On Android, photos from all my Facebook friends are auto-imported to phone address book. Does WP8 do anything like this, or will I have to add photos for all my friends?
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BaronInkjet said:
On Android, photos from all my Facebook friends are auto-imported to phone address book. Does WP8 do anything like this, or will I have to add photos for all my friends?
Thanks!!!
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It has more complete FB integration than any other OS including the picture sync you so desire.
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Hi all out there,
I've got a question which I think I know the answer to, but hoping there is a way round it.
The contacts I have on my phone are linked to facebook profiles which show the picture. This picture does not seem to sync to Google so when I view the contacts on Google, they have no image.
Back in the days of Windows Mobile and Touch Flo, the pictures from facebook used to actually sync with the contacts and transfer.
Anyone got any ideas how to achieve this?
Nobody any idea's on this one? Is anyone who is syncing their contacts and also linking them to facebook having the contact pictures synced back to Google?
Sorry, I just use Google Contacts as middle ware between my Mac running Spanning Sync and my Hero.
If its any help, the contact pics on the Hero from FaceBook don't make it through to my Mac.
Would be nice.
No, this is not gonna happen as yet. The Hero simply seems to link a reference number with the contact so that it knows what Facebook profile goes with what contact.
It's this that gets saved in Googlemail's contact list. No images are transferred as yet.
Maybe in a future update, but for now a definite no i'm afraid.
stripealipe said:
No, this is not gonna happen as yet. The Hero simply seems to link a reference number with the contact so that it knows what Facebook profile goes with what contact.
It's this that gets saved in Googlemail's contact list. No images are transferred as yet.
Maybe in a future update, but for now a definite no i'm afraid.
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Cool, thanks for the reply, its what I thought, but its a shame
Cheers guys
I have a T-Mobile G2 Touch that is rooted and have had the same problem. Am I right in saying that the link between each contact in your phonebook and the facebook profile is saved to your google contacts but not the picture. I ask this as I have just wiped my phone and synced my contacts and no facebook links are showing, and as I have 80+ contacts this is going to be quite annoying each time I want to wipe my phone.
In other news I have just discovered an app which syncs the facebook profile picture to your google contacts. However the contact has to have the same name as on the facebook profile which is a bit formal for me.
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2008/10/synchronizing-google-and-facebook.html
EDIT: Somehow my phone has managed to sync all my contacts with there correct facebook link and the pictures from the facebook profiles are showing as well.
On that note, I was just going to share this...
http://heartofangel.com/google-contact-sync-1-0/
Just to let you know, just got to grips with this program, its great, only for PC users though it seems...
Lets you link your google contacts with facebook (seems to be either stored on google or facebook, which is good)
Lets you upload the current photo on facebook to the google contacts and stores it
Works brilliant, well chuffed! And the facebook link transfers to the hero so it gets the up to date details too
Hey guys,I am thinking of taking a leap of faith and I'm going to flash CM7 on my phone,but I have a minor issue here.
I use to connect my contacts to Facebook to get their photos when I call them etc.On TouchWiz roms I use the SNS Facebook account to do it and,on my previous HTC devices,I used to use Facebook for HTC Sense.Both do the job well and the photos that appear on my phone's contacts are ok resolution-wise.However,when I try to do the same thing with the Facebook app,resulting photos are low res and terribly pixelated.I assume that I don't have any alternatives for CM,so I'm asking you,can I do anything about it?Not that my decision is going to be based on this that much,but it would be nice to have everything the way I want it.
I was just curious if there's a way to get photos of my contacts from Facebook/twitter etc. Mostly just Facebook. I know about the "sync" feature but most of my friends don't put their phone numbers on their fb, so it won't work and I also don't name them like they are on their Facebook. I don't mind having to do it manually, but is there any way to do it at all?
xriderx66 said:
I was just curious if there's a way to get photos of my contacts from Facebook/twitter etc. Mostly just Facebook. I know about the "sync" feature but most of my friends don't put their phone numbers on their fb, so it won't work and I also don't name them like they are on their Facebook. I don't mind having to do it manually, but is there any way to do it at all?
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just sync it and fix it manually since you said you dont mind.
IE, your friend Johnson Lee is on your phone contact, but on fb he goes by the name of "johnny G", you can just edit your Johnson Lee and click on "join" so these 2 will merge together. Now you will have Johnson Lee on your phone contact but with his fb picture and his other contact info, like email, if his phone # isn't listed..
hope that helps !!
ps: sorry about my ugly made up name
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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tomazantonio said:
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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I had my Lumia 920 for about a week now, and have yet to figure out a way to send pictures through facebook. you guys have any luck?
Every time I want to attach a picture through facebook messaging, it doesn't allow me to select pictures
FanGLeWoW said:
I had my Lumia 920 for about a week now, and have yet to figure out a way to send pictures through facebook. you guys have any luck?
Every time I want to attach a picture through facebook messaging, it doesn't allow me to select pictures
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this is what i usually do to upload pix onto facebook
1. click on photo tile
2. click albums
3. click the pix that you want to share
4. click on the 3 dots on the bottom right
5. click share...
6. click facebook
hope this helps...
versatilias said:
this is what i usually do to upload pix onto facebook
1. click on photo tile
2. click albums
3. click the pix that you want to share
4. click on the 3 dots on the bottom right
5. click share...
6. click facebook
hope this helps...
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eh.. im talking about sending picture through Facebook messenger, not posting picture onto your Facebook wall. Android has a dedicated fb messenger app that could send and receive files. is there a way of doing that in WP8?
FanGLeWoW said:
eh.. im talking about sending picture through Facebook messenger, not posting picture onto your Facebook wall. Android has a dedicated fb messenger app that could send and receive files. is there a way of doing that in WP8?
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Greetings!
Have the same question/problem. Why I can not send pictures through Facebook "Messenger". When I switch to MSN Messenger, there is the possibility to send pictures.
Anyone?
Thanks!
K.
roostevaba said:
Greetings!
Have the same question/problem. Why I can not send pictures through Facebook "Messenger". When I switch to MSN Messenger, there is the possibility to send pictures.
Anyone?
Thanks!
K.
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Facebook is not fully supported since this phone is a Microsoft product. Have you noticed how poor all the facebook apps are for this phone and how so many functions are missing from them?