Has anyone else noticed that you cannot change the contact photo for contacts synced with facebook? In Android 2.1 I could chose to use my google contacts photo or facebook photo or choose a new photo for anyone in my contacts, but alas now I can't seem to do that anymore. I can change the google contact photo but the facebook photo still supercedes it in the people list and when it comes up during a call.
Anyone else have this problem? Any workarounds for it?
Hack your friends' FB page?
I'm able to choose the Google photo as the default, yet once I close out of contacts and re-open them, the Facebook photo has automatically become default once again...
ethanol7 said:
Has anyone else noticed that you cannot change the contact photo for contacts synced with facebook? In Android 2.1 I could chose to use my google contacts photo or facebook photo or choose a new photo for anyone in my contacts, but alas now I can't seem to do that anymore. I can change the google contact photo but the facebook photo still supercedes it in the people list and when it comes up during a call.
Anyone else have this problem? Any workarounds for it?
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i don't know about the sense contacts app. it seems to have no problems in CM6.
ethanol7 said:
Has anyone else noticed that you cannot change the contact photo for contacts synced with facebook? In Android 2.1 I could chose to use my google contacts photo or facebook photo or choose a new photo for anyone in my contacts, but alas now I can't seem to do that anymore. I can change the google contact photo but the facebook photo still supercedes it in the people list and when it comes up during a call.
Anyone else have this problem? Any workarounds for it?
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I do not have this problem (Running Stock OTA 2.2 odexed with ROOT). I can go into contacts select a contact and then hit menu/link then tap the picture on the top and I get a menu with these options. Gallery, Camera, Google, and Facebook. What ROM are you using, maybe do another wipe and reinstall.
I also have stock rooted. I'm getting the no Mic in keyboard as well. Some have said the restoring system data after flashing could be the cause. So maybe a flash could fix both issues. I'll try that and see how it works.
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not sure if this is what you're talking about
it took me a while to figure this out but (if this is what you're talking about)...
i have the epic 4g with android 2.1.
select contact, select menu, select edit, select on picture, select 'from gallery', select photo.
if the above doesn't work, go to people and click on the "link" button in the top right, from there you should be able to select a default picture for the contact
I also have the same problem; I have 2.2 Original Andriod from HTC Desire; I change the picture with no problems; but a few minutes later, the picture returns back to the default facebook one !!!
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Before I got my desire I sorted out my Google contact just right and added lovely edited pictures, mostly from Facebook. They all synced fine. However, after linking said contacts with Facebook it uses that picture instead. Some people have awful pictures, so I click the link on the top right of the contact, and then click the picture on the left and select the Google picture.
Job done, or so I thought. It then later reverts to Facebook. Does anyone else have this problem? Any fixes?
I have no fix for this but if anyone also knows how to only sync specific Facebook contacts and get rid of others that I don't want clustering up my phone that would also be great
This is one thing that I hate Android and Google.
Why can't they implement a good way, crisp and nice contact photo?
Look at Google Contacts from GMail, the photo contact is bloody ugly in terms of image quality. And the resolution is small.
I just cannot believe this, that after 2 - 3 years, the Android google contacts is awful.
I am proudly show Android to people, make them say "Wow" ... but I shamely hide showing them the contact photo. When I got a call, the photo is damn blurry.
Is this a storage issue? No!
Network speed issue when syncing over the air? Probably! But why not add a way to select custom picture from phone and mark it to be NOT OVERIDDEN when [email protected]
And what's that automatic contacts addition on GMail! Duplicate contacts!
Then came HTC trying to do Facebook integration and whatnot, bloody mess up with linking contact, photo not shown.
I spent some hours to sort this out, and finally gave up. I accept that this is one of the weakness of Android ... contact photo is awful.
People screamed already since long ago, but no fix from Google.
lumpaywk said:
I have no fix for this but if anyone also knows how to only sync specific Facebook contacts and get rid of others that I don't want clustering up my phone that would also be great
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That is another issue with this Facebook intergration. I don't need all the people on FB on some of the phones contact list.
I have a fix of sorts for the contact pictures. Goto the Facebook sync settings, and uncheck 'Sync contacts'. Syncing Facebook no longer changes contact pictures! Not sure how it will effect Facebook once new people are added though.
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That is another issue with this Facebook intergration. I don't need all the people on FB on some of the phones contact list.
I have a fix of sorts for the contact pictures. Goto the Facebook sync settings, and uncheck 'Sync contacts'. Syncing Facebook no longer changes contact pictures! Not sure how it will effect Facebook once new people are added though.
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Where is Facebook sync settings?
setspeed said:
Where is Facebook sync settings?
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Settings, Accounts & Sync, Facebook for HTC Sense
I think the low res photo problem is an HTC dialer problem. the contact photos looked fine on my Milestone.
i have the same issue, everytime i sync with my pc it changes the contactpicture to the one from facebook.
i have automatic sync deactivated. so after every sync with my pc, i have to set all the pictures again, and i get tired of if.
no solution for that problem? i dont know why they let you choose a picture, and after a sync its overwriting your setting again. it should be somehow protected, after a manual set of the picture.
i am very new to android, so maybe somebody else knows.
my pics have been fine i think that the facebook intergration is a usefull feature but when u click the pic choose phone instead of the other options
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?
Hi everyone,
I've just bought this new Desire phone.
I need some explanation about how the contacts are working:
I linked the phone number of my sister with facebook and now, in the contact folder, I see her number twice.. 1 from google account, 1 from facebook? Is there a way to avoid this?
I also tried to excanghe (with bump) our contacts (from Legend to Desire) and now in the contact folder i see this note: "added by bump on 08/05/2010 etc." 3 times!!! And I cant find how to delete these notes.. anywhere!
Tried also to delete the contact, and re-add it but at the time i sync with google, notes comes back again!
This is strange... anyone can help me about that?
Bye bye and tnx in advance.
For your first problem, you can merge the two contacts by selecting the first contact, clicking on the top right link icon, and choosing the second contact.
I don't understand your second problem so cannot help.
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do you know how I can keep Desire contact pictures updated via facebook?
To OP, you can manage your contacts on your computer by going to google.com/contacts - organize them, merge them, etc, and then they'll sync to the phone.
To JuSteR, if you enable Facebook sync, their Sense contact pictures should automatically be updated with their FB profile picture.
Facebook sync is enabled. It updates status, news, messages but contact piuctures
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For your first problem, you can merge the two contacts by selecting the first contact, clicking on the top right link icon, and choosing the second contact.
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Contacts are merged.. But still shows the same number twice. The copy-number disappears only if I unlink the facebook profile from the contact page
(note: the facebook profile does not have a phone number).
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I don't understand your second problem so cannot help.
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The Bump(tm) application from market, added to the contact a note (actually 3 notes) but if I try to modify the contact I don't find any note where are them? (see images for a better explanation)
Tnx all for help!
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Facebook sync is enabled. It updates status, news, messages but contact piuctures
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That's a bug. The contact pictures will not be updated automatically. You have to go to setting option, sign out then sign in facebook sense again to make the contact pictures updated.
tnx for the advise!
Forced to use FB picture
I actually has the opposite problem, I managed to sync Facebook contacts with my Google contacts on my Desire.
But now I'm forced to use Facebook contact picture on contacts that linked to their Facebook accounts, even if I select one of the contacts to use it's Google picture, it stays until the next sync, right after that it pops back to its Facebook picture.
Anyone knows how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
To hide contacts from unwanted accouts(google), you go to
People -> press meni button -> View
and select witch accouts will be visible.
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That's a bug. The contact pictures will not be updated automatically. You have to go to setting option, sign out then sign in facebook sense again to make the contact pictures updated.
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I do not have so sign out of my facebook account. My contact pictures (all linked to FB) are updated each time I go online, sometimes, here you may be correct, it takes time and not all are updated.
if you find your FB contact pics are not updating.
> unlink them from Facebook
> back out of contacts
> enter contacts again
> re-link the contact and select Facebook at their picture.
Any ideas regarding forced FB contact pictures issue I noticed above?
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?
I have a lot of my Google contacts synced with my Facebook account but I set them to show the Google picture rather than the Facebook picture. Some of them work fine and show the Google picture but some of them show the Google picture for awhile and then switch back to the Facebook picture, and it stays on the Facebook picture until I go and switch it again. And then it switches itself back to the Facebook picture 5 minutes later.
This really frustrates me and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. Anyone know what's wrong?
Facing the same prob....
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How do you switch between google photo and facebook photo for a linked account?
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How do you switch between google photo and facebook photo for a linked account?
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In the contact details tap the "linked" icon in the top right hand corner, then you can tap the contact photo itself and choose which one you want to use
as the OP states though, for some reason it doesn't always stick... for me it works for all contacts where I've done this (maybe 7 or 8) except one, which always switches back to the facebook photo...
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Ah!!! Good its not just me being an idiot then....i have this exact same issue!!!
only way to stop the pictures from changing is to switch off the facebook contact sync in account & sync settings.
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only way to stop the pictures from changing is to switch off the facebook contact sync in account & sync settings.
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So it's just a bug in Android? Like popkid said, some of them stick with the Google picture, and some of them switch back to the Facebook picture. And it's usually the same ones, like the ones that stick to Google for awhile usually stick to Google forever, and the ones that are gonna switch back to Facebook will do it almost immediately.
One thing I tried is just unlinking those specific contacts from their Facebook accounts, but if they have their phone numbers in their Facebook profiles, now that the contacts are separated the Facebook contact will override the phone/Google contact and it will show the person's full name and Facebook pic, so it still doesn't help.
rpimps said:
So it's just a bug in Android? Like popkid said, some of them stick with the Google picture, and some of them switch back to the Facebook picture. And it's usually the same ones, like the ones that stick to Google for awhile usually stick to Google forever, and the ones that are gonna switch back to Facebook will do it almost immediately.
One thing I tried is just unlinking those specific contacts from their Facebook accounts, but if they have their phone numbers in their Facebook profiles, now that the contacts are separated the Facebook contact will override the phone/Google contact and it will show the person's full name and Facebook pic, so it still doesn't help.
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I have the same problem as you are, I don't think it's a bug in Android but the Facebook sync itself. At the moment I just left the facebook contact sync off to stop the picture from being changed.
Look it's easy people.
Go to the contact. Choose link, choose desired photo, save and job done.
Took me a while to figure out too but the functionality is there.
sbdags said:
Look it's easy people.
Go to the contact. Choose link, choose desired photo, save and job done.
Took me a while to figure out too but the functionality is there.
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As I said, that's exactly what I've been doing ...
1. I go to "link."
2. I click on the picture and choose the Google picture.
3. The picture changes to the Google picture.
4. A couple of minutes (or sometimes a couple of hours) later, the picture changes itself back to the Facebook picture.