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[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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sync facebook birthdays calendar

I know this is simple, I've done it before, but now I've swapped from LeeDroid to CM7 ROM the calendar is different and I can't find how to sync my facebook birthdays to the calendar.
Anyone care to give me a reminder? Please.

Sync using google calender
1. In Facebook , go to upcoming birthday tab , and click on export birthdays -> provides you with a link
2. Go to google calender and add by URL
paste the URL u got and import
Ta da this is part of ur google calender now
if this is too boring , dere are free apps in market to sync facebbok events just do a search on em

There's a way of doing it on the phone without the need for 3rd party app, I've done it a couple of times before but I can't remember how now.

I do it on the same already described. I do not know any rather way aosp roms, with sense roms one can do it with facebook for htc sense (maybe you mean this way), but you cannot user this with aosp roms.
Swyped from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App

vashishtuday said:
1. In Facebook , go to upcoming birthday tab , and click on export birthdays -> provides you with a link
2. Go to google calender and add by URL
paste the URL u got and import
Ta da this is part of ur google calender now
if this is too boring , dere are free apps in market to sync facebbok events just do a search on em
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mate earlier when u set up a facebook account u wud get an option to sync , now only works with sense roms
for aosp roms this does not apply any more , good luck trying lol

The facebook sync also works with aosp roms, but only the contact one.
And I also use the described way for syncing birthdays and events, and it word very good on my aosp rom.
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Mate I noticed in ur signature that you have transparent xda app
Any way I could get my hands on it
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Yeah, your right. I think it was when I had Leedroid installed that I could do that. Makes sense (no pun intended) now that I can't because it was obviously the HTC Calendar app that could do this but this app isn't on the AOSP ROMs.

vashishtuday said:
Mate I noticed in ur signature that you have transparent xda app
Any way I could get my hands on it
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Is this what you're looking for?

cool Thanks

vashishtuday said:
1. In Facebook , go to upcoming birthday tab , and click on export birthdays -> provides you with a link
2. Go to google calender and add by URL
paste the URL u got and import
Ta da this is part of ur google calender now
if this is too boring , dere are free apps in market to sync facebbok events just do a search on em
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Even though this is a thread dive, this helped me out alot.
Exactly as you said and it worked.
Cheers

uniacidz said:
Even though this is a thread dive, this helped me out alot.
Exactly as you said and it worked.
Cheers
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Always good to know :good:

[Q] Dlna.apk EI22 anyone?

Hello I followed one of the guides here to clean to bloat off my phone ... I like to stream movies to my phone but is anyone using EI22 (current stock) ... any help would be awesome ... I tried a few of the apks around the web but they error out on me .....
Thanks a lot

Trigger911 said:
Hello I followed one of the guides here to clean to bloat off my phone ... I like to stream movies to my phone but is anyone using EI22 (current stock) ... any help would be awesome ... I tried a few of the apks around the web but they error out on me .....
Thanks a lot
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You just need this file? Here you go:

Thank you so much!
Worked like a charm

Trigger911 said:
Thank you so much!
Worked like a charm
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Glad to help.

Seeing you mention the bloatware
Is there an updated guide for bloatware removal. Most of the guides that I have found have either a safe to remove, unknown, or not safe. Also, alot of the files are either no longer there, not listed at all, or the names have changed drastically or status has changed( unsafe to safe mostly)

Thats true i was going by trial and error to be honest just my Dlna got currupted ... I dont think i unmounted my sd right ... now I am in need of the Facebook one ... I just flashed to the ACS Ver 5 and Dlna and Facebook isnt there I liked it for my contact updates ... but i am getting around that with syncmypix but its nice to get updated numbers from Facebook

Trigger911 said:
Thats true i was going by trial and error to be honest just my Dlna got currupted ... I dont think i unmounted my sd right ... now I am in need of the Facebook one ... I just flashed to the ACS Ver 5 and Dlna and Facebook isnt there I liked it for my contact updates ... but i am getting around that with syncmypix but its nice to get updated numbers from Facebook
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Facebook app is in the market.

see my problem is i used to sync my contacts with facebook ... I did download that from the market I goto contacts and I can add my google account but now I dont see how to add my fb account to grab my contacts extra information like before

Trigger911 said:
see my problem is i used to sync my contacts with facebook ... I did download that from the market I goto contacts and I can add my google account but now I dont see how to add my fb account to grab my contacts extra information like before
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Go to settings, accounts and sync and add account, then choose Facebook.

Yea ive rebooted 2x and still nothin its good tho haha ... I got a backup of my contacts before i went to acs 5

Trigger911 said:
Yea ive rebooted 2x and still nothin its good tho haha ... I got a backup of my contacts before i went to acs 5
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Is the option there? Sometimes it takes a few hours to sync the contact pix.
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The sns*.apks may have been removed from your ROM.
If that is the case, you won't be able to add a Facebook account in the accounts and sync settings.
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nubecoder said:
The sns*.apks may have been removed from your ROM.
If that is the case, you won't be able to add a Facebook account in the accounts and sync settings.
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Ah, thanks Nube. OP, let me know if you need any of those files.

facebook with contact app problem

Hello
I want to synchronize my facebook contacts with my galaxy nexus contact app. So I go to "add an account" in the contact app, and "facebook", but nothing ... no window for add my acount appear, I return on the before window and I can't add my facebook account.
Have you an idea please ?
Thank's

Google disabled this option with a previous version of android. Other manufacturers such as HTC are allowed to add workarounds though which is why it will still works on their phones. There's several topics on this already. I agree though, it's a pain.
Rik.
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Ive synced my pics with "SyncMyPix" which works ok (not very HD)
Will Google fix this? I mean they still got it in the option menu, doesnt seem like they stoped working on it?!

Oh yeah since Gingerbread on nexus s I think. But it's crazy because Facebook is a choice in "add an account" so ....
So, no alternative ?

I just used FriendCaster instead to sync Facebook with my contacts. It doesn't show their status updates in the People app, but the profile pictures work fine.

Agree
Yeah, I was confused and thought my GN was playing up when I clicked on facebook and nothing happened!
Google trying to force thier crappy google+ circle thing...
Friendcaster worked ok for me as an alternative but unfortunatly it adds ALLLLLL my firends, most of which I never would want to call

marc.tulley said:
Yeah, I was confused and thought my GN was playing up when I clicked on facebook and nothing happened!
Google trying to force thier crappy google+ circle thing...
Friendcaster worked ok for me as an alternative but unfortunatly it adds ALLLLLL my firends, most of which I never would want to call
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It has nothing to do with Google. Facebook refuses to comply with Google's terms for portability of data. Google thinks you should be able to export your friends contact info. Facebook does not allow this.
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matt2053 said:
It has nothing to do with Google. Facebook refuses to comply with Google's terms for portability of data. Google thinks you should be able to export your friends contact info. Facebook does not allow this.
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Hilarious, given that FB doesn't seem to care about its users' privacy or handing out their info in anything else FB does.
But yeah, they're the problem. If you want to see it integrated, complain to Facebook, not Google.

So this issue is directly with the facebook .apk??? or is in the ROM we have in the galaxy Nexus??

I would think the ROM we have, as FaceBook isn't using the new API Google supplied from what I'm reading here.

So, when CM9 came out for our Nexus, with that ROM we should be fine? i think..
We need to find a solution for this, Friendcaster is crap and we should not need to use another app for this, it only consume more ram and battery...

rolear8 said:
We need to find a solution for this, Friendcaster is crap and we should not need to use another app for this, it only consume more ram and battery...
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I really don't understand this statement. It's not as if you are entitled for the data to sync. They haven't promised it to sync and it doesn't. Facebook data is Facebook data, if they don't want you to sync it with their app they don't have to.
It hasn't done it on android for a while, and it is hit and miss how well it does it on sense and other work arounds. Facebook can do what Facebook want to do at the end of the day.

GR36 said:
I really don't understand this statement. It's not as if you are entitled for the data to sync. They haven't promised it to sync and it doesn't. Facebook data is Facebook data, if they don't want you to sync it with their app they don't have to.
It hasn't done it on android for a while, and it is hit and miss how well it does it on sense and other work arounds. Facebook can do what Facebook want to do at the end of the day.
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Excuse me but, 1 week before i had a Motorola atrix until i lost it, and with the ROM it came i was able to sync all my contacts from Facebook, then i instaled CM7 and again i was able to sync everything from Facebook, this can be fixed to work in ICS or i hope will work in CM9.

Modaco ROM has fixed this, i will try it and i will let you know.

[Q] Facebook contact sync

how can i get my contacts to sync with facebook?

try FriendCaster

i dont mind Friendcaster, but are you saying that syncing contacts isnt possible with FB?

Go into the settings of the phone, accounts, add a Facebook account. Doesn't appear you do it through the App itself.
Edited: Well crap, I'm trying to do it through the Accounts in the phone, but when I select Facebook, it doesn't do anything. Hmmmm.

craighwk said:
Go into the settings of the phone, accounts, add a Facebook account. Doesn't appear you do it through the App itself.
Well crap, I'm trying to do it through the Accounts in the phone, but when I select Facebook, it doesn't do anything. Hmmmm.
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did that. when i go into setting and hit add account, i press FB, nothing happens and it goes to previous page. It will not add that account….

We are gonna have to wait for the dbags at Facebook to update to the new api's
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I seem to remember Facebook having a similar issue when the Incredible first came out. There was an update to fix it, so maybe we're looking at a similar situation here?

mark manning said:
We are gonna have to wait for the dbags at Facebook to update to the new api's
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so it wont sync on yours either?

wardo5757 said:
so it wont sync on yours either?
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Nope, I believe there is already a thread discussing this too
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couldnt find another thread on this. but thanks

It can't be done unless you Flash Paul's MoDaCo Rom. For some reason FB doesn't want to use the new API's...lol I don't know the whole story but its not possible with the stock app.

wardo5757 said:
couldnt find another thread on this. but thanks
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it was a couple weeks ago and short lived
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I just want to confirm that Friendcaster will sync your contacts. Just one BIG problem, you will have a ****load of contacts and you cannot filter out the ones without numbers..

Guys, this is because Facebook wasn't abiding by Google's terms, so they removed the option for syncing facebook contacts. The only viable alternative as of now, is installing Friendcaster.

wardo5757 said:
I just want to confirm that Friendcaster will sync your contacts. Just one BIG problem, you will have a ****load of contacts and you cannot filter out the ones without numbers..
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In contacts...just edit to display only your gmail contacts!

suzook said:
In contacts...just edit to display only your gmail contacts!
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yeh, that works.. but if your like me, i DO use facebook for some of my phone numbers

I remember hearing about this on Cnet's Buzz out loud
This was talked about a while back on Buzz out loud.
At the time Facebook would import from any source but would not export as they didn't want to give that info out.
In other words they were happy to import all your contact data from any other source so they could get ahold of it. But they did not want to return the favor if you wanted to import your contact info from Facebook into the same source you just imported into Facebook from.
This was a while back, so I don't know if this was resolved. Facebook was claiming they were protecting their user's data.
The general feeling was not too good towards facebook on Buzz out loud. Their feeling was the contact data belongs to the person holding the account and they should be able to sync it if they want to.
It is well known that Facebook has bad blood with Google.
Hopefully this situation has changed as this was several months ago. But with Facebook you really never know what they are gonna do.

I see a lot of posts talking about how facebook sync was removed from the core android features.
I think that misses the point.
Facebook sync was a feature in the facebook app in gingerbread (At least, I can confirm this was the case prior to the app update. I'll confess I didn't go looking for it post update).
If it's currently available in gingerbread, I'd expect we'd see it available in ics following an update to fb.
/totally speculating

Carnagey is right. From what I have seen it won't come until that dispute is resolved...
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delete the facebook app from your phone first if its on there, because when you sign in through there it doesnt add it on the phones accounts page im assuming