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A way to link facebook contacts? Possible?

is there a way to link your Facebook contact with this phone like the HTC sense ui so that the contacts have a photo instead of a blank face?
I tried to facebook account login in settings already but no go.

Bump anybody know how?

here ya go bud. sorry bout the late response.
This is one solution i've found:
http://androidandme.com/2010/04/reviews/syncmypix-pulls-facebook-contact-photos-to-android/
you'll need a rooted phone, and a method to sideload apps which can be found in these forums. i recommend droid explorer.

Mine actually started working. From in the contacts u can also see the latest post

I can't add my facebook (Facebook for Androir installed and the phone is HTC Desire) to my accounts in phone contacts. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Just installed MildWild CM-3.7 ROM and phonebook is synced with gmail. I tried to took all syncin' off and then add the facebook to my contact accounts but it just doesn't do it. And it doesn't give any error message.
Edit: opps little old thread, but hope some1 could help me.
E2: Got it working. Had to clear facebook data from apps managment and after that add Facebook to contacts (asked the login info) and got it working.

install the Facebook app and login to it and contact will be synced automaticaly

dhlalit11 said:
install the Facebook app and login to it and contact will be synced automaticaly
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+1 Although you may need to link each contact individually.

korockinout13 said:
+1 Although you may need to link each contact individually.
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Only if the names are different.

Contact's birthdays and syncing with calender

Does anybody know how to get the birthdays of your contacts to sync with your calender?
or...
How to get facebook birthdays to sync with your calender?
Please help.... Thanks in advance

MIKE DEGUZMAN said:
Does anybody know how to get the birthdays of your contacts to sync with your calender?
or...
How to get facebook birthdays to sync with your calender?
Please help.... Thanks in advance
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Something has to put the birthday in the calendar. If you sync with Exchange, and set up your contacts wtih Birthdays, Outlook will add them to the calendar. Google doesn't do this, but there are some tools to do it:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/07/birthday-calendar-for-google-contacts.html
Since Facebook doesn't have a calendar, I see no way to do it automatically. All the above methods rely on the contact app to talk to the calendar app within one application suite.

If you have Google/Gmail contacts and you have all their birthday information entered there. The easiest way is to go to Google calendar on a desktop. Then you would go to the Calendar settings, click on the Calendars link, and then click where it says to "Browse interesting calendars". This will take you to a page where it has the options for Holidays, Sports, or More. If you click more, there is a "Contacts' birthdays and events" calendar that you can subscribe to. Once subscribed, you can then select it as one of the calendars to sync on your phone to the calendar app.
Sounds complicated and maybe it is for some, but it was not for me. Hope this helps.

"EboBirthday" from Android Market does exactly what you're looking for perfectly and you don't have to worry about syncing with anything outside of the contact list on your phone.

accrews2001 said:
"EboBirthday" from Android Market does exactly what you're looking for perfectly and you don't have to worry about syncing with anything outside of the contact list on your phone.
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This is the method i used and it worked very well

Ebobirthday works perfectly!
Thanks everyone!

MIKE DEGUZMAN said:
Ebobirthday works perfectly!
Thanks everyone!
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well... kind of...
when you turn your phone off, and turn it back on... all the birthdays dissappear from the calender and you have to run EBOBIRTHDAY again... which takes a few minutes if you have a lot of contacts...
ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS?

Hmm. This didn't happen to me and I've had it practically since the phone came out
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Meh. I still prefer the Google contacts and calendar method.
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[Q] Facebook sync without sense

I am using Liberated just because of the nice facebook syncing with contacts of the sense (I mean, birthdays - profile pics - statuses etc.). I wanna use CM, but couldn't figure out how can I do same thing in CM. You guys, what are you doing for that? Any suggestion will be appreciated.
P.S: I have tried few 3rd party battery-draining app (which I cant remember the name atm). Is there any real good app to do that like sense does?

barisahmet said:
I am using Liberated just because of the nice facebook syncing with contacts of the sense (I mean, birthdays - profile pics - statuses etc.). I wanna use CM, but couldn't figure out how can I do same thing in CM. You guys, what are you doing for that? Any suggestion will be appreciated.
P.S: I have tried few 3rd party battery-draining app (which I cant remember the name atm). Is there any real good app to do that like sense does?
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Please elaborate on the "birthdays, profile pics, statuses, etc" part...I haven't used sense since day 3 of having my aria so I can't really remember anything about it.
As far as profile pics go, phone numbers, emails, etc...you CAN sync that on CM --
1. settings > accounts & sync > facebook
2. facebook settings > sync contacts > sync all

zervic said:
As far as profile pics go, phone numbers, emails, etc...you CAN sync that on CM --
1. settings > accounts & sync > facebook
2. facebook settings > sync contacts > sync all
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One thing I would like to point out is that you have to do those steps in the reverse order. aosp won't let you even add facebook as a sync account until you choose to sync contacts via the facebook app.
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CallMeAria said:
One thing I would like to point out is that you have to do those steps in the reverse order. aosp won't let you even add facebook as a sync account until you choose to sync contacts via the facebook app.
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Thanks I wasn't putting them in any sort of order, but I guess with the numbers it would seem that way...

zervic said:
Please elaborate on the "birthdays, profile pics, statuses, etc" part...I haven't used sense since day 3 of having my aria so I can't really remember anything about it.
As far as profile pics go, phone numbers, emails, etc...you CAN sync that on CM --
1. settings > accounts & sync > facebook
2. facebook settings > sync contacts > sync all
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Thanks. Didnt know native client has sync option :O So does it sync friend's birthdays with your calendar? And about statuses; sense dialer shows your friend's last status messages below their names but I guess it's not possible on native dialer. well its not so important.

barisahmet said:
Thanks. Didnt know native client has sync option :O So does it sync friend's birthdays with your calendar? And about statuses; sense dialer shows your friend's last status messages below their names but I guess it's not possible on native dialer. well its not so important.
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Im not sure about the birthdays, but it does sync their status updates to their contact on the phone. If you click their picture it pops up with other options.
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You can download a program called ebobirthday it can sync your Facebook birthdays to your calender.
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[Q] syncing facebook with contacts

is there an app or something that sync facebook with contacts so when sombody call i can see his picture?
thank you.

Its easy no app is needed its already built in
On your phone go to settings - accounts and sync
In there you can add account and login to your facebook and there will be options to sync calendar and contacts
Just know it will add all your friends from facebook, and if your like me you don't want half those people in there, and also if your like me and you synced your google contacts you'll have doubles, just select one of the double contacts hit your menu button select Join Contact and then select the other double and it will merge the info
Hope that answered your question

thanks, but if i dont want to have all the facebook friends in contacts?
only my contacts?

sure someone will correct me if i'm wrong but you have to sync all contacts and just delete the ones your don't want, shouldn't take you that long.

when you install the facebook app from android you have the option to sync contacts only during set up.

thank you all, i will try.

google for syncmypix.apk
it's just for picture syncing

Thank you.

Aiki123 said:
google for syncmypix.apk
it's just for picture syncing
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Thanks for this tip! I didn't know about this app... Just got it and it works great.
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ICS 2.1 ROM - Facebook contacts not syncing

I'm running the ICS ROM by st.matt in the developer forum, and the major issue I'm having that nobody else seems to have mentioned is a lack of facebook contact syncing. I have the facebook app installed, but none of my contacts are getting their pics updated, and I can't seem to add the facebook account to my accounts list.
Is this something anyone else is seeing? Is this already known, but I just missed it?

it is a known problem

Well it isn't a game breaker that Facebook contacts aren't working.
But yes, I have the same problem, but I doubt that it is one that'll persist for long

MuhKoInc said:
Well it isn't a game breaker that Facebook contacts aren't working.
But yes, I have the same problem, but I doubt that it is one that'll persist for long
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hmmm..i thought you will need facebook for sense for sycn to happen, since ics alpha was aosp, so i think it won't be able to happen..

Yeah facebook only syncs with sense...

If you're a stickler for contact tidiness, and are struggling with no Facebook contact sync, you could always export your Facebook contacts to your PC and import them to your gmail account and sync them that way.
Although they won't updated should their details change, it's an alternative.
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