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I have my FB contacts sync to my phone, and whenever I get a call, my caller id shows a blurry image of that contact. Is there a fix to this problem? thx
And FYI im running Launcher Pro with temp root.
I believe that is normal. Correct me if I am wrong, but the images that show up at first are low res. As it goes through the sync process, they look better. I had the same issue but after a few hours they looked normal.
i have had this problem for months now, so not a recent issue
facebook syncs low quality image, but google syncs EVEN LOWER quality.
when you sync your contacts to google, you may have a picture set that you took on your phone in its glorious 8mp quality, but once it syncs TO googles server then comes back to the phone, it's resized to like 96x96 because googles too lazy to fix something that we've been complaining about since 2009. therefore, if you use your own images for contacts, they'll always look like crap UNLESS you don't sync to google. it's a serious problem.
facebook, on the other hand, just syncs lower quality images to begin with.
I have my facebook contacts synced but whenever I get a call all I get is the green android robot for some reason. I dont get the facebook photo. I've tried unsyncing them and resyncing them and still doesnt work.
you're running a captivate? that might be why..facebook syncing doesn't work as well on those samsungs as it does on HTC
Hello, yesterday I have flashed Revolutionary HD (ICS 4.0.3 v.6.2.1) ROM on my sensation HTC XE. And since him I have pixilated contact pictures.
I have already uninstalled the Facebook app., and have synchronised my contacts again. However, they are still pixilated.
What can i do?
P.S.: with Revolutionary HD (Android 2.3.5) I don't have this problem
thx
does somebody have an idea?
It's a known problem on Android since a long time which still hasn't been fixed. Gmail and Facebook sync gives pixellated pictures. The only way to sync and get high res pictures in ICS is if your contacts have Google+ profiles, then Android will pull high res pics from there.
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and when i add a new contact manualy and add him a pic from my own gallery, there still does not remain blurred, and i have dont sync this contact with google
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
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium. Please thanks!
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.
Scratchling said:
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???
(SE Arc S on GB unrooted)
Hi everyone,
Got a little prob if you guys can help.Namely when i recieve or send calls the contact pic (either from Google or FB sync) are really pixelated ,because they're low resolution,how can i force them to be bigger?
P.s. i've alredy tried alternate dialer apps and am not satisfied with them,nor do i wish to use a 3rd party app.
Snt via Desire @ CM9
Im actually looking for the same thing... but do allow me to ask the question in my manner.
Currently, on ICS, each time we manually set the contact pics, the reso turns pretty good. It stays that way UNTIL i flashed/wiped everything and restore from google. Where the picture seems to be resized and presented in a horribly pixelated image.
Question is, is there any way that i can alter my google account so that it saves the high reso contact images? i know of some backup programs that does this, but its pretty annoying sometimes that google auto restores my contacts and the stock contact app on ICS has very limited feature in batch management of contacts. Also, i prefer stock phone because by far, its much more speedy than most 3rd party phone apps. Its a pretty annoying process to just install another manager and re-edit each time i flash.
Google wont provide u with high resolution pics... the reason is that there are some phones that have ~50-100mb free internel phone Memory by default...
If they Sync High resolution pics then those who have thousands of contacts will have no internal memory left as Contacts+pics would consume all of space...
Ah that explains it...
But is there a way to cache the images from the google acc in my phone?
P.s. i found a somewhat solution,an alternate FB app calles Friendcaster that has the option to sync High res.pics,i say somewhat,because it works for some pics and not for others :-/
Snt via Desire @ CM9
ive been using friendcaster for awhile, one of the best FB replacement app and does things way better than stock FB app. One of the worth-going-pro on my list.
Then again, not all of the contacts are in FB...
Picture resolution fixed!
Check this out - http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...c-updates-web-contact-sync-with-brand-new-ui/
It seemed to be fixed for JB. I haven't tried it though!
BTW I was using FB Contact Sync app from play store and it worked super well when I was on CM 9.1. But now I have moved to another ICS ROM and lost all the pics and the low-res pics got synced