So I just noticed some of the girls that I have as contacts that have changed their names because they are married and have both last names on Facebook, they don't match up with my contacts on my phone. That's fine because I had to match those up on my S3 too but I have to set the Facebook picture as the default and it's a very pixely picture compared to my S3. Everyone else having these problems?
Krusej23 said:
So I just noticed some of the girls that I have as contacts that have changed their names because they are married and have both last names on Facebook, they don't match up with my contacts on my phone. That's fine because I had to match those up on my S3 too but I have to set the Facebook picture as the default and it's a very pixely picture compared to my S3. Everyone else having these problems?
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I use "sync.me" from play store to load high quality pics from Facebook or linkein for my contacts. hope this helps !
avid.aria said:
I use "sync.me" from play store to load high quality pics from Facebook or linkein for my contacts. hope this helps !
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I am trying that out right now. I will see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestion.
Krusej23 said:
So I just noticed some of the girls that I have as contacts that have changed their names because they are married and have both last names on Facebook, they don't match up with my contacts on my phone. That's fine because I had to match those up on my S3 too but I have to set the Facebook picture as the default and it's a very pixely picture compared to my S3. Everyone else having these problems?
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I use Ubersync. It's a facebook API limitation, not android/lg.
burkett375 said:
I use Ubersync. It's a facebook API limitation, not android/lg.
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I second Ubersync. Been using it since my S4 for linking profile pictures. My only concern right now is I can't seem to find the setting in Contacts on the G3 that would allow me to link/merge contacts with Ubersync info that doesn't automatically link to a contact's name.
I love uber sync as well, I wish I could get my Facebook calendar to sync to my phone. You guys have any tips there?
Hacsync
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
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Hacsync
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
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I've always used Hacsyn. Best I've found for photos and contacts.
Krusej23 said:
So I just noticed some of the girls that I have as contacts that have changed their names because they are married and have both last names on Facebook, they don't match up with my contacts on my phone. That's fine because I had to match those up on my S3 too but I have to set the Facebook picture as the default and it's a very pixely picture compared to my S3. Everyone else having these problems?
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I've been using ubersync since it was called facebook contact sync and it has always worked perfectly to show contact images and updates to the images.
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Alright so I've basically fallen in love with the most recent version of KaosFroyo, minus this one aspect, and that is that almost none of the profile pictures for my synced Facebook contacts will appear on the phone. Like, 5 randomly are appearing, but none more. How can I get the other peoples pictures come up?
Thanks!
Chiggins said:
Alright so I've basically fallen in love with the most recent version of KaosFroyo, minus this one aspect, and that is that almost none of the profile pictures for my synced Facebook contacts will appear on the phone. Like, 5 randomly are appearing, but none more. How can I get the other peoples pictures come up?
Thanks!
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This has been an issue for everybody on all roms lately. You can dl the app "syncmypix" free from the market. Works great!
Works like a dream! Thanks mate.
I was having the same issue. I was able to manually sync them last night without any extra app. While in Contacts hit the menu button then display options. Make sure that your contact list is also displaying all contacts for Facebook. Go back to your contact list and long press which contact you want to link with Facebook. Click edit contact. Then click menu and Join. Now select the Facebook contact for the corresponding person.
I have also found that going from the stock ROM to Kaos, is that if the contact name does not match up to the facebook contact exactly, it wont sync. I have not found a way to manually snyc then up like in the older stock versions.
@bl4scott, the post above you works for KaosFroyo
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I was having the same issue. I was able to manually sync them last night without any extra app. While in Contacts hit the menu button then display options. Make sure that your contact list is also displaying all contacts for Facebook. Go back to your contact list and long press which contact you want to link with Facebook. Click edit contact. Then click menu and Join. Now select the Facebook contact for the corresponding person.
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Thats the method i kind of stumbled upon as well.. The whole contact thing was really aggravating me. haha
Yea weird bug. I haven't had an issue, but my wife's phone did.
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The new official Facebook app has contact sync also. So if you wanted to, you could remove your "Facebook for HTC Sense" account, reboot, let it remove all the data, and then open the settings in the Facebook app and change it to sync all contacts. I don't know if it works any better, but it's worth a shot.
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This has been an issue for everybody on all roms lately. You can dl the app "syncmypix" free from the market. Works great!
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Freaking lovely! Just what I needed. Thanks! That'd been driving me batty for a week.
So I have my contacts synced with Facebook, which is really handy, but the problem is the photos are pixelated, low quality junk. I can't believe this is still a problem with Sense phones.
Does anyone know a fix or non-intrusive work around for this? Why does Sense pull low quality photos from Facebook?
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So I have my contacts synced with Facebook, which is really handy, but the problem is the photos are pixelated, low quality junk. I can't believe this is still a problem with Sense phones.
Does anyone know a fix or non-intrusive work around for this? Why does Sense pull low quality photos from Facebook?
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Would also love a solution to this.
I have HaxSync but it still appeared to pull low quality photos.
Could it be related to the stock prices? I hear that's low quality as well.
clownfart said:
So I have my contacts synced with Facebook, which is really handy, but the problem is the photos are pixelated, low quality junk. I can't believe this is still a problem with Sense phones.
Does anyone know a fix or non-intrusive work around for this? Why does Sense pull low quality photos from Facebook?
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its never been a problem with sense phones, maybe with this one that uses a different facebook to pull info down.
I use an app called facebook sync. It slows you to choose the quality of the profile pictures
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I have HaxSync but it still appeared to pull low quality photos.
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I tried HaxSync as well - no dice.
maxdamage2122 said:
I use an app called facebook sync. It slows you to choose the quality of the profile pictures
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Tried it. Picture quality was still low and pixelated.
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its never been a problem with sense phones, maybe with this one that uses a different facebook to pull info down.
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That's not true. I know I experienced it with my Evo early on and a google search will show others with the same problem on a multitude of HTC phones...there are threads all over XDA that go back years with this problem with a few workarounds.
One that used to work was uninstalling Facebook, syncing with "Facebook for HTC Sense" and then reinstalling Facebook. The only problem is Facebook for HTC Sense is no longer an option under Accounts and Sync.
I've uninstalled Facebook (as much as it will let me) and removed the syncing and then tried multiple different syncing programs and they all show pixelated, grainy photos.
It's really annoying.
Thumbnails look great. Everything else looks like trash. In fact, even when using a high-res photo I have saved on my phone in a gallery for a contact the full size photo on the contacts page looks pixelated, albeit less so than the Facebook synced ones.
I think what it's doing is grabbing the small profile picture that shows up on the main timeline page and blowing it up instead of grabbing the actual uploaded profile picture and downsizing it.
Bump for any more ideas.
Tried Friendcaster and it too pulled low quality photos even with the high quality box checked.
I can't be the only one having this issue, can I?
This is a highly annoying problem that has not been fixed since Sense was available for my Windows Mobile phone.
Anyways, here's what I have discovered about this phone.
I disabled the default facebook sync by HTC since the pictures are horrid.
I then installed haxsync, but here's where it gets really strange.
When you go to your contact list, the thumbnails are great!
Now click on the thumbnail itself. The popup has a good quality photo.
Now click on the Name of your contact to pull up full details. The photo is now the garbage. You can go to edit and change the photo to haxsync and then both are good quality. This then goes away the next time haxsync syncs your contact list.
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This is a highly annoying problem that has not been fixed since Sense was available for my Windows Mobile phone.
Anyways, here's what I have discovered about this phone.
I disabled the default facebook sync by HTC since the pictures are horrid.
I then installed haxsync, but here's where it gets really strange.
When you go to your contact list, the thumbnails are great!
Now click on the thumbnail itself. The popup has a good quality photo.
Now click on the Name of your contact to pull up full details. The photo is now the garbage. You can go to edit and change the photo to haxsync and then both are good quality. This then goes away the next time haxsync syncs your contact list.
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Did this and manually selected the haxsync photos. They are a lot better, but nowhere near the quality I think they should be. They still look like low res photos that are being blown up instead of photos that are being downconverted.
i just dont understand why there is a discrepancy between the popup when clicking the thumnail vs the pic in the full contact details.
New info?
Photo Unlocker, which requires root, is not helping me much here.
Any new development on this topic?
HaxSync works perfectly for me.. Try forcing it to redownload the pictures.
Mine all look fine.
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I used to think I had the same problem...but it turns out that I just have low-resolution friends. :cyclops:
I think that maybe the problem is in the phone app grabbing the wrong version of the contact pic, and not anything to do with the facebook app. But I'm just thinking out loud and have no proof.
I was curious about this also. pics on my OG Evo seemed fine. Maybe I'll try haxsync
I couldn't really find a useful answer but,
I sync my contacts via Facebook app and the exchange, but my contact photos like NEVER update. I tried resyncing many times but it still doesn't. Does anyone know how to make them update? I'm on Ineff GB btw
Also is there a way to automatically import the contacts to Google or do I have to manually enter them? Thx
I have several Rezounds and I noticed this on GB also. ICS ROMs update fine for me.
What I do is unlink my contact whose photo I want updated, back out of contacts, then go back in to the Google contact and link up their Facebook contact. It's a pain but the other way is to logout of Facebook, which loses all links, and then sign in again. Wait a while for linking to happen.
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Dang... That's lame. I've never had this problem on another phone with GB... I wonder if its the Rom?
Yea its pretty lame. I'm on CleanROM 1.7.5.
It syncs perfectly on my HTC Flyer with GB and Honeycomb.
Also the Thunderbolt and Incredible sync fine. Just not my primary Rezound.
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It also doesn't show a good bit of photos. Just shows a blank. Bleh annoying how it works whenever it wants to which is pretty much never. At one point I had all of my contacts working and updating and such.
i started using haxsync..actually bought it...then i realized everytime you reboot the phone or soemthing, haxsync pics turn into **** quality 96x96 or so pics for some reaosn (because HTC seems to create thumbnails and use those as the main pic instead of the high res pic) aaaaand the developer says he has no idea how to fix it basically.
dollar totally wasted lol
Lololol. It actually helps to completely logout of Facebook and delete HTC Sync or w/e from facebooks allowed applications thing. I think all my contact pictures actually loaded this time. They probably won't update though.
Edit: nope it didn't lol. I guess they will still trickle in though. Some of the ones that were missing did load though. For some reason it instantly finds like 30, but I have way more than that. Hmmm
Use Sync My Pix android app for import your FB friends contacts to your address-book.
Haxsync works pretty well for me on a Xperia play CM9.0 FXP 121 build
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I think it isn't getting the pictures for people who don't have their phone numbers on Facebook. But it seems like I remember it suggesting by name or something
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Use Sync My Pix android app for import your FB friends contacts to your address-book.
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I tried it and it doesn't do anything at all for me... I think its broken lol
don't use sync my pics because that sets the pics to their Google contacts, and if you sync your contacts to Google, those pics will be ****ty 96x96 because Google developers are a bunch of assholes who keep ignoring our requests since the start of android to raise the damn limit so it's not a pixelated mess.
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Try friendcaster
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i'm actually rockin freindcaster now. it doesn't sync my own contact tohugh, weird.
I used to use friendcaster pro for a long time before the Facebook app finally updated to the new style on android. It always worked well as I remember. I think ill install it again to see what's changed actually.
I think the contact names have to be an exact match for them to auto link. I went through and changed like 20 of them, now they work. Dunno of they will update though
friendcaster is now syncing low quality pics just like haxsync....sigh. i think its an HTC problem
jayochs said:
friendcaster is now syncing low quality pics just like haxsync....sigh. i think its an HTC problem
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Lol. Even with the high resolution setting checked? Friend caster still gives me errors and doesn't do basic things... It looks really nice now though
friendcaster shouldn't be causing issues. the latest version has working sync and high res photos for me. saves your battery more since it has better interval settings
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friendcaster shouldn't be causing issues. the latest version has working sync and high res photos for me. saves your battery more since it has better interval settings
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Lol. Even with the high resolution setting checked? Friend caster still gives me errors and doesn't do basic things... It looks really nice now though
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yeah, it's absolutely terrible. they're a pixelated mess even wtih high quality on..it's wierd man
Are you guys using Twitter?
I sort of have this issue, except my Twitter contact icons look terrible. *Sometimes* the Facebook icons sync and look great, and then sometimes Sense thinks the Twitter icons are better... And they're not. Even after manually setting it to use the Facebook or Google pictures, as soon as I get a text from the contact, it'll revert to the Twitter icon.
So now my contacts are a mix of hi-res pics, ****ty Twitter pictures, and blank pictures.
Sense 3.6, not 4.0, fwiw.
Most of my favorites I display on my people widget are linked between my google contacts and facebook profiles. No matter how many times I change them to display the google contact pic, it always changes back to their facebook profile pic after a little while.
Searched high and low with no luck. Have had the problem with stock rooted and mean-rom.
Any ideas?
I've had to go into each "favorite" contact and manually change them from facebook picture to google picture of the contact.
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I've had to go into each "favorite" contact and manually change them from facebook picture to google picture of the contact.
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Yep, I've done that at least a dozen times, but It will revert back to the facebook pic. Let know if it stays for you.
I can't isolate the problem either. It seems to keep it on restart. I will even keep it when I restart sense.
My thinking is the facebook sync is overriding my settings, but I dont' know how to stop it from overriding. I still want all of my other contact to sync up...
Haxsync, sync contacts then manually select the contacts you don't want to update and turn off Facebook syncing.
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Haxsync, sync contacts then manually select the contacts you don't want to update and turn off Facebook syncing.
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Works great, thanks.
According to the settings, it doesn't look like it would do what I want. But I installed it a few days ago, and everything now works how I like it to.
So i have some friends with personal contacts that i have had for years, their facebook profile does not have their phone number attached. I go through manually and join them to merge the # with the facebook email and pictures. Then i use Ubersync to update the facebook pictures so when they call the picture isn't blurry its crystal clear.
Problem is when i factory reset my phone, and tried to do what i normally do, the contacts wont merge. It says Contacts Joined on the phone when i select the two i want to merge, but the data does not move nor does the pictures.
I then googled around for a bit and found a program called Sync.ME, ran it and it moves the pictures but will not move the emails or information provided by facebook.
When you delete the facebook contact by the way, it mentions read only and im not sure if there is some setting i need to enable or what.
Thanks for all the help in advance
Daeo said:
So i have some friends with personal contacts that i have had for years, their facebook profile does not have their phone number attached. I go through manually and join them to merge the # with the facebook email and pictures. Then i use Ubersync to update the facebook pictures so when they call the picture isn't blurry its crystal clear.
Problem is when i factory reset my phone, and tried to do what i normally do, the contacts wont merge. It says Contacts Joined on the phone when i select the two i want to merge, but the data does not move nor does the pictures.
I then googled around for a bit and found a program called Sync.ME, ran it and it moves the pictures but will not move the emails or information provided by facebook.
When you delete the facebook contact by the way, it mentions read only and im not sure if there is some setting i need to enable or what.
Thanks for all the help in advance
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Give the app Haxsync a whirl. Sound like it is similar to Ubersync but I never have issues after a factory reset. Been using it flawlessly for over a year on multiple devices.
Make sure you also install the jelly bean workaround file....you'll see it if you search haxsync
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Give the app Haxsync a whirl. Sound like it is similar to Ubersync but I never have issues after a factory reset. Been using it flawlessly for over a year on multiple devices.
Make sure you also install the jelly bean workaround file....you'll see it if you search haxsync
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is the jelly bean workaround file something i should already have? never heard of it
Daeo said:
is the jelly bean workaround file something i should already have? never heard of it
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It is haxsync specific. Without it only half your contacts will sync properly. You don't need to do anything with it aside from just making sure it is installed along with the app.
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It is haxsync specific. Without it only half your contacts will sync properly. You don't need to do anything with it aside from just making sure it is installed along with the app.
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So installed the app and the workaround, it said they were syncing. Added a bunch of contacts from facebook, but it still will not allow me to add phone #'s or merge the other contact with their # in it.
Still doing the Contacts Joined and not moving the information
Daeo said:
So installed the app and the workaround, it said they were syncing. Added a bunch of contacts from facebook, but it still will not allow me to add phone #'s or merge the other contact with their # in it.
Still doing the Contacts Joined and not moving the information
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You may just have to play around with the settings a bit. Some contacts won't auto-sync if the google name is slightly different than the way it appears on Facebook. In that case just go in the google contact, tick menu, then merge, then find their haxsync FB contact.
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You may just have to play around with the settings a bit. Some contacts won't auto-sync if the google name is slightly different than the way it appears on Facebook. In that case just go in the google contact, tick menu, then merge, then find their haxsync FB contact.
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exactly what i did, So i got it working and heres how just incase someone runs into the same issue.
Go into the facebook app -> Settings -> Disable Sync
Leave Hacksync enabled and syncing
Go to your contacts and the one with the # you want to attach to the hacksync'd contact information is the one you will edit
Change the name to the exact name they use on the other contact
It will ask you to merge, accept and feel superior.
Thanks for everything
Daeo said:
exactly what i did, So i got it working and heres how just incase someone runs into the same issue.
Go into the facebook app -> Settings -> Disable Sync
Leave Hacksync enabled and syncing
Go to your contacts and the one with the # you want to attach to the hacksync'd contact information is the one you will edit
Change the name to the exact name they use on the other contact
It will ask you to merge, accept and feel superior.
Thanks for everything
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