Using the stock contact app;
Any contact I added a week or so ago I can edit & everything is fine. Any contact I try and add today if I don't enter everything at the initial add I can no longer edit the contact.
If I go into a new contact instead of the pencil icon at the top right I only get the head+ icon which does nothing.
Contacts are not synced to google. Contact sync is disabled, Contacts are local to the device only.
If I use a 3rd party app then I can edit new and existing contacts just fine.
Any ideas?
iam-q said:
Using the stock contact app;
Any contact I added a week or so ago I can edit & everything is fine. Any contact I try and add today if I don't enter everything at the initial add I can no longer edit the contact.
If I go into a new contact instead of the pencil icon at the top right I only get the head+ icon which does nothing.
Contacts are not synced to google. Contact sync is disabled, Contacts are local to the device only.
If I use a 3rd party app then I can edit new and existing contacts just fine.
Any ideas?
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Same problem here, have you resolved it?
Yes - I found out what caused it - if you disable the system app 'Google contacts sync' this will cause the default contact app to not recognise where to store a contact - so presumes its not saved and won't let you edit it.
If however you use a 3rd party app to manage contacts (like exDialer) then you can edit contacts quite happily, but if you set the contact group to be 'My Contacts' then the default in-built contact manager will edit the contact as normal.
It's basically google getting upset I won't allow contact sync under any circumstance - rather than allow/work in another mode it just decides you cant edit the contact. - You should also check the contact(s) your trying to edit are actual phone contacts, not Whatsapp or Facebook or something 3rd party (Other people have reported the fact you cant edit those)
If you re-enable the sync app then the default contact editor will work again (for any new contact) for any broken contact update/check the group setting.
I don't need or want my contacts attaching to a google account - why can't the phone just accept that rather than desperately trying to upload everything to the GCloud when it feels like it...
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does anybody know i can sync or assign my friends profile pictures on facebook with my contact.is there any app that can make thumbnails bigger on the shortcut screen
mikkybukky82 said:
does anybody know i can sync or assign my friends profile pictures on facebook with my contact.is there any app that can make thumbnails bigger on the shortcut screen
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Not entirely sure what you are asking, but if you goto your nexus one contacts > Menu button > accounts > add account, you can add facebook in. then afterwards, just make sure there is a checkmark in your facebook account sync settings. This will sync facebook and your nexus one contacts profile pic and all. If your nexus can't figure out which google contacts and which facebook contacts are the same person, you can manually join them under the settings for each contact and the profile pics and info will stay synced forever more.
However, your nexus won't sync this unified contact info or the profile pictures back to Google contacts website. Just for your phones contacts app.
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Not entirely sure what you are asking, but if you goto your nexus one contacts > Menu button > accounts > add account, you can add facebook in. then afterwards, just make sure there is a checkmark in your facebook account sync settings. This will sync facebook and your nexus one contacts profile pic and all. If your nexus can't figure out which google contacts and which facebook contacts are the same person, you can manually join them under the settings for each contact and the profile pics and info will stay synced forever more.
However, your nexus won't sync this unified contact info or the profile pictures back to Google contacts website. Just for your phones contacts app.
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This is what I'm trying to do... where in the settings? There's either "Options", which just changes ringtone and such, or there's the option to Edit the contact. Don't see where to link Gmail contacts with Facebook.
go to the facebook app and add your account and then it will givey ou options to sync or not
I know I'm having this issue... I'm not sure if it beacse there is already a contact icon (this is what android call is) in place and facebook can't over-write a new photo or not. I know you can go an edit the contact and there is a facebook section where you can choose to use the icon/picture there.
uansari1 said:
This is what I'm trying to do... where in the settings? There's either "Options", which just changes ringtone and such, or there's the option to Edit the contact. Don't see where to link Gmail contacts with Facebook.
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It will automatically merge the facebook contacts with matching google contacts. be sure to force a manual sync in case it didn't automatically do it after adding the facebook account.
for the facebook contacts it couldn't figure out which google contact to merge with, goto the contact, click on edit contact, and towards the bottom you should have a join contacts option to pick a contact to merge the info with for future syncs.
Also, if you have already assigned a contact picture, I think that will override the facebook synced one. SO remove any contact pictures you assigned locally.
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It will automatically merge the facebook contacts with matching google contacts. be sure to force a manual sync in case it didn't automatically do it after adding the facebook account.
for the facebook contacts it couldn't figure out which google contact to merge with, goto the contact, click on edit contact, and towards the bottom you should have a join contacts option to pick a contact to merge the info with for future syncs.
Also, if you have already assigned a contact picture, I think that will override the facebook synced one. SO remove any contact pictures you assigned locally.
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Thanks, that's the info I needed! I didn't know I had to click menu a second time after I was already in the edit contacts screen.
Edit: I was initially bummed when it started changing the displayed names of my contacts to match the Facebook profiles... but then I realized that it keeps your old name in the contact on the phone as well. So when I start typing Dad, it brings up my dad's name. Nice.
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Thanks, that's the info I needed! I didn't know I had to click menu a second time after I was already in the edit contacts screen.
Edit: I was initially bummed when it started changing the displayed names of my contacts to match the Facebook profiles... but then I realized that it keeps your old name in the contact on the phone as well. So when I start typing Dad, it brings up my dad's name. Nice.
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Yeah, It doesn't actually change anything on facebook or google contacts, it just changes the view on your phone and syncs that view with any changes that come from facebook or google contacts. but both address books are still kept separate on their respective servers. Although it would be kind of cool if there was a an option to sync that data and profile pics back to the google contacts server since I use google voice a lot. But that would be a very difficult thing to do and a bug could be catastrophic.
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Yeah, It doesn't actually change anything on facebook or google contacts, it just changes the view on your phone and syncs that view with any changes that come from facebook or google contacts. but both address books are still kept separate on their respective servers. Although it would be kind of cool if there was a an option to sync that data and profile pics back to the google contacts server since I use google voice a lot. But that would be a very difficult thing to do and a bug could be catastrophic.
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Yeah... I assumed that sync was... adding the information (pic, email, phone number...) to your contact, then that information would be uploaded to google contacts. I guess all the facebook sync does is just creates a "Facebook" section in your main contact card and that information never gets really added to the main portion of that contact card... the fb information is just there for your phone...
Is it possible? Its pretty annoying having a phone number list of well over 500 people... I just want my PHONE contacts to be there, not facebook. Anyone know?
I think all you have to do is remove it from "Accounts". It will still allow you to login to the app, but wont pull all yoru contact info. I had this issue with my Hotmaill account and that is how i stopped it.
If you want it to keep syncing but only see your google or sim contacts, you can change who is viewed in the contacts app by clicking the top where it says "Contacts: All contacts" and picking a different menu option. (this will not effect the contacts part of the dialer)
Alternatively you could add some contacts as favorites. And those could be more easily found in the Dialer since there is a contacts menu.
Contacts > Menu > More > Settings
Uncheck facebook account
At least I think.
There you can check Phone numbers only as well to remove all contacts that do not have a phone number associated with them.
xenorabbit said:
Contacts > Menu > More > Settings
Uncheck facebook account
At least I think.
There you can check Phone numbers only as well to remove all contacts that do not have a phone number associated with them.
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Also if you set up linked accounts in the blur accounts section you have to delete all of them except the actual blur account.
The Social networking/messaging and a few other widgets won't function though.
I guess the work around right now is to remove accounts, create a list with everyone on it, then add back on facebook. Whenever you view contacts, use the new list you made.
I was just using it to sync pictures. I removed the account and downloaded syncmypix from the market. Free and easy.
Also, another "fix" would be to go into contacts-> menu-> settings-> then selecting "phone numbers only". This wouldn't necessarily get rid of every Facebook friend from your contacts list, but since most (at least of my friends) don't seem to list their phone numbers, this should cut down your list dramatically.
I tried the above tricks but in the end the only way I could find to get rid of them from the Dialer contacts (which has no options at all) was to remove the account.
Thanks for tip on pics sync, that's all I wanted too. The actual Facebook app and Facebook widget do the rest.
Do you have some way to sync facebook contacts with milestone 2 + CM10?
i try update app from market, check the option to sync contacts, but nothing happen, search in foruns and got just the answer use motoblur, but CM10 dont have MOTOBLUR.
what is the best way to do that?
Try the app 'facebook contact sync' from the play store. works very good on my phone. The only problem is, if people have different contact names on your phone (not facebook username) you need the facebook-id. Haven't figured out yet how that works.
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facebook contact sync is almost good, i think that need to change the contacts display from CM10, that i can set SHOW ONLY CONTACTS WITH NUMBER
skulljoi said:
facebook contact sync is almost good, i think that need to change the contacts display from CM10, that i can set SHOW ONLY CONTACTS WITH NUMBER
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just don't open the "Contacts" app, open "Phone" and switch to contacts. There will appear only your contacts with number.
Contact Picture Sync (from sbla games) is an interesting app, instead of automatic an regular syncs, the app creates a one time list where it try to find correspondent matches, then you review the list selecting FB and the correspondent local contact, then download the full sized pictures to local contacts. The app can save the list for the next sync.
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Contact Picture Sync (from sbla games) is an interesting app, instead of automatic an regular syncs, the app creates a one time list where it try to find correspondent matches, then you review the list selecting FB and the correspondent local contact, then download the full sized pictures to local contacts. The app can save the list for the next sync.
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I use this app! Is very useful.
New fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32120790
facebook sync is not working even the fix from this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695406&page=7 is there any fix! other apps only sync pictures, i want the numbers from the facebook. can anybody help!
This is wath i use :
- first install this (0,99€) :
h-ttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwib3JnLm1vdHMuaGF4c3luYyJd
- then install :
h-ttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haxsync.facebook.workaround&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmhheHN5bmMuZmFjZWJvb2sud29ya2Fyb3VuZCJd
Open the last one and it will ask you your facebook email and your password do it and you will be ok :good:
Another newb question to the Samsung. My contacts are an absolute nightmare and I can't figure out how to get them under control. I went in and disabled (I think) sync on as many things as I could find (exchange, facebook, etc). I also went through and manually deleted a bunch of contacts I didn't want. Went in there today and BOOM. Contacts are a chaotic mess again. How do I fix this? How can I mass delete contacts and start over if it comes down to that?
#frustrated ex-apple person here.
Facebook always screws mine up, so I never sync it ever.
I'd just sync your google ones and then go fix them on contacts.google.com
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Another newb question to the Samsung. My contacts are an absolute nightmare and I can't figure out how to get them under control. I went in and disabled (I think) sync on as many things as I could find (exchange, facebook, etc). I also went through and manually deleted a bunch of contacts I didn't want. Went in there today and BOOM. Contacts are a chaotic mess again. How do I fix this? How can I mass delete contacts and start over if it comes down to that?
#frustrated ex-apple person here.
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You need to disable sync on all the apps. Contact can be sync from Gmail, Facebood, Google+ etc.. Make sure you go into each and stop all the sync, then delete all the existing contacts (most of them just have email address with no phone number associate), then restore your original contact list. If you don't have the original contact list then you need to modify your current one to your liking, then export it out to your sdcard. This will be your core original list. In the future if anything happened to your contact list, you can easily delete all then import your original list and you're back. The quickest way, is to select display only "phone" contact then other none phone number contacts will disappear when you open contact.
You can tell the phone which contacts to display by account. I have mine set to only display Google. This way I don't have to worry about what syncs and doesn't, and can link the contacts between accounts so it'll show their Facebook picture for them.
Rohit197
Hi, i am using yureka and on android 5.1.1 YOG4PAS8A4. The Contact app in phone does not show Event field while editing or creating new contact. I want add birthdays of some contacts, but it doesnt allows.
But in contacts which i copied from other phone which already have birthday saved in, are shown properly and am able to edit them.
Please provide solition for this.
Use Google account to save contact instead Local phone account..
Safe and good way to keep contacts update
you get some extra features also with google
like update on your google contact and sync thru PC