[q] incoming call facebook pictures - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm using the stock facebook app. Is there a way to have the synchronized facebook pictures show when that person is calling you? Right now it only show their names. Only contacts where i manually added a picture show up when that person calls.
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Click on your contacts and choose a contact. Hit the menu key at the bottom and select 'Mark as default'. At the top should be 'Caller ID', and the facebook picture for that contact you synced. hit the radio button next to the picture and save.
Voila!
Hope that helps.

Thanks! Wish it did that automatically though, instead of me setting defaults for each contact by hand.
By any chance is there a way for the Incoming Call Picture to be bigger? For some reason it shows up quite a bit smaller than it actually is.

zerkai said:
By any chance is there a way for the Incoming Call Picture to be bigger? For some reason it shows up quite a bit smaller than it actually is.
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Not that I'm aware of. That is probably done to ensure proper resolution of the photograph.

using the STOCK fb Go to accounts and settings> Facebook> Sync contacts.
Sometimes there are 2 entries here because of facebook app. stock is better for contact syncing.
In phone Contacts press
Menu> Get Friends> Facebook> Choose all the freinds you want to sync with phone.
In phone contacts make sure first and last name are the same and they should sync. (most did for me).
For the ones that dont, long press a contact and select "Join Contact" and select from list you chose earlier, or some suggestions, or if you forgot some click get freinds.
A contact can be joined with upto 4 syncing profiles, 1 of which will always be phone, some of my contacts are joined to "phone, google, Windows Live, and Facebook"
other setting to play with:
Menu> More> Display >
only contacts with phones
scroll down to Facebook and CHECK contacts
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Am I the only one whos stock Facebook app's sync experiences frequent problems and "will be back shortly"?

Is there a way for the incoming/ outgoing call pictures to displayed bigger? I tried the full screen caller id app but it stretches the already small facebook synced pictures. Also the built in facebook sync(for the full screen app) is still broken.
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zerkai said:
Am I the only one whos stock Facebook app's sync experiences frequent problems and "will be back shortly"?
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i had that issue the other day.
note: i have the facebook app TOO but dont sync contacts with it.
i use the default sns syncing because it has the little "F" logo.
anyways i fixed the problem with the default syncing by removing the "Facebook APP" settings from "Accounts and Sync". even though they were NOT set ON. and the other started working again. Re-started facebook app, re-log in, no syncing... ok DONE. worked for me at least

There's also SyncMyPix.

Does anyone know of a way to have a bigger and more high quality image to be used for the caller id? Currently the "full screen caller id" app can't sync with facebook properly, you would have to do each contact manually.
Would be an awesome feature in a ROM, lol
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GVXMPP-Push notification of Google SMS!

ok guys, im sure many of u are annoyed by the fact that google voice (official) refreshes every 5 minutes! so that mean you have to wait 5 minutes to get your SMS and that is just stupid. i heard many of you use GV by eric (i think thats his name) and actually stopped working on his app but the cool thing is that he has notification setup for every 1 minute! thats cool, but lame at the same time because you have to use two apps to get a notification. well i just found the app to solve our problems!
Its called GVXMPP and you can get it here!
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Basically it uses the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) to literally PUSH your SMS to you! no more waiting for you SMS to come through. for me, being on tmobile, i canceled my texting plan and i just use google voice to send a SMS and I thought i would just have to deal with the whole 5 min notification.
Its really easy to setup and use. Its involves forwarding your SMS to a specific email address (be it your GVXMPP username) and when you open the app, you can see them there. Of course, you could just push them to your regular email address but this is nice because it groups it all under each senders name and you can have an ongoing conversation.
The problems:
This app is in ALPHA stage. It doesnt look pretty and it has some issues. This is the email that I sent them about their app:
-notification bar doesn't clear when u click on on the sms.
-connection randomly disconnects even if the app is running. Takes a couple secs to reload.
-msg from friend was displayed twice. First one didn't come through cuz it was disconnected. After reconnection (after i sent a msg) I got two of the same sms from them.
-when you open an sms from the notification panel, when u hit back it doesn't take u back to the app homescreen (where it displays the sms senders) it just shows you the last person u spoke with and the last message (it removes the newer message or doesn't update) hitting back should take u to the app home menu.
-when u text in landscape mode the text just keep scrolling horizontally as you type. Doesn't jump to the next line like normal.
-(not a bug) ugly ui, can't generate new sms, no picture of sender, not sure why it displays the long ID under the senders name, needs to be integrated with the Google voice app but I doubt that's something you can control. Just so its easier to like place a call or see contact info.
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and their response was:
1. Notification Bar doesn't clear - this has been fixed and will be released to the market tonight.
2. Connection Randomly Disconnects - We are continuing to work on this, and so far it's been getting better.
3. Message Displayed Twice - Known issue, working on a fix.
4. Back / Navigation Issues - Noted, will put it on the list of things to fix.
5. Landscape Mode - What kind of phone do you have?
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When you get a message, it will pop up in the notification panel. (see below for a screenshot). Okay guys, so try it out. It works for me, yes some hiccups, but they are suppose to release an update tonight! let me know what you think, hit me up on Twitter
Screenshots:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/
oh and....ITS FREE!!!
Bricks were shat.
*Searches on Market for it*
Iman07,
Thanks for your awesome write-up!
Indeed the app is "alpha", but over the past week I've been able to make huge strides in improving it, and am going to try my best to stick to making new releases whenever possible to squash bugs and add functionality.
Another cool thing to point out, you can sign in to your GVXMPP account with any XMPP client, such as Pidgin or Adium. This will allow you to get your SMS messages in the same push format on your desktop/laptop. Additionally, we do not require your Google username or password to make this service work, unlike other solutions.
There will be an update hitting the market shortly which will include:
- Contact Sorting - Contacts will be sorted alphabetically.
- Notification Bug - Notifications will now be properly cleared.
- Double Message - Messages were being appended to the conversation list even if they were already displayed, this should no longer happen.
- Performance - A few small performance increases that should cut down on memory usage.
Some things we have planned for the near future:
- Contact Photo integration.
- Better contacts integration (initiate calls from chats, etc).
- Better unread message indicators on the contact list.
- Overall UI improvements, including conversation themes.
If you would like to stay up to date, follow @gvxmpp on Twitter, or feel free to post bugs/suggestions to this thread.
As previously stated, GVXMPP is free and I intend to keep it that way.

Remove messagewidget from Lockscreen?

Hi,
I'm using GO SMS on my mobile, instead of the built in SMS app.
The widget on the lockscreen (unfortunally; I'm not able to capture screenshots with this phone) shows me "unread messages count" because i dont use the built in app. How can i remove this widget?
Its enoying
Edit: Phone is rooted!
2nd that!
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Since a great person told me the deal on how to capture screeners (hold home button and press power button - kawabong!), I can attach a screenshot:
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I would like to know this as well >_>
you can freeze the message app with titanium backup.
sometimes the message on the lockscreen comes back though... then you have to defrost, open message app, and then freeze again.
Hope a better solution comes up.
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planetj said:
you can freeze the message app with titanium backup.
sometimes the message on the lockscreen comes back though... then you have to defrost, open message app, and then freeze again.
Hope a better solution comes up.
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Would be cooler if Go SMS could actually "take over" that widget and show its message count instead . Then it would actually be useful.
Would like to sort this out too. I guess a replacement lockscreen could work?
It does. Or you can uninstall or freeze the mms.apk in system/app/ - but I lost a few messages then, they dissapeared after I had read them. Tho all the messages from before I uninstalled was still there; so remember to backup both SMS/MMS and mms.apk before in case of emergency.
I have the past days found a setting in GO SMS that i can “check“ if the stock mms.apk is uninstalled, so that might have been the problem that I didn't. So try to toggle that checkbox.
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This setting in GO SMS Pro. Have now removed stock mms.apk and enabled this setting. Seems like everything works great now.
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Heed that warning though...
If you remove mms.apk you will inevitably run into problems sending/receiving msgs
mine doesn't always show 'x messages received', 90 out of 100 times it doesn't show... My question is how to get it working again. I'm using the stock sms application
Getting rid of the message notification with GO SMS PRO.
I solved this in another manner:
installed widgetlocker and message center and created my own lock screen which BTW is nicer then stock.
Edit: here are a couple screenshots, the first with message center, the second with executive assistant
solution...
so,
after I tried it at CyanogenMod 4x... and the system crashed, I tried it at RC1 again:
deinstall with Titanium Backup the point: SMS/MMS 2.3.4 ... and enable the option "Let GO SMS handle incoming message ONLY" you will never see the 45 SMS or less... or more... at notification or LockScreen...
nice evening
I saw, that the work around is already posted... sorry, but it works great!

Bug in Facebook app

When I receive an email from Facebook (for any notification such as Birthday reminds, Login alerts, etc.) on my phone (whether to Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook), and open Facebook via any link provided in the email, I am shown the option of whether to "Open with" using "Facebook", "Chrome", or "Internet" (because I have never set a default). If I choose Facebook, it opens a Facebook app, but it is slightly different than if I open the Facebook app directly from App drawer. For example, there is no option to "Post to someone's timeline" in the version opened from the Email link.
In the following images, you can see for yourself that there is a difference between Email Link Facebook (left side) and Native Facebook (right side).
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Notice that they are clearly different. The Email Link Facebook doesn't even have a "Write Post" option.
Is this because it is sometimes launching the un-updated Facebook app that came preloaded on my phone? Can other Galaxy S6 users confirm this experience? How can I stop this from happening?
Try clearing data from the app and signing in again
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serio22 said:
Try clearing data from the app and signing in again
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I had already tried that. It didn't work. I can't uninstall completely, because FB came preloaded. But after removing updates and clearing all data, my phone requested to download FB after clicking on the FB icon in my app drawer. I allowed it. The outcome was the same as I've described above. I then downloaded the latest updates from the Play Store. The outcome was again the same as I described above.
Serio22, are you saying this does not occur on your Samsung Galaxy S6?
It looks the same as when I open it from the app drawer, don't use it much though, but links never open for me
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serio22 said:
It looks the same as when I open it from the app drawer, don't use it much though, but links never open for me
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What are you comparing opening FB from the app drawer to? I'm comparing opening it from a link.
thapar said:
What are you comparing opening FB from the app drawer to? I'm comparing opening it from a link.
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Yeah same here. But links don't open for me just says something about an error then when I go to the feed look the same as always
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Contact Groups Gone??

Just upgraded from Note 5 to Note 8 and upon transferring contacts I noticed that there are no longer contact Groups (Family, Work, etc.) When I click a contact I've had in a group I can see that they're still listed in the group in contact info but I have no button/access to see the whole group. Am I missing something here???
Genesis730 said:
Just upgraded from Note 5 to Note 8 and upon transferring contacts I noticed that there are no longer contact Groups (Family, Work, etc.) When I click a contact I've had in a group I can see that they're still listed in the group in contact info but I have no button/access to see the whole group. Am I missing something here???
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yes! and it sucks on a whole new level.
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right now you have to edit each contact to even see their group or assign one. very unhappy.
I see Groups if I go to the Contacts app. Click on the triple vertical dots on the top right of the app and Groups is listed as one of the choices.
This is what I see
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That picture shows contacts from within the phone app. The actual contacts app has groups.
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*SOLVED* WOW. The "contacts" tab used to launch the app. New stuff, new methods. Thanks!!
Ngambek2003 said:
I see Groups if I go to the Contacts app. Click on the triple vertical dots on the top right of the app and Groups is listed as one of the choices.
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thanks. at least it's there. much less convenient there. I use my groups more than my list. it also added a group that I never had. I don't appreciate the intrusiveness on the N8. it's everywhere. do this, do that, share this, share that. get the crap out of my face. if I wanted to do it, it would already be done. the nag screens are endless....
Yes I tried the Contacts app and the group I wanted to edit wasn't their but still show on caller ID. I bunched up soliciting calls into groups and sometimes I make mistakes. Now I wouldn't exactly know who to ignore and I can't find the group to correct the mistake.
Genesis730 said:
Just upgraded from Note 5 to Note 8 and upon transferring contacts I noticed that there are no longer contact Groups (Family, Work, etc.) When I click a contact I've had in a group I can see that they're still listed in the group in contact info but I have no button/access to see the whole group. Am I missing something here???
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Press and hold the contacts button, and an option for Groups will pop up.
Contacts
Dreopergone said:
Press and hold the contacts button, and an option for Groups will pop up.
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Contacts will pop up when pressing contact icon in Oreo. In Nougat, you need to click on the vertical 3 dots.

About the LED Icon Editor app for the LED case

Hello. I just got a Note 8 with the Samsung LED case. So far, I'm loving both and the case looks so beautiful. However, the icon creating app, 'LED Icon Editor', is not very good. It's quite difficult to draw the icons if you're not very good at drawing (I suck).
Here's the interface:
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Has anybody find any app or online guide that can be useful to design different icons. For instance, I use WhatsApp a lot, and so far, every attempt to draw the WhatsApp icon has been a total failure so I'm just using a W, which also was not very easy to draw. So I used something like this as a guide but it won't work for icons just letters and common symbols
The guide I've been using:
Another issue I have is that if I reset or flash my phone, I will lose all my custom icons. Is there any way to backup the data for this app without root? (I'm thinking maybe backing up a particular folder).
Thanks.
I would also like to see what others have done. I have created a few custom icons for simple things like email and twitter. I tried doing one for snapchat and it never turned out good so I just gave up.
HuckFinn said:
I would also like to see what others have done. I have created a few custom icons for simple things like email and twitter. I tried doing one for snapchat and it never turned out good so I just gave up.
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mub51 send me a couple of icons
These are the ones I have created.
I started to play with this, but it seems you can only set it for certain contacts. Is there another place you can set it per app? For example, 1 for any texts, 1 for emails, etc.
TheStillMan said:
I started to play with this, but it seems you can only set it for certain contacts. Is there another place you can set it per app? For example, 1 for any texts, 1 for emails, etc.
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Yes this is possible. You can choose contacts , next to that you can choose apps. Look at my uploads and click on the word next to 'personen'
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Apparently you can't set it to the text app though? I see multiple apps listed, but no texts apps are in that list. Same with the Phone app.
TheStillMan said:
Apparently you can't set it to the text app though? I see multiple apps listed, but no texts apps are in that list. Same with the Phone app.
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That is correct. However you could try selecting contacts. I do not now if this will work.
For messaging, you could try to download a third party messaging app and give permission to the app to receive all messages, then you could select that app and give it a different led icon.
This is all in theory I did not check it for you.
Let me know if it works
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mub51 said:
That is correct. However you could try selecting contacts. I do not now if this will work.
For messaging, you could try to download a third party messaging app and give permission to the app to receive all messages, then you could select that app and give it a different led icon.
This is all in theory I did not check it for you.
Let me know if it works
Sent from my Note 8
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I tried selecting all the contacts, but it only lets you select up to 100 contacts per icon.
The 3rd party messaging apps do not show on the list either.
Alas, it seems that this may not be a possibility.
Hello all!
please can you help me? how can we backup the icons that we made with the Led Icon Editor app?
many thanks
taita said:
Hello all!
please can you help me? how can we backup the icons that we made with the Led Icon Editor app?
many thanks
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You can't.......
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Does the led app open up on notification bar for anybody else? I am using S21

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