When I send an SMS message I see pictures for my contacts but my sent SMS picture is blank. (I'm assuming a picture of me.) If I click on the blank picture it says "The contact does not exist." I tried adding myself and my cell number to my Google contacts thinking it might add my picture from there but it doesn't seem to work.
I know this is a very minor issue but any suggestions?
Thanks!
I'm having the same issue, anybody have a solution?
It shows my google+ picture on mine, running stock rooted.
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I just click on it and the larger contact picture pops up, blank of course. From there I am able to edit it and add a picture for myself.
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when I try to click on the stock image (not for the contact that i'm messaging but for my own picture), its saying the same thing as sdmf91 pointed out, "The contact does not exist", its driving me nuts
Really? I just clicked on mine and it pops up a picture less popup with my name at the bottom. From there I can click on the picture and edit it like I would a normal contact.. did you guys put your name in the "this phone belongs to" section when setting up the phone? I did that and I think that could have something to do with why yours say "this contact does not exist"
Actually I didn't put anything in there come to think of it and im not sure how to even get back to that screen...Is there another way to enter that information?
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Figured it out!!
Under applications, open "people" and on the top there's a section where it says "Me", click on that and input your info/picture and presto! Headache gone!
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This is a little off-topic, and I'm sorry if it doesn't belong here, but I am looking for some people to test out a new website I've been working on, and thought I'd look to my fellow Inc2 owners.
When I first got CM7 working on my old Fascinate, I was a little bummed that there was no way to link my Facebook contacts. So I decided to make my own tool. As of right now, it only syncs pictures, no phone numbers or anything.
I've spent a good amount of time working out the bugs, but there is a chance I missed some, so if you encounter any problems please let me know. Don't worry though, it won't mess up your Google contacts at all.
Please note that it currently DOES NOT work in Internet Explorer, due to a bug on Google's end which will hopefully be fixed soon.
http://www.pfrybarger.com/googlefbsync/googlefbsync.html
Thanks!
Edit: Also I should note that this won't work on mobile browsers (can't scroll through certain lists), and you must have javascript enabled in your browser.
What are the benefits over using the Facebook App to sync contacts?
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Let's see, the main benefits are:
- Ability to crop and resize profile pictures
- Pictures are visible outside of just your phone, so in Gmail for instance
- No need to re-link after flashing a new rom (I always found this a pain)
- Pictures will show up everywhere on your phone. I believe if you use the Facebook app to sync, the pictures will not show up for certain apps, like messaging
- No new contacts will be added to your phone
My tool will only sync pictures, and not phone numbers or email addresses. I found it kind of annoying that the Facebook app would pull these in, but I guess that's a matter of personal preference.
As of right now, there is no automatic updating of profile pictures, but I hope to get this implemented soon.
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Let's see, the main benefits are:
- Ability to crop and resize profile pictures
- Pictures are visible outside of just your phone, so in Gmail for instance
- No need to re-link after flashing a new rom (I always found this a pain)
- Pictures will show up everywhere on your phone. I believe if you use the Facebook app to sync, the pictures will not show up for certain apps, like messaging
- No new contacts will be added to your phone
My tool will only sync pictures, and not phone numbers or email addresses. I found it kind of annoying that the Facebook app would pull these in, but I guess that's a matter of personal preference.
As of right now, there is no automatic updating of profile pictures, but I hope to get this implemented soon.
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Seems like exactly what I want.
Sux I don't have a computer.
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Gave it a go. after running the program, I got an error pop up that submitted an error report. The program still worked though. It found a few of my contacts in Google that weren't matched up with my Facebook contacts.
So if I'm understanding this, now that I have my Facebook contacts linked with my Google contacts, when loading my contacts on my phone now, (after flashing a rom or doing a hard reset) my Google contacts will still have the pictures linked to them without having to go back and doing the Facebook thing all over again?
PacerguyDon said:
Gave it a go. after running the program, I got an error pop up that submitted an error report. The program still worked though. It found a few of my contacts in Google that weren't matched up with my Facebook contacts.
So if I'm understanding this, now that I have my Facebook contacts linked with my Google contacts, when loading my contacts on my phone now, (after flashing a rom or doing a hard reset) my Google contacts will still have the pictures linked to them without having to go back and doing the Facebook thing all over again?
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Yep, as long as you hit the upload button once you were done linking the contacts. Instead of saving the pictures on the phone, like the Facebook app does, this actually saves the pictures to your Google contacts. So when you do a reset, and sign back in to your Google account, your contact picture will be sent to your phone along with all their other information.
You do need to link all of your contacts on the website though. It doesn't recognize which ones you already have linked on your phone.
I saw the bug reports, I'll take a look and try to see what happened. Thanks for giving it a try!
Could you add the feature of ONLY syncing facebook pictures and no contact numbers? The one thing I hate about syncing facebook in my phone is the fact some people have old numbers still on FB so there are two numbers when you go to call or text someone as well as there are unwanted numbers of people.
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Could you add the feature of ONLY syncing facebook pictures and no contact numbers? The one thing I hate about syncing facebook in my phone is the fact some people have old numbers still on FB so there are two numbers when you go to call or text someone as well as there are unwanted numbers of people.
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From what I understand, that's all it does, just the pictures.
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zombiiez said:
From what I understand, that's all it does, just the pictures.
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Yep, it only syncs pictures.
Also, zombiiez, I'll see what I can do to get it working on mobile browsers. No promises, but maybe I can get something working
Ah my apologizes i saw some other posts and thought it was just another facebook like app.
I wento n the website but none of my google contacts appear on the website.
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Ah my apologizes i saw some other posts and thought it was just another facebook like app.
I wento n the website but none of my google contacts appear on the website.
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Your contacts aren't showing up? That's strange... and no error message comes up? When you sign in and click 'Begin', how many contacts does it say you have under 'Google Contacts'?
got this error:
I'm sorry, you have encountered the following error:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'myContact' of undefined
Please send an error report to the developer by clicking the button below. This will help fix and improve the site. Sorry and thanks!
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got this error:
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Hmm sorry about that. Still working out all the bugs.
I think I figured out the problem and got it fixed. Had to do with contacts that don't have names, but only email addresses. Let me know if that worked.
It says I have 0 google contacts -.- i just synced my google contacts on my phone
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It says I have 0 google contacts -.- i just synced my google contacts on my phone
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Could you do me a favor? Sign into the site again, and click on 'Begin'. Once the main page loads, click on the 'Comments/Questions' link at the bottom of the page, check the 'send log' checkbox, type anything in the big box, and hit send?
This will help me diagnose what's going on, and why your contacts aren't showing up. Thanks!
Zed does your website still work? The pages shows it as down.
Shoot, my server must be down. I'll take a look at it when I get some time today, sorry about that.
Alright it should be up and running now. Let me know if you have any problems. Thanks!
Hi everyone. In the people app the pictures in ics are all low res. Anyone have any ideas to get the high res pictures? I find it odd that ics wouldnt go out and get the high res pics from facebook etc.
The only solution I've found so far is to manually change contact pictures using high res photos on the phone.
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Yes, but as soon as you sync with Google Contacts ... Those photos will become low res again.
And again, you must re-assign manually.
Stupid stupid stupid Google ...
So, is there any app or script that can we use to replace all contact photos at once?
First, we told the app ... "this is the image for this contact" ... for all contacts.
Then later, user can replace all with a button click!
Please ... please any developer can make this app? For sure a lot of people will buy to fix this stupid Google low res contact.
*begging* ... I will buy this kind of app, right away!
nyijedi said:
The only solution I've found so far is to manually change contact pictures using high res photos on the phone.
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And this has been reported to Google since 2009!!!
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4147
Till this date, people are still having this issue ...
gogol said:
Yes, but as soon as you sync with Google Contacts ... Those photos will become low res again.
And again, you must re-assign manually.
Stupid stupid stupid Google ...
So, is there any app or script that can we use to replace all contact photos at once?
First, we told the app ... "this is the image for this contact" ... for all contacts.
Then later, user can replace all with a button click!
Please ... please any developer can make this app? For sure a lot of people will buy to fix this stupid Google low res contact.
*begging* ... I will buy this kind of app, right away!
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And this has been reported to Google since 2009!!!
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4147
Till this date, people are still having this issue ...
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This is what gets me about Google - for all the good things they do, they are let down by silly details like this.
I have to agree. I was going over every item on the phone, and them my brother called and I was like, WTF ?
randypurcz said:
I have to agree. I was going over every item on the phone, and them my brother called and I was like, WTF ?
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My contact photos haven't changed at all since I changed them to high res ones a few days ago...
Surely it has something to do with how much OTA data would be needed to sync hi res photos from gmail contacts to your phone..... I would rather have numbers than have them not sync because the pics are say 20mb each.... Thats why you havetoo set them from the phone.
So, in Google Contacts we should not put any photos?
In this way, when we sync, Google Contacts will not replace the photos that we have set manually?
Danny80y said:
Surely it has something to do with how much OTA data would be needed to sync hi res photos from gmail contacts to your phone..... I would rather have numbers than have them not sync because the pics are say 20mb each.... Thats why you havetoo set them from the phone.
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KiNG OMaR said:
My contact photos haven't changed at all since I changed them to high res ones a few days ago...
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They won't change on the phone, but the pictures sync back to Google Contacts as a low res 96x96 version.
That means if you need to restore your contacts for whatever reason (such as a factory reset), then you will get a crappy low res version back.
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Danny80y said:
Surely it has something to do with how much OTA data would be needed to sync hi res photos from gmail contacts to your phone..... I would rather have numbers than have them not sync because the pics are say 20mb each.... Thats why you havetoo set them from the phone.
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Google seem to be happy using the instant upload feature of G+ to send high res pictures back and forth, so I don't see why they can't enable it with Google Contacts.
Contact pictures will take up far less space, as they are cropped from a full image.
Google said that the contacts app will download peoples pictures from Google+
maybe you don't have that turned on, or maybe thats the only way to truly get high-res pictures. luckily for me all my main friends are on it already.
neok44 said:
Google said that the contacts app will download peoples pictures from Google+
maybe you don't have that turned on, or maybe thats the only way to truly get high-res pictures. luckily for me all my main friends are on it already.
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Yeah it looks like that may be the only way. I assume Google Contacts will be merged into G+ at some point, so there is just one place for all your contacts and issues like this won't happen.
Unfortunately for me only a handful of people I know actually use G+, so I can't rely on it at the minute.
i had this problem on my thunderbolt with the facebook app. the contact pics were very low res
my solution was to sync pics with the "facebook for HTC sense" app, and it worked. pics were beautiful. have you guys tried using an app like syncmypix?
neok44 said:
Google said that the contacts app will download peoples pictures from Google+
maybe you don't have that turned on, or maybe thats the only way to truly get high-res pictures. luckily for me all my main friends are on it already.
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I hope they enable this for facebook too in the future. Although I'm no big fan of FB and I can understand Google considering the cometitive situation, FB is still far more widespread than G+ and most of my friends don't want to join yet another social network.
shawnn218 said:
i had this problem on my thunderbolt with the facebook app. the contact pics were very low res
my solution was to sync pics with the "facebook for HTC sense" app, and it worked. pics were beautiful. have you guys tried using an app like syncmypix?
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Syncmypix syncs still in a quite low resolution, even if high res is enabled in the settings. And Syncmypix is definitely not optimized for 720p displays The actual app scales perfectly, but on the "crop" screen where you can edit the pics, every pic is really tiny. See screenshot below
People, lets complaint on GMail page on Google+
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103345707817934461425/posts/UA6rpCZgqwq
I am extremely frustrated that Google didn't improve this for ICS.
In my business we forward contacts to each other on a daily basis. Get new clients and have to share them with employees.
Anyways before the easiest way, was to text them. So let's says Mike needs Joe #, I would open text message to send Mike and click menu, and there should be an option to add contact, you scroll through your contacts list for Joe, click it and then it would attach to the text and be forwarded.
That was standard fair on my last five Android phones. But in ICS that option is not there. And here's the kicker, go into contact list of people, I thought OK we can forward from here. Nope. I click a contact name and the menu button and yes it does allow forwarding, but not to text only by Bluetooth and email.
Sire I know GO SMS does thus, but I like my ROM running pure stock no add ons.
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This is something I would like to know aswell - I have just either been emailing or copy/pasting the phone number which is not ideal.
I have had it on all my other phones and never realised how much I would miss a small feature like this
personally i use barcode scanner to share contacts. It generates a QR code which then the other person can scan and add it to their contacts.
you are right about messaging being gone for sharing. very strange that they removed that.
Open your people app
Select the contact of choice and open it
Hit the setting button in the upper right hand of the screen and select share
Than you can email or text to someone else
Please hit the thanks button if I helped.
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Nevermind I just looked again and see that there was no text option now on ICS... sorry
badassirocz said:
Open your people app
Select the contact of choice and open it
Hit the setting button in the upper right hand of the screen and select share
Than you can email or text to someone else
Please hit the thanks button if I helped.
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Nevermind I just looked again and see that there was no text option now on ICS... sorry
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Nope. You can not text. Only share by Bluetooth or email.
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so i have a question.. sorry im new to the new phone and still learning..
my mogul died.. but i had connected my new phone to my computer and it auto sync'd my contacts...
im missing a few people... so i emailed a bud to txt me his #..
he did... so i added him to concacts from there...from the txt..
well when i click on contacts on my main screen.. i search for him and he is not there..
anyone know what is going on.. well the real question..
what am i doing wrong or not doing right...
Please stop calling it "the droid", it's a galaxy s2 running android. Either you didn't save it or didn't enter it right in the contacts. You can also look and add contacts online through your Gmail accout.
Wow dude, relax with the hostility, he don't know yet
You probably saved the contact to your phone contacts. Make sure you save contacts to your Google contacts, let me know if you need anything else
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Im sure if it was saved to phone it would still show up in searching.
Im leaning more to the contact didn't save.
phatmanxxl said:
Im sure if it was saved to phone it would still show up in searching.
Im leaning more to the contact didn't save.
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it's possible, but my phone only showed google contacts out of the box. was a real head-scratcher for me for a few hours because I kept overlooking whether to check if 'phone' contacts were being displayed
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Im sure if it was saved to phone it would still show up in searching.
Im leaning more to the contact didn't save.
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sorry.. i wont call it a droid anymore.. i will reference it as
Black Sprint Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch... glad it is a short name
anyway... if it was NOT saved.. then why at first when he txt me it had his number in the header... but then when i went in and said add contact.. and gave it a name.. it then had his name... but then when i went into contacts cuz i wanted to add a pic to it.. i couldnt find it...
Wizard Knight said:
Wow dude, relax with the hostility, he don't know yet
You probably saved the contact to your phone contacts. Make sure you save contacts to your Google contacts, let me know if you need anything else
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Thanks... ill have to see that.. i didnt know you could save to phone contacts vs google contacts.. thought they were the same... gonna look around now..
on the hostility part.. im not worried.. im a member of offroad truck sites that frankly will make you tear up and cry in a feetal position cuz they are so harsh...
Is your friend's name the same our similar to anyone else's name in your contacts?
Google will combine contacts that it thinks may be related. For example, if you have two contacts, one Bob Smith and one Robert Smith, they will end up combined.
Check any contacts that are similar to your friend's name. Edit the contact, and scroll through it and see if he's there. If he is, Tao the menu button and separate the contacts.
He will then become his own contact.
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nope.. last name mintel.. if i searched my phone for mintel I saw none.... that is inside the contacts icon located on the bottom of my home screen...
now i looked in gmail and didnt see contacts.. not sure why got to look again.. maybe walk away from the computer for a bit... eyes hurt....
so i added him in contacts as he was already in text.. i dunno.. more messing around i guess..
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nope.. last name mintel.. if i searched my phone for mintel I saw none.... that is inside the contacts icon located on the bottom of my home screen...
now i looked in gmail and didnt see contacts.. not sure why got to look again.. maybe walk away from the computer for a bit... eyes hurt....
so i added him in contacts as he was already in text.. i dunno.. more messing around i guess..
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here's contacts within gmail
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here's contacts within gmail
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They only get merged on the phone. At least that's my experience.
If you start dialing the number in your dialer, does the name come up in the auto complete? Is it the correct name?
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Dalmus said:
They only get merged on the phone. At least that's my experience.
If you start dialing the number in your dialer, does the name come up in the auto complete? Is it the correct name?
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yes it does.. but i did just end up adding him manually into contacts..
funny thing is i went and edited the contact from the text side of the world.. and paste it all into the contacts section... weird...
Guys I've been taking pictures with the HTC camera and editing them with Google photos just fine, but now whenever I go to edit and save I get a message "unable to save photo edits" no matter what I do. Tried uninstalling Google+ as well but no luck. When I take pics with the Google Camera it works fine.
EDIT: so I took a picture and opened it with gallery saved it and opened it with Google Photos and now it works again. BUT all the older pics I took cannot be edited and I still get the "unable to save photo edits" Wtf....
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Guys I've been taking pictures with the HTC camera and editing them with Google photos just fine, but now whenever I go to edit and save I get a message "unable to save photo edits" no matter what I do. Tried uninstalling Google+ as well but no luck. When I take pics with the Google Camera it works fine.
EDIT: so I took a picture and opened it with gallery saved it and opened it with Google Photos and now it works again. BUT all the older pics I took cannot be edited and I still get the "unable to save photo edits" Wtf....
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I recall similar problems earlier this year too with the Nexus 5 or any other device. The solution that they came up with was to clear the cache of Google+, force close the Google+ app and then uninstall it, go to playstore again and reinstall it.
Don't know if it'll still work.
There are threads somewhere on xda with similar problems, might want to search for it though.
Let us know if it works, damn Google+, first this nonsense and now it's a battery hogger as well
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This thread discussed the issue and then gave a link to another xda thread in which they gave a link to the solution discussion where they said to force close, uninstall, reinstall like I mentioned in my first post too.
Don't know if it still works though, should though as some of the replies on that discussion came as recently as May of this year so...