I linked almost all of my contacts with their respective Facebook accounts, which means that their profile pictures and birthdays will be stored on my phone. When I sms say Contact A, his picture from Facebook comes up correctly on the left of his name.
However when Contact A calls me the Facebook picture of say Contact H comes up instead. Even contacts without any linked profiles or any pictures turn up with arbitrary contact pictures instead. I find this predicament highly annoying. Prior to linking Facebook accounts, none of my contacts had profile pictures in my phone.
Can anyone help me out here please?
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So I've noticed anyone who I've manually assigned a picture to, in my phone has the same picture assigned to them in my Gmail contacts. Now there are a lot of contacts in my phone that I have a photo for assigned by Facebook, is there anyway to assign all those pictures to the contacts in Gmail without doing it manually?
Not really sure where this topic should go but I was wondering if there was a way to manually input my contact's number and still have their facebook profile pic show up as the picture in my contacts app?
I tried syncing my FB account to my contacts which kinda worked. but most of my friends don't put their cellphone numbers there and I end up with lots of empty contacts with just a link to their FB (but with the always changing profile pic and status updates)... It would have been nice if I could sync FB to contacts first and then add their phone numbers after but it says that I can't edit FB info on my device.
I tried doing it on Gmail but the synced FB accounts wouldnt show up in my gmail contacts. Is there a way to do create a contact on the phone and link it to an FB account? Adding someone's facebook profile URL just creates a hyperlink in my contacts which will be launched by the browser... I just want their profile pic (birthdays, emails, etc would be a bonus)
I decided to ask here if there was an easier option before I go and look for pictures of everyone I know and manually adding each to the contact app on my phone.
I have all my contacts with phone numbers stored as Google/Gmail contacts.
I also have a FB account set up on the phone.
To join the two in Contacts:
1) in Contacts -> Menu button -> Display Options -> check All Contacts under FB account and relevant group under Google account (in my case "System Group: My Contacts")
2) go back to (overpopulated) contacts list, and one by one, select Google contacts (long press) -> edit contact -> Menu button -> Join -> select FB contact for same person
3) when done, repeat 1) except uncheck All Contacts under FB account
4) ???
5) Profit! (ie. editable contacts with FB info attached)
Should work the same with PC Sync contacts methinks
raylgo said:
Not really sure where this topic should go but I was wondering if there was a way to manually input my contact's number and still have their facebook profile pic show up as the picture in my contacts app?
I tried syncing my FB account to my contacts which kinda worked. but most of my friends don't put their cellphone numbers there and I end up with lots of empty contacts with just a link to their FB (but with the always changing profile pic and status updates)... It would have been nice if I could sync FB to contacts first and then add their phone numbers after but it says that I can't edit FB info on my device.
I tried doing it on Gmail but the synced FB accounts wouldnt show up in my gmail contacts. Is there a way to do create a contact on the phone and link it to an FB account? Adding someone's facebook profile URL just creates a hyperlink in my contacts which will be launched by the browser... I just want their profile pic (birthdays, emails, etc would be a bonus)
I decided to ask here if there was an easier option before I go and look for pictures of everyone I know and manually adding each to the contact app on my phone.
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Follow these steps. For the first time it would be tough doing for all your contacts. But once done, you need not worry about it again.
1. The reason for separate phone-number contacts and facebook contacts is because of the name mismatch. So rename all your contacts with the exact name as their facebook profile.
2. Now you'll have phone-number contacts and facebook contacts, with same names. Now join the contacts one by one.
3. Make sure you're creating all the contacts under your Google account.
4. Next time when you flash a rom or do something, turning ON google sync and facebook sync would automatically bring up the contacts joined.
5. The only problem will be when your friend changes his/her profile name in facebook, in which case you've to rename your phone-number contacts to the new name. But this doesn't happen always.
The process is so complex because the system assumes that the facebook profile name and the phone number contact's name would always be the same, which may not be the case in most of the scenarios. Because I would prefer to store my girl friend's name as Sweetie (or something similar) instead of her full name. But if you want to see some data integrity in the contacts list, then no other choice, renaming the contacts names as per the facebook profile name is the way to go.
better option. join all contacts one by one. no need to rename. Remember to take backup once done and upload that backup .csv to gmail. next time u wont see dup/mismatch etc.
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Thank you guys ^_^ I'm joining and/or erasing contacts one by one... Hope this works.
I'm hoping that their profile pic will change on my phone when it changes on FB but I still get to choose what name comes out in my contacts.
The only downside is having to create a new contact on my phone for those people who are on my FB list first, since I can't add numbers to them right away.
EDIT: Ok new quirk that I don't know how to fix... How about if the phone number on FB is outdated? I can't erase it alone without having the entire FB profile go with it. I can add the new number to the FB profile though. Will setting the new number as default make the old number disappear from the options (SMS, Call)?
raylgo said:
Thank you guys ^_^ I'm joining and/or erasing contacts one by one... Hope this works.
I'm hoping that their profile pic will change on my phone when it changes on FB but I still get to choose what name comes out in my contacts.
The only downside is having to create a new contact on my phone for those people who are on my FB list first, since I can't add numbers to them right away.
EDIT: Ok new quirk that I don't know how to fix... How about if the phone number on FB is outdated? I can't erase it alone without having the entire FB profile go with it. I can add the new number to the FB profile though. Will setting the new number as default make the old number disappear from the options (SMS, Call)?
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Suppose you have a contact "aa" (gmail or phone) and the facebook profile of that contact is "bb"
Select the "aa" contact, select edit- join - select bb" done. This will merge the contacts, even though they have different names.
raylgo said:
Thank you guys ^_^ I'm joining and/or erasing contacts one by one... Hope this works.
I'm hoping that their profile pic will change on my phone when it changes on FB but I still get to choose what name comes out in my contacts.
The only downside is having to create a new contact on my phone for those people who are on my FB list first, since I can't add numbers to them right away.
EDIT: Ok new quirk that I don't know how to fix... How about if the phone number on FB is outdated? I can't erase it alone without having the entire FB profile go with it. I can add the new number to the FB profile though. Will setting the new number as default make the old number disappear from the options (SMS, Call)?
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Setting one number as default will show only that number when you use the sms/call popup on a contact. If you go to that contact's view, you can see all the numbers.
In your phone app, if you have smart dial, when you start entering the contact's name, all the numbers will come up.
Similarly in the SMS app, if you enter the contact name in the receipient filed, all the numbers would be shown in the option.
And do not worry what will happen if the FB profile pic is changes. When you turn ON auto-sync, it will automatically updated.
Yeah I got that part. I'm working my way through the list and making new contacts for the FB only people and merging the new contact with the FB profile. This way, I can eventually add their numbers to the contact.
I tried calling and texting my friend who has 2 numbers (one old and one I'm sure is active) and made the active number default. Looks like it did the trick. The old number doesn't pop up anywhere.
Now all that's left is to find the willpower to finish fixing my contacts and syncing them back to my Gmail Thank you everyone
How do i sync contacts with facebook pictures without getting ALL my friends from facebook to the phone.
"Sync existing contacts only" doesnt work. Mine just syncs all my FB friends numbers to my phone.. and doesnt even update the contacts picture on phone..
same problem....but some contacts were updated and some others not
i have had this problem as well, and there is a small work-a-round when in the contacts menu i go to Options > Visible contacts > Edit , and simply only have the desired contacts show up.
as for your picture problem, i have always done this by hand simply merging the contact with the corresponding facebook account
Yeah thats a workaround, but then when you start typing receiver in text messages for example, random people from facebook with number pops up.. kind of annoying.
SyncMyPix, is a app that does the job but i would want FB native app to do the job..
If anyone knows, please share!
I have looked far and wide for a solution for this but can't seem to find one ..
I have contact pictures for my contacts that I have chosen and assigned to my contacts manually and are stored as the Google contact picture, I have an issue with the facebook app when it syncs a facebook profile picture update the application forces the contacts default picture to be the facebook picture.
I don't want it to do this, it can change the facebook linked contact picture but why does it have to change the contacts default picture?? Is there some way this can be blocked or stopped from within Android contacts??
This has been prevalent since before I can remember with the facebook app and sync so I'm hoping someone might have some ideas or solutions??
Surely submitting a bug to facebook is not the solution as we SHOULD be able to control and/or lock portions of our contacts details..
When you first time, install the facebook app doesn't it asks about syncing?
If I'm right, it asks like sync with all contacts, don't sync, sync with existing contacts or so .. like that.
I usually selects "Do not sync" and it will not be synced.
But I want to link the FB contacts to my Google Contacts .. just don't want it messing up the default contact picture..
I have all of my contacts stored in gmail contacts online.
In the course of trying to tidy up contacts on my phone, deleting duplicate/unnecessary info and 'joining' multiple accounts (mostly gmail, facebook and whatsapp) I had a bit of a Homer Simpson moment managed to delete all of my contacts (D'Oh!!).
Fortunately, as I said above I have them in gmail contacts online and had also exported them to my SD card as a vcard and so have managed to get them back (albeit having to tidy them up again).
Here's the thing though, when I go to the Contacts menu item 'Contacts to display' the contacts show when All Contacts or Gmail account are selected, but when I select Phone contacts in 'Contacts to display' the list is empty.
How do I move/copy my gmail contacts so that they are held in the actual phone memory and displayed if I opt to display Phone contacts only (i.e. no longer link to my gmail contacts)?
Cheers in advance,
Rich
I think what you need to is to sync your contact again. Contact to display is only show if your phone have a contact that is available in your gmail contact only.
copy contacts to phone only
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I think what you need to is to sync your contact again. Contact to display is only show if your phone have a contact that is available in your gmail contact only.
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I think you've misunderstood my original question. I have got the contacts visible when I view all contacts or view gmail contacts, but there is an option in the contacts menu to view contacts on phone only (i.e. not those stored in gmail contacts). When I use that option I don't see any of my contacts. Therefore, what I need to be able to do is copy the contacts across from gmail contacts so they are visible in the phone contacts only view, but I can't figure out how to copy them across to the phone.
Never had to do it on either my s2 or s3 before. I did do it on my old HTC via a menu option along the lines of 'Copy contacts to phone' but there isn't a menu option like that on the s3 unless I'm missing something obvious.
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers.