Hey
I've tried multiple widgets for contacts, but the all have the same irritating problem. None of them are able to display contact's picture!
I have tried the same widgets on my old HTC Hero to, and the work perfectly on that handset, so it gotta be something wrong with the Optimus itself..
When I'm going in to Settings->About the device->Software update, I'm getting an error: "Connection failed because of aproval error."
Someone else experience the same problems? Any solutions?
Thanks
Try People contact widget
Works for me on Desire/Desire HD/Samsung Galaxy S and Optimus 2x
Stock contact widget in HTC Sense and LG UI works for me too though
Do you have pictures on your contacts in the normal adress book?
The Software update error is common. There's no update for Optimus yet, so you need to wait for LG/google to provide us with one....
Try installing Facebook for Android and log in. Synchronize with existing contacts, and see if pictures show up
I have an other problem. My phone only combines some of my facebook contacts with the phones. Can't figure out how to combine them manualy. This was easy with my HTC Desire
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When I'm going in to my contacts list they all have pictures after I synchronised with Facebook. But when I go in to one spesific contact and press edit, there is no picture before i scroll down to the facebook information about the contact.
All of the contacts are also saved ass google contacts. On my old Hero, they were saved as phone contacts.
Another thing; when I go into accounts and synchronize, and goes into the facebook acc, it says "sychronizing names". Nothing about pictures..
larsn84 said:
Try People contact widget
Works for me on Desire/Desire HD/Samsung Galaxy S and Optimus 2x
Stock contact widget in HTC Sense and LG UI works for me too though
Do you have pictures on your contacts in the normal adress book?
The Software update error is common. There's no update for Optimus yet, so you need to wait for LG/google to provide us with one....
Try installing Facebook for Android and log in. Synchronize with existing contacts, and see if pictures show up
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In my case, the stock widget don't display the contact pictures on O2X either. I don't store contacts on my phone but rather kept them synced to google contacts. I also merged my facebook contacts with google contacts.
What I noticed is this: you will generally not have any issues with contact pics if they come with your google contacts; if your google contact has a pic, it will be displayed with certainty. The problem only arises when trying to display facebook contact pics in the absence of google contact pics even after merging contacts. I've never had much issues like this on my HTC Desire except on contacts that didn't update their account security to allow their contact pics to be synced. So my guess is that this issue is probably to do with how LG integrates the facebook pics to the contact storage on the phone.
Store ur contacts in ur gmail account and it will work.
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this is doing my head in , i used HTC sync to get all my phone contacts over to my new phone from outlook
i now want to link certain contacts only to their facebook profile
if i use FB for htc sense and dont sync all contacts, if i try to find them and do it individually then no FB contacts appear in the search if i sync all i get all my FB friends in my phone book and calender.
same happens if i use the facebbok app, im sure im missing an easy way to just synce with my existing phone contacts only
please help
Not sure if I get what you're after.
You only want *some* of your contacts linked to their FB profiles - but not all? Is it really that much of a hassle?
If it is, then my suggestion would be to use the FB app, and link existing contacts (the middle option) and then for the people you don't want linked, go into each one individually and break the link (there is an icon in the top right that you can press to do this)
im getting all my FB friends birthdays in my calender and i dont want that when i go to phone in the list is all my FB friends and i dont want that either , i want just my appointments in the calender and my phone contacts in my phone book
for the phone contacts only in phonebook:
open up people app.
hit menu.
hit view
disable/enable any contacts from any app that you wish.
to remove facebook birthdays:
open calendar app
hit menu
hit more
hit calendars
turn off facebook calendar
Hope this helps you!
thanks very much i will give that ago
got the calender sorted but still getting all my FB friends numbers in the people tab
think its already sync them all to the phone cause under the phone option or sim option i have 174 contacts and should only have about 40 can i reverse this on the phone and on htc sense as i thik when i re sync with that it will put them all back on
edit sorry not getting them in the people tab but if i hit phone and then scroll through my contacts on the phone dial pad screen all my FB contacts are there ?
yeah, don't know about that one, sorry
combat goofwing said:
got the calender sorted but still getting all my FB friends numbers in the people tab
think its already sync them all to the phone cause under the phone option or sim option i have 174 contacts and should only have about 40 can i reverse this on the phone and on htc sense as i thik when i re sync with that it will put them all back on
edit sorry not getting them in the people tab but if i hit phone and then scroll through my contacts on the phone dial pad screen all my FB contacts are there ?
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Hey Mate I understand what your saying and its one thing thats pissing me off as well. When you go to the dial screen all you fb contacts are listed and their details, but on the people one its just your contacts that you want on your phone.
I too would rather not have every contact persons deatils on the dial screen but I cant seem to figure out how to remove them.
I've worked out how to remove them from people but the still appear in the dialer its a nightmare I want to be able to chose who shows in the dialer and who doesn't
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please to hear its not just me beaing a bit picky
I also wish they didn't show up on the dailer screen... Just makes everything messy.
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My neither, many of the details aren't complete and I've even got some different duplicate names as some of my friends don't use their real name.
It is a total mess. I think I just switch it all off as my contacts are perfect. Also I don't like how HTC is putting facebook tags in the Notes field on a card, it is now messing up my core address book.
Same here.
I want all my social apps on my phone (Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, hyves etc).
But I don't want all that crap in my contacts (or peoples) app.
I want to connect the people to the accounts I made on my phone, but I want to be able to chose it.
One other thing, I can't choose which social network I want to select the information from.
Some pics are better from Facebook, others from Twitter.
Check the "Only people with phone number" to show in the View options of People app?
It's not people app that's the problem only my phone contacts are in there .It's when you go into phone dialer thrashing every
FB contact showds up
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I just deleted the Facebook details from sync settings and use a third party app (Bloo) to use Facebook. I know you don't get to use stuff like 'friends' widget etc but honestly all this social network integration is screwing with address books.
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hi guys,
i feel exactly like you. this **** messes up everything. i managed it somehow to get all the facebook, skype contacts out of the phone app. but i dont know how. i was messing arround on the weekend, and was syncing for and backward and deleting and resyncing everthing until i got it how i liked it. but it dont know anymore what how.
but a good alternative for a contact app with social networking integration is contapps. Its not perfect yet, it s still in development and there are some new features coming.
because the goal of the app is to interact with social networks without messing up your phone contacts.
So when I started using my phone I was thrilled that it took my gmail contacts and the pictures I had linked to said contacts, automatically into my phone. Especially because with the picasa face finding feature, that can then automatically add pictures to your gmail contacts, it just worked very easily.
However, I recently started using twitter and for some reason the phone decided to replace a lot of my contacts pictures with their twitter pictures, which in some cases is just the default blank twitter profile egg thing. This is very annoying and I can't seem to get it to go back to the gmail image, even if I'm not displaying twitter accounts in my contacts list.
Any suggestions?
foofiebeast said:
So when I started using my phone I was thrilled that it took my gmail contacts and the pictures I had linked to said contacts, automatically into my phone. Especially because with the picasa face finding feature, that can then automatically add pictures to your gmail contacts, it just worked very easily.
However, I recently started using twitter and for some reason the phone decided to replace a lot of my contacts pictures with their twitter pictures, which in some cases is just the default blank twitter profile egg thing. This is very annoying and I can't seem to get it to go back to the gmail image, even if I'm not displaying twitter accounts in my contacts list.
Any suggestions?
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Have you tried turning off the sync contacts setting in your Twitter account and resyncing your gmail one?
tried that, no good
So I'm able to sync my contacts using the Facebook for Android app rather than the HTC version through friendstream. I've heard friendstream uses a lot of battery for some reason.
However, when looking at my messages (sms mms etc) it shows the contacts picture but not my picture from facebook. It just leaves one of those standard silhouettes.
Is there any fix to this? I know the HTC Facebook will link that automatically (even though it's been disappearing and I've had to resync it every so often)
In your contacts (People) you should have a contact card for yourself. Set your picture there and it will show up in your SMS threads.
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In your contacts (People) you should have a contact card for yourself. Set your picture there and it will show up in your SMS threads.
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Thanks for the help, but I wouldn't be able to link that to facebook though, that's just setting a picture. Facebook for HTC automatically links the picture through Facebook. Any way to do this on Facebook for Android? Or should I just be giving up because the Facebook for Android app is severely lacking?
Hi,
i store my contacts at my google acc. But i feel like i miss everything if i dont get the newest facebook profile pictures of my contacts straight to my phone asap !
The Problem is, i came with an fresh new phone, link my google account and want to synch. (google contacts because i think its the best way, **** yea google!) Until now its fine, but as soon as i link my fb profile too, my phonebook is exploding. now i get the latest pictures and adresses etc, but they do not merge with the contacts from google. At least not automatically.
Now i have the contact with this old, ****ty, not so glamourous picture but with the up-to-date phone numbre and the same contact with the wanted, new photo, but without any numbre, because facebook is read only.. wierd. help!
something wich manages high resolution photos?
i used syncmypix on old phones, wich seems stopped to be supported on october 2012, and i don't know wich resolution syncs..
i have read of haxsync, but seems it has to be always active... isn't there something wich syncs with gmail, then you can delete it?
i couldn't see, but doesn't xperia z dialer support big picture ? do i need to use full screen caller or hd caller (whatever the name is, i bought it some time ago)
The starred in Android contacts on my Gmail account syncs in HD all the others in SD.... WEIRD!!!! They have to fix it ASAP!
CaFFeiNe666 said:
something wich manages high resolution photos?
i used syncmypix on old phones, wich seems stopped to be supported on october 2012, and i don't know wich resolution syncs..
i have read of haxsync, but seems it has to be always active... isn't there something wich syncs with gmail, then you can delete it?
i couldn't see, but doesn't xperia z dialer support big picture ? do i need to use full screen caller or hd caller (whatever the name is, i bought it some time ago)
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i am using haxsync and get hd picture synced. always the best choice for me
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i am using haxsync and get hd picture synced. always the best choice for me
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doesn't it sync "on the fly"? meaning, the sync remains if i delete haxsync? i've read it drains quite a bit of battery... and do pics appear large in dialer?
use this app called UberSync Facebook contact sync
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
It allows you to sync the recent profile picture from your friend's profile and you can change the size of the picture to small, medium,large. My Arc S shows full screen when I get a call from my friends :thumbup: just set the photo size to large. Also the app can be set to auto sync or you can manually sync. No worries about battery drain!
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I am using the Sync.ME application from Google Play Store. It's kinda awesome. It is able to find some pictures from social networks like fb even to a contacts that haven't shared friends details with me
alfiabraham said:
use this app called UberSync Facebook contact sync
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
It allows you to sync the recent profile picture from your friend's profile and you can change the size of the picture to small, medium,large. My Arc S shows full screen when I get a call from my friends :thumbup: just set the photo size to large. Also the app can be set to auto sync or you can manually sync. No worries about battery drain!
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i'm trying this for know, do you know if there will be a notification at the end? cause i started sync, but didn't show me any status bar o countdown or percentage, it just said "sync started", how can i now if it will finish?
@alfiabaram, i'm going to try that too thanks
Oops! I forgot to mention this - you need to rename the contact to their Facebook name (be very specific about the first & last name) then it will fetch their assign their picture to the contact. Use ' run manual scan' option. There's no notification after the scan is finished >.<
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alfiabraham said:
Oops! I forgot to mention this - you need to rename the contact to their Facebook name (be very specific about the first & last name) then it will fetch their assign their picture to the contact. Use ' run manual scan' option. There's no notification after the scan is finished >.<
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ok i've tried with it, but it isn't so "ergonomic", no notifies, no info,and i couldn't make manual links to facebook profile.... and when i tried to delete it, i've lost all my pix
would like to try sync.me but yesterday developers put it out of the market cause it has to be rewritten (or similar)
now i've tried facebook contact picture sync by sbla games
it has anything i need seems, it has manual link (you can save and load links) for people with different names
it syncs then you can delete the app, it takes big photos,and is quite fast (you can "assist the process) so i think for anyone who doesn't need repeated syncs (don't know if it handles it, didn't search)
btw thanks for your help
it seems quite good
Go to Gmail Contacts and put HD pictures to your contacts, then put the contacts you use the most to the favourites (starred in Android) let it sync with Google and finally clear the cache and data from your "contacts" app, then sync again with google your contacts again and the starred contacts will sync in HD!
reptile64 said:
Go to Gmail Contacts[/URL] and put HD pictures to your contacts, then put the contacts you use the most to the favourites (starred in Android) let it sync with Google and finally clear the cache and data from your "contacts" app, then sync again with google your contacts again and the starred contacts will sync in HD!
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still not perfect, but thanks for the hint...
It's better to keep this thread in Q/A, since the OP has asked a question.
To the OP: Post questions in Q/A thread please not in the Theme/App Section.
reptile64 said:
Go to Gmail Contacts and put HD pictures to your contacts, then put the contacts you use the most to the favourites (starred in Android) let it sync with Google and finally clear the cache and data from your "contacts" app, then sync again with google your contacts again and the starred contacts will sync in HD!
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Just did this and everything worked out Thanks ... though there should be a fix from Google ... silly Google.
Guys, in 4.2.2 update they fixed it, now all the contacts are synced in HD, you have to open each contact once though to force it to download the full picture.
Sync.me
Is anyone else having issues with Sync.me sending out spam to contacts when syncing?
Ubersync for FB doesn't work anymore, anyone know of another app to sync FB contact pics?