face tag problem - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

Hi, I have this graet device, but I noticed that it has some little problem of youth.
One of this, that one because I write, is That I can't anymore tag my photos in gallery.
This new function is great fom me, and I tagged all my old photos the first day that I bought the device. All was ok.
Some days ago I have some trouble with the address book so i put the phone i Aero, delete all my contacs and with My Backup Pro I re-install all my contacts, agenda and call list. All works .
But when I tried to sync the device with google (I have all the contacts on my google account) started the problems.
All my tag was lost and and I am unable to add even one more!
I go in gallery, I see the yellow square on the face, I click on it, the phone sends me in contacts, I choose the right contact ... but the phone returns to the gallery without having done anything !!
Now to solve I flash my phone with ALE6 ITV firmware and all goes well.
I re-tag all my photo but after two days I have another problem with the contacts and I redid the same procedure as before with My backup pro last version .
My contact was well but for the second time I loose my tags and I can't tag my photos anymore !!!
I realized that the problem is related with the synchronization of contacts on google, but can not find the solution.
Can anyone help me, without having to erase everything?

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I am using the calender that came on my Samsung Galazy S 2. It worked fine for a few days. I transfered my paper diary onto the phone diary and syncd it with my google account and my facebook. First I had trouble with the facebook sync as, even though I had 'hide delined events' ticked it would not do so. This meant I just unchecked facebook in the 'Calenders' section and had nothing showing from facebook at all as my whole diary was spammed up with things I didn;t want in there I was not going to and could not get rid off. This fustrated me, but I put in things I wanted to go to maually and I thought it would be fine.
The real trouble started randomly one night when I went to look at my calender and everything had gone! I mean every event in the whole calender. I went online and checked and it was all on the online google calender. I re syncd my phone with google and it seemed to be ok, however it hadn't added all the events, some I had in 2012, such as holiday dates, had not been addded despite them being on google fine. So I re syncd to see if this would add the missing dates, however it just removed every event again!
I system restored the phone and tried starting again from scratch. We re syncd the phone and it did the whole thing over again. Also when we go into 'Settings' 'Calenders' it only shows 'my calender' and no google at all now.
What is going on! I am getting really fustrated as one of the main things I wanted to use my phone for was the calender fuction with the handy screen widgets. I have lost appointments that people have booked because of this (thankfully I keep a paper diary still out of fear of 'not being able to trust technology! haha :S)
Please any help would be greatly appreiciated as it's fustrating me to the point of taking the phone back to the shop and everything else with it is fine. I did ask in the shop for another question relating to the in phone fuctions and they were no help so I can't just go and ask them
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Program and version you use to access Google Calendar (e.g. Internet Explorer 7 or Outlook 2003): stock calender on galaxy s2. Have tried also jorte calender with the same problems.
Any Sync software you're using or have used (e.g. Google Calendar Sync): google calender sync, ical(but hadnt transfer it onto the phone)
If you're using the non-Apps version of Google Calendar (accessing from google.com/calendar/render) or you're on Google Apps: using the google online where all my diary dates have been stored.
If you have any Labs (and which ones) or Offline enabled: none
sorry for any bad grammer, spelling, written in an angry hurry!
Did you have any luck getting to the bottom of this?
My S2 has seemingly stopped syncing with Google calendar too. God knows why, I've installed various apps and updated the software via Kies recently....

[Q] Restore Facebook Contact Links

hey all, by far not a noob when it comes to flashing and roms
but this restoring process is kicking my ass pretty bad, really it's just the contacts part... almost all of my contacts have FB's so I link them with my address book. restoring the contacts was no prob but is there any way to restore the FB links when flipping between roms?
I run into this same problem with certain contacts every time I flash a rom, and I dont believe there is a way to have the link of the two contacts saved. Is your probem with every contact or just some?
The links that stay for me are the ones that the facebook contact has a matching phone number attached to the profile. Maybe try to check if the phone numbers match.
You're right, those contacts with the same number on FB get linked automatically. But they are only 2 out of 300 who published their number on FB.
Well before I flashed the new rom, I exported the contacts to .vcf-data to my SD. I opened the exported .vcf with all my contacts info in it with a texteditor and saw, that the FB link also gets exported:
Code:
...
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Mustermann;Max;;;
FN:Max Mustermann
TEL;CELL;PREF:+436641234567
NOTE:<HTCData><Facebook>id:123456789/friendof:1234567890</Facebook></HTCData>
END:VCARD
...
So I thought OK, no prob, they will get gestored when I import it again. Nope! There were absolutely no links (only the 2, who have same number on FB).
But I was curious and exported the contacts (with no FB links displayed) again and saw that the FB-Tag was still there.
So the links ARE in the contacts database, but the Contacts App does not really recognize it.
Today I saw, that some of my contacts got automatically linked again. Wondering, I tried to find points in common and found out, that they all have updated their status recently. So my suppose is, that if the system-app "Facebook for HTC Sense" get a new status-feed from a friend, it checks if the friend is linked with one of your contacts on the phone (it is due the tag) and puts the status to this contact. Due to this procedure, the FB link gets "refreshed" and shows up again.
But thats not really a solution - it would last years until all my contacts would get refreshed again.
THE solution would be a little batch, refreshing the existing FB links of all contacts.

Duplicate Contacts & Unable to Delete them!

Hey!
My friend just bought a Samsung Galaxy S2, and soon he faced a weird problem; All contacts had 3 duplicates(four numbers total/contact)!
I tried to batch delete them with Samsung's contacts app, but for some reason, they weren't gone! I also tried Go Contacts, but the problem still existed.
The phone is completely stock.
Any help appreciated!
I had a similar problem. I backed everything up/synced to Google contacts. Then I removed the duplicates in Google (on a PC), then synced the contacts back to the phone.
You can merge contacts in Google which should take care of many of the duplicates, but for some reason it isn't perfect & there will be some (there might be a lot) you'll have to delete manually.
I don't see any reason why you can't do this with a phone running stock.
Thanks. I will tell him. I also wondered how can this problem exist on a completely stock phone.
you wont have duplicates in google not i would think anyway .. on ur ph u would prolly be seeing Ph contacts sim contacts and google contacts.. just delete ph and sim contacts, best to stick with google ones as each time u buy new ph first thing u can do is log into ur google account and have them back in minutes..
pretty sure there is a checkbox on which one u want to use , make sure all 3 are not checked maybe..
pretty sure if you go into one of the menus there is an option of which contacts to display, i usually pick sim only and that fixes it

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My name is Matt. I've bought my S3 GT-i9300 for a few week and just a few days ago I noticed that the contact picture thumbnails no longer exists (not even the default icons). To see what I mean, please the attached image screenshot.
I've synced the facebook pictures to the contacts and has worked perfectly; I can still see the display picture that I've synced if I click onto a specific contact. But because I don't have that thumbnail, I cannot access the quick contact pop up.
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I cannot recall messing with any settings or installing anything besides installing facebook messenger and skype; both of which I've uninstalled with no solution to my problem. Other attempts include:
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- changed the "contacts viewed" from all to phone only to sim only, etc. but with no effect
- deleted all my sim contacts
- restarted the device
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My Android version is 4.1.2. I bought my phone outright.
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