Not sure if it's possible because I haven't seen a phone setting...I want my FB contacts to sync but it's not necessary for my FB picture albums to sync. I have a TON of them and I'm not a fan of phone clutter LOL Is this something that "by design" can't be stopped?
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Is your N1 syncing your contact's profile photo with their facebook profile?
Mine don't sync. I have to go to edit contact and do it.
N1 does recognize and pair the contacts with facebook profiles..just doesn't sync pictures.
strange!!! I have no problems with this... sync merges Google contacts & Facebook contacts along with the Facebook profile pics... unless there is a Google contact pic...
I have it syncing on some, but not all.
I have found the ones with problems either
A) Don't have a complete name in my phonebook
B) Have a different number in facebook.
Hmm.. quite wierd.
I am seeing a trend...
I was using HTC Sense 2.5 on WM. And all the contact whose photos were synced with facebook by sense 2.5, do not sync with facebook in android. And for some reason, gmail contacts (web, browser version) shows these pictures in contacts, but android does not.
I just deleted a contact's photo in gmail..and android instantly synced it with facebook.
im having this problem tooo! just noticed it today. i cant figure out why it wont sync tho!!....
You can go for this, worx nice
AddressBooker & exporting my Facebook Phonebook:
http://brad.livejournal.com/2398409.html
I find that Facebook only syncs people with first & last name on your contacts list. It doesn't sync only first names. I wish there was a way around that.
That is annoying, even my old blackberry would sync to partial names, and that thing is primitive in comparison.
Noticed a couple of things:
Address book names and facebook contact names have to be the same.
If you have a photo linked to the contact (i.e you synced from another phone to google and pulled the contacts back down) then you often have to specify that the phone uses the facebook profile pic rather than the pic held directly against the contact.
It's a bit of a faff around, and if you delete the pics from the contacts on your gmail account (as someone mentioned above) it should default to the facebook pic assuming there is one for the contact.
<edit> Also ensure you have facebook setup to sync friends into contacts. Facebook app -> Menu -> Settings -> Sync Contacts </edit>
Highland3r said:
Also ensure you have facebook setup to sync friends into contacts. Facebook app -> Menu -> Settings -> Sync Contacts
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This helped me. Thanks.
I could not add a facebook account directly in "Accounts", but enabling sync in the FB app automatically added it to "Accounts".
Hi.
I use the inbuilt facebook sync on my SGS. Its all well and good but, why is it such a hassle to sync my pics from facebook to my contacts. Going through the process i have to select the contacts from facebook I want to have in my contact list. Then join the two accounts together, last but not least I have to then set facebook as the default account to show facebook pictures. Thats for every single contact....long!
Thats a lot of pressing and messing around. Am I missing something or does anyone have a workaround with an app.
Thanks in advance
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i had to do the same thing, except i didnt have to set any defaults, pics came up on their own... my only problem is certain contacts i have saved under nicknames, or i have 2 friends with same name, when i sync the 2 it automatically takes the fbook name... how do i edit the name, it wont let me change it
So I'm able to sync my contacts using the Facebook for Android app rather than the HTC version through friendstream. I've heard friendstream uses a lot of battery for some reason.
However, when looking at my messages (sms mms etc) it shows the contacts picture but not my picture from facebook. It just leaves one of those standard silhouettes.
Is there any fix to this? I know the HTC Facebook will link that automatically (even though it's been disappearing and I've had to resync it every so often)
In your contacts (People) you should have a contact card for yourself. Set your picture there and it will show up in your SMS threads.
fallingd0wn said:
In your contacts (People) you should have a contact card for yourself. Set your picture there and it will show up in your SMS threads.
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Thanks for the help, but I wouldn't be able to link that to facebook though, that's just setting a picture. Facebook for HTC automatically links the picture through Facebook. Any way to do this on Facebook for Android? Or should I just be giving up because the Facebook for Android app is severely lacking?
guys im using picasa to sync some of my favourite photos (taken with my actual camera) to my phone
annoyingly though, the albums are synced in some seemingly random order which is really annoying as there are 30 of them right now and that number will only get bigger.
does anyone else use Picasa in the album on their phone and can suggest a fix?
djbenny1 said:
guys im using picasa to sync some of my favourite photos (taken with my actual camera) to my phone
annoyingly though, the albums are synced in some seemingly random order which is really annoying as there are 30 of them right now and that number will only get bigger.
does anyone else use Picasa in the album on their phone and can suggest a fix?
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fixed my own problem
for anyone who has same problem in future, it seems the htc gallery syncs picasa albums by when they were last UPDATED, and not when they were CREATED.
i guess it makes sense for those who have albums that they are constantly updating, but for me i make an album for an "event" and then thats it, so it doesnt work for me.
anyway - the fix was simply to go to picasa web albums and "update" your albums in the order you want them to appear in - so for me i updated the oldest first right through to the newest. the update can be "nothing" - just go to album properties, open it then save without making a change and it will still register as updated.
htc should give the option regarding which kind of sorting you want but oh well.
Thanks for the info !
Btw i have another problem with Picasa : i can't play any videos as there is no "play button" on them, they are only displayed as pictures...
Any advice ?
I can't even get picasa to work within the gallery. Maybe because I am on Google Apps account instead of a regular gmail account?
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leehicks1 said:
I can't even get picasa to work within the gallery. Maybe because I am on Google Apps account instead of a regular gmail account?
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If you haven't figured it out already, first use the main menu, "Add online service", select Picasa. That'll open up the Google Accounts page, make sure Picasa is set to sync, then hit back button.
From there, you need to click on "My photos" and then on the left drop-down menu, select Albums, then you should get the option of picking Dropbox, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and pictures on your phone. If you use the menu from the My Photos page, you can turn off services you don't want (I don't Facebook, I don't Flickr, for instance).
I am a bit puzzled with the People (contacts app) and what I do need to sync.
I only have my regular contacts showing in my Phonebook (have hidden Twitter-FB), but I have linked those that have FB profiles with the profiles in order to have their pics showing.
In the HTC One Settings--> Account & Sync ---> Facebook, there are three options: Calendar, Contacts and Live Feed
I understand what Calendar is and I have it off but not sure about the other two.
What is Contacts about ? In order to have my contacts updating their Photos and their status do I have to turn this on?
And what is the Live Feed sync? I don't think it has to do with Blinkfeed. So then what?
Is this the "Updates" panel that exists for each of my contacts?
Any help would be appreciated.
No one?
Is it so obvious and I'm missing it?
Contacts - syncs Facebook contacts to your phone contacts (photos, email addresses, etc.)
Live feed - Add the Facebook feed to the HTC Sense Facebook widget, probably BlinkFeed, etc.
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Contacts - syncs Facebook contacts to your phone contacts (photos, email addresses, etc.)
Live feed - Add the Facebook feed to the HTC Sense Facebook widget, probably BlinkFeed, etc.
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I don't think that it does to Blinkfeed as I have it off and I still get FB updates in Blinkfeed.
I also have it off for Contacts, but I've seen that when I open the People app if I wait for a small amount of time statuses are updates.
That's why I was confused.