Hello, I am having trouble getting my contact pics to display in my messages. I have deleted all contacts, removed all synced apps, updated pictures one by one and saved to phone. Yet still it doesn't show. Have I missed something? I an on rooted (only) 2.3.5 GB.
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I had this issue once, it was picking up my contacts from my SIM card instead of from my Google contacts. I ended up having to delete all contacts from the SIM, which was fine with me since all my contacts were in my Google contacts list anyways. Once the SIM contacts were deleted the pictures showed up.
You could also try joining the contacts too, if you're not comfortable deleting them.
Mate you are a genius! I deleted the Sim contacts from Sim, checked the phone contacts then exported to Sim for safety. All sorted!
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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.
Hi,
Ill try to explain everything properly.
Basically I reflashed my phone.
I made a backup of my contacts via memory card, and was hoping everything in gmail would be ok and that it would sync everything back the way it wad before reflashing. BUT
I reflashed and it did sync, but I found I had many contacts missing.
The missing ones I found where all my new contacts that had been saved since 2.1 update- hence I realised that when I saved a new contact I should NOT have selected "phone contact" and I should have been selecting "gmail contact." these options were never available in 1.6
So now basically what happened was I imported contacts from sd card and ended up with double copies and everything was screwed. So I spent ages going through phonebook and edited over 200 contacts individually but I deleted gmail section and now every contact is under "phone contact" and won't sync with gmail and I can't find an option to change it to gmail contact.
Basically. Help please!
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well i dunno if you first download the b&r update and make a backup, cause i havent a problem, a psible solution if you sync wiht gmail, checkit on a pc, if u have a older bakup just restore contacts or use facebook sync or cry cause i dunno if recurva works to recover that info
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Here is my problem or annoyance if you will. I added my contacts to my phone and added their email accounts and numbers. I synced Facebook to my contacts so it would merge my contacts with their Facebook pictures and such. Well now my contacts show their name twice. One being Facebook and the other being the phone number on my sim card. Is there any way to merge them together and have my contacts listed just one time in my contacts folder?
Did that make any sense?
If you go to Contacts>Menu>Display Options you can edit the options to show contacts from SIM card or not, have you tried that?
StefanB86 said:
If you go to Contacts>Menu>Display Options you can edit the options to show contacts from SIM card or not, have you tried that?
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Well the problem with that is that I can not edit the contacts with Facebook information. It will not let me add a phone number. This would be sweet if I could do that because then I would not need the contacts that I saved to the sim card.
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Well the problem with that is that I can not edit the contacts with Facebook information. It will not let me add a phone number. This would be sweet if I could do that because then I would not need the contacts that I saved to the sim card.
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Try copying your contacts from sim to phone. Then go to the options to only display phone contacts.
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Most likely you have more that one vcf file on external sd being restored .
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Thanks for the responses guys. I will try to copy the contacts to the phone and see if I can get a merge going.
Also it's better to have them all saved as Google contacts anyway so if you lose your sim or do a factory reset they'll all sync up again after you put in your gmail info on initial setup.
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Looks like importing from the sim card to the phone fixed my problem. This merged all of my phone numbers to my friends list from Facebook. Thanks!
Im having issues trying to clean up my contacts Ive got many doubles and I want to clean up my phone and SIM contacts its Ive tried before to delete them but they never seem to delete from my contacts.
EDIT: NVM fixed it
For those of us that might be having the same problem, would you mind enlightening us on how you fixed it?
Do it from a PC. Yes it is painful but it only has to be done once. I do not recommend using SIM contacts for a very simple reason. Many people today have email and phones plus IM etc datafilled with their contacts. Only phone numbers are supported on the SIM and even that has a limit of 1 number per contact. so if you have a contact with 4 phone numbers, that will be 4 contacts on your SIM and in your device when you import them.
I know this is the way it worked for GSM long ago and I don't think this has changed.
Best workaround is sync to Google. If you want a local copy after cleaning things up on a PC, export you contacts to your external SD card...
I cleared the data from contacts and contact storage from manage applications and then I synced my google contacts
There is app to delete duplicate contacts ..sorry I forgot the name...but its very effective...and also just like others stated always use google to sysnc contacts...this way when getting new phones...its easier and you wont have duplicates...
For the second time in two days im having issues with contacts.
My exchange contacts (hotmail) double up and loose there connections (facebook, linkedin etc) and the only way i can find to get them back to normal and restore the connections is to remove and add the account back in.
Has anyone seen this before?
where can i start for resolving this?
I know there's a setting that will alow you to show contacts from one source only hence hiding the other contacts duplicate but I can't remember where.
Merge them with Google....will that not get rid of duplicates.
that option is there in the contacts menu.
if your on MiUi it will just say Merge contacts......
There isn't duplicates in another account it's litteraly showing the exchange ones twice.
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I am having the same issue but just from a different source... The phone shows my Google contacts (which is what I want) and also shows my 'phone' contacts, because the idiot at Verizon make backup sync my contacts. So suddenly I have 70 something contacts that I no longer use. There doesn't seem to be a way to 'delete' the phone contacts and just display the Google contacts, although I have disabled the verizon apps..
Any thoughts?
The contacts I have are only in one place and only appear once to any other app. Occasionally contacts doubles them up. Disconnect and reconnect account works for me. But why does it keep happening?
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http://www.galaxys3forum.com/galaxys3-general-discussion/duplicate-calendar-entries-and-contacts-w-exchange-2010-activesync/
has a thread of users all with the same issue.