So after my contacts have been linked to their facebook accounts, the current display picture shows up on incoming calls, texts, etc. Lets say a friend changes their current display picture. If I go into Online Directories and refresh all my facebook contacts it shows the current changed display picture but when you go back to your normal contacts using the 'people' button it still shows their old display pic, and not the most current one.
Is there a way to get it to update everything to what people change their display pictures too on the people/contacts list?? I can't figure this one out!!
i'm pretty sure it does automatically; at least mine does. maybe it will sync overnight or something? i've noticed that my FB friends will change their profile pic, then over the course of that day or a couple days later, i've found that it had in fact synced the change to my phone.
I'm having the same issue. It only seems to sync up the FB picture correctly with a couple of my contacts, but on the other contacts, their profile picture from a few weeks back is still up. Kind of annoying. I went through all the settings and refreshed everything I could on a contact with the picture being an old one and it doesn't change at all. Anyone know how to update the pictures to current profile pictures manually?
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Hi to all,a simple question,when i connect my fb account for the first time,the most part of my contacts syncronize with their contropart pictures in facebook.
At that point i think that when someone change his picture,at the next syncronization,i can find this pictures correctly set with his account.....but this doesn't happen......
There is something i must do to refresh the photo of my contacts?
Go into People > Select the Online Directories icon at the bottom > Click FaceBook > it should begin to refresh automatically but you can hit Menu and then refresh to force it.
You can select a single contact to view them and then hit refresh to update that specific person.
Hope that helps.
I get connection error when i do that. Wifi working fine too.
I have the same problem, when I go to online directories and refresh it, it shows the correct pictures, but when I go back to the people tab, for some people it shows correctly the new pictures, but for others the old ones.
so it doesnt update them automatically? are the photos stored on the phone?
Also another question...i note when i link my google contacts to facebook ones it added the reference in the notes section on the google contact. Does this mean if I reset the phone and downloaded contact/facebook sync again it would match them together?
Im having the same issue with my HTC legend it wont show the new face book pics even when i refresh contacts! its pretty annoying it should do it auto really!
are the pics stored in the phone memory or cache memory?
I refreshed and it's fine, over WiFi
My issue is more to do with the favorites widget, I can refresh my facebook contacts fine and all the photos are up to date but when i go back out to the main screen to my favorites widget the photos are same as when i first synced the phone any body got an idea what i can do?
its really annoying me they should be updated automatically anyways!
anybody know of a widget similar to the HTC favorites one?
I have my phone set up to link with Facebook profiles, but for some contacts I have chosen to use the phone picture instead of the Facebook one as the contact photo, this works fine for all my contacts set up like this except one, after a while the phone keeps changing back to using the Facebook photo on its own...
Anyone else seen this?
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Still have this problem after a hard reset, same contact, photo keeps being changed back to the facebook profile photo randomly after I've changed it to the one stored in the phone, seems to happen after a couple of hours each time, all other contacts where I have the phone photo rather than the fb one are fine.
Also, the "default action" for contacts (e.g. call mobile, landline etc.) seems to be frequently forgotten for contacts in general.
Anyone?
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If the contact is linked to their FB account I believe this takes priority over anything else. You'd have break the account link to use another picture
No, that's not the case, you can choose which picture you want to use, click on the word "linked" at the top of the contact's info then you can choose which info you want to use in "people"
There is a dropdown next to the photo where you choose and also next to the name (because sometimes the name in your phone and on fb aren't the same you can choose which you want displayed)
I use the phone photo in this way for around 10 contacts in preference to their fb one, and it works just fine, just not for this one contact, the setting never seems to "stick"
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Can't help you, I just use the FB ones. If I wanna use my own I remove the FB link
Still no solution?
I know it's an old thread but this thing is ridiculously annoying!! It is not related to FB linked contacts exclusively. It also happens with phone contacts that are linked to Google contacts. Their pictures change "sometimes" no matter if contact auto synch is enabled or not. And I haven't been able to define a pattern when this annoyance occurs.
I also think this could be something related to Google since my friend have the same problem with Samsung Galaxy S.
Does anyone have any information how to solve this without breaking the links?
First off, here's my setup:
DC3.5
netarchy's 3.7.8b kernel
FB for Android (newest from Market)
Contacts synced from Google
What's happening is that now I don't automatically get the FB picture set as the contact pic, which I did before I switched to DC3.5 (after waging a brutal fight against BS1.2, which I lost). What I see when I click on the Link icon under a given contact is the Google contact and a TON of the same contact name with com.facebook.auth.login entries beneath it.
Anyone have any idea what's going on here? I just want the pix to sync to the contacts so I don't have to set them all manually.
yea im having the same problem. some contacts show in sms no poblem but most just show the silhouette. also under contacts some show the correct updated facebook picture while others seem to be ones they had months ago and it wont update to the new one.
I'm not sure if this topic has been covered in any previous threads because if it was, I can't find it.
The problem I'm having is when I assign a picture to a contact, it becomes distorted after about 30 minutes (or however long you set your contacts to sync).
Before that 30 minutes, the picture is as clean and crisp as the original.
I tested this with my girlfriends picture. I assigned a picture to her number and had her call me right away. Her pic came up sharp and crisp like the original. 30 min later I had her call me again and it was extremely blurry/compressed.
One thing I did notice is that the phone created a "Profile Pics" section under her number when I tried to change the pic again. And in that section is the picture that I had assigned to her all blurry and compressed. So the phone compresses the image after a while and then automatically uses the compressed image from that point forward.
I've searched the internet and XDA and have found no solution to this problem. No one has even brought it up before.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Is there even a fix?
Any feedback is appreciated!
Nissan350 said:
I'm not sure if this topic has been covered in any previous threads because if it was, I can't find it.
The problem I'm having is when I assign a picture to a contact, it becomes distorted after about 30 minutes (or however long you set your contacts to sync).
Before that 30 minutes, the picture is as clean and crisp as the original.
I tested this with my girlfriends picture. I assigned a picture to her number and had her call me right away. Her pic came up sharp and crisp like the original. 30 min later I had her call me again and it was extremely blurry/compressed.
One thing I did notice is that the phone created a "Profile Pics" section under her number when I tried to change the pic again. And in that section is the picture that I had assigned to her all blurry and compressed. So the phone compresses the image after a while and then automatically uses the compressed image from that point forward.
I've searched the internet and XDA and have found no solution to this problem. No one has even brought it up before.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Is there even a fix?
Any feedback is appreciated!
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As you mentioned this has been discussed here before and there is no fix for it.
What happens is when you assign a pic for your girl and than she calls you immediately the pic you assigned is being showed.
But once your phone gets synced "it would be with either your hotmail or your gmail" than the exchange there resizes the image to the max it supports which is actually very small and hence the issue.,
One work around I have seen is if you are having facebook and your contact is linked to a fb contact the fb profile pic is shown and it comes a lot better
Hope this helps
Nissan350 said:
I tested this with my girlfriends picture. I assigned a picture to her number and had her call me right away. Her pic came up sharp and crisp like the original. 30 min later I had her call me again and it was extremely blurry/compressed.
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How many beers did you consume between assigning the picture and recieving her call? That might contribute to the blurry image.
I solved this
I used to have that problem, not anymore .
The pictures become distorted when they sync with Gmail so I copied all my contacts over to Hotmail and unchecked the "Sync Gmail Contacts" option.
The issue isn't repeating itself with just Hotmail syncing contacts so it's definitely something to do with Gmail.
Guys, thanks for all the feedback! I really appreciate it. I might have had a few beers but I don't think that had anything to do with it (maybe) lol
Hmmm.. I will try the Hotmail method. How did you manage to copy all the contacts over? Did you do it manually? Or is there an option to copy contacts from another account?
Thanks!!!
EDIT: Nevermind. I found out how to import them. Hotmail makes it a synch!
I'll get back to you guys on if it works
EDIT 2: Ok, I transferred everything over to Hotmail. I go into Windows Live settings in the phone and there's only an option to sync E-mail. No option for contacts? This means that only E-mails have synced. No numbers. Any ideas?
Edit 3: Sorry for all the edits. I've messed around a bit with this. What I've found is that you have to leave Gmail contacts to sync. Then you have to sync Hotmail contacts right after. You will then have duplicates of all your contacts. You now have to select the Hotmail contact (the one without the persons number) and assign it a picture. After that you have to go back and link corresponding Hotmail and Gmail contacts via the link button on the phone. WP7 uses the Hotmail contact picture over the Gmail contact picture.
I've tested this by re-syncing Gmail and Hotmail, had my friend call me, and his picture came up crisp, even after the re-syncing. The only downside to this method (if you want to call it one) is that on the main screen, the people live tile does not display any contact pictures. Instead you get a bunch of blank boxes.
Let me know what you guys think!
I'm not sure why you made it so complicated, this is was I did:
1. Copied contacts to Hotmail (via PC, not phone)
2. Unchecked the "Sync contacts" option in Gmail
3. Synched Gmail account so it would remove all contacts from the phone
4. Synched Live account so it would add all contacts to the phone
5. Assigned pictures to contacts
I have no duplicate, no distorted picture and the People tile shows pictures, not blank squares. Five easy steps really.
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I'm not sure why you made it so complicated, this is was I did:
1. Copied contacts to Hotmail (via PC, not phone)
2. Unchecked the "Sync contacts" option in Gmail
3. Synched Gmail account so it would remove all contacts from the phone
4. Synched Live account so it would add all contacts to the phone
5. Assigned pictures to contacts
I have no duplicate, no distorted picture and the People tile shows pictures, not blank squares. Five easy steps really.
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I tried your method but for some reason, when I unticked the sync Gmail contacts and re-synced Gmail to remove the contacts, I then synced Hotmail but Hotmail only syncs the contacts name and maybe an E-mail if there is one assigned to them. It never synced their numbers. So there I was with a bunch of blank contacts. Not sure why you never ran into this problem. In Live sync settings there is only the option to sync E-mail. No option for contacts. Which is what I said in edit 2. BUT when I go to check my contact info via PC, there are numbers for every contact. The phone, for some reason, syncs everything but their number.
Ok I see... That's quite weird I never got that problem indeed.
you can try syncing your contacts to soocial.com, then switching them over. I use soocial to sync all my contacts, and it edits my hotmail contacts for me. I am through letting emails sync my stuff. Each has a different format and something always gets screwed up.
Yeah weird indeed. Well on the bright side, we now know of 2 different methods for fixing this problem.
Whats soocial.com? Is that something that WP7 can sync like Gmail and Hotmail?
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Yeah weird indeed. Well on the bright side, we now know of 2 different methods for fixing this problem.
Whats soocial.com? Is that something that WP7 can sync like Gmail and Hotmail?
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they don't have a wp7 app yet, but they are a contacts sync service, that you can use instead of an email acct on ios, android, winmo...
For wp7, I sync my hotmail, which is tied to my soocial acct, which then updates my gmail, yahoo, etc. That way, changing a contact on 1 acct, changes them all.
Hi guys. I am loving my ZenWatch. The only issue I'm having is a blank contact photo for incoming calls. Does Android Wear only display Google+ contact photos? Most of my contacts have a Facebook contact photo. Of course the picture is displayed properly on my HTC One M8 phone, but on my watch it's always blank. Is there any way to correct this?
mhajii210
HTC have tended to use their own contact system on top of stock Android (linking contacts together, pulling photos from various sources). However, this data extra isn't saved to your Google contacts (except for some META data in contact notes).
I'm assuming that Wear gets its info from your Gmail contact details, so you need to have photos stored in there. I'm guessing slightly here, but when I moved from an HTC One to a Nexus 5 it was the largest sacrifice of leaving HTC. I had to manually add photos to all of my Google contacts (although there are some desktop utilities that can do it for you).
In short, if a contact is a Google+ Member, it will use that photo, otherwise it will use the photo stored in your Gmail account's contact entry (I think).
I know it's a pain, but the desktop utility I used asked for my Facebook login, Gmail login and then listed all of my contacts on both. I could link them together, press go and it pulled all of the Facebook photos and stored them with the Google account.
You only really have to do it once, and once it's done it's done. The plus side is that you can choose what photos you use for people, and you're not confused if you've got a friend that changes their profile pic several times a day.
You could do it manually on the desktop by logging into Gmail, selecting the contacts section, opening a Contact and adding a photo. I needed to do this for a couple, since their FB profile pics were too weird.
I'm guessing bits here, but I think I'm fairly spot on. Others may have quicker/easier ways of doing this, but I can dig out the app if you like. If this doesn't make sense, let me know since I'm typing in a hurry. I did like the Account merging facilities in HTC.
HaxSync
I found a very easy way to fix this. I installed HaxSync from the Play Store and this amazing app solved the blank contact photo for incoming calls on my smartwatch. I'm sure it's way easier than manually assigning pictures to the contacts. I'm a very happy camper.
mhajii210
I've noticed that mine will display the generic contact photo for a second or 2 after I receive a call. The saved contact photo shows up after about the 2nd ring or so. If yours is operating the same as mine, perhaps you're just answering the phone before the photo is sent to the watch.