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[Q] How to insert a picture near the "Me" mention withing SMS threads ?

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.

ravidavi said:
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.
ravidavi said:
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.

theophane said:
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?

Inspire won't send emails

I use my hotmail account on my inspire and it won't let me send emails. It really passes me off because I have some items on Craigslist. So I have to wait until I can get home to use my computer.
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Are you using the phone's native email app? Some people, myself included, have been having problems with this. I didn't really get far in getting in fixed, but I did download the k9 email app and it's working perfectly. If you're not already using that, give it a try.

wraithevolution said:
Are you using the phone's native email app? Some people, myself included, have been having problems with this. I didn't really get far in getting in fixed, but I did download the k9 email app and it's working perfectly. If you're not already using that, give it a try.
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Yes I am using the factory email. Thanks ill give that app a shot.

brent_si said:
Yes I am using the factory email. Thanks ill give that app a shot.
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Good, I hope that works for you. My native email app worked for the first 10 days or so and then just stopped fetching my email completely. Then when I would try and refresh, I would get error messages. I changed a few settings which allowed me to refresh and get new emails but it would never fetch on it's own again. I think some changes were made as k9 made an update right afterwards with a changelog that said something like; updates to security for IMAP and others. I think some changes were made that we weren't aware of but only affected certain people. It's a bummer as I really enjoyed HTC's full screen email widget!

Solution is straightforward. GO to Accounts, account settings, go to outgoing settings, and change the last two :
Security Type: TLS
Server Port: 587
Dont ask me why this works or what it means. I have absolutely no idea. I saw it somewhere on another device once and wrote it down 'just in case'. And it works!!

Serious Facebook authentication issues

Hey guys, just got my G2x a few days ago and I love it, but Facebook has been giving me some serious problems with authentication.
Upon initial launch of the app, it asks for my credentials, which I supply, but then almost immediately a gray popup dialog looks like this:
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/[U]![/U]\ Facebook sign-in
Please re-enter your Facebook password.
Username
(my email)
Password
(password entry field)
[ Sign in ] [ Logout ]
(Sorry, I don't have a screen capture app installed, but I doubt I'm the only one having an issue.)
I enter my password and I get a message saying "Facebook authentication succeeded". But then almost immediately after the message disappears, I'm prompted to re-enter my password again into the same popup dialogue.
Suggestions? Solutions? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Edit: Also shows a very quick popup dialogue about "Session does not match the current stored session."

My Facebook works perfectly. Maybe try reinstalling it or doing a hard reset. Are you trying to connect some kind of weird way?
Btw, holding home and pressing power takes a screenshot.
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Have you updated Facebook's app? The one that came on this phone did have some bugs. I have had zero issues though.

See, the weirdest thing is that my device did not have Facebook preloaded on it. I had to download from the Market. It's up-to-date too. Version 1.5.4
I like on how the G2X is a pure Google phone (besides a few preinstalled T-Mobile apps) but I'm really lost about the Facebook issue.

Mine also did not have Facebook or Twitter preloaded
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You could try to uninstall and reinstall the app.
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Excellent suggestions guys, but I tried it already. Should I unroot and try a hard reset?

Oh man. It's getting a bit out of hand. I was able to take screens and I'll try to upload them ASAP. The only option is to remain signed out of the app.
Major bummer...

Excellent news guys. I solved my own issue. It seems like the mobile app doesn't play nice with HTTPS (secure browsing) if you have it enabled on the Facebook website. After disabling HTTPS on the full Facebook website under Account Settings, I was able to log in and stay logged in without an issue.
Hazzah! I even called T-Mobile to get help and wound up solving the issue while being on the phone with them and now (thanks to me) they have documentation about the issue and how to solve it!
Helping the community by giving back! Viva la Open Source!

Gmail Query

I hope this isn't a really silly question.. does anyone know how to empty the recycle bin in the GMail app on the transformer?? I have the dustbin icon available on other folders but can't find one here (or an empty option).
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Galoot said:
I hope this isn't a really silly question.. does anyone know how to empty the recycle bin in the GMail app on the transformer?? I have the dustbin icon available on other folders but can't find one here (or an empty option).
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I dont have a recycle bin on mine (that I see) so I'm not sure I can help.

Galoot said:
I hope this isn't a really silly question.. does anyone know how to empty the recycle bin in the GMail app on the transformer?? I have the dustbin icon available on other folders but can't find one here (or an empty option).
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Because when you "Delete" emails from the Gmail app they aren't deleted, they are archived. At least that's my guess.

If you mean the 'trash' label, it does not appear there is a function to delete all. Across the board in the app, there's no 'check all' option to delete multiple messages under a label.
I would guess if you want to empty it, you'd have to do it from a PC, or at least in the desktop version of the website.

Thanks all.. yeah looks like it's not an option on the Gmail App then.
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Rushed job
I dont know. I find the gmail for tablet a little disturbing. There certainly stuff lacking. The amount of emails downloade is only few. And when you scroll down, there's a "download more" button. That's pretty damn annoying. When you're offline you can't go back very far.
On my EVO4G, there's a setting to download weeks worth, months worth, whatever you specify. There's none of that settings on the asus mail or the gmail for tablet. But at least you can set exchange limits.
Also you can't select a range of emails. But you can select multiple and move it to another folder by putting check marks by the ones you select then hold down a couple of seconds...then drag it to trash can...the trash can will empty itself when you exit the email.

I use the stock email app for my gmail instead of the actual gmail app. Seems to work better and have more options.

nxp3 said:
I dont know. I find the gmail for tablet a little disturbing. There certainly stuff lacking. The amount of emails downloade is only few. And when you scroll down, there's a "download more" button. That's pretty damn annoying. When you're offline you can't go back very far.
On my EVO4G, there's a setting to download weeks worth, months worth, whatever you specify. There's none of that settings on the asus mail or the gmail for tablet. But at least you can set exchange limits.
Also you can't select a range of emails. But you can select multiple and move it to another folder by putting check marks by the ones you select then hold down a couple of seconds...then drag it to trash can...the trash can will empty itself when you exit the email.
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The setting is under Settings > Your Gmail Account > Labels to Sync.
Lets you set the number of days, and then you can either set each label to 'Sync all' or the amount of days you set in the top setting option.
Works fine for me. I don't have but maybe 10 emails in my inbox, and they stay synced just fine.
If you've already set the above to 'Sync all', then likely it's the data-phobic behavior built into the app. Notice there's no setting to automatically display images? Likely because they don't want the application to suck down a ton of data while you're on 3G or 4G (which costs you money).
IIRC, I think Honeycomb 3.1 has some advanced settings to differentiate between being on WiFi (where you probably don't care about data limits) and 3G/4G.

FrayAdjacent said:
The setting is under Settings > Your Gmail Account > Labels to Sync.
Lets you set the number of days, and then you can either set each label to 'Sync all' or the amount of days you set in the top setting option.
Works fine for me. I don't have but maybe 10 emails in my inbox, and they stay synced just fine.
If you've already set the above to 'Sync all', then likely it's the data-phobic behavior built into the app. Notice there's no setting to automatically display images? Likely because they don't want the application to suck down a ton of data while you're on 3G or 4G (which costs you money).
IIRC, I think Honeycomb 3.1 has some advanced settings to differentiate between being on WiFi (where you probably don't care about data limits) and 3G/4G.
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I'm not getting that setting for gmail. My exchange account has amount of days to sync, but the gmail does not. How are you setting up the gmail with number of days to sync? I don't have "labels to sync" nor do I have "sync all" in my settings. Are we talking about the transformer here?
EDIT: OK nevermind...you are talking about the GMAIL app, not the email app set up with gmail account. Yeah, I guess there's more options in the original gmail app than the one from asus.

Lollipop email app really this bad?

Hey all!
Just got my Galaxy S6 yesterday and not sure if I am not just used to the changes in lollipop or if the changes are really that bad!
What happened to the organization of the old email app?
This may be the wrong thread and if so, please point me in the right direction.
I get a lot of spam at work, and sometimes it is easier to click on the date ticker, which selects all of the emails for that day and I can mark them as read or delete them.
Now it is just one huge stream of emails with no way to pick multiple emails at once to delete or mark as read.
Am I just missing something?
Is there anyway to select multiple emails or do I really have to go through each email individually?
And , if this functionality is not available, can anyone recommend a good email app where I can select multiple emails at once, particularly by date? Otherwise the app is pretty much useless to me.
I have an out of the box Sprint Samsung Galaxy s6 that is unrooted.
Thanks all
Mikeinstlouis

Been using the Gmail app for my Google and external accounts. No issues whatsoever. Stopped using the Galaxy email app built in since the S5 version started acting funky with read mails randomly becoming unread.
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Gmail app looks too clunky and doesn't allow me to pick multiple emails with one click..

I use Kaiten.
I tried gmail briefly after I got my S6 but it's awful by comparison. I don't know how people use such a limited app for email.

mikeinstlouis said:
Gmail app looks too clunky and doesn't allow me to pick multiple emails with one click..
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It definitely does. You press and hold one mail and the colours kind of go grayish. Then go tapping on multiple mails to select them. From here you can perform various actions like mark as read, delete etc.
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twisted_mind said:
It definitely does. You press and hold one mail and the colours kind of go grayish. Then go tapping on multiple mails to select them. From here you can perform various actions like mark as read, delete etc.
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That is not the what I am looking for. With the KitKat stock email, you can pick the date...say Weds April 22. You click the box next to that date and every email on that date is selected. You are suggesting that I click each indvidual email which is exaclty what I don't want to do.
Any other suggestions?

Kaiten does not have that either.
That's an interesting filter/option. Not something I've needed before.
Have you tried some of the top rated email apps in play store?

meboy said:
Kaiten does not have that either.
That's an interesting filter/option. Not something I've needed before.
Have you tried some of the top rated email apps in play store?
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Yes...they all are the pretty much the same and don't do the things that the email app did before.

email
Mike, I use the email exactly as you do. I'd click on a day and the app would check all of the emails . I'd then uncheck the ones I wanted to keep our read and then hit delete. This was magic. I'm lookin at all email apps. Have you found anything yet?

adwilson said:
Mike, I use the email exactly as you do. I'd click on a day and the app would check all of the emails . I'd then uncheck the ones I wanted to keep our read and then hit delete. This was magic. I'm lookin at all email apps. Have you found anything yet?
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You can activate the select/multi-select option by holding your fingertip on the date bar. The selection boxes will slide in on the left side of the screen.

What?
attila_roman said:
You can activate the select/multi-select option by holding your fingertip on the date bar. The selection boxes will slide in on the left side of the screen.
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What date bar? I've held my fingertip all over the screen. Nothing slides in from anywhere.

Hi. All. I need also for the stock Samsung Galaxy S6 the button to select/mark All mail at one time.
In HTC Sense i didn't get this problem.

I was wondering if anyone found a solution yet. I am in same situation...nice new phone but painful to go through emails. I used to select all from he date...same as OP ..then just uncheck the five or so I wanted to keep. Now I have to check 80 boxes. Any new info would be appreciated.

Use the official outlook app or cloudmagic. Problems solved.

SilkyJohnson said:
Use the official outlook app or cloudmagic. Problems solved.
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Neither outlook nor CloudMagic solves the stated problem. Looking for a way to force the reinstall of the email version i had on my S4--any ideas?

myMail
Please try myMail its best and have all the missing option..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.my.mail&hl=en

Been using K9 email for a long time...never have a problem

might help
I know this is not what you were looking for but it might help someone looking for this...
to delete all emails you can long press on one email, until it is highlighted grey (or tick the box (to enable this box you can press the 3 dots and go to settings of that email and it is in there to enable tick box))
once you have one email highlighted, the top bar will turn orange and show the number of emails selected and the trash can etc...
if you tap on the number of emails selected (one at this point) there will be a drop down to say 'select all'...
I know it is not what OP wanted but I ended up here looking for this info so maybe someone else will too...

Bobro said:
I know this is not what you were looking for but it might help someone looking for this...
to delete all emails you can long press on one email, until it is highlighted grey (or tick the box (to enable this box you can press the 3 dots and go to settings of that email and it is in there to enable tick box))
once you have one email highlighted, the top bar will turn orange and show the number of emails selected and the trash can etc...
if you tap on the number of emails selected (one at this point) there will be a drop down to say 'select all'...
I know it is not what OP wanted but I ended up here looking for this info so maybe someone else will too...
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I don't have this option! Wish I did...

Cyrene said:
I don't have this option! Wish I did...
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strange... I am using the default Android Lollipop Email app... just tested on another phone too...