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When eclair was officially released to X10, I synchronised my contacts with the facebook application. The resulting contact images were of very poor quality. But the images due to timescape were of high quality, as always.
Is there a way to solve this problem?
And previously, I had synchronised my contacts with SonySync & gmail. After the update, it led to redundant phone numbers and email addresses.
Is there a way to sync contacts with Sonysync, gmail, facebook but still see just one phone number under a contact name?
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i have a different issue. my contacts images looks normal, but my timescape pictures are ugly.
A very good question worths a deep in investigation to get a balance resolution best fits to both applications, please post your two sets of resolution, saving our time working further the issue out, thanks.
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!!
Hello!
I know this issue has been here already but thought I'd bring it up once more.
I am in love with my andorid phone so much that I put ICS on it and it's awesome!
The thing that ruins the great experience [ as for many others ] are the low-res contact pictures from Google sync.
The thing that I want is this: Sync all my contacts with HQ pics with Google [ don't we all ].
The alternatives of whom I know is syncing facebook pictures with existing Google contacts. Well.. For some reason this doesn't work for me as I don't need ALL facebook contacts in my phone. I need only the Google contacts. And the pics synced to the phone from FB are still in low-res [ is this how it's supposed to be? ].
So, what I want is my google contacts with high quality pictures.
I tried merging facebook contacts with google contacts using Google Contact Sync application [ http://heartofangel.com/google-contact-sync/ ] and it did the work great. Only again, the low-res, pixelated pictures jump out.
I spent the last two and a half hours searching for a fix, I did not find any that would be automated. Manually setting pictures is not an option as I frequently flash ROM's.
If not Google, is there any alternative syncing service that could provide my contacts with High Quality pictures? I'm even willing to merge to another service.
Or any idea why Google doesn't just do the HQ pics?
Help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Just noticed that some 5 contacts have a descent quality picture. Checked many contacts and there is no difference in quality of their profile pics. What the hell?
Well you could individually take a photo with your phone and make it the contact pic or download a pic off Facebook and link it to the contact on the phone individually.
I understand this may take time, but I am not aware of any alternatives.
Edit: HTC links contact pics to Facebook automatically at a high quality
I have a HTC Sensation with Virtuous Inquisition 3.1.0b3 ROM.
Well, yes. It saves the HQ pictures but then I have ALL of the Facebook contacts and frankly I don't need all of them in my phone app..
Manually setting pictures would be a real pain because everytime I flash a different ROM or reflash this one, I would have to do all of that again.
Maybe any app or piece of software for Windows that could do this autmatically?
Like, for an example, sync android contacts to the computer, in that programm I just set all the data, including pictures, and sync those with the phone after every flash?
U could use a Sense ROM that links it... In Facebook sync options just click "Sync with Existing" and it only does the ones already in Ur contacts
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i also have been searching for this solution for a long time but yet no result... why is not Google aware of it????
Hey guys, i've been researching this problem as well, and came along this google plus post
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
Here you can see that they are actually addressing this situation right now, so hopefuly, it won't be for much longer!
Post of interest
'Punit Soni - This is work in progress guys. We are fixing it '
My phone book when i had my arc use to sync all the pics with fb but now on the xperia s it has synced a couple was wondering if there is a solution or any1 with the same problem. I have fb inside xperia turned on so it should work
thanks in advance
They'll all be in your google contacts already I guess, so merge them there and they'll update on your S as soon as gSync runs.
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They'll all be in your google contacts already I guess, so merge them there and they'll update on your S as soon as gSync runs.
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I can't do it. I have sync my contacts through my gmail into my xperia s and then I logged in facebook and checked the option sync my existing contacts. But nothing happened. What i do wrong ??
Go into contacts
Hit menu then filter . Make sure Facebook is ticked in the option
Failing this , I had a problem where my contacts came over and not the pictures .
What I had to do was uninstall the facebook updates . Turn off the Xperia facebook sync
Add the facebook app updates , log on and set it to sync all contacts
Waited for sync to finish then added xperia facebook sync
It then worked
I had the same problem! Facebook updates and everything but will not sync my friends' photo onto my phone! Had to use "facebook sync" from the store/play in the end
I have a relatively same problem.
My contacts aren't synced with FB. FB sync either way syncs all my FB contacts with phone number.
I'd like it to sync only the ones that are already in my phone. How can I do that.
I'm also having this issue, with my X10 it was just a case of going through each contact and 'joining' them with their Facebook profiles, although now I've moved over to the S I cant seem to figure it out, i have the odd couple of friends who have pictures as their contact images but these are either coming from Gmail or G+
the occasional Facebook picture will link up but not all of them like before
I had the same problem. Just go to the settings>accounts & sync settings and there in Manage accounts tab you should have facebook inside xperia and there you should have sync calendar, albums in agllery and contacs. Works fine on mine
Hi i cant seem to find this option in my XPS.. "facebook in xperia" as that of the arc..
mateusz243 said:
I had the same problem. Just go to the settings>accounts & sync settings and there in Manage accounts tab you should have facebook inside xperia and there you should have sync calendar, albums in agllery and contacs. Works fine on mine
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Ahh.. will try that. Didn't work first time. Maybe more luck next time
Although I tested mine and it works fine, I use Friendcaster pro for push notifications and contact pictures. The pictures are a higher quality and look really nice compared sometimes. I used to use it as my main Facebook app, but Facebook have really stepped up how good their app is now
Oh and by the way there is a free (ad supported) version as well, called simply Friendcaster
I've always had a problem with the image quality, but now it also downscales the images I set to a thumbnail format. Facebook images and manual set images get (I think) sync with gmail, and get replaced by a thumbnail version (same goes for facebook images, so i assume it's the gmail sync.
Any way I can fix this ? I still want to keep sync with gmail, and the above app "friendcaster" I might try, but it wont solve the problem for manual profile pictures I set.
I hate this, I've got a huge ass crystal clear screen, and only low quality and/or images with 100by100 pixels
i still cant get the phone book to sync contact pictures with facebook. i get three different contacts when facebook sync and facebook inside experia syncs. i get different info for each.
do we have to manually merge all the contact info?
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i still cant get the phone book to sync contact pictures with facebook. i get three different contacts when facebook sync and facebook inside experia syncs. i get different info for each.
do we have to manually merge all the contact info?
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Same here.
The only thing Facebook in Xperia synced for me was my best friends relationship status lol.
Urgh! I do not know why. But this still does not work for me, and its a bit frustrating!
Anyone have any solutions on the new ICS for this issue>
This is due to FB and Google not agreeing on the way contact settings are stored. Doesn't work on ANY ICS device without some kind of hack.
Whats the flag which defines the sync?
Hi, my ques is that what criteria or field is it that is necessary for a successful sync?
Like, i have 2 phone contacts with matching names as on facebook, and same email as used in their fb a/c (both hv no nmbrs posted on fb).
But one contact sync beautifully with bday, photos etc, but the other has no info pulled!
So what criteria sets d sync???
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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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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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