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Facebook For Android user picture sync issues?

For starters I'm on an HTC Thunderbolt running Android 2.2.
I prefer Facebook For Android over the HTC version, and I'm hoping I can get this sorted out.
I can get my contacts to sync, even if I have to do it manually. However, I'm not sure how to get it to sync correctly for me. For example, when I'm sending texts it shows their picture for each of their texts, but for my picture in the conversation it's just one of those default silhouettes, rather than using my facebook picture.
Any fix for this?

Maybe you could try option "Always sync with facebook" or you could also use
SyncMyPix (App on Market). This will do the job for ya!

not sure how you can possibly like the facebook app better than htc's offering...it doesnt work lol...ive had the same problem you have on like 7 different non-sense roms...and i keep coming back b/c of the integration ...havent tried syncmypix though..sounds interesting

all i know is the picture doesn't automatically sync, you have to attach your pic in the people view to attach your facebook picture

Thanks for the assistance everyone. I caved and I'm just using the HTC Facebook solely for syncing contacts, as it does it fantastically.
Now if only the Facebook for Android had working push notifications.....

yeah, you have to either use the HTC facebook to get your pic to show or make a contact of yourself. I had read it had to be named "ME" but I named mine my full name and I think I did a nickname of "ME". HTC does really have the best facebook sync abilities, one of the few things I miss about SenseUI..

well I tried syncmypix and it works like a charm...so give that a shot if you really are against using friendstream

ogrenator said:
well I tried syncmypix and it works like a charm...so give that a shot if you really are against using friendstream
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Great app! solved all my FB pic woes!

I'm using SyncMyPix but it doesnt seem to be syncing correctly. Anyone facing similar issue? It used to work flawlessly, not sure what went wrong.

[Q] Blurry, low resolution contact images

Hi,
Blurry, low resolution Album Art/Contact Photos because thumbnails are being used instead of the full-res source image. The only work round I have seen on the web is to make a phone only contact linked to the good image and then link it to the google one. I have done the work around for my most important contacts but is there anything you can do on a rooted phone to fix this?
Seems like you could force it to use the image on your phone over the one on the Google site.
Thanks,
ThorsGal

I've also been dealing with this problem, I've turned off all the options to sync with my gmail /google account, Facebook, and HTC, but it still continues to leave my favorites contact images like.crap.

I too have had this problem. I finally get it to work by cropping a very high res photo (well, with the built in 8MP camera they are all high res) then setting it. Then if it is blurry, go to People > [desired contact] > Menu > Edit > then touch the picture thumbnail by the contact name at the top and select and crop the new image from that screen. The high res part seemed common sense, but for some reason it did not always work for me. The last part through edit seemed to fix the remaining issues.
Hope that helps.

willwalk93 said:
I too have had this problem. I finally get it to work by cropping a very high res photo (well, with the built in 8MP camera they are all high res) then setting it. Then if it is blurry, go to People > [desired contact] > Menu > Edit > then touch the picture thumbnail by the contact name at the top and select and crop the new image from that screen. The high res part seemed common sense, but for some reason it did not always work for me. The last part through edit seemed to fix the remaining issues.
Hope that helps.
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That's what I do but it continues to change back. It's especially annoying because I have a favorites widget on my 2nd most used homescreen.

One workaround for this issue (which is an Android/Gmail contacts issue) is to use Facebook for HTC and sync your contacts that way. It will display your contact's facebook profile image.

I found all my friends Facebook images were blurry as caller id as well. I was syncing contacts with Facebook for android. I unsynced, and synced contacts with Facebook for HTC sense. Crystal clear.
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Bump old thread sorry, but i am getting this also and it is very very very anoying. Anyone find a fix yet?!

Dustxking said:
Bump old thread sorry, but i am getting this also and it is very very very anoying. Anyone find a fix yet?!
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if you use Facebook for HTC Sense that problem goes away. for some reason when you use the regular facebook app things get screwed up and honestly, In my opinion, Facebook for HTC sense is WAY better even though it doesnt have as many options

Zesty01 said:
if you use Facebook for HTC Sense that problem goes away. for some reason when you use the regular facebook app things get screwed up and honestly, In my opinion, Facebook for HTC sense is WAY better even though it doesnt have as many options
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My experience is the opposite.
I've been using "Facebook for HTC Sense" for quite some time, and had a very annoying issue: every once in a while it decides to do a "clean" sync of all my contacts. This means REMOVING all its contacts, and then re-add them from the beginning.
This is not my understanding of "syncing" In my opinion, if nothing is changed then you should change nothing. if one contact is added, so you should add only this one contact, etc'.
This was very annoying because the phone kept 'suggesting' me to link contacts - that I have already linked/ignored before! Over and over again.
I found out about the fact that it actually removes all of its contacts by looking at the HTC's 'people' app -> menu -> View -> then look at the number of "facebook for htc sense" contacts.
One day I see 1200 contacts. The NEXT day - 450 contacts...
a few minutes later - 520 contacts... and so on.
Sometimes is doesn't even make it till the end before it starts from 0 all over again, god knows why.
I was using original HTC Desire S, original ROM, S-ON, unrooted.
Then, I decided to remove Facebook for HTC Sense.
I started using the standard 'Facebook for Android' app to sync contacts.
Then - everything worked great. syncing was very fast, and once all the contacts were synced - they stayed synced.
Only problem was, as this thread describes, that stupid google blurred my images.

[Q] whatsapp contact pictures with various roms

Hey nerds,
I write this here in the developer section cause I'm not really shure if it fits in the general secction.
I tried different ROMs during the last weeks and instead of one I used the FACEBOOK contact pictures are not showing in whatsapp. If the contact uses a google account contact picture everything works well.
I tried different workarounds to fix it but nothing helped.
-Installing whatsapp from the market, new login, restore message backup or not
-restoring a titanium backup from a working rom including and exccluding data
-erasing app data, stop the app, deleting app cache, actualizing contact
-install whatsapp first then facebook and vice versa
...nothing works
If I use a ROM where the pictures where not showing from the beginning there I can find no fix.
I tried the following roms
LBC Mod 0.6 - everything works fine
Runnymede S 3.3a amd former versions - don't work
MIUI - don't work
CM 7.1 (final and latast nightlys) - don't work
SAGA 3D 3.0 an former versions - don't work
If I switch the contact pictures to google it works but I do not have pictures in all contacts there.
Only ROM it works is LBC which is still a very good ROM but a little otdated and I definetly like sense 3.5
Is there a known fix I didn't tried or found here on XDA oder google?
thanks
Nick

I've had this issue myself too...
From what i've learned over the course of the last couple of months, i see that the Whatsapp contact pictures work on all the Sense 3.0 ROMs i have tried....(The GoAPK leaked release by Proxuser, Hyperion by Lowveld) and DO NOT work on any of the Sense 3.5 ROMs (Runny ports by both Proxuser and Lowveld). I must be honest, i never tried CM7 or MIUI... I'm a regular sense guy.
I figure it is probably because of the way Facebook integration has been implemented in Sense 3.5....instead of the separate Facebook for HTC Sense account, and Facebook regular account, there is now a consolidated account in 3.5 which embraces the both. That has screwed things up for Whatsapp somehow...
The photo integration is working well with third party apps and Whatsapp shows contact pictures from, say, Friendcaster Pro, but not from native Facebook. I've solved the problem by assigning pics manually to contacts uncer the "Phone Contacts" account and they show up in Whatsapp just fine. I know its painful, but hey, whatever works, right?
However, other third party apps have easy access to facebook photos from my phonebook, so it's not like sense is at fault here...
I think this needs to be looked at by the developers of Whatsapp, rather than try to overhaul an entire version of Sense. I have been in touch with the developers of the app and put in a request for Sense 3.5 integration fix.
Now just waiting patiently for a bug-fix update from Whatsapp. I suggest more people mail them so this issue is taken seriously... Just a thought.
Cheers.

So I'm looking forward to a fix by the developers. Thanks for answering.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App

I have the same issue - try the app syncmypix which has been suggested on androidforums.
Ive tried it and it works - now have contact pics for contacts from facebook or joined with facebook and they feed through to whatsapp - so it is a valid workaround...

Right now I am back on LBC (best ROM for my use so far and very good battery life) - but synched my contact pict in google manually. I dont't have that much facebook contacts (I know them all in real life ) so this was not that much work. So evertime I play with sense 3.5 (which I really like) I will have my contact pics in whatsapp. Nevertheless, this seems to be problem on a lot of devices using facebook app and whatsapp (I searched a lot) - so this is not a problem with our devices using sense 3.5.

I'm on a different phone and rom but Sense 3.6 and is having the same problem!!

This is neither sense nor any rom related. The problem is caused by whatsapp itself. By any reason the app is not able to show contact pictures from the Facebook app itself.
In sense 3.0 Roms and below you could use Facebook for sense to sync the contacts - no problem for whatsapp. The newer sense versions are using the Facebook app for syncing. If you use a third party app like friendcaster the pics are shown correctly.
I recommend to sync the pics with your Google account manually, this is what I did. And then use the Google pics in contacts. I know this is a little work to do and there are apps in the store you can use therefore. But you only have to do it once.
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Handcent contact pics - ICS

Is anyone else experiencing contact pics not showing up on Handcent when running ICS?
They show us fine in stock messaging app.
Any fixes?

I'm seeing exactly the same issue.
If you tap on the ? where the photo should be the pop up shows the photo but no photo in the txt thread.
I've tried all the chmod fixes I've read about on here and the "fix permissions" included in recovery and nothing fixes it.
Emailed Handcent but also heard nothing.

crestj said:
I'm seeing exactly the same issue.
If you tap on the ? where the photo should be the pop up shows the photo but no photo in the txt thread.
I've tried all the chmod fixes I've read about on here and the "fix permissions" included in recovery and nothing fixes it.
Emailed Handcent but also heard nothing.
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Same here, I emailed Handcent and heard nothing.

I have read somewhere on here that it is due to the Facebook for HTC Sense being removed from the ICS ROM's (I'm using Android Revolution) and the normal Facebook app cannot download the photos properly as other contact photos in Google and Twitter are fine.
Just have to wait I guess.

crestj said:
I have read somewhere on here that it is due to the Facebook for HTC Sense being removed from the ICS ROM's (I'm using Android Revolution) and the normal Facebook app cannot download the photos properly as other contact photos in Google and Twitter are fine.
Just have to wait I guess.
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Wrong.
The ICS has "Facebook for HTC Sense" but different from the previous one that we could interact with. The facebook pics of our friends appear on the contact list of the phone and stock message app thanks to the FB 4 HTC Sense!
What's going on is that it can't "push" the photos to handcent, GoSMS, etc.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G with Beats Audio

Info from Handcent Support
I emailed Handcent asking them about the issue. This was their reply:
As it is limited by new Google system, third party softwares could not get permissions to access facebook to get data in order to protect user privacy. Could you pls use local contact list or sync Gmail.​
As you might expect, I do already have my Google (and Twitter/LinkedIn/Last.fm etc.) accounts synchronised with my phone, but since HTC seems to prefer setting my contacts' Facebook photo as the default (even after I've changed it) I seem to be at a bit of a dead end.

[Q] No contact image in Handcent with ICS.

Hi, first of all, i'm using the Android Revolution HD rom.
My problem is that though my contact picture does sync and show up both in contact and stock messaging apps, they don't show up in Handcent sms... Though if I click the empty picture, contact details (with the options like "call, mail, etc") show up, including the pictures (can upload a screenshot if this is not clear)
I've tried rebooting, reinstalling handcent, i've also tried this fix as well as fixing permissions from recovery. Nothing seems to work.
I've been googling like crazy for the last hour looking at least for people having the same problem as me, but all the posts i've found are from january-february, which makes me wonder if it is supposed to be a fixed issue. I've also read a few of the thread on these forums referencing ICS bugs, and haven't found this particular issue.
I've also tried flashing the stock HTC rom, though to be honest i didn't spend as much time trying to fix it there, since it wasn't the rom i wanted to use.
Thanks to anyone who will be able to help, even if only to confirm that i'm not the only one having this issue...
[EDIT] Fix found, please read this thread.
Thanks to Chronic404 for providing us with the link.

I'm having the same problem, don't show in whatsapp or go sms pro
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using XDA

I was having the same problem with go sms pro and it was driving me nuts.
Found that if I went into the stock 'people' app and re-chose the contact pics for people they then showed up in go sms.
Not ideal and quite time-consuming but couldn't live without the contact pics showing up!

beautyfiend said:
I was having the same problem with go sms pro and it was driving me nuts.
Found that if I went into the stock 'people' app and re-chose the contact pics for people they then showed up in go sms.
Not ideal and quite time-consuming but couldn't live without the contact pics showing up!
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Thanks for the tip, though i don't seem to have the stock people app on my rom, is it also the case for the HTC stock rom, or is it just because i'm using ARHD ?
May i ask what rom you are using ?

Hello. Download terminal emulator and do the following to get contact pictures.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21648094&postcount=47332

JustinRawr said:
Hello. Download terminal emulator and do the following to get contact pictures.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21648094&postcount=47332
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As I said in my first post, I did try this fix, but it's still not working...
Sent from my HTC Sensation using XDA

Oh sorry I don't read much, can you tell? but I had the same problem and that fixed it for me. Must be handcent.

JustinRawr said:
Oh sorry I don't read much, can you tell? but I had the same problem and that fixed it for me. Must be handcent.
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First of all, I want to apologize, my previous post was coming off as a bit rude, didn't realise it as I was typing on my phone
It might be Handcent, i actually have no idea how to check that since i don't know any app with uses contact pictures, save for the two mentioned in this post: go sms pro, which seems to require to install quite a lot of things, and whatsapps which, as far as i understand it, would require someone to chat with, but i don't think i know anyone who uses it...
So if you have an idea for an app that would use my contact pic tu check whether or not it's a handcent bug, i'd gladly take it.

It's okay I'm not easily offended!
Have you ever tried kik messenger? Once you install it and make an account it'll ask you if you want to add the people from your contacts list that also have it.

JustinRawr said:
It's okay I'm not easily offended!
Have you ever tried kik messenger? Once you install it and make an account it'll ask you if you want to add the people from your contacts list that also have it.
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I tried it, but apparently none of my contacts use anything else than sms, so still not sure of anything.

I've tried the terminal message also but to no avail.
I've just flashed the MIUI rom so I'll be sticking to that for the time being but if you solve the problem please post the method!

Same problem here i'm afraid.... No contact pictures in handcent app...

+1
I am UK Orange Sensation XE User running ARHD and also have contact images everywhere except in Handcent, despite trying the Root Explorer and Terminal Permissions fixes.
I have a small number of contacts where the contact image is a photo rather than from Facebook, and these DO show in Handcent.
Perhaps one of the techy types can use this info to diagnose the problem?
I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling Facebook and Handcent, have cleared the Data caches from both and reinstalled, still no joy.
Please post the method if you find a solution!

Contact Photos
Hi There, I had the exact same problem with Gosms and Cabbage which I use constantly. I tried Android Revolution HD and Elegancia (which i love). the only way I could fix the problem was the following.
Downloaded syncmypix and ran it, then deleted the Facebook account. The contact photos now appeared in Gosms and cabbage (even unticking facebook avatars in Gosms didn't work). I then re input Facebook account details but chose not to sync any details at all. This worked perfectly for me and somehow or another the photos and FB details still appear and update in contact details.. Weird but great.
I hope this helps as I am totally anally retentive about photos for contacts which is why I loved the Sensation to start with.
Cheers
Johnner2

Johnner2 said:
Hi There, I had the exact same problem with Gosms and Cabbage which I use constantly. I tried Android Revolution HD and Elegancia (which i love). the only way I could fix the problem was the following.
Downloaded syncmypix and ran it, then deleted the Facebook account. The contact photos now appeared in Gosms and cabbage (even unticking facebook avatars in Gosms didn't work). I then re input Facebook account details but chose not to sync any details at all. This worked perfectly for me and somehow or another the photos and FB details still appear and update in contact details.. Weird but great.
I hope this helps as I am totally anally retentive about photos for contacts which is why I loved the Sensation to start with.
Cheers
Johnner2
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That's an interesting method but honestly, I would rather a cleaner solution. Sounds very suspicious that although the FB update is off, the pix continue to update... VERY weird... Seems we have to wait

I have tried Johnner's fix, and it has fixed some of the contact images in Handcent
What i will say though is that SyncPix confuses some of my contacts so i have the wrong images for some contacts, and not all contacts can be "found" by SyncPix for whatever reason...

Johnner2 said:
Hi There, I had the exact same problem with Gosms and Cabbage which I use constantly. I tried Android Revolution HD and Elegancia (which i love). the only way I could fix the problem was the following.
Downloaded syncmypix and ran it, then deleted the Facebook account. The contact photos now appeared in Gosms and cabbage (even unticking facebook avatars in Gosms didn't work). I then re input Facebook account details but chose not to sync any details at all. This worked perfectly for me and somehow or another the photos and FB details still appear and update in contact details.. Weird but great.
I hope this helps as I am totally anally retentive about photos for contacts which is why I loved the Sensation to start with.
Cheers
Johnner2
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Thanks a lot for the tip, though i kind of agree with GorgiGR that I was looking for a somewhat "cleaner" fix, i'm especially afraid that it would just confuses things for when the issue will receive an "official" fix.
About the facebook update still working while Facebook sync is off, I'm no specialist, but it might be because although you deleted your facebook account, the Facebook for HTC Sense app is still working.

I am using Haxsync from the Play Store to sync all my facebook photos to my contacts. It works great. The only downside is that it is a paid app. But it was money well spent!

I have just used this fix, and it works!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620878

Chronic404 said:
I have just used this fix, and it works!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620878
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Thank you, i had kinda lost hope that it would be done without using a paying app
Problem fixed for me too then, i'll change the title of the thread.
[EDIT] Well apparently you can't change the title of the thread after creating it... So i'll edit my first post to point to the solution.