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[Q] Facebook app

Hi guys,
Does anyone have the issue of photos not updating on the phone with the FB app? My friends change their profile picture on FB but the pix on my phone do not change and or update.
I use HandcentSMS instead of the normal stock and it is annoying to have some contact with no picture (even though they have one) and some with old pix.
Anyone know something about this?
Also what's the difference between the stock FB app and the one on the Market?
Cheers

arcybarrios said:
Hi guys,
Does anyone have the issue of photos not updating on the phone with the FB app? My friends change their profile picture on FB but the pix on my phone do not change and or update.
I use HandcentSMS instead of the normal stock and it is annoying to have some contact with no picture (even though they have one) and some with old pix.
Anyone know something about this?
Also what's the difference between the stock FB app and the one on the Market?
Cheers
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What ROM are you using?
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MusicMan374 said:
What ROM are you using?
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SLIDE-Reloaded v1

arcybarrios said:
SLIDE-Reloaded v1
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Okay, so then yes there is a difference. The one in the market is more standalone, the one built in is integrated into the contacts app. The way you can manually link pictures is by going to contacts, opening a contact, and in the upper right hit links, and then select link to facebook profile and it'll come up with a list of your friends.
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That is exactly what I did a while back ago; link contacts via the link symbol to FB. My issue is the contact pix not updating when my friends update their profile pix some even show a ? when in fact they do have a pic.
If I select contacts to view my phone list all the pictures that are shown are those that were saved/synced when I first purchased the phone. Since then my friends have changed pix or added one but my phone does not recognize and or sync/update the new images
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arcybarrios said:
That is exactly what I did a while back ago; link contacts via the link symbol to FB. My issue is the contact pix not updating when my friends update their profile pix some even show a ? when in fact they do have a pic.
If I select contacts to view my phone list all the pictures that are shown are those that were saved/synced when I first purchased the phone. Since then my friends have changed pix or added one but my phone does not recognize and or sync/update the new images
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Ah, yeah they can be glitchy. I have problems on stock and AOSP roms, it's just not very good at keeping them synced. They will eventually. Try clearing your cache, and the app cache for facebook for mytouch.

MusicMan374 said:
Ah, yeah they can be glitchy. I have problems on stock and AOSP roms, it's just not very good at keeping them synced. They will eventually. Try clearing your cache, and the app cache for facebook for mytouch.
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I guess it is a glitch because I clear the cache's often and there is no change
I've reported it to FB as if they actually did something about these issues...

arcybarrios said:
I guess it is a glitch because I clear the cache's often and there is no change
I've reported it to FB as if they actually did something about these issues...
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Yeah I think its just buggy. Some of mine don't even download.
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Yeah, the Facebook app does have problems with keeping the contact pictures synced. I've had a better time getting them to update when I use Cyanoginger 1.1 though, maybe its worth a try?

MMS always shows as slide show even with one picture

With the default messaging application when i receive a mms it comes in as a slide show even though it is only one picture. If i open picture up and hit menu ,pause, the picture still goes away after a little while.
Why am i receiving a slide show when one picture is sent to me. I know i can use chomp or handcent but i would rather jut get this fixed.
Is it possible to stop slide shows or just the way things are on the phone?

I would like to know if there is a fix for this too.
Thank you

djfred500 said:
I would like to know if there is a fix for this too.
Thank you
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The fix is to replace the htc messing app with the standard android app. It's been a while since I did it but a google search will yield the instructions and the apk.
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So far i seen that happen in the beginning Also.. the reason it goes to slide show is cause there is a caption to the pic. Have the person or persons not write something and just send the pic.. it will come not as a slide show
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JSmurfy said:
So far i seen that happen in the beginning Also.. the reason it goes to slide show is cause there is a caption to the pic. Have the person or persons not write something and just send the pic.. it will come not as a slide show
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Actually that is not totally true... I have recieved plenty of messages with captions... I have seemed to narrow it down to
1. Iphones like to create slideshows for us. (Randomly at that)
2. The file format of the picture..

masterfuel said:
Actually that is not totally true... I have recieved plenty of messages with captions... I have seemed to narrow it down to
1. Iphones like to create slideshows for us. (Randomly at that)
2. The file format of the picture..
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Hmmmm that's when it does it for me in messages to my peeps.. good to know tho..
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baknblack said:
The fix is to replace the htc messing app with the standard android app. It's been a while since I did it but a google search will yield the instructions and the apk.
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Thank you doing a search i found the Mms.apk file removed old one and installed new one and it worked out just great.
@masterfuel:
I get what your saying, that might be true in some cases, but i have tested this method with only Androids sending me the pictures.
Its been from DroidX, Evo, both bring up a slide show, but after doing what "baknblack" suggested actually turned out to be a better solution.
If anyone needs the fix here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846231

Thanks for all the feedback on this. I have been getting a slide show for pretty much everything. From android, blackberry and iPhone. Maybe it has something to do with the captions people are adding like someone mentioned. But it is annoying that u can't stop the slide show. If u click on picture there is a pause button but it starts again by itself. I will try that basic Android fix and see how that works out. I am guessing u push file to system/app and delete the old one.... whatever that is called. I have to see if there are instructions in the other thread linked here.
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awesome .. i put on the new MMS application and the MMS pictures are right in the chat .. no more slide show .. u guys are the best !!

@djfred500 glad it worked for you.
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Is it just me?
I can't send MMS messages. It force closes!

iTouch24 said:
Is it just me?
I can't send MMS messages. It force closes!
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That's what mine was doing. Installing the vanilla app fixed it. It was then I noticed the side effect of the sideshow being gone.
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baknblack said:
That's what mine was doing. Installing the vanilla app fixed it. It was then I noticed the side effect of the sideshow being gone.
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the sense mms application was working fine ... i installed the vanilla mms app to get rid of the slide show ... but now with the vanilla mms application ... i cannot send MMS messages...
if i try to compose a mms from the picture gallery the message shows up blank with no picture attached .. if i add the picture manually and then try and send the app force closes ...

I used to have this issue also, I remember searching for a fix and then found that it was just the messaging app, downloaded handcent and have never looked back, just remember to disable the notifications on the stock app and then you have a fully functional, kick ass, text messaging app.

bossjeeves said:
I used to have this issue also, I remember searching for a fix and then found that it was just the messaging app, downloaded handcent and have never looked back, just remember to disable the notifications on the stock app and then you have a fully functional, kick ass, text messaging app.
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i was just testing out gosms as well ... doesnt seem as polished as handcent though

iTouch24 said:
i was just testing out gosms as well ... doesnt seem as polished as handcent though
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Something got borked on mine on new years eve I was sending some pics and it hung. I know the network was jammed that night and i think the thing got itself into some state it couldn't recover from. Like having a file that didn't close properly or something.

This happens to me as well...with handcent....HATE IT!

some contacts missing facebook photos

All has been working fine on my EVO4G running MIKG 3.1 until tonight... I looked at the phone and it said it found some contact links. they looked like ones I had already linked but I linked them again. Now, some of the contacts (ones that need to be relinked), show a blank facebook contact photo. Just the generic silhouette of the face. I unlinked and re-linked and re-sync'd the contacts.. nothing.. some are fine and show the contact photo with the facebook symbol. I checked on my PC to see if maybe the person removed their photo, but it is there.
Any ideas????

Anyone? I just tried syncing using Facebook app. Same issue. some contracts pulled photos and others not. Ideas?
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Hey,
in order to get your contact photos to sync you need to use htc sense the app wont do anything man, and if that doesnt work it might be a glitch so try wiping your cache dalvik and flashing the rom again. let me know if it works, but that just might be a bug between your evo and the rom bro,

stevovanburen said:
Hey,
in order to get your contact photos to sync you need to use htc sense the app wont do anything man, and if that doesnt work it might be a glitch so try wiping your cache dalvik and flashing the rom again. let me know if it works, but that just might be a bug between your evo and the rom bro,
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The app does sync. It adds to my accounts and sync. The app filled in some missing photos which Facebook for sense left blank. I read elsewhere that others have this issue too...
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You can try using the app SyncMyPix (I think it's all one word like that, could be wrong). I used it in the past when I had issues on CM7 with Facebook contacts.

plainjane said:
You can try using the app SyncMyPix (I think it's all one word like that, could be wrong). I used it in the past when I had issues on CM7 with Facebook contacts.
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Tried that. That works but it added photos to my Google contracts not exchange contacts
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[Q] Gallery sorting problem

Hi Folks
i have just reaslised that all the photos that the gallery imported from my facebook & picasa accounts are all jumbled up, they are still in the correct folders but the pictutres are not in the correct order
Can anyone else confirm this is happening to them?, at first i thought it was just the fb photos and was going to remove the account & sign in again to see if that fixed it, then noticed the picasa ones as well, so cant really see it being both accounts having problems, seems more like a phone software problem?
Thanks
Pete

Thats strange. Mine is sorted in alphabetical order. First whats in the phone a-z then facebook a-z. Im using a Custom Rom so dont know if thats the reason.

elevation_2 said:
Thats strange. Mine is sorted in alphabetical order. First whats in the phone a-z then facebook a-z. Im using a Custom Rom so dont know if thats the reason.
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Thanks for the reply, are you talking about the album's? If so then mine is the same, but if I go into an album the pictures are not in the correct order as they are when I look at them within Facebook.

peter7769 said:
Thanks for the reply, are you talking about the album's? If so then mine is the same, but if I go into an album the pictures are not in the correct order as they are when I look at them within Facebook.
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Hey have you ever tried quickpic?
- It easily replaces the standard gallery in Android...
- Bobo

I encountered this problem first when I upgraded my SGS2 from GB to ICS. The gallery on the Note in JB still doesn't seem to be fixed.
It has to do with the GPS tag. When you have a mix of GPS- and non-GPS-tagged images in your gallery, the sorting goes bananas.
Hope it gets fixed some day... meanwhile you can indeed try another picture viewer instead.
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Thanks all for the replies, glad it's not just my phone. I used quickpic before, will give it a try to see if it works but really like the stock gallery so hope they get a fix sorted.
Pete
Just tried quickpic but unfortunately it can't display Facebook albums

[Q] MMS camera app choices? Only stock?

Well, this is embarrassing.
Something I just found interesting about (what I assume is) a TW limitation?
When I want to take a picture to attach to an SMS, or attach an old picture to an SMS, I seem to only have the choices of the stock cam and stock gallery apps.
I thought that perhaps I had inadvertently set a default in the first day of ownership (although I don't remember doing so, and I am fastidious about these things), but there were no defaults to clear, either in the MSGing app, or the cam app.
While I find being forced to use the stock gallery for attachment annoying (I like QuickPic far better, for several reasons), not the end of the world.
But I use Vignette almost exclusively for taking pics, and having to close txt app > open vignette > take pic > close vignette > (wait for pic to process) > open txting > attach pic... P.I.T.A.
Am I missing something obvious? It's been quite some time since I used TW stock for any period of time. (On my E4GT I used anything but TW for the last 6 months of ownership...) But even then I still seem to remember TW offering me a choice of installed cams for attachments. Is this a Note II "thing"? Or something in the newer iterations of TW?
Thanks for reading, comrades-in-nerdiness.

Clear defaults in the gallery app?

I can't see your spam

w7excursion said:
I can't see your spam
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10 post spam :thumbdown:
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w7excursion said:
Clear defaults in the gallery app?
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There are no defaults to clear in the cam, gallery or messenger. I am literally forced to use the stock cam in attaching a pic to a msg.
Can someone confirm that this is the case on stock for them as well?
Or perhaps confirm that on a different rom its Not the case?
(fu*king spam, thanks for the bump)
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I downloaded the quick pic and I get no option to use it when picking a picture from the messaging app. Maybe contact the developer about it.
Edit: actually it might be how the phone software is meant to handle attachments. I installed another gallery app and it doesn't show up either.

w7excursion said:
I downloaded the quick pic and I get no option to use it when picking a picture from the messaging app. Maybe contact the developer about it.
Edit: actually it might be how the phone software is meant to handle attachments. I installed another gallery app and it doesn't show up either.
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thanks, if you're on stock, than I consider the issue confirmed. for stock at least. with gallery.
anyone on any other ROMs can confirm?
(I already assume that anything AOSP does not have the issue, but I am wondering if any TW base ROMs have tweaked something that would allow for other apps to be used as either defaults.)

I've only had the option to use stock camera/gallery on TW.
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When choosing to add an attachment if you choose take picture it defaults to the stock camera. But when u chose to attach an image and click on the stock images symbol you get options to choose from different apps. And quickpic pops up fine for me. Just downloaded it since above poster mentioned it.
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RayTrue04 said:
When choosing to add an attachment if you choose take picture it defaults to the stock camera. But when u chose to attach an image and click on the stock images symbol you get options to choose from different apps. And quickpic pops up fine for me. Just downloaded it since above poster mentioned it.
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thanks for that! would never have found that, counter-intuitive! (also, I tend not to attach many images from the gallery, usually take them on the spot.)
(found another cool little thing, if you long press any icon in the attachments menu, takes you to the app properties...)
still hoping to find a way to use a better/different camera app in attachments though. hrm. far more important.

kingdazy said:
thanks for that! would never have found that, counter-intuitive! (also, I tend not to attach many images from the gallery, usually take them on the spot.)
(found another cool little thing, if you long press any icon in the attachments menu, takes you to the app properties...)
still hoping to find a way to use a better/different camera app in attachments though. hrm. far more important.
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What I hate is when browsing the gallery if you have your dropbox synced to it you don't have an option to share. However I do for my Facebook pictures which is also an online service. So in order to share I have to go to the messaging app and click attach from the dropbox in the attach photo selection I posted above. If you attach directly from dropbox it created a link to visit instead but if you use it from the massaging app it loads up the photo.
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