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grouping contacts

I have a group with a list of contacts in my gmail account, how can i display THIS group in my contacts on my nexus one?

You can't, not in the dialer.
But if you just want to work with groups, like assigning ringtone etc, you can download apps from the Market that can do it. Contacts GroupU being one, for example.
You could have just searched the Market for "group".

maybe i'm reading it wrong, but just go to contacts>menu>display options>choose the group

gibosn6594 said:
maybe i'm reading it wrong, but just go to contacts>menu>display options>choose the group
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Looks like this would work. Just select your Gmail account and then put the checkbox next to the group you want to be displayed.

Looked a bit and found this option, and also understood why I "lost" it: the "Display options" menu only appears when the tab is "Contacts", and mine stays on "Favorites" when I don't move it from there.
Thanks, and it's probably also what OP was looking for.

Contacts joined with facebook

I am trying to figure out why in my contacts they about a quarter of them show facebook information with the facebook picture attached to the contact picture, and then the rest of them do not show the facebook picture but when i go into edit on the contact at the bottom shows some information like their full name from facebook, phone number and email, also showing an exclamation point with "Facebook contact information is not editable on this device" which I believe is normal. How would I get this person's picture to show when the phone already thinks the facebook account is joined? Oh and when I try to join it the person does not show up in the join list.
Unrelated question: Does anyone know a fix for slow app scrowling in 2.2 STOCK froyo? the 3D effect is nice but when I had a launcher from the market it would scroll with one swipe of my finger from the top to bottom, now the same swipe would get me just a couple rows down.
Thanks everyone

Facebook syncing
In facebook people have first and last name, If you want them to sync properly edit the contacts information to match facebook name, and that should clean things up. If not let me know.

Thats the one thing about the HD2 I liked... You can manually match your contacts with your facebook contacts. I don't think you can do that with the N1, unless you know what all of your friends facebook ID numbers are.

My contacts already are named just as they are in facebook.they have facebook information at the bottom of the edit contacts area. Just no picture.. how do I fix this?

adamhlj said:
Thats the one thing about the HD2 I liked... You can manually match your contacts with your facebook contacts. I don't think you can do that with the N1, unless you know what all of your friends facebook ID numbers are.
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You can do that with Android, too.
-> Go to contacts
-> Choose the contact you want to assign a Facebook-account to
-> Hit the menu botton and "Edit"
-> While in "edit mode" hit the menu button again and there should be a "Join" button
-> It should suggest some Facebook contacts
Attention! though, some user report, that this can change the name of the contact. Before saving make sure the contact is filed under the name you want (by editing the name if necessary).
You can revert this operation the same way but chose "Seperate" if you joined two contacts that don't fit anymore.

viper2g1 said:
My contacts already are named just as they are in facebook.they have facebook information at the bottom of the edit contacts area. Just no picture.. how do I fix this?
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If the contacts fb info is already linked to the correct contact in your phone book and its just now showing the pic, you can tell google to use it manually by;
- Going to the contact without the image, click in to there contact card and select edit from the menu.
- Then scroll down to the facebook section part of the contact info and click the profile pic shown
- a dialog should show up with the option "Use this photo"
Select that and it *should* add the image as the contacts profile pic.
If its that the accounts simply aren't linking, ensuring they had the same name worked for me, but i imagine if your still having no luck with that, the manual join described by the guy above should do the trick.
Hope that helps

Fixed by restoring phone.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

If you check "use all contacts" in stock phone contacts app, the pictures appear.

[Q] Cant add, view or edit "Phone Contacts", only "Google Contacts"

[Q] Cant add, view or edit "Phone Contacts", only "Google Contacts"
This is really weird, I've had the phone about a year now but just today I decided to add a custom ringtone to one of my contacts, which even though I'd done it before, I couldnt find any way to do it again for another contact. All my contacts are google contacts synced with my gmail. So I went to display options to see if the phone contacts were being hidden but there isn't even an option to view them, only my google contacts. Tried to add a New Contact but there isn't even an option any more to save as phone contact instead of google.
Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?

[Q] Damaged link between Facebook contacts and joined contacts?

Hey all,
I updated my phone to 2.3.3 via Samsung Kies and did a factory reset.
So, I synced my contacts from Facebook via adding the SNS account, everything worked fine but I needed to add phone numbers to some of the contacts. Considering you can't edit Facebook contacts, I ended up creating a new contact to phone with the number and the name exactly the same and then using the 'Join Contact' to merge them.
The problem #1:
When I click new message, I can click the 'contacts' button and everyone with numbers are listed. I go to an untouched Facebook contact (With a number assigned to it automatically from Facebook) and click add but it still has an empty field saying 'to'. If I add one of my merged contacts, the number is displayed and it works fine.
#2
When a Facebook contact text messages me, only their number shows up, like its an unknown number which mean I have no idea who it is even though I have them as a contact. I go to that persons contact profile and the number that is assigned to them is identical, so why doesn't it show the contacts name?
If I go to the contact and swipe my finger to the left so it 'messages' them, in the 'To' field is their number only, no contact name.
Last but not least, no contact pictures show up in my Messages, even though they have Facebook pictures assigned to the contact
Can anyone help at all or at least point me in the right direction to solving this myth?
Thanks a lot everyone for helping me.

Saving contacts default location

Hi all,
I was wondering if there was anyway to solve the following problem:
The contacts on my phone are synced with my Gmail contacts, I have a group called "Phone" in which all my contacts are stored.
On my phone, I have deselected everything except for the subgroup "Phone" which I created.
If I add a new contact on my phone, I can select that I want to save it to my google account, however one cannot select a subgroup.
So, I think it saves it by default to "Other contacts". The naturally it does not appear in my contacts list on my phone unless I select to sync that group as well.
Is there a way to change the default saving directory on the phone, or should I just move all my contacts to "Other contacts"?
Using Zues V3N, but this problem has been on the stock ROMs as well.
Thanks for any help.

Nevermind. Found the groups option when adding a new contact...
Didn't notice that before....
Someone is more than welcome to delete this thread if it is not useful at all