I too have been annoyed with the non-updating Facebook photo "bug". I really only care to update them for a few of my closer friends, but I was just fiddling with my phone while reading this thread and I sort of figured it out.
To update another contact's Facebook photo, follow these steps (altough I think it only works if the person has a Google photo associated to them, or possibly just another assigned to the linked contact):
1. Make sure the linked contact is displaying the Facebook photo.
2. While viewing the contact touch "Linked" at the top right.
3. De-link the Facebook contact and press "Done", this should leave the Facebook photo associated with the Google contact.
4. You should still be on the "Link" page. Touch the photo and choose "Remove photo".
5. You should get brought back to the "Link" page. Touch Facebook and find the contact to re-link. If the Facebook photo is missing it should update quickly with the new profile photo. Otherwise force a sync to your Facebook account and it should update.
Both of the contacts I updated this way have photos assigned to their Google accounts, and when I tried this method with linked contacts that only had Facebook photos the "Remove photo" option never appeared.
Edit: figured out updating your contact card photo:
Update profile photo on Facebook, manually force your Facebook account to sync on your phone, select your contact card > menu > edit, touch the photo to bring up "Select photo" option, then choose Facebook. It should re-download the photo and will update. Try again from the sync step if it doesn't update.
To update another contact's Facebook photo, follow these steps (altough I think it only works if the person has a Google photo associated to them, or possibly just another assigned to the linked contact):
1. Make sure the linked contact is displaying the Facebook photo.
2. While viewing the contact touch "Linked" at the top right.
3. De-link the Facebook contact and press "Done", this should leave the Facebook photo associated with the Google contact.
4. You should still be on the "Link" page. Touch the photo and choose "Remove photo".
5. You should get brought back to the "Link" page. Touch Facebook and find the contact to re-link. If the Facebook photo is missing it should update quickly with the new profile photo. Otherwise force a sync to your Facebook account and it should update.
Both of the contacts I updated this way have photos assigned to their Google accounts, and when I tried this method with linked contacts that only had Facebook photos the "Remove photo" option never appeared.
Edit: figured out updating your contact card photo:
Update profile photo on Facebook, manually force your Facebook account to sync on your phone, select your contact card > menu > edit, touch the photo to bring up "Select photo" option, then choose Facebook. It should re-download the photo and will update. Try again from the sync step if it doesn't update.
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