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Help linking Facebook/phone contacts

Angelina

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Aug 20, 2010
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I am the proud new owner of a Droid 2. After messing around with it for 2 days, I finally figured out how to link my Facebook contacts with my already existing phone contacts, so I did not have people in there twice, under two different names! However, only SOME of them are allowing me to change their caller ID names. For instance, my Mom is on Facebook, so instead of having her caller ID as her FB name, it allowed me to change it to "Mom", but for other contacts, it won't let me. Any idea why, or how to fix this?!

Also, is there still NO way to get rid of the unwanted contacts without deleting them from your Facebook friends list? That is driving me nuts!! haha. I don't need ALL 225 of my facebook friends in my phone.
 
This is another instance where Motorola got it wrong on the D2. On my Droid 1 when I add my Facebook account the only thing it does is attempt to merge fb contact info with existing contacts, which is what you want in most cases. The only thing I really wanted from fb was the profile pictures from there for my existing contacts and that's all I got.

If you're going to provide functionality like they did in the D2 then you at least need to make it configurable during account setup what you want to pull down...before you actually start syncing down ungodly amounts of data that screws with your contact list.

Joe
 
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