I'm not sure whether it was TimeScape or Facebook, but something overwrote a huge chunk of my contact pictures.
This is particularly aggravating because I went through so much to get the database the way I wanted it on my Google account, and now have all these stretched, distorted pictures - or things I just plain prefer not to have in my contact list (pictures of whatever silly meme they thought was funny, or them with their relationship partner, their dog that they thought should be their profile pic, etc).
Is there any way I can undo this, or possibly a directory I can simply go in to delete all the images replacing the contact pictures I set?
I just want all these facebook pictures gone, and my contact pictures back to the way I set them up.
In the Facebook app go to settings and turn off contact sync. Then your good.
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I tried that... prior to making this topic, actually.
I was able to identify the culprit though... expectedly enough; it's TimeScape causing the problems. Strangely enough, what seemed to stop my contacts from being torn up was enabling the sync from the Facebook option... then it'd restore my contacts to the state I set them in until TimeScape refreshed again and blew everything up.
Y'know... having Timescape make everything look pretty was a big part of why I got the Xperia X10... but it's really infuriating to work with. Seems that as long as I have Facebook completely un-linked from TimeScape, my contacts go unharmed.
Yay counterproductivity -_-
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.
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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!!
1. I have loads of contacts (probably a couple of thousand). Normally you can do T9 search, like if I wanted to call "liliane", I would type 545263 and it would show liliane and a couple of numbers that have 545263 in them and other names that correspond to the combination. This works on the SGS2 but takes ages, which wasn't the case on my much older HTC Desire.
2. When I want to add a person to a group (going through groups > add contact), I get an enormous amount of contacts called "(Unknown)". Where do they come from? How do I get them out?
3. On my HTC, I nicely merged all of my contacts with their e-mail addresses and Facebook profiles. However, they have all become separated after syncing my Google contacts back to my SGS2 and the contacts app is just not very good at finding mergeable contacts. Also it takes forever to do so since I have a couple of thousand.
4. My Facebook contacts show up last name first, for no obvious reason. Even merged contacts sometimes have their last name first (i.e. Dan Scott will show up as Scott Dan in my phone). Annoying. How can I fix this?
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Go on your computer and organize there all your Google account contacts, they will sync nice to your phone. That's what I did. I hope you use a Google account to sync your contacts, not Samsung.
Okay guys I have been having this or a similiar problem since back when i had my droid X.
Here is what happens:
I sync my contacts with google and facebook, pretty everything links okay and the contacts that don't I manually link to the proper facebook contact. All of my contacts have pictures now from facebook. When I use the messaging app my contact images seem random, some show up some don't. I have googled this to no avail and it seems that others do have this problem and something like syncmypix app can solve the problem which is the route i took with my Droid X. This method seems hacky to me and I really dont like having to run another syncing app when the pictures seem to already be connected to the contact.
The second bigger problem is that the contacts without pictures seem to not actually be connected to the proper contact at all in the messaging app. When i click on the "ghost man" (because the picture doesnt show up) thumbnail I am not forwarded to the contact details. However for contacts with pictures everything works properly.
When I use a third party messaging app (sliding messaging) everything works perfectly.
So the question is, am I doing something wrong? Is there an inherent flaw or bug in android that is ****ing this up? Is my cellphone data corrupt? What is going on... I love android but this is seriously almost driving me away as it has been an issue for almost 3 years with 2 different phones for me.
Thank you!
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Is there any way to sort the contacts on the Watch when paired to a phone? On my phone all the contacts have been arranged and none have no names but I have double/triple entries for contacts left and right. I even tried re-organizing and merging contacts on the phone but nothing else works.
Anyone out there have a clue whats going on? or if there's a fix or a work around to just filter phones, actually force re-sync or is the contacts app just straight up broken.
solved it myself. retarded
caused by the contacts merge on Galaxy S6/S6Edge and +. Sooo had to search through all merged contacts or all contacts that weren't within a name (so loose contacts /emails/numbers) and delete them.. through the phone.
welp that sucked. but at least its fixed