My girlfriend just got a thunderbolt. Unrooted. It seems as if Facebook will not sync with her contacts. Trying to manually link them does nothing unless the contact name exactly matches the Facebook name. Just wondering if there is some secret handshake or whatever to get this to work properly?
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Do you have both Facebook the app and HTC's Sense Facebook accounts under Settings > Accounts & Sync? I believe its the Facebook App that syncs contacts
Ya she has them both. I'm sort of at a loss, works perfectly on my incredible then do the exact same thing on her thunderbolt and it just wont link unless she edits her contact names to match Facebook profiles.
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Anyone know how to update you contact photos that are linked to fb?
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If you have linked the contacts on The phone with the fb ones manually, it shows.
Syncing alone wont do it
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Try this
Settings -> Accounts & sync -> tap on the facebook for HTC sense -> tap sync now
SyncMyPix is a really good program for this:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-nloko-android-syncmypix-qxEz.aspx
Since rest of the methods don't work as you want them too and removing and re-adding facebook is not the most user-friendly thing to do.
Thanks, syncmypics works.
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May be a noob question, but a friend of mine has the Razr Maxx and in her Handcent conversation list it shows their Facebook pics. But my SGS: II is only showing the pics linked to their Google account, not their Facebook account. How can I link their conversation/contact pic to their FB pic? Is that possible on the SGS II? I can't find the solution
try hanxsync (paid) or fb contact sync. These programs sync the fb pictures to the right contacts.
Thanks but I couldn't locate either of those in the market :-/
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It's "Haxsync" and "Facebook contact sync"
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Haxsync lags and crashes the People app. I do not recommend it. Friendcaster is a facebook notification program, but it has a very good contact syncing feature and is free.
friends sync also works good
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.watto.program.android.sync.facebook
I use handcent with the original Facebook app and my pics sync. It reads the pic from the contacts so that's all u need. I had to mess with Facebook app a bit by clearing the app data and uninstalling and then reinstalling. But now that I have it , it works without a problem. It's a pain but it does work.
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peekiephish said:
I use handcent with the original Facebook apparently and my pics sync. It reads the pic from the contacts so that's all u need. I had to mess with Facebook app a bit by clearing the app data and uninstalling and then reinstalling. But now that I have it , it works without a problem. It's a pain but it does work.
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I did this, cleared data and reinstalled and and for some reason it still didn't work, so what I did was just remove the pic I had set for the contact and it imported their Facebook pic.
Thanks for the help everyone!
After upgrading to 4.0 all programs except stock contacts and text no longer show Facebook profile pictures. I use GoContacts, Handcent sms and Gmail. None of these display to contact pictures for Facebook contacts. The contact pictures is blank. I have contacted all the companies and they all blame Facebook. Any ideas?
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After upgrading to 4.0 all programs except stock contacts and text no longer show Facebook profile pictures. I use GoContacts, Handcent sms and Gmail. None of these display to contact pictures for Facebook contacts. The contact pictures is blank. I have contacted all the companies and they all blame Facebook. Any ideas?
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it is facebook. they locked down that part of there API. you have 2 options to get them back:
1. buy Haxsync from the market place. Its only $.99 and it works great.
2. download an app called Photo Unlocker, it was developed by ChainsDD. It is no longer in the market so you will need to search Google for it. For this to work you need to make sure your contacts are synced already with Facebook fully, run the app, it will ask for root. then it will show if the data base is busy or not. some times you will need to click unlock a bunch of times for it to work.
Loaded Haxsync. The only program that sees it is contacts. Does not work with third party programs. Handsent, go contacts and gmail.
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Loaded Haxsync. The only program that sees it is contacts. Does not work with third party programs. Handsent, go contacts and gmail.
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i use handsent and go contacts and the both see them on mine. try going to:
system > app > find the 2 apps and clear cache from them.
I just installed Callapp the new social dialing app that is supposed to work great with face book. It doesn't show Facebook contact photos either. This all started the second I upgraded to ICS.
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I've just downloaded HaxSync and I'm sync'ing now. I'm using a beta version of Contacts+ for my address book. We're about to find out if my contact photos import from Facebook like they used to before the API change. If this works, I'll be reporting back on my beta results.
And the verdict is...
IT WORKS (for about 90% of my Facebook contacts that had missing photos)!! Thanks for the tip!
It took a day, but the HaxSync did work. Had to rename a few contacts to the same as in Facebook. Working good with Go Contacts and Handcent.
Thanks!
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I did get it working with all of my Facebook contacts. I had to rename a few to the same name as in Facebook.
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I did get it working with all of my Facebook contacts. I had to rename a few to the same name as in Facebook.
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In hax there's an option on how accurate it needs to be. Go into the setting for "fuzziness" just don't hit the last option in it. Trust me lol
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I am using FriendCaster and supposedly it has option of syncing Facebook photos to contacts too. Haven't tried it yet
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Hi guys I have a Facebook account I used to use but I deactivated it years ago. However it is the best source for keeping my contacts having their preferred picture.
On my vivid I was able to log on to Facebook, sync contacts, and all of their pictures would show up on my contacts in the phone. Then I could deactivate Facebook and the pictures would stay.
On my hox+ I'm unable to do that?? As soon as I deactivate the contacts pictures go away. Anyone know if there's a way I can have both deactivated and their pictures saved?
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I'd like to know the answer to this too
Also, when you sync the calender, it disappears when u deactivate, is there a way to make it stay? It's very handy for birthday reminders for friends. Keep missing folks birthdays.
In facebook settings tell it to sync with existing contacts.
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I tried that just now. When I was logged in it showed my contacts pictures.as soon as I deactivate they all disappeared..
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Hi Guys, I have a few question regarding the Email Apps:
1. I heard that the default Mail app in Sense 5 is superior to the GMail App because its Smart Sync settings and I would be better off battery life wise using HTC Mail App instead of GMail for my Gmail account, is this true?
2. I am currently having trouble syncing my Outlook.com(used to be Hotmail) account to HTC Mail, if you have succeeded in doing so please let me know.
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Hi Guys, I have a few question regarding the Email Apps:
1. I heard that the default Mail app in Sense 5 is superior to the GMail App because its Smart Sync settings and I would be better off battery life wise using HTC Mail App instead of GMail for my Gmail account, is this true?
2. I am currently having trouble syncing my Outlook.com(used to be Hotmail) account to HTC Mail, if you have succeeded in doing so please let me know.
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You can use the HTC mail app for gmail just type in your gmail and password
Make sure your server settings are right
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Android The Greek said:
You can use the HTC mail app for gmail just type in your gmail and password
Make sure your server settings are right
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Is HTC mail app better than Gmail?