I like being able to sync people into my phone's contact list from Facebook. On the Fascinate is there an advantage to using the Facebook App to do this instead of the built in TouchWiz Contacts Sync?
I've read somewhere that Contacts Sync causes a battery issue
Yep....the facebook app allows you to do just that. The first time you login it will ask you to sync your facebook contacts to your contacts, list
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does anybody know a good way to organize contacts? Google synced all my contacts together and now i have 1450+ contacts on my phone. (email, phone contacts, facebook, twitter). I want to just have the phone contacts with phone numbers. Is there a quick way to delete all the ones that just emails? Cheers
There is a setting in the contacts.
In the contacts you should have an image with 3 heads in it in the to right of the screen. Click on that and choose to only show contacts with phone numbers.
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i know that works but i want to have an organized set of contacts instead of just seeing subsets of the mess
Add contact groups on gmail and tell you e-mail app on your phone to only sync the groups you want synced!
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Was wondering if there is a way to manually sync contacts to facebook accounts using a rom such as PUR3AO5PTH3ORY?
When I download the Facebook android app the only contacts that I can get to sync are the ones who have their mobile numbers listed on facebook. Was able to sync without a problem when using facebook for HTC sense.
Any help would be appreciated!
So the issue is you're not getting everyone to sync?
You may need to change the sync parameters to "include all" or "sync with existing contacts".
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Have tried both options... The only facebook accounts I can get to sync with my phone are people who have their mobile numbers on their facebook profile. Can't seem to be able to manually link the accounts like with the HTC App...
Hi, I have a problem that has been puzzling me for some weeks now. Here is the situation:
I have a Galaxy S, running a custom ROM on 2.3.3. I have my Google and Facebook accounts and my Android calendar shows events from both Google (events I entered, contact birthdays, etc) and Facebook (FB events and birthdays). The Facebook account is the integrated one (the one listed in the top, with Twitter and Myspace).
So I bought my wife a Galaxy Ace. It has a stock ROM from our local Braziloan carrier (Claro). When we bought it, it was running 2.2.1 but Kies just updated it to 2.3.4 this weekend. In the Ace, my wife also has a Google and a Facebook account (the integrated one as well) but with a difference: her calendar shows all Google events but for Facebook it shows only the events, not the birthdays!
I hoped the upgrade to 2.3.4 would solve it but nothing... I already checked and the Facebook contacts do have birthdays (when viewed from the contacts app).
I tried peeking at the "calendar.db" as suggested here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100191) but could not find anything wrong in there.
I also searched for "calendar", "facebook", etc here in XDA but no help sp far...
Any clues???
Did you reinstall Facebook ?
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Try to sync? In the settings in facebook.
its a common problem i think...
when i sync my contacts with fb, the birthdays are showing in the agenda but there is no way to display those birthdays in the calendar...
what i did is export your facebook birthday calendar and import it in google calendar (web), then you can go into calendar app and sync that calendar.
Thanks for you replies. Here are my comments:
EmoBoiix3 said:
Did you reinstall Facebook ?
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Actually, I did... I even wiped it all and re-installed everything. Did not work either... But please notice that the Facebook app itself is not the case here. Why? The Facebook app uses a non-integrated Facebook account and I'm using the integrated account.
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Try to sync? In the settings in facebook.
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Yes. I configured it to sync contacts and calendar... And I synced hundreds of times, just to make sure.
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its a common problem i think...
when i sync my contacts with fb, the birthdays are showing in the agenda but there is no way to display those birthdays in the calendar...
what i did is export your facebook birthday calendar and import it in google calendar (web), then you can go into calendar app and sync that calendar.
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This is a workaround, indeed. But I don't want to to this way because it is not automatic: each way a new friend is added in Facebook, I'd have to re-export the FB calendar to Google.
Here is some additional info. I did some more peeking in the databases (the .db files) and found out that the birthdays are not being loaded in the "events" table from the "calendar.db" file (not sure about the exact names, I don't have the phone at hand now...). If I look at this database in my Galaxy S (where it works), I see all Facebook birthdays and events in this "events" table. In the Ace, only the Facebook events were there...
Now it looks like the problem might be in the syncing itself, not in the actual Calendar app (which only display what is in the database).
I had this weird idea: since everything works in my Galaxy S (I even did a real-case test: I wiped my Galaxy S, configured my wife's Gmail and Facebook accounts and it worked perfectly), would it make sense to copy the .apk's from my phone to the Ace? If true, which .apk's could it be?
It doesn't work for me too. Actually, facebook only has the option of syncing contacts. Do I have to have a google account tied to facebook for facebook events to be synced to calendar?
Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble at the moment getting my Facebook contacts profile pictures to show up when sync'ing my contacts with the Facebook for Android app. It sync's the accounts okay because I can still view a contact and it will have a link to their Facebook profile, however it's no longer sync'ing the pictures anymore.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Facebook app and then sync'ing contacts again but it still doesn't work. Does anyone have any idea why that might be? Cheers.
i did had this issue.... i removed the facebook account from social hub & the facebbok app itself..
Settings -> accounts and sync -> then clicking on the account and removing them.
Then first added facebook to social hub...synced it...then pictures were back...then i had to again log on to facebook app...and synced again (this is just to attach the contacts) so that the app can be lauched from contacts itself.
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i did had this issue.... i removed the facebook account from social hub & the facebbok app itself..
Settings -> accounts and sync -> then clicking on the account and removing them.
Then first added facebook to social hub...synced it...then pictures were back...then i had to again log on to facebook app...and synced again (this is just to attach the contacts) so that the app can be lauched from contacts itself.
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I don't have Social Hub, I froze it in Titanium Backup and it seems to have disappeared. Think I'm going to have to reset the phone.
Just try to delete and readd your Facebook.sync account. And then sync again. That worked for me. I never use the hubs
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Cheers for the replies guys. I found out what the problem was, the ROM I had installed had the Facebook sync removed from it. Did a full wipe only to realize this afterwards, all sorted now though.
when i sign in my facebook account on my phone it asks me wether to sync all facebook friends, sync only with existing contacts or don't sync, i choose with exsisting contacts,but facebook syncs with all my friends from facebook even some without numbers. And all i want with the sync is for my friends to their facebook pictures, but they don't. How to sync my contacts to have pictures?
I join the contacts manualy. From Contacta. One by one. Select contact, menu button, join contact.
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and what do you get with joining the contacts manualy? do they have pictures from facebook?
Yes, but not fullscreen.
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i don't get the joining, i go to some contact and go settings, join contact and then it gives me the rest of the contacts, so i can join him if i have 2 or more of his number... please explain