So I noticed a few days ago that strange photos were being uploaded to my Google+ photos app, ( photos that seemed to be of black African ladies in photos that seemed to be taken in Africa ) , then some of my contacts went missing from my Gmail contacts on my HTC one , and lastly numbers being added to my contacts that I've never added. Now I'm just thinking it could have been an old android phone of mine that was never wiped and someone could have bought it. I've seen no suspicious activity on my Gmail activity report or no foreign log ins. And there are no strange gmails in my outbox , so I'm wondering if maybe Google made a mistake and two accounts are syncing wrong. Anyhow I've enabled two step verification and changed my passwords , just wondering what you all think ?
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hi guys,
i'd just noticed this problem right now, after i told my friend to change his facebook profile picture - it did not change in my favorites contacts, it remained the same as the one he had before..
i remember that when i first got the phone and people would change their facebook profile pictures they would simultaneously change in my favorite contacts as well..
i already tried removing the contact's photo and canceling the contact's link to facebook and set it all back again, but i still get the previous picture and not the new one.
maybe something to do with cache?.. i'm just thinking out loud here..
any idea guys?
I believe that it has settings for auto update times (much like the weather, stocks, twitter, etc). Check to see how often you have it set to refresh. You can find it under settings/data services/facebook (login, data sync)
well.. yet another issue solved, thank you faelok!
Actually the update time was 2 houres, and it had been alot more than 2 houres since my friend changed his pic, BUT - i logged out of facebook acount via the data services setting, and when i logged back the pictures changed to the recent ones
p.s.
this did not help though when i logged out of facebook via the facbook app, it only worked once i went to settings > data services > turned the Facebook switch to OFF and ON again..
again - tnx alot!
Tnx! This solution solved my problem too!
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:
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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.
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?
1 of my friends contacted me today and I noticed it showed his number not the name. I contacted this friend a few weeks ago so he was in my contact list then. The only changes I made was upgrading from neat from to cm 10.1.
I went to check my contacts and a few of the numbers are missing. I went to my gmail account because it automatically syncs my contacts and noticed it wasn't showing the ones that were missing either. I tried using the restore function in gmail up to the maximum of 30days but it didn't bring back the contacts that were missing. Any ideas how I can get back my missing contacts?
RoRo1990 said:
1 of my friends contacted me today and I noticed it showed his number not the name. I contacted this friend a few weeks ago so he was in my contact list then. The only changes I made was upgrading from neat from to cm 10.1.
I went to check my contacts and a few of the numbers are missing. I went to my gmail account because it automatically syncs my contacts and noticed it wasn't showing the ones that were missing either. I tried using the restore function in gmail up to the maximum of 30days but it didn't bring back the contacts that were missing. Any ideas how I can get back my missing contacts?
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Maybe ask your friends? I had this type of problem and unfortunately, it was the only solution
I think I figured out why this happened. When I saved those contacts that are missing I saved them as phone contacts and not google contacts. So they were stored in my phone and weren't getting sync'd with my gmail account. After I did the wipe on my phone when installing cm it cleared those contacts since they were stored on my phone. I'm guessing there isnt anyway to get them back now;(
I have 5 gmail accounts on my V10. Only one is selected to sync contacts. When I use the dialer I start typing a number and start to see choices from other unsynced gmail accounts. When I select other account as visible in the contacts app it populates the supposed unsynced account with names. I have tried clear contact storage a couple times but it keeps syncing the contacts I told it not to. This is getting frustrating. Any suggestions?
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I have 5 gmail accounts on my V10. Only one is selected to sync contacts. When I use the dialer I start typing a number and start to see choices from other unsynced gmail accounts. When I select other account as visible in the contacts app it populates the supposed unsynced account with names. I have tried clear contact storage a couple times but it keeps syncing the contacts I told it not to. This is getting frustrating. Any suggestions?
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5 gmail accounts? amazing, i just have 1, did not see this issue before. try some email app.
The issue isn't related to an email app.
Do you use Google +?
If so, the first time of use, it asks if you want to sync all your G+ contacts.
I made this mistake once and now I have thousands
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I don't use G+ and all the contacts are not synced to one account. The are listed under each individual gmail account. The issue only happened after moving to the V10. My note 4 didn't have this issue.
Any further suggestions?
can anyone confirm they have same problem
Anyone able to try duplicating this issue?
This happened to me on the Moto X (first generation) ... I've been screwed ever since.
My problem with this is how invasive - while at the same time disruptive, repetitive and completely unnecessary this unauthorized merge is as it duplicates contacts.
Example:
1. I have 1 email (& matching Contact List) for work and work related contacts. These contacts include only their work phone and email - and in some instances their work cell # -- which of course would be labeled "mobile" as that was the only labeling option a decade ago.
2. I have 1 email (& matching Contact List) for my friends. These contacts include only their personal phone and email. Although there are a few cell phone numbers that match the business cell, the rest of the info is unique to their personal life.
*** Part 2 of this Contact List is their wives/sig-other gets a Contact Listing - to which repetitive info like the land line and maybe e-mail address is entered, but more importantly their individual cell number. This makes contacting them individually an easy task without guessing what cell number goes to the husband or the wife ... and in some instances ... their kids (who sometimes baby/dog sit). [This may sound rather convoluted to you younger kids, but 10 years ago we didn't have the option of custom labeling the phone numbers, only a short pull-down list of Home, Cell, Fax ... so this is how we did it ... and a decade later with several hundred entries, we're NOT going back to redefine all these fields and merge contact lists as this is still an easy system].
Well - a while back when the Droid X came out, I loaded each email profile into the phone separately - Google/Droid decided to merge all contacts and it's been a friggin' disaster ever since! I went from 200 to 800 contacts in different email/contact profiles, to one, bigass, convoluted, double, triple, quadrupled contact list that is impossible to tell which one is from the Work List or the Personal List or any other miscellaneous list I had .... a 4000K Contact list for every email account - not just g-mail, but Outlook and Windows too! ! !
I've yet to find any app that can simplify or remedy this for me ... (I've spent WEEKS looking for one ... so about a year ago, I took several days and merged all the Contacts into one Gmail list and custom labeled EVERYONE on those lists into one, clear, concise list. I admit that I'm anal about keeping things organized and in clear and concise manner and this may seem nutty to some ... but I also don't make the mistakes my friends make with mis-dials and wrong numbers.
I've had some issues ... (hint: once done, copy to a window computer, then go and delete every back up you ever made of every contact list in every e-mail file to prevent reloading old files into the new, revised Contact list.) ... but I stay on top of it and delete or modify any duplicate. I'm almost back to being sane ... probably because I haven't stopped drinking ;- )
It's going to be a long and lonely road back to sanity. Google is invasive and loves getting all the info it can and will "F" up the way you kept it.
Good luck with a solution. Please post a solution if you find one.
I have three Gmail accounts on my phone. Mine, my daughters and wife's. I only want to sync the calendar, but it also syncs the contacts. Especially if I get a text from my brother, it will come up as Uncle.....(my daughter's account). I tried contacts sync fix as I read in a forum once that LG phones have an issue with broken contacts if you have an I.C.E. contact listed (in case of emergency). This did fix it for about two weeks and then something happened and I was back to seeing my wife's and daughter's contacts over mine.
If you find a solution, please let me know.