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Nightmare syncing contacts with facebook!? HELP?!

Okay so could someone help me.
Link a contact with their facebook - BUT their picture doesn't come up - well only three of my contacts have. Also on the long list of facebook contacts when you click link with profile, barely any of the pictures load up even when I press refresh/update... any ideas?
Also their statuses never pop up?
Am I missing something??

simplymee said:
Okay so could someone help me.
Link a contact with their facebook - BUT their picture doesn't come up - well only three of my contacts have. Also on the long list of facebook contacts when you click link with profile, barely any of the pictures load up even when I press refresh/update... any ideas?
Also their statuses never pop up?
Am I missing something??
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I've had this before. Are you using data or wifi? Sometimes it waits for all the contact pictures to be downloaded in the background, I had that with my Hero and then it worked fine.
What I did was just link them all, then leave it for a while, say an hour or so.
I also did mine initially on wifi to get them downloaded quicker. All ok on data too though.
Not much help, but it should just be a waiting game tbh

Is anybody having the wrong organization show up.

I have had no real issues with my N1 since I got it. I have been using CM's roms. The other day I noticed that when I was making and receiving calls the wrong organization was showing up. I noticed that if I deleted a contact and reentered it it fixed that contact. I have 200+ contacts with multiple entries and would like to see if anybody has an easier way to fix this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Manny

same here.
the organization is shown up wrong in the in-call page.
in my case, the contacts were synced via Gmail. I've checked there and the information is set correctly. even on the phone, if I go to edit the contact details, the organization is shown correctly. only when in the in-call page, the information is wrong...
tried to re-sync several times with Gmail after changing some information, only to test, but it won't correct the situation...

Same here. Contacts sync'd from Google/Gmail. Everything shows up find on both Google and phone's contact list, but in-call display shows something different.

I though it was me lol!
Yeh i noticed that, not sure if it was doing this on older cyanogen roms or not.

Funny...I get one contact picture for all of my contacts that have an organization assigned??? She's not even in the organization.

I am glad that I am not the only one. I even turned of sync and deleted all the contacts on my gmail and on phone. Then restored a back up to my gmail account and let the phone sync up but it didn't fix it. The only way I have corrected it on some contacts is to delete them and reenter them. Its okay when the only have one number but when they have multiple numbers and emails it will be a hassle.

i hope this gets into cyanogene's issue list and will be fixed within the next release.

I have the same issue.

Is anyone experiencing this issue syncing their contacts with Facebook? This was an issue for me when I first got my N1 and not syncing my contacts with Facebook fixed it.

same issue here.

Me too got same bug

I am glad that I am not the only one, but I would have expected someone to have a solution. I will have to do more searching.

Wrong Organization
I am also getting wrong organization for the calls coming in. It is quite disconcerting, because I need this data to be right. However, I fulfill this need by using the name and number to figure it out myself, and by asking the caller who they're calling from. This should be fixed soon.
I have model Nexus One, firmware 2.1-update1, baseband 32.24.00.22U_4.03.00.21_2, kernel 2.6.33.1-cyanogenmod [email protected] #1, mod version CyanogenMod-5.0.5.3-N1, build #EPE54B.
P.S., with all my "should"s, of course I am very grateful for any and all work that's gone into this for otherwise uncompensated work. I'm leaning toward learning this programming myself, so if anybody insists and points me to the right primers, I could fix it myself.

Contact pictures keep resetting

Has anyone else had this problem? I continually re-update the contact through gmail then force update on phone, still 5-10 hours (guesstimate) it resets the contact picture back.
Any help or idea would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

What picture is it setting it back to? Do you have Facebook set to sync contact pics?

Highland3r said:
What picture is it setting it back to? Do you have Facebook set to sync contact pics?
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I do not have facebook sync turned on (not really a facebook person), I did at one point, but I turned it off (I double/triple checked this). I believe it resets to the SIM contact picture.

drewX2 said:
I do not have facebook sync turned on (not really a facebook person), I did at one point, but I turned it off (I double/triple checked this). I believe it resets to the SIM contact picture.
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As far as I'm aware, SIM won't have the capacity to store contact pictures.
If you check within the contacts themselves they should show you all the images associated with that contact.
If you notice "additional" images try deleting them and see if that stops the images changing?

I manually deleted the images associated with each contact (looks like default HTC male/female head) quite some time ago. Anyhow, instead of changing the contact within gmail, I have decided to make the change on the phone itself. This is a PITA to do for all contacts, but will try.
The strange thing is that this only occurs with some contacts and not all.

The same contact pictures have reset once again. This time I noticed that the image it reset to is the same as the HTC HD2 male/female icon. And one other contact reset to the same really old (few years old) picture.
I am convinced they have to be coming from the SIM card.

I'm assuming you can't see the "old" images against the contact in the address book?
Have you checked your google contacts list (need to do this online) to make sure you don't have duplicate contacts which could be screwing up pics?

Contact pictures disappeared!

Not sure what when wrong, but I no longer have any contact pictures, only Skype contacts have pictures now. In google pictures are still in place, they simply disappeared from the phone contacts. I have a strong suspicion that this happened after recent update of Skype... Anyone faced a similar problem? And how shell I restore pictures now???

gorbick said:
Not sure what when wrong, but I no longer have any contact pictures, only Skype contacts have pictures now. In google pictures are still in place, they simply disappeared from the phone contacts. I have a strong suspicion that this happened after recent update of Skype... Anyone faced a similar problem? And how shell I restore pictures now???
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Have you tried to go to Contacts(People) and checked on settings which contacts are displayed? If that's not the case try to unlink your Gmail account from your phone...but that means you would have to reset.
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I tried to go to People->Accounts-> chose my google account. There was an option to force syncing. It showed me that everything is synced now. Yet there are no pictures!

gorbick said:
I tried to go to People->Accounts-> chose my google account. There was an option to force syncing. It showed me that everything is synced now. Yet there are no pictures!
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You have to go in to Settings>Accounts>Google, then select your account. Then hit your menu in top right corner and remove the account.
Then you re add it and it will sync up.
However removing the account will delete all messages,and other data from it.
So if you want to save the data or messages better back them up first.

somehow I was hoping there is a more elegant way of sorting this out....
This skype, it only brings more and more trouble with every next version, should have removed it years ago!

somehow I was hoping there is a more elegant way of sorting this out............
well:
1) Go to GMail contacts in your computer (not on the phone).
2) Select ALL your contacts or only My Contacts and mark them as "Starred in Android".Or even better: make a new label lets call it "repair" and mark all the contacts/my contacts as "repair"
3) The previous step forces Google to sync the contacts in GMail with the phone (with picture and all). It will take a while depending on the number of contacts that you have, so be patient and leave the phone alone while it is doing the sync.
4) After some 10 or 15 minutes (I have about 300 contacts), all the pics of GMail contacts appeared on my phone
5) Now, go you may to GMail contacts again and select ALL your contacts and uncheck the "Starred in Android" or "repair" option. Again, this will take a few minutes while GMail syncs with your phone.
I prefer to use only "My contacts" as it will be logical thats the only place with pictures in it.
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By the way. I have the idea that, as soon as you restart Skype on your Android your pictures dissappear again.
Be very careful with contacts on your phone who lost there picture. If you edit one of them on your phone it will synch to Google of course without the picture.
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So no Skype to be used?
Thanks Microsoft. But I fully understand that it is very difficult for such a small company to make decent software.
P.s. A part of this solution I stole from another forum. Unfortunately cannot find anymore where I got it from to give the full credits to.
I just copied it in my Evernote.
P.s. 2: I have a galaxy II so I suppose this thread should be under Android software.

That was a good advise indeed! I managed to restore contact pictures. Then I started skype again - and now I have no more pictures again. So I can definitely say this problem is due to skype... So now I have dilemma: either live without contact pictures, or live without skype... Nice

gorbick said:
That was a good advise indeed! I managed to restore contact pictures. Then I started skype again - and now I have no more pictures again. So I can definitely say this problem is due to skype... So now I have dilemma: either live without contact pictures, or live without skype... Nice
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Indeed, Skype destroys the pictures.
However strange that not many people complain about this.

herpi said:
Indeed, Skype destroys the pictures.
However strange that not many people complain about this.
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Oh yes, it is really strange that this problem is not bothering anyone... Or is it just me who have this problem?? I tried to google it, thinking that maybe there is a solution somewhere in skype settings. But I could not find anything! For the moment I just disabled contact syncing with skype via telephone settings. Let's see if it helps...

gorbick said:
Oh yes, it is really strange that this problem is not bothering anyone... Or is it just me who have this problem?? I tried to google it, thinking that maybe there is a solution somewhere in skype settings. But I could not find anything! For the moment I just disabled contact syncing with skype via telephone settings. Let's see if it helps...
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Disable Skype contact synching! That's seems to solve it. Great idea. never thought about that option.
Huib

Even I had the same issue and had to disable Skype syncing so that i get the pictures back.
How can MS release the update without testing it properly!
Also, there is nobody on the internet talking about it except some few of us...i don;t know why aren't they bothered at all...as good as nobody noticed it...

seaheye documents
herpi said:
Indeed, Skype destroys the pictures.
However strange that not many people complain about this.
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Happened to me too yesterday. Microsoft..yey!
Quick fix with ON/OFF starred contacts in android.
Definitely stop syncing Skype contacts! :good:

There's already a thread by me about it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2351825
I wasn't sure it was caused by Skype until just now, when I found this thread and similar thread on Skype forums - http://community.skype.com/t5/Andro...ing-all-non-Skype-contact-photos/td-p/1735257
And so do many others, probably... They don't blame Skype, I think.

i actually have the same problem.( GALAXY S4 ) it started about a week ago, contact pictures decided to dissappear, after i updated skype, im gonna try to uncheck the contact sync for skype and will report back

Sure - Skype
Same problem - HTC Desire X. After installing Skype 4 update all contacts photos (Google) disappeared. Syncing via Starred, after Skype sync photos again disappeared. Uninstall Skype 4, install 3.2 = contacts photos OK, but Skype contats synced only cca half... and without avatars.

gorbick said:
That was a good advise indeed! I managed to restore contact pictures. Then I started skype again - and now I have no more pictures again. So I can definitely say this problem is due to skype... So now I have dilemma: either live without contact pictures, or live without skype... Nice
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LOL, I just couldn't live without skype.
But you can alter to Whats app or viber.
Recently I use Wechat. That's a instant messaging app from a Chinese firm. Convenient but still Skype holds most users.

Poly136 said:
Same problem - HTC Desire X. After installing Skype 4 update all contacts photos (Google) disappeared. Syncing via Starred, after Skype sync photos again disappeared. Uninstall Skype 4, install 3.2 = contacts photos OK, but Skype contats synced only cca half... and without avatars.
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Did you try to change the settings IN Skype where you can opt for NOT synchronizing contacts?
That should be enough.
Skype works fine with that option switched of..
And it will show all your existing Skype contacts.
Huib

[Q] Contact photos missing?

Today while I was on a foreign wifi access point, my contact photos all decided that they were too cool for me. Google contacts still shows all the contact photos, but the phone either has blank ones, or defaults to google+/skype profile photos. I can't sync contacts to make them reappear on the phone either. Anyone know what this might be?

Bump. Mine did this yesterday and I have no idea why. I'm running stock rooted 4.2.3 or whatever. I noticed that "People Details" is stuck trying to sync and hasn't sync'd since 6/25/2013.

MERKJONES said:
Bump. Mine did this yesterday and I have no idea why. I'm running stock rooted 4.2.3 or whatever. I noticed that "People Details" is stuck trying to sync and hasn't sync'd since 6/25/2013.
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Hey man. Just wipe you contacts and contacts storage data in settings -> apps. It worked for me.
EDIT:
For all future readers, you'd only need to delete the data for contacts storage.

johnd.the.cuban said:
Hey man. Just wipe you contacts and contacts storage data in settings -> apps. It worked for me.
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That seems to have worked. Thanks!

MERKJONES said:
That seems to have worked. Thanks!
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No problem man, I'm glad I could help.

I found out something very curious. When I have skype installed on my phone, and it's set to sync contacts, it makes all the contact photos blank, and defaults to either google plus' photos, or skype's photos. Anyone else have this problem?

My contacts pictures disappeared the moment i updated to latest android.. But then i put then again.
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