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[Q] Adding Facebook Account

Has anyone been able to add their facebook account by going to settings-accounts-facebook?
I installed the facebook app off the market, but when i went under settings it didn't give me the option to sync friends to contacts like it did on my droid.
So went to accounts, add facebook, entered my email, and password, but it wouldn't sign in
Kept giving me a server error, then about every third time it gives an error that says that something is wrong with the device clock and to contact the administrator.
Tried uninstalling the app to see if it was causing problems, but no luck. Anyone been able to sync facebook friends with contacts (its
mainly to get contact pics off facebook)
Thanks
Edit: Finally got it to work. Only took over a week

When you install Facebook, under the "My Accounts" app, you'll see two entries for Facebook. One is actually for your Facebook app, and one is for Moto's "Social Networking" app. Using the Moto-branded version may offer you additional features.
I've noticed a couple places where you get shafted by Moto software for not using their built-ins. Like the Car Dock front page only links to the Moto Music Player... which has no music because I stream from Google Music.

I believe since OS 2.3 (Gingerbread), the facebook sync with accounts option has been removed from Android.
Easy method, download (free) SyncMyPix from the Market, it will sync facebook pics with matching accounts on your phone into your actual Google Contacts.
I run it once and don't let it do it automatically, just run it whenever I add new contacts.

The sync facebook accounts worked fine on my original droid, its running cyangenmod 7 2.3.3. Thats why it was driving me nuts, could just set the sync settings from the facebook app. Figured it was some moto thing, but didn't know if it was specific to my phone or not.
Thanks

tcrews said:
I believe since OS 2.3 (Gingerbread), the facebook sync with accounts option has been removed from Android.
Easy method, download (free) SyncMyPix from the Market, it will sync facebook pics with matching accounts on your phone into your actual Google Contacts.
I run it once and don't let it do it automatically, just run it whenever I add new contacts.
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Thanks for the SyncMyPix suggestion!
Looks like the facebook app has removed the settings for syncing contacts. Tried using the Verizon "MyAccounts" app but definitely a little screwy.

fb contacts synced with no problems for me. I used the "social networking" app in the app drawer and entered in my fb info. contacts now have either gmail or fb photo as their contact photo.

I used one of the two in the My Accounts app, contacts synced just fine.

I don't love that when you sync with face book your gallery becomes less about you, and turns into a fb gallery...wish you could turn only that feature off...
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Use quickpic, 100x better gallery and free
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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!

UNROOTED Peeps!

If you have not rooted and you don't mind, can you please give me a list of stock apps? I'd like to unroot but I need to download the apps I deleted and can't remember all of the apps I deleted (really didn't delete a alot).
I'd be VERY appreciative if anyone has the time to do this. Thanks

apps list please
This would be helpful. I did the samething I have a backup but I don't want to re-root my bionic again. I have downloaded many of the apps including all the vcast apps.

Here ya go, this is a full list of everything in my app tab (excluding stuff I've installed since purchase) on my un-rooted stock bionic.
Alarm & Timer
Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Books
Browser
Calculator
Calendar
Camcorder
Camera
Citrix
City ID
Contacts
Device Setup
Dialer
DLNA
Downloads
Email
Files
Gallery
Gmail
Google Search
GoToMeeting
Guided Tours
Help Center
IM
Latitude
Let's Golf 2
Maps
Market
Messaging
Mobile Hotspot
MOTOPRINT
Music
My Accounts
My Verizon Mobile
Navigation
News
NFL Mobile
Places
Quickoffice
Settings
Slacker
Social Location
Social Networking
Talk
Task Manager
Tasks
Text Messaging
V CAST Media Manager
V CAST Music
V CAST Tones
V CAST Videos
Videosurf
Voice Commands
Voice Search
Voicemail
VZ Navigator
YouTube
ZumoCast
That's the lot, hope this helps!

thank you this should help me out.

Wow, I just looked over my list, MAN that's a lot of junk... I may have to take the leap to root, didn't realize quite how much bloatware this thing had until right now...

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Here ya go, this is a full list of everything in my app tab (excluding stuff I've installed since purchase) on my un-rooted stock bionic.
Alarm & Timer
Amazon Kindle
Blockbuster
Books
Browser
Calculator
Calendar
Camcorder
Camera
Citrix
City ID
Contacts
Device Setup
Dialer
DLNA
Downloads
Email
Files
Gallery
Gmail
Google Search
GoToMeeting
Guided Tours
Help Center
IM
Latitude
Let's Golf 2
Maps
Market
Messaging
Mobile Hotspot
MOTOPRINT
Music
My Accounts
My Verizon Mobile
Navigation
News
NFL Mobile
Places
Quickoffice
Settings
Slacker
Social Location
Social Networking
Talk
Task Manager
Tasks
Text Messaging
V CAST Media Manager
V CAST Music
V CAST Tones
V CAST Videos
Videosurf
Voice Commands
Voice Search
Voicemail
VZ Navigator
YouTube
ZumoCast
That's the lot, hope this helps!
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You rock!!!! Thank you SO, SO much!!

****! That's a boatload of bloat!
F#ck you Verzion!

Of course Titanium will show a LOT more.
If you root and freeze do not freeze any of the other authenticators like picasa, yahoo, etc. even if you don't use the apps.
It will cause your contacts to force close upon opening.

Abradax said:
Of course Titanium will show a LOT more.
If you root and freeze do not freeze any of the other authenticators like picasa, yahoo, etc. even if you don't use the apps.
It will cause your contacts to force close upon opening.
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Yahoo Authenticator is the only one that will mess up contacts.

Are there any apps that would potentially mess up your front facing camera?

Abradax said:
Of course Titanium will show a LOT more.
If you root and freeze do not freeze any of the other authenticators like picasa, yahoo, etc. even if you don't use the apps.
It will cause your contacts to force close upon opening.
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Yes, sorry I just realized I should have probably given the disclaimer that I don't have titanium on yet and so I can't tell you what other junk may be on here, what I listed were just the apps that are visible in the app tab, hope that didn't mess anyone up

UGH - I had deleted Guided Tours and News. Any ideas for putting these back on my phone in case I should ever have to return my Bionic?

Just a suggestion if you are rooted and are removing some of that bloatware, don't delete it. Use something like Root Explorer to rename the .apk file to something like .apk.old. This way you can easily recover it. Root Explorer also gives you the ability to change the system\app directory from read only to read/write so that you can rename them.
I have also heard of people taking the .apk renamed fike and moving it to the sdcard to free up space.
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Freezing apps

FYI, I am new to rooting and did it for the very first time last night on my Droid 4, with some great advice from forum members, and I went throug and froze approxmately 40-45 apps and began getting "motorolacom.contacts" or similar, cant remember, warning when trying to edit and/or delete contacts. So I defrosted everything and re-froze apps in batches till I narrowed it down to, get this, yahoo calendar service, yahoo contacts, yahoo mail authenticator. It didn't seem to be just one, but a combo of two or more of them.

Don't freeze any of the motoblur system stuff. Just freeze the bloatware like BlockBuster, Kindle, MOG Music, etc.

I only froze yahoo mail stuff, is that considered motoblur apps?
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andyshowfan said:
FYI, I am new to rooting and did it for the very first time last night on my Droid 4, with some great advice from forum members, and I went throug and froze approxmately 40-45 apps and began getting "motorolacom.contacts" or similar, cant remember, warning when trying to edit and/or delete contacts. So I defrosted everything and re-froze apps in batches till I narrowed it down to, get this, yahoo calendar service, yahoo contacts, yahoo mail authenticator. It didn't seem to be just one, but a combo of two or more of them.
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That sounds familiar; I think Yahoo Authenticator may need to stay defrosted. In fact, my recollection is that you don't want to freeze any "authenticator package" or the Blur contacts system will be prone to FC.
This thread seems to lay the blame on freezing the Yahoo Mail Authenticator.

stock mail prog crashing

I have a stock HTC one
all I have done is freeze some of the apps as per the list on this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681729
Sadly I left the email setup to last ( having set up all the contacts, apps etc) and the mail prog seems to be crashing.
I could just manage to set one account at and received a test email, which I could reply to but that's it.
when I open it it is incredibly slow and I cant get the menu button to work , the back button also doesn't work.
eventually I get a message saying that mail has stopped working.
I will try enabling everything and see if that makes it work but I thought I would ask here if anyone had experienced such problems or knew of a cure
thanks

That list contains about 50 apps, including mail...

BenPope said:
That list contains about 50 apps, including mail...
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Sorry youre right
I should know better than to try and multitask!!!
the apps I have disabled are
7 digital
best deal
live wallpapers
calculator widget
chrome
face unlock
fm radio widget
gmail
google play books, magazines, movies music
google search
google plus
linked in
news and weather
pdf viewer
people widget
picassa
polaris
rescue
ringtone trimmer
talk
talkback
transfer
watch
weather live wallpaper
and that's all
I have since loaded k9 which works fine so I cant see why the mail prog should crash
Thanks

stringman said:
I have since loaded k9 which works fine so I cant see why the mail prog should crash
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Not an answer to your question but try Aqua mail.
Much better than k9 or stock.

Hi
Am I ended up doing a hard reset
Added mail accounts and all was fine
Disabled bloat, checked mail, all good.
Added games, checked all good.
Added apps. Checked all good.
That was 4 hours ago and it's happening again
Any ideas
Thanks

disabling apps may result to other apps crashing because it may be dependent on that app.

I was quite careful about what apps ive disabled and am pretty sure that is not whats causing it ,I checked it after I disabled the apps and it worked fine (for a few hours)
The only thing I can think of is one of the apps I downloaded. But I am hesitant to think its that as all the apps were installed on my sensation and the mail was fine
The only apps that required the "non authorised apps" warning were mm tracker and quick office pro so I have disabled them and restarted the phone. I then e mail tried the mail prog
still no joy
the thing is even if I enable all the disabled apps it still doesn't work
I know that I can get another app but that doesn't help my ocd about setting the phone up

after rebooting and loading apps I found that DW contacts was causing the crash
hard reset and re load of all apps except dw and all is good