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Contact Pictures Question

Hi,
how do i make the picture i use in GMail for a contact take precedence over the facebook contact picture?
also I've noticed sometimes my friends on facebook will change their profile picture but it never changes on my phone. Any ideas here?
thanks!

Make sure facebook sync is setup in the android settings for pictures to be updated

cymru said:
Make sure facebook sync is setup in the android settings for pictures to be updated
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yep, did that.

you may (probably) have to do it contact by contact, but if you go into contacts, pick the person who's photo you want to change (assuming you had a photo of them before, that was synced to gmail's contacts). go to their contact info, hit menu>edit contact. click on their photo, which should be the gmail photo. select "use this photo". it will override the facebook synced photo in your contact list.

[Q] Understanding Sync Feature!!

In Settings > Accounts and Sync, two accounts are listed. One is Yahoo and Other is Google. Now, for Google, contacts, mail, calendar and picasa web albums are listed. I understood all but I did not get Picasa Web Albums here because there is no app for picasa web album in my phone. Can anyone please explain me the working of sync feature for Picasa Web Albums here?
Also, for Yahoo account, only contact option is listed. Now, I understand that if I add/remove any contact from my Yahoo account on web, that will be reflected in my phone contacts but from the phone contacts, there is no way to add/remove Yahoo contact. Can anyone explain this also?
Please let me know if I am not explaining it correctly and need to explain it in better way to get answered.

There are 101 views for this post...even then there is not a single response to this thread..is this such a difficult query?

Check Contact list -> Pick some contact which has at least 1 photo inside Picassa (and You have it synced) -> go to Media tab

Thanks Hawan for the reply. Do you mean to say: If I have contact X saved as Google contact and I have photo of that contact in my picasa account then this photo is shown on the media tab of contact X and can be synced between phone and web if Sync Picasa Web Album option is checked?

vijay.gupta said:
I understood all but I did not get Picasa Web Albums here because there is no app for picasa web album in my phone. Can anyone please explain me the working of sync feature for Picasa Web Albums here?
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My stock 2.1 ROM displayed my Picasa albums under "Gallery" when sync was enabled. Now i use Kyrillos's rom and miss many things (gtalk, Gallery, etc...)

Whenn you select the picasia album sync, allows you to view, download and upload photos to your picasia/google account, if you have pictures in picasia you can see them in the stock gallery app, go to galery and searh the album named picasia.
The prupose of sync mail accounts allows you to link your contacts with their mails and information but the only mail account that can edit contacts is google,
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Yes Giosiken. After enabling picasa album sync in my phone, I am able to view all the photos that are uploaded in my picasa account in my phone. But is there any way that I can upload the photos that are in my phone to picasa web album?

Well its pretty easy, go to the gallry and do a long touch over the pic or album you want to upload to select them, a menu appears, select the share option and select picasia
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Giosiken,
That option appears even when I have not selected picasa web album sync....i want to know only the features that are enabled by selecting picasa web album sync?
One that I know is: Gallery shows picasa web album photos after selecting that option.
I just want to know photos between which sync occurs after selecting this option?

I dont think that more options are "unlocked" by selecting sync picasia albums, the feature allows you to explore and edit your picasia web albums directly into your phone and having linked your account to.your.phone.you can manually.upload your pics to new almbus in picasia account, the feature does not upload every photo you have in the phone. By the way why you are so interested in this?
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just out of curiosity :)
As synce always happens between two instances of the same entity, I was wondering, between which two instances of photos the sync happens if that option for sync picasa photo album is checked?

I haven't used that sync option but from their postis it seems to me that it is completely obvious what is happening.

Syncing fb photos to contacts.

So for some reason, my contacts will sync with their facebook counterparts, and display their facebook profile picture in the contacts app, but when I dial their number, or receive a text from them, it displays no picture. Any solution?

I think it has something to do with the 'phone' contact overriding the 'facebook' contact. Either way, the way I got around it was by deleting all the phone contacts I had and just going with google and facebook. This, of course, takes away the ability to set individual ringtones (as far as I can tell). But it should solve the issue.
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JoshRoss70 said:
So for some reason, my contacts will sync with their facebook counterparts, and display their facebook profile picture in the contacts app, but when I dial their number, or receive a text from them, it displays no picture. Any solution?
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You can try downloading SyncMyPix from market also, it will download all your facebook contacts pics and import them into your phone and google acct contact pictures, but you have to run it every couple of days/weeks if someone changes their FB profile pic and you want the updated one to show up.

jetracers said:
You can try downloading SyncMyPix from market also, it will download all your facebook contacts pics and import them into your phone and google acct contact pictures, but you have to run it every couple of days/weeks if someone changes their FB profile pic and you want the updated one to show up.
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Really... That's a new app on me. I'll be trying it. Thanks
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Haxsync vs contact sync for facebook

Hey folks, I was looking for a way to sync facebook pictures to my existing google contacts; the way HTC and Samsung phones did.
I tried Contact sync for facebook; but instead of syncing pics to your google contacts; this app just downloads another set of contacts with no phone numbers.... I would have an entry with no photo from google contacts; and 1 entry with a picture from facebook.
This is not what i'm looking for.
How does haxsync work? does it actually retrieve facebook pics and add them onto your existing contacts??
Just wanted to find out before I purchase.
THanks!

Haxsync also download another set of contacts (to your phone's contact book) however with address, pictures, birthday, phone numbers, etc. Most of the contacts will be automatically merged properly, however you will have to do some manual editing (you know, since some people are on your contact as "sister" while on FB she may be "Jane Doe", Haxsync can't know that)
Haxsync has a lot of options to customize, and the new version has the ability to merge the contact photo from FB with Google contacts, which is rather awesome (no longer have to redo Haxsync when flashing new ROMs).
I highly recommend Haxsync.

I second haxsync. It works great and it also syncs your calendars from Facebook to your phone. So once you accept an invite to an event, it'll be in your phone with dates, times, and location.
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I just want the high resolution contacts pic *google sux
and Contact Sync for Facebook is good enough for me

Emama said:
I just want the high resolution contacts pic *google sux
and Contact Sync for Facebook is good enough for me
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same here

[Q] S4 Contact Picture Question

Hi all,
I've just moved from an HTC One X to an S4 and am setting everything up like how I want it, one thing I cant figure out which was relatively simple on the One X is the management/syncing of contacts and their associated accounts.
I have set the phone to display my Google contacts and each contact is linked with their respective Facebook profile.
Currently the phone will display the Facebook profile picture for the contacts that I have NOT uploaded a picture for in Google Contacts.
All other contacts will show the contact picture that is uploaded in my Google Contacts even if they DO have a Facebook profile linked.
Is there any way to change this?
I only want to have my Google Contacts in my contact list but want to have my contacts show their Facebook profile pictures who do have a profile linked with their contact entry.
I dont want to change the 'Contacts to Display' setting to Facebook Contacts as that will show ALL my Facebook Contacts not just the ones that are linked with my Google Contacts
Thanks for any help you can provide guys