[Captivate General] malfuncion:
First off, I have searched, and havent found anything thing like this for our phones. Al I could find are things like this

Let me start out by saying- the Captivate's general social networking sucks.

I am talking about syncing via the MediaHub (as some call it aka Built in Accounts) my contacts from Myspace, Twatter, and Facebook. I am not a ruhtard, I know it will sync via the accounts page but that account app syncs everyone and thier mom on facebook/twitter/myspace. which being anal about my contacts, DO NOT WANT!

For people like me, and others as I have read, we don't want Joe blow from elementary school populating into our contacts. For example, I went from 150 to well over 500 contacts because of the oh so awesome built in Sync. Now of course I can disable that then I lose the pictures/updaets/etc of the peopel I do care about. Or I can do a grab all and blow my contacts out of the water- then google syncs them all as actual contacts- then I have a bloated gmail account as well. It turns into a never ending contact editing fiasco. Confused yet?

So, the preferred way to do it would be from the actual Facebook app and skip the whole built in sync with contacts. With other phones, like my old G1, Facebook allows contact syncing. For some reason on the C(r)aptivate its no dice- This happened to the G1 before the latest update to the Facebook app. People were borking in the Nexus' as it was originally the first to get this feature. But eventualy the app was updated to allow all almost everyone else to do it. I checked my buddies EVO and he doesnt have this "feature" either.. so maybe this will work cross-platform if we can get a fix, but I digress. The reason this is the preferred method for syncing is it will only sync KNOWN CONTACTS or people already in the address book and auto update thier pic ect.

On the G1 some cat's put together a script that does this. You can view the code below. The question is how do we mod it to our devices? I have been trying to "hack" it into our phones but havent had any luck. I have modified the build.prop entries and pushed them to the system but havent got anywhere. Am I missing something? Does our contacts not work in the same way to even possibly allow this app to mod them? Devs, help me out here as I am only a tinkerer and noob to the Cap. I did a few of my own scripts for the G1 but apparently I am nowhere close to comprehension of my Cap and the way it works. I assumed (you know what they say bout that) that it was similar as it's android.. and I can find the same structures.. and and and and..

What are others thoughts on this? Do you feel this is even necessary? I personally would like the option to disable the contacts in the media hub and have my full blown facebook app do the syncing for me. Twitter app allows this.. wtf? Also an annoyance is every so many days my media hub biffs up all my linked contacts disappear- thus causing me to remove and re add the whole thing then resync the friends....

Here's the code: credited to SilverSurfR and Skri11a and this is taken from Firerat's "Patch" for the G1.

fb ()
{
# Edit trout.prop to get sync option in Facebook 1.2.x
# Credits : SilverSurfR and Skri11a
prop=/system/build.trout.prop
if [ `grep -q "Facebook 1.2.x Sync" $prop;echo $?` != "0" ];
then
remountrw
sed \
-e '/ro.product.name=kila/ i #ro.product.name=kila' \
-e '/ro.product.name=kila/ i #Facebook 1.2.x Sync on G1 Credits : SilverSurfR and Skri11a' \
-e '/ro.product.device=dream/ i #ro.product.device=dream' \
-e '/ro.product.device=dream/ i #Facebook 1.2.x Sync on G1 Credits : SilverSurfR and Skri11a' \
-e 's/ro.product.name=kila/ro.product.name=opal/' \
-e 's/ro.product.device=dream/ro.product.device=sapphire/' \
-i $prop
printmsg "$prop Patched for Facebook 1.2.x sync\nchanges will take effect on next boot\nenable sync in Facebook app settings"
else
printmsg "$prop appears to have already been patched"
fi
return
}

other threads of similar content:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=781307&highlight=facebook+sync

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695025

oh an sorry for the long post :P