[Q] No facebook. picture on whatsapp - General Questions and Answers

Hello everyone.. installed the update (android 4.0) for my sensation xe, everything goes well unless the whatsapp. When I enter my contact I find the facebook picture for all of them but when I enter whatsapp there is no picture for any contact although sync is on for facebook and whatsapp how can I fix it??

thetiger_jad007 said:
Hello everyone.. installed the update (android 4.0) for my sensation xe, everything goes well unless the whatsapp. When I enter my contact I find the facebook picture for all of them but when I enter whatsapp there is no picture for any contact although sync is on for facebook and whatsapp how can I fix it??
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I experienced the same after updating my sensation to 4.0.
It happened because the account for "facebook for htc sense" got deleted, this one used to function as a bridge between facebook and normal contacts so that whatsapp could get its syncs from there. Whatsapp can somehow not sync directly with the normal facebook app so I guess you have to do without the pictures.
But if someone knows a solution, I'd be glad to hear !

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Outdated facebook picture in people contact list

As title.
I can't seems to get the latest facebook profile pic for my contacts listed in the People application.
I tried clear the cache for People and Facebook for HTC Sense in the application settings but to no avail.
I am able to get their latest contact number and facebook status message.
Is there a way to manually update the picture?
Please advise.
I have the same problem.
The only solution I found is that I delete the account "Facebook for HTC Sence" and I re added it. This way I force the Sense to synchronize itself with the latest pictures.
Thanks, it works, though the sync take quite a while.
just go into the gallery, switch to Facebook and then update after pressing menu
Only problem I got is that MY pic is not really syncing..
I use an app called syncmypix
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
Thanks for more suggestion
What may help, before syncing your contacts with HTC Sense Facebook, ensure that "People --> View --> Only contacts with phone numbers" is unchecked!!!
For some reason, when syncing contacts, this option comes into play.
Cheers,
Charles

[Q] Facebook for HTC Sense on Sense 3.5

Hi folks,
As I knew that, from Sense 3.5 there would be no "Facebook for HTC Sense". However I do like it much because it syncs automatically my Facebook friend's informations such as email, birthday. Thus I do not need to add manually.
I did search but had no luck to have this app Can anyone help me on this issue?
Thanks in advance,
T.
ximocko said:
Hi folks,
As I knew that, from Sense 3.5 there would be no "Facebook for HTC Sense". However I do like it much because it syncs automatically my Facebook friend's informations such as email, birthday. Thus I do not need to add manually.
I did search but had no luck to have this app Can anyone help me on this issue?
Thanks in advance,
T.
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If you log on the the Facebook app (get it from market if you don't have it) it will ask you if you want to authorise it for HTC Sense and then it works as Facebook for HTC Sense did on 3.0
Exactly. You will have the same functions of the Facebook for HTC Sense just using the normal facebook app.
When you add the account it will ask you to authorize HTC Sense on you're facebook account and voilĂ , you're done. Same results with only 1 account setted up instead of two. A big big improvement, more efficient, more elegant and more battery friendly (1 sync instead of two )
But I have a problem with the Facebook for HTC Sense in Sense 3.5. Facebook photos of my friends can be shown in all HTC apps (People, Message) but in Whatsapp, they're all empty. Previously in Sense 3.0 ROM, photos are shown correctly in Whatsapp. So there's an incompatibility between Sense 3.5 and Whatsapp?
One more issue i'm facing is that I don't get the status update of the person on my screen as was with the FB for HTC sense app.
ANyone else facing the same issue as me?
itandy said:
But I have a problem with the Facebook for HTC Sense in Sense 3.5. Facebook photos of my friends can be shown in all HTC apps (People, Message) but in Whatsapp, they're all empty. Previously in Sense 3.0 ROM, photos are shown correctly in Whatsapp. So there's an incompatibility between Sense 3.5 and Whatsapp?
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I have exactly the same issue with GOSMS - it appears to be using an old Facebook picture - does anyone know where Facebook for HTC Sense stored the pictures?
I'm pretty sure missing contact pictures can be fixed by booting into recovery and and selecting 'Fix Permissions'
bigmoew said:
I'm pretty sure missing contact pictures can be fixed by booting into recovery and and selecting 'Fix Permissions'
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Just tried that in recovery and makes no difference.
But I installed Line yesterday and found its contact list has photo shown correctly. So it maybe up to Whatsapp now to fix it.
i had similar problem.. I just booted recovery, wiped everything, reflashed rom, and voila.. I got all pictures set, with good quality..
Hope that helps
Laynee1 said:
i had similar problem.. I just booted recovery, wiped everything, reflashed rom, and voila.. I got all pictures set, with good quality..
Hope that helps
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today I did a little bit more test. I removed facebook sync account completely. to my surprise, whatapps is able to show contact photo again. these photos are from my gmail contacts, not from facebook.
I then add facebook account again and whatapps contact photo disappears.
so now its quite conclusive that whatapps is having problem with Facebook for HTC Sense in Sense 3.5.
Maybe, in some way, its bugged because you have several photos on one contact ( FB, Gmail and others)..
Try deleting all photos but 1 for each contact..
Hope this helps..
Cheers
Laynee1 said:
Maybe, in some way, its bugged because you have several photos on one contact ( FB, Gmail and others)..
Try deleting all photos but 1 for each contact..
Hope this helps..
Cheers
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried removing all other photos, leaving just Facebook photo. But no, it still doesn't show in Whatsapp.
itandy said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried removing all other photos, leaving just Facebook photo. But no, it still doesn't show in Whatsapp.
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It might actually be related to the photo itself. I have a friend who has a different photo in Gmail and Facebook. And these accounts are linked. If I change the default photo in People to Gmail photo, Whatsapp is able to show it. If I change it to Facebook photo, Whatsapp cannot.
So the problem is not the linkage but rather some attribute of the photo. And I'd say the resolution of the photo might be the culprit here since Facebook uses higher resolution while that of Gmail is very low. Perhaps Whatsapp is unable to handle that kind of resolution.
Of course, that's my theory only. Can others in this thread try to do something to see if I'm right or wrong?
I am facing the Same thing.
in Sense 3.0,Whatsapp pics of facebook work properly.
In Sense 3.5, same thing happens as yours.
So it's a sense 3.5 issue
bteljuice said:
I am facing the Same thing.
in Sense 3.0,Whatsapp pics of facebook work properly.
In Sense 3.5, same thing happens as yours.
So it's a sense 3.5 issue
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The latest Whatsapp version seems to have fixed this problem. Now contact pictures are shown properly.
2.7.431?
im still having the same problem
Problem still persists for me, though I used a workaround which is SyncMyPix app from Market. Pics are fixed, but that's just a workaround.
I'm having the exact same problem.
Same here

[Q]Facebook contacts photo sync looks terrible

Hi..
Since Facebook for HTC Sense is now integrated with Facebook application, i synced contacts with my facebook contacts trough Facebook app, and contact pictures look awfull.. I even tried FriendCAster, but they also look awfull.. Pixelated..
And yes, i can only see contact pictures when im actually calling that contact, but in people list, and messaging applications, i cant see any pictures...
Help folx please if u can..
Thanks in advance..
Laynee1
Solved.. Full wipe and reflash solved it

Friend stream widget with ICS on sensation

I recently got the ICS and Sense 3.6 update on my sensation. After update two things happened regarding facebook. First all my contacts which were linked to facebook started showing their previous pictures, i had to delink the contact and then relink to fb contact and only after this they started showing latest facebook profile pictures.
Secondly my friend stream widget no longer updates, even when i tap the update option it just keeps on updating and never updates.
Has anyone else faced similar issues with ICS and facebook on sensation ?
I have similar problem, after ics ota update my contact were linked with fb, wich i dislike, but i managed to get rid of it...
But problem is that now some contacts in messagging (sms) are linked with fb (but not in phonebook contacts aka people)...also searching in messaging searches through fb contacts too...very annoying...
To make things worse, i have for same person contact with one name in people app (nickname given by me) and another name (given by the person on fb) in massaging app :/ arghh
Hope it makes sense (oh the irony)...not to mention that htc sense app got aproved by itself on fb...
Help anyone? How to unlink fb contacts in messaging app only (not in the people app because i did that already)...
Thx

[q] sync prob with facebook on ics

hey guys,
so i have a problem with my contacts at my sensation xe running the AndrRev rom based on android 4.0.3 and sense 3.6:
all my contacts are linked with google, whatsapp and facebook
1. when i choose the google pic for contact pic, theres the same picture on whatsapp.
but when im syncing with facebook, the contact pic switches to the one from facebook -> no picture on whatsapp
how can i prevent this? i want to have pictures at whatsapp but they will be removed when im syncing with facebook..
me 2 im using sensation with stock ics rom
You could try turning off FB sync and use Haxsync for FB syncinc instead
yes i heard about haxsync, but i dont know if it helps:
the thing is that during the sync process the contact picture switches to the syncing account picture..
example:
contact max is linked with google (contact pic a) and facebook (contact pic b) and whatsapp (no contact pic). now i chose contact pic a, which shows me max with the google picture. but when i am syncing, the contact picture switches to contact pic b. not preventable?

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