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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.
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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.
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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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Why the **** should he just get over it? What a dumb ass response.
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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.
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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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?
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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?
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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
Darkpsych0 said:
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,
This may sound really stupid but how the heck do you add your contact in text? I want to send a text but cant see where i can click to then pick the contact i want to send it to?
Matt
at the "to" at the top ?
http://androidage.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ice-Cream-Sandwich-type-keyboard.png
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at the "to" at the top ?
http://androidage.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ice-Cream-Sandwich-type-keyboard.png
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Hi,
Yeah i can see the "To" but if i click it or in the box it does nothing. Surely i dont have to start to type the name in and then click it?
Thats exatually what you do
select the box and start type the name of your contact
What else would you do ?
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Thats exatually what you do
select the box and start type the name of your contact
What else would you do ?
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Every phone ive ever had including the galaxy s2 when you clicked in the to box it would bring uo your contact list letting you choose the contact.
Matt
You can also go to the contact list and choose to text
Go to Phone Icon > People tab, then click on the left box where their photo is.
Then on the right side of the phone number is an icon i can't describe, but that lets you text.
yeah many phones do that
But i would always search in the list anyway so for me this is a step less
jvvpc said:
yeah many phones do that
But i would always search in the list anyway so for me this is a step less
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Yeah suppose it will just be getting use to it. Loving the Nexus up to yet , first day with it. Only thing ive noticed is that i cant add a facebook account in the accounts & sync and the facebook app doesnt have the option to sync the contacts
Matt
nah google and facebook have a fight going on about how to handle contacts so its disabled on nexus phones
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nah google and facebook have a fight going on about how to handle contacts so its disabled on nexus phones
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really? will it ever be sorted?
dunno, its been going on for a while
but you can sync your gmail contacts with facebook profile pictures by using third party software just search here, there are lots of ways to do it
princepilot said:
really? will it ever be sorted?
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Probably not because Facebook are jerks..
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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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
Hey guys,
got my One X for a couple of days now, and im pretty blown away by it. But there is one thing that drives me nuts. In the stock SMS app, i cant see contact pictures. As you can see on the image its just blank. But every contact has its facebook photo in the contact list. How can i get this to work right?
Haxxler said:
Hey guys,
got my One X for a couple of days now, and im pretty blown away by it. But there is one thing that drives me nuts. In the stock SMS app, i cant see contact pictures. As you can see on the image its just blank. But every contact has its facebook photo in the contact list. How can i get this to work right?
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A question that what you made fuzzy were numbers or names?
And there is an old bug in Android, in the stock sms app. Where it doesn't recognize contacts. I has it.
So I use a thirdparty app. Handcent.
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A question that what you made fuzzy were numbers or names?
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Both.
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And there is an old bug in Android, in the stock sms app. Where it doesn't recognize contacts. I has it.
So I use a thirdparty app. Handcent.
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I actually like the stock sense sms app :/ So there is no workaround?
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I actually like the stock sense sms app :/ So there is no workaround?
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Well I am not sure you have the bug I do. As said I see only numbers so this might be not even related.
Maybe there is some easy fix for this, try to search or wait till someone more experienced answers.
But you like the stock app. Imagine how much you will love not just like but LOVE the thirdparty app. Handcent or Go SMS.
Just try it if it displays the pics if nothing else . If there are no pics you can rule out the SMS apps and move on to fix your contacts.
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Well I am not sure you have the bug I do. As said I see only numbers so this might be not even related.
Maybe there is some easy fix for this, try to search or wait till someone more experienced answers.
But you like the stock app. Imagine how much you will love not just like but LOVE the thirdparty app. Handcent or Go SMS.
Just try it if it displays the pics if nothing else . If there are no pics you can rule out the SMS apps and move on to fix your contacts.
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I see contact pictures/icons in the SMS application, always have. I think it depends on where your contacts are coming from, mine are from Hotmail Exchange. If I add a picture to a contact on the phone, it appears online as well.
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Phil
I also see contacts pictures properly from Facebook.
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PhilipL said:
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I see contact pictures/icons in the SMS application, always have. I think it depends on where your contacts are coming from, mine are from Hotmail Exchange. If I add a picture to a contact on the phone, it appears online as well.
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Phil
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ste1164 said:
I also see contacts pictures properly from Facebook.
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also doesn't help the OP
Ok, so its not an facebook issue, because i dont see the pictures from contacts who are not connected to facebook neither. And they wont show up in Handcent, too. Pretty weird.