When I sync with google all the contact images I have on the various contacts sync over fine. But the second I sync with facebook etc those default images gets overwritten with whatever stupid image people had decided to use on facebook.
Is there no clever or smart way for me to define which i want to use as a default, like you can do if people has several numbers, in that case you can define what you want as the default one etc. But I have been unable to find one for contacts
The only way so far I have been able to actually get the contact photos I want, is through defining them manually all over again, which means I have to find the image on my phone, choose to replace the image I already got and recrop it in order to get the image I want to show. And naturally the second facebook etc decided to take a dump and have a resync its rinse and repeat and its annoying me greatly
So is there any supported and/or smart solution to go about this rather then having to manually define all the images over again on a regular basis?
Hi all,
I own three android devices, a (more compact) Galaxy S3, for using when going out to more formal and elegant events (as it hides away better in a suit pocket or my wife's purse) or situations where I want my phone to be less obtrusive, the Samsung Note 2, which is my workhorse, use it daily all over, as well as a Note 3 (the tablet, when I need screen space, or are taking more serious/longer notes, edits, reading books/articles etc, etc).
I have different apps on the different devices, but would like to sync the apps. NOT the APP DATA - that's simple with Google and/or cloud integration etc. I'm talking about the actual apps. In other words, say I'm at the restaurant, and a friend and I are discussing something relating to photos (since we just took a pic and uploaded to FB), and I install an app that we discover....I'd like that app to automatically install to my other phone and my tablet.
Anyone have any suggestions? Whenever I search for "sync" of any type, including various ther words, I always get to advice on syncing your app data via Google or Kies or other cloud services etc.
Thanks all
Hi Members
I have to say I'm struggling with this phone, nothing seems straight forward.
The phones running Android 8 / EMUI 8, I did a mistake when clicking on a PDF doc in the Huawei 'Files' app, when the program pop-up appeared to choose the application to use, I clicked onto the 'Drive PDF viewer' and accidentally click onto the 'Always' button.
Now the "Drive PDF viewer' is the default app, and I can't make it go back to asking what app I want to use.
I've tried loads of things withing settings>Apps, I've cleared Google drives cache and reset, cleared Google Play services, and the Play store, reset the Chrome browser.
I can't find the app 'Drive PDF viewer', but I gather this is part of Google Drive app.
I've reset the Huawei 'Home' launcher, this didn't do anything.
I then went and installed Adobe Reader app, this still didn't give me the app prompt when clicking onto a PDF to pick the Adobe app.
I've reset this phone so many times now for so many issues, none of which has been resolved with a reset (also with my Huawei watch 2 Pro as it's had issues)
I've search the Web regarding a resolution, uninstalling the last update to Drive hasn't change the PDF default preference.
Can anyone shed any light on a solution please.
Regards
liviococcia said:
Hi Members
I have to say I'm struggling with this phone, nothing seems straight forward.
The phones running Android 8 / EMUI 8, I did a mistake when clicking on a PDF doc in the Huawei 'Files' app, when the program pop-up appeared to choose the application to use, I clicked onto the 'Drive PDF viewer' and accidentally click onto the 'Always' button.
Now the "Drive PDF viewer' is the default app, and I can't make it go back to asking what app I want to use.
I've tried loads of things withing settings>Apps, I've cleared Google drives cache and reset, cleared Google Play services, and the Play store, reset the Chrome browser.
I can't find the app 'Drive PDF viewer', but I gather this is part of Google Drive app.
I've reset the Huawei 'Home' launcher, this didn't do anything.
I then went and installed Adobe Reader app, this still didn't give me the app prompt when clicking onto a PDF to pick the Adobe app.
I've reset this phone so many times now for so many issues, none of which has been resolved with a reset (also with my Huawei watch 2 Pro as it's had issues)
I've search the Web regarding a resolution, uninstalling the last update to Drive hasn't change the PDF default preference.
Can anyone shed any light on a solution please.
Regards
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Just to follow up, I found no way within the settings > Apps on any of the relivant applications settings (Drive, Chrome, Play system apps), any changes I made to either the default actions attributes worked.
The only solution to getting 'Drive PDF viewer' to not be the default reader in the HM10 Pro Android 8/EMUI 8,
1, go to disable the Google 'Drive' app,
2, then open a PDF
3, pick Microsoft 'word' as the default reader
4, then open a PDF again to see that 'Word' opens
5, then go back to 'Enabling' Google 'Drive'
6, then uninstall Microsoft Word
7, Restart the phone and reinstall 'Word', and open Word app to start it up.
Then when I opened a PDF file, the chooser opened allowing me to pick a new PDF reader.
What a fiasco, this is not the fault of any app PDF readers, but more another issue with how either Android 8, or Huawei EMUI 8 or the Home auncher has been tinkered with, and doesn't work correctly, how I came to this conclusion, it was when I then chose Microsoft Word as the default and no amount of fiddling in its settings would change it's default mode to opening PDF files.
This phone needs loads of bug fixes, also the AI seems to make choices incorrectly on the running of the phone, also it's background power saving is way too aggressive, turning off modes that need to be on (this is related to the Watch 2 mainly)
There's something to be said about the Samsungs and Sony's, they may cost a lot more, but from my experience they were pretty seemless in there function.
I guessing this is how it's going to be all the way with this HM10.
Good luck users
I had the same issue, and did spend long time to find a solution, but not as bad as yours.
Yes, when he sets Google pdf as default, you won't be able me find this app, therefore, you won't see an option tm clear or as default!. What I did is search up Google pdf on Play store, then install Google pdf viewer and then clear default of this one. Then it can be detected. By the way, Huawei phone you can also select default pdf app in the default apps setting.
The option to choose default pdf viewer is available on stock emui 9.
I have noticed this for the gazillionth time now that every once in a while (not sure whether a new app/system update triggers it) my media files (images and videos) are sorted in a messy manner within Instagram and other social apps. It's like when you want to send an image to a friend through Instagram inbox, and browse through the files, you see them arranged in a format whereby old stuff shows at the top and the newer pictures that you just downloaded are either somewhere in the middle (for which you have to initiate a search mission) or located at the very bottom. Either way this is frustrating and I am really looking forward to find a fix for this. It merits a mention here that the gallery app itself does not have this problem as all files are perfectly sorted in there but all social media apps (fb, insta,snap,twitter) mess up every now and then.
Highly anticipating a working solution!
Thank you.
Hi Everyone,
I am growing increasingly frustrated with WhatsApp and given it's such a popular app I have come to admit the problem must come from me and not the app itself.
Simply put, for any other messaging app (Messenger, Telegram, etc.), whenever someone sends me a message, the experience is pretty straightforward:
1) The image/video is already loaded and visible in the thread
2) I can click on the image/video to go full screen
3) I can click on the 3 dots or equivalent to save the image/video to my gallery
I fail to reproduce the same behavior with WhatsApp. It seems I either get to have all images/videos downloaded to my gallery, which is useless and insanely annoying. Or I get blurred thumbnails for images/videos in the thread and then need to download to see.
FYI, I have a Samsung S9+ with latest updates.
Thanks for your help!