I'm not a n00b, so I wouldn't post this unless something was up. Haven't ever had issues w/ contacts' pics loading - specifically, their Facebook profile pic. All of the entries in my Contacts list are perfect - they have their Facebook pic on them.
Today though, in the native Messages app (hush, I've been a long-time Handcent user, prior to that, ChompSMS), no one's pic appears - just the default, androgynous avatar. Well, I should say that no one's pics but my fiancee's - everyone else just has the default icon.
I cleared Cache and Data for the Messages app. I also cleared Cache partition and Dalvik Cache via Recovery.
To recap:
- Facebook for MyTouch/HTC Sense is syncing live feed and contacts just fine
- Contacts in the Contact list show their current Facebook pic
- It is only in the Messages app, that I am no longer seeing contact pics
Any ideas?
i have the same problem from time to time... what i do is export my contacts to sd, then delete the facebook for mytouch account under "Accounts & Sync". Then I go to settings, "applications", all, then clear data under contacts, and contact storage. The only bad thing is that now you have no contacts. you have to import them from your sim or sd. Then create your facebook account in accounts and sync. Then link all your contacts to their facebook account. This is a long and horrible way to fix it, but it works for me. i wish there was a faster way without deleting all of our contacts.
hope this helps
Thanks for the response, One! It's not a show-stopper, so I'm going to keep on looking for less-invasive options, but if I can't get a resolution, I'll give your steps a shot.
I do a Nandroid backup regularly, so I guess I could just flip back a few days. I'll hang on though and see if something comes out of these.
Thanks again, One.
no prob, if you find a better way, let me know... i hate deleting everything...
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not sure if anyone else is having this issue..but after i updated to the ota 2.2 froyo, i noticed all my contacts used their old photos instead of the ones synced with facebook.... so does that mean i have to automatically go through each contact and click default picture to facebook???
i already deleted my fb accounts and redid it many times..restarted phone..same issue...fb wont auto sync the new photos as default, so i have to go through my contacts manually to use the updated fb pics...
That's odd. I'm not sure but I think the Facebook app's syncing is goofy.
For instance here's the hoops I had to jump through.
With original 2.1, I had used the integrated Facebook contact syncing to get pics synced to my contacts. And that worked no problem.
When DK28 came out, I took the opportunity to reset my phone and redo my contacts. This time I figured "hey, the actual Facebook app contact syncing should work good so I'll use that instead". And on the surface it did. In my contacts list the proper Facebook pic was on each contact. The problem was that any txts or phone calls I either sent or received, the photos were absent...just the generic blank silhouette. So I removed the Facebook contact sync from my accounts and went back to using the the Facebook syncing from the "Integrated contact accounts" once more and now photos are displaying in txt/phone properly.
Odd that the Facebook client syncing appeared on the surface to be fine but maybe this will help you or others trying to get this to work. In your case maybe the old pics still there show up with the Facebook client sync. Hopefully the integrated Facebook sync will clear it up for you.
Search the forums for this problem. It has been answered. I just am too lazy to find the post for ya.
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I have a different problem with the FB app since upgrading to DK28, but I wasn't sure if it deserved its own thread.
I can no longer stay logged in to my account. It works the first time and then every subsequent time I open the app I have to re-enter my password.
Anyone else?
alfiej said:
Search the forums for this problem. It has been answered. I just am too lazy to find the post for ya.
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i tried..it didnt solve the problem..... like i mentioned i redid the facebook accounts and restarted phone etc...didnt work....
i think its from the exporting my contacts to sd card.... it saves the current picture before exporting..so perhaps i exported my contacts several times and it saved the same default picture under the phone settings... so when i integrated my facebook in 2.2, the old photos were showing..so i had to manually erase all of the old saved photos.... i couldnt find a way to automatically do it... if you still can find the posts/threads, please post it here
Is it me or are the contact photos synced from facebook (integrated Facebook sync or through Facebook app) are low resolution? Anyway we can fix this or is this just another issue with Google?
Hi community.
I think everything is in the title. Pictures of My contacts does not show up anymore. I tried reboot, erase all messages, clear data and cache of the app... It works with Handcent.
Pictures are in the contact app.
If someone understand .
Thanks.
Are these pictures from contacts synced with Facebook & Twitter? Or are they actual photos from your SD Card?
Both .
Some people on Facebook, others pictures from gallery...
Try removing the sync from Facebook & Twitter, reboot and then re-establish the sync.
Ok I do it now.
I will let you know if it worked.
Out of interest, are you using the stock android contacts app or HTC's people app?
It worked !
Thanks !
I don't understand what happened.
I used the HTC contact app.
Hi guys,
I have to say, since I bought the Wildfire I'm amazingly unhappy.
This phone is seriously ****.
It's slow, it freezes, it crashes, it reboots by itself.
Today I tried to do a factory reset.
I used MyBackup to do a backup of everything.
Obviously it was a failure: it didn't save the apps, so now I have to reinstall everything by myself. It didn't save the data of the apps. I lost nothing important, only the data of some stupid game, but I lost it. It saved apparently all my data and settings.
I restored the contacts and now I have another problem.
They are duplicated. I delete from my gmail accounts the duplicates, but they are still there on the phone. And the ****ing phone synchronizes again all the contacts to my gmail account. And over and over and over.
Is there any solution to this problem beside removing manually on my phone? There are more than 300 duplicates!
Turn auto sync off... Is that so hard? As for the slowness, nothing wrong about mine or most other peoples phones.
When youre restoring your contacts make sure you only list to display one of your accounts e.g your gmail acc
This is obviously a user end problem and not the phone.
Turning off Auto sync doesn't fix the problem. It just avoids the problem. I already did it!!!
In this way, I will not able to sync anymore my contacts to Gmail since as soon as I started autosync again it starts again to sync in only one direction!
Yes sure, an end user problem caused by the lack of functions of the phone.
And for the slowness....probably you missed all the comments about people overclocking and complaining about it.
The overclocking complaints aren't about the phone being slow, its just not working on some sense roms. And imo the phone has all the necessary functions. Perhaps you should get it fixed.
Whenever i feel my wildfire is sluggish, i back up the phone, do a full factory reset and flush a new rom. Makes a huge difference. Sadly i still havent figured how to solve the duplicated..... no quadriplicated contacts that appear.
i think you guys should do a factory reset, add all your contacts once, back them up to sd card, and then when you install a rom, don't sync your contacts, just import them from the sd card file.
although i haven't had any issues with duplicates with syncing my contacts anyway. :S
Must admit the phonebook setup is a bit pish on the Android system, it tries to link everything together when all you want is just a simple phonebook with peoples numbers and emails.
So i've spent ages deleting all duplicates and unlinking ****. Finally after a number of hours it resembles a simple phonebook with people linked only to there facebook accounts and nothing else. Sometimes the software just tries too hard!
Did you sync facebook contacts ? I would recommend you to not do so. Facebook gave me quite a problem with contacts when i just got the phone.
Other than that, google contacts sync works just fine for me.
Finally the continuous synchronization stopped. I was able to remove duplicates from my gmail account. But....surprisingly several contacts disappeared. I used the "merge duplicates" function on Gmail.
Now I installed again the backup I did. My phone book is not synchronizing at all with gmail. Moreover, something else happened. It is not synchronizing with Facebook. When I go to view it says Facebook for HTC sense 0 contacts. But if you go do Online directory, they are there! But I cannot see to link in the contacts.
Oh yeah, obviously I still have 4 contacts per person.
I have Launcher Pro (paid ver) on my Fascinate.
I have sync'd all my pictures on FB to my contacts in the phone.
The phone contact list shows all the right pics.
My contacts are Gmail based, not phone based.
In my People widget the only pics that show are those who have gmail pics.
In my SMS app, it also only shows pics for those who have gmail pics.
What am I missing to get the FB pics that are displaying in contacts to show elsewhere?
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edit: use the app 'SyncMyPix' from the market. See below...
You need to go to each individual contact and merge them with Facebook. Additionally you will need to select each contact select edit and select the pic and choose remove icon. After doing this and saving the Facebook pic will be the one thats used not the gmail pic. I also had this issue which is how I discovered that this needed to be done, however I have found no easier way to complete this.
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You need to go to each individual contact and merge them with Facebook. Additionally you will need to select each contact select edit and select the pic and choose remove icon. After doing this and saving the Facebook pic will be the one thats used not the gmail pic. I also had this issue which is how I discovered that this needed to be done, however I have found no easier way to complete this.
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Well that's kinda annoying. I'd figure it would some way of using what ever pic was available, maybe Gmail first, then others. I'll check it out and report back. thx!
EDIT: Wait, if I select the FB image and then choose 'remove icon' doesn't that just delete the use of that image entirely? How would this fix my issue? Do you mean I need to save everyone's FB pic to my gallery and then set it as the image of the main contact?
Well figured out a good solution.
It appears there was no easy way to make anything outside of the actual contacts list show your FB pic after sync.
So I found this app that copies all your FB friends pics to their corresponding gmail contact image on your phone.
SyncMyPix
It worked perfectly on my phone and I was able to actually remove syncing my FB contacts all together. Which is good as that's less stuff going on.
Have no clue what Xanaki was talking about above btw, but this app works well and its free. You can even go Friend by friend to link to specific contacts if it doesn't auto match them due to you having a nickname in your list or something.
I now have it scheduled to run weekly to keep it all up to date.
I believed it was something about the Facebook API or something not allowing other applications to sync Facebook contacts.
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Hello! I put the cyanogen rom a few days ago. I really don't like the contacts management....the list is ok, but the sync of the photos just doesn't work. Only some contacts are being sync-ed with facebook showing the right photos.
And the problem is that if I use a contact widget (for example photo contact widget or animated contact widget), the contacts won't have the facebook photo....but if I go in the contact list, those contacts correctly display the facebook photo, although of course if I go into the contact description, the contact itself has no photo, but it has only the '[email protected]' of facebook, synced to it.
Is there a way to make a proper sync? I don't want to use a photo for every contact...it would be just so easy to have everything working again like it was with HTC sense (everything automatic and synced).
Is that because the HTC facebook for sense is missing with cyanogen?
And also, do you have another ROM to advice? I am not sure i really prefer this cyanogen to the stock htc sense one....
i have the same problem with Cyanogen roms... is there a solution for this?
i have no idea...the way cyanogen manages the contacts looks really not that good...htc sense was way better.
anyway, the really weird thing is that now, among my contacts, everyone has the facebook photo but 3. 3 contacts seem they cannot sync the photo from facebook...i did it 3 times, i also reset the sync with facebook and then synced again....those 3 contacts just don't sync. i checked the names: 100% correct.
it is a bit annoying...sure not so important, but it is anyway annoying.
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i have no idea...the way cyanogen manages the contacts looks really not that good...htc sense was way better.
anyway, the really weird thing is that now, among my contacts, everyone has the facebook photo but 3. 3 contacts seem they cannot sync the photo from facebook...i did it 3 times, i also reset the sync with facebook and then synced again....those 3 contacts just don't sync. i checked the names: 100% correct.
it is a bit annoying...sure not so important, but it is anyway annoying.
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If the picture doesn't sync, try going to the facebook app and going to the person's facebook page. When the picture loads there, I noticed it also loads in my contact list.
As far as know, Facebook for HTC sense lets you sync contact photos, and remembers the link (in the comments). Facebook app only sync contacts that have their number shared in their profile, and you cannot manually create a link.
Cyanogen and Htc sense don't go together, so unfortunately you wouldn't be able to sync it the way you did with htc sense.
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It will sync automatic as long as the name is the same. Thats why some are done and some are not.
Also if you edit a contact and then press menu then join if the name is similar it will show there facebook profile and you can join them.
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i have no idea...the way cyanogen manages the contacts looks really not that good...htc sense was way better.
anyway, the really weird thing is that now, among my contacts, everyone has the facebook photo but 3. 3 contacts seem they cannot sync the photo from facebook...i did it 3 times, i also reset the sync with facebook and then synced again....those 3 contacts just don't sync. i checked the names: 100% correct.
it is a bit annoying...sure not so important, but it is anyway annoying.
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I had a similar issue, and it seemed the problem was certain contacts who I'd previously (before I had the phone) assigned contact photos in Google Contacts. They were correctly linked to their Facebook accounts, but still showed the other photo. Solved it for each one by selecting 'edit contact' then scrolling right down to the end where it shows their facebook details, tap the photo there and select 'use this photo.' If the photo doesn't even show up in the 'edit' dialogue then I don't know.
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have to restart and delete cache
@rogermorse
Would you mind amending your original thread subject to reflect the fact this is about Facebook please? Many thanks in advance.
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