Facebook and Nexus?

[ultravisitor]

I do wonder: how many people actually WANT all of their Facebook contacts linked to their phone? I certainly don't. I have accepted friend requests from some people just to be polite, like a few people I knew in high school, but I certainly don't need their info on my phone.

 

[mechapathy]

I do wonder: how many people actually WANT all of their Facebook contacts linked to their phone? I certainly don't. I have accepted friend requests from some people just to be polite, like a few people I knew in high school, but I certainly don't need their info on my phone.

I like having them there. I also like having the option. I just choose to only display contacts with phone numbers. But there have been times when I needed someone's phone number that I didn't have, and Facebook came through, right in my contacts list.

 

[ultravisitor]

there have been times when I needed someone's phone number that I didn't have, and Facebook came through, right in my contacts list.

See, I would just get the number from the Facebook app. Then again, I never even access the contacts app in my phone, except through Gesture Search.

 

[pheatton]

This would be one of the reasons I like Sense so much. Everytime I get a new phone contacts with Facebook get linked and sync all on their own. I have been curious as to how this all would work on an ICS device without Sense after the API was locked down.

I have mine setup to sync only with contacts I already have. Works great on the HTC Rezound and it does not Facebook for HTC Sense as an option for an account setup.

 

[harleyb16]

this is probably the only bad thing announced that has disappointed me haha. what a bummer.

 

[Droid800]

Someone mentioned one on the first page. I believe it was called Friend Sync or something like that. Keep in mind this probably won't give you status updates from the people hub, but it should give your FB-only contacts back.

Hopefully Facebook gets their shtuff together, and builds in support for the contacts API. But you know FBs Android dev team. . .they're just so lazy, it seems.

They currently have support for the API, but they're using it as Goole intended instead of how they were using it before.

The problem Google had with how Facebook synced the data is that it was only a one-way sync. The user essentially synced all of their contact data to facebook, which they held on to, but facebook would not allow the contact data that they had on their servers to remain on the user's device.

Facebook will probably take advantage of the new tools included in ICS' people app for syncing data, but they'll have to allow syncing that goes both ways.

 

[bobthebob]

i'm quite frustrated by this as well - but I have found a decent alternative - Contapps. it's also free in the Market and can integrate with Twitter/FB/FourSquare/etc etc etc - and gives you the option of just displaying the contacts with phone numbers vs all of them.

also - it's quite attractive - nice UI design.

in fact, I like it so much that I'm using it as a full replacement for the dialer app - the lack of t9 search in the dialer always bugged me...

anyway - just my $.02

 

[KineticMD]

I like having everyone in one place, and with the People app I can sort them out myself into their own circles.

Also, not having to look at the eyeless Smiley Man is a plus.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

 

[siperwrx]

I just want to link my phone contacts to their pictures on Facebook. I don't want all my FB contacts in my phone. any ideas?

 

[bobthebob]

3rd party is the only way to go at the moment. I'm really underwhelmed with the 'People' app - all my contact pics now show up as blurry since they were originally 48x48 px or whatever... do I really have to go through and change every one?
bummer.
FB integration with the option for a hi-rez contact pic imported from FB profile would be optimal.
for now - I'm using Contapps, but RocketDial/RocketContacts might work too (altho I haven't tried it)

 

[rosend99]

use hacnsync it works perfect, great looking pics

 

[CeeDotSmith]

use hacnsync it works perfect, great looking pics

Correction: Haxsync*

Edit: If this was not mentioned, Haxsync will also sync status updates and higher resolution (non-fuzzy) photos.

 

[Wildo6882]

What I did was use Friendcaster and then I made a custom list to use in my phone contacts and it automatically removed all of the Facebook contacts that weren't already phone contacts. Not a perfect fit, but it worked nonetheless.

May try out haxsync just to see if it's a more straightforward process and can leave all those excess Facebook contacts off my phone.

 

[willlayb]

if you are on the codname android rom it has the facebook contact sync in it.