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I put handcent onto my phone and only about 4 out of 25 contact pics actually show up, I have ones that are pulled directly from fb, others are in the phone, neither show up, the 4 that do show up are from fb but others from fb dont show up, anyone else have this problem? I like the fact that on a mms you can actually zoom in and out of the picture unlike the default messenger but want contact pictures, any ideas?
PolishDude said:
I put handcent onto my phone and only about 4 out of 25 contact pics actually show up, I have ones that are pulled directly from fb, others are in the phone, neither show up, the 4 that do show up are from fb but others from fb dont show up, anyone else have this problem? I like the fact that on a mms you can actually zoom in and out of the picture unlike the default messenger but want contact pictures, any ideas?
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i had this problem too. what it was for me was a actual contacts issue. i had plenty of contacts from my SIM card that were being pulled when i wrote a new text message and the SIM contact was the one being used, and we all know SIM contacts don't hold pictures.
The same thing happened when people messaged me. The SIM contact would be utilized and the text would come with the name but no contact picture.
Solution you ask? DO what i'm doing, which seems to be working: Import all you sim contacts to the phone, delete all your sim contacts, then proceed to nicely cleanup all your contacts (whichever way you like, i prefer manually but there's apps i think for this), and make sure your contacts are all google based.
I'm doing it this way, and i percieve to never have to use the sim card again for contacts, until the day i stop using a google-enabled phone, then i'll just copy the contacts to the phone before i switch.
To the point: now all my handcent sms lists showc ontact pictures.
how did you bring all the Google contacts to be saved to the phone vs being synced....I'm searching through the phone but not finding it.
sorry, n00b question
paradox4286 said:
how did you bring all the Google contacts to be saved to the phone vs being synced....I'm searching through the phone but not finding it.
sorry, n00b question
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if by "saved to the phone" you mean that i could see the same contacts on my phone, with a little "g" icon, that i could in my gmail account viewed through a desktop web browser, then i think you need to set your phone to view ALL the contacts it possibly can.
contacts-->menu-->display options--> check everything under "choose contacts to display"
now clean all that mess up. I'm just about done cleaing up all mine to just google contacts (all my contacts, when everything is checked, have the little "g" icon to denote being synced with my gmail account i believe)
I had the same issue where my contact profile pics wouldn't show on handcent as I received/sent out txt messages due to the contacts saved on my SIM. I just took out my SIM put it in my old phone and did a mass deletion of my contacts that were on there. Put the SIM back in my Vibrant, now all the profile pics show when receiving or sending out a txt.
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joe_33man said:
I had the same issue where my contact profile pics wouldn't show on handcent as I received/sent out txt messages due to the contacts saved on my SIM. I just took out my SIM put it in my old phone and did a mass deletion of my contacts that were on there. Put the SIM back in my Vibrant, now all the profile pics show when receiving or sending out a txt.
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damn! good thinking! i called my local tmobile store and asked if they could wipe my sim, but htey said no, and it'll cost $20for a new sim. bah! i just did it myself lmao.
High there, got my SGS2 yesterday, rooted and all is well. I had a HTC HD2 before, and I have to say with recent android builds it was quite cool, but no comparison to the speed and beauty of the Galaxy S2.
One thing totally trips me off though and that is Samsungs Social Hub. I.e. when checking for Software updates you need to create an account... no go. But I digress.
What I want is for the contacts app to basically work like the one in HTC Sense,
which pulls in Facebook info of your contacts to the address book.
It will update the contacts picture (most importantly) and also updates/displays recent status updates.
I have tried apps like SyncMyPics (seems to have problems properly identifying contacts and complains about write protection on them) and Facebook sync (which finds 0 friends to match, even though there are several named identical between FB and the Phone book).
Please dont suggest just making an account at Samsung. I will NOT have all my address book uploaded and snooped through. It has to be ON the Phone. (Not using Google to handle my contacts either, no use of GMail).
JOINING the contact sets does not really work well at all, you don't get to pick which picture is to be used etc etc.
I'd like a priority-based link between my phonebook entry and the corresponding facebook profile, where the facebook profile info takes priority of the two.
Any suggestions? It worked beautifully in HTC Sense Desire HD ROM on HD2.
Have you tried installing Facebooks own app? Not used any of the Samsung stuff and I appear to have my friends photo, phone numbers and email addresses added, plus birthdays are appearing in my local calendar.
Sure have. In Facebook for Android the Sync Contacts option is checked at "sync all contacts", so is it in the Systems Accounts & Sync settings etc. Still, it doesnt seem to work. Maybe I'll give it another "delete all contacts" run and check my sequence again.
When i synced my Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, profile pictures were added.... great! but they are shockingly pixelated! When someone phones me and the picture pops up it look embarrassing, anyone else had this issue?
SyncMyPix works ok here. You can still manually "join" not founded to correct ones.
Just redid all my contacts, re-synced with syncmypics, this time it found 72 matches, but it didn't update the contacts. Also, when linking manually in smp, it loads the existing pic for cropping.
No other positive results either...
As I said, not using Google for contacts either. Must be a problem with the Samsung Contacts app? All Contacts were imported from a Sense-exported vcf file and have <HTCData><Facebook>id:XXXXXXX etc etc in the NOTE field. Might that be a cause of the problem?
I deleted it on a contact but it didn't seem to make a difference.
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stBlueJay said:
When i synced my Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, profile pictures were added.... great! but they are shockingly pixelated! When someone phones me and the picture pops up it look embarrassing, anyone else had this issue?
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Yes, they don't look good! Also in my buddy widgets they are f*cking ugly. With my incredible s they were nice and normal, good looking. I would like to see it getting better too...
Ok... So I just found two things:
1. If I manually join contacts and the phonebook has a picture, that pic will be used over the Facebook one. Once that pic is deleted, the Facebook pic is used. (No hint as to whether or not it's a FB pic though, as the small blue F in HTC Sense)
2. When editing the contact and switching to the facebook tab on the contact, it says "Unable to edit SNS contact on the phone" - I guess this means that you can't edit your buddies FB pic on your phone, which makes perfect sense. Just wondering if "SNS" refers to a general social networking services or some particular Samsung service?
I must still say that HTC Sense did a better job integrating this type of info.
Ciddy said:
1. If I manually join contacts and the phonebook has a picture, that pic will be used over the Facebook one. Once that pic is deleted, the Facebook pic is used. (No hint as to whether or not it's a FB pic though, as the small blue F in HTC Sense)
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When you're looking at a contact card, you can choose which contact picture to use by pressing Menu > Mark as default.
The main difference from HTC is that the Samsung will only use the Facebook picture by default if there is not a picture already associated with the contact. You'll also find that the contact pictures taken from Facebook are sometimes stretched when you're in your contacts list to fit the available space (e.g. if the Facebook pic is rectangular rather than square).
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2. When editing the contact and switching to the facebook tab on the contact, it says "Unable to edit SNS contact on the phone" - I guess this means that you can't edit your buddies FB pic on your phone, which makes perfect sense. Just wondering if "SNS" refers to a general social networking services or some particular Samsung service?
I must still say that HTC Sense did a better job integrating this type of info.
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SNS refers to the Samsung connectors for the various social networks the phone supports (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.). Equivalent of the likes of "Facebook for HTC Sense" that get used by FriendStream on HTC phones.
Thanks a LOT.
I'd never have guessed the "mark default" meant "select defaults" number etc...
So I logged into the social hub app and was a bit surprised it seems all traffic goes through Samsung servers? I remember Sense not asking me to agree to service terms, although I honestly tl;dr!-ed on the SNS agreement. Anywhere I could read up on that on a desktop screen tomorrow?
Weird thing is with Facebook for Android and SNS both running now, FBfA is labeled an "unknown" info source (displaying pictures in correct aspect ratio), while FB/SNS is labeled with the blue F but distorts the pics as mentioned...
So, so far the only upside to SNS is three ability to also sync the FB calendars...
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cheers Wazzamatazz - this has been bugging me and I'm very grateful for your solution - thanks added!!
Hi!
I have a problem with Facebook application (not Facebook for HTC Sense - I want to avoid using this one) and the way it syncs peoples' pictures in the contact list. The problem is that some of the pictures are missing. I know for sure these persons have profile pictures set, but for some reason my Facebook app doesn't sync them. I double checked the "Link" menu, it shows that the phone book entry is indeed linked with a facebook account. The picture dropdown list also shows an empty person outline next to "Facebook".
Any ideas what might be the reason behind this behavior and how to fix it?
I'm using Virtuous Affinity ROM 2.05 on HTC T-Mobile G2.
Cheers!
Mmm, anyone? This has been present for some time now and is quite annoying.
Cheers!
Hi Guys,
Got myself a SIII. Rooted it and added superSU according to Chains tutorial..
I have some problems with facebook, and was wondering whether anyone can help..
Firstly, after linking the accounts. Some of the photos appear as blank. Anyone have a clue? Those that have photos, are really blur.
Also, outside app such as Whatsapp are not picking up those contact photos.
I'm moving from an HTC so i am amazed that samsung has this problem. Is there a solution such as "Facebook for HTC Sense".
Am i just doing it wrong? many thanks for any help
Hi.
Your case is the same as mine. I came from the HTC Desire HD, which all the contacts were always synchronized with Facebook, no problems with photos and etc.
I posted the same questions here a few weeks ago, and from what I got, the ICS has some compatibility issues with Facebook, that's why it sync just a few contacts and also the quality is terrible.
The solution that people told me, was to use 3rd party softwares to make this sync. There is quite a few on market that does that. Just look for "facebook photo sync".
The solution I adopted, was to set the photos of facebook for my contacts manually, and I just realized how to do that now. Since I don't have many contacts, I entered quickly on their facebook profile, went to the photo I wanted and selected the option "set as contact photo".
To enter on their contact, I was doing directly by my contact phone list (because the facebook was linked correctly... just the photo that wasn't appearing).
The quality with that also gets better and when I enter on What's App now, is everything fine.
Hope it helps!
Where'd you get that baby?
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That helped me tremendously. I have a gotta contacts though. Better get to clicking
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Here are two softwares that does that:
Haxsync :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5tb3RzLmhheHN5bmMiXQ..
FriendCaster : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotifyFree
Here is the topic I made with some other answers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1682103
Those two apps didnt work really well for me. The app that worked best for me was an app called "Contact Picture Sync". Did everythin i wanted.
Thanks for all the help guys
couple questions, on my phone it has email contacts from my google shows up with my phone number conacts also will pull up there names when im searching a similar names can i get rid of them, i only want phone contacts to show?
when using picasa with a "ZOE" pic or movie will it save the same playback way it is on the phone and would it just save under a video?
ty!!
For contacts goto contacts click the three dots and check only show contacts with phone numbers
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