I entered in my Facebook account and it started uploading all my friends and added like 700 more contacts. Certainly didn't want that so I unchecked all the contacts stuffed went into people and unchecked Facebook there. I they all went away however when I am picking a contact when I start a message it shows all of the Facebook numbers again. I it did the same thing on my girlfriends rhyme as well and she'd like a solution too. Thanks in advance
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+1 this happens with Google + contacts also. Any advice on this one would be greatly appreciated.
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DrSadistic said:
+1 this happens with Google + contacts also. Any advice on this one would be greatly appreciated.
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Google+ is part of your Google Account. All of your cantacts are synced together under that account. There is no way to separate it, even if you didn't have G+ on the phone.
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I entered in my Facebook account and it started uploading all my friends and added like 700 more contacts. Certainly didn't want that so I unchecked all the contacts stuffed went into people and unchecked Facebook there. I they all went away however when I am picking a contact when I start a message it shows all of the Facebook numbers again. I it did the same thing on my girlfriends rhyme as well and she'd like a solution too. Thanks in advance
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You entered your Facebook account info into your phone, and it started uploading your contacts to Facebook? Did you mean downloading your Facebook contacts to your phone? Yes, it does that. The People app in Sense loves to suck in ALL your contacts and combine them (it calls it "linking" and you can see what contacts it has linked for you in the Settings menu.) The Messages app pulls from that same database, and I couldn't find a way to restrict it either.
Have you tried Settings -> Accounts and Sync -> Facebook and uncheck "Contacts?" You may have to remove the account entirely, uncheck auto-sync long enough to get the account added, and then uncheck the Contacts box. Just a guess, I haven't tried it.
Yeah that didn't stop it from appearing when I would view contacts through a new text. I just completely removed the account seems fine now.
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Hrm my Facebook only synced with my existing contacts - it's an option in the Facebook app
Also I have like 9000 people on Google+ but they aren't in my phone either....
not sure what you guys are doing to get them all
I don't have 9,000 people on G+ because I am not a whore, lol. But, there are options in both the apps and contacts to only sync with existing contacts, only add people with numbers, etc...
If you have 9,000 friends on G+ they are not your friends. I have been on since day 0 and have slightly over 100 people I know in real life
Apparently there's a big Facebook app update today so hopefully that helps.
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I don't have 9,000 people on G+ because I am not a whore, lol. But, there are options in both the apps and contacts to only sync with existing contacts, only add people with numbers, etc...
If you have 9,000 friends on G+ they are not your friends. I have been on since day 0 and have slightly over 100 people I know in real life
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G+ is more like Twitter for me, I follow people I don't consider "friends" simply because I want to read what they have to say. I have a separate circle for real Friends (capital-F!)
Anyway, the person who was complaining about G+ contacts showing on his phone may have been noticing them in Talk, because the Big G just decided to default all your G+ circles into Talk contacts unless you go in and deselect them. I don't think there's any way to integrate G+ into your phone contacts.
My G+ contacts are linked with their various phone contacts. But of course, all of my contacts have been backed up to Google and GMail since before Android even existed.
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My G+ contacts are linked with their various phone contacts. But of course, all of my contacts have been backed up to Google and GMail since before Android even existed.
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They're linked with existing contacts, yeah. But I don't know if it imports from Google+ contact info for non-local or non-Google people. In other words, if the only place you've got info for someone is a Google+ circle, I think that's where they'll stay. Once you send them an email, though, if your GMail account is set to auto-add to contacts, it'll offer you the chance to link the G+ contact and the Google contact.
This seems like it makes sense to me, because the people I have in my G+ circles that I don't have any other contact info for do NOT show up on my phone or in GMail.
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Alright so I've basically fallen in love with the most recent version of KaosFroyo, minus this one aspect, and that is that almost none of the profile pictures for my synced Facebook contacts will appear on the phone. Like, 5 randomly are appearing, but none more. How can I get the other peoples pictures come up?
Thanks!
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Alright so I've basically fallen in love with the most recent version of KaosFroyo, minus this one aspect, and that is that almost none of the profile pictures for my synced Facebook contacts will appear on the phone. Like, 5 randomly are appearing, but none more. How can I get the other peoples pictures come up?
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This has been an issue for everybody on all roms lately. You can dl the app "syncmypix" free from the market. Works great!
Works like a dream! Thanks mate.
I was having the same issue. I was able to manually sync them last night without any extra app. While in Contacts hit the menu button then display options. Make sure that your contact list is also displaying all contacts for Facebook. Go back to your contact list and long press which contact you want to link with Facebook. Click edit contact. Then click menu and Join. Now select the Facebook contact for the corresponding person.
I have also found that going from the stock ROM to Kaos, is that if the contact name does not match up to the facebook contact exactly, it wont sync. I have not found a way to manually snyc then up like in the older stock versions.
@bl4scott, the post above you works for KaosFroyo
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I was having the same issue. I was able to manually sync them last night without any extra app. While in Contacts hit the menu button then display options. Make sure that your contact list is also displaying all contacts for Facebook. Go back to your contact list and long press which contact you want to link with Facebook. Click edit contact. Then click menu and Join. Now select the Facebook contact for the corresponding person.
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Thats the method i kind of stumbled upon as well.. The whole contact thing was really aggravating me. haha
Yea weird bug. I haven't had an issue, but my wife's phone did.
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The new official Facebook app has contact sync also. So if you wanted to, you could remove your "Facebook for HTC Sense" account, reboot, let it remove all the data, and then open the settings in the Facebook app and change it to sync all contacts. I don't know if it works any better, but it's worth a shot.
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This has been an issue for everybody on all roms lately. You can dl the app "syncmypix" free from the market. Works great!
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Freaking lovely! Just what I needed. Thanks! That'd been driving me batty for a week.
Went to sprint store and they said the best way to do contacts is to get it the way you wanted under gmail.com contacts and then sync it.
I finally got the contacts the way I wanted, but I want to know:
1) How to completely clear out what's on the phone now
2) Sync it with what's up on gmail contacts
How do I do this?
Thanks
Brad
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Went to sprint store and they said the best way to do contacts is to get it the way you wanted under gmail.com contacts and then sync it.
I finally got the contacts the way I wanted, but I want to know:
1) How to completely clear out what's on the phone now
2) Sync it with what's up on gmail contacts
How do I do this?
Thanks
Brad
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well i just jumped inot the "PEOPLE" program we got and if u click MENU and then "VIEW"....u can select and de-select which contacts u would like on yur device....ex: twitter, phone, ect, ect, ect.....
at least that how i figured out how to managed which contacts u got on yur phone....also, ive used GMAIL on my PC to manage my contacts as well....hope i didnt make this confusing for ya LOL
Go to setting/applications/mange apps
Then find contact storage. The clear data. Then go to settings/account and sync then enable background data then press on your email and then choose sync contacts and you should be good.
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That worked!
Now one last question.
If memory serves, as people send me emails, they get added to my "contacts" under gmail automatically and thus would get sync'd automatically to my phone. How do I prevent or manage this? I get TONS of SPAM every day (200+ new emails) and don't want everyone coming over to my phone as contacts!
bpollina said:
That worked!
Now one last question.
If memory serves, as people send me emails, they get added to my "contacts" under gmail automatically and thus would get sync'd automatically to my phone. How do I prevent or manage this? I get TONS of SPAM every day (200+ new emails) and don't want everyone coming over to my phone as contacts!
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You can select only view contacts with phone numbers in the settings/view of the people app. But I believe if you go into gmail and your computer under settings you can disable automatic contacts add. I use gmail and my contacts only add if I tell it too.
I'm pretty sure it only adds a email address to ur contact list of it matches an existing contact or you add them on google talk or something
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Hi,
The Galaxy S III with Samsung's ICS 4.0.4 copies _all_ the contacts from Google to the phone, including everyone from Google+ circles.
While it's relatively easy to configure the Samsung contacts/phone app to filter only for "My Contacts" part of Google contacts, this does not prevent it from poisoning my car's phone book with 200+ irrelevant contacts when I Bluetooth-sync my phone to my car.
Does anyone know if this is a bug in Android or if it's a result of modifications done by Samsung?
And is there ANY way to prevent the non-wanted Google-contacts from showing up on the phone in the first place? (or for instance decide in a similar fashion to the contacts app which groups should be synchronized over bluetooth)
I'm sure I'm not the first having run into this problem - what have you others done? Disabled Google+ altogether? I'm sure that can't have been Google's intention
Thanks in advance for any insight!
-y1
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Hi,
The Galaxy S III with Samsung's ICS 4.0.4 copies _all_ the contacts from Google to the phone, including everyone from Google+ circles.
While it's relatively easy to configure the Samsung contacts/phone app to filter only for "My Contacts" part of Google contacts, this does not prevent it from poisoning my car's phone book with 200+ irrelevant contacts when I Bluetooth-sync my phone to my car.
Does anyone know if this is a bug in Android or if it's a result of modifications done by Samsung?
And is there ANY way to prevent the non-wanted Google-contacts from showing up on the phone in the first place? (or for instance decide in a similar fashion to the contacts app which groups should be synchronized over bluetooth)
I'm sure I'm not the first having run into this problem - what have you others done? Disabled Google+ altogether? I'm sure that can't have been Google's intention
Thanks in advance for any insight!
-y1
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contacts- menu-accounts and turn off accounts and sync
I'm fairly certain it's Google plus putting them in there and not the contacts app. I disabled the Google plus option to sync with my contacts and never had then appear in there.
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contacts- menu-accounts and turn off accounts and sync
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Yes - the only problem here is that turns off ALL the google contacts, both the ones populated from Google+ and the ones in my contact list. In previous versions there was a sub-menu under the accounts where one could choose WHICH groups under the Google account to sync. Now it grabs all - including the Google+ contacts
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I'm fairly certain it's Google plus putting them in there and not the contacts app. I disabled the Google plus option to sync with my contacts and never had then appear in there.
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Hmm - I too have disabled Google+ to sync with my contacts, but when I go to Gmail and list contacts there, all my Google+ circles are added to my contacts (just shown at a lower section). So even with de-installing Google+ on my phone, I still get the google+ contacts in my phone app.
However, when I uncircle a few persons from Google+ (from web), they disappear from Gmail contacts, and then subsequently disappear from Samsung's telephone app as well. Hence I still believe it's coming from G+ via contacts, and not the other way around..
It also seems to import all the people's email addresses that I have ever emailed from Gmail's "save sent contact list" which gives quite a few blank fields in the car phone book. These are hidden in the phone since I don't display contacts without phone numbers.
I just updated my Sprint Evo 3d to ICS last night and before I learned that you can't see Facebook contact images in 3rd party apps without some tinkering I deleted my gmail and Facebook accounts from the phone thinking that would help. When I put my accounts back Facebook only automatically linked half of my contacts. I selected the option to sync with existing contacts. Is there any way to get it to automatically link the rest? I don't want to manually link 100+ contacts. Is there a way to manually trigger the linking? Also, I don't know if it matters, but before the ICS update I had Facebook and Facebook for sense on the phone. Now it is only Facebook.
The other 100 might now have a phone number linked to fb or the names are,diffrent or you don't have an email for them or some kind,of linking info I'm your phone but the fb app should allow you to resync the people in settings I think
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The other 100 might now have a phone number linked to fb or the names are,diffrent or you don't have an email for them or some kind,of linking info I'm your phone but the fb app should allow you to resync the people in settings I think
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All the names are identical so that isn't a problem and they linked perfectly fine when I first got the phone with gingerbread. When I first set up the phone periodically the phone would alert me to possible contact links every so often until they were all linked. It isn't doing that now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639275
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Sitlet I think that is for a different issue. My problem isn't that 3rd party apps can't get the pictures (well that WAS my problem originally), it is that the link is not being established in the first place. I can fix the picture issue but I need the phone to prompt me about potential links between the contacts so I don't have to do it manually. The fix in that thread won't LINK my contacts right? It will just allow 3rd party apps to get the contact photos.
In case anyone cares, it took about 48 hours and last night I received the prompt suggesting I link contacts. I have no idea why it would take so long to trigger but all is well in the world now. Thanks to those who tried to help.
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In case anyone cares, it took about 48 hours and last night I received the prompt suggesting I link contacts. I have no idea why it would take so long to trigger but all is well in the world now. Thanks to those who tried to help.
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I bet it's facebook's problem. They've been having a lot of issues with the mobile app. Mine, along with many other people, has been logging out and having problems with sync lately.
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I bet it's facebook's problem. They've been having a lot of issues with the mobile app. Mine, along with many other people, has been logging out and having problems with sync lately.
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Yeah for a few days it forced me to login every time. It wasn't just the mobile app though it was doing it to me on the regular web version as well.
Now that I have this all figured out it leads me to my next question. I used syncmypix to grab the high quality images from FB instead of the **** low rez ones that it imports itself and it synced it to my gmail account. However, the phone is set to default to the FB picture not the Google version. I can go into each contact and tell it to use the gmail photo but once again, I would rather not have to do that. Anyone know of a batch way of doing this?
Hello guys
I'm using Galaxy S2, running ICS 4.0.3
I have lots of funny contact names because of the SKYPE nicknames. Also, some contacts are made from email handlers.
So to organize them nicely, I spent last few hours on my Gmail / Contact account, renaming, adding photos, merging etc...
Except, that when I want to SYNC it. Not all of the contacts update, and some remain as they were.
I would trash them all and import new set from Gmail, but I'm worry that when I do that, it might trash my gmail contact as well
Any idea what's the best way to deal with that ?
Also, is there any way to change the contact font size? I have many long names, and lots of contacts. The screen cuts most of the names
off and many of the contacts share same name. I have to open the contact, to find out details in order to know who I'm looking for.
Any suggestions, much appreciated.
Did u try manually syncing gmail contacts under settings? Some times you have to manually push it. Also, what android version/ROM are you running?
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Did u try manually syncing gmail contacts under settings? Some times you have to manually push it. Also, what android version/ROM are you running?
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Hi there
Yes, right after I made changes in my gmail contacts, I went to settings and did the Sync Now.
Let me explain what doesn't update exactly.
I have many phone numbers to HP staff. They used to be sorted like: James - HP, Azman - HP, Raymond - HP etc.... Because they were all over my address book, I rename it in gmail contacts to HP - James, HP - Azman, HP - Raymond. Having them all grouped together in my list, given the first letters are identical. It works great in gmail contacts, but out of these 3, only HP - Azman get updated after SYNC. The rest remain the same.
This is something I don't understand.
Thanks for taking the time and looking into my post
Cheers
Seba