Hi All,
Looking for a solution to an issue which is bugging me...
Linking contacts in the phonebook to the facebook contact, displays their picture on your contact list - great!
However, if you then log out of facebook, the phone breaks the connection and you lose all the pictures.. and have to go through and manually connect the contacts again.
Is there any way to actually IMPORT the pictures to the phone contact, so it doesn't lose them when you log out of facebook?
Or any other work around?
I like an organised, uniform contacts list!
Thank you,
I downloaded an app called "Facebook contact Sync" from the play store instead of using the facebook app's way. Works flawlessly, only thing is you have to rename your contacts to their facebook profile's name.
And if you log out of Facebook do the pictures stay?
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I am having trouble syncing my contacts that I inputed on my Atrix to Gmail. Even if the contact is Linked to both Phone and Google, none of the contacts show up on Gmail from my computer, but if I add a contact from my computer, it shows up on my phone. How can I sync from my phone to Gmail? btw, this is my first Android device.
Thanks.
I have exactly the same issue and it's driving me nuts! Creating a new contact on the phone adds it to the "Contacts" group but there doesn't seem to be a way to get that to sync with google/gmail. Have you found a way around this?
Ok, my phone auto syncs it with contacts and gmail, but I think I know why yours isn't.
Open the contact and verify that it has a linked profile to your google account. If it does not, then link it.
If it does, go to settings > accounts > gmail account
Hit the menu button and sync. Log into your gmail account on the desktop version, not mobile version, hit contacts, click all contacts and verify.
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DarrellRaines said:
Ok, my phone auto syncs it with contacts and gmail, but I think I know why yours isn't.
Open the contact and verify that it has a linked profile to your google account. If it does not, then link it.
If it does, go to settings > accounts > gmail account
Hit the menu button and sync. Log into your gmail account on the desktop version, not mobile version, hit contacts, click all contacts and verify.
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If I create a brand new contact I can't link it to gmail because the contact does not exist in gmail. Your method only works if I have the contact in gmail/google also.
Anyone solve this yet? I'm dealing with 150 contacts or so that were imported from a sim card and trying to figure out how to get them into gmail.
I think I might be able to do export all contacts to a file, then email it to myself, then import all contacts to gmail but I'm trying to avoid CSV errors.
thunderbolt
I am having the same issue in my thunderbolt. I just rooted it and when I went to look for a contact that I added when I got the phone I realized it never was sent to my gmail account and now it is not synced.
Thunderbolt
Through some searching I found that the thunderbolt defaults to a "phone" contact when you enter one on the phone. You have to select it as a Google contact before you even put it in the phone. You can't change this after putting in the contact. I'm glad I found this out early enough so that I only lost one contact.
I had this issue and found how to solve it:
Open ContactsApp->Menu->More->Settings
Here each phone is a bit different but you will be able to choose how to set your new contacts, whether it will be on your phone contacts, a specific gmail account or all.
In My Motorola Atrix, it automatically saves to contacts (and cannot be removed) and if you have more than 1 gmail account it all gets mixed up there and you should add/select the right one.
Hope it helps.
freedom_il said:
I had this issue and found how to solve it:
Open ContactsApp->Menu->More->Settings
Here each phone is a bit different but you will be able to choose how to set your new contacts, whether it will be on your phone contacts, a specific gmail account or all.
In My Motorola Atrix, it automatically saves to contacts (and cannot be removed) and if you have more than 1 gmail account it all gets mixed up there and you should add/select the right one.
Hope it helps.
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This is the correct method and set by default on the Atrix.
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delta530 said:
I am having trouble syncing my contacts that I inputed on my Atrix to Gmail. Even if the contact is Linked to both Phone and Google, none of the contacts show up on Gmail from my computer, but if I add a contact from my computer, it shows up on my phone. How can I sync from my phone to Gmail? btw, this is my first Android device.
Thanks.
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i have the same problem only i want my facebook contacts !
firefox3 said:
i have the same problem only i want my facebook contacts !
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Make sure FACEBOOK is added under MANAGE ACCOUNTS and then look at DISPLAY GROUPS to select ALL CONTACTS.
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jjwatmyself said:
Make sure FACEBOOK is added under MANAGE ACCOUNTS and then look at DISPLAY GROUPS to select ALL CONTACTS.
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Didnt work even when i view facebook it says no facebook contacts ! i have 1,394 friends and before i updated i had them all in my contacts
firefox3 said:
Didnt work even when i view facebook it says no facebook contacts ! i have 1,394 friends and before i updated i had them all in my contacts
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Just to be clear, we are talking about viewing contacts on your Atrix and not viewing contacts on GMail on your PC. The point being that Motoblur does not push contacts from the various Social Networking accounts to your Google hosted Gmail contacts. I think you already know that but wanted to be sure. Did you try to delete your FB account on the Atrix and re-add. Also, and this should not make any difference, but I do not have the FB app installed. I find it a bit useless.
How do i upload my phone contacts to gmail???
i have gmail synced but my phone contacs are not getting uploaded to gmail. the addresses from gmail do come to my phone.
but my contacts are being uploaded.
same thing with my calender
When you select edit contact if it shows as 'Phone (PC Sync)' then that means it wont be synced with gmail. You need to upload the contacts in csv format to gmail via a PC and then enable contact sync on the phone.
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ashishsaggu said:
How do i upload my phone contacts to gmail???
i have gmail synced but my phone contacs are not getting uploaded to gmail. the addresses from gmail do come to my phone.
but my contacts are being uploaded.
same thing with my calender
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In contacts, filter the view to only show phone and sdcard contacts. One of the menu options will export contacts to sdcard. Once that is complete, import from sdcard will prompt you to chose phone our gmail.
When you create a contact make sure to select gmail contact at the beginning. That prevents any problems in the first place.
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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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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
I noticed that the picture on my contacts are very low resolution and appear pixelated. Is there any way too fix it?
Thanks
Are you using Google to sync contacts? If so try a picture from the phones memory and see if that helps.. Btw I sync with Google but no problems. Are you using full screen caller pics?
djgodlike said:
Are you using Google to sync contacts? If so try a picture from the phones memory and see if that helps.. Btw I sync with Google but no problems. Are you using full screen caller pics?
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I have this same issue, only with me it happens with 4 contacts (2 pairs of folks with the same names) and their photos appear small and pixelated whilst others are larger, crisper and sharp.
I cant seem to figure out why this happens - cant be an issue with the matching names conflicting in the contacts database??
fmgc13 said:
I noticed that the picture on my contacts are very low resolution and appear pixelated. Is there any way too fix it?
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@gc1984
Are you using Facebook to sync your contacts photos? If so:
-go into the app>app settings>scroll near the bottom and un-check sync contact photos.
-exit the app
-go to settings and scroll down to the accounts section, add a new account
-Choose xperia with Facebook (by default this should sync hi-res contact photos and calendar (you can turn either or both on/off)
Using the facebook app account to sync contact photos will provide low-res. Using xperia with facebook will provide hi-res.
blyndfyre said:
@gc1984
Are you using Facebook to sync your contacts photos? If so:
-go into the app>app settings>scroll near the bottom and un-check sync contact photos.
-exit the app
-go to settings and scroll down to the accounts section, add a new account
-Choose xperia with Facebook (by default this should sync hi-res contact photos and calendar (you can turn either or both on/off)
Using the facebook app account to sync contact photos will provide low-res. Using xperia with facebook will provide hi-res.
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I can't find "sync contact photos" on facebook
fmgc13 said:
I can't find "sync contact photos" on facebook
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try the App "ubersync"
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blyndfyre said:
@gc1984
Are you using Facebook to sync your contacts photos? If so:
-go into the app>app settings>scroll near the bottom and un-check sync contact photos.
-exit the app
-go to settings and scroll down to the accounts section, add a new account
-Choose xperia with Facebook (by default this should sync hi-res contact photos and calendar (you can turn either or both on/off)
Using the facebook app account to sync contact photos will provide low-res. Using xperia with facebook will provide hi-res.
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I currently have both accounts for this set up. For the majority of my contacts, the images are ok but i cannot shake the feeling these 4 instances are due to my contacts having the same name. But cant figure that out.
I have stopped my Facebook App Sync now so will try and refresh and see what happens with the Xperia Facebook account still active and see how i get on.
gc1984 said:
I currently have both accounts for this set up. For the majority of my contacts, the images are ok but i cannot shake the feeling these 4 instances are due to my contacts having the same name. But cant figure that out.
I have stopped my Facebook App Sync now so will try and refresh and see what happens with the Xperia Facebook account still active and see how i get on.
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When I had both accounts syncing contacts (Facebook and Xperia with Facebook) some contacts would show the hi-res and some the low-res. When I edited the contact photo I could see both the hi-res and low-res available.
Once I disabled the Facebook account contact sync and kept the Xperia with Facebook contacts syncing, and waited a few minutes, only the Hi-Res photos were showing.
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When I had both accounts syncing contacts (Facebook and Xperia with Facebook) some contacts would show the hi-res and some the low-res. When I edited the contact photo I could see both the hi-res and low-res available.
Once I disabled the Facebook account contact sync and kept the Xperia with Facebook contacts syncing, and waited a few minutes, only the Hi-Res photos were showing.
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I have done as you suggest and will wait and see. Getting poor reception at my desk so will check later when i am on WiFi at home.
Thanks
I've stopped the facebook syncing and synced with xperia with facebook but it the photos still appear with low resolution.. Do I have to do anything else like deleted the contacts and resync or something?
fmgc13 said:
I've stopped the facebook syncing and synced with xperia with facebook but it the photos still appear with low resolution.. Do I have to do anything else like deleted the contacts and resync or something?
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No you shouldn't have to, but give it some time to refresh, especially if you have a lot of contacts. I noticed with mine that while it was downloading images, if I went to a contact that still had a low-res photo and went into the contacts details, a few seconds later the image would update to high-res.
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No you shouldn't have to, but give it some time to refresh, especially if you have a lot of contacts. I noticed with mine that while it was downloading images, if I went to a contact that still had a low-res photo and went into the contacts details, a few seconds later the image would update to high-res.
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Managed to get to WiFi last night after stopping the Facebook App Sync and the issue still remained. I even sync'ed the Xperia Facebook once again and the issue remained.
I then decided to remove my Facebook account from my phone and recommence the process of adding Xperia Facebook account. However this did not allow all my contacts to be sync'ed from Facebook, so I had to resort to using both the Xperia Facebook and Facebook app running.
I then went through all my contacts and what you described above occurred - the blurred images became sharper when viewing the contacts. it was just a case of going through my list and allowing them to become Hi-res and the problem was solved.
A bit long winded but I am happy this worked for me. Still no real idea why it occurred in the first place and also why it only happened to contacts with the same names....very strange indeed!
Thanks for the help!!
gc1984 said:
Managed to get to WiFi last night after stopping the Facebook App Sync and the issue still remained. I even sync'ed the Xperia Facebook once again and the issue remained.
I then decided to remove my Facebook account from my phone and recommence the process of adding Xperia Facebook account. However this did not allow all my contacts to be sync'ed from Facebook, so I had to resort to using both the Xperia Facebook and Facebook app running.
I then went through all my contacts and what you described above occurred - the blurred images became sharper when viewing the contacts. it was just a case of going through my list and allowing them to become Hi-res and the problem was solved.
A bit long winded but I am happy this worked for me. Still no real idea why it occurred in the first place and also why it only happened to contacts with the same names....very strange indeed!
Thanks for the help!!
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You are quite welcome, and I'm glad it worked out, though the process was sluggish. In the end it's worth it because the hi-res contact photos look a world better.
Thanks for reporting back for others.
Worked for me too! Thanks
Hello, I had problems with this too, and I finally used HaxSync, but after I removed facebook app