problems in HTC facebook sense - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a problem on the photo sync with the facebook. Some contacts are automatically sync with the facebook once I have login thro the facebook apps and the HTC sense friendstrem. In the sms apps (original one), the photos of the contacts are linked, but many of them are missed even I have sync with fb. I need to manually solve it by editing the contacts are save it, then the photos with come out. However, may be 1 or 2days later, the photos are missed again, I need to manually do it again. May I know how to solve it? Is it my problem only? thx!!

Set facebook in settings to "sync all contacts." Then go to the settings of your phone>accounts & sync>and add account for facebook. Now sync contacts. When the name the contact in the phone does not "fit" to the name of this contact in facebook, you have to join them yourself:
Choose the corresponding accout>menu>edit contact>menu>join. Now choose the corresponding contact in facebook.
So i do it and all works fine.
Hope this could help you.

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Sense contact + Facebook

Hi everyone,
I've just bought this new Desire phone.
I need some explanation about how the contacts are working:
I linked the phone number of my sister with facebook and now, in the contact folder, I see her number twice.. 1 from google account, 1 from facebook? Is there a way to avoid this?
I also tried to excanghe (with bump) our contacts (from Legend to Desire) and now in the contact folder i see this note: "added by bump on 08/05/2010 etc." 3 times!!! And I cant find how to delete these notes.. anywhere!
Tried also to delete the contact, and re-add it but at the time i sync with google, notes comes back again!
This is strange... anyone can help me about that?
Bye bye and tnx in advance.
For your first problem, you can merge the two contacts by selecting the first contact, clicking on the top right link icon, and choosing the second contact.
I don't understand your second problem so cannot help.
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do you know how I can keep Desire contact pictures updated via facebook?
To OP, you can manage your contacts on your computer by going to google.com/contacts - organize them, merge them, etc, and then they'll sync to the phone.
To JuSteR, if you enable Facebook sync, their Sense contact pictures should automatically be updated with their FB profile picture.
Facebook sync is enabled. It updates status, news, messages but contact piuctures
adjei7 said:
For your first problem, you can merge the two contacts by selecting the first contact, clicking on the top right link icon, and choosing the second contact.
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Contacts are merged.. But still shows the same number twice. The copy-number disappears only if I unlink the facebook profile from the contact page
(note: the facebook profile does not have a phone number).
adjei7 said:
I don't understand your second problem so cannot help.
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The Bump(tm) application from market, added to the contact a note (actually 3 notes) but if I try to modify the contact I don't find any note where are them? (see images for a better explanation)
Tnx all for help!
_JuSteR_ said:
Facebook sync is enabled. It updates status, news, messages but contact piuctures
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That's a bug. The contact pictures will not be updated automatically. You have to go to setting option, sign out then sign in facebook sense again to make the contact pictures updated.
tnx for the advise!
Forced to use FB picture
I actually has the opposite problem, I managed to sync Facebook contacts with my Google contacts on my Desire.
But now I'm forced to use Facebook contact picture on contacts that linked to their Facebook accounts, even if I select one of the contacts to use it's Google picture, it stays until the next sync, right after that it pops back to its Facebook picture.
Anyone knows how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
To hide contacts from unwanted accouts(google), you go to
People -> press meni button -> View
and select witch accouts will be visible.
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LPT said:
That's a bug. The contact pictures will not be updated automatically. You have to go to setting option, sign out then sign in facebook sense again to make the contact pictures updated.
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I do not have so sign out of my facebook account. My contact pictures (all linked to FB) are updated each time I go online, sometimes, here you may be correct, it takes time and not all are updated.
if you find your FB contact pics are not updating.
> unlink them from Facebook
> back out of contacts
> enter contacts again
> re-link the contact and select Facebook at their picture.
Any ideas regarding forced FB contact pictures issue I noticed above?

Facebook and sycning single contact?

What i mainly want is the facebook pic to show up for certain contacts in my phone. When i sync facebook, it starts syncing all contacts from facebook into my phone and putting them into my phonebook which i don't want.
Is there a way to just choose specific contacts in my phone and sync only those to facebook rather than FB syncing every single contact?
I haven't seen anything that will let you select a group of contacts to sync, but there is an option in the app "Sync with existing contacts: Sync data only about friends already in Contacts."
Hope that helps.

[Q] Facebook contacts added to phone

Hi,
I've got an issue, not a massive one but it bugs me nonetheless.
Currently, when I tap the Phone button from the home screen it brings up a list which shows my recent call list, if I scroll down I get a long list of all my contacts. The thing I find annoying is that the long list includes all of my Facebook "friends" that have a telephone number listed.
What I would like is for this list to only contain my contacts (copied over from my SIM), and for the ones that are linked to a Facebook account, to have their status etc updated. I do not want my random Facebook "friends" to be in the list.
The most recent thing I've done to try and solve this issue is to go into the Facebook app on the phone and change the 'Sync Contacts' settings (Menu-> Settings) to 'Don't sync'. I then went into (phone) Settings-> Applications-> Manage Applications-> All (tab)-> Contacts storage-> Clear Data. I then copied my contacts back over from the SIM. (I've also tried the 'Sync with existing contacts' option as well)
All was well for a while, my contacts linked up again and I got facebook details for my contacts when calling them. However I noticed to my annoyance that my Phone list now contains my facebook contacts again!
I notice under Settings->Accounts and Sync I have two (removable) Facebook accounts, one is Facebook, the other is Facebook for HTC Sense. Does anyone know if it would help to remove either of these accounts?
Can anyone help me find a way to solve this issue (preferably without extra software or going through the People menu)?
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Grim.
I just fixed this myself.
I think it's something to do with how HTC Facebook interacts with official Facebook. If I turned of syncing on both (but left contact sync disabled in both) I'd still get contacts in Phone (and also in suggestions in sms app). If I removed both, then added Facebook official only I'd still get them.
In the end, opening up Facebook on my PC and going into privacy then apps and disabling Facebook for HTC Sense seemed to solve it to me. I could then use the official Facebook app without getting all these contacts I'd never use.
I didn't care about getting contact pictures and stuff so I never tried letting official Facebook sync with existing contacts only, but it might work properly.
Hope this helps, completely unscientific but it seemed to for me!
jbrizz said:
I just fixed this myself.
I think it's something to do with how HTC Facebook interacts with official Facebook. If I turned of syncing on both (but left contact sync disabled in both) I'd still get contacts in Phone (and also in suggestions in sms app). If I removed both, then added Facebook official only I'd still get them.
In the end, opening up Facebook on my PC and going into privacy then apps and disabling Facebook for HTC Sense seemed to solve it to me. I could then use the official Facebook app without getting all these contacts I'd never use.
I didn't care about getting contact pictures and stuff so I never tried letting official Facebook sync with existing contacts only, but it might work properly.
Hope this helps, completely unscientific but it seemed to for me!
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Hi JBrizz thanks for your reply.
I didn't think of logging into the facebook website to disable anything. I'll give that a try.
In the meantime I've fiddled about with the accounts in 'Accounts and Sync'. I've tried deleting both the Facebook and Facebook for HTC Sense accounts.
After deleting both I went into the Facebook app and signed in, which recreates the account in Accounts and Sync. I set the sync options in the app to not sync any contacts. I waited around for a while and no extra contacts (from Facebook) appeared in my Phone list.
I then went into the Facebook app and changed the sync settings to 'sync with existing contacts' - which I assumed should only sync the data for the people currently in my phone book? Anyway after a few minutes I checked an all of my Facebook friends were now in my Phone list AGAIN
I started from fresh again and tried a similar thing with the other Facebook for HTC Sense account - I had to recreate this in the Accounts and Sync settings screen.
Again after a few minutes all my Facebook friends where there on my Phone list
Maybe this functionality isn't available with this phone / app?
Anyone else have any ideas?
It is a google problem, not a HTC problem.
The HTC app is doing what it should be doing. If you go to the people app, click on your contact (far left) and then menu -> view you can see the facebook option is unchecked.
However the Phone dialer (google product) just syncs everything.
There is a issue no for this, 10618 @
code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10618&can=5&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
(unfortunately I can't post links as I am a newbie!!)
Best thing to do is you guys reply and make this defect more and more noticeable.
I've posted on the google issue site, cheers for the link!

[Q] Desire Z - The linked contacts don't show up when trying to add to groups

I think the title says it all.
I have all my Outlook contacts synced with the phone (so they are phone contacts). Some of the phone contacts are also linked with Facebook for HTC Sense, some with Peep, and some with both. I only chose to show the Phone contacts in the People app, so the contacts from Peep or Facebook that are not also in Phone/Outlook won't show up. This is ok and I have all the contacts I need in People/All Contacts.
The trouble starts when I want to add contacts to groups. I can only choose from contacts that are not linked with Facebook/Peep. Those "Phone" contacts that have Facebook accounts won't show up. Of course, I can manually go to each contact, edit them and add them to groups. But it'll take a long time and I'm too lazy to do that.
Any idea why they don't show up when I try to add them from groups? Is it a bug?
This has been fixed in the last system update.

Contact(s) Photos Won't Sync With FB

Photos on Contact (That Already Sync To FB Account) Was Not Sync-ing.
So Contact(s) Photos Display Nothing. I've Already Try With "Infinite" Button, But It Doesn't Affect Anything.
Note: All of My Contacts in Phonebook Display it Photos Synced With FB Before. But Later, I Logged Out My FB Account, And Then When I Logged In With My FB Account, All Of Contacts Photos Synced With FB Was Gone.
I Think Theres Some File Which I Must Delete To Recover The Setting To Retrieve Photos With Infinite Button, But I Don't Know Which Files I Must Delete.
Is There Anybody Experience This Problem?
Please Help ...
Do you have the facebook app set to sync in the settings menu?
Menu > Settings > Accounts and sync > ensure that FB is set to sync. Appologies if you have already checked this.
Already Done It
Wheter With Mobile Internet Connection (3G) and WiFi (High Speed) Still The Photo Of Contacts Won't Load.
ok, here's what i did, i removed all FB accounts. re add, and re authorized.
next make sure your Contact app has been configured to display contacts synced via SE Facebook Integration (click the icon with 3 persons at the top left of the Contacts app).
by the way, i believe you can actually view the contacts FB status from Contacts list, but apparently this is not happening.
anyone able to help?

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