facebook contacts to n900
 

is there a way tht i can transfer my facebook contacts to n900? i know in motorola cliq u can. help.... thanks

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

Install Hermes...

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/hermes/

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

I think Hermes only pulls information from contacts you've already inputted into the n900. E.g. if I put my best friends name and phone # and girlfriend name and phone #, Hermes will only pull information for those two people from Facebook.

It won't pull all your Facebook contacts to your device (which would be somewhat unwanted behavior anyway consider I don't keep in contact with most of my Facebook friends anyway). But you could make it so you can select or deselect the contacts you want or don't want.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

i tried hermes but it only pulls if its already in ur contacts.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

I see. I thought it would pull down all contacts.

Well, at least you have phone to try it with ;)

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

Hmm what's the minimal amount of information needed for Hermes to pull that contact? A name? A phone #? Basically how does it match the people up.

I wonder if there's anyway you could use a 3rd party to first pull all your Facebook contacts' names, put them into an address book that syncs with the n900. Then use Hermes to populate the rest.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

doesn't adding your facebook account details to the N900 pull in contacts (or let you select which ones to use)?

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

i tried to add one contact with first and last name and it updated. but it's a pain to enter their names one by one.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

In that case if all it needs is a name then it could be possible to do what I suggested. Just use a 3rd party tool to grab the names of all your friends (Facebook announced back in 2008 that they would create a tool that let you output all their names though I'm not sure if it's been done by them yet). Then import into an address book of some sort.. e.g. take the CSV file (if it's in CSV) and import into say Exchange. Then sync the n900 with the Exchange server so your n900 has all the names . Then use Hermes to populate the rest.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

there's an option in hermes preferences to create birthday-only contacts from your facebook account. that's how i got 'new' contacts imported from facebook.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

it pulled the names and birthday but not the rest of their info like phone # and email. we're getting there....

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

That's a limitation of the Facebook API.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

so i guess you can only do it with motorola cliq.

cliq pulls all info including cell # and email.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

Palm Pre / WebOS brings down numbers / email from FB also... Why is the Pre allowed and not the N900? Partnership thing? Or because Hermes is seen as a third party app and not integrated into the OS?

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

For some reason I cant install this.. I get a installation corrupt error when trying to install.

Any ideas?

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

Those OSes are created in conjunction with Facebook, using a private API. Normal third-party apps have access to the API as described by sjgadsby.

Presumably, if Nokia were interested in a cross-promotion deal and had developers to put to work on it, it would be possible to deeply integrate Facebook using the OS itself.

If anyone has a high-up contact at Facebook, I'd be happy to talk to them about accessing that private API within Hermes.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

Thanks!

Facebook help the man out please! (best I can do :o).

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

I hope you guys can contact facebook and make it works in the future.

Re: facebook contacts to n900
 

yea but you don't want it to pull numbers off facebook as most people do not put there correct info so 1 sync could mess up all numbers just my thought