The only time I had pictures for most of my contacts was when I had facebook installed. I love the having my contacts in the cloud because I am constantly switching roms and phones. However the only pictures it syncs for me is the ones I have manually added.

 

My phone gets contact pics from Facebook and Google+ but I have sync enabled. That's a weird one for sure sorry I can't be of more help.

 

A weird one, I can only hazard a guess. To be honest I'm not sure it's even likely or even possible, especially with your "not syncing" anything. Anyway here is my thought. Have you ever given any app or social media access to your contacts and maybe logged in with your Google account? I sync everything and never log into any site with my FB or Google account and yet I see FB contacts that are FB friends appearing in my contacts. I think it works like this : I sync my contacts with FB and then sync my contacts with Google ergo giving Google my FB contacts by default.

I also to be frank don't give a damn what Google knows, or FB for that matter about me and the contents of my device. Nothing I have ever posted, saved on a calendar could incriminate me in any way, and is never likely to. Maybe I'm a bit naive letting Google know everything it wants to, maybe I shouldn't, but for me, I cannot really see a legitimate reason why not.

I don't think I trust Google, I basically just have nothing that goes into the "interweb" I'm not bothered about anyone knowing.

More fool me perhaps?

 

this will help you better understand means that android is google
upon accepting UTA's under your provider and it is left up to the consumer to further investigate the other and third party UTA User's Terms Agreements.

when activating a new account with android and your provider google is there with it. trying to make all in one you need in one place.

do a factory reset then when it is finished rather then adding a google account back out of all of it keep playing with it you will finally get it to the point it will just go to your phone rather than google do a prl update and a profile update.. let it restart

You will then see how much google is tied into the phone from there.. and keep in mind all of your contacts will be gone as well and so will all of your personal stuff too as well ...

 

I had a friend from Scotland visit me in Florida. He wanted to post some Facebook stuff but his Scottish phone wasn't working verywell in FL. I let him post to FB from my phone only to later discover that I had ALL of his FB contacts intermixed with my phone contacts

 

Bummer sorry over the mess u obtained over this I am really happy u got it resolved

 

I'm sorry to not have asked this were u able to switch it over back to the way u like your phone to be

 

This happens - it's down to Android Questions being the only sub-forum on the site that allows unregistered guests to post, which occasionally causes problems for registered ones.

Rest assured it's nothing you've done wrong.

 

Sir Slug, how u have been brutha ?
Long time no see :0)
Shoo I'm glad you and my good friend Sir Mikestony stepped in the clarify this for me I only really wanted to help this nice lady Im sure as you both can see she has done well and very kind . Man I'm glad everything is cool here no worries. Lol:beer: cheers bruthas....have a nice day.