Not really sure where this topic should go but I was wondering if there was a way to manually input my contact's number and still have their facebook profile pic show up as the picture in my contacts app?
I tried syncing my FB account to my contacts which kinda worked. but most of my friends don't put their cellphone numbers there and I end up with lots of empty contacts with just a link to their FB (but with the always changing profile pic and status updates)... It would have been nice if I could sync FB to contacts first and then add their phone numbers after but it says that I can't edit FB info on my device.
I tried doing it on Gmail but the synced FB accounts wouldnt show up in my gmail contacts. Is there a way to do create a contact on the phone and link it to an FB account? Adding someone's facebook profile URL just creates a hyperlink in my contacts which will be launched by the browser... I just want their profile pic (birthdays, emails, etc would be a bonus)
I decided to ask here if there was an easier option before I go and look for pictures of everyone I know and manually adding each to the contact app on my phone.
I have all my contacts with phone numbers stored as Google/Gmail contacts.
I also have a FB account set up on the phone.
To join the two in Contacts:
1) in Contacts -> Menu button -> Display Options -> check All Contacts under FB account and relevant group under Google account (in my case "System Group: My Contacts")
2) go back to (overpopulated) contacts list, and one by one, select Google contacts (long press) -> edit contact -> Menu button -> Join -> select FB contact for same person
3) when done, repeat 1) except uncheck All Contacts under FB account
4) ???
5) Profit! (ie. editable contacts with FB info attached)
Should work the same with PC Sync contacts methinks
raylgo said:
Not really sure where this topic should go but I was wondering if there was a way to manually input my contact's number and still have their facebook profile pic show up as the picture in my contacts app?
I tried syncing my FB account to my contacts which kinda worked. but most of my friends don't put their cellphone numbers there and I end up with lots of empty contacts with just a link to their FB (but with the always changing profile pic and status updates)... It would have been nice if I could sync FB to contacts first and then add their phone numbers after but it says that I can't edit FB info on my device.
I tried doing it on Gmail but the synced FB accounts wouldnt show up in my gmail contacts. Is there a way to do create a contact on the phone and link it to an FB account? Adding someone's facebook profile URL just creates a hyperlink in my contacts which will be launched by the browser... I just want their profile pic (birthdays, emails, etc would be a bonus)
I decided to ask here if there was an easier option before I go and look for pictures of everyone I know and manually adding each to the contact app on my phone.
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Follow these steps. For the first time it would be tough doing for all your contacts. But once done, you need not worry about it again.
1. The reason for separate phone-number contacts and facebook contacts is because of the name mismatch. So rename all your contacts with the exact name as their facebook profile.
2. Now you'll have phone-number contacts and facebook contacts, with same names. Now join the contacts one by one.
3. Make sure you're creating all the contacts under your Google account.
4. Next time when you flash a rom or do something, turning ON google sync and facebook sync would automatically bring up the contacts joined.
5. The only problem will be when your friend changes his/her profile name in facebook, in which case you've to rename your phone-number contacts to the new name. But this doesn't happen always.
The process is so complex because the system assumes that the facebook profile name and the phone number contact's name would always be the same, which may not be the case in most of the scenarios. Because I would prefer to store my girl friend's name as Sweetie (or something similar) instead of her full name. But if you want to see some data integrity in the contacts list, then no other choice, renaming the contacts names as per the facebook profile name is the way to go.
better option. join all contacts one by one. no need to rename. Remember to take backup once done and upload that backup .csv to gmail. next time u wont see dup/mismatch etc.
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Thank you guys ^_^ I'm joining and/or erasing contacts one by one... Hope this works.
I'm hoping that their profile pic will change on my phone when it changes on FB but I still get to choose what name comes out in my contacts.
The only downside is having to create a new contact on my phone for those people who are on my FB list first, since I can't add numbers to them right away.
EDIT: Ok new quirk that I don't know how to fix... How about if the phone number on FB is outdated? I can't erase it alone without having the entire FB profile go with it. I can add the new number to the FB profile though. Will setting the new number as default make the old number disappear from the options (SMS, Call)?
raylgo said:
Thank you guys ^_^ I'm joining and/or erasing contacts one by one... Hope this works.
I'm hoping that their profile pic will change on my phone when it changes on FB but I still get to choose what name comes out in my contacts.
The only downside is having to create a new contact on my phone for those people who are on my FB list first, since I can't add numbers to them right away.
EDIT: Ok new quirk that I don't know how to fix... How about if the phone number on FB is outdated? I can't erase it alone without having the entire FB profile go with it. I can add the new number to the FB profile though. Will setting the new number as default make the old number disappear from the options (SMS, Call)?
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Suppose you have a contact "aa" (gmail or phone) and the facebook profile of that contact is "bb"
Select the "aa" contact, select edit- join - select bb" done. This will merge the contacts, even though they have different names.
raylgo said:
Thank you guys ^_^ I'm joining and/or erasing contacts one by one... Hope this works.
I'm hoping that their profile pic will change on my phone when it changes on FB but I still get to choose what name comes out in my contacts.
The only downside is having to create a new contact on my phone for those people who are on my FB list first, since I can't add numbers to them right away.
EDIT: Ok new quirk that I don't know how to fix... How about if the phone number on FB is outdated? I can't erase it alone without having the entire FB profile go with it. I can add the new number to the FB profile though. Will setting the new number as default make the old number disappear from the options (SMS, Call)?
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Setting one number as default will show only that number when you use the sms/call popup on a contact. If you go to that contact's view, you can see all the numbers.
In your phone app, if you have smart dial, when you start entering the contact's name, all the numbers will come up.
Similarly in the SMS app, if you enter the contact name in the receipient filed, all the numbers would be shown in the option.
And do not worry what will happen if the FB profile pic is changes. When you turn ON auto-sync, it will automatically updated.
Yeah I got that part. I'm working my way through the list and making new contacts for the FB only people and merging the new contact with the FB profile. This way, I can eventually add their numbers to the contact.
I tried calling and texting my friend who has 2 numbers (one old and one I'm sure is active) and made the active number default. Looks like it did the trick. The old number doesn't pop up anywhere.
Now all that's left is to find the willpower to finish fixing my contacts and syncing them back to my Gmail Thank you everyone
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It would be pretty great if someone developed an app or something so you can have all your facebook contacts seperate from your personal contacts,
or if it was an option under the contacts menu
Just a thought...
You do not need an app for this. The phone already does this. Just sync your facebook and then under contacts you go in to the options and select "get friends" choose facebook and select all those you want to transfer to your contacts list. You then can put them in their own group or join them with their phone number and google account.
so this will not interfere with my personal contact list at all?
i DO NOT want facebook and personal contacts together.
You will have to sync your FB contacts, tell your phone to not show them in the contacts via Contats>Menu>Display Options.
Then when you want to only look at your Facebook contacts, from the Contacts app, click group, scroll down to "All Facebook Contacts."
It doesn't really accomplish anything, other than making you look in two places for information.
You also could use a Facebook Live Folder on your Home Screen if you want.
I have mine set so my contacts store their Gmail and Facebook on their contact profile. I can then just go to contacts and pick a person. Then I can click on updates in the right corner and it displays Facebook posts from my contacts. Its pretty nice.
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Then I write SMS and have to point contact to whom send SMS. I open the list of contacts but in it I see not only my contacts from phone book but also my FB and gmail contacts. How can I do so that I would see only my phone book's list?
Thanks
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Then I write SMS and have to point contact to whom send SMS. I open the list of contacts but in it I see not only my contacts from phone book but also my FB and gmail contacts. How can I do so that I would see only my phone book's list?
Thanks
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where are you from? and what version n carrier u using?
Lithuanian but I did not understand the other part of question
Try this
Open Contacts>Menu>Display options, find Facebook and whatever account you have and uncheck the contacts box.
They are unchecked. In phone book my contacts are sync with my gmail acc contact's one folder. And in that place only that option is check. So in my phone book I see only contacts from my gmail acc folder, witch contais information about my numbers, but in sms I also see my other gmail contacts (to whom I have writen emails and so on) where is the problem?
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They are unchecked. In phone book my contacts are sync with my gmail acc contact's one folder. And in that place only that option is check. So in my phone book I see only contacts from my gmail acc folder, witch contais information about my numbers, but in sms I also see my other gmail contacts (to whom I have writen emails and so on) where is the problem?
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OK I see what you mean. I think that's just how Android work.
Try Settings>Accounts and Sync>Look for different account and un-check "Contacts"
It did not change anything. In contanct list I still see all sort of things (emails, persons contacts and so one). ANd what I noticed that in this list there are all groups from my Gmail acc contacts. Then I want to see only one of it witch it is call Tel. I can do this by choosing in upper meniu Groups and so on then I have to point receiver of sms. Maybe where are more suggesstions?
I just received my Atrix yesterday, and have been playing around with it for a while to see if I like MotoBlur enough to want it in a custom ROM.
I'm on orange stock 2.3.4 and have set up my MotoBlur account and Facebook account. Now the Facebook widget has connected successfully as I can send a status using the home-screen widget. However i cannot find how to link my contacts to there appropriate Facebook profiles to get contact pictures etc.
Am I missing an easy trick here - are they supposed to update automatically? Or do I need to link them?
Thanks,
I believe some contacts does link automatically (when name and email from google match the facebook record). If they are not, you will need to join contacts.
1) go to contacts, select the contact, "menu", Edit contact.
2) "menu", Join
3) select the contact you want to Join
4) "menu", Save
You also need to add Facebook account to your contact "app". And if you find that you have some contacts that are doubled up.. one facebook one not then you just join them as above
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You also need to add Facebook account to your contact "app". And if you find that you have some contacts that are doubled up.. one facebook one not then you just join them as above
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How do I 'add Facebook account to my contact "app" I can't find where i'm supposed to add contacts from Facebook in my contacts? I'm running GingerBlur 6.1 by the way.
Thanks for all your help!
Do you live in Dom. Rep? i live here and also got my atrix yesterday.. the facebook widget syncs perfectly over wifi... i still havnt unlocked the phone..
Nope, I'm in the UK. I think it must be a problem with the MotoBlur servers over here maybe? Not entirely sure, but I've tried three different ROMs and still no luck.
I also have the newer Facebook layout which may be affecting it?
It's not such a big deal now as I'm using FriendCaster to sync my contacts.
pull up your contacts press the menu button and go to accounts inside the accounts press menu again and add account ie facebook
you should see one more screen in between these two and add account option is at the bottom of that page
Thanks for all your help - I had already set up my Facebook account successfully as I could set a status using Blur. Was a strange problem, but all of a sudden it's decided to work and all of my contacts have now synced to my phone, and I'm receiving status updates from my contacts now instead of just links etc.
Maybe I just wasn't giving it long enough to sync properly - thought it'd do it within an hour, but I guess not... Thanks again!
How do i sync contacts with facebook pictures without getting ALL my friends from facebook to the phone.
"Sync existing contacts only" doesnt work. Mine just syncs all my FB friends numbers to my phone.. and doesnt even update the contacts picture on phone..
same problem....but some contacts were updated and some others not
i have had this problem as well, and there is a small work-a-round when in the contacts menu i go to Options > Visible contacts > Edit , and simply only have the desired contacts show up.
as for your picture problem, i have always done this by hand simply merging the contact with the corresponding facebook account
Yeah thats a workaround, but then when you start typing receiver in text messages for example, random people from facebook with number pops up.. kind of annoying.
SyncMyPix, is a app that does the job but i would want FB native app to do the job..
If anyone knows, please share!
This is the first android phone that I have had without the option in contacts to choose "show only contacts with phone numbers." Anyone know another way to make this happen? Through Gmail settings or a certain app? Frustrating seeing so many random emails and crap pop up because of Gmail. Sorry if it's a noob question, help much appreciated!
I'm in the same boat as you. I have a S6 and hate that I can't "Show only contacts with phone numbers" on here. Hope this is something in the works or perhaps I'm just not doing it right.
This setting is in the contacts to show options, where you choose accounts contacts are to be pulled from.
Unfortunately it still pulls all email address only contacts. I'd like only contacts with phone numbers.
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it's not there. the problem is that the S6 or maybe Gmail itself has decided to move all contacts to My Contacts and even if you attempt to edit those contacts into a different group, it won't let you. going into an individual contact on the phone, the My Contact field is grayed out and it won't even let you deselect it so you can filter another group etc.
i was going to move all the email only contacts to a different group but that won't even work now because every contact is now defaulted to My Contacts and even in Gmail contact settings itself you can no longer change that. even if you move email only to a different group, they will remain listed under My Contacts (or All Contacts) as it's called now.
pretty stupid. hopefully there's a fix coming. i'd hate to use a separate Contacts app.
daylondeon said:
it's not there. the problem is that the S6 or maybe Gmail itself has decided to move all contacts to My Contacts and even if you attempt to edit those contacts into a different group, it won't let you. going into an individual contact on the phone, the My Contact field is grayed out and it won't even let you deselect it so you can filter another group etc.
i was going to move all the email only contacts to a different group but that won't even work now because every contact is now defaulted to My Contacts and even in Gmail contact settings itself you can no longer change that. even if you move email only to a different group, they will remain listed under My Contacts (or All Contacts) as it's called now.
pretty stupid. hopefully there's a fix coming. i'd hate to use a separate Contacts app.
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You can use the web version to that.
h t t p :/ / w w w .google. com/contacts
There, you can remove contacts from the group "My Contacts" so they won't show up in the cellphone anymore (unless you search manually).
Also, I find this post very helpful:
http: / / forums.androidcentral.com/android-5-0-lollipop/465143-how-do-i-display-only-contacts-phone-numbers-lollipop.html#post4377999
The scripts keeps in your "My Contacts" group only the contacts with cellphone numbers.