How do you have certain contacts have their facebook picture. I linked it to my phone to my FB account but it downloaded all my facebook contacts, i want to know how do i get my contacts to be linked to their profile picture..
Thanks..
Edit the contact you want the FB pic for. Scroll to the bottom of the contact edit page where the facebook profile pic is. Tap and hold the FB pic and select "Use this photo"
But is there anyway to get just the pic and not all the other info? FB jacks up my contacts when I let it have it's way and I end up with duplicate numbers on a lot of them
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Is your N1 syncing your contact's profile photo with their facebook profile?
Mine don't sync. I have to go to edit contact and do it.
N1 does recognize and pair the contacts with facebook profiles..just doesn't sync pictures.
strange!!! I have no problems with this... sync merges Google contacts & Facebook contacts along with the Facebook profile pics... unless there is a Google contact pic...
I have it syncing on some, but not all.
I have found the ones with problems either
A) Don't have a complete name in my phonebook
B) Have a different number in facebook.
Hmm.. quite wierd.
I am seeing a trend...
I was using HTC Sense 2.5 on WM. And all the contact whose photos were synced with facebook by sense 2.5, do not sync with facebook in android. And for some reason, gmail contacts (web, browser version) shows these pictures in contacts, but android does not.
I just deleted a contact's photo in gmail..and android instantly synced it with facebook.
im having this problem tooo! just noticed it today. i cant figure out why it wont sync tho!!....
You can go for this, worx nice
AddressBooker & exporting my Facebook Phonebook:
http://brad.livejournal.com/2398409.html
I find that Facebook only syncs people with first & last name on your contacts list. It doesn't sync only first names. I wish there was a way around that.
That is annoying, even my old blackberry would sync to partial names, and that thing is primitive in comparison.
Noticed a couple of things:
Address book names and facebook contact names have to be the same.
If you have a photo linked to the contact (i.e you synced from another phone to google and pulled the contacts back down) then you often have to specify that the phone uses the facebook profile pic rather than the pic held directly against the contact.
It's a bit of a faff around, and if you delete the pics from the contacts on your gmail account (as someone mentioned above) it should default to the facebook pic assuming there is one for the contact.
<edit> Also ensure you have facebook setup to sync friends into contacts. Facebook app -> Menu -> Settings -> Sync Contacts </edit>
Highland3r said:
Also ensure you have facebook setup to sync friends into contacts. Facebook app -> Menu -> Settings -> Sync Contacts
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This helped me. Thanks.
I could not add a facebook account directly in "Accounts", but enabling sync in the FB app automatically added it to "Accounts".
I am trying to figure out why in my contacts they about a quarter of them show facebook information with the facebook picture attached to the contact picture, and then the rest of them do not show the facebook picture but when i go into edit on the contact at the bottom shows some information like their full name from facebook, phone number and email, also showing an exclamation point with "Facebook contact information is not editable on this device" which I believe is normal. How would I get this person's picture to show when the phone already thinks the facebook account is joined? Oh and when I try to join it the person does not show up in the join list.
Unrelated question: Does anyone know a fix for slow app scrowling in 2.2 STOCK froyo? the 3D effect is nice but when I had a launcher from the market it would scroll with one swipe of my finger from the top to bottom, now the same swipe would get me just a couple rows down.
Thanks everyone
Facebook syncing
In facebook people have first and last name, If you want them to sync properly edit the contacts information to match facebook name, and that should clean things up. If not let me know.
Thats the one thing about the HD2 I liked... You can manually match your contacts with your facebook contacts. I don't think you can do that with the N1, unless you know what all of your friends facebook ID numbers are.
My contacts already are named just as they are in facebook.they have facebook information at the bottom of the edit contacts area. Just no picture.. how do I fix this?
adamhlj said:
Thats the one thing about the HD2 I liked... You can manually match your contacts with your facebook contacts. I don't think you can do that with the N1, unless you know what all of your friends facebook ID numbers are.
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You can do that with Android, too.
-> Go to contacts
-> Choose the contact you want to assign a Facebook-account to
-> Hit the menu botton and "Edit"
-> While in "edit mode" hit the menu button again and there should be a "Join" button
-> It should suggest some Facebook contacts
Attention! though, some user report, that this can change the name of the contact. Before saving make sure the contact is filed under the name you want (by editing the name if necessary).
You can revert this operation the same way but chose "Seperate" if you joined two contacts that don't fit anymore.
viper2g1 said:
My contacts already are named just as they are in facebook.they have facebook information at the bottom of the edit contacts area. Just no picture.. how do I fix this?
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If the contacts fb info is already linked to the correct contact in your phone book and its just now showing the pic, you can tell google to use it manually by;
- Going to the contact without the image, click in to there contact card and select edit from the menu.
- Then scroll down to the facebook section part of the contact info and click the profile pic shown
- a dialog should show up with the option "Use this photo"
Select that and it *should* add the image as the contacts profile pic.
If its that the accounts simply aren't linking, ensuring they had the same name worked for me, but i imagine if your still having no luck with that, the manual join described by the guy above should do the trick.
Hope that helps
Fixed by restoring phone.
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If you check "use all contacts" in stock phone contacts app, the pictures appear.
I am running CyanogenMod-6.0.0-N1 and trying to use facebook sync to sync up contact pics with the contacts in my phone. but only some of the contacts are not syncing up.
I have names set as first name then last name and facebook will connect them to the correct persons facebook but will not download that persons profile picture to set as caller ID pic. (but couple random names have synced up and the pics show up)
what could I be doing wrong? or whats the error?
Did you try to manually join them then use their facebook picture as the profile picture?
cant manually join them when they are automatically joined. but yes i tried unjoining then rejoining them.
fix that seems to work right now is to log out of facebook app and log back in. seems to be working so far.
I can't seem to find a good way to sync my facebook contacts. The regular facebook app doesn't support high-res photos, nick names (such as mom and dad), or manually assigning a contact to a facebook profile.
Other apps I've used have randomly synced EVERYONE to my contacts, I've added people from school, work, etc over the last few years, this is over 300 people!
The best I've used is "Friends Sync", which properly synced about 95% of my contacts, nicknames and all (except of course my mom, who I have as "mom"), but best of all it's high resolution, which looks amazing in any full screen caller ID app. It is lacking the ability to manually assign a profile to a contact, and if you also have regular facebook synced (so I could get those missing 5% contacts), the separate low resolution photo will take priority over "friends sync" and show that when someone calls, meaning you need to disable regular facebook sync if you want high res pictures to show.
Any suggestions or input would be very appreciated.
Have you tried SyncMyPics? This has a settings option to download highres.
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Using the facebook app you can sync the contacts, and then merge them with your existing contact (with the nickname of your choice). This doesn't solve your hi-res picture problem, but it did work for me.
You would probably even be able to merge your contacts that you created using Friendsync, just go into the contact that you created (not the one the app did) and choose to edit. Once on the edit screen, press the menu key and it will give you the option to "Join" contact. Join contacts together, and voila!
Lemme know if this works, if not, sorry.
Excellent! At first I wasn't sure what to join the contact to, being that I can't just transfer a single Facebook contact to my contacts. Then I tried making a second contact with the same name as on facebook. Facebook synced to this second contact i made being that it had the same name. I was then able to join my original contact (with the nickname) with the new facebook synced contact, and now it shows the nickname contact with all facebook info + high res picture.
Thanks!!
I continue to have the problem where the Facebook profile pictures for all of my linked contacts in my Favorite group, which also happen to be the default group of the People widget on my home screen, keep disappearing like the user has no picture. It seems that anytime I link a contact with both Facebook and Google accounts, the Google picture overrides the Facebook picture, which for the ones that keep disappearing look to have no Google picture. Then when I go into any setting on my phone that is supposed to show a Facebook profile picture, it is blank, but when I go directly into the Facebook app, their picture shows! I've now also noticed that my Google+ profile picture is blank, when it used to show up in Contacts and on the drop down setting menu User Card.
I can't count how many times I've hard reset, but every time, eventually, the pictures start to disappear and it is random and not always the same people. I'm using the stock OS on the Verizon network. As you can see from the images, the photos that don't sync hop around. Sometimes I see everyones, sometimes no ones, but almost always there is someone's picture that doesn't show up.
Facebook 1 shows the picture of a contact missing.
Facebook 2 shows that person's picture, but a different person's picture is missing. As you can see from the timestamp, they are 2 hours apart.
Facebook 3 is the Linked Contact information for the user that can't be seen in #2.
Facebook 4 is when I go to tag that person from a photo and post to Facebook, and you can see that everyone's pictures show up.
ajdelo said:
I continue to have the problem where the Facebook profile pictures for all of my linked contacts in my Favorite group, which also happen to be the default group of the People widget on my home screen, keep disappearing like the user has no picture. It seems that anytime I link a contact with both Facebook and Google accounts, the Google picture overrides the Facebook picture, which for the ones that keep disappearing look to have no Google picture. Then when I go into any setting on my phone that is supposed to show a Facebook profile picture, it is blank, but when I go directly into the Facebook app, their picture shows! I've now also noticed that my Google+ profile picture is blank, when it used to show up in Contacts and on the drop down setting menu User Card.
I can't count how many times I've hard reset, but every time, eventually, the pictures start to disappear and it is random and not always the same people. I'm using the stock OS on the Verizon network. As you can see from the images, the photos that don't sync hop around. Sometimes I see everyones, sometimes no ones, but almost always there is someone's picture that doesn't show up.
Facebook 1 shows the picture of a contact missing.
Facebook 2 shows that person's picture, but a different person's picture is missing. As you can see from the timestamp, they are 2 hours apart.
Facebook 3 is the Linked Contact information for the user that can't be seen in #2.
Facebook 4 is when I go to tag that person from a photo and post to Facebook, and you can see that everyone's pictures show up.
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FB sync has been an issue on android for a long time ever since Google removed the code for syncing with FB du to their privacy policies. I have heard of a few apps that force the sync but in the end as a Google OS I have a feeling google will always over ride it.
I have had similar issues and finally gave up trying to solve them and downloaded sync.me from the market. Works perfectly and now I don't have to worry about it.