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[SOLVED] Re-syncing Facebook contacts?

Somehow, I am not able to get to the screen where you choose to sync your facebook contacts like when you first get that after installing a rom/wiping data.
I can not add a facebook account through accounts and sync. Deleting all facebook data doesn't help it. Please help!

if you open the fb app and go into settings, there's an option to sync contacts
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If you can't add an account, it might be because you used Froyo's method of app2sd. Move the app back to the "internal" memory and see if you can add an account back (you may need to reboot for it to show up in the account selection section).

baseballfanz said:
if you open the fb app and go into settings, there's an option to sync contacts
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Nope there isn't
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I got the same problem with my Milestone 2 using Android 2.3.
baseballfanz said:
if you open the fb app and go into settings, there's an option to sync contacts
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There is no such option in my FB App either.
Is there a solution for re-syncing the contacts?

playdo said:
I got the same problem with my Milestone 2 using Android 2.3.
There is no such option in my FB App either.
Is there a solution for re-syncing the contacts?
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Did you check this?
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If you can't add an account, it might be because you used Froyo's method of app2sd. Move the app back to the "internal" memory and see if you can add an account back (you may need to reboot for it to show up in the account selection section).
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If that isn't the case, you may not have enough freespace on the device to store any info...

That weird, for me when I go into settings and scroll down I have this.
but just follow bassmadrigal instructions above.

baseballfanz said:
That weird, for me when I go into settings and scroll down I have this.
but just follow bassmadrigal instructions above.
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That was just the setting I didn't have. Don't worry anymore, though, I solved it by using an external application. Furthermore, I would just like to say I do not run ICS any longer. I currently run samuaz CM7 ROM and will continue using it until all the major bug and stability issues with the current ICS builds are ironed out.
ICS really is a great ROM and it's gonna be a tough choice between choosing an AOSP ICS build or a cyanogenmod AOSP ICS build. I really "dig" cyanogenmod so that's probably what I'll look forward to.

bassmadrigal said:
Did you check this?
If that isn't the case, you may not have enough freespace on the device to store any info...
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I didn't use app2sd or something like that. So I think the app is in the internal memory.
And my phone is just 3 days old so it should have enough space.
After deleting and adding my Fb account some of my contacts have re-synced but there are some missing

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After deleting and adding my Fb account some of my contacts have re-synced but there are some missing
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If just some aren't working, then overall, your app is working, it just isn't always able to find the right person to sync it with. Just find that facebook contact, then click on their picture to get the little popup with email and their contact card. Click on the contact card and select edit contact, then use the menu button and click on join. Find the contact in your normal contact and select that person. This will join the contacts.

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If just some aren't working, then overall, your app is working, it just isn't always able to find the right person to sync it with. Just find that facebook contact, then click on their picture to get the little popup with email and their contact card. Click on the contact card and select edit contact, then use the menu button and click on join. Find the contact in your normal contact and select that person. This will join the contacts.
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Sorry I didn't made it clear: There are some Fb contacts missing, not the link between my contacts and Fb.
So it isn't possible for me to link them, because they don't exist

Is this with the stock facebook app? Because I know if you use third-party ones like Friendcaster, if they blocked the app, they won't show up. If it is the stock app, I really don't know. I haven't seen that issue at all.

Contact photos don't show up on GOSMS after ICS update

Not sure what ICS did, but my contact photos are a no-show on GoSms. The photos aren't actually save to the phone, they are pulled from each contact's facebook acount via facebook sync. It will show contact photos from contacts that have photos saved on the phone, but not for the contacts that rely on the facebook images. No issues in the actual people app, or the stock messager, just on GoSMS. Anyone else having issues? Possible fix? I tried uninstalling and re-installing it, no dice.

Handcent too. Havent figured out why and can't suggest anything at this point cause nothing I've tried has worked
Edit: Guess it's just not showing facebook contact photos. Google contact photos are showing up. Stock messaging shows all pics though...hmm. still looking..

Ha. Handcent just "Updated" and now I don't get Google contact pics either, only phone pics now..

Yeah it seems to be an issued with the sense 3.6s contacts data base and third party apps.
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Help! Same Issue!
I did a software update and my photos under my phonebook are updated from facebook but my handcent sms photos are not showing up at all anymore. I tried downloading GoSMS and the same error. Anyone have a solution to this? I miss seeing the pictures when I text people!

I use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
It's mostly is for AOSP or CM9 builds, but it works for Sense.

Cool. I'm actually four the problem. On Gingerbread, the vivid had its own unique facebook app, "facebook for htc sense ", but on ics, it useful the standard facebook app, and apparently the Facebook app doesn't let 3rd party apps have access to contacts. Why? Because Zuckerberg sucks probably. But anyway I fired the issue by deleting my accounts info on the Facebook app and installing friendcaster pro. I have friendcaster are so it was no big deal. The drawback is I can no longer use my cool friendstream widget.
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What are those? I don't know what either of those are, do you mind explaining to me how those would fix my issue with handcent contact pictures not showing up?

Camste85 said:
What are those? I don't know what either of those are, do you mind explaining to me how those would fix my issue with handcent contact pictures not showing up?
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Friendcaster has the ability to take photos from your Facebook and put them on your phone. I think that is what he was trying to say.
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Sorry if my post sounds like I'm drunk, autocorrect on my tablet is annoying
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So the friendcaster is just an alternate to facebook. The issue I am having is that the facebook pictures show up in the phonebook but in handcent sms since I've updated they don't show at all . I was wondering if there was a way to fix THAT issue Thanks in advance

Yes using friendcaster instead will fix that issue. For me same issue, facebook pictures show in phonebook, not in gosms. Delete your Facebook account information and install friendcaster, log in and after sense links all your contacts you'll be good
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Cor-master said:
Yes using friendcaster instead will fix that issue. For me same issue, facebook pictures show in phonebook, not in gosms. Delete your Facebook account information and install friendcaster, log in and after sense links all your contacts you'll be good
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Confirmed. Facebook's app has always been a steamy PoS

It is crap. I had the paid version of friendcaster already from using cyanogenmod on my captivate. The facebook app wouldn't sync photos at all on it and even my phonebook had no photos so from googleing i found friendcaster fixes the problem. The free version gets the job done but the paid version removes ads so I went ahead and paid for it.
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I was having this problem even with HTC's contact widget. I wiped my facebook app data, then used titanium backup to uninstall the app. I reinstalled the app via google play and synced all contacts and the problem was fixed.
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I can confirm that having both Facebook and Friendcaster accounts didn't show contact pictures, but removing the Facebook account entirely fixed the issue in a minute or two. Thanks for the advice!

Has anyone tried HaxSync? I use it but I don't use GoSMS.
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I have confirmed that that using friend caster does work to get the contact pics on go sms. Thanks for making this thread. U can get the paid verision of friend caster on 4shared for free. But this is awesome lol.
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Yeah and you get a cool ics look with friendcaster
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That was brilliant!! I took off the Facebook account, kept Friendcaster and boom! My contact pictures are back in GoSMS... Thank you so much for the help and a great thread!!

Facebook contacts not showing..

I have created Facebook account and it's working in socialhub but I couldn't get the contacts to sync with device. In GB there will be an option to check whether do or do not sync contacts. But I couldn't find it in ICS. How to solve this?
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go to your contacts and hit settings. then accounts. Then check off the "sync" icon next to facebook

^^ Copy That.
Else you can do one more thing. Reinstall the FB app. Once I got stuck in somewhat similar thing like that.
I found that my facebook application which was restored by titanium backup didn't actually sync well with contacts. so had to reinstall.

I checked it and its in green color. When I go further it shows only messages and calendar. It didn't show up contacts. Any idea?
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badjaguar007 said:
^^ Copy That.
Else you can do one more thing. Reinstall the FB app.
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I'm talking about inbuilt social hub which lets the contacts to sync with Facebook account.. Can I re install that?
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Why don't you use the fb app which is AVAILABLE in market. It also syncs in the same way.

Sure it will work.. But I don't wanna pile up with apps. Social hub has to do this job and I wanted to do it. Actually when I was GB I'll remove all social hub related apps (twitter account, linked account, even default mail app) except Facebook account, still it was syncing contacts flawlessly. Now I wanted the same. Does ICS doesn't have that capability??
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Should I remove all Facebook items from ICS and install third party apps from market?
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Well I think you should wait for some more time till a solution comes out. I had the same problem with SocialHub. I chose over FB Market App since I didnt have time & wanted to get my contacts asap back. :/ Still will send you any info which might be helpful on this topic

Thanks.. Just now Google it... It seems there is a bug in ICS that stops sync contacts particularly in contactsprovider.apk. We need to add some .xml file it seems. Which is too tech for me so m gonna search some other option for this.
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[Q] Facebook contact sync?

Hello guys.
Sorry if this question has been asked. Looked through a few pages but couldnt find any topic related to this.
Anyway, im currently on the unofficial cyan10 rom, and im wondering whether the facebook sync contact is working on your inc s. I already set for the app to sync contacts, but nothing happened.
This was obvious when none of my contacts had the photos they were using on FB.
I googled a bit and seemed to found a thread which showed how to sync properly, but its using another device, and the method requires renaming some apks, plus most of the users said it didnt work, so i didnt try it yet.
So i was hoping someone had a solution for this.
Sorry for all the troubles and thankyou for helping.
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It'd be interesting if you tried the fix/advice you found by googling and then posted your results.
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If you mean the built in method: It just converts every of your fb friends in contacts on your phone. It's not visible without checking the [X] though... If you want really sync fb profile pictures and events to your contacts and your calendar, I recommend you HaxSync. It works flawless on AOSP and CM

What [X] are you on about?
Because I'm sure I've set all of the in-app settings to display Facebook contacts, is there one I've missed...
I've gone into the menu in the 'People' app, and then 'contacts to display' and tried all variations in here.
Have others got Facebook contacts to show in your 'People' app by just selecting the right settings, without additional apps?
I must be doing something wrong...
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Facebook contact sync doesn't work either on my device. Still looking forward to a fix as I got used to that.
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I had the same problem with dla5244's ROM and another one that was released later (Lacoste).
I used Contact Sync for Facebook and everything is OK now.

WILLI120 said:
If you mean the built in method: It just converts every of your fb friends in contacts on your phone. It's not visible without checking the [X] though... If you want really sync fb profile pictures and events to your contacts and your calendar, I recommend you HaxSync. It works flawless on AOSP and CM
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Agree. I've been using HaxSync for both Sense and CM. It works flawlessly and with high-res photo.

Ive installed haxsync and the workaround. My contacts still dont have the photos they are using on FB.
How exacrly do I make it work?
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rem3dyx said:
Ive installed haxsync and the workaround. My contacts still dont have the photos they are using on FB.
How exacrly do I make it work?
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After HaxSync has completed syncing contacts from facebook, they should be able to see them in People app (settings-contacts to display). If their names match with your existing contacts, they should be joined automatically. Otherwise, you need to join them one by one.
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nniicckkss said:
What [X] are you on about?
Because I'm sure I've set all of the in-app settings to display Facebook contacts, is there one I've missed...
I've gone into the menu in the 'People' app, and then 'contacts to display' and tried all variations in here.
Have others got Facebook contacts to show in your 'People' app by just selecting the right settings, without additional apps?
I must be doing something wrong...
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You didn't miss anything, the [X] just doesn't do what you're looking for, so forget about that.
itandy said:
After HaxSync has completed syncing contacts from facebook, they should be able to see them in People app (settings-contacts to display). If their names match with your existing contacts, they should be joined automatically. Otherwise, you need to join them one by one.
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+1.You can manually join contacts if you go into Settings > Accounts > HaxSync > Preferences > Contact Settings > Manage Contacts. The rest should be clear. Should work

Oh I see. Actually some of my contacts already started to have the photos. Which is weird because the names on my phone dont match with the one on FB haha xD.
I guess the ones that didnt sync, i'll just do them manually.
Thanks for the help guys!
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rem3dyx said:
Oh I see. Actually some of my contacts already started to have the photos. Which is weird because the names on my phone dont match with the one on FB haha xD.
I guess the ones that didnt sync, i'll just do them manually.
Thanks for the help guys!
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One thing I don't like in HaxSync is the fuzzy logic for name matching. I always disable it the first thing after installation.

itandy said:
One thing I don't like in HaxSync is the fuzzy logic for name matching. I always disable it the first thing after installation.
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As long as you can disable it, it's really no problem ;D

google, FB, contact sync
to sync my FB contact I'm using ubersync and It's work fine, my contact are updated with FB picture.
I'have a doubt, why the contact on google are not updated with FB picture?
It seem that what my phone do is only to link the 2 contact, but in google are reported what regarding the google contact only.
Kind regards,
Luigi

FB Contacts Don't Sync W/ GE ROM

So I installed the Google Play edition ROM, from bigxie. And since I can't post in that forum with less than 10 posts, I have to ask here.
I'm unable to get my Facebook contacts to sync into my phone. I've tried removing the account, and even reinstalling Facebook. I was wondering if anyone else was having this issue.

636_Castle said:
So I installed the Google Play edition ROM, from bigxie. And since I can't post in that forum with less than 10 posts, I have to ask here.
I'm unable to get my Facebook contacts to sync into my phone. I've tried removing the account, and even reinstalling Facebook. I was wondering if anyone else was having this issue.
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use haxsync

I'd kinda like to get the phone working the way it's supposed to work rather than downloading an app for it.

Facebooks contacts, at least for me, have never synced with vanilla android. Only way is to use a third party app.
\(^_^\) note 2 (/^_^)/

636_Castle said:
I'd kinda like to get the phone working the way it's supposed to work rather than downloading an app for it.
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As notown said above, you have to use an asp to sync contacts. Haxsync is my app of choice
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FB & Google haven't played well together (on purpose) since either 2.3 or 4. Haxsync works perfectly to get around the contact sync issue.
So yeah, you're not "using an app to get the phone to work correctly", you're using an app to fix Facebook being a bunch of jackasses. It's "working correctly" by not syncing in the first place.

Oh alright. I just figured since they synced in Sense they would sync without it.