Hello,
I recently purchased the Galaxy S2 phone and one things that annoys me is that if you have a friends that belongs in multiple social networks, you can't join them all to his main phone contact. For example i have a friend's gmail contact on my contact list and i want to join his other contacts from facebook, twitter, last.fm, skype, myspace, whatsapp, linkedin etc.. (for those who don't know, by installing the official social app on your android you get the option to list those contacts on your phone contact list)... Well the problem is that when i try to join a 6th contact i get the message "unable to join contact. maximum number of joined contacts is 5"
I know most of you will problably say use another app for your contacts but i really wanna know if anyone finds it annoying and has found workaround... maybe a tweak to increase the limit, an upgrade or another app that adresses this issue....I really don't wanna use a 3rd party app for my contact list...
Any help will be appreciated!
Thanks,
Dennis
Any ideas anyone?
I am interested too, I find it weird you can only merge 5 account...
I guess you can't?
I am interested too, someone in my contact has many social account T T
You can try and do it in gmail rather than your phone
ArielTM said:
You can try and do it in gmail rather than your phone
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I don't mean gmail contacts i mean gmail conacts with other social network contacts...for example a gmail contact with facebook, skype, linkedin, twitter last.fm etc...
i would be interested as well.
i use google contacts, facebook, twitter, google+, skype and facebook is listed twice, once for its own app, once for social hub and i recently found, some of my contacts that in fact use all the services cannot be merged into one contact anymore, as that would mean, merging 6 contacts.
the sgs2 has great social networking integration, but why set this stupid limit that serves no one? the feature of merging contacts is supposed to combine all online activity of one person into one contact.
+1 on this..
There should be some way to increase the counter on the number ( or remove it completely) for the number of contacts that can be joined..
As the number of social/communication apps grow so do the contacts on those that you would want to link
Anyone has the fix to unlock the 5 contacts limits?
I'm looking forward for this fix too
I have the T-Mobile SGS2, but I found this thread looking for the same answer. I found this feature request though on the android project that anyone wanting this feature should probably star and add a comment on to convince them to add it...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16735
i could develop it partially now, I could remove the limit, but when I make the order to join it said "contacts joined" but actually nothing happened!
so i am working on it to find the problem
i will post in SGSII developing section once it is done
so stay close
check it out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1349803
Hey! Thanks a lot, I will try it in the next days.
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Enviado desde mi SGSII
Chef_Tony said:
i would be interested as well.
i use google contacts, facebook, twitter, google+, skype and facebook is listed twice, once for its own app, once for social hub and i recently found, some of my contacts that in fact use all the services cannot be merged into one contact anymore, as that would mean, merging 6 contacts.
the sgs2 has great social networking integration, but why set this stupid limit that serves no one? the feature of merging contacts is supposed to combine all online activity of one person into one contact.
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I couldn't figure out why the facebook one is listed twice - I was going crazy!! Should both be joined?
Also, I have a contact that has a twitter account and when I click on "join contact" I don't see their twitter account to select to join... how do I do this?
Thanks!
Maria
current the stock contact doesn't allow that, but i have seen it work on an EVO3D.
i really need a fix for this issue, anyone to help ????
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1349803
LuvrGirl said:
I couldn't figure out why the facebook one is listed twice - I was going crazy!! Should both be joined?
Also, I have a contact that has a twitter account and when I click on "join contact" I don't see their twitter account to select to join... how do I do this?
Thanks!
Maria
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Go to twitter settings and under other settings choose sync all for "Contact settings"
Go to your contacts app and the twitter contact should be there now to link to other contacts (if not then press the menu hard key, go to more, display options, and tick all contacts under twitter)
Once you're done syncing, you can untick display all twitter contacts to hide unnecessary ones and can go back to twitter and change contact sync to existing contacts to minimise data usage
Also social hub is a stupid app, just replicates what the official facebook app does, if i were you I would remove your facebook account from social hub and you won't have duplicate facebook contacts then
So, I'm a bit confused with the plethora of options built into this phone. In order to set up Google Play, I had to enter a gmail account. That partially populated email on the phone. But there's also a separate GMAIL program. I can't remember which was necessary before contacts and calendar stuff started to appear.
Am I better off sticking with the phone's email program for gmail, or using the Gmail program from within the google apps folder? What are the plusses/minuses?
Also, is it possible to import contact photos from twitter for name matches or by linking profile to contact name?
Thanks!
GMail app is better for GMail as it allows specific GMail features like the stars, etc
Maybe the e-mail app supports that, but I am only using the E-Mail app for exchange
I would say go for the GMail app!
Use gmail app.
I have looked far and wide for a solution for this but can't seem to find one ..
I have contact pictures for my contacts that I have chosen and assigned to my contacts manually and are stored as the Google contact picture, I have an issue with the facebook app when it syncs a facebook profile picture update the application forces the contacts default picture to be the facebook picture.
I don't want it to do this, it can change the facebook linked contact picture but why does it have to change the contacts default picture?? Is there some way this can be blocked or stopped from within Android contacts??
This has been prevalent since before I can remember with the facebook app and sync so I'm hoping someone might have some ideas or solutions??
Surely submitting a bug to facebook is not the solution as we SHOULD be able to control and/or lock portions of our contacts details..
When you first time, install the facebook app doesn't it asks about syncing?
If I'm right, it asks like sync with all contacts, don't sync, sync with existing contacts or so .. like that.
I usually selects "Do not sync" and it will not be synced.
But I want to link the FB contacts to my Google Contacts .. just don't want it messing up the default contact picture..
Hello everybody,
I spent the last hour with what felt like reading about almost every birthday app in the play store.
But not a single one seems to do what I am looking for. *sigh
I have a lot of Google Contacts and I am pretty eager to have my friend's and colleague's brithdays in there. I usually add them manually.
Google Calendar has become an omnipresent companion in my life...so I used the "show birthday calendar" feature since it was introduced in the Calendar's "Labs".
To not miss out on birthdays of newer friends, which I haven't added to my Google Contacts yet, I subscribed to the iCal-Feed of Facebook, as well.
So far so good...but there are problems:
Problem #1:
I want to avoid facebook-synchronisation, because my opinion is that my whole adress-book is none of facebook's business. So syncing contacts and canceling the facebook ical-subscription is no option. Besides that I wouldn't be able to see all the other facebook events.
So around 50% of my birthdays appear twice in my Google Calendar, one pulled from Google Contacts and the other one from Facebook.
Problem #2:
It would be best to set reminders for individual contacts or groups and not for the entire calendar. The latter is the only option for subscribed calendars, such as the direct Google Contact pulled one, as well as the facebook feed.
So for a while I used eboBirthdays to sync all of the contact's birthdays into a new and separate editable "normal" Google Calendar "calendar". That worked quite well, even though I was missing out on the facebook contacts again.
(I know that eboBirthdays added a facebook sync feature, but many people chose to use different or abbreviated names on facebook (mostly for privacy reasons) which makes an automated sync impossible.)
Problem #3:
There are just too many contacts so that almost every day there are 3-4 birthdays marked in my calendar.
I organize all my contacts in many separate Google Contacts groups. This helps me to filter them in my all my contact applications easily and with no additional tools.
It would be great to select the displayed birthdays based on this groups as well.
Is there any birthday app that comes close to those functions?
Or is there another solution that I am just overlooking?
I would be thankful for every hint
All the best!
No one? :/
Is there nothing out there?
Hoping someone can help me with what I'm trying to do and if it works like I hope?
So the wife and I have our own google accounts on our androids but I would like to set up a shared google account mainly for photos.
So in my case, my phone would have [email protected] setup on the device and I add [email protected]
I would like the [email protected] account to handle photos uploading, so I would disable auto-upload and google photos sync on [email protected] and enable them on [email protected] (but nothing else synced on that account).
1. Would the phone then act as it would normally without me worrying about the other account? So would gmail, google play, google+ etc automatically default to my main account and such without me having to choose accounts every time I do anything?
2. Would the photos albums synced with the shared account (but not on the main account) still show in the gallery/google+ photos apps?
3. If I wanted to manually share a photo from my camera, how would I ensure that photo went to the [email protected] account?
Hope that all makes sense, I am a fairly long-time android user but never tried dealing with multiple accounts on one device.
Not sure how this ended up in development and hacking, could a mod move it to a more suitable section please?