on my phone and it automatically updates all of my contacts. If your FB buddies don't have the same phone number that your phone has for them then it won't do it...
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my friends do hv the same number on FB as on my phone book
pakistaniprince said:
I went to where u said but i don't see that so i clicked menu it says
"update now" and settings.... so i hit settings it just gives me two options
"DL data automatically" and "DL data roaming"..... i hit update now also but nothing happened.....
my friends do hv the same number on FB as on my phone book
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Do you have Facebook Set Data Sync turned on in Settings/Data Services, with the Download data automatically box checked as well?
crisisinthecity said:
do you have facebook set data sync turned on in settings/data services, with the download data automatically box checked as well?
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yea its on
pakistaniprince said:
im running CORE cell evo ROM and im trying to sync my friends FB pictures to my contacts, but dont know how, ANY HELP?
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u have to have ur sim contacts imported to ur phone. it won't work on ur sim contacts. after importing ur contacts ( go to phone-all people- menu-import contacts) it should work.
kinda sucks since u'll have to sets of contacts for each one (sim and phone contact) so then hit menu - view- contacts. this will show u only the phone contacnts. then u will have to click on each contact. click on edit information - then on the top right theres a box showing a contact pic, click on it and it will give u an option to link the contact to facebook.
But for some reason, after getting all this done if u go back to data services and have facebook sync data off, u will lose all the pics..
I put it off coz i dont want push notifications from facebook..is that wat facebook sync does when its on ? push notification? will it constatnly connect online and check for notifications ? or only update when i connect?
Facebook syncing only auto updates every 2 hours as stated in the data services menu. It's not push notifications.
I would like to share about stock Social Phonebook on the new 2.1 update.
This is what I found so far. And please share what you found too.
As far we know Social Phonebook will automatically Join our contacts from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo Messenger, Spotify, etc.
I. Facebook Integration
The most annoying one is when it change my phonebook name with the name from facebook. This is what I found about it.
1. SP (Social Phonebook) will automatically join contact from phonebook when it has the same name (first and last) or phone number or email. And it will show us the name from facebook.
2. If we join manually and our phonebook first name has the same name as the facebook first name, it will show you the name from the facebook. Example: phonebook name John, facebook name John Doe, it will show as John Doe.
3. If we join manually and have different first name from phonebook and different name from facebook, it will show us the name from phonebook. Example : phonebook name JOE, facebook name John Doe, it will show as JOE.
II. Yahoo Messenger, PingChat, and ... (haven't try more than that) Integration
Our new SP is a more complicated than the last phonebook. It has a lot more feature. It can even integrate with YM, PingChat and I assume a lot more.
1. If you put Yahoo IM in your phonebook and have YM official app at the same time. It will integrate seamlessly. Everytime you click your contact YM it will automatically in the chat mode at your YM app. You can even directly sms your contacts from YM app (if the phone number is support by YM). And if you choose Contacts Detail at YM it will show you whats in your phonebook contact accordingly including FB status from your contacts.
2. If you are using PingChat, you can link using PingChat app, or add it manually via phonebook. To add from PingChat app you could click link contact inside of the app. To add from phonebook you could add field->IM->Custom and type in PingChat insie the Custom Field Name and type in your friend PingChat ID for example : onetwothree (PingChat) <<== yes type (PingChat) too.
III. Powerful Contacts Avatar/Pic.
At the left side of your contacts name inside the phonebook lies your contacts avatar/pic. If you click the avatar, it will show you various pop up menu (most basic one is Dialer, Phonebook, and Messanging).
1. If you join your contacts with facebook it will show you facebook icon and when you click it, it will call FB official apps. (I guess this also applied with other join contacts? )
2. If you have either IM (mine is YM and PingChat), it will show you one of the icon whether it's YM or PingChat. When you click it, you can choose between the app and it will directly call the in the chat mode.
3. If you have address, it will show you Google maps icon too. When you click it of course it will show you the map location. ^_^
4. If you have email (I'm using K-9 Mail) it will show you K-9 mail and when you click it, it will bring the app in the send mode. (I'm using K-9 mail and Handcent, with the stock messanging and email the icon it's the same so rather confusing).
Will post more if I found anything else. Please share yours too. ^_^ .
Still have a Blurry Contacts Pic in call though (even using Timescape method <== thanks to tigermrk for mention it).
blurry contact pictures can be cured for facebook contacts at least by setting up timescape to your facebook and then that should automaticcaly sync to your phonebook then each contact will have 2 pictures when u click edit, then just long click the timescape picture and set as contact picture, save and exit
fully tested and working it really bothered me those blurry pictures lol
tigermrk said:
blurry contact pictures can be cured for facebook contacts at least by setting up timescape to your facebook and then that should automaticcaly sync to your phonebook then each contact will have 2 pictures when u click edit, then just long click the timescape picture and set as contact picture, save and exit
fully tested and working it really bothered me those blurry pictures lol
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Yeah already try that method, better than default but still it's blurry. Should be more crisp. Our device capable more than that. ^^
yep agreed there.
i thought you meant the first stage with no timescape setup were its even worse
Awesome guide Thank you so much... But how to join phonebook contact to Facebook manually? :-/ Sorry, i tried & i got all facebook contacts in my phonebook, and most of them have not any phone number
Mano1982 said:
Awesome guide Thank you so much... But how to join phonebook contact to Facebook manually? :-/ Sorry, i tried & i got all facebook contacts in my phonebook, and most of them have not any phone number
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You could long press on phonebook contact or facebook contact and choose Join Contacts. And choose which one you want to join. Hope it help ^_^ .
try to re-add the phonebook pictures again and your contact pictures will be better, so far it works for me
epinion said:
You could long press on phonebook contact or facebook contact and choose Join Contacts. And choose which one you want to join. Hope it help ^_^ .
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Thank You so much it helped <3
Mano1982 said:
Awesome guide Thank you so much... But how to join phonebook contact to Facebook manually? :-/ Sorry, i tried & i got all facebook contacts in my phonebook, and most of them have not any phone number
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There's an option somewhere that you can show only contacts with a phone number... although I quite like having Hulk Hogan in my phonebook!
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curious_yellow_eyes said:
There's an option somewhere that you can show only contacts with a phone number... although I quite like having Hulk Hogan in my phonebook!
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You could click three people button at the top left on your phonebook and there where the option sit.
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epinion said:
You could click three people button at the top left on your phonebook and there where the option sit.
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But when you send a text, and go to add contact, it shows everyone, and some multiple times over. Anyone know how to set that to only your phone numbers? Super annoying
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The phonebook actually don´t work when you have two friends with the exact same name...
For some reason i have the problem that i have 8 friends, that in pairs of two have the exact same name (on facebook), in my phone i have given them alternative last names, or used their middle name when they have one, but the phone have combined them so they both is in the same contact now.
Pretty stupid system...
I can´t be the only one in the world with that problem...
Also an other annoing thing, is if eg. my gf have her phone number and e-mail on facebook, and i allready also had it in contact on the phone, then it will be there two times in a row when they are combined.
The system should be able to figure out that the same phone-number/adress/e-mail only have to be under a person once....
SE can make face recon., but can´t see that eg. two email-adresses is 100% identical...
I tried the system 4-5 days, but decided to shut it down again, as it was too annoing to use for real...
epinion said:
2. If we join manually and our phonebook first name has the same name as the facebook first name, it will show you the name from the facebook. Example: phonebook name John, facebook name John Doe, it will show as John Doe.
3. If we join manually and have different first name from phonebook and different name from facebook, it will show us the name from phonebook. Example : phonebook name JOE, facebook name John Doe, it will show as JOE.
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I am experiencing the opposite, When I have my friend name in my phonebook stored in his nickname for example his name in the phonebook is NOOB! and his real name on facebook is John it will show up as john in my phonebook contacts! Tried to do several times but it still replaces the phonebook name
kbadone said:
I am experiencing the opposite, When I have my friend name in my phonebook stored in his nickname for example his name in the phonebook is NOOB! and his real name on facebook is John it will show up as john in my phonebook contacts! Tried to do several times but it still replaces the phonebook name
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Just call people by their right names. Problem solved!
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Visspui said:
But when you send a text, and go to add contact, it shows everyone, and some multiple times over. Anyone know how to set that to only your phone numbers? Super annoying
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I saw this too, it seems like it is showing their email addresses, home numbers, every field we have some sort of contact details?!
Would love to know how to stop this too...
pshdo said:
The phonebook actually don´t work when you have two friends with the exact same name...
For some reason i have the problem that i have 8 friends, that in pairs of two have the exact same name (on facebook), in my phone i have given them alternative last names, or used their middle name when they have one, but the phone have combined them so they both is in the same contact now.
Pretty stupid system...
I can´t be the only one in the world with that problem...
Also an other annoing thing, is if eg. my gf have her phone number and e-mail on facebook, and i allready also had it in contact on the phone, then it will be there two times in a row when they are combined.
The system should be able to figure out that the same phone-number/adress/e-mail only have to be under a person once....
SE can make face recon., but can´t see that eg. two email-adresses is 100% identical...
I tried the system 4-5 days, but decided to shut it down again, as it was too annoing to use for real...
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Have you tried reverse join? The default one is join your phonebook contacts with your fb contacts. Try to join your FB contacts with your phonebook contacts. Sometimes if I can't join, I did it this way.
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kbadone said:
I am experiencing the opposite, When I have my friend name in my phonebook stored in his nickname for example his name in the phonebook is NOOB! and his real name on facebook is John it will show up as john in my phonebook contacts! Tried to do several times but it still replaces the phonebook name
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Have you tried reverse join? Join your FB contacts with your phonebook contacts.
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Visspui said:
But when you send a text, and go to add contact, it shows everyone, and some multiple times over. Anyone know how to set that to only your phone numbers? Super annoying
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Yeah true. Haven't found solution yet. Anyone?
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epinion said:
Have you tried reverse join? The default one is join your phonebook contacts with your fb contacts. Try to join your FB contacts with your phonebook contacts. Sometimes if I can't join, I did it this way.
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Can you explain a little more how to do this?
I tried viewing my contacts in the Facebook app itself then long clicked everywhere, tried menu button too, and found no option to link to my phonebook. Maybe I'm just missing something or don't quite understand what you mean :S Thanks
rvictorg said:
Can you explain a little more how to do this?
I tried viewing my contacts in the Facebook app itself then long clicked everywhere, tried menu button too, and found no option to link to my phonebook. Maybe I'm just missing something or don't quite understand what you mean :S Thanks
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I'm sorry if I make you or others confuse. Generally what show at phonebook is only our phonebook contacts, meanwhile now we had other contacts such as facebook, twitter, etc contacts. We can enable it by clicking three people pics at the top left of our phonebook.
For example if you check all fb contacts, the phonebook will now show your facebook contacts as well. From here you could long press your fb contacts and join it with your phonebook contacts. That what I mean before. ^_^
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Hello guys.
As the title, would like to know how to sync a single facebook contact, with a name chosen by me, to a single phonebook contact, to keep updated on the status and photos.
Attention please:
1) I KNOW THAT THE APPLICATION "Facebook to Android" ASK ME TO SYNC ALL CONTACTS OR ONLY THOSE I HAVE IN PHONEBOOK. THIS DON'T INTEREST ME BEACAUSE THE APP SYNC ONLY FEW CONTACTS AUTOMATICALLY.
2) I'M TALKING ABOUT ANY ROMS "WITHOUT SENSE INTERFACE.
I would simply like to know, (FOR EG) if I have a contact in the phonebook like "John Vodafone", how to connect it to the facebook contact "John Smith" doing it manually, to be able to update his status, his photo etc etc ...
Thank you all for your help
PS. Sorry for my poor english...
hi.. as i know first u have to sync fb contacts..then go to your contact and press menu>edit then again press menu>join then u see a list of all contacts sync from differents accounts.just search a profile then click it thats all
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namila007 said:
hi.. as i know first u have to sync fb contacts..then go to your contact and press menu>edit then again press menu>join then u see a list of all contacts sync from differents accounts.just search a profile then click it thats all
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thanks but, in the new miui 2.3.3 when I sync a fb contact with phonebook one, the contact photo remain the same.
erestor6 said:
thanks but, in the new miui 2.3.3 when I sync a fb contact with phonebook one, the contact photo remain the same.
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if u want to dispaly fb photo in ur contact just edit the contact and click on the fb photo and select use as contact pic
namila007 said:
if u want to dispaly fb photo in ur contact just edit the contact and click on the fb photo and select use as contact pic
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This metod don't work for me, do not display new choise photo.
Android 2.3.5 on HD2
Sender name not showing in messages in Hawkish ROM only mobile numbers are showing. Also can't search contacts in phone by name only by number. No contact names in call logs either. . Am on latest Hawkish ROM. .
Any help will be appreciated.
DRTARUNRAJ said:
Sender name not showing in messages in Hawkish ROM only mobile numbers are showing. Also can't search contacts in phone by name only by number. Am on latest Hawkish ROM. .
Any help will be appreciated.
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Remove you google accounts.. sync.. then re-add them.. sync..
your contacts will then show up..
Give it a try and see how yea go..
Fade777 said:
Remove you google accounts.. sync.. then re-add them.. sync..
your contacts will then show up..
Give it a try and see how yea go..
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Contacts are showing but only saved mobile numbers and not the names of contacts in messages. Also when I make a call from contacts then also the name of the contact is not shown in phone app only mobile number. .
I get it on Hangouts from time-to-time.
Clear all Google service/framework/account manager - wipe/clear then disable, remove Google account, reboot, and then re-add as stated previously. Give it two minutes to re-sync. #Profit.
radicalisto said:
I get it on Hangouts from time-to-time.
Clear all Google service/framework/account manager - wipe/clear then disable, remove Google account, reboot, and then re-add as stated previously. Give it two minutes to re-sync. #Profit.
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Ok. . will try and see. .
Tried.. didn't work. . all my contacts are saved in the SIM card. .
DRTARUNRAJ said:
Tried.. didn't work. . all my contacts are saved in the SIM card. .
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Phone icon > settings > contacts to display > choose.
radicalisto said:
Phone icon > settings > contacts to display > choose.
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Contact names are showing in Contacts but not in messages or call logs. .