In hangouts, if the user is not part of G+ and is just a regular SMS contact, they get set with the default blue person icon. I have pictures set for those contacts, but everything I do will not show the set profile picture.
Is this the way hangouts is designed? It's annoying seeing the blue person (which I assume is set by google if they dont have a g+ profile). when I had set pictures for all my contacts.
Any work arounds?
JohnyR21 said:
In hangouts, if the user is not part of G+ and is just a regular SMS contact, they get set with the default blue person icon. I have pictures set for those contacts, but everything I do will not show the set profile picture.
Is this the way hangouts is designed? It's annoying seeing the blue person (which I assume is set by google if they dont have a g+ profile). when I had set pictures for all my contacts.
Any work arounds?
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merge google+ contacts with google contacts and pics should show up. It does work right because all of my pics show up
I derped: I disabled read contacts in googles play services privacy settings
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Is there an all-in app which provides the following:
dialer
addressbook with all contacts
Contacts with phone numbers
Contacts with WLM/MSN
Contacts with Skype
Contacts with Google Talk
etc.
All contacts need to be merged so I have only 1 entry per person in the list.
Next to the entry I can see the online-status for the different protocols.
After selecting a contact I can choose how to contact them.
I can see WLM/GTalk/Skype settings in the defauls contactlist, but don't see the status and can't use it to connect. Only GTalk does work.
Is there such app?
Contapps looks a lot like I wanted.
Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III, Stock ROM 4.1.2
With the new GMail App it displays the contact photo or a letter in the sender image, unlike a lot of people I like this feature, however I do have an issue. If I have setup the contact to merge my GMail contact with my Facebook contact and then make the Facebook photo the default, the phone shows this picture they call me, however it shows the letter icon in GMail. If I go back into the contact and change the default picture to their GMail contact photo, then both voice and GMail shows the Google contact photo.
Does anyone know how to get the dynamic changing Facebook contact image to work as the sender image in the new GMail app?
Thanks in advance
I installed the Hangouts 2.0 apk the other day and it's working perfect except I am missing one person's contact picture. He has a picture in my contacts app. Anyone else run into this?
Krusej23 said:
I installed the Hangouts 2.0 apk the other day and it's working perfect except I am missing one person's contact picture. He has a picture in my contacts app. Anyone else run into this?
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The new Hangouts 2.0 can potentially show two different pictures for a contact. One of those images is the photo you've assigned in your address book while the other is the photo the other person has selected for their Google+ profile. I've seen this on my setup when comparing two conversation threads to the same person: one SMS and the other Hangouts (Gtalk).
Long story short.. Check to see if that person has a G+ profile and if they do, I suspect they haven't chose a photo for themselves.
I had his default contact picture set to his Facebook profile picture. I switched that to his Google+ picture and now it shows up after I force stopped the app. Thanks!
I have contacts on my Google account that I will never, ever want to call, but I would like to keep as contacts in order to know that they are calling me (don't ask...)
Is there any way to hide contacts (or preferably a whole group) from the All Contacts list in the dialer? I have already removed them from the My Contacts group via web gmail(which worked on previous phones) and changed the settings for People to only show that group, but that didn't work.
djnw said:
I have contacts on my Google account that I will never, ever want to call, but I would like to keep as contacts in order to know that they are calling me (don't ask...)
Is there any way to hide contacts (or preferably a whole group) from the All Contacts list in the dialer? I have already removed them from the My Contacts group via web gmail(which worked on previous phones) and changed the settings for People to only show that group, but that didn't work.
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simply hide them by copying the contacts you need to phone and turning the visiblity of contact on sim unchecked...
Hello, frequently I recieved sms from certain companies (google calendar notifications, my home banking, my football club, etc) and these sms came already with name of the sender and they are not in my contact list.
How can I add an image to these contacts?!
I've manually add Google as an contact and put the Google's logo but the avatar doesn't appear in the hangouts.
dinistic said:
Hello, frequently I recieved sms from certain companies (google calendar notifications, my home banking, my football club, etc) and these sms came already with name of the sender and they are not in my contact list.
How can I add an image to these contacts?!
I've manually add Google as an contact and put the Google's logo but the avatar doesn't appear in the hangouts.
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the messages you are getting are different sms... not like others i guess... like we get for promotional ads... they automatically have name in them.. and you can't see there no so you can't save them... and i guess you just can't apply picture to them..
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The way I did it it, for example Google Calendar, added Google Calendar to contacts in gmail using +148368 as the mobile phone number and then changed the photo to one of a calendar (or whatever). Then I followed Google Calendar on G+, I also on the Google Calendar G+ page added that same number (+148368) not sure if you need to do the last step or even if you have to follow on G+ but there was a delay on it changing on hangout so I'm not quite sure if you have to follow. Sometime adding the +1 to the phone number is what works, and sometimes you just need to use the short code, for example US Bank uses a short code of 872265 and I didn't need to add the +1 for that. So for example Twitter, you need to use +140404 and if you already follow Twitter on G+ the avatar will also show up in gmail contacts. The whole think is convoluted but it finally is working for me except Google Voice sent sms.