My S8+ arrives and will load from scratch. Im replacing my Note 4 running 6.0.1. I'm trying to get all high resolution/large contact photos.
Here are different ways I have done it in the past;
1. I use Microsoft Exchange 2016/Office 365 to sync my contacts which I beleive does not allow the transfer of full res contact photos.
2. I have created a folder with all my contacts in it. I can use Cheetah Sync tool to update my laptop folder with the phone and then go into each contact and add the photo. Its a clunky way and everytime I get a new phone, I have to manually go in and add everytime.
3. I can create in Gmail duplicate contacts with the photos already attached. I believe those will transfer to the phone as full res. And then LINK the contacts.
4. I used Sync.Me to pull photos from Facebook. The problem is none of those were high res. I purchased the license but maybe I did not have it confiigured correctly or perhaps Facebook shut down the ability to do it with high res photos
Has anything changed in Android 7.0 or on the S8+ to make this any easier or automatic? I dont plan to root the device.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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I wrote a little app called Fonebook which syncs your facebook friends photos into your outlook contacts - when you then sync with your phone you get the profile image.
Im looking at adding a few more features and possibly creating a "Pro" version to try and recoup the cost of the library Im having to use so I can get full sized images into outlook (the outlook api sucks!)
Im not sure which windows phone allow the caller id to be full screen (I know mine doesnt!) - if you know of anywhere I might be able to get a list of smartphones/pda's which support this could you point me in that direction please!
If you have any ideas for this type of application, or have any suggestions when it comes to creating a "pro" version of something as oppose to relying on donations could you please fill in this short survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=xOAJWNgBXsnGAopW7zqDNQ_3d_3d
Thanks for reading this (the current version of the app is here in case you are curious: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2442338999
Thanks
Ross
you might wanna take a look at s2u2 it's a iphone slider app which gives us wm touch screen users full screen caller id if there was a way for your app to resize the facebook pictures to the size of the screen wqvga, qvga, vga, wvga
you may also want to look at skybook. I think it has a similar feature where it takes the profile picture from facebook and adds it to your contacts picture. I tried it once with skybook and it worked fairly well until I received errors with logging in, so I uninstalled it.
using the new facebook app from winmo 6.5 and don't have any issue logging in, only problem is that I can't update the photos like in skybook.
I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
good luck
I would also be interested in some way to sync the contact details from Facebook to WM.
people tend to keep facebook up to date with phone numbers email addresses etc, and it would be handy to have this information downloaded automatically.
EDIT: I see you have covered the fact that Facebook block this option on the page above, but I still think its a worthy idea and have joined the petition!
Fosimo was the only thing that I could get to work for syncing facebook data. My only complaint was that it added everyone's birthdays to my calendar...
I like the idea behind this, however, I do not use outlook on my home pc.
Does this work without hooking your phone to your PC? I ask because I rarely ever sync my phone with my home PC, I do sync to my work PC but I don't sync the email, and it's a work pc, so no facebook there....
I know that new SPB mobile shell program does this but I really don't see a point in installing that and keeping it around just to sync outlook pictures. I prefer to use my touchflo that came installed on my phone. I just picked up a Fuze, my old phone was an 8525 and SPB was the best solution for it...
Is there a standalone program that would do the same thing?
You really should put a mirror of that file somewhere else, man. SkyDrive is being broken. I was searching for an app like that, saw Fonebook and OutSync. i don't care which one I get, i just want a link. Hors Skydrive, please.
well to be honest fonebook is the best app i saw so far for syncing facebook contact pics with outlook contacts.
i liked the feature to be able to choose manually which facebook contact corresponds to an outlook contact. (a missing feature to many other apps)
the only problem it has is that at the moment almost everyone use high resolution screen mobile phones with vga and wvga and the pics that sync with your app are very small and blurry when viewed in full screen incoming call apps like s2u2 that most people use. so a great addition to your app would be to add an option to download the contact pics to a chosen resolution that corresponds to vga/wvga/qvga/wqvga and to save the cashe somewhere in the pc even.
please keep this project up and running and update it asap
Got a Topaz, and have TF3D (the touchy interface from HTC), set that up to sync image to facebook.
So My images go Facebook -> phone -> outlook
instead of Facebook -> outlook -> phone
Works for me.
Personally, I don't think there's much money to be made on this (a pro version) when newer phones have this built in, and there's already other good free apps out there, unless you can add some seriously impressive functions, and even then, the free competitors would soon add those same features.
- Anthony
Hope can syncs the high resolution pics in next version.
And is it cannot syncs the birthday if the user didn't type the birthday year?
Finally cleaned up my contact list and linked all contact to Facebook and I now have pictures on all my contacts (with the little F on them). I did all this while in wifi to minimize usage of datausage on my current plan.
I then logged off wifi and then the "social" function within Sense UI. The pictures were still there, but after a while they started disappearing one after one.
Question : Is there any way to make the pictures permanent on you contacts and only update them while on WIFI? If not, it should be a function.
Try the program listed in here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=556918
It should pull your links on Windows and should update google with the photos, so can be used offline and stored on the phone.
You will get bad quality with this though as its an outstanding issue with Android / WM and Sync
So, I just bought the Epic.. Coming from HTC Pro 2... Syncing with my contacts from my Exchange 2007 server and Outlook 2007.
So, I have loaded up most of my contacts with photos using Outlook.. The issue is, they degrade the image to 72x72.. Looks horrible.. At one time or another, I used Photo Contacts Pro for Windows Mobile, and it made the image quality 300x300 which was much better,
So, now on the Epic, I want to start replacing some of the contact pictures I have.. What is the best way of going around that? If I use Oulook (which is the fastest method), it will degrade the picture to a blury/jaggy mess... If I use the contact settings on the Epic, I see I can load them from my Picassa... But what resolution/dpi will that be at?
Is there a better method?
Bonus question: Is there a way to backup all the links I make with my contacts (ie: linking each to Facebook), so when I put a new custom ROM on, I woun't lose all that work?
Thanks in advance for any help!
I would say the problem is def the limitations of outlook. I have noticed this happen to me before when syncing my contacts from outlook to any device I used iphone the biggest problem. Now using android I have google manage all my contacts because its effortless. Just type in your email and they are there. I will note though that you can set the images of your contacts from gmail contact page but they still do not seem to be quite as high quality as when I set them via the phone. But once they are set threw the phone the quality will remain high on the next device I sync them to.
Just got the G4...anyone else not able to change the contact pictures? It let's me go through the motions but doesn't actually save the added/changed picture. WTF???
Edit - Although I can't change/add contact photos on the phone itself, I can change them from within Google Voice and have them sync up that way. While that's fine and dandy, I have to say I don't like it! I have no choice to have the contacts on my phone...they are automatically synced to my Google account. This is yet another MM "feature" I don't want. Whatever, that's me. I guess I have to adapt. I think KK was/is my favorite Android OS.
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Just got the G4...anyone else not able to change the contact pictures? It let's me go through the motions but doesn't actually save the added/changed picture. WTF???
Edit - Although I can't change/add contact photos on the phone itself, I can change them from within Google Voice and have them sync up that way. While that's fine and dandy, I have to say I don't like it! I have no choice to have the contacts on my phone...they are automatically synced to my Google account. This is yet another MM "feature" I don't want. Whatever, that's me. I guess I have to adapt. I think KK was/is my favorite Android OS.
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I've added photos to all my contacts with no problem. I'm not sure what your problem could be but I have 2 G4's that I've added photos to.
Are your contacts saved to your phone only or on your Gmail? I know if you use outlook or Yahoo they can be finicky. It's not a MM thing. It's the standard Google contacts app it may just be where your saving your contacts. I too have no issues saving pictures to them.
For the past 5 years I have only had my contacts on my phone. I export/import (via vcf file) anytime I get a new phone or switch roms. When I imported to the G4 I don't recall it asking to import to the phone or Google. It's my preference to have contacts on the phone...that being said, I have made my changes in Google & have synced to my phone. In the long run I have achieved what I wanted but still cannot change the picture on the phone itself. I also see no option to transfer/display contacts on the phone. Whatever.
Thanks for your input.
mn1968 said:
For the past 5 years I have only had my contacts on my phone. I export/import (via vcf file) anytime I get a new phone or switch roms. When I imported to the G4 I don't recall it asking to import to the phone or Google. It's my preference to have contacts on the phone...that being said, I have made my changes in Google & have synced to my phone. In the long run I have achieved what I wanted but still cannot change the picture on the phone itself. I also see no option to transfer/display contacts on the phone. Whatever.
Thanks for your input.
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When you click on a contract and then go to edit mode by clicking on the pencil looking icon, you don't have a camera symbol near where you would have a contact picture?
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When you click on a contract and then go to edit mode by clicking on the pencil looking icon, you don't have a camera symbol near where you would have a contact picture?
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Yes, the camera symbol is there. I can browse my gallery, select a picture, and crop it. I click the check mark to save it but it doesn't stick.
I can not change/add contact pictures on the phone. I have to do it through Gmail/Voice online then sync.
That's odd, where is the default save location for your pictures?
SD Card > DCIM. Same as I've always used.
mn1968 said:
SD Card > DCIM. Same as I've always used.
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It shouldn't matter but for grins have you tried setting a contact pic from internal storage?
I just got my S8 today. On my s6 I was able to easily add photos to individual contacts. However I cant see how to do this on s8. I have read online about opening the contacts app, selecting edit and press the camera icon. But there is no camera icon. All edit does is allow me to edit the contact name number and email address.
What am I missing here? How do I add the photos on contacts?
You click on particular contact name: you'll see 4 icons with rightmost being details: click on that, big camera is above the name: click on that and you'll have camera on to take picture you can save. I have not figured out how to pick pictures already taken from gallery yet. If you imported contacts from your old phone, older pictures should transfer as well.
I created a folder that has all my Contact picture headshots in it. The only was I got this to work was to copy the actual photos directly into the Gallery folder. You cannot copy the entire folder. At least not for me. When I copied the entire folder over, Gallery did not recognize it. When I copy and pasted all the individual photos, it did not recognize them until I rebooted the phone. At least then it recognized them. I was using Exchange for Outlook. It keeps overwriting the locally attached profile pics or something was causing them from going from large photos to small ones . At the end of the day, I ended up going back and attaching photos on my laptop thru Gmail and then having Gmail automatically sync those with my phone. Make sure you have Gmail selected under Contacts. The only other issue I am trying to solve now is to find a Caller ID program that shows large contact photos on incoming and outgoing calls.
1. Select photo from Gallery
2. From options menu select Set as contact picture
3. From the contacts list choose the contact
4. Crop the photo
5. Press Done
harpo14 said:
I just got my S8 today. On my s6 I was able to easily add photos to individual contacts. However I cant see how to do this on s8. I have read online about opening the contacts app, selecting edit and press the camera icon. But there is no camera icon. All edit does is allow me to edit the contact name number and email address.
What am I missing here? How do I add the photos on contacts?
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Go to contact, click edit then *click on contact picture. Under the camera mood there are cartoon characters in boxes select the yellow flower with a white background on the buttom left hand side click it. It will take you to your album where you can select whatever picture u want to save as the contact picture. I hope this help I just did it. Wish I can post a video on how to. Bye