HOWTO: Link Contacts with Facebook

**imnuts** · #1 (**permalink**) 09-17-2009, 01:15 AM

I have seen multiple questions here about linking contacts to Facebook profiles, but haven't seen how to do this other than one at a time. However, I found out how to do it tonight.

1. Got to the "My Favorites" tab. By default, this should be next to the home tab in TF3D
2. Select "All Contacts" to open up your contacts list
3. Go to the "Updates and Events" item under all contacts. This should be the 2nd from the right of the phone and is a person with a clock by their head.
4. If you have Facebook linking enabled, at the top of the screen, it should give you an option to link contacts with your phone all at once and bring up a second screen to choose profiles that match when you select it. I've found that it's much easier to link profiles if the names match exactly, mainly for names that can be shortened such as Matt/Mike/etc.
5. Choose contacts to link and if you want photos/birthdays to be saved to your phone and finish

Now all your contacts that you're friends with on Facebook should be linked to your phone. Hopefully this saved you some time and I'll post up pics tomorrow then.

Ticklemepinks · #2 (**permalink**) 09-17-2009, 04:05 AM

it sucks you have to have the full name in though, or their official fb name

**WarChild** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-21-2009, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by hotboy8628

it sucks you have to have the full name in though, or their official fb name

I don't have full names on mine and they linked just fine.

Ticklemepinks · #4 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 03:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ClevelandWheeler

I don't have full names on mine and they linked just fine.

yeah but didn't you have to search one by one for them, I'm talkin about just goin thru the phone book and matching them up all at once

**WarChild** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by hotboy8628

yeah but didn't you have to search one by one for them, I'm talkin about just goin thru the phone book and matching them up all at once

yes you are correct.

helix139 · #6 (**permalink**) 09-17-2009, 09:31 AM

The only problem is some contacts dont seem to want to show a picture. my guess is it is related to some sort of setting on their end.

txyaloo · #7 (**permalink**) 09-17-2009, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by helix139

The only problem is some contacts dont seem to want to show a picture. my guess is it is related to some sort of setting on their end.

If the picture is black when you link the account, it will never update for some reason. You have to wait until you see their display picture before selecting the account. I've noticed status updates don't show up either with the black picture.

helix139 · #8 (**permalink**) 09-17-2009, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by txyaloo

If the picture is black when you link the account, it will never update for some reason. You have to wait until you see their display picture before selecting the account. I've noticed status updates don't show up either with the black picture.

Trust me, I've waited until the blank silhouetted picture vanishes, but it never will for some friends. Their facebook information simply will not download. I suspect its privacy settings on their end.

HopliteHiker · #9 (**permalink**) 09-21-2009, 05:40 PM

But what do you do when it just says "Connection Failed"? It is clearly successful in the credentials challenge/response, because it throws a different error when I deliberately mistype my password. Is there a way to strip out/erase/reset the facebook integration so that I can start over?
Thanks,

Protonus · #10 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by helix139

The only problem is some contacts dont seem to want to show a picture. my guess is it is related to some sort of setting on their end.

Any solutions to this? I've yet to find a rhyme/reason as to why some show photo and some don't?