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Contacts with higher res pics?

is it possible?

I would like to know this too, currently they are shocking.

(from what I found on the web) Apparently the facebook app saves small thumbnails, and they look bad when blown up on hi-res phones.
As a workaround you can try to set a google contact photo manually instead http://www.google.com/contacts.
update: this does not work either so its not just a facebook app issue.

One of my contact pictures is set through the phone via a photo i took with the camera, it still looks ****e. I can't think of any workaround.

britoso said:
As a workaround you can set a google contact photo manually instead http://www.google.com/contacts.
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Thanks! */10chars

xPatriicK said:
Thanks! */10chars
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yup, contact images set via google contacts show up blurry too

facebook for HTC is using hi res facebook profile picture when synching to contacts..
i switched to sense UI the other day and i found out contact synching with facebook using facebook for HTC not the normal android facebook app.

One of the developers had tried in the past to make the dialer show the contact photo filling the entire screen. Unfortunately Google resizes the images to 96px (if my memory is still working.<EDIT: Memory is working! yay!>) This is a setting we don't have any control over, its something google has set, above and beyond our control.
EDIT: This is the thread where pics are reported to revert back to 96px after they sync with google.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=576310
Then again, I'm not sure if anyone has tried to just call the images locally off the sdcard or something along the lines. (The problem would be, once you lose your phone, all the contact photos would be gone.) No sure if anyone has tried this before, if not, I might take a whack at it.

Man...didn't notice 'til I read this thread...LoL.

sync with facebook

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.

[Q] Messaging app / Facebook contacts photo sync problem

Ever since flashing JM6, I've had problems with the Messaging app. After syncing Facebook contacts, using either adding a regular account un Settings->Accounts & Sync->Add Account or using the official Facebook app, all contacts properly sync with the photos.
I can confirm this in the Phone/Dialer/Contacts app and all my contacts are properly synced with photos. However, in the Messaging app, all icons are blank/have the head icon.
Anyone else have this issue/know a fix?

Bump.
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I installed Handcent SMS and it displays the contact pictures properly, synced from Facebook. I don't know what's wrong with my Messaging app. Still the same in Roto-JME.
I tried clearing the cache for the Messaging app but it only cleared the changes I made to the settings. Anyone?

i use syncmypix from the market to see my facebook contacs.

skee^ said:
i use syncmypix from the market to see my facebook contacs.
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Thanks, I've previously used syncmypix on my first Android phone, however this isn't what I want. There's obviously a problem because it used to work now it doesn't.
I don't want to install another app just to download contact photos, the Facebook app already does it for me. Handcent SMS displays them correctly, and besides, I want the photos to be on a separate contact profile -- "Facebook", I don't want them merged to my Gmail as they constantly change anyway.
The only problem is that the Messaging app doesn't display them anymore, ever since flashing JM6 and still doesn't after flashing Roto-JME.

Did you merge your google contacts with your facebook ones? Usually it will choose the facebook pic by default over the google one but sometimes it will not and you need to edit the contact and tell it to make the facebook part of the contact the primary one. Then it will always choose the FB contact pic and even update as your FB contact changes their profile pic. This is for JM6 for mee too.

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Did you merge your google contacts with your facebook ones? Usually it will choose the facebook pic by default over the google one but sometimes it will not and you need to edit the contact and tell it to make the facebook part of the contact the primary one. Then it will always choose the FB contact pic and even update as your FB contact changes their profile pic. This is for JM6 for mee too.
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Thanks for the reply.
By merge do you mean "sync with existing contacts"? Yes if that.
I tried what you said, even setting the Facebook profile as default over the Google one leads to nothing. Still no pic. It's weird because the contacts/phone/dialer has the pictures correctly, and so does Handcent, but not the default Messaging app.
Even the default Messaging app does not having pictures for Google contacts with pictures. Everything is blank.

Bump. Anyone?

did you fin the solution for this?
EDIT : I tried syncmypix, I think it works for me. except the colorize widget has problems with Messaging. Its showing Gray and White

Facebook pics on contacts

So suddenly my contacts that are joined with my facebook friends aren't sharing the pics. Used to be that whenever I would get Call or a text the contacts name would show up with their facebook picture. Now all of a sudden it just shows an android pix. Although the facebook pix will show up in the contacts page. Anyone have any ideas? Im using com rom 2.1 and this high voltage reenergized.

Here is what I do. I use the Max os x address book and sync it to my Google account, and there is an app that sybcs Facebook info with address book. So I sync Facebook and address book, then address book with Google, the Google with the phone. Haha.
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Have you tried setting defaults, with joined contacts, to facebook pics?

i am having the same problem on the latest commrom

Try friends caster..for facebook..
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Efrencalvario said:
Try friends caster..for facebook..
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There is no option to link photos in the app. Does it do it automatically? Been a few hours since installed and nothing has changed.

Here's a question to all: is this linked account done via the Facebook app or SNS? I noticed personally that pictures would only show up with SNS configured.

How do you set defaults? Been looking around on phone and can't find anything. Also, I sync using facebook so everything isn't doubled up. Is that why the pics aren't linking?

I have the same issue
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zimsport said:
How do you set defaults? Been looking around on phone and can't find anything. Also, I sync using facebook so everything isn't doubled up. Is that why the pics aren't linking?
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You can tell the Facebook app to not sync contacts, and tell SNS to sync contacts, and you won't double up. That's been my experience on CR2.1.

Running ComRom 2.1 and have had same problem. SyncMyPix didn't work for me, but I did find a workaround.
I downloaded and installed 'Phonebook' from Market. It is a contact replacement app. I logged into Facebook through the app and it matched my existing contacts and it automatically downloaded their Facebook pictures and replaced all the Contact pictures.
Now when I go back into 'Contacts' all the latest Facebook profile pictures are with the contacts. And the photos also appear for incoming calls and text messages.
Hope that helps.

You gotta go into facebook settings. And then select, "Sync existing contacts with facebook contacts". The names have to be exactly the same as well or else it won't sync automatically. Otherwise you'd just have to link it manually.

is there a way to link contacts in cm7?

Go into market and search "syncmypix"
It takes all the pictures for contacts you have and uploads them to Google contacts
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i have no prob with my pics not being link i do however have a few that names dont match up entirely and some starggler contacts that i can usually "link" to there name in fbook and it works great. Anyone?

bigjobber69 said:
i have no prob with my pics not being link i do however have a few that names dont match up entirely and some starggler contacts that i can usually "link" to there name in fbook and it works great. Anyone?
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1) Go into your Google contact
2) Select menu -> edit
3) Menu -> join
4) Profit

sweet but a pain in the ass from when just needed to click menu on contact and go join. But good find none the less!

shanky0506 said:
Here's a question to all: is this linked account done via the Facebook app or SNS? I noticed personally that pictures would only show up with SNS configured.
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You are 100% correct. I disable the facebook app from syncing. Then I re-created the SNS facebook sync, and joined my contacts again. Everything shows up.

davidstre said:
You are 100% correct. I disable the facebook app from syncing. Then I re-created the SNS facebook sync, and joined my contacts again. Everything shows up.
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LOL mine is the opposite....I have SNS off and fbook app does it.

Caller ID photo

I just setup my z3c yesterday. All my contacts are synced with their photos, in the contacts app. However when I receive a call, I get a blank photo. Others seeing same behaviour or???

Nope seeing photos of all when receiving calls
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My experience is that the caller ID photo is not displayed when it's from Facebook or Twitter. It only displays a photo when manually selected. I

That probably explains it. Most of the pictures are FB or LinkedIn. What a fail. It works properly on my Moto X.
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My pictures are synced from Facebook.
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Solution found, with a bonus. I deleted the "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in, and turned off contact sync inside FB. I then downloaded two apps from the Play Store I've used before - Uber Sync and Facebook Calendar Sync. These both work perfectly. Uber Sync has the added bonus of high-res FB contact pictures (the built in FB contact sync is low res). Caller ID now pics up the high res photos when I receive a call.

Thank you!
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mickliq said:
Solution found, with a bonus. I deleted the "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in, and turned off contact sync inside FB. I then downloaded two apps from the Play Store I've used before - Uber Sync and Facebook Calendar Sync. These both work perfectly. Uber Sync has the added bonus of high-res FB contact pictures (the built in FB contact sync is low res). Caller ID now pics up the high res photos when I receive a call.
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Thanks, I was searching for a solution about these low-res profil pictures :good:
Where do you delete "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in though?

ip3fix said:
Thanks, I was searching for a solution about these low-res profil pictures :good:
Where do you delete "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in though?
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It's in the Accounts section in Settings, *if* you already set it up.

mickliq said:
Solution found, with a bonus. I deleted the "Xperia with Facebook" sync plug-in, and turned off contact sync inside FB. I then downloaded two apps from the Play Store I've used before - Uber Sync and Facebook Calendar Sync. These both work perfectly. Uber Sync has the added bonus of high-res FB contact pictures (the built in FB contact sync is low res). Caller ID now pics up the high res photos when I receive a call.
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perfect, thank you :good:

For those, who still looking for solution - after phone update to 23.0.1.A.5.77 facebook photos shown as caller id picture by default, without any tricks or 3rd party apps

Sorry for waking up the old thread, but this issue came back (at least to me) again, after the upgrade to 23.1.A.0.726. Anybody else facing this issue? Ideas?

I recommend Sync.Me app for Facebook / Linkedin contact photo sync :good:

Thanks, but i prefer the original solution, without 3rd party programs...