On my Droid2 (Android Version 2.2) (System Version.2.3.20.A955.Verizon.en.US), I fully utilize the phone's ability to log into a Google, Facebook, and Twitter account, and link the contacts together. Often it chooses the wrong name to display, but that is another question entirely. I have already set the option in ...
(Contacts) -> [Menu] -> "More (+)" -> "Settings"
... to automatically push any newly created contacts to my Google account. If I create a new contact traditionally, via ...
(Contacts) -> [Menu] -> "Add contact"
... then it works exactly as expected, creating a new contact in both my Phone Contacts and Google Contacts. However, sometimes there are people I know whom I have no contact information for until I friend them on Facebook. At this point, the only contact I have for them is my Facebook contact. I don't like having to rely on only a Facebook contact, and I always take this opportunity to start a Google Contact for them, duplicating what Facebook has already told me. This is where the unexpected behavior begins.
If I select a contact from my phone which is purely a Facebook contact, and click ...
... [Menu] -> "Edit"
... it brings me to the traditional contact editing screen, presenting me with all of their Facebook information as immutable fields, allowing me to manually duplicate this data into what I would expect would be both a Phone Contact and a Google Contact.
But it's not!!! After manually re-typing in, say, their birthday, e-mail address, and cellphone number (information traditionally available via Facebook), and I click ...
"Save"
... the resulting contact reads as ...
Linked profiles (2)
Facebook: John D.
Phone Contacts: John Doe
... with a Google contact nowhere to be seen!! Even if I initiate a manual resynchronization via ...
(Home Screen) -> [Menu] -> "Settings" -> "Accounts" -> "[my Google account]" -> [Menu] -> "Sync now"
... the information is still not pushed to my Google Contacts!!
Does anyone know how I can fix this?
