So I'm having a problem with my contacts and FB not showing pictures.
For most it auto links and shows their pictures.
However for the ones I need to link manually, I can find their name under "FB for HTC" but it doesn't show a picture.
Full stock.
Anyone got a fix for me?
I had that issue where the names did not match where I manually linked the two, I got it to work eventually, but don't remember how. I might have been something simple like a reboot.
So you linked them but the pictures aren't showing? Usually this happens during the initial fb sync when there isn't a consistent connection. So go to your fb setting and for contact sync.remove it and then sync it again. it should load up all the pictures after like 30 minutes.
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Teo032 said:
So you linked them but the pictures aren't showing? Usually this happens during the initial fb sync when there isn't a consistent connection. So go to your fb setting and for contact sync.remove it and then sync it again. it should load up all the pictures after like 30 minutes.
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Will give it a try.
nguyendqh said:
Will give it a try.
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I had the same issue, ended up logging out of FB for HTC Sense, log back in re-sync and all worked well.
Good luck!
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How do you log out of FB for HTC Sense? I have contact photos just fine, but under View Contact, the Events and Updates aren't updating (the photos are there in the photo gallery). So I thought I would "disconnect" FB for HTC Sense and then retry it and re-sync it, but don't know how.
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How do you log out of FB for HTC Sense? I have contact photos just fine, but under View Contact, the Events and Updates aren't updating (the photos are there in the photo gallery). So I thought I would "disconnect" FB for HTC Sense and then retry it and re-sync it, but don't know how.
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Settings>accounts and sync>Facebook for HTC Sense>remove account
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So my phone is pulling the wrong pics from facebook and assigning them to the wrong contact causing me a lot of confusion lol
Is there anyway to force it to redownload pics? When I go into edit contact, the wrong picture comes up as the "Facebook for HTC Sense" option so it's the htc facebook module messing this up
abdeviation said:
So my phone is pulling the wrong pics from facebook and assigning them to the wrong contact causing me a lot of confusion lol
Is there anyway to force it to redownload pics? When I go into edit contact, the wrong picture comes up as the "Facebook for HTC Sense" option so it's the htc facebook module messing this up
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There was a person in my ROM thread who wasn't able to get their contact pictures to appear. A solution was posted and they thanked so I assume it worked for them. The solution:
youngpro83 said:
Delete any synced accounts and resync. Worked for me.
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If that doesn't work, then maybe wiping the data/data directory for the application which is having the sync'n problems will cause it to perform a fresh sync and should hopefully fix the mismatch issue.
Let us know! Hope that helps!
I suggest removing all syncronizing from HTC Sense Facebook, and then using "SyncMyPix" app.
It downloads all the pictures from facebook and tries to link the correct friend with the correct contact, but you can also manually edit which friend is linked to which contact in your address book.
When you've done that, it simply remembers the links and you can re-sync whenever you want to.
I use it, and absolutely love it.
How do I unlink contacts?
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abdeviation said:
How do I unlink contacts?
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under settingys/sync remove facebook for htc sense, and download the fb app from the market and use that to sync your contacts, i had that same problem and it fixed it. the syncmypix app also works great.
Can someone PLEASE tell me why when i go to my 'people' that some contacts do not show their fb pic even though they are linked with fb and fb with htc sense?? (i can see their fb updates so its defo linked)
some show pics some dont, but, even those that dont WILL show pic when placed in favourites
baffled
jonbaker76 said:
Can someone PLEASE tell me why when i go to my 'people' that some contacts do not show their fb pic even though they are linked with fb and fb with htc sense?? (i can see their fb updates so its defo linked)
some show pics some dont, but, even those that dont WILL show pic when placed in favourites
baffled
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the only solution i've seen posted to this and i haven't tested this personally, is to wipe the contact cache/data. wiping the contact cache/data forces it to reload all the information and evidently this has worked for some people in getting all the correct contact pictures to load.
one method of wiping the contact data is to delete a sync'd account and re-add which will force it to re-sync.
hope that helps point in the right direction, keeps us updated and hopefully others who have more specific experience with this issue will post up too!
I've tried unlinking the contact from both fb and fb for htc sense then relinking but this hasn't worked.
Is that what you meant? or did you mean delete the contact completely then re add?
any other method of clearing the cache?
There is a free app in the market called syncmypix that works great for this.
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jayharper08 said:
There is a free app in the market called syncmypix that works great for this.
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cheers mate, will check that out
Hi everybody,
Previously, I had an HTC Desire HD and when I installed the FB application, all my contacts got synced and the ones without photo started to have the FB photo.
Now on my SG3, just for a few of them appeared the FB photo, however, ALL of them are synced with facebook. I tried to enter on the profile of the person already, restarted the phone, sync, sync all contacts, but some of them just doesn't get the photo (and the name on FB is the same of the contact).
Does any one knows why that happens?
Nobody else with that problem?
Does the contacts of everybody always get the correct pictures from facebook? Or you guys don't use this feature?
Haxsync from Google play does that for you.
Yes, I looked that other applications can do that.
But I wonder if my Galaxy S3 has a problem on it. Because with my HTC DHD it used to work 100%.
Funny, everyone on mine since flawlessly. Only annoyance was when I ticked 'sync with existing contacts ' it synced my friends list with all their email addresses. Just tick display those with phone numbers and it's sorted but it's not perfect at any rate
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HTC DHD was in Gingerbread version and facebook official app work pretty well, but devices with Ice Cream sandwich have got lot of problem with official facebook application, one way in order to resolve problem is download from the market a 3rd part applicazion like FriendCaster, it work well with 4.0.x android and also with my nexus one with 4.0.x custom rom =)
I'm not sure if this is what you mean but mine was showing old contact Facebook pictures with the little F in the corner. I had to open each contact, press connections and add the Facebook account. It's been fine since.
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Laum said:
Haxsync from Google play does that for you.
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Haxsync also doesnt work for me.
The official facebook app for android has really bad syncing, use friendcaster, also has option to save high res pics for contacts.
I do have the same problem. No facebook app, just the sync with facebook option in the contacts account settings. Only a few facebook friends got their profile pictures displayed in contacts.
Maybe something to do with their privacy settings?
I had this too. It's the Facebook app sync feature being ****. Open Facebook and go to your contacts in there and it will refresh their pics and that in turns refreshes your contacts.
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Haxsync also doesnt work for me.
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Yeah I bought Haxsync, such a waste of money. Are there any 3rd party apps that sync phone numbers from facebook?
HaxSync is mainly for AOSP based ROMs like CM9 and AOKP. Works perfectly on those and loads excellent high quality photos. It doesn't work with Sense 4 ICS devices like the HTC One series. I don't know if it works with TouchWiz ROMs. It'll work perfectly on any ROM with the vanilla Android UI and People app.
HTC devices have Facebook for HTC Sense, which is integrated with the Facebook app. When you sign into the Facebook app, Facebook for HTC Sense links your contacts and downloads reasonably okay quality pictures for them, and also syncs their status, photos and all that. No idea if TouchWiz has a similar feature, but maybe that's why you're not having the same experience you had with HTC Facebook sync.
Though with any ROM, just signing into the Facebook and choosing 'sync all contacts' or 'sync existing contacts' will download profile pictures for the contacts that it can sync, especially if the name matches exactly or you have added email addresses for your contacts. That's the reason only a few contacts got their pictures synced, because maybe they were under a different name than their Facebook name. But in my opinion the Facebook sync is crap, because the pictures it downloads look like 8-bit graphics.
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Could Facebook's time line pictures be the problem? instead of people having portrait sized photos, they now have massive landscape pictures?
just a thought
I don't think so, because the Facebook app doesn't sync the cover photo. It syncs the little square profile picture photo, so it won't be any different from before because of the timeline.
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Facebook, sense, contacts, image, pictureebook acct and told it to sync to existing contacts and back when I had the OG evo the contacts would automatically be updated with their facebook profile picture. Currently after many syncing attempts, restarts, etc the contacts still don't have their facebook profile pics and when I go to edit the contacts manually to add them when I click on facebook it doesn't have a picture. Is anybody else having this issue? (btw all of the contacts I've tried to manually map all have facebook profile pictures) Does anybody know of a fix? Thanks in advance
It's been mentioned and explained before. Here is the app you need
http://www.1mobile.com/photo-unlocker-160330.html
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painkillaz said:
Facebook, sense, contacts, image, pictureebook acct and told it to sync to existing contacts and back when I had the OG evo the contacts would automatically be updated with their facebook profile picture. Currently after many syncing attempts, restarts, etc the contacts still don't have their facebook profile pics and when I go to edit the contacts manually to add them when I click on facebook it doesn't have a picture. Is anybody else having this issue? (btw all of the contacts I've tried to manually map all have facebook profile pictures) Does anybody know of a fix? Thanks in advance
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I was having this issue also, and my issue was fixed by doing two things.
1) In facebook (website), under "Account Settings -> Apps" I deleted HTC Sense (basically revoking HTC Sense access)
2) In Android "Settings -> Accounts & sync" I deleted Facebook, then readded it and made sure Sync Contacts was checkmarked.
HTC Sense should ask again to be allowed access to Facebook. Once accepting, the contact's profile pictures started trickling in.
The thing is if you're running a custom rom, the rom dev may not have included "Facebook_Client.apk" and "FacebookEngine.apk" which are essential to syncing facebook with htc sense.
Spyderekz said:
It's been mentioned and explained before. Here is the app you need
http://m.androidzoom.com/android_applications/social/photo-unlocker_kjjo.html
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Mine says app not found when trying to download it
thanks a lot...deleting the app from facebook and the phone fixed it...appreciate your help!!
Thanks for the tips, I was wondering why the syncing didn't work because I had to go into each contact and link them individually, which of course was a pain
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Mine says app not found when trying to download it
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Here is new link
http://www.1mobile.com/photo-unlocker-160330.html
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DL link not working for me. Unsuccessful every time. Anyone have another link? I've been Googling for it for an hour.
TIA
http://db.tt/NM6qMbMX
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every time i try to use it it says "the contacts database seems to be busy. please try again later " !! does anybody knows what is the problem ?
Most of my favorites I display on my people widget are linked between my google contacts and facebook profiles. No matter how many times I change them to display the google contact pic, it always changes back to their facebook profile pic after a little while.
Searched high and low with no luck. Have had the problem with stock rooted and mean-rom.
Any ideas?
I've had to go into each "favorite" contact and manually change them from facebook picture to google picture of the contact.
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I've had to go into each "favorite" contact and manually change them from facebook picture to google picture of the contact.
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Yep, I've done that at least a dozen times, but It will revert back to the facebook pic. Let know if it stays for you.
I can't isolate the problem either. It seems to keep it on restart. I will even keep it when I restart sense.
My thinking is the facebook sync is overriding my settings, but I dont' know how to stop it from overriding. I still want all of my other contact to sync up...
Haxsync, sync contacts then manually select the contacts you don't want to update and turn off Facebook syncing.
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BrianBaker said:
Haxsync, sync contacts then manually select the contacts you don't want to update and turn off Facebook syncing.
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Works great, thanks.
According to the settings, it doesn't look like it would do what I want. But I installed it a few days ago, and everything now works how I like it to.