this may sound odd but i cant seem to find a way to delete the contact that Facebook dragged onto my phone. I have people on my friends that put any garbage into there phone number field i.e. 118118. personally i think if you don't want to put your number on there leave the field blank arg. Anyway i don't really want them cluttering up my phone book so is there a way of just ditching the ones i don't want without Facebook dumping them?
I am having the same problem with no solution in sight....
In the people app, press menu. Choose View. Untick Facebook.
this is great thank you. the only problem is it just hides them i really need the contacts gone from the phone as for example i had a message from t mobile saying welcome to our network etc however my desire says that the message is from one of my Facebook friends. The other issue is although they are now hidden from the contacts they still show when i press the phone button. This is probably something i will have to live with but my fiancée will ask questions if it keeps telling me i'm getting texts from random people lol.
The other thing is then to copy specific contacts from facebook into my normal contacts or is it just going to be easier to put them on manually and link them to there profile?
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The other thing is then to copy specific contacts from facebook into my normal contacts or is it just going to be easier to put them on manually and link them to there profile?
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I think thats the only way around it, so dont import from facebook and just manually link contacts from your phone book. Yeah it can take time if you want to link alot of people but will also be annoying to have lots of unwanted contacts.
Any news on how to get rid of these Facebook contacts from the phone yet? It is only when I press the "phone" button that I see them, but it is rather annoying!!!
think i have sorta solved this problem. You have to clear the contact cache though and then deselect sync Facebook contacts.
jock23 said:
think i have sorta solved this problem. You have to clear the contact cache though and then deselect sync Facebook contacts.
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Can you expand on how we do this please?
I have completly removed Facebook friends in "people":
Menu -> settings -> Accounts & sync --> Facebook --> Remove account
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Just in case any facebook users aren't doing this, you should give it a go.
This has to be my favourite feature on the phone so far. I get their picture, automatically updated, and their latest status in my phonebook. Amazing!
1) You add your contacts as normal (manually, or from Gmail).
2) Tap on a contact, then select link at the top right.
3) If you have a facebook friend with the same name, it will suggest that person. Just tap on that person and the two will become linked.
4) If the name is different, just find the right person and tap on them.
yeh its fun but it also makes your phonebook filled up with people you dont normally have there but they are in your fb list which is really annoying me
cez10 said:
yeh its fun but it also makes your phonebook filled up with people you dont normally have there but they are in your fb list which is really annoying me
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yeah thats wot im worried about but the OP said that he added his contacts first and then linked the ones with facebook. I also know that you can sync to FB when you first switch it on so it imports all FB contacts to your phone. I have not got a Desire yet but I hope you can just manually link the some contacts with facebook.
It replaces all my nicely chosen contact photos from my Google account with crappy Facebook ones :-(
This is nothing new to me as i had it on my HTC Tattoo too. Mine only has my Google contacts if i go to "people" the only way i see the anoyying FB contacts that i never added is if i press "phone".
Oh and if yours show when you go to "People" then try pressing menu, then view then untick Facebook. If i had my FB ticked i'd have 305 more that i don't want!
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This is nothing new to me as i had it on my HTC Tattoo too. Mine only has my Google contacts if i go to "people" the only way i see the anoyying FB contacts that i never added is if i press "phone".
Oh and if yours show when you go to "People" then try pressing menu, then view then untick Facebook. If i had my FB ticked i'd have 305 more that i don't want!
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yeah ive done that but any idea how to get rid of the ones from FB that are not on your contact list but they still show up on the list when you re in the phone 'menu'
also how can i delete a number thats been linked to the account? cuz my mates number on facebook is his old number he's not using at the moment and it even set it as a primary number :< and ill keep forgetting which one is which lol
I don't have this problem. When I click on 'people' I get just the Gmail contacts. there are other tabs along the bottom, such as 'groups' and 'online directories' which is where the facebook contacts are listed.
I've just tested, and I do get all the facebook numbers when I push the phone button. It is kinda annoying, though I never make calls that way. I couldnt find the option to turn this off.
There is an option to not sync facebook contacts at all, but I guess that would stop me linking the contacts from Gmail as well.
you guys are lucky. Mine says i dont have any friends when i know i have about 300+
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I don't have this problem. When I click on 'people' I get just the Gmail contacts. there are other tabs along the bottom, such as 'groups' and 'online directories' which is where the facebook contacts are listed.
I've just tested, and I do get all the facebook numbers when I push the phone button. It is kinda annoying, though I never make calls that way. I couldnt find the option to turn this off.
There is an option to not sync facebook contacts at all, but I guess that would stop me linking the contacts from Gmail as well.
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yeah thats what im talking about, i will probably ring people through people widget but still it be good if it was slightly improved
and i do want to sync them, but want to remove some of the sync data which is outdated
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you guys are lucky. Mine says i dont have any friends when i know i have about 300+
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sorted problem out. did a refresh and it loaded. phew
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It replaces all my nicely chosen contact photos from my Google account with crappy Facebook ones :-(
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Yep, that's my main problem with it. It has its uses and I do like it, but boy do my friends have some crap pictures up!
At least you can choose not to have your 'Facebook only' friends on the phone's contact list, by deselecting Facebook from the People/View option.
Hey all,
Just received my Desire and loving it. My only issue so far is that even though I've selected in the People app only to display Google contacts there seems to still be Facebook contacts appearing, albeit only the ones who have entered phone numbers into their Facebook profile.
This causes duplicate entries for the same person in messaging apps (default and Handcent) and in the People app it seems to prefer to show the Facebook contact details rather than the Google ones.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Russ
I have exactly the same problem
are those the contacts that are LINKED to facebook contacts, but not actually facebook contacts?
oh, and you will get du0plicates appearing in third party apps. all that unticking them in people does is hide them in that app. the rest can still see them.
Yes, the linking has happened automatically, unfortunately it doesn't stop the contact showing up twice. For example, I have a friend Hailei, she has an entry in my google contacts with her phone number, this contact is linked to her facebook profile on which she has a fake contact number.
If I create an SMS and type in Hailei as the recipient I get presented with both the real number and her fake facebook number and there's no way to stop this happening. This happens with the standard Messaging app or with Handcent.
in the sms you will get that, yes.
like i said, just because you have hidden the facebook contacts in people, it does NOT hide them in any other application, as they are still downloaded to the phone.
the only way to get rid of the duplicates is to sing out of facebook for HTC sense. not ideal, but hopefuuly it'll get fixed later as it's not an ideal way for it to work.
this is far from ideal esp if numbers match sat tmobiles ie every time they send me a text it date it'd from a contact and my fiancee is then why they sending you texts and I have to show her to prove it. we need to pressure HTC on this to get a fix or at least the ability to delete them from the phones address book. also a side question if anyone knows a way to link the phone button to the people app so o get that come up instead it would be great ie remaping it or something
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Anybody know anyone with a Nexus One to confirm if this is an Android 2.1 issue or a HTC Sense on 2.1 issue?
It would be nice if you could import the facebook contacts one at a time into your phonebook, not just as a whole.
I was lucky and found out the whole facebook thing as soon as I started my phone, managed to delete my whole contacts, uncheck the facebook contact sync and start again. No more pointless numbers from people I would never want to phone anymore, but means I can't get pictures up for my contacts.
Handcent SMS now has an option to hide social network contacts, although I don't actually have access to that option, it's in the release notes for the latest version which I have but the option in Settings doesn't appear, I'm not alone on this so must be a bug, hopefully quickly fixed and that puts an end to my problems!
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Anybody know anyone with a Nexus One to confirm if this is an Android 2.1 issue or a HTC Sense on 2.1 issue?
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Syncing Facebook contacts into phonebook is actually a Sense function, i.e. part of the HTC's "People" program.
Yeah, agreed: this is an annoying issue... Just because I want to get Facebook photos for my contacts and their status update does not mean I want ALL their details of EVERY Facebook friend being stored on my phone as a contact.
Even more problematic is how Sense handles phone numbers... It will pull phone numbers from Facebook and (seemingly randomly) may overwrite your setting for their phone number.
Example:
For contact "Bob", you set his phone number as +447900000, however, Bob has his Facebook phone number set as 447900000 (notice how the + is missing, because Bob doesn't know that you need the + there and anyway, who cares, it's only Facebook!)
Well, when Sense syncs the phone numbers, it may very well overwrite Bob's correct phone number (with the + prefix) with his Facebook phone number (which you will be unable to successfully dial)... and there is no way to turn this off without disabling the whole Facebook syncing functionality...
Very annoying!
Yup couldn't agree more. I did a reset like 5 mins after starting the phone, just because I didn't want to see the facebook armada on the list. While yes I did aggree to friend requests from my students ... I don't want to have all 200 of them as contacts in the phone prog ...
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Yeah, agreed: this is an annoying issue... Just because I want to get Facebook photos for my contacts and their status update does not mean I want ALL their details of EVERY Facebook friend being stored on my phone as a contact.
Even more problematic is how Sense handles phone numbers... It will pull phone numbers from Facebook and (seemingly randomly) may overwrite your setting for their phone number.
Example:
For contact "Bob", you set his phone number as +447900000, however, Bob has his Facebook phone number set as 447900000 (notice how the + is missing, because Bob doesn't know that you need the + there and anyway, who cares, it's only Facebook!)
Well, when Sense syncs the phone numbers, it may very well overwrite Bob's correct phone number (with the + prefix) with his Facebook phone number (which you will be unable to successfully dial)... and there is no way to turn this off without disabling the whole Facebook syncing functionality...
Very annoying!
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yes this is a massive problem for me. is there any solution?
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yes this is a massive problem for me. is there any solution?
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OK so this is what I did, but I have no idea whether it will work for you. I had a specific contact who I simply couldn't dial so I tried to find a solution.
NOTE: This does NOT solve the problem for all contacts, but read on and it may help...
First thing I did was go into my Google Contacts on my computer and deleted all the Facebook metadata in the "notes" section for each contact (as this was already pulled over from my HTC Hero tagging, and it seemed to have a different format.) << so if you are migrating from an older HTC Sense handset, then this may help you but WARNING: this will take a long time to do for each contact, and you will then need to re-associate every contact.
Next thing was to delete all the contact info off my device which you can do by going to Manage Applications > Contacts Storage and delete all the stored info.
Now go to sync settings and hit "Sync All" (or whatever it's called), or just wait and your phone will automatically re-download all of your contacts.
Now... some contacts will automatically get linked to their respective Facebook accounts and some will need to be set manually (I have no idea why they can't ALL be linked automatically, it seems kind of random...)
Anyway, what I have now found is that:
- Any contacts who were linked automatically: my settings override the Facebook settings
- Any contacts who were linked manually: Facebook settings override my settings
Either way, this is incredibly annoying and I think that HTC really do need to provide 2 extra options:
1. To not download ALL Facebook contacts, only to fetch additional attributes for existing contacts
and:
2. To give us greater control over what these attributes are (i.e. I do NOT want all of my contacts random/invalid phone numbers being imported to my device and cluttering everything up, just because I want their image & wall updates...)
I think you have to LINK the person.
I had the same, but when I LINKED the two 'names', it became one. I could choose which name I wanted to use, the Facebook name or the Google entry name.
You told in a previous post that the LINK was automatically done. This is not true. It only suggests, but you have to confirm by clicking the broken chain behind the name. Then it becomes a chain and the two entries becomes one.
I hoped this helps ya all.
I realised mine wasn't automatic, it was just already linked from when I had my Hero, I forgot it stores the link on your google contacts
Workaround:
Not ideal but fixes problematic phonnumber
When you have linked your gmail contact with fb account
Edit your gmail account and add any number as that persons phone.
Now you should see 2 numbers from that person.
Chosse that fake number as primary number.
Now edit gmail contact again and edit fake number with real one.
It will override fb number if it is in wrong format
Not ideal but at least you have proper number for that person
Using Sense 2.0 here.
Apart from the sms number suggestion thing (i can live with it, but is annoying...)
The real problem is that every facebook contact that has a phone number is synced without the + in the area code. This makes all contacts undialable!!! I checked that on facebook via browser the numbers are correct (they are without area code)!
We really need a solution for this problem, a solution that isn't disable facebook people sync (i want to keep photos etc.)
Sorry to ask so many Qs but new...
have synced with facebook and of course there are many people there I never want to call or mail. How do I delete them? The manual says People>Menu>Delete then select, but every time I press Delete it defaults to one contact only (the last person I called and coincidentally a favorite) I must be doing something wrong? Can I do it by connecting to my PC and just editing the list?
If you go into your contacts then press the menu button, there is an option called show/view (an eye). There you can hide your contacs from facebook.
And if you want to link some of your normal phone contacts, you can go into each contact and link to facebook to get status updates and contact picture from fb.
Atleat thats how i did.
i have a different problem
someone i know has "yeah hold on" as their phone number on facebook
this results in any sms coming from a company (e.g. offers, discounts, junk etc) having her picture and details as the sender
how can i remove that one? it's bugging me, but before i tell her to sort out her FB account, i want to remove her from my phone book
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i have a different problem
someone i know has "yeah hold on" as their phone number on facebook
this results in any sms coming from a company (e.g. offers, discounts, junk etc) having her picture and details as the sender
how can i remove that one? it's bugging me, but before i tell her to sort out her FB account, i want to remove her from my phone book
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lol, i have the same
i find no way to remove it
THAT's why a text from Natwest showed up as a random FB contact!! lol!!
I have the exact same problem.... anybody know a fix?
One solution, ... a radical one though, ..... hard reset your device and dont sync your facebook contacts
not really a solution though is it?
anyone have any idea how to sort this problem out?!
you could try deleteing her from your facebook as your friends then resync your phone.
this may help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=659385
Hi peeps
having some issues\robs and need general advice
1. Is it possible to set up a password for viewing text messages?
2. Can i hide pictures\folders - if so how? I have saved some pictures and removed the tick from show downloaded pictures but when you goto all pictures they still appear
3. my contacts in outlook dont seem to sync properly - address info missing and some contacts missing.
4. when i get a vm i get a link to a facebook contact that i dont even know
5. is there a way to send all unlisted and no numbers straight to vm?
6. Once i link contact from fb etc is there a wasy to sync and update the info in my outlook\gmail accounts so i get upto date info?
7. is there a way to get the internet back to the homepage(google) with 1 key or do a web search using google without having to keep going back to the homepage?
8. i use the internet site newsnow regularly and when you click a news story it should open a new page but it doesnt do so on the desire (when i had the iphone it used to).
9. is there a way to reduce the size of the clock on the homepage so i can fit more shortcuts?
10. i recieved a vcard via sms and i click on it and it says saved to contacts but when i go into contacts the person is not there.....so where is the contact and how do i save the vcard info?
11. my son has downloaded a lot of games (free of course) and i want them on thier own page but how do i get more pages and also how can i stop them appearing in all programs or can i create a games folder in all programs and stuff them in that?
i think thats all for now...im sure ive forgotten something
thanks in advance
L
7. is there a way to get the internet back to the homepage(google) with 1 key or do a web search using google without having to keep going back to the homepage?
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Press the search button on the bottom right of the phone.
daaa - now you said that it all becomes obvious...lol
cheers
ladjei said:
Hi peeps
having some issues\robs and need general advice
4. when i get a vm i get a link to a facebook contact that i dont even know
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You'll probably find this facebook contact uses something stupid like 'hahaha' as their number on facebook rather than leaving it blank or putting in a real phone number. Remove syncing of facebook contacts from the settings > accounts and sync > Facebook for HTC (can't remember the name of it), reboot and your facebook contacts should no longer show in your phone, if that doesn't work remove the account from friendstream and reboot. I only use the Facebook for Android app, so removing my account from the HTC app didn't cause my any problems.
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You'll probably find this facebook contact uses something stupid like 'hahaha' as their number on facebook rather than leaving it blank or putting in a real phone number. Remove syncing of facebook contacts from the settings > accounts and sync > Facebook for HTC (can't remember the name of it), reboot and your facebook contacts should no longer show in your phone, if that doesn't work remove the account from friendstream and reboot. I only use the Facebook for Android app, so removing my account from the HTC app didn't cause my any problems.
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if you do this do you lose the facebook contact pictures?
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if you do this do you lose the facebook contact pictures?
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Yes you do, but short of messaging these contacts and asking them to either clear or enter a correct number, I don't know another way around it.
I love my Evo but one problem I seem to have is getting my pictures from my people to match their current Facebook picture. When I originally linked all the contacts in my people it was correct to their pictures at the time but that was 2 months ago. Now, everyones picture is still the same as it was back then even though I go to accounts->sync every day and have it on auto sync for every 4 hours. Does anyone know how to fix this bug on my phone? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
I've done it by selecting settings, applications, manage applications, all tab, then select contacts storage and clear data... now your contacts must be backed up on google otherwise you'll lose all your contacts.. and just sync, sync sync
sorry for the noob response but how do i back them up with google?
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sorry for the noob response but how do i back them up with google?
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If your contacts are created in your google account, meaning if you can log into gmail on your computer and your contacts are there, then they are already backed up.
If you create contacts on the internal phone storage, you are sol.
Go to people and hit menu and choose import/export. Back up the contacts that are on the internal phone storage to your sd card. Open up gmail in your pc browser and import those contacts to your gmail contacts, using the file that you backed up to the card.
Or what you can do is go to settings, accounts & sync and select facebook for htc sense, remove account, the add the account back
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Or what you can do is go to settings, accounts & sync and select facebook for htc sense, remove account, the add the account back
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okay i did that and now only like 1/4th of my people have the little FB icon on the bottom left and only the people with the icon have statuses under their name. Also, when I try to link the people without the facebook icon, that person's name will not be on the list but if i choose someone else to link that first person's name is there. sorry if im confusing you guys haha I know its something small I just like to have everything right on my phone.
Wow people here are doing this the hard way. There is a facebook picture app that syncs your FB contacts picture. The other way is to just log out of facebook AND AND AND AND AND facebook for htc sense. then just log back into them both. easy as pie.