How to sort contacts by last name in Froyo? - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Since Froyo came on Nexus everyone was saying that now you can finally sort contacts by last name. Where can I find that option on Desire since I haven't got any setting or options in "People" (contact) app.
Am I missing something obvious?

Mikeyy said:
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Am I missing something obvious?
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It looks like unfortunately, not.
There is no option to sort by family name. Even in a cooked sense-froyo roms, if stock contacts-dialer app is inculded, the sorting by family name and search fuction are just not working.
In this moment I've few soultoin (but I'm not satisfied eider)
1. Use one of AOSP cooked rom (e.g Opendesire)
2. install 3td party apps, like BetterConttact (payd), DialerOne (free), beside the Peopple app. (This 3 app's are doing aas I want, but only separately, so somitemes I need to use one and other times other )
3. Change display name in People app one by one
Currently I'm on 2. but as I mentioned, I'm not really happy with that.

I have about 600+ contacts which are growing daily, doing number 3 is out of question.

Mikeyy said:
I have about 600+ contacts which are growing daily, doing number 3 is out of question.
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I just measured that 23sec need to change one. So 600 contact changes takes less tha 4 hour. When I think about it, searching for solution have taken much more...
But agree, it's very booring task!

Are you syncing contacts with your gmail account?
If so this may be worth a try, assuming my memory isn't too addled.
When I first set up my phone I synced using active sync and my contacts where stored Surname, First Name. I later deleted my active sync connection and set up using the Gmail features and the contacts swapped to First Name, Surname.

kejaro said:
Are you syncing contacts with your gmail account?
If so this may be worth a try, assuming my memory isn't too addled.
When I first set up my phone I synced using active sync and my contacts where stored Surname, First Name. I later deleted my active sync connection and set up using the Gmail features and the contacts swapped to First Name, Surname.
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I synced my contact to my google account since half year with my winmo as well, with no problem. In my contact list in the filed first name there is a first name, in the field last name there is a last name.... so everything is fine.
The only problem that HTC does not think that sorting by Family name is important... You know in some langueges (like mine) are sorted it this way.

Mikeyy said:
I have about 600+ contacts which are growing daily, doing number 3 is out of question.
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After I bored about finding and waiting other good soultion...I just would like to let you know, I did it with all my contact (372) within 3 hours

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[Q] Sense synced Facebook contacts despite me asking nicely not to :/

I may flash a custom Gingerbread ROM a few months down the road but I'm staying stock until the hardware checks out. The only thing I don't like about Sense is it's gone and added a ton of Facebook friends with phone numbers to my contact list and I really don't want them. Is there a way to remove them? I can't seem to find a simple solution.
Thanks in advance.
Frostshock said:
I may flash a custom Gingerbread ROM a few months down the road but I'm staying stock until the hardware checks out. The only thing I don't like about Sense is it's gone and added a ton of Facebook friends with phone numbers to my contact list and I really don't want them. Is there a way to remove them? I can't seem to find a simple solution.
Thanks in advance.
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did you check the Facebook sync contacts setting?
Whatdah said:
did you check the Facebook sync contacts setting?
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I just double checked, contacts aren't being synced for Android Facebook or Sense Facebook. When I go into the contacts app (I think it's called People) I have set my 70 contacts from Facebook for Sense to not be viewed, but they still appear in the list of people to call or send messages to. I don't care if they're there, but at the least I don't want to see them. I have them hidden in contacts but they appear in Handcent and Phone anyway.
Did you ever in the past link up FB contacts to an android phone? In that case I believe it also syncs up with Google's contacts in the cloud...but I may be mistaken
Yeah this got posted a while back, I know what you mean it's annoying. It meant my phone tried to sync a ton of stuff I didn't want to my car stereo unit via Bluetooth.
Someone did post up a solution, try a search for Facebook and contacts.

Exchange Email Client

Thinking about getting the phone - but just have one question as this has been holding me back for a while now from getting an Android phone.
Could anyone confirm if folders and sub folders for TouchWiz email Exchange client are all on one level or have a tiered structure as per Outlook ie:
Folder 1
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------ Sub Folder 1
Thanks.
That woul be a very important information for me too!
Looking forward to detailed answers!
TIA
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Thanks!
I can't confirm the folder structure but can confirm that Activesync works.
Thanks!
Could you confirm some other things, too?
- bi-directional contacts sync
- bi-directional calendar sync
- bi-directional sync of recurring appointments
- html mails
- confirming appointments
Hmmm. Folder structure depends on the view you look at it in. It shows all my Exchange folders in a list in the main view (there's a quick dropdown to change folder) but in folder view, it shows in hierarchy.
Bi-directional contacts and calendar have been working since the original SGS and all synced to my phone fine. Not sure about recurring appointments but it syncs all of mine from Exchange to the phone fine. HTML mail works fine too (would be a bit ****ed up if it didn't!). Never tried confirming appointments so I can't say anything about that.
darkalchemist said:
Hmmm. Folder structure depends on the view you look at it in. It shows all my Exchange folders in a list in the main view (there's a quick dropdown to change folder) but in folder view, it shows in hierarchy.
Bi-directional contacts and calendar have been working since the original SGS and all synced to my phone fine. Not sure about recurring appointments but it syncs all of mine from Exchange to the phone fine. HTML mail works fine too (would be a bit ****ed up if it didn't!). Never tried confirming appointments so I can't say anything about that.
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Thanks for the information. That's interesting because the default Android email client on 2.3.3 does not seem to include an option for folder viewing hierarchical folders...
I'm on my first full day so can report on this a bit now.
I'm trying out the stock client with an ES 2010 server. Some nice surprises:
- Full folder structure accessible
- Server search
- Task sync (!)
- Decent interface (don't love the dark background for the email list...)
- Syncs faster than my Atrix running Froyo
- Nice little widget icon showing unread emails
- it's got a crazy 2-pane inbox view w/preview when in landscape mode (think tablet view or desktop Outlook) - this is really cool!
- Out of office setting
On the downside, the email list widget sucks - it doesn't scroll and only shows 3 most recent (not even unread) emails so that's a bit of a disappointment. Also the calendar widgets are nice but they're too large and not resizable. Thankfully Calwidget works fine.
I'm going to try to live with it. I have a paid TD license and I had gotten used to their widgets on my Atrix, but I suspect stock is more battery friendly.
Thanks for the info. Would you mind posting some screenshots of the email client. I used Froyo, and I can't even do a search on my emails. I ended up using TD as well. Do we have search now? Is there pinch to zoom on emails? If not, can we resize font size? and How? sorry too many questions.
Thanks in advance.
I use sgs2 as my primary business phone., exchange 2010 support is the best ever, on windows mobile or android.
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yatbond said:
Thanks for the info. Would you mind posting some screenshots of the email client. I used Froyo, and I can't even do a search on my emails. I ended up using TD as well. Do we have search now? Is there pinch to zoom on emails? If not, can we resize font size? and How? sorry too many questions.
Thanks in advance.
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Here you go...I've been using it for a few days now and NO need to employ TD which is saying a lot for a native Exchange client! The only thing missing is Notes sync which I can live without (don't change notes that often and can just drag them into Evernote).
The client actually blows me away...to answer your question, we have search as you'll see in the screenshots, as well as pinch to zoom, font resizing in both the Inbox view as well as the message body. Let me know if you have any other q's.
https://picasaweb.google.com/mickliq/SGSIIExchangeClient#5604039643374091746
Is it possible to sync multiple exchange-calendars?
bill340 said:
Is it possible to sync multiple exchange-calendars?
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Yes, the option to add another account is still there after one is already present
mickliq said:
Yes, the option to add another account is still there after one is already present
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I don't need to sync multiple exchange-accounts, but I have several calendars in one single exchange-account.
Is it possible to sync all calendars, that are present in my exchange-account, or can I only sync one?
bill340 said:
I don't need to sync multiple exchange-accounts, but I have several calendars in one single exchange-account.
Is it possible to sync all calendars, that are present in my exchange-account, or can I only sync one?
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No options there for the "calendar folders" so I don't think so. Then again, I don't have any sub-folders so I can't be 100% sure.
rdy2go said:
I use sgs2 as my primary business phone., exchange 2010 support is the best ever, on windows mobile or android.
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Could you explain it a bit more and are you still missing something?
Thanks in advance!
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No options there for the "calendar folders" so I don't think so. Then again, I don't have any sub-folders so I can't be 100% sure.
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Actually I do not work with sub-folders in calendars, but I have several calendars in Outlook under the main-folder, that are synced to exchange.
Can you try to add a new calendar in outlook and see if you can sync that second calendar to the phone via exchange?
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Here you go...I've been using it for a few days now and NO need to employ TD which is saying a lot for a native Exchange client! The only thing missing is Notes sync which I can live without (don't change notes that often and can just drag them into Evernote).
The client actually blows me away...to answer your question, we have search as you'll see in the screenshots, as well as pinch to zoom, font resizing in both the Inbox view as well as the message body. Let me know if you have any other q's.
https://picasaweb.google.com/mickliq/SGSIIExchangeClient#5604039643374091746
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Thanks!
Sounds and looks fantastic!
Hey Thanks a lot....
One more question. From the screenshot, I can see the search is "search server" and not local search.. is that true, because if so, then I need internet service to search and also it would be slower.
Thanks again
Hi can anyone check if attachments can be opened if they are received as part of a calendar invite? Say a pptx or something similar...
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Google Facebook Photo Sync

This is a little off-topic, and I'm sorry if it doesn't belong here, but I am looking for some people to test out a new website I've been working on, and thought I'd look to my fellow Inc2 owners.
When I first got CM7 working on my old Fascinate, I was a little bummed that there was no way to link my Facebook contacts. So I decided to make my own tool. As of right now, it only syncs pictures, no phone numbers or anything.
I've spent a good amount of time working out the bugs, but there is a chance I missed some, so if you encounter any problems please let me know. Don't worry though, it won't mess up your Google contacts at all.
Please note that it currently DOES NOT work in Internet Explorer, due to a bug on Google's end which will hopefully be fixed soon.
http://www.pfrybarger.com/googlefbsync/googlefbsync.html
Thanks!
Edit: Also I should note that this won't work on mobile browsers (can't scroll through certain lists), and you must have javascript enabled in your browser.
What are the benefits over using the Facebook App to sync contacts?
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Let's see, the main benefits are:
- Ability to crop and resize profile pictures
- Pictures are visible outside of just your phone, so in Gmail for instance
- No need to re-link after flashing a new rom (I always found this a pain)
- Pictures will show up everywhere on your phone. I believe if you use the Facebook app to sync, the pictures will not show up for certain apps, like messaging
- No new contacts will be added to your phone
My tool will only sync pictures, and not phone numbers or email addresses. I found it kind of annoying that the Facebook app would pull these in, but I guess that's a matter of personal preference.
As of right now, there is no automatic updating of profile pictures, but I hope to get this implemented soon.
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Let's see, the main benefits are:
- Ability to crop and resize profile pictures
- Pictures are visible outside of just your phone, so in Gmail for instance
- No need to re-link after flashing a new rom (I always found this a pain)
- Pictures will show up everywhere on your phone. I believe if you use the Facebook app to sync, the pictures will not show up for certain apps, like messaging
- No new contacts will be added to your phone
My tool will only sync pictures, and not phone numbers or email addresses. I found it kind of annoying that the Facebook app would pull these in, but I guess that's a matter of personal preference.
As of right now, there is no automatic updating of profile pictures, but I hope to get this implemented soon.
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Seems like exactly what I want.
Sux I don't have a computer.
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Gave it a go. after running the program, I got an error pop up that submitted an error report. The program still worked though. It found a few of my contacts in Google that weren't matched up with my Facebook contacts.
So if I'm understanding this, now that I have my Facebook contacts linked with my Google contacts, when loading my contacts on my phone now, (after flashing a rom or doing a hard reset) my Google contacts will still have the pictures linked to them without having to go back and doing the Facebook thing all over again?
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Gave it a go. after running the program, I got an error pop up that submitted an error report. The program still worked though. It found a few of my contacts in Google that weren't matched up with my Facebook contacts.
So if I'm understanding this, now that I have my Facebook contacts linked with my Google contacts, when loading my contacts on my phone now, (after flashing a rom or doing a hard reset) my Google contacts will still have the pictures linked to them without having to go back and doing the Facebook thing all over again?
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Yep, as long as you hit the upload button once you were done linking the contacts. Instead of saving the pictures on the phone, like the Facebook app does, this actually saves the pictures to your Google contacts. So when you do a reset, and sign back in to your Google account, your contact picture will be sent to your phone along with all their other information.
You do need to link all of your contacts on the website though. It doesn't recognize which ones you already have linked on your phone.
I saw the bug reports, I'll take a look and try to see what happened. Thanks for giving it a try!
Could you add the feature of ONLY syncing facebook pictures and no contact numbers? The one thing I hate about syncing facebook in my phone is the fact some people have old numbers still on FB so there are two numbers when you go to call or text someone as well as there are unwanted numbers of people.
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Could you add the feature of ONLY syncing facebook pictures and no contact numbers? The one thing I hate about syncing facebook in my phone is the fact some people have old numbers still on FB so there are two numbers when you go to call or text someone as well as there are unwanted numbers of people.
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From what I understand, that's all it does, just the pictures.
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zombiiez said:
From what I understand, that's all it does, just the pictures.
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Yep, it only syncs pictures.
Also, zombiiez, I'll see what I can do to get it working on mobile browsers. No promises, but maybe I can get something working
Ah my apologizes i saw some other posts and thought it was just another facebook like app.
I wento n the website but none of my google contacts appear on the website.
Darkpsych0 said:
Ah my apologizes i saw some other posts and thought it was just another facebook like app.
I wento n the website but none of my google contacts appear on the website.
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Your contacts aren't showing up? That's strange... and no error message comes up? When you sign in and click 'Begin', how many contacts does it say you have under 'Google Contacts'?
got this error:
I'm sorry, you have encountered the following error:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'myContact' of undefined
Please send an error report to the developer by clicking the button below. This will help fix and improve the site. Sorry and thanks!
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got this error:
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Hmm sorry about that. Still working out all the bugs.
I think I figured out the problem and got it fixed. Had to do with contacts that don't have names, but only email addresses. Let me know if that worked.
It says I have 0 google contacts -.- i just synced my google contacts on my phone
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It says I have 0 google contacts -.- i just synced my google contacts on my phone
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Could you do me a favor? Sign into the site again, and click on 'Begin'. Once the main page loads, click on the 'Comments/Questions' link at the bottom of the page, check the 'send log' checkbox, type anything in the big box, and hit send?
This will help me diagnose what's going on, and why your contacts aren't showing up. Thanks!
Zed does your website still work? The pages shows it as down.
Shoot, my server must be down. I'll take a look at it when I get some time today, sorry about that.
Alright it should be up and running now. Let me know if you have any problems. Thanks!

Haxsync / Contacts -People help

Ok so I realize facebook won't sync with ICS so I get Haxsync that was recommended and its ok. However, I don't like this People app that ICS uses compared to the old simple Contacts. When I need to manually merge contacts I used to longpress and choose join contacts and now I cant . But I've seen posts where people say they manually join them, so there must be another way I'm not seeing. Menu options don't bring up merge or join either.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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it is a bit annoying managing contacts in ics...i haven't figured how to automatically join contacts but I have been able to do it manually...for example...let's say your friend's name is "Michael B. Jordan" in facebook and simply "Michael Jordan" in your normal contacts...you have to change the name to "Michael B. Jordan" in contacts facebook and press "space" after the name change..you should see the "facebook name" be suggested right under the contact being edit..click it and it should say "join"..it is pretty annoying way to join contacts (maybe there is a better way, I don't know)...
it took almost an hour to properly sync my 70 contacts and their pictures with haxsync...sorry for the horrrible grammar and I hope it helped..
Annoying it may be... But open "people" Menu> edit> menu> join. Then either pick a suggested person or scroll down to find the right person.
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Annoying it may be... But open "people" Menu> edit> menu> join. Then either pick a suggested person or scroll down to find the right person.
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Just made an already tedious process even longer. Damn girls and their stupid fb names. That's the only crappy part of wiping during ROM changes for me. Apps, data, ringtones, wallpapers, etc are all easy but damn having to manually rejoin contacts. Now even worse that's it's not native in ICS.
I'm at the point now where I think I'm just going to manually assign pictures to my contacts. Maybe download them from facebook assign them thru my contacts in google. This way the pix will stick from now on. Anytime I flash a rom, I won't need to go thru this tedious process any longer. I've given up lol.
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Just made an already tedious process even longer. Damn girls and their stupid fb names. That's the only crappy part of wiping during ROM changes for me. Apps, data, ringtones, wallpapers, etc are all easy but damn having to manually rejoin contacts. Now even worse that's it's not native in ICS.
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If you export your joined contacts to your sd card don't they come back joined when you import them?
Speedin07si said:
Annoying it may be... But open "people" Menu> edit> menu> join. Then either pick a suggested person or scroll down to find the right person.
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This works, I knew it was there somewhere, thanks! For anyone else reading this. You have to click on the contact first, then menu, then edit, then the menu button again, then join. Ugh! lol
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If you export your joined contacts to your sd card don't they come back joined when you import them?
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You know I think this would make sense, but I just tried an import and the only option is to import a single vCard file from bluetooth or email.
This used to work out nicely in the 2.x.x days. You sync your google contacts and then facebook contacts. Join a few that the names don't match (ie John Doe and John D). Now with ICS, it won't even try to join John Doe with John D. Doe or Johnathan Doe, even though they are the same person.
The other thing is that haxsync only does photos. I have friends that I don't have saved in my google contacts because their info is on their facebook. Guess I could go through them and manually save a duplicate contact and number to my google contacts, but that's something I didn't have to do in the past. Taking steps backward is not what integration is about.
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You know I think this would make sense, but I just tried an import and the only option is to import a single vCard file from bluetooth or email.
This used to work out nicely in the 2.x.x days. You sync your google contacts and then facebook contacts. Join a few that the names don't match (ie John Doe and John D). Now with ICS, it won't even try to join John Doe with John D. Doe or Johnathan Doe, even though they are the same person.
The other thing is that haxsync only does photos. I have friends that I don't have saved in my google contacts because their info is on their facebook. Guess I could go through them and manually save a duplicate contact and number to my google contacts, but that's something I didn't have to do in the past. Taking steps backward is not what integration is about.
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Then switch to Friendscaster or Friendscaster Pro.
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Anyone know of a similar program that will work for syncing twitter?
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Then switch to Friendscaster or Friendscaster Pro.
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Well I got friendcaster then used it to sync and it copied over with crappy low res pictures, so that pissed me off. The haxsync ones looked decent at least. I'll be fine for now until there is stock integration built into to CM9. I know the OTA ICS guys have figured it out.
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The other thing is that haxsync only does photos. I have friends that I don't have saved in my google contacts because their info is on their facebook. Guess I could go through them and manually save a duplicate contact and number to my google contacts, but that's something I didn't have to do in the past. Taking steps backward is not what integration is about.
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Haxsync does have an option "Additional friends to sync" under "Sync Preferences" - the help text says "These friends will be synced even if they don't match any contacts on your phone". Does this do what you want?
I think he means their contact info from facebook. The main app syncs not only a contacts photo, but any contact info they have on their profile.
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For those who have multiple accounts and want to join them in a few easy steps:
Log into you Gmail account and go under Contacts.
Right above your contacts list, right in the middle, there is a button you click and have some settings come down. One of them is a "join multiple contacts". Hit it and it will automatically join all of them together. A lot easier if u have LOTS of multiple contacts and dnt want to merge them manually
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I would love to have it sync the phone numbers . Like the FB app does.
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Well I got friendcaster then used it to sync and it copied over with crappy low res pictures, so that pissed me off. The haxsync ones looked decent at least. I'll be fine for now until there is stock integration built into to CM9. I know the OTA ICS guys have figured it out.
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haxsync is not showing my entire friend list from facebook
what is to be done??
In the options their is a setting which by default only syncs people already in your contacts. You can change it sync all your friends from facebook.
Also to some of the people earlier in this thread, the latest version of Haxsync lets you write HTC tags to the notes section of your contacts so at least you won't have to do it all again manually when you change roms

[Q] Poor picture quality on contacts

Hi everybody,
I just bought an HTC One X two days ago, which is a wonderfull device, but I have an issue ...
I'm syncing my contacts/mail/calendar with an Exchange server (I don't think it is related, but I prefer to tell), which downloads the contact pictures correctly. But they are of low resolution and poor quality. I go to edit the contact, I browse the gallery to 700x700 picture, choose it, and save the contact, but picture quality remains unchanged ... As if it was downsizing it and lot of jpeg artefacts on compression ...
Do you have the same issue and do you have some solutions ?
Thanks !
Hello, i have the same issue here.
Photo from contact are pixelated and have really bad quality.
It looks like the thumbnail has been upscaled ...
And i have no solution.
There is an app called friendcaster that will sort it
This app is called "Friendcaster for Facebook", but my problem has nothing to do with Facebook, in fact I don't want to use facebook at all ...
I just want to put highres pictures on my Exchange contacts, not more ...
Try haxsync from market and see if it solves ur problem....
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This is still a facebook app ...
I´ve created a folder in DCIM, called it contact pics and transfered all my contact pics to there. After this i´ve reworked the contact informations, that they take the pics out of this folder. Now i have always clean and sharp pics. They weren´t synced btw. changed by Google. Titanium backup restores this path after installing a new rom.
Neo XL said:
I´ve created a folder in DCIM, called it contact pics and transfered all my contact pics to there. After this i´ve reworked the contact informations, that they take the pics out of this folder. Now i have always clean and sharp pics. They weren´t synced btw. changed by Google. Titanium backup restores this path after installing a new rom.
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How did you do that ? I don't find this in the contacts parameters, where do you tell it the folder where it should search for the contacts pics ?
(I'm actually thinking this could be related to the 256x256 contacts picture size hardcoded in android ...)
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How did you do that ? I don't find this in the contacts parameters, where do you tell it the folder where it should search for the contacts pics ?
(I'm actually thinking this could be related to the 256x256 contacts picture size hardcoded in android ...)
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It is. Whenever your contacts sync with Google they are resized and synced back to your device.
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It is. Whenever your contacts sync with Google they are resized and synced back to your device.
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yea but he's syncing with Exchange not Google
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yea but he's syncing with Exchange not Google
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Exactly, I'm syncing with Exchange, and I suspect Exchange uses even a poorer resolution ...
I remember on my HD2, the picture quality from Exchange was poor, but I just had to set a higher resolution picture on the contact on the phone and it remained ok. Seems Android doesn't manage this correctly ...
I'm actually searching a way to root my One X without loosing data (The HTC Dev way tells me every personnal data on the phone will be lost), I read somewhere there could be a way to change this 256 pixels limitation when rooted, am I right ?
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How did you do that ? I don't find this in the contacts parameters, where do you tell it the folder where it should search for the contacts pics ?
(I'm actually thinking this could be related to the 256x256 contacts picture size hardcoded in android ...)
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I´ve choosed rework in contacts, then click on the little upper photo and choose albums and the file in the created folder on my sd card. After this i had always clean & sharp contact pics.
So what you're saying here is that you copy all the pictures to the phone memory, then go into each contact manually and assign a picture? I really can't be bothered doing this for 130+ contacts, and not be able to sync it with e.g. Outlook to keep a backup.
It there would be an app to do this automatically, given the photo file name is the same as the contact name - that would be useful indeed.
Looking for a solution also. Maybe contacts.apk need to be modified to change picture resolution for contacts.
the solution is in Google's hands which doesn't seem to give a **** for YEARS now.
latest thread on the saga is here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
they eventually gave up after some indians working for Google teased everyone with a solution, they shut up for the next 5 months...typical.
it's ****ing pathetic, everyone should flood Rubin's and all executives accounts with this issue.
long story short: ICS supports 256x256 contacts image size (up from 96x96) but Google Mail doesn't.
that's why our contact pictures once sync-ed with Gmail look like ****. Even the iPhone is affected by this....if you sync it with Google Mail.
they don't consider it a top priority, otherwise it would've been fixed like this:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSStkKxXTw
funny how Punit Soni's G+ account changed some time ago to "worked for Google"
darthmelk said:
So what you're saying here is that you copy all the pictures to the phone memory, then go into each contact manually and assign a picture? I really can't be bothered doing this for 130+ contacts, and not be able to sync it with e.g. Outlook to keep a backup.
It there would be an app to do this automatically, given the photo file name is the same as the contact name - that would be useful indeed.
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I´ve done this one time and sync always with google without loosing the sharpened pics. After flashing a new rom i restore the contacts data (not the app) with Titanium; no problems since then.
zerozoneice said:
the solution is in Google's hands which doesn't seem to give a **** for YEARS now.
latest thread on the saga is here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
they eventually gave up after some indians working for Google teased everyone with a solution, they shut up for the next 5 months...typical.
it's ****ing pathetic, everyone should flood Rubin's and all executives accounts with this issue.
long story short: ICS supports 256x256 contacts image size (up from 96x96) but Google Mail doesn't.
that's why our contact pictures once sync-ed with Gmail look like ****. Even the iPhone is affected by this....if you sync it with Google Mail.
they don't consider it a top priority, otherwise it would've been fixed like this:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSStkKxXTw
funny how Punit Soni's G+ account changed some time ago to "worked for Google"
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I never sync mine with google contacts...still the pics are at worst display
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I have the same problem on my HTC One XL which I just bought in Hong Kong. Images of all my contacts in the contacts list look fuzzy and blurry. I am not using Google or Facebook Sync either. I also noticed that all other pictures taken with this phone look good initially on screen but once one zooms in the shi* hits the fan!
sierramike said:
Exactly, I'm syncing with Exchange, and I suspect Exchange uses even a poorer resolution ...
I remember on my HD2, the picture quality from Exchange was poor, but I just had to set a higher resolution picture on the contact on the phone and it remained ok. Seems Android doesn't manage this correctly ...
I'm actually searching a way to root my One X without loosing data (The HTC Dev way tells me every personnal data on the phone will be lost), I read somewhere there could be a way to change this 256 pixels limitation when rooted, am I right ?
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Anyone know if this is possible after rooting?
desiregeek said:
Anyone know if this is possible after rooting?
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Tried Haxsync....tried Friendcaster Pro.... Nothing solves the low res pic problem....
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