Related
Hi guys,
Ive got a nexus s running ICS. The problem I have is that as I keep my contacts sync with gmail, the display picture of the contacts is very poor! some of them are so bad that its difficult to tell who he/she is.
Can anyone please help me fix this problem? I have read some forums and people have commented that this is fixed in ICS but clearly it isnt as I still have the same issue.
Thank you
Saud
There is an app called haxsync on the market. It syncs your Facebook photos to the contacts, and they look great
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
It's caused by syncing with Google contacts. There's nothing you can do aside from syncing with Facebook (which AFAIK, suffers the same problem).
rocket999 said:
There is an app called haxsync on the market. It syncs your Facebook photos to the contacts, and they look great
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks for the quick reply.
Im not really a facebook user. Are there any other alternatives? I usually get my photos from picasa. Is there anyway I can get them higher quality?
saudkhan said:
thanks for the quick reply.
Im not really a facebook user. Are there any other alternatives? I usually get my photos from picasa. Is there anyway I can get them higher quality?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Only way is to add them in manually on a contact by contact basis via gallery.
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
saudkhan said:
thanks for the quick reply.
Im not really a facebook user. Are there any other alternatives? I usually get my photos from picasa. Is there anyway I can get them higher quality?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
or you can back-up them by Titanium backup, and then restore. Quality will be the same.
rocket999 said:
There is an app called haxsync on the market. It syncs your Facebook photos to the contacts, and they look great
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
They really do look fantastic but contact pictures that were taken with the camera still look awful
But haxsync really does make a gigantic difference
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2 Beta-2
jcr81 said:
Only way is to add them in manually on a contact by contact basis via gallery.
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is true. If you manually assign contact pictures AFTER your contacts have been synced, they will stay hi res. A PITA, but it works.
an alternative is Friendcaster that has an option that allows the use of high resolution images, it is also best of the original facebook app.
Is there any alternative app for non-facebook users?
I would hope so, but afaik there isn't any.
Why is that whenever I post an Instagram pic on Facebook, I just get a small thumbnail plus a link to my Instagram photo? This is repeatable on my brother's S3. On iOS, when I post the same on Facebook, it will show a bigger photo.
Is this an Android thing? Or Instagram has given iOS user's more priority?
Doesn't happen to me, I get the full pic.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
No problem with Instagram so far.... Getting full pic too...
kofiaa said:
Doesn't happen to me, I get the full pic.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
same here...
No problem here aswell.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
There is no problem on my S3
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
mdfpido said:
Why is that whenever I post an Instagram pic on Facebook, I just get a small thumbnail plus a link to my Instagram photo? This is repeatable on my brother's S3. On iOS, when I post the same on Facebook, it will show a bigger photo.
Is this an Android thing? Or Instagram has given iOS user's more priority?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try uninstalling and re-installing again.... (Farcebook, and Instagram)
I believe this is due to the sharing settings you have set in instagram, Check them all and it may give you your answer
Let me know if you want anymore info and remember it costs nothing to click Thanks !
>using instagram
>any year
Same problem here ..
No full pic
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
The way to work around it is this.
Take a photo using the camera not using instagrams camera then click on the photo in gallery and press the share icon and select instagrams. Then resize the photo and rotate.
Select your filter if you want! Then click the top right icon (arrow) and select Facebook.
And there you go!
The way that your getting thumbnails is sending an already edited photo within instagram by pressing the 3 dots and selecting share?
Hope this helps!
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
Anyone knows how to save pic in instagram?
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
thanks
Doesn't happen to me, I get the full pic.
Hello all,
In my stock messaging app, many of my contact pictures show a weird image next to the contact name.
Image: http://i.imgur.com/rSSuq.png
Can anyone explain why that contact picture appears?
Thank you.
The phone or the silhouette?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2
It means you haven't assigned those contacts a photo
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
I am talking about the images of the phone with "SMS" on them, not the silhouette of the face.
Why does this occur for some but not others?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
rcllcr said:
I am talking about the images of the phone with "SMS" on them, not the silhouette of the face.
Why does this occur for some but not others?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've never seen this on any phone before
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
rcllcr said:
Hello all,
In my stock messaging app, many of my contact pictures show a weird image next to the contact name.
Image: http://i.imgur.com/rSSuq.png
Can anyone explain why that contact picture appears?
Thank you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you ever had the SIM card in a Windows phone?
I had a windows mobile phone 3 years ago. But I have changed sim cards since then. I just got a new micro sim for my nexus 4. The issue started a couple months ago on my Samsung captivate. Now it has carried over to this device.
Any ideas?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Do you use GroupMe? Pretty sure this is the cause of the issue. I think GroupMe assigns people with dumphones that icon in conversations. If you choose to sync GroupMe contacts with your phone contacts, I think your phone will display that icon for them.
rccola159 said:
Do you use GroupMe? Pretty sure this is the cause of the issue. I think GroupMe assigns people with dumphones that icon in conversations. If you choose to sync GroupMe contacts with your phone contacts, I think your phone will display that icon for them.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This was the issue. I simply disabled the sync of group and contacts, then reset the app.
Thank you so much for your help.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Hi All
I would like to know how to sync my contacts with Facebook. I need the profile pictures as contacts' picture.
Thanks for the help in advance
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
best sync app i know of
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
HaxSync is hands down the best contact sync for facebook. It will let you pick how accurate names have to be (similar spelling or exact, and everything in between), cropping the face, if the picture they have is too big and all in HD (no low res pics). Also lets you sync facebook calendar and contacts birthdays into their contact card and their timeline statuses.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
Thank you all. Why Facebook does this sync? Isn't there a setting for that?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
ofczi said:
Thank you all. Why Facebook does this sync? Isn't there a setting for that?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's a LOOOOOOONG running issue between FB and Google over all of this...Google it for more info as it's too long to get into here!
Just a quick question..
Does these apps incorporate all those Facebook contacts into our phone's contacts which aren't there at present?
As in I have a number of Facebook contacts which aren't on my phone and i don't even want them to sync.... Just want the pictures of people in my phone through Facebook.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
filthykid said:
Just a quick question..
Does these apps incorporate all those Facebook contacts into our phone's contacts which aren't there at present?
As in I have a number of Facebook contacts which aren't on my phone and i don't even want them to sync.... Just want the pictures of people in my phone through Facebook.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
In HaxSync, there is a setting to only sync existing contacts, yes.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4
Chrono_Tata said:
In HaxSync, there is a setting to only sync existing contacts, yes.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Really? thanks.. will try
HaxSync was my app of choice but now I just added photos to my Google contacts as I'm not fussed if all the FB info is there
EddyOS said:
HaxSync was my app of choice but now I just added photos to my Google contacts as I'm not fussed if all the FB info is there
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ditto this. Plus, it is easy and quick to manually add/change a profile picture from FB to Google contacts. And this actually works better since on occasion some people insist on having a goofy @SS profile pic.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 4
Hi, all
I am using Ubersync for facebook in my N4. It has imported all of my contacts but no phone numbers. How can i sync my facebook contacts with phone numbers to my Contact list. Normal sync thru the phone is also unsuccesful
I know this is probably more related to the actual FB app but I feel like it's a complete violation of privacy and I don't particularly want this happening but can not seem to find a setting to turn it off.. Here is a scenario where this would be completely out of place and unacceptable..
You take a picture of something private .. You or a friend gets your phone and opens the Facebook app... Oh look the last 3 pics you took.... Really? WTF? Anyone know how to turn this off?
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Check settings. Turn off facebook sync photos.
Just using Facebook is violation of privacy. Even if you find away to turn it off that feature; Facebook is always sucking up information from your device (contacts, location, call logs, pictures, and so on). This is one of the reason I don't use Facebook.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
That's definitely true... Makes me sad. I think in this issue though the most disturbing thing is that it's accessing another app (gallery) and then putting the 3 most recent pics in the app (suggesting) you post them. Who's to say their appropriate to post. I don't like this at all.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
jcnbama said:
That's definitely true... Makes me sad. I think in this issue though the most disturbing thing is that it's accessing another app (gallery) and then putting the 3 most recent pics in the app (suggesting) you post them. Who's to say their appropriate to post. I don't like this at all.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Open the Facebook app and tap the top left main menu in your sidebar*Scroll to the bottom and select*Account*>*App Settings*>*Sync PhotosChoose*Don't sync my photos
If you are rooted install below app. This will give you some control over apps permission.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.schurich.android.tools.appopsstarter
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
Don't sync photos is already selected. This is new. It's not syncing my photos it's just suggesting photos from my gallery (the last 3 taken) for me to post. Very annoying. I will definitely check out the other app you put on here. I apologize I couldn't quote because the XDA app kinda sux.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
I've notice same thing did you manage to remove that "new feature" ?
z0rin said:
I've notice same thing did you manage to remove that "new feature" ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Guys, just get another app for Facebook. There's tons of apps that don't these extra permissions and don't steal your data, AND THEY RUN BETTER than the stock Facebook app. Example : fast for facebook (search it!)
z0rin said:
I've notice same thing did you manage to remove that "new feature" ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No I didn't. I've tried alternative FB apps in the past. Haven't generally had much success but maybe I'll give it another go..
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Fb app is the worst app ever, I started using fb on browser and all kinds of wonders happened, like improved battery life
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
The facebook app is becoming worse and more invasive after each update, i think it's time to switch to an unofficial app for it
jcnbama said:
I apologize I couldn't quote because the XDA app kinda sux.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes the xda app is a bit buggy but you can quote.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
No... I can't quote.... I'm not just making it up... I have to post another post to be able to click on a post to quote it...
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Ibrahim.Rahman said:
Yes the xda app is a bit buggy but you can quote.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So it ends up looking like this. I tapped on my post, so I could quote your post. Because it always highlights the one above it. Don't say random stuff if you don't know what you're talking about. Obviously if I could have quoted I would've done it. Been doing this a while....
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
jcnbama said:
So it ends up looking like this. I tapped on my post, so I could quote your post. Because it always highlights the one above it. Don't say random stuff if you don't know what you're talking about. Obviously if I could have quoted I would've done it. Been doing this a while....
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes that is a bug. However if you tap the time at the right hand side of each post, the corresponding post is highlighted, not the one above it.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't... Sorry for being abrasive. Just been very frustrated with the XDA app lately. It used to be so much easier to use.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app
danyf90 said:
The facebook app is becoming worse and more invasive after each update, i think it's time to switch to an unofficial app for it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good idea
Tapatalk FTW!
badboy47 said:
Open the Facebook app and tap the top left main menu in your sidebar*Scroll to the bottom and select*Account*>*App Settings*>*Sync PhotosChoose*Don't sync my photos
If you are rooted install below app. This will give you some control over apps permission.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.schurich.android.tools.appopsstarter
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
App Ops not working on kitkat 4.4.2, when i launch it, i get message "unfortunately, settings has stopped"
any way to make it work?
or good alternative app????
sid.8491 said:
App Ops not working on kitkat 4.4.2, when i launch it, i get message "unfortunately, settings has stopped"
any way to make it work?
or good alternative app????
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, there is a good alternative:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2540233
Sent from Nexus 4, Tapatalk
sid.8491 said:
App Ops not working on kitkat 4.4.2, when i launch it, i get message "unfortunately, settings has stopped"
any way to make it work?
or good alternative app????
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There is an app called AppOps X that works on 4.4.2
Here
Or Xposed module
Here