I couldn't really find a useful answer but,
I sync my contacts via Facebook app and the exchange, but my contact photos like NEVER update. I tried resyncing many times but it still doesn't. Does anyone know how to make them update? I'm on Ineff GB btw
Also is there a way to automatically import the contacts to Google or do I have to manually enter them? Thx
I have several Rezounds and I noticed this on GB also. ICS ROMs update fine for me.
What I do is unlink my contact whose photo I want updated, back out of contacts, then go back in to the Google contact and link up their Facebook contact. It's a pain but the other way is to logout of Facebook, which loses all links, and then sign in again. Wait a while for linking to happen.
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Dang... That's lame. I've never had this problem on another phone with GB... I wonder if its the Rom?
Yea its pretty lame. I'm on CleanROM 1.7.5.
It syncs perfectly on my HTC Flyer with GB and Honeycomb.
Also the Thunderbolt and Incredible sync fine. Just not my primary Rezound.
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It also doesn't show a good bit of photos. Just shows a blank. Bleh annoying how it works whenever it wants to which is pretty much never. At one point I had all of my contacts working and updating and such.
i started using haxsync..actually bought it...then i realized everytime you reboot the phone or soemthing, haxsync pics turn into **** quality 96x96 or so pics for some reaosn (because HTC seems to create thumbnails and use those as the main pic instead of the high res pic) aaaaand the developer says he has no idea how to fix it basically.
dollar totally wasted lol
Lololol. It actually helps to completely logout of Facebook and delete HTC Sync or w/e from facebooks allowed applications thing. I think all my contact pictures actually loaded this time. They probably won't update though.
Edit: nope it didn't lol. I guess they will still trickle in though. Some of the ones that were missing did load though. For some reason it instantly finds like 30, but I have way more than that. Hmmm
Use Sync My Pix android app for import your FB friends contacts to your address-book.
Haxsync works pretty well for me on a Xperia play CM9.0 FXP 121 build
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I think it isn't getting the pictures for people who don't have their phone numbers on Facebook. But it seems like I remember it suggesting by name or something
android addicts said:
Use Sync My Pix android app for import your FB friends contacts to your address-book.
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I tried it and it doesn't do anything at all for me... I think its broken lol
don't use sync my pics because that sets the pics to their Google contacts, and if you sync your contacts to Google, those pics will be ****ty 96x96 because Google developers are a bunch of assholes who keep ignoring our requests since the start of android to raise the damn limit so it's not a pixelated mess.
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Try friendcaster
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i'm actually rockin freindcaster now. it doesn't sync my own contact tohugh, weird.
I used to use friendcaster pro for a long time before the Facebook app finally updated to the new style on android. It always worked well as I remember. I think ill install it again to see what's changed actually.
I think the contact names have to be an exact match for them to auto link. I went through and changed like 20 of them, now they work. Dunno of they will update though
friendcaster is now syncing low quality pics just like haxsync....sigh. i think its an HTC problem
jayochs said:
friendcaster is now syncing low quality pics just like haxsync....sigh. i think its an HTC problem
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Lol. Even with the high resolution setting checked? Friend caster still gives me errors and doesn't do basic things... It looks really nice now though
friendcaster shouldn't be causing issues. the latest version has working sync and high res photos for me. saves your battery more since it has better interval settings
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friendcaster shouldn't be causing issues. the latest version has working sync and high res photos for me. saves your battery more since it has better interval settings
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Lol. Even with the high resolution setting checked? Friend caster still gives me errors and doesn't do basic things... It looks really nice now though
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yeah, it's absolutely terrible. they're a pixelated mess even wtih high quality on..it's wierd man
Are you guys using Twitter?
I sort of have this issue, except my Twitter contact icons look terrible. *Sometimes* the Facebook icons sync and look great, and then sometimes Sense thinks the Twitter icons are better... And they're not. Even after manually setting it to use the Facebook or Google pictures, as soon as I get a text from the contact, it'll revert to the Twitter icon.
So now my contacts are a mix of hi-res pics, ****ty Twitter pictures, and blank pictures.
Sense 3.6, not 4.0, fwiw.
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I've tried everything from unlinking people and forcing my TB to use a high resolution picture, but it still get's knocked down, I am running Viruses ROM, and whenever a contact without a picture calls, the image looks perfect. Is there anyway I can force my phone to use a decent image?
Use the fb for HTC Sense photo as the primary pic. Not fb for Android. It will give you better pics. Dunno why.
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The phone will sync your high res image with Google Contacts, which downgrades it to low resolution, which gets synced back. That's why the image eventually looks terrible after a bit of syncing. DSB stated pretty much the only way I know of to get a higher resolution contact image, short of an app. I just personally hate using Facebook for contact pictures as people tend to use everything except for a picture of themselves.
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Use the fb for HTC Sense photo as the primary pic. Not fb for Android. It will give you better pics. Dunno why.
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How do i do that? Sorry....noobness.
Try to open Friendstream and it will ask you to login to a social networking account, put in your Facebook information. Fair warning, you will have Facebook integrated into a lot more of the phone than you currently do.
you could also try the app syncmypix, not sure if it will fix it though.
I never used Google sync contacts on my primal EVO because it would make my contact pictures blurry. Figured i would try with the 3d and still after it syncs , the pictures become blurry again. To avoid this, I have just been saving contacts to SD card and not syncing Google contacts kind of defeating the purpose. Has anybody found an easy fix?
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i figured it was from google no longer doing business with facebook and ever since then when i sync contacts more then half of them don't have pics and the ones that do are very blurry.
Just what i was thinking this whole time
Joey_UFC said:
i figured it was from google no longer doing business with facebook and ever since then when i sync contacts more then half of them don't have pics and the ones that do are very blurry.
Just what i was thinking this whole time
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What does facebook have to do with regular phone contacts?
starkillers said:
I never used Google sync contacts on my primal EVO because it would make my contact pictures blurry. Figured i would try with the 3d and still after it syncs , the pictures become blurry again. To avoid this, I have just been saving contacts to SD card and not syncing Google contacts kind of defeating the purpose. Has anybody found an easy fix?
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Same here they look like crap, from the nexus to the og evo too, they don't look like crap on my iPhone but the picture display is smaller icon
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
Mine looked blurry too, until I actually signed on thru Facebook for HTC sense. The one integrated into sense. Then I noticed the pictures were crisp and clear. Maybe that l'll work for you guys too.
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Mine looked blurry too, until I actually signed on thru Facebook for HTC sense. The one integrated into sense. Then I noticed the pictures were crisp and clear. Maybe that l'll work for you guys too.
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Do you have to sync Facebook contacts?
That sucks if so.
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Only facebook contacts are clear, google contacts not linked through facebook will still be blurry, least how it is for me.
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Only facebook contacts are clear, google contacts not linked through facebook will still be blurry, least how it is for me.
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Same here
If you don't have an Evo3d well you don't have an Evo3d
blurry caller id htc evo 3d
@ UCHENNADI (Mine looked blurry too, until I actually signed on thru Facebook for HTC sense. The one integrated into sense. Then I noticed the pictures were crisp and clear. Maybe that l'll work for you guys too. )
Thank you soooooo much! That was great help! It has been driving me crazy and I kept for getting to research info! This helped make my phone whole again! Great find & very easy fix, I hope this helps others as it has me!
So I have my contacts synced with Facebook, which is really handy, but the problem is the photos are pixelated, low quality junk. I can't believe this is still a problem with Sense phones.
Does anyone know a fix or non-intrusive work around for this? Why does Sense pull low quality photos from Facebook?
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So I have my contacts synced with Facebook, which is really handy, but the problem is the photos are pixelated, low quality junk. I can't believe this is still a problem with Sense phones.
Does anyone know a fix or non-intrusive work around for this? Why does Sense pull low quality photos from Facebook?
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Would also love a solution to this.
I have HaxSync but it still appeared to pull low quality photos.
Could it be related to the stock prices? I hear that's low quality as well.
clownfart said:
So I have my contacts synced with Facebook, which is really handy, but the problem is the photos are pixelated, low quality junk. I can't believe this is still a problem with Sense phones.
Does anyone know a fix or non-intrusive work around for this? Why does Sense pull low quality photos from Facebook?
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its never been a problem with sense phones, maybe with this one that uses a different facebook to pull info down.
I use an app called facebook sync. It slows you to choose the quality of the profile pictures
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I have HaxSync but it still appeared to pull low quality photos.
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I tried HaxSync as well - no dice.
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I use an app called facebook sync. It slows you to choose the quality of the profile pictures
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Tried it. Picture quality was still low and pixelated.
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its never been a problem with sense phones, maybe with this one that uses a different facebook to pull info down.
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That's not true. I know I experienced it with my Evo early on and a google search will show others with the same problem on a multitude of HTC phones...there are threads all over XDA that go back years with this problem with a few workarounds.
One that used to work was uninstalling Facebook, syncing with "Facebook for HTC Sense" and then reinstalling Facebook. The only problem is Facebook for HTC Sense is no longer an option under Accounts and Sync.
I've uninstalled Facebook (as much as it will let me) and removed the syncing and then tried multiple different syncing programs and they all show pixelated, grainy photos.
It's really annoying.
Thumbnails look great. Everything else looks like trash. In fact, even when using a high-res photo I have saved on my phone in a gallery for a contact the full size photo on the contacts page looks pixelated, albeit less so than the Facebook synced ones.
I think what it's doing is grabbing the small profile picture that shows up on the main timeline page and blowing it up instead of grabbing the actual uploaded profile picture and downsizing it.
Bump for any more ideas.
Tried Friendcaster and it too pulled low quality photos even with the high quality box checked.
I can't be the only one having this issue, can I?
This is a highly annoying problem that has not been fixed since Sense was available for my Windows Mobile phone.
Anyways, here's what I have discovered about this phone.
I disabled the default facebook sync by HTC since the pictures are horrid.
I then installed haxsync, but here's where it gets really strange.
When you go to your contact list, the thumbnails are great!
Now click on the thumbnail itself. The popup has a good quality photo.
Now click on the Name of your contact to pull up full details. The photo is now the garbage. You can go to edit and change the photo to haxsync and then both are good quality. This then goes away the next time haxsync syncs your contact list.
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This is a highly annoying problem that has not been fixed since Sense was available for my Windows Mobile phone.
Anyways, here's what I have discovered about this phone.
I disabled the default facebook sync by HTC since the pictures are horrid.
I then installed haxsync, but here's where it gets really strange.
When you go to your contact list, the thumbnails are great!
Now click on the thumbnail itself. The popup has a good quality photo.
Now click on the Name of your contact to pull up full details. The photo is now the garbage. You can go to edit and change the photo to haxsync and then both are good quality. This then goes away the next time haxsync syncs your contact list.
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Did this and manually selected the haxsync photos. They are a lot better, but nowhere near the quality I think they should be. They still look like low res photos that are being blown up instead of photos that are being downconverted.
i just dont understand why there is a discrepancy between the popup when clicking the thumnail vs the pic in the full contact details.
New info?
Photo Unlocker, which requires root, is not helping me much here.
Any new development on this topic?
HaxSync works perfectly for me.. Try forcing it to redownload the pictures.
Mine all look fine.
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I used to think I had the same problem...but it turns out that I just have low-resolution friends. :cyclops:
I think that maybe the problem is in the phone app grabbing the wrong version of the contact pic, and not anything to do with the facebook app. But I'm just thinking out loud and have no proof.
I was curious about this also. pics on my OG Evo seemed fine. Maybe I'll try haxsync
Hi everybody,
Previously, I had an HTC Desire HD and when I installed the FB application, all my contacts got synced and the ones without photo started to have the FB photo.
Now on my SG3, just for a few of them appeared the FB photo, however, ALL of them are synced with facebook. I tried to enter on the profile of the person already, restarted the phone, sync, sync all contacts, but some of them just doesn't get the photo (and the name on FB is the same of the contact).
Does any one knows why that happens?
Nobody else with that problem?
Does the contacts of everybody always get the correct pictures from facebook? Or you guys don't use this feature?
Haxsync from Google play does that for you.
Yes, I looked that other applications can do that.
But I wonder if my Galaxy S3 has a problem on it. Because with my HTC DHD it used to work 100%.
Funny, everyone on mine since flawlessly. Only annoyance was when I ticked 'sync with existing contacts ' it synced my friends list with all their email addresses. Just tick display those with phone numbers and it's sorted but it's not perfect at any rate
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HTC DHD was in Gingerbread version and facebook official app work pretty well, but devices with Ice Cream sandwich have got lot of problem with official facebook application, one way in order to resolve problem is download from the market a 3rd part applicazion like FriendCaster, it work well with 4.0.x android and also with my nexus one with 4.0.x custom rom =)
I'm not sure if this is what you mean but mine was showing old contact Facebook pictures with the little F in the corner. I had to open each contact, press connections and add the Facebook account. It's been fine since.
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Haxsync from Google play does that for you.
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Haxsync also doesnt work for me.
The official facebook app for android has really bad syncing, use friendcaster, also has option to save high res pics for contacts.
I do have the same problem. No facebook app, just the sync with facebook option in the contacts account settings. Only a few facebook friends got their profile pictures displayed in contacts.
Maybe something to do with their privacy settings?
I had this too. It's the Facebook app sync feature being ****. Open Facebook and go to your contacts in there and it will refresh their pics and that in turns refreshes your contacts.
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Haxsync also doesnt work for me.
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Yeah I bought Haxsync, such a waste of money. Are there any 3rd party apps that sync phone numbers from facebook?
HaxSync is mainly for AOSP based ROMs like CM9 and AOKP. Works perfectly on those and loads excellent high quality photos. It doesn't work with Sense 4 ICS devices like the HTC One series. I don't know if it works with TouchWiz ROMs. It'll work perfectly on any ROM with the vanilla Android UI and People app.
HTC devices have Facebook for HTC Sense, which is integrated with the Facebook app. When you sign into the Facebook app, Facebook for HTC Sense links your contacts and downloads reasonably okay quality pictures for them, and also syncs their status, photos and all that. No idea if TouchWiz has a similar feature, but maybe that's why you're not having the same experience you had with HTC Facebook sync.
Though with any ROM, just signing into the Facebook and choosing 'sync all contacts' or 'sync existing contacts' will download profile pictures for the contacts that it can sync, especially if the name matches exactly or you have added email addresses for your contacts. That's the reason only a few contacts got their pictures synced, because maybe they were under a different name than their Facebook name. But in my opinion the Facebook sync is crap, because the pictures it downloads look like 8-bit graphics.
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Could Facebook's time line pictures be the problem? instead of people having portrait sized photos, they now have massive landscape pictures?
just a thought
I don't think so, because the Facebook app doesn't sync the cover photo. It syncs the little square profile picture photo, so it won't be any different from before because of the timeline.
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As the title says. How to ad facebook contact to my phone??
Im using a Samsung Galaxy S2.
I have set up facebook, so it sync, under control option. "Facebook contacts"
Any suggestion?
That are a few apps the force it. Your issue is due to Google removing the native Android coding to sync Facebook without the app.
I am not sure of the apps names as I don't sync fb to my phone
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Thx for respons!
hmmm... too bad. I have been looking for a app, that could solve the problem, but with no luck :/
Anyone else that had figured this out ?
It should be mentioned that I'm running on a custom rom, ICS 4.04
For me, it works to create a contact as a google contact, then turn on Facebook sync under settings.
Cool will try that out, and see if it works!
grrr .. doesn't work at all
The default Facebook sync works for me, but the pictures are low res and blurry. I'm on ICS 4.0.4 too. The best app for Facebook sync is HaxSync. Pictures are nice and clear and it automatically selects the best resolution picture from someone's profile pictures album. Also syncs statuses and other stuff but I don't care for that.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mots.haxsync
Note: the app only works on ICS, not GB.
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sashank - Thank you so much !!! That app work just perfect. AWSOME!
Glad to help.
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AND there was an AND.
The app doesn't get the mobile numbers :/
This may be the fix
I just installed cm10 so it is N/A for my rom, but this may be the fix for facebook not syncing contacts and an explanation how it fixes it in detail with flashable zip files at the bottom
hxxp://niranjanthilak.com/facebook-sync-for-android-ics-devices/
maybe a dev could take a look at it and possible fix the issue from inside the roms