Hey all.
I love myself so much that I would love to see my face near the "Me" mention within SMS threads.
However, while all my contacts have their own contact icon showing up near their names, I only get to have a grey square near the "Me" mention when I send SMSs (check screenshot above).
Anyone knows how to fix this ?
Thanks !
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I'd like to know this too. I have my google profile set up with some info including a pic. The google calendar does seem to pick up my bday from there, but the Messaging app don't appear to be using my picture on my nexus s.
I've tried to do this too on my Hero to no avail.
WTF? for real?
Go in your Contacts and find the first contact card named Me. Then just insert your own photo by clicking the box and selecting it, you are done.
STHNS said:
Go in your Contacts and find the first contact card named Me.
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There is no "Me" entry in my contact list.
EDIT : tried to manually create a "Me" contact. I'm still having a gray square near the "Me" mention in SMS threads.
WTF? Thats more retarded idk what google doing these days.
Do it manually then by going to your SMS thread and clicking "Me" and by adding yourself via New Contact. Then put whatever you want in data input and click on the User Avatar and pick your photo.
You need to ensure your mobile number is attached to the contact.
If you're using handcent you can
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You just need to sign in to your google profile and add a picture there. Then it will change.
www.google.com and sign in.
Click settings > account settings. Click Edit Profile.
If you change it with handcent it will work for all SMS apps even after uninstall of handcent. Works for me on the stock message app.
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AtomicPC said:
You just need to sign in to your google profile and add a picture there. Then it will change.
www.google.com and sign in.
Click settings > account settings. Click Edit Profile.
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I already have an image on my Google profile and it is not showing up.
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theophane said:
I already have an image on my Google profile and it is not showing up.
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Do you have a contact created with YOUR mobile phone number attached to it?
You may also need to ensure that "My Phone Number" in about -> phone shows your number (search for a guide if you need it).
fchipm said:
If you change it with handcent it will work for all SMS apps even after uninstall of handcent. Works for me on the stock message app.
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Just tried this. Not working either.
Highland3r said:
Do you have a contact created with YOUR mobile phone number attached to it?
You may also need to ensure that "My Phone Number" in about -> phone shows your number (search for a guide if you need it).
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Yes, I do have a contact with my phone number attached to it.
However, I'm not able to change the "My phone number" setting in the "About" menu.
See screenshot above :
Guys - this is in other threads - you need to assign your phone number on your SIM. You CANNOT do this form the NS. So - find some old phone, plug your SIM in and write the phone number to it - then when you use it back in the NS you'll get your picture...
rakh1 said:
find some old phone, plug your SIM in and write the phone number to it
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How do I do this ?
Just inserted my SIM card in an iPhone, and I cannot edit the "My number" entry.
As the chap above said this is discussed elsewhere. Sony erricson phones will let you do it.
OK I worked around the issue in this way:
From my gmail (on a computer), I created a contact for myself. I added my phone number, and my gmail account as the email. Then for the picture, the contact manager let me use "their picture". In this case, "their picture" is the picture I assigned to myself in my google account profile.
This really isn't a "solution", just a workaround. You also really shouldn't have to use 2 phones to sync your own google account profile to your own "pure google experience" phone. Android should automatically have a contact that syncs your google profile info, so you don't have to type it in twice. Right now only the profile pic is auto-sync'd.
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OK I worked around the issue in this way:
From my gmail (on a computer), I created a contact for myself. I added my phone number, and my gmail account as the email. Then for the picture, the contact manager let me use "their picture". In this case, "their picture" is the picture I assigned to myself in my google account profile.
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Not working for me, still have that damn grey square in SMS threads.
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You also really shouldn't have to use 2 phones to sync your own google account profile to your own "pure google experience" phone.
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Indeed.
That's pretty unacceptable for a high-end flagship device.
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Not working for me, still have that damn grey square in SMS threads.
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Which part isn't working? The part you do on your computer (setting picture as "use theirs"), or the sync to your phone?
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I have sync enabled with my google account. I can get my gmail contacts on my phone. However, I do not see my phone contacts when I go to my gmail account.
What am I doing wrong? My contacts from my phone should show up in my gmail contacts right?
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bp787 said:
I have sync enabled with my google account. I can get my gmail contacts on my phone. However, I do not see my phone contacts when I go to my gmail account.
What am I doing wrong? My contacts from my phone should show up in my gmail contacts right?
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Hmmmm... I just checked my gmail and it does display my contacts... an obvious question but do you see the google "g" next to all of your contacts??
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I have sync enabled with my google account. I can get my gmail contacts on my phone. However, I do not see my phone contacts when I go to my gmail account.
What am I doing wrong? My contacts from my phone should show up in my gmail contacts right?
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See if this helps. When in Contacts, tap the (hardware key) Menu and tap Display options. See if Phone and/or Sim is checked. That toggles the display of additional contacts saved in the Phone and SIM memory.
Scratch that. I think you want your phone and/or SIM contacts to show up in your Google Account on your PC right? I don't know how to do that... Sorry, I'm not so helpful after all.
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Hmmmm... I just checked my gmail and it does display my contacts... an obvious question but do you see the google "g" next to all of your contacts??
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in my contacts, on the phone, I see some contacts that have a "g" next to them. These equate to the ones on my gmail account's contact list. Most of them do not display the "g" though.
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See if this helps. When in Contacts, tap the (hardware key) Menu and tap Display options. See if Phone and/or Sim is checked. That toggles the display of additional contacts saved in the Phone and SIM memory.
Scratch that. I think you want your phone and/or SIM contacts to show up in your Google Account on your PC right? I don't know how to do that... Sorry, I'm not so helpful after all.
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You're right, I want all of my On-Phone contacts to be sync'd into my Gmail.com contacts list on my pc. and any help is helpful
Your phone\sim contacts will not automatically move to google's contacts online. You have to move them manually. Here is what I did to move my contacts up there:
1. In contacts, under settings, go to Display Options and uncheck the option to show your google contacts. You will turn this back on later. For now, you just need to see the contacts that you want to move to Google.
2. Under settings, go to More and then Import\Export. Then choose to export to SD card. This will create a file on your SD card with your contacts in it. Make note of the location of the file. It will likely be the sd folder and a file called 00001.vcf
3. Exit the contacts app and go to the my files application. Find the file from step #2 and long press it. In the menu that comes up, select Share and then email it to yourself.
4. Now you should be able to get to the file on your computer by downloading it from your email.
(Alternatively if your phone is hooked up to your computer you could just find the file on it and copy it to your computer)
5. Go to google.com/contacts and import the vcf file. They will now be on Google and if you have contact sync on they will get pushed to your phone. I had some duplication between names on my phone and names I had in google so I had to spend some time merging and cleaning them up.
6. In the contacts app on your phone, undo what you did in step #1 by going to display options and checking Google. You will now see all of those contacts with a "g" beside them.
Note - this does mean that your contacts will show multiple times on your phone if your display options have it showing Phone, SIM, and google contacts. I ended up going in and removing all contacts from my phone and SIM card to resolve this. The captivate does try to link similar contacts together it may not bother you. I just decided I wanted all of my contacts in one place and nowhere else.
d'oh you beat me to it. I was doing a test myself to see if it works. It sure does and when I was about to post the instructions, there it was, yours. I couldn't have done a better job.
Nice! This will work.
However, I am quite disappointed that I can't just sync my phone contacts to my google account. It's one of the things I miss coming from WinMo using Microsoft MyPhone.
... you would figure with everything this phone does a simple task such as synching with your gmail account would be a no-brainer in the droid world.
Well.. nothing is perfect.
Thanks for this! I was looking for a way to do it and couldn't figure it out but never got around to asking
Yeah I agree, its kinda bs that they won't just sync. I use "uia back contacts" from the market. Works great with dropbox.
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I know this is old topic, but I have a question about the procedure described previously for getting contacts into google...
What about in the future...if I add a new contact on the phone, will it then automatically sync up to google, or do I have to do this whole process again?
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I know this is old topic, but I have a question about the procedure described previously for getting contacts into google...
What about in the future...if I add a new contact on the phone, will it then automatically sync up to google, or do I have to do this whole process again?
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When you save the contact make sure you select google contact and it should sync automatically
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I'm trying to set up a friends Nexus S and there's one thing I just can't seem to figure out. In the messaging app, it shows the picture of the person I'm talking to alternating with what's supposed to be the picture of me. Instead I get the blank no photo thing and this seems to bug her. She would like to use her facebook photo if entirely possible, but ill just snap a picture of her with the camera if not.
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If you set her up as a contact in the contacts app, and put in the phone's phone number as her number, I think it will just recognize whatever picture you assign to that contact for the messaging and all similar.
Wouldn't hurt to put her gmail/google account that she's registered the phone with (signed in with) as part of her personal contact information.
Funny, I was wondering the same thing! Being somewhat new to Android, I wasn't sure how to add my pic to my outgoing messages, so I added myself as a contact with my number and Gmail - and uploaded a pic from FB that I am using. Not sure if there's an easier way to go about this, but this solution worked for me!
Another option, though it doesn't use the stock messaging app, would be to using something like Handcent SMS which has an option for uploading your own image to use in messages.
The advantage of the setting-yourself-up-as-a-contact approach is that most apps, certainly the Google apps (Google Voice, GTalk, etc) and the Messaging app all look for that and will use it if it's there. You don't have to pic and choose a pic for every app individually.
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I'm trying to set up a friends Nexus S and there's one thing I just can't seem to figure out. In the messaging app, it shows the picture of the person I'm talking to alternating with what's supposed to be the picture of me. Instead I get the blank no photo thing and this seems to bug her. She would like to use her facebook photo if entirely possible, but ill just snap a picture of her with the camera if not.
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Go to settings > about phone > status > My phone number
that field should contain your personal phone number. If it does not, android does not have a fix for this. You can however plug you sim card into a old phone or an iphone and then alter this value.
helfone said:
Go to settings > about phone > status > My phone number
that field should contain your personal phone number. If it does not, android does not have a fix for this. You can however plug you sim card into a old phone or an iphone and then alter this value.
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But that won't put a picture of her into apps until he gets a picture setup someplace, right?
I have the facebook app installed on my phone. When i went to upload a photo onto facebook it gave me the option to use the facebook app or facebook for mytouch. i went ahead and tried it through the mytouch option and i signed into my account which seemed to add my facebook account onto my phone as something it automatically syncs. it synced my facebook contacts to my normally contact...a cool feature and all BUT i dont want it...
i deleted the facebook account off my phone but my facebook contacts are still mixed with my normal ones. i cant delete them either, i tried long pressing and also tried going INTO the contact to maybe edit it and it wont let you do a thing.
any advice?
Were the contacts linked with facebook accounts?
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You may want to sort you contacts, from the contacts > Menu> View and uncheck facebook. It won't delete them but you won't have to deal with them.
Also try clearing the data in the Facebook for MT app, not sure if it will do it but it should't hurt.
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Were the contacts linked with facebook accounts?
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They were these were contacts that i've never had in my phone before then they appeared on my actual contacts. Some did/didn't have contact numbers depending if they had them in their actual facebook and what i'm noticing is they all have the little circle by their name greyed out meaning i can video chat with them. I deleted all my video chat programs and cleared all my data for contacts/facebook/video chat and they wont go away.
These people have never been on my phone before it happened right when i tried out the facebook for mytouch.
*i wouldnt mind this but i play a lot of farmville and "those" games and half the people on my friends list are "neighbors" only*
Daguse said:
You may want to sort you contacts, from the contacts > Menu> View and uncheck facebook. It won't delete them but you won't have to deal with them.
Also try clearing the data in the Facebook for MT app, not sure if it will do it but it should't hurt.
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I did as you advised and i dont even have a facebook option. I just have the option to show tmobile, google, google (youtube), video chat, sim, phone.
ToterPunkt said:
They were these were contacts that i've never had in my phone before then they appeared on my actual contacts. Some did/didn't have contact numbers depending if they had them in their actual facebook and what i'm noticing is they all have the little circle by their name greyed out meaning i can video chat with them. I deleted all my video chat programs and cleared all my data for contacts/facebook/video chat and they wont go away.
These people have never been on my phone before it happened right when i tried out the facebook for mytouch.
*i wouldnt mind this but i play a lot of farmville and "those" games and half the people on my friends list are "neighbors" only*
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hmm any way you can post a screen shot.... Also when you go into the contact and click the name..... in the top right what does it say? Google? Linked? Facebook? And one last thing, once in the contact can you click menu and delete? if not what happen?
Daguse said:
hmm any way you can post a screen shot.... Also when you go into the contact and click the name..... in the top right what does it say? Google? Linked? Facebook? And one last thing, once in the contact can you click menu and delete? if not what happen?
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Sadly i'm not rooted and therefore can't post a screen shot...unless theres another route you can advice me on then definitely. Maybe ill just take a photo of it with my camera if there is no other way lol.
After clearing all my info again and uninstalling any qik updates it shows qik in the corner of all these contacts, none of them are linked, and about half have actual content info.
From the contact list - long press - call mobile, send contact as vcard, add a fave now!
From within the contact - clicked on the menu button - all, link, send contact, save to sim, set speed dial
From within the contact - tried pressing every item i could and i can only "Edit" the number to something else...i cant do much else with it.
thanks for the help =)
ToterPunkt said:
Sadly i'm not rooted and therefore can't post a screen shot...unless theres another route you can advice me on then definitely. Maybe ill just take a photo of it with my camera if there is no other way lol.
After clearing all my info again and uninstalling any qik updates it shows qik in the corner of all these contacts, none of them are linked, and about half have actual content info.
From the contact list - long press - call mobile, send contact as vcard, add a fave now!
From within the contact - clicked on the menu button - all, link, send contact, save to sim, set speed dial
From within the contact - tried pressing every item i could and i can only "Edit" the number to something else...i cant do much else with it.
thanks for the help =)
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Sorry man, I tried everything I could to recreate this on my phone with no go.....
Make sure to check your contacts on the gmail site, make sure they are not listed there.
If that does not work it looks like you will need to do a factory reset. Sorry
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Sorry man, I tried everything I could to recreate this on my phone with no go.....
Make sure to check your contacts on the gmail site, make sure they are not listed there.
If that does not work it looks like you will need to do a factory reset. Sorry
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I was afraid of that...
I went ahead and rooted my phone, deleted qik completely off my system. That took care of it. Hope this doesnt happen to anyone else =/
Thanks for your advice though, i'm surprised it didnt work. It was extremely "stuck" and quite stubborn.
I have a Nexus S which I love to all my little hearts content.
I have one small gripe though.
In my text messaging threads, I (as in Me) comes up in a little greyed out box.
I want to be able to set a picture for myself, but I don't know how.
I read online somewhere that I need my phone to recognize my sim card number, (or something of that nature) but my phone only says Unknown in the Phone Number section.
Any fixes?
Thanks for your time everyone!
It should work if you create a contact for yourself, with your phone number.
xparsons said:
my phone only says Unknown in the Phone Number section.
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Some other phones let you set this, if you use CyanogenMod it also lets you set this from your Nexus S.
In 2.3.3 I have my google account picture. Try setting it and do a sync.
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In 2.3.3 I have my google account picture. Try setting it and do a sync.
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Your google pic? Mine shows the android pic. It used to show the grey box, because my sim card showed "unknown number". Solved it inserting the sim card in another mobile that gives me the option to change my number (like an iphone 3G).
But now I want my google account picture too
I dont have the option of putting my sim in an iphone. I have my photo set in my google account but it still doesnt appear in my text messaging threads. Does anyone know another way of solving this without rooting
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I dont have the option of putting my sim in an iphone. I have my photo set in my google account but it still doesnt appear in my text messaging threads. Does anyone know another way of solving this without rooting
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It does not require an iphone, you can use any phone that allows you to change the number.
is there no way i can just use my google account photo
Have you set your display picture through gtalk?
Yes my photo is set in that although i never use it
My girlfriend is having the same problem with her Nexus S. Both her gmail and gtalk have a picture attached to them. She also tried adding herself as a contact to no avail. Subscribing for answers.....
What worked for me was going to google accounts and creating an online profile...
Synced the picture to my phone apparently
Anyone know of any way to make all my contacts from my g-mail that are e-mail only not show up in my contact list.
I only want a list of contacts with phone numbers and I dont want to have to go through the phone app every time to get it.
nnila said:
Anyone know of any way to make all my contacts from my g-mail that are e-mail only not show up in my contact list.
I only want a list of contacts with phone numbers and I dont want to have to go through the phone app every time to get it.
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in your contacts there is an option in the top of the screen that you can tick and untick whatever you want.see if you can do it from there
Not seeing the option at all - I'm not using Sense.
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Not seeing the option at all - I'm not using Sense.
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i can't help you further
just wait for someone else
Hmm. You can make a group of contacts with phone numbers in Gmail. Then in the contacts app (in AOSP /CM) press the menu and select customize contacts to view then select the Gmail account then select the group of contacts with phone. It is a hassle, I know.
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Or use the dialer and swipe to contacts
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Was thinking about the option to make a group with people with no number.
I have over 1000 contacts in my gmail account so this would take forever.
Was thinking possibly to try make an app that would automatically put everyone without a number into a specific group.
Really surprised there was none already to do this.
Never done any android coding before so guess I'm going to have to see how this idea goes (if it goes even)