It says on the official site you can sync facebook pics with contacts, how can I do that?
royalbloodvi said:
It says on the official site you can sync facebook pics with contacts, how can I do that?
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you need android 2.1 and facebook for android. login press the button sync to contacts
For anyone who still has 1.6 you can use 'SyncMyPix' which does the same thing.
Note: The name in your phonebook has to be identical to the name on facebook.
Other program is Facebooksync there you can choose which phone contact to sync with facebook profile picture.
Do not need any 3rd-party app.
Just upgrade to 2.1, then update the pre-installed Facebook app with Android Market.
At the first time you start FB App, it will ask you whether to sync your facebook contacts with your phone contacts or not. Let it sync.
When the sync is completed, open your Contacts. Click on the contact that you want to change the Contact Picture ~> click on Edit Contact ~> press Menu button and choose Join contact. Then choose your Facebook contact that related with the current contact.
Done, the contact picture will automatic change to FB profile picture. Any update to FB profile picture will effect to the user contact picture automatically.
Hope this help
FiDra said:
Do not need any 3rd-party app.
Just upgrade to 2.1, then update the pre-installed Facebook app with Android Market.
At the first time you start FB App, it will ask you whether to sync your facebook contacts with your phone contacts or not. Let it sync.
When the sync is completed, open your Contacts. Click on the contact that you want to change the Contact Picture ~> click on Edit Contact ~> press Menu button and choose Join contact. Then choose your Facebook contact that related with the current contact.
Done, the contact picture will automatic change to FB profile picture. Any update to FB profile picture will effect to the user contact picture automatically.
Hope this help
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Wow it's a good one! But, my contacts change the name to the facebook contact... and in some cases its a fake name, any way to change this?
FiDra said:
Do not need any 3rd-party app.
Just upgrade to 2.1, then update the pre-installed Facebook app with Android Market.
At the first time you start FB App, it will ask you whether to sync your facebook contacts with your phone contacts or not. Let it sync.
When the sync is completed, open your Contacts. Click on the contact that you want to change the Contact Picture ~> click on Edit Contact ~> press Menu button and choose Join contact. Then choose your Facebook contact that related with the current contact.
Done, the contact picture will automatic change to FB profile picture. Any update to FB profile picture will effect to the user contact picture automatically.
Hope this help
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problem with this is, i have 1300 friends. and what it did was, it added all 1300 friends and put it in my phone book, how annoying!
Go to FB App Settings, Sync Contacts, and check the option Sync with existing contacts.
Hope this help!
aplqq said:
Wow it's a good one! But, my contacts change the name to the facebook contact... and in some cases its a fake name, any way to change this?
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That's the exact reason I didn't sync it. Same with the facebook profile photos.
FiDra said:
Do not need any 3rd-party app.
Just upgrade to 2.1, then update the pre-installed Facebook app with Android Market.
At the first time you start FB App, it will ask you whether to sync your facebook contacts with your phone contacts or not. Let it sync.
When the sync is completed, open your Contacts. Click on the contact that you want to change the Contact Picture ~> click on Edit Contact ~> press Menu button and choose Join contact. Then choose your Facebook contact that related with the current contact.
Done, the contact picture will automatic change to FB profile picture. Any update to FB profile picture will effect to the user contact picture automatically.
Hope this help
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Thanx mate. Was looking for this, for my wife's mini pro.
Much easier on my X10i.
Thanx.
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Hello,
I heard that facebook application updates its contact display pic with facebook display pics ? Mine doesnt do so , is that because of andriod 1.6 or somthin elc stopping to do so? any other software which does the same?
go to contacts, press app button, show updates and you can select either facebook, twitter or both (you need to link the contacts from phone and fb)
to link contacts, go to timescape, look for the contact spline, click on the infinity button, addcontact, and select from your contacts list
It would be pretty great if someone developed an app or something so you can have all your facebook contacts seperate from your personal contacts,
or if it was an option under the contacts menu
Just a thought...
You do not need an app for this. The phone already does this. Just sync your facebook and then under contacts you go in to the options and select "get friends" choose facebook and select all those you want to transfer to your contacts list. You then can put them in their own group or join them with their phone number and google account.
so this will not interfere with my personal contact list at all?
i DO NOT want facebook and personal contacts together.
You will have to sync your FB contacts, tell your phone to not show them in the contacts via Contats>Menu>Display Options.
Then when you want to only look at your Facebook contacts, from the Contacts app, click group, scroll down to "All Facebook Contacts."
It doesn't really accomplish anything, other than making you look in two places for information.
You also could use a Facebook Live Folder on your Home Screen if you want.
I have mine set so my contacts store their Gmail and Facebook on their contact profile. I can then just go to contacts and pick a person. Then I can click on updates in the right corner and it displays Facebook posts from my contacts. Its pretty nice.
Not really sure where this topic should go but I was wondering if there was a way to manually input my contact's number and still have their facebook profile pic show up as the picture in my contacts app?
I tried syncing my FB account to my contacts which kinda worked. but most of my friends don't put their cellphone numbers there and I end up with lots of empty contacts with just a link to their FB (but with the always changing profile pic and status updates)... It would have been nice if I could sync FB to contacts first and then add their phone numbers after but it says that I can't edit FB info on my device.
I tried doing it on Gmail but the synced FB accounts wouldnt show up in my gmail contacts. Is there a way to do create a contact on the phone and link it to an FB account? Adding someone's facebook profile URL just creates a hyperlink in my contacts which will be launched by the browser... I just want their profile pic (birthdays, emails, etc would be a bonus)
I decided to ask here if there was an easier option before I go and look for pictures of everyone I know and manually adding each to the contact app on my phone.
I have all my contacts with phone numbers stored as Google/Gmail contacts.
I also have a FB account set up on the phone.
To join the two in Contacts:
1) in Contacts -> Menu button -> Display Options -> check All Contacts under FB account and relevant group under Google account (in my case "System Group: My Contacts")
2) go back to (overpopulated) contacts list, and one by one, select Google contacts (long press) -> edit contact -> Menu button -> Join -> select FB contact for same person
3) when done, repeat 1) except uncheck All Contacts under FB account
4) ???
5) Profit! (ie. editable contacts with FB info attached)
Should work the same with PC Sync contacts methinks
raylgo said:
Not really sure where this topic should go but I was wondering if there was a way to manually input my contact's number and still have their facebook profile pic show up as the picture in my contacts app?
I tried syncing my FB account to my contacts which kinda worked. but most of my friends don't put their cellphone numbers there and I end up with lots of empty contacts with just a link to their FB (but with the always changing profile pic and status updates)... It would have been nice if I could sync FB to contacts first and then add their phone numbers after but it says that I can't edit FB info on my device.
I tried doing it on Gmail but the synced FB accounts wouldnt show up in my gmail contacts. Is there a way to do create a contact on the phone and link it to an FB account? Adding someone's facebook profile URL just creates a hyperlink in my contacts which will be launched by the browser... I just want their profile pic (birthdays, emails, etc would be a bonus)
I decided to ask here if there was an easier option before I go and look for pictures of everyone I know and manually adding each to the contact app on my phone.
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Follow these steps. For the first time it would be tough doing for all your contacts. But once done, you need not worry about it again.
1. The reason for separate phone-number contacts and facebook contacts is because of the name mismatch. So rename all your contacts with the exact name as their facebook profile.
2. Now you'll have phone-number contacts and facebook contacts, with same names. Now join the contacts one by one.
3. Make sure you're creating all the contacts under your Google account.
4. Next time when you flash a rom or do something, turning ON google sync and facebook sync would automatically bring up the contacts joined.
5. The only problem will be when your friend changes his/her profile name in facebook, in which case you've to rename your phone-number contacts to the new name. But this doesn't happen always.
The process is so complex because the system assumes that the facebook profile name and the phone number contact's name would always be the same, which may not be the case in most of the scenarios. Because I would prefer to store my girl friend's name as Sweetie (or something similar) instead of her full name. But if you want to see some data integrity in the contacts list, then no other choice, renaming the contacts names as per the facebook profile name is the way to go.
better option. join all contacts one by one. no need to rename. Remember to take backup once done and upload that backup .csv to gmail. next time u wont see dup/mismatch etc.
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Thank you guys ^_^ I'm joining and/or erasing contacts one by one... Hope this works.
I'm hoping that their profile pic will change on my phone when it changes on FB but I still get to choose what name comes out in my contacts.
The only downside is having to create a new contact on my phone for those people who are on my FB list first, since I can't add numbers to them right away.
EDIT: Ok new quirk that I don't know how to fix... How about if the phone number on FB is outdated? I can't erase it alone without having the entire FB profile go with it. I can add the new number to the FB profile though. Will setting the new number as default make the old number disappear from the options (SMS, Call)?
raylgo said:
Thank you guys ^_^ I'm joining and/or erasing contacts one by one... Hope this works.
I'm hoping that their profile pic will change on my phone when it changes on FB but I still get to choose what name comes out in my contacts.
The only downside is having to create a new contact on my phone for those people who are on my FB list first, since I can't add numbers to them right away.
EDIT: Ok new quirk that I don't know how to fix... How about if the phone number on FB is outdated? I can't erase it alone without having the entire FB profile go with it. I can add the new number to the FB profile though. Will setting the new number as default make the old number disappear from the options (SMS, Call)?
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Suppose you have a contact "aa" (gmail or phone) and the facebook profile of that contact is "bb"
Select the "aa" contact, select edit- join - select bb" done. This will merge the contacts, even though they have different names.
raylgo said:
Thank you guys ^_^ I'm joining and/or erasing contacts one by one... Hope this works.
I'm hoping that their profile pic will change on my phone when it changes on FB but I still get to choose what name comes out in my contacts.
The only downside is having to create a new contact on my phone for those people who are on my FB list first, since I can't add numbers to them right away.
EDIT: Ok new quirk that I don't know how to fix... How about if the phone number on FB is outdated? I can't erase it alone without having the entire FB profile go with it. I can add the new number to the FB profile though. Will setting the new number as default make the old number disappear from the options (SMS, Call)?
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Setting one number as default will show only that number when you use the sms/call popup on a contact. If you go to that contact's view, you can see all the numbers.
In your phone app, if you have smart dial, when you start entering the contact's name, all the numbers will come up.
Similarly in the SMS app, if you enter the contact name in the receipient filed, all the numbers would be shown in the option.
And do not worry what will happen if the FB profile pic is changes. When you turn ON auto-sync, it will automatically updated.
Yeah I got that part. I'm working my way through the list and making new contacts for the FB only people and merging the new contact with the FB profile. This way, I can eventually add their numbers to the contact.
I tried calling and texting my friend who has 2 numbers (one old and one I'm sure is active) and made the active number default. Looks like it did the trick. The old number doesn't pop up anywhere.
Now all that's left is to find the willpower to finish fixing my contacts and syncing them back to my Gmail Thank you everyone
I just received my Atrix yesterday, and have been playing around with it for a while to see if I like MotoBlur enough to want it in a custom ROM.
I'm on orange stock 2.3.4 and have set up my MotoBlur account and Facebook account. Now the Facebook widget has connected successfully as I can send a status using the home-screen widget. However i cannot find how to link my contacts to there appropriate Facebook profiles to get contact pictures etc.
Am I missing an easy trick here - are they supposed to update automatically? Or do I need to link them?
Thanks,
I believe some contacts does link automatically (when name and email from google match the facebook record). If they are not, you will need to join contacts.
1) go to contacts, select the contact, "menu", Edit contact.
2) "menu", Join
3) select the contact you want to Join
4) "menu", Save
You also need to add Facebook account to your contact "app". And if you find that you have some contacts that are doubled up.. one facebook one not then you just join them as above
NinjaWookie said:
You also need to add Facebook account to your contact "app". And if you find that you have some contacts that are doubled up.. one facebook one not then you just join them as above
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How do I 'add Facebook account to my contact "app" I can't find where i'm supposed to add contacts from Facebook in my contacts? I'm running GingerBlur 6.1 by the way.
Thanks for all your help!
Do you live in Dom. Rep? i live here and also got my atrix yesterday.. the facebook widget syncs perfectly over wifi... i still havnt unlocked the phone..
Nope, I'm in the UK. I think it must be a problem with the MotoBlur servers over here maybe? Not entirely sure, but I've tried three different ROMs and still no luck.
I also have the newer Facebook layout which may be affecting it?
It's not such a big deal now as I'm using FriendCaster to sync my contacts.
pull up your contacts press the menu button and go to accounts inside the accounts press menu again and add account ie facebook
you should see one more screen in between these two and add account option is at the bottom of that page
Thanks for all your help - I had already set up my Facebook account successfully as I could set a status using Blur. Was a strange problem, but all of a sudden it's decided to work and all of my contacts have now synced to my phone, and I'm receiving status updates from my contacts now instead of just links etc.
Maybe I just wasn't giving it long enough to sync properly - thought it'd do it within an hour, but I guess not... Thanks again!
Is there a way to sync a specific facebook profile to a contact? im on gingerbread 2.3 and any help is appreciated!
Not that I'm aware of. If you wanted to import your Facebook friends into your contact list, you can do that by installing the Facebook app, bit that's about it.
When you sync your facebook friends it syncs multiples and doesnt correctly join contact but I figured out hiw to do it if anyone wants to know.
Go to the facebook app and go to the friends list. Press and hold down the picture of the person you want to sync in the list view and let go after a few seconds. A contact card will pop up, press it and hit edit then hit the menu button and a option should poo up to join contact. Scroll down the list and find the contact you want to attatch to the facebook profile and in the contact hit there facebook picture and select use this photo so the contact pic updates every time they change there profile picture.
I hope that made sense for anybody that wants to do this