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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

How do you get non-blurry contact pictures?

I've read there is a solution (that doesn't involve not syncing) but I can't find it. I know that there is/was a problem when the contacts are synced, the contact picture is compressed in such a way it turns to a blurry mush.
So does anyone know the solution?

Seconded. This is really annoying.

as it occurs when you sync the contacts to google, turn off the contacts sync to google in the settings.
you don't have to sign out of google, just let it download the contacts and then turn off the sync.

Hi all, first post.
I managed to get decent non compressed pictures by clearing all contacts off my phone, clearing Google and Facebook cache and then re-syncing everything over Wifi rather than 3G.
Hope that helps.

i do all of mine via facebook and it works fine. of corse only works if all your friends and contacts are on facebook

Aitese said:
Hi all, first post.
I managed to get decent non compressed pictures by clearing all contacts off my phone, clearing Google and Facebook cache and then re-syncing everything over Wifi rather than 3G.
Hope that helps.
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how do you clear google and facebook cache?

sign out of them in accounts and sync i suppose.

Aitese said:
Hi all, first post.
I managed to get decent non compressed pictures by clearing all contacts off my phone, clearing Google and Facebook cache and then re-syncing everything over Wifi rather than 3G.
Hope that helps.
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I take it you then disable the auto sync? cos otherwise as soon as you change anything, it's going to sync and probably screw it all up for you.....

I can't be sure but I think I read somewhere that the reason this occurs is because our networks carry out some kind of compression on jpg images (O2 definitely do this), it was noticeable on my Hero that when browsing web sites images were better quality over wifi than using data over the network. The same compression is applied to the contact images hence the horrible quality and is also why when syncing over wifi this does not happen.
I could be wrong however....

rhedgehog said:
I take it you then disable the auto sync? cos otherwise as soon as you change anything, it's going to sync and probably screw it all up for you.....
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I find that once it syncs the first time, unless there's a change with the image, i.e. your contact uploads a new profile picture, it sticks (I figured it sticks when I finally got on Wifi and it refused to re-download the pics no matter how many times I re-synced)

I don't know if this is still going on, I don't wanna revive old threads, but I've found a fix for this issue.
First off you need to make sure your google calendar or fbcal.com is unchecked :
-go to phone's menu, select calendar, hit 'menu' button, select 'more', go to 'calendars', uncheck google calendar (it may be displayed as gmail calendar)
After you have done that, uninstall your facebook for Android (you can install it later) is order to unsync your contacts so there will be no pics assigned.
Now comes the important part :
-go to phone's menu, select 'people', slide the screen selector over to 'online directories', select 'facebook', sign in........and you're done. Now you've activated "Facebook for HTC Sense", it's gonna sync by itself, the pictures will be crystal clear (will have the small blue facebook 'f' in the bottom left corner)
You can now install facebook for android back on your phone, but make sure you don't sync your contacts, or else you'll be back where you started !
Hope it helps !

[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....
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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...
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.

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.

WP7 Mango Beta - Facebook Chat

So i installed the Mango Beta, but i have had trouble setting up Facebook chat.
Every time i go to, it try to do it, it clearly tries to do some oAuth authentication. Most of the time i get a "The address is not valid" in a browser control. Sometimes i get another weird error (it hasn't come up in a while).
So I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this, if they have had they had any success, or if they have found a way around it?
I have tried over both 3g and Wifi.

Same problem on my wp, and i still haven't had success

Lanin Khan said:
Same problem on my wp, and i still haven't had success
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the same problem here

Take a look here:
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/85843.aspx?PageIndex=1
It seems that you have to add the Facebook Service via Live so that the Facebook Chat gets enabled. I have managed to activate FB Chat on my phone now, but still there are no contacts online. Gonna have to look into that.

Some people said to delete the Facebook account from the phone and add it again but it didn't work for me, same error :/

Works fine for me, I already had fb connected to live though so try that
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I already had it set up with live for 9months or so now.
But i just checked it now, and it enabled its self and is working AFTER (about 30minutes after) i went to account settings and syncronised my facebook account...
Its must just be a werid beta issue

I don't think it is a WP issue (well the whole page loading error is) but my contacts aren't populating the desktop client. Everyone has reported that once the desktop client populated with FB chat friends, that it immediately started working on their phone. So there is some issue going on between IM and FB.

tiny17 said:
I don't think it is a WP issue (well the whole page loading error is) but my contacts aren't populating the desktop client. Everyone has reported that once the desktop client populated with FB chat friends, that it immediately started working on their phone. So there is some issue going on between IM and FB.
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i'm exactly into the same issue like you

Ya i guess that's the problem once you're connected.
My contacts are also not shown in the Windows Live Messenger. (I have to admit - I do not have the Messenger installed, but the contacts are not shown on the Windows Live Website neither)

it Works !!!!
i Just wait and right now it Works,Just wait your Facebook account update itself

hd2leo_fusion said:
it Works !!!!
i Just wait and right now it Works,Just wait your Facebook account update itself
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yup i forgot about it until a friend messaged me and i was surpised it came in my sms box haha

I was able to force my Windows Live and Facebook accounts to sync up by just going to accounts and pressing them and choosing 'sync'. Did Windows Live first, then Facebook and a minute later all was well.

Tim.Smith said:
I was able to force my Windows Live and Facebook accounts to sync up by just going to accounts and pressing them and choosing 'sync'. Did Windows Live first, then Facebook and a minute later all was well.
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I was also able to get mine to work doing this.

Took a bunch of hours, but Facebook Chat finally works perfectly.

Mine says "error0" or something like that when go to my Facebook account in Email+Accounts, can't use Facebook chat.
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Tried everything I can. Went into FB on my computer, deleted the Live Messenger client, re-installed. Everything, but nothing. When add friends, it says I either have no friends, or that I already invited them.
Dunno.

tiny17 said:
Tried everything I can. Went into FB on my computer, deleted the Live Messenger client, re-installed. Everything, but nothing. When add friends, it says I either have no friends, or that I already invited them.
Dunno.
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Set everything up, and just sit tight for a day. Let is all sink in.

I just got my fb chat working this is how you do it!
Disable facebook chat in the message settings.
Login to your live.com account you used for your phone.
add facebook if it's not under services already. it is click on it anyways and just then click on save. Back on live.com you should now see messenger friends, and it should show all the people facebook available for chat.
Now go to your phone, settings, email accounts, and sync the live account first, then sync your facebook account.
Go back to messaging and settingsm turn fb chat on and everyone should show up! Atleast this is what worked for me, but you have to login to live.com on your laptop, not your phone.
darkf0rce

I just manually sync'd my account & it worked fine after... Took my phone a little to pull in my exchange contacts tho
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Nexus Gallery help

Hello, I have a question about the Gallery on the Nexus Galaxy. Is there a way to delete the "auto synced" albums from google+ and synced photos?
I wanted to use the gallery just for local photos that I take with the phone and that I import onto the phone from my computer, yet for some reason, even after I stopped syncing photos with google+ & synced photos, those stupid albums are still there, AND I cant take them off.
Has anyone found a way to take these off just so you have your camera album and other local only albums?
Thanks!
Mike

http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=460054

Link is not working ,i would like a solution to the problem too.

Picasa web albums. Go there, log in with your Google account and delete the albums
Edit: search picasa on Google. Its not an app

I still want these images on my google+ account, just not on my phone >_< is there a way to do that?

Have you tried to disable photo sync in the account and sync settings?

Yes, I have both that and instant upload turned off. I have also unchecked google+ to mkae sure that it wasnt that... But still after uploading new albums, those stupid picasa (or w/e) albums continue to come onto my phone! It's really annoying and stupid! I don't get why they can't realize that some people dont want all their public photos where their private ones are....