Noob to android but loving it! my only gripe is that i have my contacts linked to their facebook accounts and so HTC sense automatically uses their display picture as their contact picture, so far so good!
But i can't seem to find a way to request an updates of these pictures if they've been changed, they seem stuck to the ones originally downloads from the FB servers. I'd only really want to do it once a week just to keep things up to date but it would be nice to be able to do it!
I have noticed that mine do change but I don't know if they're automatic or the frequency. I have a friend who changed his yesterday so I've been waiting to see how long it takes.
I believe facebook sync does it for you (there is a thread on here about it somewhere) I have downloaded it but havent had the time to set it up yet, will let you know how well it works as this annoys me too a little!
For me it happens, with some delay.
The other day I was testing out some things, took a picture of a friend and uploaded it to facebook, and she then proceeded to make it her profile picture.
Looking just after, it hadn't changed, but next time I was looking at her picture it had. It might have been minutes, or it might have been hours, I'm not sure.
I believe facebook sync does it for you (there is a thread on here about it somewhere) I have downloaded it but havent had the time to set it up yet, will let you know how well it works as this annoys me too a little!
It doesn't have great reviews unfortunately. Let us know how you get on though.
This is one of the most visible mistakes on the HTC Desire ... when I'm showing the phone to friends, they see the "people" screen of faces and are impressed until they see it's mistakenly showing their *old* profile photo, and they always ask about it.
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I update mine by going to People, then selecting the world icon (Online Directory) from the bottom, then select Facebook, finally hit the menu button and press refresh. I believe it also updates the statuses too.
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I update mine by going to People, then selecting the world icon (Online Directory) from the bottom, then select Facebook, finally hit the menu button and press refresh. I believe it also updates the statuses too.
My contacts' Facebook statuses already update without that. Probably because I have Facebook set to a 4 hour sync. But I followed the steps you suggested, and none of the old facebook pictures changed.
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My contacts' Facebook statuses already update without that. Probably because I have Facebook set to a 4 hour sync. But I followed the steps you suggested, and none of the old facebook pictures changed.
Odd as I have just done mine and watched many of them change.
Odd as I have just done mine and watched many of them change.
dagnabit!!
I'm guessing the difference between us is that I have Facebook auto update on, whereas you have it off, but also that your Facebook update isn't broken!
Perhaps you've touched some setting somewhere that the rest of us haven't noticed ...
Oh ... also I have to say ... when I hit "People > World > Facebook" it shows me the list of all my Facebook friends with the correct photos ... but those photos aren't used for my phone contact lists, despite everyone being set to use their Facebook photos.
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Well all of the sudden my contact photos seem to be working ok. One of my FB friends changed his photo this evening, I've been into my messages and his new photo is there!
My pics wont update whatever i try, when i go into people and select online directories>facebook>refresh, the new profile pics are there, but on the contact card the old pictures remain. Un-linking and re-linking does not work either.
The only way i fixed this is to go into Settings, accounts and sync, then remove facebook for HTC Sense. Then re-add it. Photos updated then.
Sucks though.
Well all of the sudden my contact photos seem to be working ok. One of my FB friends changed his photo this evening, I've been into my messages and his new photo is there!
How odd, still isn't working for me, and many of my friends have updated their pictures - even I have myself, weeks ago.
So ... am I right in thinking if I want to complain to the people who are responsible, it's HTC (creators of HTC Sense, and the People app) rather than Google Android or anything else?
I contacted HTC and their inadequate response was to tell me to unlink the phone from my Facebook account in the "sync accounts", wait a while and then relink to Facebook.
That should refresh the pictures. (and I suspect require me to relink lots of contacts).
I told them I'd expected an automatic solution, so I'll see what they come back with.
I update mine by going to People, then selecting the world icon (Online Directory) from the bottom, then select Facebook, finally hit the menu button and press refresh. I believe it also updates the statuses too.
I tried this also but it has not updated the contact pics in my favourites
Its bizarre because one of my contacts does update automatically if they change their FB profile pic. The rest dont, I've been through the contact details/links and all appear to be setup the same!
Its not a major hassle just would be nice if it consistently worked for all contacts!
Despite the FB update schedule set to sync every hour - this clearly does not happen as many people changes are at least 12-24 hours behind
That same contact changed his photo again on the same day and I checked straight away and the contact photo hadn't changed. this evening I noticed that it's add treated. I'm not doing anything to get it to work by the way. *shrug*
I found a way to manually force the pic to update. Go under people then click on the person who's picture is incorrect (or hasn't updated) go under edit and then click on the picture box in the top left hand corner. The window that comes up gives you the option of "camera, facebook, photos, etc" choose fb and it updates the pic.
I found a way to manually force the pic to update. Go under people then click on the person who's picture is incorrect (or hasn't updated) go under edit and then click on the picture box in the top left hand corner. The window that comes up gives you the option of "camera, facebook, photos, etc" choose fb and it updates the pic.
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I found a way to manually force the pic to update. Go under people then click on the person who's picture is incorrect (or hasn't updated) go under edit and then click on the picture box in the top left hand corner. The window that comes up gives you the option of "camera, facebook, photos, etc" choose fb and it updates the pic.
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I also have one contact who's FB picture updates perfectly, the problem with that one though is that I prefer to use my Google picture for that person but it keeps changing back to the FB one! very annoying.
Same problem here, it's been annoying me ever since I got the phone. Tried all the suggestions in here and nothing works. The Online Directory tip updates the FB profile pics in that list but not in my People/Phonebook or in text messages. So annoying.
somewhere on the internal memory of the desire should be the pictures. Since it doesn't load them from the net (cause then they would refresh). I guess if someone were to find that location and delete them, it needed to load them again and then it would take the last ones...
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somewhere on the internal memory of the desire should be the pictures. Since it doesn't load them from the net (cause then they would refresh). I guess if someone were to find that location and delete them, it needed to load them again and then it would take the last ones...
But this is a theory of mine
I just had a look on mine and couldn't find them anywhere, I'm guessing there's a chance they could be stored on the phone memory itself though.
I just had a look on mine and couldn't find them anywhere, I'm guessing there's a chance they could be stored on the phone memory itself though.
I did a search for jpg files in the root directory and the only things it found were in system/customize/resource and they look like thumbnails of webpages and that's all.
Found plenty of .png files too but not FB photos.
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I have the same problem with facebook profile pics not updating in my messages and people favourites.
Cultor's/Jason C/staz1000 idea to find the save location seems good. In Astro (or other) file manager in the root directory there is a folder called 'System' and it that a folder called 'Apps'.
This folder has facebook information and you can browse the app information broken up into loads of files.
I don't really understand it all - i'm new to android (first post btw) - but i'm sure someone could work it out.
It's pretty annoying having old profile pics. I'd sooner just set a fixed picture if it isn't going to work. Even my new OTA update didn't seem to fix it.
I've had a look in there Tony and I can't find anything of use. There are a lot of files but nothing I can see that would help. I looked in HTCFacebook and a few contacts type apps but nothing in any of them either.
I have just had a look through my settings to see if I can suss out why mine works but others don't and I really don't know. One thing I have noticed though is if I go into People and go to the Online Directories tab then press Facebook I'm not actually logged in there. Not sure why as I use the facebook app and my contacts are all linked.
All of the above has not worked for my UK t-mobile Desire, but I have just found a way of making all the contact pictures update to the latest facebook profile pics.
You have to:
Log OUT of Facebook for HTC Sense. you will get a warning notice to say that all the facebook content will be removed from your phone..
Once you've done that, then you need to CREATE (ie log back in) to facebook via
I also have one contact who's FB picture updates perfectly, the problem with that one though is that I prefer to use my Google picture for that person but it keeps changing back to the FB one! very annoying.
I get the opposite. for some of my contacts in the "favorites" widget, it remains as the FB pic. For others it reverts (several times a day) to the google pic, which is of poor resolution. The only reason I have google contacts pictures is because HulloMail (visual voicemail) only eill display contact pictures from google.
Looking at the contacts and their links, some list google at the top and some list facebook at the top of the list. Some contacts I use the google name and others - facebook. I can't seem to find a trend between the contacts and which image it defaults too.
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Doing the above process has also fixed a problem I've been getting with Friends Stream which updated at the scheduled time (according to the bar at the bottom) but the content didn't refresh.
Hi all. I just found an app in Market called SyncMyPix, and it worked like a charm! Or, one the second try anyway. Hope this helps!
hi all...i'm also new here...but finally i got the solution..thanks for ur help buddy..but not all of my contact is found.. can u help me on this.. tq..
Facebook Contact pictures
dagnabit!!
