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Facebook Link Sync Question

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?

Distorted Contacts Pics

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.

Peew971 said:
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?

Nissan350 said:
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.

[Q] contact links with facebook

my girlfriend is having an issue with the facebook contact linking.
apparently she needs to add a 1 to the beginning of every phone number to be able to manualy link phone contacts with facebook contacts. also NONE of the contacts auto linked.
does anyone know anything about this?
is there away to discard those contacts that do not have a phone number attached to them with over 300 FB friends it can be a bit much.?
i have an HTC hero running CM7.0.3 i dont know much about 3.0 sence but it should auto link the contacts that have he same name....
some info her contacts was imported from a BB curve.
also how do i make sure those contacts are synced with her new google account online? i have found this is a great way to quickly edit large amount of contact data.
thanks for the help XDA!

Ches7er said:
my girlfriend is having an issue with the facebook contact linking.
apparently she needs to add a 1 to the beginning of every phone number to be able to manualy link phone contacts with facebook contacts. also NONE of the contacts auto linked.
does anyone know anything about this?
is there away to discard those contacts that do not have a phone number attached to them with over 300 FB friends it can be a bit much.?
i have an HTC hero running CM7.0.3 i dont know much about 3.0 sence but it should auto link the contacts that have he same name....
some info her contacts was imported from a BB curve.
also how do i make sure those contacts are synced with her new google account online? i have found this is a great way to quickly edit large amount of contact data.
thanks for the help XDA!
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First thing, The incredible 2 does not have sense 3.0. It has sense 2.1 on top of Android 2.2.1
Download an app from the market called contact analyzer 2, it'll help with deleting duplicates and it should give an option to automatically add a +1 onto all of your contacts.
When you're looking at your contacts you can click on menu then view. It'll give you an option at the top to only show contacts with phone numbers then you can also choose which accounts to show up in your contact list.
Once all that is complete you can try a sync with gmail to see if it'll sync with all the contacts from that point.

worked like a charm thanks

[Q] EC05 newest? Problems with fb contacts too.

The last time I messed with my phone was a few months back at minimum. The last update I think was EC05, I came on to the forum and saw a bunch of new build numbers, is EC05 still the latest official sprint release??
Reason I'm back here is because my txt message contact photos no longer showed up, so I thought it had something to do with my root not updating my phone.... I had CWM 2.5? It was the older one, I just saw that you guys are at 3. something now.... but anyways, i unrooted and went back completely to stock. I readded my contacts and synced my fb..then i tried to txt my wife, and the result of the contact photo is still the same under the txt msg area!!!!!! WTF!!!!! i erased my phone completely for nothing!!!!! Can anyone tell me if you guys are having the same issues or is it just my loser phone? Thanks.

EC05 is the latest and yes, txt contact photos have pretty much never worked for me either. How the Epic/Android syncs or doesn't sync them with FB is a mystery. If the person has a gmail pic that may show up correctly.

I had trouble with this at first on EC05. I had to delete my FB account from the phone, delete all my contacts (all saved on Google), then restore contacts from Google and readd the FB account. I think I used FB for Android, not the native FB account when adding it back. Then in about 30 minutes or so the contacts matched. A few I had to join manually.
As for the latest builds, there are leaked Gingerbread ROMs with EG22 that you can try. The EF02 was very buggy but EG22 is pretty good if you want a taste of Gingerbread. Official has not released yet therefore no source code for DEVs to enhance.

When you go to accounts and sync and add an account you need to use the facebook that is at the top of the list not the facebook app at the bottom
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This has happened to me before, but someone posted a fix a while ago.
1. Go to settings > Accounts and sync
2. Delete all the accounts(Well, you don't have to delete twitter or google, but the facebook ones)
3. Reset your phone.
4. Go back into settings > Accounts and sync.
5. Add the facebook account(Under Integrated, not more).
6. To test if this worked, sync a contact to facebook(Long pressing their name, click "Link account", find the account and link them) and then compose a new text message with that contact. Their picture should come up.
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Use this. It never had anything to do with root. It happened to me back when I wasn't rooted.

thanks for all the responses guys. i finally found out what was wrong with the txt msg photos... i guess fb had updated a while back but i never got around to studying it.... it seems that after you sign into your account on fb to sync your contacts, it then takes you to a screen where it lets you "check" box the friends you want to include in your contacts...it never made sense for me to select the friends that were already synced to my phone via the other facebook...so i always hit "cancel"...but last night i hit select all, now it seems that i have friends who were doubled up under my contacts list.... so i would see two "john dos" in my contacts and i had to JOIN them together.... now under that "john do" contact, i now see 2 fb accounts and the original phone number icon...so im assuming theres no way around joining every single contact manually.......
but long story short, you have to select all your friends you wish to add for syncing, then you'll see doubles, you then have to just join them all together in one big mess ..now my contact photos show now....why so complicated now

[Q] Contact's pictures keep changing

I am currently running UKB V 3.6 and lately my contact's photos keep changing. For some reason, one minute they will show the actual photo (synced in from Facebook - or Google...not sure which one at this point) and a little while later a photo of someone random from my Facebook friends replaces the right photo.
I have Facebook set to sync only with existing contacts. My contacts currently read all Gmail and none in the phone (and Facebook is unchecked). What is interesting is that I remember all of my contacts were in the phone when I bought it (from Verizon transferring the contacts for me about a year ago). I have also experienced this phenomenon when I both check and uncheck the "sync and backup Google account" in the ROM setup.
Does anyone have this happening to them and do they know of a solution? I can't say I have had this happen to me on any other ROM. I didn't want to put this question in UKB's thread in the event it isn't the ROM. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: I just opened up a contact with the picture problem and found that the phone is linking multiple accounts...even though it never asked me to link them.

So after going back to a Skyraider nandroid, my phone synced and ruined my pristine contacts. So I restored the SRZeus backup and exported my contacts to the sd card and imported them into the ukb backup to get back the contacts that Google/Facebook thought I didn't need because it couldn't link them to Facebook. :banghead:
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