[Q] syncing fb profile photos - Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello all,
am having a problem since the previous update and continued after updating to lollipop, that sony removed their photos sync in the xperia with fb feature, which enabled me before to sync fb friends profile picture to be their display pic when they call me, now i cant, even when i sync using the fb app, it gets only a low res picture and doesnt show when someone calls me, so what is the solution or what is the alternative ? thanks a lot.

k.a.h said:
Hello all,
am having a problem since the previous update and continued after updating to lollipop, that sony removed their photos sync in the xperia with fb feature, which enabled me before to sync fb friends profile picture to be their display pic when they call me, now i cant, even when i sync using the fb app, it gets only a low res picture and doesnt show when someone calls me, so what is the solution or what is the alternative ? thanks a lot.
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same here, contact photo is from FB sync
but when call there is no photo

I have the same problem too.

Haxsync still works for high resolution contact pic syncing, its what I use from KK to lollipop but Im not sure about other features, I just use it for pic syncing.

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[Q] X10 2.1 contact photo is very blur

X10 2.1 the contact photo is very blur when call out or call in.
X10 1.6 it 's no problem about contact photo ,it's very clear.
Has one any inquired with SE to see if there is a certain resolution the pictures need to be? or even dimensions might make a difference.
have the same problem... its really blurry
the same problem here
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This problem is caused when the contact pictures are synced with gmail. They upload in low quality. So when you download them they are going to be low quality
misfit41 said:
This problem is caused when the contact pictures are synced with gmail. They upload in low quality. So when you download them they are going to be low quality
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No way, i try without sync and taking a new contact picture and still blur...
misfit41 said:
This problem is caused when the contact pictures are synced with gmail. They upload in low quality. So when you download them they are going to be low quality
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contact pictures aren't synced, and when you just browse the contact people, picture is very clear,but when you call in or call out ,picture is very blur.
I have the same problem like ppp1974. It's very annoying, but I don't find any solution yet. Shame on SE
I have the same problem, taking a new contact picture and when I call picture is still blure
Sorry I'm new here, lurking for UK 2.1 update news, so haven't seen it myself, but... I believe the pixellated contact photos is an android enforced 96 x 96 pixel limitation. Certainly when syncing with google contacts, there are hoardes of people saying the limit should be lifted or a push from phone to google account, rather than google able to push the 96 pixel limitted one. Several threads / requests on google code website. It is dissapointing if SE have changed this, as indicated by posters here, it seems to work well on 1.6...
blade_75 said:
Sorry I'm new here, lurking for UK 2.1 update news, so haven't seen it myself, but... I believe the pixellated contact photos is an android enforced 96 x 96 pixel limitation. Certainly when syncing with google contacts, there are hoardes of people saying the limit should be lifted or a push from phone to google account, rather than google able to push the 96 pixel limitted one. Several threads / requests on google code website. It is dissapointing if SE have changed this, as indicated by posters here, it seems to work well on 1.6...
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contact photos work well on X10 1.6
Anyone solve this?
It seems that 2.1 is trying to stretch the contact pictures from the native resolution (from the contact list) which is making them blurry.
if so then sux, anyone tried sync them with timescape and then use facebook sync??
dunno it that can help us
Problem solved..
I found that when joining contacts from phone with facebook contacts it makes a blurry photo.
BUT when joining contacts with facebook I had two choices:
- 1.st was Contacts name, facebook icon and my email address.
- 2.nd was Contacts name, facebook icon and just Facebook or Timescape.
The second option makes crisp contact photos.
It works for me. If anything unclear send me a PM.
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If you go to edit your contact and you see already two facebook accounts in there (one with email address and one just with Timescape under it) then just touch photo under Timescape facebook section and select Set as contact picture.
If you get the fullscreen caller id app and assign pictures from there it fixes it in the phonebook as well. Also i read that this is a general android issue and not only x10.
peterko64 said:
I found that when joining contacts from phone with facebook contacts it makes a blurry photo.
BUT when joining contacts with facebook I had two choices:
- 1.st was Contacts name, facebook icon and my email address.
- 2.nd was Contacts name, facebook icon and just Facebook or Timescape.
The second option makes crisp contact photos.
It works for me. If anything unclear send me a PM.
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If you go to edit your contact and you see already two facebook accounts in there (one with email address and one just with Timescape under it) then just touch photo under Timescape facebook section and select Set as contact picture.
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Bitte this is only a solution if you habe a facebook account.
Same here. Only the default pic from Timescape/default contact app works well, everything else is blurry in call screen (I am not using FB).
EDIT: It is a generally issue because Google only uses pics in I think 96x96. The solutions from other devices is to make another contact with the same name as you already have, but make it as a contact only in your phone (not google contact). After that when you edit this "double" contact, you can assign photo to the contact in the phone and after that phone uses this foto, not that one on the google. The problem is that this solution doenst work on X10 (at leasts not on mine), it makes pics look better, but still it is blurry.
EDIT2: Just for testing purposes, make whole new contact on the phone, assign any photo you want (I have tried photos from 4mpix camera as well as from 12mpix camera - doesnt matter) and still when in call in/out screen, its blurry and here I think the problem is on the X10 part.
it is not genral problem from google it's from se stupidity they were working in 1.6 and i have htc hero with 2.1 and every thing is ok so se should repair this huge mistake with some fix
This method is little strange, but it's working..
Install from market - "Full Screen Caller ID" app, then open and assign any new photos to contacts. Then you must uninstall Caller ID, and that's all.
I think that this application overrides default pics 96x96...

[Q] Sync phone book with facebook not working

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?
bazooka_joe said:
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???
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[Q] [ICS] Persist the choice for contact photo

Hi,
I have HTC Sensation running AOKP M5 right now but this problem was present on other roms using AOSP contact app. Talking about ICS of course.
I can't force my android to save the information which sync photo a contact should use. I have merged many Google/Google+/Facebook/HaxSync and for most of them I've changed the default photo (especially high quality HaxSync over Facebook or G+ photo when FB photo does not present a person) but my system keeps loosing my choice and gets back to his bad choices (generally when it comes to Facebook LQ photos...).
What is wrong with it? Anyone has tips how to make it work?
Seriously noone experiences this problem?
Why don't you disable the Facebook contact sync? Log out of Facebook app and when you log in again goose 'Don't sync'. HaxSync will sync all your Facebook contacts too if you choose so you're not losing anything there. I have Gmail, Google+ and HaxSync synchronized with my contacts and I haven't experienced this problem. Always displays the HaxSync high res contact pics unless I specifically choose otherwise for any contact. The Facebook sync is pointless if you have HaxSync.
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Yea but some people have some decent photos on G+ accounts instead of stupid "not-my-face" photos so they need having G+ photo instead of haxsync.
If there is "Use this photo" option why it just does not work. I had this problem on Gingerbread as well and it is still not fixed in android (in my experience)..

[Q] Saving contacts after being marged/edited

Hey,i worked a bit on my phone marging the numbers to the right facebook profile so ill be able to see my contacts with their facebook profile picture.
The question is how do i save it all?i mean,i once did it then when i switched ROM and loaded the gmail contacts they loaded but without all the pictures.
Any solutions to save it so when ill wipe / change ROM the facebook profile picture will remain?
I'm using the "SyncMyPics" app.
This will sync all pictures of Facebook with ur contacts (lokal/google) without having synchronize with Facebook app etc.
So this means after sync of pics, u can sync to Gmail and all is fine also after a restore because pics will be saved, too
Hope u understand what I wrote
CHEERS
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Hannibal226 said:
I'm using the "SyncMyPics" app.
This will sync all pictures of Facebook with ur contacts (lokal/google) without having synchronize with Facebook app etc.
So this means after sync of pics, u can sync to Gmail and all is fine also after a restore because pics will be saved, too
Hope u understand what I wrote
CHEERS
Sent from my GT-I9100 running with RootBox
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yes i see,but in my case there are names in hebrew and on facebook they appear in english so the software doesnt recognize them..this application can sync the pictures that already exist (because i marged each contact with facebook) to gmail account?
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FOUND THE SOLUTION!
i found this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550068
its a great software and working well,the facebook picture will remain in google's contacts and theres an option to update the pictures of the profle(in case the person changed the picture and you have the old one)
AvivEliyahu said:
yes i see,but in my case there are names in hebrew and on facebook they appear in english so the software doesnt recognize them..this application can sync the pictures that already exist (because i marged each contact with facebook) to gmail account?
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Oh ok...
No the software only load the pics from the profile of each person and set this to local profile in contacts. This profile will be sync to Google (Without the software)
And u Facebook contact only sync with facebook so no direct contact from pics to local profile (bad explained )
Hmm...
No idea atm, but that was the reason why I used the software.
PS: Only option I see is to download all Facebook pictures and set them as profile picture on ur phone contacts
Sorry and CHEERS
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low resolution contact pictures after .167

Hi everyone, I just updated to 4.4.4 last night and for the most part im quite happy with the changes, but i cant seem to sync my contact photos to get high resolution versions. The images are pixelated amd quite blurry. All the contacts are correctly synced with facebook, but it seems that the "facebook with xperia" app isnt working as it should. There only seems to be an option to sync calendar details and not contact photos. Furthermore, "xperia with facebook" no longer shows up under the list of linked items in the contact details.
Anyone know whats going on? The xperia with facebook app is 6.0.A.7.5
Thanks!
This is a known problem with the new .167 update, Sony removed the FB contacts sync feature. Contact Sony Mobile and send an official complaint, hopefully, they will add the feature back in the next update.
This is one of the reasons I downgraded to .314 again.
Well that really sucks...
Thanks for clearing that up though, much appreciated
Try "contact picture sync". With this app you can manually connect every contact with his Facebook profile! And pictures updates itself!
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