Your contacts' e-mail addresses may have been overwritten to @ facebook.com by the Facebook app, but if you sync those same contacts to Gmail, you can get them back!
Still trying to figure out even the Facebook e-mail synchronization fiasco that afflicted your helpless contacts list? Fortunately, within Thirty days of making changes to your contacts, Gmail will allow you to restore them. Google is renowned for providing useful tools such as this one, but they aren't always easy to find.
Here's how to recover your communication e-mail messages from the depths of the internet:
Step 1: Ensure the Facebook communication sync is now turned off!
Menu> Settings> Sync Contacts is where you'll find it in the app. If you don't see the choice, go back to your Home screen and click Menu> Settings> Accounts and sync, then check that the sync for your Facebook account is disabled.
Step 2: Use the web to access your Gmail account.
Step 3: There in top left-hand corner, click the small arrow next to Gmail, then pick Contacts.
Step 4: Pick Restore contacts from the More menu.
Step 5: The synchronization took place on or around June 22, 2012, so change the dates accordingly.
Stage 6: Click Archive, and the email e-mail addresses in Gmail's contact list will revert to their original form (minus the @ facebook.com).
Of course, sync issues were present in this screen capture only for Google+, not for Connections.
Nicole Cozma / CNET / Screenshot
7th step: If necessary, go back to your phone's Accounts and Sync section, select your Google account, and demand a Communications sync.
Hopefully, there won't be any bug like this to cause havoc with your Phone contacts. However, keeping contacts synced with Gmail is a good idea in case you need to do a restore - particularly because Facebook shouldn't be the only application that can cause this problem.
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