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[q] contacts and facebook syncing

Hi
I have an HTC Heron with Android 2.1. I used to be able to sync and link the ocntacts on my phone with those who appear on Facebook. However, now I can't and it's very annoying. I have tried a few times to remove and reinstall the Android Facebook app but there is no syncing option within the app, although there should be.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Look in (not in the app, but) the system settings -> accounts/ synchronization (or something similar)

Already tried that with no luck.

yeah you need to add facebook, just as above post Settings>Accounts & Sync> Add Account> Facebook
If still no joy, there is a way of doing it the phonebook/contacts. There should be a little button to the far right on the same line as the persons names is and you can sync them that way. AFIK their is no way to do multiple persons so its one at a time

fairly simple download and install facebook for android apk from google market, add a facebook account via Settings>Accounts & Sync> Add Account> Facebook, authenticate with your account details, select sync with existing contacts, download and install GO Contacts EX from google market.
This will offer to import facebook and sim accounts, click settings, and merge, select name - you can now merge all the duplicate contacts together
You can also add twitter accounts just add the twitter apk from the market , then follow the above steps

Thanks everyone for your help. I have tried removing and readding HTC Facebook Sense. No luck still. I then backed up my entire phone and did a factory reset - no change though. My Facebook widget did not return and I did still cannot get my Contacts to sync with the Facebook app downloaded from the Market, so I am in the same position as before.
All I want to do is to link some of my contacts who are on Facebook with their Facebook profile as I did before with no extra apps. Until very recently, I had the HTC Facebook widget, the Android Facebook widget and syncing contacts. Suddenly, my HTC Widget has mysteriously gone. I've written to HTC to see what they say.

had this problem recently, tried all the usual advice etc. only thing that worked was fcontactssync. you can uninstall it once you've linked everything.
hope this helps..

Thank you will try this next time. However, the day after I sent this message, weirdly my contacts all synced back again to Facebook! They hadn't done this for weeks! However, I did contact HTC and the Facebook for Android Developmer about my problem so maybe that haed something to do with this working again. Someone else I know haad the same problem which corrected on the same day as me!

[Q] Opera Mini and Twitter

Hi,
Wondering for those who use Opera Mini were you able to log in and sync to your bookmarks (and use other settings)? After accepting terms I can't find a way to login.
Also, anyone have any success in using Twitter client? Have been able to login but app seems to crash periodically. Better suggestion? Like Twitter for push notifications.
Thanks,
Mike

mjoshea,
I have the same problem with twitter, after a few seconds running it crashed and went back to desktop. Tweetdeck is my twitter app of choice. I've even told one of the root devs about it, and he though it was weird.
I've never synced bookmarks with opera, so I can't help with that.

[Q] contacts glitch

okay so I was posting the other day asking about uninstalling system apps and unrooting, thanks guys I was able to unroot my phone and return it back to verizon and get a new one.
The reason I had to return it was I was having a contacts glitch. I could dial out just fine, but if I went to my contacts and clicked a name, my phone would force close.
so I get my new phone, sync my account, root it, and check the contact list, it works ! sweet so now its time to get to work. under your advice instead of un-installing like I did the last time I went to titanium backup to FREEZE all the bloatware. Im pretty sure I tried my contacts again and it works fine. then I spend the rest of last night installing my launchers, games, tools, got rom toolbox changed my lcd density to 280, change my boot animation, and disable some apps from starting on boot,then went to the applications tab and disabled further autostart functions. I didn't try using my contacts because this was around 2am . but I woke up today and I now have the same problem. I can dial out fine, but if I open the contacts and try to choose one, or if I type in a number and even try to add to contacts , contacts FC's. Oh I should add, when I want to send a text message it is no problem I open the text message home, click the + icon and type a contacts name and I can stat a conversation no problem. anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?
here's the list of apps I froze
Ad Service
Amazon Kindle
Android Live Wallpapers
Apps
Backup Assistant Plus
Backup Assistant+
Backup Assistant+ Contacts
Backup Assistant+ Media
Bookmarks
Browser
CarDock
Device Setup
Email
Email Accounts
Email Authenticator
Email Engine
Facebook Authenticator
Forest Wallpaper
Guided Tours
Help Center
Home screen tips
Homescreen (I replaced it with launcher pro its not an issue, Also this glitch happened last time and I hadn't uninstalled or froze this)
IM
IM Presence
LastFM Authenticator
Linkedin Authenticator
Live Wallpaper Picker
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Mobile Hotspot
Mog Music
MOTOACTIV
MotoCast
Motocast ID
MOTOPRING
Motorola Dock Service
MotoSignatureApp
MusicStore
My Music
My Uploads
My Verizon Mobile
Netflix
NFL Mobile
Orkut Authenticator
Photobucket Authenticator
Picasa Authenticator
Skyrock Authenticator
Slacker
Slingbox
Social Loctaion
social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Netowrking
Social Sharing
Social Status
Twitter Authenticator
V CAST Tones
Verizon Location Agent
Verizon Video
VideoSurf
VZ Navigator
Webtop Connector
Yahoo Contacts
Yahoo Mail Authenticator
I am absolutely perplexed! anyone think they know what could be causing it?
EDIT: Okay so I did some researching and this appears to be a fairly prominent problem with moto Blur going back to the droid X etc...the fix was to go into /system/app and rename BlurContactSync.apk to BlurContactSync.bak ...now everything works perfect. credit goes to
droidforums.net/forum/tech-issues-bug-reports-suggestions/153062-contacts-wont-display-droid-x-w-gingerbread.html

The app that was most likely causing the crashing was the Yahoo Mail Authenticator. Droidforums had a few posts about it. Renaming the sync probably bypasses the authenticator.
droidforums.net/forum/droid-4-hacks/198081-bloatware-apps-safe-remove-droid-4-a-4.html#post2015606 (can't post links apparently)

Freeze
Are you experiencing the contact force close only when all apps are frozen? I had issues with the Verizon Backup Assistant goofing with my contact list.

kasouti said:
The app that was most likely causing the crashing was the Yahoo Mail Authenticator. Droidforums had a few posts about it. Renaming the sync probably bypasses the authenticator.
droidforums.net/forum/droid-4-hacks/198081-bloatware-apps-safe-remove-droid-4-a-4.html#post2015606 (can't post links apparently)
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I had the same issue until I unfroze Yahoo Mail Authenticator.
I am not sure I want to go renaming files yet until a recovery is available so I will just leave that one item unfroze.

blpw said:
I had the same issue until I unfroze Yahoo Mail Authenticator.
I am not sure I want to go renaming files yet until a recovery is available so I will just leave that one item unfroze.
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well the good thing about renaming the file is I am able to rename it back just as easy as un freezing . so I actually just renamed my blurcontactssync back to apk from .bak and unfroze yahoo mail authenticator and it is working great thanks for the tip!

In my opinion, stay away from Backup-Assistant. I've had nothing but trouble with it, everything from not backing up correctly, to poor restores that rendered my data useless. There is another program out there I use for this. Super Manager. It works for my application, and I would recommend it if you are still having trouble.

[Q] Facebook integration & Facebook App

Hi All,
I got a WP8X by HTC in which nor facebook integration nor the official facebook app are working anymore, they did until a day or 2 ago.
Does anyone else is facing this problem?
I gotta say too that the contacts hub on my Win 8 PC doesn't want to connect anymore to facebook.
I scratched and reimplemented my profile in my live account, and altho it says there I've succesfully add my FB acount to be synchronized, it's just simply not working.
I can live without that but if FB has changed its code once again, I wonder why we have this kind of integraztion which eventually will not work!

Sounds like a password problem, Delete your FB account on the phone then add it again and try to sync.

[Q] two phones one account

Hi all
Wonder if anyone knows how to solve this problem (or bypass the system normal behaviour)
I have two phones with the same live account (in order to share my purchases on both phones). I can have different emails on both phones and everything worka great but, regarding the facebook, although I enter different facebook accounts on each phone, on the second phone I have the chat working with the the first facebook account. on the feed it shows correctely but the profile pic is from the first facebook account again... !
Its insane... please Help!
Thanks

Did you also link your facebook account with the microsoft account on the homepage?
or just in the phone itself?

The chat only works when the Live Account is connected to the Facebook account. This is necessary to enable push on Facebook Chat. Given that it's not an official Facebook Client the phone would otherwise have to stay connected to Facebook permanently so this is run through Microsoft's server infrastructure. In the end this means: two phones with one account will always share the Facebook chat, Live Messenger as well as Twitter integration. There currently is no way around that.
You could use another way to access the Facebook chat though.