Hey all,
I went back and re-watched the Google/Samsung announcement from October. The video specifically shows Matias as having a text (from the Messages app) from Andy Rubin and Andy's picture shows up there (like how it does for emails).
When I get a text message, I get the little box smiley face icon, and not the person's picture. Has anyone gotten a picture to show up there?
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Yes you have a picture there? Did you have to do anything special? Are you syncing from Google+ or anything?
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I am synching with google+, yes, but the contacts who I have pictures for in the messages app are not from google+; they are just normal contacts. I added pictures to the contacts manually.
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Hi, I have same problem. When I got SMS I have only "SMS app logo" in notification bar. Can you please advise how to achieve photos there?
I don't have pics showing up either in notification. My contact, Google+, etc all have different pics for the person biti still only see the messaging app icon.
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Weird how it is working for jstegeman. I'm getting my contact pics from my Google Contacts syncing. I would hate to have to attach all the pics manually from the phone just to get it to show in the Notifications!
Sorry, all, I just reread this. I'm not getting the picture in my notifications, but in the messaging app itself. I didn't notice the word "Notifications" in the thread title. Apologies for the wild goose chase.
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Why is it that the Google Nexus page shows little icons of the person in the notification pull down? I'm on 4.0.1, and if I get a text, I just get a regular text message icon, not the image of the person who wrote me. Is it a 4.0.2, 4.0.3 feature? Or am I missing something?!
Thanks for insight!
tremerone said:
Why is it that the Google Nexus page shows little icons of the person in the notification pull down? I'm on 4.0.1, and if I get a text, I just get a regular text message icon, not the image of the person who wrote me. Is it a 4.0.2, 4.0.3 feature? Or am I missing something?!
Thanks for insight!
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I believe those only show if the contact is synced with google+
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It's just Gmail right now, I'm fairly sure. The Messaging app doesn't seem to have this capability yet, for whatever reason.
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I need to see if there is a way that when I pull up my phone contacts (or when someone calls me) that is displays their actual picture. All is shows now is a generic picture (same pic for all contacts). Thank you all for any help and Merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) !!
Edit the contact then tap the generic picture.
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I'm still not following you...This should be easy, but I'm having a time here...thank you
Go to the contact in your phonebook, and click on them. From here, hit the menu button in the top right hand corner and hit edit. To the right of their name is the generic contact picture. If you click on this, you can add a picture from your gallery Merry Christmas!!
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i need the facebook pics to show up when i open my dialer..not sure how
You need to download an app like syncmypix or haxsync from the market
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Hello,
The first week I got my GN, Facebook notifications were working like a charm.
Lately they stopped working completly. Both Facebook and Facebook Messenger.
Is there a real push alternative rather than the intrigrated one? They always seem to fail somehow?
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It's Facebook's fault, their apps suck.
Logout from the App and log back in and adjust your settings again. Sometimes that fixes it.
Tried logging in and out with no luck
Is anyone else experiensing the same problem?
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Hemulen said:
Hello,
The first week I got my GN, Facebook notifications were working like a charm.
Lately they stopped working completly. Both Facebook and Facebook Messenger.
Is there a real push alternative rather than the intrigrated one? They always seem to fail somehow?
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I'm getting notifications just fine if you go into the app settings you can set notifications within facebook rather than on the phone. alternatively you can sign up for mobile alerts or email notifications on facebook website from your account settings .
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trilogee said:
I'm getting notifications just fine if you go into the app settings you can set notifications within facebook rather than on the phone. alternatively you can sign up for mobile alerts or email notifications on facebook website from your account settings .
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Well, I dont like email spamming from Facebook. Thats why I turned them off.
I've set notifications ON only in the app itself. Never seen such settings on the phone.
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Lol there aren't any on the phone I just wasn't sure if you thought there were. alternatively you can set up a new gmail account dedicated to your facebook and have notifications pushed there. Personally I just set a filter in my main gmail account 4 anything with the word facebook in the email address to go to a custom facebook label. I like to have access to those notifications in the event that comments are deleted or I need to refer to something. Although this means every time I get a facebook notification it's immediately followed by an email notification.
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I've solved that by installing facebook messenger, works like it should within couple secs after a message is posted.
Okay this isnt a complete solution for jb but if you use Facebook for alot of your numbers then this will work for you. Unfortunately for now haxsync doesn't sync numbers just pics, statuses, etc etc so what i did was use an app called super backup: sms and contacts and backup contacts in an ics rom that supports fb sync then flash the jb rom and restore contacts with the same app. You should have them all and it actually makes them into regular contacts so you dont have to use fb anymore for them. If you want hq pics then use haxsync or any of the other fb picture sync apps
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Nice find, I wish I saw this while I was still on ics. I made a post about this a few weeks ago but didn't get much input
Thanks
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Np and hey you can just backup your current setup and then flash an ics rom that has fb sync and go back to the backup. Itll take maybe 30mins max but its worth it if you need the contacts like i do
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I might just use my old sgs2. Sync the contacts there and copy over to my nexus
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that works too lol
Thanks for the info
Np. Glad i can help
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Just use haxsync awesome quality pictures lol
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Another workaround:
I was going to start a new thread on this, but since it's my first post I feared getting flamed..
So, here's the best workaround that I've come across for phone number syncing for Facebook on Jelly Bean..
1. Go ahead and sync your facebook contacts by clearing the Facebook app cache and adding your Facebook account to your phone. It will ask you to sign in, and then it will sync contacts without phone numbers.
2. As you try to dial someone's number and you realize that it's on Facebook instead of Google, open up the Facebook app and search for that contact by clicking the "three horizontal line" icon on the top left.
3. The contact will have a phone icon next to their name if they have their phone number stored on Facebook. Go ahead and click the phone and it will bring their number up in the dialer.
4. On the bottom right of your dialer, click the "three dot" icon and select "add to contacts". You know what to do from there.
It's not the best solution, but it's the best i've seen so far. You won't have all of your contacts at once, but you can search for the ones that you know right off the bat, and then search for them as needed later on.
Thats a really long process lol i have over 300 friends so that would take forever. My process saves you alot of time and has the added benefit of turning the fb contacts into regular Google contacts.
Also haxsunc doesn't sync numbers so alone it was useless to me lol
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Just use haxsync awesome quality pictures lol
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LOL, did you even read? sigh...
Bloodykiller86 said:
Thats a really long process lol i have over 300 friends so that would take forever. My process saves you alot of time and has the added benefit of turning the fb contacts into regular Google contacts.
Also haxsunc doesn't sync numbers so alone it was useless to me lol
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All of your facebook contacts can be dialed directly from Facebook. So just keep them on the facebook app until you need to dial a specific Facebook contact, and then take the extra 2 seconds and save it to Google contacts before you dial it.
Plus, I'm sure everyone doesn't need that weird kid from science class from the 7th grade's phone number. This way you can pick and choose who to add as you need it.
Even if there is eventually a way to sync every facebook contact, i much prefer this method.
Thank you for the tip
Android 4.2
When I tap it navigates me to Contacts App and I can see my photo of the contact "me".
But no photo of me in the notification area.
Any ideas why?
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bat0nas said:
Android 4.2
When I tap it navigates me to Contacts App and I can see my photo of the contact "me".
But no photo of me in the notification area.
Any ideas why?
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The photo in the quick settings area is actually linked to your Google+ account, not to the photo you set for yourself. So if you're logged in to your G+ account, it should show up.
Yeah just log into the Google+ app and it will show up.
Thanks!!!
It worked.
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That's kind of stupid. I may not want to use g+ but am being forced to do so
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My "me" contact picture shows up, No G+, I have it frozen & never logged in. Stock rooted phone.