Follow Up On Contacts

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Follow Up On Contacts
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( r0 A% H1 s% R; d8 p  n2 f$ HAfter reading some comments and concerns around the forum and other interwebz sources, I’ve decided to attempt to answer, to the best of my ability, a good chunk of the unknowns. From the “Meet your Contacts on the Pre” article, we already know that the Pre can pull from Google, Facebook, and/or Microsoft Exchange.  So picking up from there, I added 2 accounts in contacts while an existing account was already in there.  I started by adding a Gmail account and then a Facebook account, and immediately my new mail messages were available while the 70 contacts from Gmail and 75 contacts from Facebook took just under 2 minutes to completely sync.
' H5 ^& \3 B; e' C* ]Adding the account in contacts also added them in mail and calendar so you don’t have to create accounts in each.
Currently there doesn’t appear to be any options for setting the time between syncs or any clear indication of when the syncs are done, but adding a contact in Gmail via the web took no more than 5 minutes to show up on the Pre.  If you need it faster than the auto-sync, there is an option to Sync Now in the preferences, which will force the sync.  Other options in the preferences allow you to add or remove accounts, and set a default account (where any new contact will be added).
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Once your contacts have been imported you can see how the Pre handles contacts that are coming from multiple sources, for example this one shows being in both Facebook and Gmail, and puts a small 2 by the profile picture.
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6 s5 ]" F4 F8 f8 l* d3 C: r+ OIn this situation you can turn off 1 or the other of the accounts or let them merge, as they do seamlessly.  In the case where names may be different or two contact profiles did not merge as you had hoped, you can choose to link more profiles and just pick the one from the list you want to join.  Here an account with the name palm goon was attached to another account, and if you want the others to fall under palm goon on the contact list all you have to do is set palm goon as the primary profile.
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% ~  B  A! B8 F; ~) ^So far everything functions surprisingly well, the only disappointment I’ve run into and not been able to solve involved deleting a contact profile.  In the case where you may have a contact in your Gmail contacts, but don’t want them on your phone, there is no simple solution.  After removing the contact from the phone it was removed from the Gmail contacts when checked from the web.  The other problem I found, and something I find to be for more of an issue is that Facebook contacts cannot be deleted, so if you’ve got a bunch of college/work/high school Facebook friends that you really have no interest in calling you may want to avoid adding your Facebook account to the Pre. That’s not to say that a solution won’t be created or that it will be that way on launch date.

AKGG

界面太像爱疯，不知道有多少能自己设置的。