[Q] Facebook contact Sync - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

Sorry for all these questions but I wanted to know if there was a way to sync facebook contacts to the phonebook contact picture. coming off the HTC amaze, this was a pretty cool feature. Does anyone know if this is possible with the SG3?

You can either install Facebook and select that in options, or go to accounts within the phone settings, and add the facebook sync account.

Use haxsync. Works pretty well but not as good as HTC. Also not free. I've tried other app but this one works best.
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The facebook app that comes with the phone isn't really an app, it is just friendstream, no? When I signed it, it downloaded ALL of my contacts instead of just those with a matching entry in my phone which I can do with the Facebook app. How do I change that?
hah2110 said:
The facebook app that comes with the phone isn't really an app, it is just friendstream, no? When I signed it, it downloaded ALL of my contacts instead of just those with a matching entry in my phone which I can do with the Facebook app. How do I change that?
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can you not find the official facebook app in the market? I personally use Bloo as my FB Client and just sync my FB contacts through Settings > Accounts & Sync > Add new > Facebook
I can but want to understand what the integrated solution does
Go to the Sync option remove your facebook there and then add it again it will ask for the option if you want to sync matching contacts or all of them.
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Go to the Sync option remove your facebook there and then add it again it will ask for the option if you want to sync matching contacts or all of them.
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Add Facebook or Facebook for myTouch? Regular Facebook doesn't do anything when pressed. Facebook for myTouch doesn't give me the option.
Thx
Use facebook for mytouch, after doing that wait for some time and it will notify you that you havd contactd simmilar to your fb account and if you wanna sync them
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Go to your contact list, click menu and view. It will let you decide which acccounts you want it to show in your contact list.
Facebook for Mytouch never syncs contacts for me, it gives me the "sync is having problems now" message. Anyone experience this?
Mine worked fine but there is an option under the contacts settings to make only contacts with phone numbers show. That is really nice.
I disabled this cause even when I select use google pic, some how a few contacts would still revert to facebook over time. Too frustrating for me.
Now that we have perma root... does anyone know if removing the facebook for mytouch app will cause any problems? I would like to pull it off and put on the market version. I plan on making a backup and trying it myself but was wondering if anyone had any insight before I try.

[Q]Linking to Facebook Contacts

Hi, im quite new to the prime, got it last night. I also have an HTC Sensation, and on there you can link contacts to facebook so all contacts have a picture and are synced with facebook.
I realise HTC sense it different from the mroe AOSP build of TFP but i was wondering if there was any way to link contacts in the people app to facebook?
I couldnt get facebook to add an acocunt in accounts and sync...
any help anyone?
thanks
I use FriendCaster on my HTC Desire (/Runnymede) instead of the sense-facebook integration. It works like a charm, because FreindCaster imports high def profile pictures. It also creates an account.
So maybe check out FriendCaster on your TFP. I believe it'll work the same?
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I use FriendCaster on my HTC Desire (/Runnymede) instead of the sense-facebook integration. It works like a charm, because FreindCaster imports high def profile pictures. It also creates an account.
So maybe check out FriendCaster on your TFP. I believe it'll work the same?
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ThNks ill give it a try
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Haxsync is brilliant app for Facebook contact integration, its worth the .69p! Would highly recommend
There's a few apps that provide this. I was using SyncMyPix for a while, but now I've moved on to Contapps.

Why not all my contacts have their FB photo?

Hi everybody,
Previously, I had an HTC Desire HD and when I installed the FB application, all my contacts got synced and the ones without photo started to have the FB photo.
Now on my SG3, just for a few of them appeared the FB photo, however, ALL of them are synced with facebook. I tried to enter on the profile of the person already, restarted the phone, sync, sync all contacts, but some of them just doesn't get the photo (and the name on FB is the same of the contact).
Does any one knows why that happens?
Nobody else with that problem?
Does the contacts of everybody always get the correct pictures from facebook? Or you guys don't use this feature?
Haxsync from Google play does that for you.
Yes, I looked that other applications can do that.
But I wonder if my Galaxy S3 has a problem on it. Because with my HTC DHD it used to work 100%.
Funny, everyone on mine since flawlessly. Only annoyance was when I ticked 'sync with existing contacts ' it synced my friends list with all their email addresses. Just tick display those with phone numbers and it's sorted but it's not perfect at any rate
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HTC DHD was in Gingerbread version and facebook official app work pretty well, but devices with Ice Cream sandwich have got lot of problem with official facebook application, one way in order to resolve problem is download from the market a 3rd part applicazion like FriendCaster, it work well with 4.0.x android and also with my nexus one with 4.0.x custom rom =)
I'm not sure if this is what you mean but mine was showing old contact Facebook pictures with the little F in the corner. I had to open each contact, press connections and add the Facebook account. It's been fine since.
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Haxsync from Google play does that for you.
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Haxsync also doesnt work for me.
The official facebook app for android has really bad syncing, use friendcaster, also has option to save high res pics for contacts.
I do have the same problem. No facebook app, just the sync with facebook option in the contacts account settings. Only a few facebook friends got their profile pictures displayed in contacts.
Maybe something to do with their privacy settings?
I had this too. It's the Facebook app sync feature being ****. Open Facebook and go to your contacts in there and it will refresh their pics and that in turns refreshes your contacts.
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Haxsync also doesnt work for me.
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Yeah I bought Haxsync, such a waste of money. Are there any 3rd party apps that sync phone numbers from facebook?
HaxSync is mainly for AOSP based ROMs like CM9 and AOKP. Works perfectly on those and loads excellent high quality photos. It doesn't work with Sense 4 ICS devices like the HTC One series. I don't know if it works with TouchWiz ROMs. It'll work perfectly on any ROM with the vanilla Android UI and People app.
HTC devices have Facebook for HTC Sense, which is integrated with the Facebook app. When you sign into the Facebook app, Facebook for HTC Sense links your contacts and downloads reasonably okay quality pictures for them, and also syncs their status, photos and all that. No idea if TouchWiz has a similar feature, but maybe that's why you're not having the same experience you had with HTC Facebook sync.
Though with any ROM, just signing into the Facebook and choosing 'sync all contacts' or 'sync existing contacts' will download profile pictures for the contacts that it can sync, especially if the name matches exactly or you have added email addresses for your contacts. That's the reason only a few contacts got their pictures synced, because maybe they were under a different name than their Facebook name. But in my opinion the Facebook sync is crap, because the pictures it downloads look like 8-bit graphics.
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Could Facebook's time line pictures be the problem? instead of people having portrait sized photos, they now have massive landscape pictures?
just a thought
I don't think so, because the Facebook app doesn't sync the cover photo. It syncs the little square profile picture photo, so it won't be any different from before because of the timeline.
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How to ad facebook contact to my phone??

As the title says. How to ad facebook contact to my phone??
Im using a Samsung Galaxy S2.
I have set up facebook, so it sync, under control option. "Facebook contacts"
Any suggestion?
That are a few apps the force it. Your issue is due to Google removing the native Android coding to sync Facebook without the app.
I am not sure of the apps names as I don't sync fb to my phone
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Thx for respons!
hmmm... too bad. I have been looking for a app, that could solve the problem, but with no luck :/
Anyone else that had figured this out ?
It should be mentioned that I'm running on a custom rom, ICS 4.04
For me, it works to create a contact as a google contact, then turn on Facebook sync under settings.
Cool will try that out, and see if it works!
grrr .. doesn't work at all
The default Facebook sync works for me, but the pictures are low res and blurry. I'm on ICS 4.0.4 too. The best app for Facebook sync is HaxSync. Pictures are nice and clear and it automatically selects the best resolution picture from someone's profile pictures album. Also syncs statuses and other stuff but I don't care for that.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
Note: the app only works on ICS, not GB.
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sashank - Thank you so much !!! That app work just perfect. AWSOME!
Glad to help.
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AND there was an AND.
The app doesn't get the mobile numbers :/
This may be the fix
I just installed cm10 so it is N/A for my rom, but this may be the fix for facebook not syncing contacts and an explanation how it fixes it in detail with flashable zip files at the bottom
hxxp://niranjanthilak.com/facebook-sync-for-android-ics-devices/
maybe a dev could take a look at it and possible fix the issue from inside the roms

[Q] Facebook sync issue

Hi guys,
The question is actually for my lucky girlfriend who just got a GSIII... I'm jealous as hell, i think she just bought it to piss me off^^
Anyway, she got some problems to sync her facebook contacts. What's actually not working is that she can't do but sync and display all of them in her contact list. When you sync the facebook contacts, there is an option only sync with the "existing contacts" or even after in the settings you can choose not to display the others... but it won't do, it will always sync them all and makes it annoying to have idk how many hundreds people in your phone contact list...
any idea?
Thank you all!
i have got that problem too. thats why i just select 'never sync with contacts'
yep, but then you loose all the synced pictures... that's annoying too^^ that's for me the only good think facebook brings: pictures for almost all contacts
win_1be said:
Hi guys,
The question is actually for my lucky girlfriend who just got a GSIII... I'm jealous as hell, i think she just bought it to piss me off^^
Anyway, she got some problems to sync her facebook contacts. What's actually not working is that she can't do but sync and display all of them in her contact list. When you sync the facebook contacts, there is an option only sync with the "existing contacts" or even after in the settings you can choose not to display the others... but it won't do, it will always sync them all and makes it annoying to have idk how many hundreds people in your phone contact list...
any idea?
Thank you all!
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This happens to me also. A workaround is by selecting "no sync" and use a 3rd party facebook sync app. BTW I use Haxsync, which not only syncs pics (quality of pic is way better than the FB app itself), but also syncs timeline and events/birthdays...check it out...:good:
Menu button > Contacts to Display > customized list
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+1 for Haxsync, much better than Facebooks own sync, even higher quality pics.
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