Help Advice Re: Contacts and Widgets

[leeb1977]

Hey, been using this site for information for the past week, but have now found the need to log on and create my first post!

I've just moved from having every iPhone going to my first Android phone (Nexus 4), having seen my wife's Samsung S3 mini, and how good the new Android operating system is, however, I've a couple of bits i'm trying to do that may or may not be possible with the Nexus, but wanted to check! So, hope someone can help!

1.) On the Samsung, the contacts list has an icon if the contact has What'sApp installed, and syncs their Facebook data with the contacts, I've found an app that will sync Facebook, but nothing for What'sApp, and nothing that works quite like it does on the Samsung. Is this just a Samsung thing? Is there anything else out there that will do similar?

2.) The Weather Widget in the Samsung has a nice background so if it's raining and dark, it'll be dark and rainy in the widget. I can't find anything like that either in the provided Widgets or in the ones I've looked for in the App Store. Any advice?

Thanks for any advice you can give, and look forward to using this site more and more!

Lee

 

[andrews317]

Hey, been using this site for information for the past week, but have now found the need to log on and create my first post!

I've just moved from having every iPhone going to my first Android phone (Nexus 4), having seen my wife's Samsung S3 mini, and how good the new Android operating system is, however, I've a couple of bits i'm trying to do that may or may not be possible with the Nexus, but wanted to check! So, hope someone can help!

1.) On the Samsung, the contacts list has an icon if the contact has What'sApp installed, and syncs their Facebook data with the contacts, I've found an app that will sync Facebook, but nothing for What'sApp, and nothing that works quite like it does on the Samsung. Is this just a Samsung thing? Is there anything else out there that will do similar?

2.) The Weather Widget in the Samsung has a nice background so if it's raining and dark, it'll be dark and rainy in the widget. I can't find anything like that either in the provided Widgets or in the ones I've looked for in the App Store. Any advice?

Thanks for any advice you can give, and look forward to using this site more and more!

Lee

1. For Facebook I did downloaded an app to sync and it works fine. For whatsapp contacts they just appear at my contact as on the "connection" section. Try to make a contact refresh on whatsapp, maybe it's a problem with the app. Make sure your contact is not saved at the SIM card.

2. This feature comes preinstalled on Samsungs UI, as HTC has its own, but there's plenty of apps at play store (not app store) that allows you to do this on stock Android. Try Beautiful Widgets or Go Weather EX. I've tried those, but I know there's plenty of them.