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Hi all out there,
I've got a question which I think I know the answer to, but hoping there is a way round it.
The contacts I have on my phone are linked to facebook profiles which show the picture. This picture does not seem to sync to Google so when I view the contacts on Google, they have no image.
Back in the days of Windows Mobile and Touch Flo, the pictures from facebook used to actually sync with the contacts and transfer.
Anyone got any ideas how to achieve this?
Nobody any idea's on this one? Is anyone who is syncing their contacts and also linking them to facebook having the contact pictures synced back to Google?
Sorry, I just use Google Contacts as middle ware between my Mac running Spanning Sync and my Hero.
If its any help, the contact pics on the Hero from FaceBook don't make it through to my Mac.
Would be nice.
No, this is not gonna happen as yet. The Hero simply seems to link a reference number with the contact so that it knows what Facebook profile goes with what contact.
It's this that gets saved in Googlemail's contact list. No images are transferred as yet.
Maybe in a future update, but for now a definite no i'm afraid.
stripealipe said:
No, this is not gonna happen as yet. The Hero simply seems to link a reference number with the contact so that it knows what Facebook profile goes with what contact.
It's this that gets saved in Googlemail's contact list. No images are transferred as yet.
Maybe in a future update, but for now a definite no i'm afraid.
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Cool, thanks for the reply, its what I thought, but its a shame
Cheers guys
I have a T-Mobile G2 Touch that is rooted and have had the same problem. Am I right in saying that the link between each contact in your phonebook and the facebook profile is saved to your google contacts but not the picture. I ask this as I have just wiped my phone and synced my contacts and no facebook links are showing, and as I have 80+ contacts this is going to be quite annoying each time I want to wipe my phone.
In other news I have just discovered an app which syncs the facebook profile picture to your google contacts. However the contact has to have the same name as on the facebook profile which is a bit formal for me.
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2008/10/synchronizing-google-and-facebook.html
EDIT: Somehow my phone has managed to sync all my contacts with there correct facebook link and the pictures from the facebook profiles are showing as well.
On that note, I was just going to share this...
http://heartofangel.com/google-contact-sync-1-0/
Just to let you know, just got to grips with this program, its great, only for PC users though it seems...
Lets you link your google contacts with facebook (seems to be either stored on google or facebook, which is good)
Lets you upload the current photo on facebook to the google contacts and stores it
Works brilliant, well chuffed! And the facebook link transfers to the hero so it gets the up to date details too
I never used Google sync contacts on my primal EVO because it would make my contact pictures blurry. Figured i would try with the 3d and still after it syncs , the pictures become blurry again. To avoid this, I have just been saving contacts to SD card and not syncing Google contacts kind of defeating the purpose. Has anybody found an easy fix?
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i figured it was from google no longer doing business with facebook and ever since then when i sync contacts more then half of them don't have pics and the ones that do are very blurry.
Just what i was thinking this whole time
Joey_UFC said:
i figured it was from google no longer doing business with facebook and ever since then when i sync contacts more then half of them don't have pics and the ones that do are very blurry.
Just what i was thinking this whole time
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What does facebook have to do with regular phone contacts?
starkillers said:
I never used Google sync contacts on my primal EVO because it would make my contact pictures blurry. Figured i would try with the 3d and still after it syncs , the pictures become blurry again. To avoid this, I have just been saving contacts to SD card and not syncing Google contacts kind of defeating the purpose. Has anybody found an easy fix?
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Same here they look like crap, from the nexus to the og evo too, they don't look like crap on my iPhone but the picture display is smaller icon
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
Mine looked blurry too, until I actually signed on thru Facebook for HTC sense. The one integrated into sense. Then I noticed the pictures were crisp and clear. Maybe that l'll work for you guys too.
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Uchennadi said:
Mine looked blurry too, until I actually signed on thru Facebook for HTC sense. The one integrated into sense. Then I noticed the pictures were crisp and clear. Maybe that l'll work for you guys too.
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Do you have to sync Facebook contacts?
That sucks if so.
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Only facebook contacts are clear, google contacts not linked through facebook will still be blurry, least how it is for me.
EricSS619 said:
Only facebook contacts are clear, google contacts not linked through facebook will still be blurry, least how it is for me.
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Same here
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
blurry caller id htc evo 3d
@ UCHENNADI (Mine looked blurry too, until I actually signed on thru Facebook for HTC sense. The one integrated into sense. Then I noticed the pictures were crisp and clear. Maybe that l'll work for you guys too. )
Thank you soooooo much! That was great help! It has been driving me crazy and I kept for getting to research info! This helped make my phone whole again! Great find & very easy fix, I hope this helps others as it has me!
CM9 on this thing is awesome, but one thing I do miss from CM7 is facebook contact sync. Damn facebook for taking it away...
But yeah, has anyone managed to hack this in yet? I've searched around the forums and around the web but haven't come up with anything yet.
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CM9 on this thing is awesome, but one thing I do miss from CM7 is facebook contact sync. Damn facebook for taking it away...
But yeah, has anyone managed to hack this in yet? I've searched around the forums and around the web but haven't come up with anything yet.
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HaxSync
That app doesn't sync phone numbers, which is basically the only thing I want contact sync for.
Thanks, though.
i have also tried and tweeked
hey u can can try facebook sync app on google app but this will only sync their mail id only not phone no if u get any way get phone no sync plz post
I couldn't really find a useful answer but,
I sync my contacts via Facebook app and the exchange, but my contact photos like NEVER update. I tried resyncing many times but it still doesn't. Does anyone know how to make them update? I'm on Ineff GB btw
Also is there a way to automatically import the contacts to Google or do I have to manually enter them? Thx
I have several Rezounds and I noticed this on GB also. ICS ROMs update fine for me.
What I do is unlink my contact whose photo I want updated, back out of contacts, then go back in to the Google contact and link up their Facebook contact. It's a pain but the other way is to logout of Facebook, which loses all links, and then sign in again. Wait a while for linking to happen.
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Dang... That's lame. I've never had this problem on another phone with GB... I wonder if its the Rom?
Yea its pretty lame. I'm on CleanROM 1.7.5.
It syncs perfectly on my HTC Flyer with GB and Honeycomb.
Also the Thunderbolt and Incredible sync fine. Just not my primary Rezound.
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It also doesn't show a good bit of photos. Just shows a blank. Bleh annoying how it works whenever it wants to which is pretty much never. At one point I had all of my contacts working and updating and such.
i started using haxsync..actually bought it...then i realized everytime you reboot the phone or soemthing, haxsync pics turn into **** quality 96x96 or so pics for some reaosn (because HTC seems to create thumbnails and use those as the main pic instead of the high res pic) aaaaand the developer says he has no idea how to fix it basically.
dollar totally wasted lol
Lololol. It actually helps to completely logout of Facebook and delete HTC Sync or w/e from facebooks allowed applications thing. I think all my contact pictures actually loaded this time. They probably won't update though.
Edit: nope it didn't lol. I guess they will still trickle in though. Some of the ones that were missing did load though. For some reason it instantly finds like 30, but I have way more than that. Hmmm
Use Sync My Pix android app for import your FB friends contacts to your address-book.
Haxsync works pretty well for me on a Xperia play CM9.0 FXP 121 build
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I think it isn't getting the pictures for people who don't have their phone numbers on Facebook. But it seems like I remember it suggesting by name or something
android addicts said:
Use Sync My Pix android app for import your FB friends contacts to your address-book.
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I tried it and it doesn't do anything at all for me... I think its broken lol
don't use sync my pics because that sets the pics to their Google contacts, and if you sync your contacts to Google, those pics will be ****ty 96x96 because Google developers are a bunch of assholes who keep ignoring our requests since the start of android to raise the damn limit so it's not a pixelated mess.
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Try friendcaster
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i'm actually rockin freindcaster now. it doesn't sync my own contact tohugh, weird.
I used to use friendcaster pro for a long time before the Facebook app finally updated to the new style on android. It always worked well as I remember. I think ill install it again to see what's changed actually.
I think the contact names have to be an exact match for them to auto link. I went through and changed like 20 of them, now they work. Dunno of they will update though
friendcaster is now syncing low quality pics just like haxsync....sigh. i think its an HTC problem
jayochs said:
friendcaster is now syncing low quality pics just like haxsync....sigh. i think its an HTC problem
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Lol. Even with the high resolution setting checked? Friend caster still gives me errors and doesn't do basic things... It looks really nice now though
friendcaster shouldn't be causing issues. the latest version has working sync and high res photos for me. saves your battery more since it has better interval settings
dyetheskin said:
friendcaster shouldn't be causing issues. the latest version has working sync and high res photos for me. saves your battery more since it has better interval settings
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Lol. Even with the high resolution setting checked? Friend caster still gives me errors and doesn't do basic things... It looks really nice now though
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yeah, it's absolutely terrible. they're a pixelated mess even wtih high quality on..it's wierd man
Are you guys using Twitter?
I sort of have this issue, except my Twitter contact icons look terrible. *Sometimes* the Facebook icons sync and look great, and then sometimes Sense thinks the Twitter icons are better... And they're not. Even after manually setting it to use the Facebook or Google pictures, as soon as I get a text from the contact, it'll revert to the Twitter icon.
So now my contacts are a mix of hi-res pics, ****ty Twitter pictures, and blank pictures.
Sense 3.6, not 4.0, fwiw.
I just updated my Sprint Evo 3d to ICS last night and before I learned that you can't see Facebook contact images in 3rd party apps without some tinkering I deleted my gmail and Facebook accounts from the phone thinking that would help. When I put my accounts back Facebook only automatically linked half of my contacts. I selected the option to sync with existing contacts. Is there any way to get it to automatically link the rest? I don't want to manually link 100+ contacts. Is there a way to manually trigger the linking? Also, I don't know if it matters, but before the ICS update I had Facebook and Facebook for sense on the phone. Now it is only Facebook.
The other 100 might now have a phone number linked to fb or the names are,diffrent or you don't have an email for them or some kind,of linking info I'm your phone but the fb app should allow you to resync the people in settings I think
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Mr nerd said:
The other 100 might now have a phone number linked to fb or the names are,diffrent or you don't have an email for them or some kind,of linking info I'm your phone but the fb app should allow you to resync the people in settings I think
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All the names are identical so that isn't a problem and they linked perfectly fine when I first got the phone with gingerbread. When I first set up the phone periodically the phone would alert me to possible contact links every so often until they were all linked. It isn't doing that now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639275
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639275
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Sitlet I think that is for a different issue. My problem isn't that 3rd party apps can't get the pictures (well that WAS my problem originally), it is that the link is not being established in the first place. I can fix the picture issue but I need the phone to prompt me about potential links between the contacts so I don't have to do it manually. The fix in that thread won't LINK my contacts right? It will just allow 3rd party apps to get the contact photos.
In case anyone cares, it took about 48 hours and last night I received the prompt suggesting I link contacts. I have no idea why it would take so long to trigger but all is well in the world now. Thanks to those who tried to help.
killerz298 said:
In case anyone cares, it took about 48 hours and last night I received the prompt suggesting I link contacts. I have no idea why it would take so long to trigger but all is well in the world now. Thanks to those who tried to help.
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I bet it's facebook's problem. They've been having a lot of issues with the mobile app. Mine, along with many other people, has been logging out and having problems with sync lately.
sitlet said:
I bet it's facebook's problem. They've been having a lot of issues with the mobile app. Mine, along with many other people, has been logging out and having problems with sync lately.
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Yeah for a few days it forced me to login every time. It wasn't just the mobile app though it was doing it to me on the regular web version as well.
Now that I have this all figured out it leads me to my next question. I used syncmypix to grab the high quality images from FB instead of the **** low rez ones that it imports itself and it synced it to my gmail account. However, the phone is set to default to the FB picture not the Google version. I can go into each contact and tell it to use the gmail photo but once again, I would rather not have to do that. Anyone know of a batch way of doing this?