Hey guys,
I just upgraded from my S2 to an international S3 running on stock ICS 4.0.4 and I seem to have a problem that I can't quite fix.
My contacts app is linked to my gmail and syncs some not all of the contacts with facebook. All in all i don't really have a lot of contacts on the phone. However, most of the time when i open the contact app, there seems to be a 3-5 second lag before that app actually loads, and also a 1-2 second lag whenever i try to scroll with the letters on the right side.
Anyone else having this issue? Is there a way to fix this lag? It's not a deal breaker but it is annoying to have to wait every time i need to check out a contact.
Thanks for the help guys!!
Rsoub said:
Hey guys,
I just upgraded from my S2 to an international S3 running on stock ICS 4.0.4 and I seem to have a problem that I can't quite fix.
My contacts app is linked to my gmail and syncs some not all of the contacts with facebook. All in all i don't really have a lot of contacts on the phone. However, most of the time when i open the contact app, there seems to be a 3-5 second lag before that app actually loads, and also a 1-2 second lag whenever i try to scroll with the letters on the right side.
Anyone else having this issue? Is there a way to fix this lag? It's not a deal breaker but it is annoying to have to wait every time i need to check out a contact.
Thanks for the help guys!!
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It does it when you have facebook, exchange, google account, samsung account linked to the contacts app. Unlink and try in the app
when I using stock rom 4.0.4, my SGS3 is laggy when I open contact too (my total contact is about 750 contact). When I using custom firmware, that "lag problem" is dissapear..
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i have same problem although i have around 70 contacts and when i press contacts it has lag of about 3 to 4 seconds before opening ! any help
I removed most linked accounts from the contact app, and there seems to be an improvement in how fast the app opens.
It's now linked to google (because all my contacts are on gmail), skype and whatsapp. There's still however a bit of lag when trying to scroll using the letters on the right hand side.
Still hoping theres a fix coming soon for this.
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So I recently upgraded to the SGS 2 from an Infuse...and when I set up Facebook sync on that phone I was able to select whether I wanted to add ALL facebook friends, or just the ones that were already in my contacts... With the SGS 2 I wasn't given that option, so now I have like 300 extra people in my Contacts list that I will never call, and a good number of them don't even have phone numbers... So is there a way to filter which friends are synced?
Same problem here....
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bikeracer4487 said:
So I recently upgraded to the SGS 2 from an Infuse...and when I set up Facebook sync on that phone I was able to select whether I wanted to add ALL facebook friends, or just the ones that were already in my contacts... With the SGS 2 I wasn't given that option, so now I have like 300 extra people in my Contacts list that I will never call, and a good number of them don't even have phone numbers... So is there a way to filter which friends are synced?
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Go to contacts... then menu button...then more button..then select display options
in the pop screen which comes up...tick the box showing ..only contacts with phone numbers...
click done...
now if you go back to contact listings..it will only show contact with phone numbers...including...facebook/gmail/yahoo etc sync ones
edit : Ok not exactly what you wanted, but i dont see anyother way
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Go to contacts... then menu button...then more button..
in the pop screen which comes up...tick the box showing ..only contacts with phone numbers...
click done...
now if you go back to contact listings..it will only show contact with phone numbers...including...facebook/gmail/yahoo etc sync ones
edit : Ok not exactly what you wanted, but i dont see anyother way
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Thanks, that's good to know. Problem is, that hides any "real" contacts that don't have phone numbers and shows ANY Facebook friend, so long as they have a number.
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Go to contacts... then menu button...then more button..
in the pop screen which comes up...tick the box showing ..only contacts with phone numbers...
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Thanks Woodstock...that's good enough for me at the moment
newly added contacts not able sync back to google......
anyone know why?
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Go to Contacts--> Press capacitive button for more(the one on the left ) click more
then click "Display Options"---> Select Contacts to display and uncheck the ones you don't want to show up
i am facing this issue for past one month. when ever i try to sync my facebook contacts using social hub it says sync is experiencing problem. try again shortly. The thing is this problem occurs only one of my facebook account. My other account is syncing properly. I tried every known setting but still no success. i can find any option in facebook that enables or disable this thing. Any help please
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i am facing this issue for past one month. when ever i try to sync my facebook contacts using social hub it says sync is experiencing problem. try again shortly. The thing is this problem occurs only one of my facebook account. My other account is syncing properly. I tried every known setting but still no success. i can find any option in facebook that enables or disable this thing. Any help please
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I am experiencing the exact same problem. I synced all my accounts yesterday and it was working great for about 3 hours and then it tells me "sync is experiencing problems right now" What is happening? Is there a fix for this?
Hi Guys,
Got myself a SIII. Rooted it and added superSU according to Chains tutorial..
I have some problems with facebook, and was wondering whether anyone can help..
Firstly, after linking the accounts. Some of the photos appear as blank. Anyone have a clue? Those that have photos, are really blur.
Also, outside app such as Whatsapp are not picking up those contact photos.
I'm moving from an HTC so i am amazed that samsung has this problem. Is there a solution such as "Facebook for HTC Sense".
Am i just doing it wrong? many thanks for any help
Hi.
Your case is the same as mine. I came from the HTC Desire HD, which all the contacts were always synchronized with Facebook, no problems with photos and etc.
I posted the same questions here a few weeks ago, and from what I got, the ICS has some compatibility issues with Facebook, that's why it sync just a few contacts and also the quality is terrible.
The solution that people told me, was to use 3rd party softwares to make this sync. There is quite a few on market that does that. Just look for "facebook photo sync".
The solution I adopted, was to set the photos of facebook for my contacts manually, and I just realized how to do that now. Since I don't have many contacts, I entered quickly on their facebook profile, went to the photo I wanted and selected the option "set as contact photo".
To enter on their contact, I was doing directly by my contact phone list (because the facebook was linked correctly... just the photo that wasn't appearing).
The quality with that also gets better and when I enter on What's App now, is everything fine.
Hope it helps!
Where'd you get that baby?
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That helped me tremendously. I have a gotta contacts though. Better get to clicking
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Here are two softwares that does that:
Haxsync :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5tb3RzLmhheHN5bmMiXQ..
FriendCaster : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.senab.blueNotifyFree
Here is the topic I made with some other answers:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1682103
Those two apps didnt work really well for me. The app that worked best for me was an app called "Contact Picture Sync". Did everythin i wanted.
Thanks for all the help guys
I'm running on CF-Root + Siyah 1.2.6 kernel + stock ROM (+ modified NFC_screen off). ROM is XXLE8.
I've been using the stock email since the begining (with only root & stock rom) with 3 Exchange accounts synced.
Email app is taking forever to launch. Navigation in email app is laggy.
Whenever I want to move emails to subfolders, it takes ages to get the whole list.
I'm still running a Samsung Captivate Glide (Rogers ROM, root, OC @1.3GHz) with Android 2.3.5 : email stock app synced with these 3 exhange email accounts: it is clearly faster, no latency at all.
Even when it comes to load the same subfolders to move emails ...
Right now, it is really the worse "email user experience" I had.
Thought ICS would do better than that. :-(
Anybody else experiencing this ?
Is there any tweaks to make this app much, much faster ...
Is there a way to replace this "Samsung stock email app" (I guess) with the standard ICS one (only if it is faster) ?
Thanks
i have noticed none of the problems you experied with the email app. though i am only using it with one account synced. The app launches instandly and never lags or something similar, try removing 2 of your accounts and see if the problem is still there. its the only thing i can think of now, if the problem persists maybe another app you installed interferes with the email app and causes problems or...?
drtakhs said:
i have noticed none of the problems you experied with the email app. though i am only using it with one account synced. The app launches instandly and never lags or something similar, try removing 2 of your accounts and see if the problem is still there. its the only thing i can think of now, if the problem persists maybe another app you installed interferes with the email app and causes problems or...?
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I removed one account ...same. Slow as "usual".
I remoed 2 accounts (only one left) ... same.
I wiped the whole device. Reset to factory defaults.
Loaded one Exchange account: email app was definitely faster.
Added a second one (Exchange) ... started to get slow ... Not as slow as it was, but slower.
Found a thread mentionning a way to replace Samsung stock email app with ICS email app. Going to try that...
Same very annoying problem here.
Any chance to get the stock nexus email apk here?
Hey guys well i am having problem with my galaxy s3 after the 2nd update.
The problem is that whenever i receive a call the cell rings but the screen remains black .. So i touch the unlock bottom unlock the screen ...... And after the screen gets unlocked it shows a messgae
UNFORTUNATELY THE PROCESS COM.ANDROID.PHONE HAS STOPPED..
I MEAN WTF ??
and the call cuts by itself and it also doesnt shows in the call log to cheak whoz call was that ...
I factory reseted the device twice ..... One time i didnt installed anything on the device ... To cheak wheather it is a app who is responsible for this problem but nothing still it was showing that problem
please help !!!!!!!!!
And does any1 have the same issue ?????
i found some other guys have the same issue ...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=34929
cheak it out [email protected]!!
What firmware ???
jje
JJEgan said:
What firmware ???
jje
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you mean my android version well ofcourse it is 4.0.4
and if you are asking for rom or smething or some1 is going to ask it later ... i have not installed any rom on it .. its the custom one ..
Firmware version not Android version .
jje
Hi I had the same problem, the fix for me was to stop syncing contacts with Facebook or any other 3 party app, I only sync my contacts with Gmail and Exhange servers. Once all the links with Facebook and some other 3 party app I had was gone from my contacts list all was well.
Hope it helps you, cause a phone without a phone is no phone
slinkyinc72 said:
Hi I had the same problem, the fix for me was to stop syncing contacts with Facebook or any other 3 party app, I only sync my contacts with Gmail and Exhange servers. Once all the links with Facebook and some other 3 party app I had was gone from my contacts list all was well.
Hope it helps you, cause a phone without a phone is no phone
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well thanks man but still i have the same problem ......... and does your ui craches ofter ...
because after the update my ui crashes sometimes ... and calling problem is there always ....
man i regret buying galaxy s3 i should have waited for iphone 5 ...
kevinpunk said:
well thanks man but still i have the same problem ......... and does your ui craches ofter ...
because after the update my ui crashes sometimes ... and calling problem is there always ....
man i regret buying galaxy s3 i should have waited for iphone 5 ...
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No my UI dosent crash, so maybe its another problem you got. My Firmware version is IMM76D.I9300XXBLFB. I have done the update no trouble there for me.
But i had to stop syncing contacts with everything else then google contacts I had to manual go in my contacts list and de-link everything so all my contacts was only on google account. No cross-linkling in any of my contacts, and no PhotoSynk from Facebook of any sort.
I couldent wait for the Iphone 5, had a 4. Let´s hope it will work out for us Appel defecters
Mine keeps freezing up while surfing the net and the window says "unfortunately the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped working" then I hit the ok button and then it goes back to normal. But the annoying freeze-ups keep happening on a frequent basis. And, I just took one back for doing the same thing!:silly:
same issue here
it happens when my wife calls me, when i call my wife. i guess the reason might be because i linked her to facebook, linkedIN and 2 google accounts.
happened only since todays android/samsung firmware update.
have now unlinked her facebook and linkedIN and will see if that helps
I had this problem too and my solution was to take off all syncs from contacts and more importantly: remove birthdays from contacts!
Weird bug indeed.
Same here. The process crashes when recieving a call from a friend. Tried removing some contact info. Just got to wait and see I guess.
I got the same problem when i updated Facebook contact sync app, it now sync pictures in 720x720, and that makes this happend.
Change facebook contactpics to smaller then 720x720 and problem is gone.
I've tried a whole bunch of things and think I've narrowed it down on my S3. Note, in my case, I used TitaniumBackup to move over my apps/data from my old phone to my new, so if you haven't done that, then the info below will not be relevant to you.
First, I tried de-activating sync (FB and Google) and then actually removed the accounts. No difference.
I also wiped Davlik (No ROM + Root is what I have). No difference.
Cleared settings for the Phone. No difference.
What I realized is that I did a Titanium Backup on my old phone (HTC Evo 4G w/ CM7.2) and copied it over to my new phone. It's this restore that's hosing things. There must be a library that's copied over as part of the process that's hosing things.
I have reinstalled the app and didn't select the sync birthdays option this time.
Already received an incoming call from a facebook friend and phone didn't crashed.
Oh man, tha'ts a BIG problem! Many people with this annoying problem. I had this issue, and now I disabled status and birthday sync and changed the size of the pics to 520x520... fingers crossed!
I just updated my HTC One to 4.3 today, things seem to work fine except that when I get a new text message, the contact picture for that user or sometimes all users of current texts disappears for a while than magically comes back. If I go into contacts, the person's picture is always there. Also, it is not consistent, sometimes it happens and sometimes not. Anyone else experience this after the update/any solutions? I did notice that during the update it said updatinig contact database.
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I just updated my HTC One to 4.3 today, things seem to work fine except that when I get a new text message, the contact picture for that user or sometimes all users of current texts disappears for a while than magically comes back. If I go into contacts, the person's picture is always there. Also, it is not consistent, sometimes it happens and sometimes not. Anyone else experience this after the update/any solutions? I did notice that during the update it said updatinig contact database.
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Same is happening to me. It's not really a problem for me, I just close the app from the recent apps list and open it again and it's back to normal. Annoying but I can deal.
I'm having this same issue and it seems it's affecting all HTC One's running 4.3, not just T-Mobile. Any thoughts as to possible causes of this problem? I hope HTC becomes aware of it so they can fix it.
This is weird. It's happening to my friend too. I don't have this problem though. I told my friend to clear data on s few apps like contacts, people, dialer, phone and messages. She said it was good for a day but today is back to the same problem. I wonder why some people have this problem and some don't.
Are you guys having problems with all contacts or just some? Maybe it's happening to the contacts that aren't backed up with google?
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coupetastic-droid said:
This is weird. It's happening to my friend too. I don't have this problem though. I told my friend to clear data on s few apps like contacts, people, dialer, phone and messages. She said it was good for a day but today is back to the same problem. I wonder why some people have this problem and some don't.
Are you guys having problems with all contacts or just some? Maybe it's happening to the contacts that aren't backed up with google?
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It's happening randomly on pretty much all contacts (and all my contacts are Google contacts). The only unique thing I have is that my contact photos are synced to my phone using HaxSync. For those of you also with this issue, do you use HaxSync?
I can't figure out what could be the cause of the issue. I contacted HTC and they just told me to clear the cache.
Others have been experiencing the problem here as well: http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/319268-sms-contact-picture-4-3-a.html
Some even performed a factory reset and the issue was still present so clearing the cache wouldn't be a fix.
For me, it does not matter if the picture is from my gallery (google pic) or sync'd to Facebook. It gives the same result. I have tried turning off Facebook sync but it does not make a difference. Given a little time, the picture always returns or I can go into open apps and "close messaging" and when I reopen all pictures are there.
After doing some research, I went into recovery mode and cleared system cache after a couple places suggested this after an update. Unfortunately, this made no difference. I was going to try a factory reset and let all my contacts resync, etc but don't want to do all that work if it is not a sure solution. This all worked just fine for me prior to the update. Hopefully, this will get the attention of HTC. Also, I have read in the last couple days that HTC is preparing another update that is hitting other countries first to move all HTC One's to Sense 5.5. It looks like as big a file as this past update so maybe a fix may be there?
I have it too. HTC screwed up here. They'll have to address this in a next update. Lets all email HTC and let them know
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thevuman said:
I have it too. HTC screwed up here. They'll have to address this in a next update. Lets all email HTC and let them know
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Hopefully they send us an update just as fast as they did with the HDR camera mode screw up, they latterly fixed it the next day.
Count me in, same here, even tried wiping everything starting from scratch and not restoring anything
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OK, so I've been Tweeting with @TmobileHelp and I advised that the contact pictures were from sync sources, they say that the pictures we have associated with the contact should be on the devices and this problem should go away. Though it makes sense, at the same time it doesn't make any sense to me.
If we have contact sync's and the phone lets you replicate that kind of data from whats stored on other servers, why should I have a local copy of the pics for it to work?... can anyone help me confirm the local pics thing?
Thanks!
megabiteg said:
OK, so I've been Tweeting with @TmobileHelp and I advised that the contact pictures were from sync sources, they say that the pictures we have associated with the contact should be on the devices and this problem should go away. Though it makes sense, at the same time it doesn't make any sense to me.
If we have contact sync's and the phone lets you replicate that kind of data from whats stored on other servers, why should I have a local copy of the pics for it to work?... can anyone help me confirm the local pics thing?
Thanks!
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What do you use to sync your pictures? I use HaxSync. Not sure if everyone having issues is also using that or not. But either way, syncing photos is much more convenient than having to store individual photos for everyone on the device and it worked fine prior to the update so we shouldn't have to lose that ability. What's odd is how the photos are sometimes there and sometimes not. Maybe it has something to do with the linked accounts on those contacts? All of my contacts with photos have a Google contact and a HaxSync account linked together.
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What do you use to sync your pictures? I use HaxSync. Not sure if everyone having issues is also using that or not. But either way, syncing photos is much more convenient than having to store individual photos for everyone on the device and it worked fine prior to the update so we shouldn't have to lose that ability. What's odd is how the photos are sometimes there and sometimes not. Maybe it has something to do with the linked accounts on those contacts? All of my contacts with photos have a Google contact and a HaxSync account linked together.
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Do you use the HaxSync Jelly Bean Workaround ??? I haven't tried that software, it says that its for 4.1, doesn't mention anything for 4.3.
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Do you use the HaxSync Jelly Bean Workaround ??? I haven't tried that software, it says that its for 4.1, doesn't mention anything for 4.3.
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That's only for 4.1. 4.2 and above don't need it. I just tweaked something and my contacts photos seem to working so far. Not sure if it'll last but some of you may want to try it out.
In my contacts app, click up top left in the "Phonebook" dropdown. Unselect HaxSync and just leave Google checked. All of my contacts that are already linked are still showing their photos, and the issue in the messaging apps seems to be fixed (at least for the past 25 minutes).
Let me know if this helps anyone else.
My hypothesis is that those of us having issues with the blank contact photos in the messaging app have multiple items checked in the Phonebook dropdown.
EDIT: Nevermind.... the issue is back. I can't figure it out. It's gotta be a bug that needs to be patched.
Megabiteg: I have a few contacts that do not use Facebook so their pictures I take from things in my photo gallery. I have replaced them multiple times and it makes no difference. I think that was just the quick and easy "answer" from Tmo support.
Jpzsports: I tried your idea and only have Google checked in contacts app and I still have the issue. I am anxious to hear if this continues to work for you!
I have even gone so far to look at other apps that have permission to look at/modify contact information and disabling them or have them not interface with contacts and it has no effect.
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Megabiteg: I have a few contacts that do not use Facebook so their pictures I take from things in my photo gallery. I have replaced them multiple times and it makes no difference. I think that was just the quick and easy "answer" from Tmo support.
Jpzsports: I tried your idea and only have Google checked in contacts app and I still have the issue. I am anxious to hear if this continues to work for you!
I have even gone so far to look at other apps that have permission to look at/modify contact information and disabling them or have them not interface with contacts and it has no effect.
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That's interesting to hear that the issue still occurs even with photos from the gallery. That removes the idea that it's purely a synced photos problem.
And sadly my idea failed to work so it looks like this is definitely a bug that needs to be patched.
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That's only for 4.1. 4.2 and above don't need it. I just tweaked something and my contacts photos seem to working so far. Not sure if it'll last but some of you may want to try it out.
In my contacts app, click up top left in the "Phonebook" dropdown. Unselect HaxSync and just leave Google checked. All of my contacts that are already linked are still showing their photos, and the issue in the messaging apps seems to be fixed (at least for the past 25 minutes).
Let me know if this helps anyone else.
My hypothesis is that those of us having issues with the blank contact photos in the messaging app have multiple items checked in the Phonebook dropdown.
EDIT: Nevermind.... the issue is back. I can't figure it out. It's gotta be a bug that needs to be patched.
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Megabiteg: I have a few contacts that do not use Facebook so their pictures I take from things in my photo gallery. I have replaced them multiple times and it makes no difference. I think that was just the quick and easy "answer" from Tmo support.
Jpzsports: I tried your idea and only have Google checked in contacts app and I still have the issue. I am anxious to hear if this continues to work for you!
I have even gone so far to look at other apps that have permission to look at/modify contact information and disabling them or have them not interface with contacts and it has no effect.
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That's interesting to hear that the issue still occurs even with photos from the gallery. That removes the idea that it's purely a synced photos problem.
And sadly my idea failed to work so it looks like this is definitely a bug that needs to be patched.
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Thanks a lot for the follow up. I agree, I know that Tmo-support was pulling a fast one, initially they actually suggested me to pull the battery of the phone out and replace... (lol)
I think that this issue is connected to a contacts database corruption, I've always notice the the contact phone sync (regardless of the source) its kind of flaky, it must of gotten worse while upgrading. Funny because I chose to delete all the txt msg I had prior to upgrading (because I read this thread before hand) hoping this would minimize my chance of getting the issue but no.... it didn't work.
I'm going to keep on trying to figure out what else can I do to make this better until Tmo and HTC decides to fix it.
I hope that these posts don't seem unnecessary but I want to post what I have tried so others don't feel the need. I was playing with the contacts app and suddenly under phonebooks available (upper left corner pulldown) the sim card showed up, where it had not prior and the three contacts listed where the 3 contacts Tmo uses for you to check minutes, balance, whatever ( I never use these) I know I did not put anything to the sim so I deleted these and unchecked sim....no difference. I now have gone back and added sim to phonebooks (tho empty) to see if any difference.
Megabiteg: I agree with you saying about a change in the contacts database and I specifically remember during the update a message saying something to the effect of "updating/reformating contacts database".
Just another text, no change, it appears it does not matter what phonebooks are/are not used; the problem still exists. I am reluctantly coming to the conclusion that this is something HTC will have to remedy.
Did I just post that I would try not to post as much? LOL My experience got me to wonder if maybe the system was going out and checking the sim phonebook first (I would guess most people do not use it) and not finding an image and then after some lag going to contacts? So: I shut the phone down, took out the sim, powered up and went into contacts app and sms app (everything there), powered down and replaced the sim and rebooted.
Well, absolutely no difference. I am all out of ideas other than waiting for a patch...damn.
Is it just me or does the missing photo seem to affect the most recent person you text? (top of the messaging app)
I have a theory that it is related to the Link Contact service. It doesnt seem to effect contacts who have photos on every linked account.