When using a Vanilla rom, I realised that when I look at the contacts, the Facebook display picture for that person doesnt come up like it does with Sense roms.
Is there a way to sync the pictures to the contact?
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So Im syncing from my HD2 to my mac via Sync Mate.
I added all of the contact pictures on my HD2 with help of the Sense´s facebook integration.
On my mac these contacts now have either old pictures which I added manually on the HD2 before or no picture at all.
This makes me wonder:
Doesnt Sense write everything in the outlook contacts, and if not can I make it do that?
I think it really sucks that it doesnt use normal contacts and just does it its own way.
On a slightly related note:
When I look at facebook pictures of my friends in the contact tab in sense: Where exactly does sense dump these images? Im asking because if I look at them again theyre still there and dont have to be redownloaded.
Hope you can help me.
The contacts app that comes with touchwiz is pretty neat, but i have this question... On the groups tab i cannot seem to add any google contacts to any of the groups, has anyone gotten that to work? The tab is useless to me otherwise, I am only using google contacts, not contacts on the phone or sim or any social network.
Apparently to be able to add any additional functionality to contacts (groups, separate ringtones, etc) they must be stored on the phone, which IMO defeats Androids main feature-syncing to GMail so you don't have to enter contacts into your phone again. It's a shame because I like most of the features of the TW Contacts app, but how can they not just use GMail as the default?
Really, you can't set ringtones on google contacts either? That's quite awful.
Agreed, this is a horrible implementation of contacts on Android. Why in the world would I want a "local" contact book that isn't in sync with my already awesome "cloud" contact book. That is a massive fail for TouchWiz in my book. That one thing alone might push me to a custom ROM when it becomes available.
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I am running cm6 rc1. This is my first asop rom. I have a HTC Hero from Sprint. The contacts app (people) in sense allows you to link a contact to its facebook account if the contact has one. This allows you to pull in their facebook photo and birthday information. I do not see this ability in the asop contacts app; is there anyone to link somone's contact card to their facebook profile?
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I am running cm6 rc1. This is my first asop rom. I have a HTC Hero from Sprint. The contacts app (people) in sense allows you to link a contact to its facebook account if the contact has one. This allows you to pull in their facebook photo and birthday information. I do not see this ability in the asop contacts app; is there anyone to link somone's contact card to their facebook profile?
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The Facebook app itself will allow you to synchronize your Facebook contacts on your phone. When in the app, press menu > Settings > Sync Contacts. This will pull in Facebook pictures and statuses to your existing contacts and optionally add all of the ones not present from your friends list.
Strange thing is that it does sync the pictures but pictures do not show up in any people-contact widget!
Same thing with Miui, Defrost, Opendesire, CM.
Contacts: I loved the sense contacts (People) app. I liked that I can assign a facebook account for each contact. I used it for getting my contacts' facebook profile pic as their display pic. worked fairly simple and if a user updates his profile facebook pic, his/her contact pic is also changed. I didn't use the other functions of Sense's facebook integration though. The status updates was poorly implemented and displays "this person has updated their facebook profile" for whatever that friend does on facebook.
Now with vanilla , the sync with all contacts that the official facebook app offers doesn't work as I want, cause:
- I have some facebook friends that I don't want them as contacts in my phone. facebook will always sync the contact if he/she has a phone number in their profile. Which, for some friends, I don't want.
- If the same person has different names in facebook and in my contacts list, I won't get his picture.
So, is their a way to fix this sync issue?
Or, can I get the sense Dailer/People app in vanilla?
Or, Is there a good alternative in the market?
1st of all, I like HTC Sense feature to link all contacts together. But there is a problem.
When I have a Google contact WITH picture linked to Facebook contact W/O picture, every time Sync happens - it defaults to contact's FACEBOOK profile (which has no picture assigned). That means that this contact now has NO picture to show.
Sure I can go to Contact details, edit it and assign Google's picture to that contact. Until next Sync
This is really annoying. Any solution, trick, etc ? Except NOT using Sense
Not much you can do about that except tell this person to add a Facebook profile picture?
I though may be there is some sort of a trick which I dont know about