Hi,
Problem: I'm trying to backup my Contact Facebook links to my MicroSD card so when I flash a new ROM I don't have to enter them all manually again.
I've realised that Sense automatically finds your Facebook contacts if you are signed in and they share the same name in Facebook and your Phonebook, but I use nicknames a lot so changing everyones name is really not convenient for me (I wouldn't know who anyone was!)
After searching the forums I saw a post stating that it will also search by email address, however after adding around a dozen emails Sense did not pick up the accounts.
Another post states that PIM Backup saves the Facebook ID stored in the Notes section of the Contact but after running my monthly ROM update and restoring my PIM backup there was a <Facebook ID> string in the notes section but with no ID number in it, so this option does not seem to be working for me.
Does anyone know where these links are stored? Maybe in a registry string or system folder? Could anyone point me to how I can manually back these links up? Or does anyone know of an existing app to do the work for me?
I have many contacts and enjoy the Facebook link feature, but having to manually link everyone every month is getting very tiresome.
Thanks in advance!
jwchips
sense writes your Facebook links info (and your favourites from the people tab) into the "notes" field of the contact, so when you sync they should all be back, though they won't show until you first sign into Facebook.
i've flashed maybe 150 times and not had to reset the Facebook links once since the first time.
Hey, thanks for the quick response.
I've just tested what you said by adding a single contacts facebook link, creating a .pib backup and restoring from it (choosing the overwrite setting to ensure the backup was creating the fb link and not keeping it from the old contact). What happens is quite strange...
After creating the link there is an id:xxxxx and friendof:xxxxx string in the <Facebook>tags, example below
<sn>id:xxxxxxx/friendof:xxxxxxx</sn>
<HTCData><!-- Please do not modify -->
<Facebook>id:xxxxxx/friendof:xxxxxxx</Facebook>
</HTCData>
which is what we are looking to achieve. But when I restore from the .pib I get the following in notes:
<sn>id:xxxxxxx/friendof:xxxxxxx</sn>
<HTCData><!-- Please do not modify -->
<Facebook></Facebook>
</HTCData>
This looks like it has kept the facebook id's in the <sn> tags but hasn't put them in the <Facebook> tags.... can you tell me why this would happen and any way to fix it?
Thanks again
jwchips
sorry can't help, don't know what a pib backup is. all i can say is that syncing with outlookit works fine, and i've read it works fine with googlemail and ms myphone syncing.
have you tested to see if it works? bearing in mind your "me" contact card needs to be signed in to Facebook for it to show?
Hey,
I logged into facebook before syncing anything, so I was logged in when creating the contacts (logged in via account manager in settings)
a .pib file is a backup file created by PIM Backup Manager that comes bundled with the Energy ROM's.
I have logged into my MyPhone service on the PC and checked the notes section of stored contacts and the facebook string is stored complete with id tags! So I am going to delete all my contacts in my phone and resync with MyPhone later today. Will edit this post with the outcome.
Thanks for the info,
jwchips
Hey,
Following on from the last post, I deleted all my contacts on my phone then checked I was logged into facebook before syncing my contacts from the MyPhone service.
YET AGAIN the facebook id's are in the <sn> tags but the <facebook> tags are still empty! If I log into MyPhone from a PC and check the noted the id's are in the <facebook> tags, what is going on?
Does anyone know a way of backing up the contact notes? I'm thinking of installing Outlook after work today and trying to backup/restore from that, but I'm getting tired of constantly inputting everyones facebook links!
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Jwchips
i can deffinately confirm that outlook works fine. restores facebook links, and also the people page favourites.
I already unchecked the tick for the sync of picasa photo albums but didn't for the first time i set up my google account. Now, the pictures can't be deleted! any ideas how to remove the photos now?
Mods, you delete this thread if neccessary. I found my solution here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373372
But I only need to clear the data from my gallery, I didn't for G+
Hi all,
Yesterday, I was updating the picture of around 15-20 of my main contacts. I did that from the web interface of Gmail. It took a long hour to select the pictures from my computer and add them all from this not-very-friendly web interface.
Once finished, I ran to take my new Nexus 4 and I was pleased to see all those 15-20 contacts updated with a decent resolution version of the picture.
But the second surprise was not so good at all: when I enter in the Gallery of the Nexus 4, I realize that for each picture that I upload from Gmail, an album in Picasa was automatically created and therefore, in the Android Gallery I had 15-20 new albums with one pic each... Thanks Lord that I decided not to update the pictures of the 178 contacts that I have in Gmail account...
REALLY Google??... Is this really necessary?
Do you really need to generate one Picasa album with one (and only one) picture in it for each contact that you decide to update the picture of?... C’mon, if you want to force me to use your Picasa service, what about to generate ONE and only one Picasa album named “contact pictures” and place inside of it all the contact pictures that you upload from Gmail?
Needless to say that I have already deleted all those 15-20 albums from the Picasa web interface because that was the only way to make them disappear from my Nexus 4 Gallery…
Am I missing something or this is, by far, the most stupid thing that Google has implemented recently?
Cheers.
PS: apologies for my poor English.
Hello,
I saw today that the auto backup function is turned on. I have stopped it.
Unfortunally i still have 13.6gb (of 15gb) of free space on my account for backup. If active sync google+ tells me that is synchronizing the image 241 of 350.So a lot of image was uploaded to google server.
I have checked all the day for a solution to remove them all. It seems there is no photo on web.
I dont want my photo on the web (i know it is a private area, but i dont like it).
How can i remove all my photo/video from google account ?
hi everyone,
like in the title, does anybody knows how to keep high resolution contacts images from google account after flashing a new room?
I flashed a new room recently and after syncing my contacts with my google account all the images appeared to be very poor quality.
I looked for the solution but didn't find the right answer (I don't want to synchronize with/throw Facebook).
I know that I can go to every contact separately and after a few second it will download bigger picture, but I have 800 contact and it will last very long.
Even though I do it the images are not as good as they were before
thanks in advanced