Guest dan653 Posted September 30, 2010 Report Posted September 30, 2010 Anybody got facebook contact sync working yet? When trying to add my facebook account... contacts > menu > accounts > add account > facebook -or- settings > accounts & sync > add account > facebook ...it either just opens the app or just dumps you back to the accounts page. Tried all sorts of combinations of force-stopping, killing, re-booting, re-installing the app. Could it be a facebook account security/privacy setting issue?
Guest flash2004 Posted September 30, 2010 Report Posted September 30, 2010 Facing the same issue. Doesn't seem to be working. It is not very important for me though, so not much worried. I am just enjoying the other aspects of the phone :lol:
Guest dan653 Posted September 30, 2010 Report Posted September 30, 2010 got it partially working (i use that term v loosely) it says it syncs but no pictures & the fb profile links in peoples contacts just goto my newsfeed installed the older version mentioned here, not messed with the build.prop file yet (need to read up on that first)... pulse forum thread
Guest daniel_owen_uk Posted October 1, 2010 Report Posted October 1, 2010 Having same issue, but again it's not a huge deal for me.
Guest rayhigh Posted October 2, 2010 Report Posted October 2, 2010 Mine doesn't work either but this is very common bug with Android handsets. It seems to affect a number of builds and isn't specific to this handset.
Guest subvertbeats Posted October 2, 2010 Report Posted October 2, 2010 Sigh....bought this phone for my gf after her loving things like fb sync on my desire, she's gutted to have it not working....hope some bright spark comes up with a solution soon...
Guest subvertbeats Posted October 5, 2010 Report Posted October 5, 2010 Sigh....bought this phone for my gf after her loving things like fb sync on my desire, she's gutted to have it not working....hope some bright spark comes up with a solution soon... Anyone have any ideas about this?
Guest Simon O Posted October 5, 2010 Report Posted October 5, 2010 Anyone have any ideas about this? Ask Facebook to add support for this device.
Guest subvertbeats Posted October 5, 2010 Report Posted October 5, 2010 Ask Facebook to add support for this device. Thanks flibblesan I didnt realise there was anything device specific at play here.....any more info? And any tips on where to best send a note to FB for such things?
Guest Simon O Posted October 5, 2010 Report Posted October 5, 2010 Thanks flibblesan I didnt realise there was anything device specific at play here.....any more info? And any tips on where to best send a note to FB for such things? I believe the Facebook sync only works on certain devices. I'm not sure what to do about adding support for the SanFran but I'll have a look around as it bugs me also.
Guest renegade027 Posted October 5, 2010 Report Posted October 5, 2010 (edited) Hm, replaced current FB app with an older version from the Pulse thread. It DID sync without the need to edit build.prop (where is this file anyway? /system ?) No contact pics yet, but in all fairness pics don't appear for some time on the HTC desire after FB syncing. Hopefully this will work as well. Thanks everyone for the tips. I too got the SF for my spouse, who feels strong about having this particular feature. Edited October 5, 2010 by renegade027
Guest dan653 Posted October 5, 2010 Report Posted October 5, 2010 is it not possible to make the phone pretend its another make/model of phone (nexus one?) i'm sure i remember paul, fibblesan or rem1x saying something about it to get around market place filtering???
Guest AndyHibberd Posted October 9, 2010 Report Posted October 9, 2010 Gonna jump in and say that SyncMyPix can grab your fb photos and match them up to your phone contacts. It got 98% right on mine and was easy to clean up the rest. Also means now all my google contacts have the correct photo!
Guest renegade027 Posted October 9, 2010 Report Posted October 9, 2010 Gonna jump in and say that SyncMyPix can grab your fb photos and match them up to your phone contacts. It got 98% right on mine and was easy to clean up the rest. Also means now all my google contacts have the correct photo! Yeeey! Thank you very much for this tip. The app works reasonably well and what it cannot match itself could be further matched manually.
Guest DaveMac Posted October 9, 2010 Report Posted October 9, 2010 Gonna jump in and say that SyncMyPix can grab your fb photos and match them up to your phone contacts. It got 98% right on mine and was easy to clean up the rest. Also means now all my google contacts have the correct photo! Just downloaded this, cheers mate...got all my contacts right bar 2, nice one :)
Guest AndyHibberd Posted October 9, 2010 Report Posted October 9, 2010 No problem, spread the word cos it's a great function. Makes your contacts look more like real people not numbers! I think other devices do this automatically when you have the fb app, just the SF maybe cos it's so dam fresh.
Guest dan653 Posted October 10, 2010 Report Posted October 10, 2010 the new official facebook app was updated a couple of days ago, made no difference though, still just crashes when trying to add the account to the phone. syncmypix seems to work ok automatically, but the matching algorithm seems to really struggle if the names aren't exact, or just a first/last name or shortened (dan instead of daniel). the maunal matching is just backwards rather then choosing a contact and matching it to a facebook friend, you have to choose a fb friend (whilst remembering which ones need a picture) and matching them to contact, so you end up having to go into your phonebook and writing down a list of the ones that dont have a pic or the wrong pic it works but it feels like they got the profile picture caching working and then just didn't think about the basic stuff such as the name matching and order in which stuff happens, with those things sorted it could easily be a paid app and earn the guy some money
Guest AndyHibberd Posted October 10, 2010 Report Posted October 10, 2010 the new official facebook app was updated a couple of days ago, made no difference though, still just crashes when trying to add the account to the phone. syncmypix seems to work ok automatically, but the matching algorithm seems to really struggle if the names aren't exact, or just a first/last name or shortened (dan instead of daniel). the maunal matching is just backwards rather then choosing a contact and matching it to a facebook friend, you have to choose a fb friend (whilst remembering which ones need a picture) and matching them to contact, so you end up having to go into your phonebook and writing down a list of the ones that dont have a pic or the wrong pic it works but it feels like they got the profile picture caching working and then just didn't think about the basic stuff such as the name matching and order in which stuff happens, with those things sorted it could easily be a paid app and earn the guy some money Double checking, you have gone into Settings and ticked the Intelligent Matching thing where it uses heuristics etc?
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