Read the thread over and over again, and skimmed through the Q&A forums, couldn't find anything.
I went from an earlier build of DarkSide ROM to the v2.0, which, while still retaining Motoblur, it skipped the setup, and as far as I can tell, I have nothing to do with it.
Before, I was able to click on Accounts -> Other Accounts, and add Facebook to my contacts list. It would sync with the contact lists I already had, with a few outliers that I manually fixed.
With the new build, the other accounts -> Facebook option is not there, until I install the app. Even then, in the accounts window if I click on Facebook it does nothing. In my contacts list I don't see any information other than what was in Google.
Am I missing something here? How do I get it to re-sync contacts with FB, or was that phased out? I'm reading a lot of conflicting information, so I am pretty confused.
I would love to learn how to do that. I did it all the time on my Captivate. I didn't get to try to do that on the stock rom on my Atrix and haven't been able to do it on any of the many roms I've used.
Happened to me first flash of cm7 reflashed and it was fixed
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Heya,
My facebook account from the Facebook for Android app doesn't want to add to My Accounts properly. I'm going to try and explain this in detail, and hope that I'm not the only one with this problem.
GingerBlur 1.3
4.1.57 with GladRoot
No motoblur frozen except for whatever Gingerblur did.
I log out of "Facebook for Android" and goto Settings > Accounts (Only motoblur and Google account are there)
Goto Add Account > Facebook (not the motoblur one; the bottom one)
It opens the facebook app, then asks me to login (so I do)
It brings me to the help and tips page where I click finish
It takes me to my news feed without adding the account
If I login and press the back key on the tips page, it gives me the option to choose what I want to sync, however when I choose, it takes me to the tips page (or back key to the previous page) and clicking finish STILL doesn't add the account.
If I goto add the account when I'm already logged in, the selection will just light up when I click it, and won't load the facebook app at all.
I've even tried SBF flashing back to stock and retrying all these steps at various stages of my "reinstalling everything" process.
Twitter adds itself fine automatically after I login to the app itself.
PLEASE HELP ME D:
sbf will fix fb sync issues. Some mods and roms will break fb. If you want fb sync: sbf, gladroot, update, retain root. I can confirm you can be on the newest firmware w/ root and working fb sync. But any other mods or roms after that could potentially break fb sync, and from looking around the forums it seams a majority do break it.
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sbf will fix fb sync issues. Some mods and roms will break fb. If you want fb sync: sbf, gladroot, update, retain root. I can confirm you can be on the newest firmware w/ root and working fb sync. But any other mods or roms after that could potentially break fb sync, and from looking around the forums it seams a majority do break it.
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Are you still syncinc facebook on 2.3.4?
Baliztik said:
Are you still syncinc facebook on 2.3.4?
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Nope, since facebook took out that feature after android warned them about it breaching their terms and conditions.
I have an issue with the HTC Mail app when I setup my Gmail and Google Apps accounts as exchange. They constantly sync! Every second the circle of arrows appear in the notification bar and I continually cancel sync in Accounts & Sync but to no avail. I want to use the app because it seems to handle text rewrap and attachments better than the Gmail app installed on the phone. I also like the widget. I only have them to only sync mail. Calendars and contacts are synced through Google. I've searched and can't seem to find an answer.
Check the TB android development or apps/themes forum, I believe there is an mail.apk floating around that fixes problems.
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Check the TB android development or apps/themes forum, I believe there is an mail.apk floating around that fixes problems.
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It seems the mail.apk that is floating around is for security issues with the mail.apk on the thunderbolt. I don't see anything in the threads I found by search that addresses the issue I am having. Thanks.
Oh, sorry about that, are you running the stock rom?
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Oh, sorry about that, are you running the stock rom?
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Yes I am running the stock rom and I am unrooted.
In that case I would call VZW and tell them your problem, maybe they know a fix , or you could try HTC and see what they say about it.
Please understand, I DO NOT WANT TO SYNC MY CONTACTS WITH FACEBOOK!
It totally messes up the sync, puts wrong info with the wrong people, etc.
So I go to settings/Accounts and Sync, select Facebook and turn off Sync Contacts. Then I delete all the garbage and the mess Facebook has made of my contacts, use MyPhone Explorer to force Outlook to my Contacts and all is well until.... a reboot will somehow turn it back on! I'll get the message in the notification bar about linked contacts, click NO! HELL NO! and then go look at Settings/Accounts and Sync and the Sync Contacts is back on. Sometimes I catch it before any notifications have come up, sometimes I catch it before it's messed up my Contacts but not always.....
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is the 4th Android phone that's had this bug! I've run stock ROMS, Froyo Roms, Gingerbread Roms, currently running rooted with a Gingerbread Rom. it doesn't happen with a BlackBerry or WinMo device, it doesn't happen with Google contacts so it's not the phone, it's not the Android version, it's not T-Mobile or VZW, it's a fault of Facebook or the Android Facebook app, how can I fix it?
Or am I the only one with the problem?
Did that for me to with an older version of fb. I deleted HTCfb with TB, and fb, then installed fb from the market, now it only has one synced option instead of like 5 or whatever it was before, and if I unchecked it it stays that way on reboot. I also deleated a ton of other stuff off my phone with TB that I don't use, so im not sure if something else may have helped that.
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Thanks, I may have it handled. Maybe.... I left the sync box checked, deleted the categories Facebook had mis created in my Contacts list. I've rebooted several times and all seems to be well. Initially I had to dismiss a couple of paired suggestions but no more have popped up.
I'll delete the HTC Facebook and the Friendstream app if it continues to mess up.
Yea, I deleted all that crap, and backup manager, news, stocks, mms, tell HTC... Everything I don't use on a daily basis, and its much better now, not so much clutter and things trying to connect or hog recources and drain my batt, lol
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Dumb question, but I have yet to figure it out LOL. So I got 2 new phones for my kids and I add them to my contact list and sync contacts, but everytime I flash a new rom and log in to my google account the 2 new phones are never on my contact list and I continually have to re add them. How do I get my contacts to sync and update to my google account ?
Thanks for any help it's driving me nuts.
When you add a contact, there are options to save to the phone, google, or sim card, make sure you change from phone, to google.
fenixnr said:
When you add a contact, there are options to save to the phone, google, or sim card, make sure you change from phone, to google.
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Ah, never noticed that before ! Thank you
Also make sure in your setting that you google account is set up to sync the contacts
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Since we're on this topic, I've noticed that when I edit a google contact on my phone it only stays changed for a few mins until it re-syncs with google contacts and then it goes back to the way it was. How can I set it so that I can edit info on the phone and it'll update the contact on google's servers. It seems like its only a one way sync on this HTC phone. I've had galaxy S phones before and never had this problem. Thanks.
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Since we're on this topic, I've noticed that when I edit a google contact on my phone it only stays changed for a few mins until it re-syncs with google contacts and then it goes back to the way it was. How can I set it so that I can edit info on the phone and it'll update the contact on google's servers. It seems like its only a one way sync on this HTC phone. I've had galaxy S phones before and never had this problem. Thanks.
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Is there no way to have the phone update gmail contacts on google's servers? I've never had this problem before on any Android phone. Samsung touchwiz, AOSP, and Cyanogen all worked properly.
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Is there no way to have the phone update gmail contacts on google's servers? I've never had this problem before on any Android phone. Samsung touchwiz, AOSP, and Cyanogen all worked properly.
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I have the same problem on an SG3. It is driving me crazy. At the moment is seems that the only way to get a new contact on the phone is to enter it into Google first.
This seems to be a big problem for a lot of people.
I expect that there is some simple answer and that it is simply that smething which is being misunderstood - but if some knows the answer and could post it here - there would be a lot of grateful people.
There is also the option to back your phone up with your google account when you first sync it. DoD you select that?
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Is there no way to have the phone update gmail contacts on google's servers? I've never had this problem before on any Android phone. Samsung touchwiz, AOSP, and Cyanogen all worked properly.
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Under people, make sure everything is deselect except Google contacts. Then everything should sync
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Weirdness with mine is I keep adding numbers to my Google account and it syncs but days later when I change roms It isn't saved.
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blestsol said:
Weirdness with mine is I keep adding numbers to my Google account and it syncs but days later when I change roms It isn't saved.
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i have the same problem and it drives me crazy. when i update a Google contact on my phone and after manually sync the contacts, it doesn't get updated on my Google account on the net.
please advice.
Complaints here are worthless without saying what code is being run. I use rooted/debloated stock firmware, and contacts sync just fine between the phone and gmail.
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Complaints here are worthless without saying what code is being run. I use rooted/debloated stock firmware, and contacts sync just fine between the phone and gmail.
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Same. I've never had an issue like this in all my years on android. All I can say is make 100% sure you are changing the Google contact in your phone book and not a phone/facebook/sim one. Any chances made via phone or Web to contacts should sync pretty much instantly.
Also if you have multiple accounts like I do, I'd recommend using just one for all your numbers and having the others just for email addresses and such. Maybe the multi account sync is just showing the one with the most information vs the actual one that you edited. See if this helps
finally i found the solution on the net. @ https://forums.motorola.com/posts/4b949ea56b
Hi guys,
I just noticed recently that my DNA is giving me this error under accounts and sync. It seems like this may be a wide spread issue for all types of Android phones, but I was wondering if anyone else was seeing this. The strange this is that it looks like everything is synced properly, and even when I drill down into the actual items that are syncing, there are no errors. I'm not sure if it is the rom that I am on (UKB), but I would really like to clear it up if possible. I have tried deleting the data in Apps for the various items listed, but this does not seem to help. I even booted into recovery and cleared the cache, to no avail.
Thanks guys,
Steve
Alright, I just did a full wipe, installed UKB 1.3 with Cubed stock kernel, and I am still getting that sync error. Is anyone else seeing this?
I have had this issue on CODIS, UKB and the battery plus ROM
It syncs everything fine, but it does show a red sync icon and say its experiencing problems. I've just learned to deal with it as everything still works fine.
--removing and re-adding my google account does nothing
--unchecking each option (calendar, contacts, gmail etc.) one by one to see if a particular causes the problem,...does nothing to help
Just wanted to letyou know you are not the only one with the issue.
I'm having the issue where the gmail app syncs fine but if I read/delete emails and go back to my computer, all the changes I did on my phone didn't sync with my computer browser. Anyone know how to fix that?
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I'm having the issue where the gmail app syncs fine but if I read/delete emails and go back to my computer, all the changes I did on my phone didn't sync with my computer browser. Anyone know how to fix that?
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I had that issue. Uninstalling and reinstalling gmail app from the market fixed it for me.
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Ah, thanks for the replies guys. At least I'm not the only one . At least it's not in your face screaming at you, so I can learn to ignore it.
I'm having the sync issues myself, and I'm even on full stock ROM. Just wanted to let you know. My account is on two-step authentication - are other people also using two-step? Common denominator?
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I'm having the sync issues myself, and I'm even on full stock ROM. Just wanted to let you know. My account is on two-step authentication - are other people also using two-step? Common denominator?
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I believe that is the problem. I had an error in Google Internet sync. I fixed it by going to Google dashboard on my computer and clicking "Websites authorized to access the account." Go down to Application Specific Passwords.
Install the Google Authenticator on the DNA. Then register it by generating a new application specific 12 digit password. The Authenticator app will then generate the six digit codes you'll need when asked to be able to sync your bookmarks in the browser or sign in the Google search homepage. Anyway it worked for me.
For me it was Facebook calendar that couldn't sync. I unchecked it and the error went away. It looks like it can be any part of any of your accounts that will trigger that message. If you go into each one, it will show which one is having the problem.