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Facebook Integration question

Hello there
I have one little question about the integrated facebook contacts with the phonebook contacts
when I associate a contact it takes only the photo for 1-2 months ..
I already tried a several roms with different manilas (2.1 & 2.5) but everywhere is the same, the association downloads only the photo of the person, but in the past it takes and the birthday which is very useful I think.
Does somebody know whats happening, and is it possible to configure it again to takes and the Bday info. Thanks a lot.
Regards,
patzkata

Yes,it happens to me to. When I click Update Now on all the contacts, only photos are synced. It used to be able to sync everything. What has changed?

my touch pro will be here Thursday, so though I can't help with your issue, a possible temporary solution would be to use booksync.

JValmont said:
my touch pro will be here Thursday, so though I can't help with your issue, a possible temporary solution would be to use booksync.
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Yes, may be this works, but HTC offers the same thing which was already imported in the HTC contacts app. I don;t want another application

some of my contacts do not even sync the facebook profile photos to Contacts.... any chance this problem is caused by the new Facebook privacy settings?

Mesquire said:
some of my contacts do not even sync the facebook profile photos to Contacts.... any chance this problem is caused by the new Facebook privacy settings?
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Good call, that could be the reason why pictures stopped syncing.

Contact picture Google/Facbook problem

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.

Philosoma said:
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

[Q] Facebook picture overrides Google picture

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....
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

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...
P.

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.

sutepm said:
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.

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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.
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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.

Contact Pictures?

i have linked all my contacts from my facebook with there numbers in my phone book, but only a few of my friends default pictures show up as there contact picture... is there any way to get all of there default pictures to be there contact picture? i cant for the life of me figure out why only a few friends pics are there any no one elses... any help?

I would guess it has to do with the difference in naming conventions between your phone and facebook. For instance someone may be John A. Smith on your phone's contacts, and John Smith on Facebook. That seems to be what happened when I synced mine anyhow.
I haven't looked into manually syncing up contacts, but it *may* be possible, or maybe not. In any case, this was my experience and what I assumed happened to make some pictures pull over and others not.
Hope it helps a bit!

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I would guess it has to do with the difference in naming conventions between your phone and facebook. For instance someone may be John A. Smith on your phone's contacts, and John Smith on Facebook. That seems to be what happened when I synced mine anyhow.
I haven't looked into manually syncing up contacts, but it *may* be possible, or maybe not. In any case, this was my experience and what I assumed happened to make some pictures pull over and others not.
Hope it helps a bit!
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that could be, but even the facebook friends i have that i dont have in my phone book dont have pictures... and the ones that i had in my phone book i linked to there facebook to its one contact... its really not a big deal but i just wanted to know if there was any specific way i could possiby get all there pictures to go to my contact list.

before joining them together you have to make one of the contacts as default then join and default one will be the first one including the picture

You have to pick which contact picture you want to use. The default will be the contact's GMail image. If the contact doesn't have a GMail image, it will use the FB by default. To change the image, go to contact, edit contact, and scroll down to the contact's FB information, touch the FB picture and select "Use this image". From there on out, your contact picture will always be his/her FB image.

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.