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[Q] Contacts and Facebook

Hey guys, finally tried Cyanogen and WOW. Been up all day and night playing around with it but haven't found any way to sync Facebook contacts like the HTC Sense Facebook app. Damn, HTC really pulled that app off well.
I realize that I can try another custom ROM but this seems to be the bees knees. Any help for this Cyanogen newb would be greatly appreciated. Happy holidays!

Facebook for Android can sync all your friends to contacts or only sync existing contacts.
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Hm.. I'll tinker around with it a bit more. It's not updating the contact pictures immediately. Dialer is a little lack luster compared to the Sense one but I'll be content if I can get the contact pictures to update without much fuss.
Thank you!

Frostshock said:
Facebook for Android can sync all your friends to contacts or only sync existing contacts.
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it really doesnt do a good job tho. you have to have your contacts saved as their exact name on fb - which can be annoying. Plus, sense gets hi res pics as opposed to blurry fb app pics.
i used to have an app by which you could manually sync your contacts to fb - but i dont have it any more and cant remember the name
anyone know the app?

adam18488 said:
it really doesnt do a good job tho. you have to have your contacts saved as their exact name on fb - which can be annoying. Plus, sense gets hi res pics as opposed to blurry fb app pics.
i used to have an app by which you could manually sync your contacts to fb - but i dont have it any more and cant remember the name
anyone know the app?
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There were a couple that I recall..... but I don't recall the names either lol. I used them on my Xperia X10.
It seems that Sense has put "Notes" in all the contacts and binds them to the respected Facebook profiles, even if you manually link it to another account. My wife has an English and a Vietnamese name for instance. And it's a nuisance when an old broken image of her from my SD card pops up. HTC Sense was fantastic for this.
Maybe someone will be willing to port it over. I have some ****ty coding skills and was looking into doing a few Android apps. Maybe I could figure something out but I doubt it.
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Nevermind... turns out the Sense Dialer is heavily tied into the Sense framework. Looks like I may need to look at another customer firmware. I never knew how attached to the Social phonebooks and other Social aspects of my Android phones.

[Q] Getting rid of facebook icon on contact pictures

When using HTCSENSE for facebook, and linking contacts my contacts have their facebook picture with a little facebook icon in the corner. This annoys me almost as much as the poor quality of photos. I looked around but can't find anything about this. I browsed some of the directories trying to find the facebook image file so I could replace it but no luck. Anyone whos explored the deep abyss they call Sense care to help?

In your "peoples" app hit menu>view and turn off facebook...

DirtyShroomz said:
In your "peoples" app hit menu>view and turn off facebook...
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This is helpful.. but not what I meant.
That option is turned off for me already. What I am talking about is when you link a contact to their facebook profile. ( so that their picture gets changed etc) it shows the tiny blue facebook icon which is an annoyance. There must be a way we can find that image in the filesystem and replace it with a transparent image to get rid of it... I just can't locate it.

thegoatherder13 said:
This is helpful.. but not what I meant.
That option is turned off for me already. What I am talking about is when you link a contact to their facebook profile. ( so that their picture gets changed etc) it shows the tiny blue facebook icon which is an annoyance. There must be a way we can find that image in the filesystem and replace it with a transparent image to get rid of it... I just can't locate it.
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Ahh... I see what you mean. Don't know if that's possible to be removed as it's tied to facebook, but then again, anything is possible in these forums.

DirtyShroomz said:
Ahh... I see what you mean. Don't know if that's possible to be removed as it's tied to facebook, but then again, anything is possible in these forums.
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I know, I just stumbled upon these and some of the stuff here is nuts. Loving it though and I am keeping hope that someone will know the trick!

If you go in to people, click the person you want to change picture. Click the Link on the top right. Then you can click on the contact photo, and you have the option to change the photo. Hope this helps.
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thegoatherder13 said:
When using HTCSENSE for facebook, and linking contacts my contacts have their facebook picture with a little facebook icon in the corner. This annoys me almost as much as the poor quality of photos. I looked around but can't find anything about this. I browsed some of the directories trying to find the facebook image file so I could replace it but no luck. Anyone whos explored the deep abyss they call Sense care to help?
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Get over it. It's tiny.
As far as the quality of the images, even if you upload your own, it'll be bad. That's just how it is.

thatrapnerd said:
If you go in to people, click the person you want to change picture. Click the Link on the top right. Then you can click on the contact photo, and you have the option to change the photo. Hope this helps.
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Thanks, but I know this. The whole point is I want the pictures to sync with facebook but without that little F icon.
Lol @ get over it. What is the point in trying to flame me? I want my phone to be aesthetically pleasing as possible.. thats why I got rid of my bb.

Well syncing it with the actual facebook app doesnt leave the little corner mark, but syncing it without the HTC Sense facebook really sucks, looks like your in a dilemma. If you dont care about the extras you get from HTC Sense facebook you can try the normal one.

bronxknight28 said:
Well syncing it with the actual facebook app doesnt leave the little corner mark, but syncing it without the HTC Sense facebook really sucks, looks like your in a dilemma. If you dont care about the extras you get from HTC Sense facebook you can try the normal one.
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I didn't know I could sync with regular facebook. When I removed HTC sense for facebook before it took away any sync capability. Could you explain how you have this set up? I would prefer using the normal facebook app and not the sense one.

Remove HTC sense facebook and sync with facebook from the market
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DirtyShroomz said:
Remove HTC sense facebook and sync with facebook from the market
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Tried this before and broke my stock ROM before I flashed myns. When I uninstalled HTCSense Facebook it stopped syncing contacts and despite having facebook reinstalled I still could not get those two. Are you sure this works? everything I have read is that I would need a third party app like syncmypix, which is why I asked if we can just dump that little facebook icon.

Ive synced with facebook from the market and turned off htc facebook and got the pictures without the "f"
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Nefariouss said:
Why the **** should he just get over it? What a dumb ass response.
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Please refrain from using bad language
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DirtyShroomz said:
Ive synced with facebook from the market and turned off htc facebook and got the pictures without the "f"
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Can you explain how you got this working?
I installed Market Facebook. turned off HTC facebook. When I click the facebook icon in accounts nothing happens.
This happened before on my last rom.

Without HTC sense and just doing it through the facebook app. Your contact names will have to match their facebook extactly
Also the facebook does not update as frequently through

So I cant get the regular android to sync. I click it on the sync menu and nothing pops up. The first time it brought me to the login screen but hasnt done it since even if I remove. googling this and it seems to be a common issue unresolved... so it brings me back to my original question of finding this facebook image in the filesystem and changing it to a transparent png. Any dev whos taken apart sense have any ideas?

I actually would like to see if this is possible as well. Those icons have been annoying me ever since I got my Evo! (release!)

anyone feel like helping? been trying to dig this for a week and can't find any fix.

DirtyShroomz said:
Ive synced with facebook from the market and turned off htc facebook and got the pictures without the "f"
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dirtyshroomz is a liar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is there anyway to make my contact pictures have better quality?

I thought this problem would be fixed in ICS, but I guess it has not yet been fixed. I installed SyncMyPix and that hasn't worked. I turned off auto sync contacts and tried SMP again and still I got huge blurry pics. Is there anything I can do about this problem?

Put the high res files on your phone and assign them to contacts there. It's annoying, but it's the only way ivy gotten it to wprk.
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That's way too much work for all my contacts. Also, I would like to have their latest photos from Facebook and what not.

I think we'll be waiting for FB to update their app to properly support the People API... sigh.

i find that, if your people has links to google+ (with the same name that it has tag it automatically), you will still need to go into people app for it to cache a High Resolution photo first, before it will work on the dialler.

rikbrown said:
I think we'll be waiting for FB to update their app to properly support the People API... sigh.
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Considering that they didn't want to use the Android API for contact sync before I wouldn't be surprised if they don't enable that feature for a long time. They never used the normal API which is why it was blocked.

for fb , i use friendcaster.. it has high res sync capability

I've still found that Friendcaster's syncing doesn't give pictures of a truly decent resolution, they're just a little less blurry than usual.

Keep in mind the high-res contacts =256x256 on a 1280x720 screen so I don't thinks they're ever going to look crystal clear.

I read this a while back. Make a phone only contact with a picture of the party. Now link that contact with the synced contact. Now choose to use the phone only contact picture. Not sure if that works.
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Yea Facebook reduces the contact icons. So you'll never get a REAL HD image from Facebook unless you actually grab some of their uploaded pictures from their photo album... but it will require more work to get it right.
Facebook Sync, IMO, is good and bad. I LOVE the feature as it quickly populates my contacts with images. I HATE it because sometimes I look for the images through a list, and if it changes often, can make it harder. Sorta like theming your App Drawer.
Typically what I do is Sync with my social media to get the majority of contacts synced up. But I usually manually add photos of my most popular contacts with ones I've taken with my phone's camera.
Manual contact photos sync with Google along with your contacts... so you really only have to do it once.

Anyone know to who or where we can request an update of Google Contacts? Asking to increase the resolution to 256x256. Same resolution as supported by ICS.
Or an option to not sync photo. That's also ok.
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Any app to download friend's facebook pictures and apply hi-res photos to contacts?

Is there any app that downloads a high resolution Facebook contact picture and assigns it to your contact on the phone?
Theres a plethora of apps that sync "high res" pics (Syncmypix), but attaches it to your gmail account, which then downgrades the quality to all hell, because its like 48x48 res.
You can obviously manually download pictures and assign it to each contact, but that will take forever!
The only other solution is to contact everyone to sign up for Google + and upload a high res picture as their profile picture

friendcaster

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friendcaster
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Thanks. I've been wondering as well.

If I remember correctly, the low-res limitation is due to Google Contacts sync. I believe when google grabs the picture from the contact (which is in high-res first time) it uploads it to Contacts and converts to 64x64px (?) and then it use that low-res picture for all things.
I dont know if it still works like this but as other people said, there is a bunch of threads about this "problem".

beejizzle said:
If I remember correctly, the low-res limitation is due to Google Contacts sync. I believe when google grabs the picture from the contact (which is in high-res first time) it uploads it to Contacts and converts to 64x64px (?) and then it use that low-res picture for all things.
I dont know if it still works like this but as other people said, there is a bunch of threads about this "problem".
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exactly, the current syncing apps sync it with gmail, therefore downsizes it to 64x64 pixels, which looks awful on a 720p screen.
I did do a search, and could not find a straight answer.

andy2na said:
exactly, the current syncing apps sync it with gmail, therefore downsizes it to 64x64 pixels, which looks awful on a 720p screen.
I did do a search, and could not find a straight answer.
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I assume that Friendcaster also uses this method? I have "high res" checked but the pictures come out as anything but =/

Google Contact Sync (sorry cant post links yet)
Anyone tried it?
If you google it you just get the google version. there is another which if you search on facebook you will get. Wish I could post a link.. grrrr
heartofangel,com/google-contact-sync/

dalumberjack said:
Google Contact Sync (sorry cant post links yet)
Anyone tried it?
If you google it you just get the google version. there is another which if you search on facebook you will get. Wish I could post a link.. grrrr
heartofangel,com/google-contact-sync/
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Tried it.. still gets 64x64 pics.

This is a limitation with Google contacts online and not the phone. When you it syncs it resizes them.
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Br0wNb0y said:
Tried it.. still gets 64x64 pics.
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It was worth a shot. Thanks for trying

Why would google release this OS with this new half screen picture UI on contacts and then not allow facebook to use high res photos, it looks like ****!
I can't understand how they looked at that feature and said yeah that looks awesome..

Have you tried Syncmypix ?

from what ive been reading about this phone, the only way to get hi res photos would be if the other users are using google+, all other apps the pic gets downgraded in quality

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Wow people, some of the comments in here were completely uncalled for... If you see a thread that's a repost, than by all means respond like a normal human being and politely link them to the other thread. Then either report it or PM a mod so it can be merged.
But this BS about flaming each other for petty **** is going to stop.

godsfshrmn said:
No application is going to do this unless you stop syncing contacts. When syncmypics, friendcaster, whatever else app links a photo to a contact, it is sync'd with google contacts, which downsizes them automatically. If you want to complain, go complain about google contacts.
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So if this is the case, could I just sync with friendcaster, then go to accounts & sync and turn contact sync off and the pics would stay high-res?

joshnichols189 said:
So if this is the case, could I just sync with friendcaster, then go to accounts & sync and turn contact sync off and the pics would stay high-res?
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Tried this, unfortunately it still does not work.

facebook vs google
From what Ihave heard, google is not agreeing with some policy of facebook and therefore facebook is not letting them sync. However i think its odd that its only with ics. Maybe it has something to do with the use of the large image?

Read more at http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/google-disables-contact-sync-in-facebook-for-android-only-nexus/ about the Google vs. Facebook spat.

mg3point said:
From what Ihave heard, google is not agreeing with some policy of facebook and therefore facebook is not letting them sync. However i think its odd that its only with ics. Maybe it has something to do with the use of the large image?
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Its not only ics, its all nexus devices.
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[Q] Blurry Contact Pictures

Hi everyone.
I have a "feature" on my GN that i want to fix somehow.
When I set a picture to any of my contact, the picture is getting blurry and ugly. This was present in the earlier versions of android when synced to google account.
To somehow manage the problem I've tried turning off the google sync but I wasn't lucky at all. Pictures are still buggy and ugly.
If anybody knows how to fix this issue, please comment below. I would really appreciate it.
C'mon Google, with this gorgeous screen you wan't us to look at those ugly contact pictures? It's awful! Fix this, please!

Google confirmed a change to the google contacts thumbnail is in the works.
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El Daddy said:
Google confirmed a change to the google contacts thumbnail is in the works.
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Duh! I hope the change is going to happen fast...
Thank you El Daddy!

El Daddy said:
Google confirmed a change to the google contacts thumbnail is in the works.
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They said they were working on it a few months ago on a Google+ topic. But haven't offered any update regarding the progress. They need to change the gmail contacts photos to a higher resolution. There are 3rd party apps that offer temporary solutions or you can locally assign photos to contacts but none of these are permanent solutions.

You could use haxsync to sync HQ Facebook pics. It works well
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Dakota0206 said:
You could use haxsync to sync HQ Facebook pics. It works well
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I am not having this problem since a long time...
I have added (sort-of) hi-res contact pictures on my phone manually (720x240 pixels, ok not really hi-res but still better than 96x96) and synced with google, and pics on the phone stay at hi-res

We need to put some pressure on Google to fix the Low resolution contact images that are synced with using GMail.
Please +1 the following post: https://plus.google.com/109941711245...ts/PwRx3SHNbjR and try to get #AndroidLowResContactPics trending.
(and for reference: http://productforums.google.com/foru...il/MIt6-tdZZPk)
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