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Importing Facebook Pictures into Contacts?

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DGalt

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I know my girlfriends HTC Hero uses the profile pictures of her Facebook contacts for the pictures in her contacts on her phone. Is there any way to do this on the droid? I signed into the facebook app, but beyond that I don't know what to do.

thanks
 
Yes, when you are in the facebook app (that came on the droid) go to settings and there should be an option.
 
Alternatively, you can go into settings, accounts and sync, and make sure your Facebook account is set to auto sync.
 
It is set to auto sync. But it has only synced a very small portion of my contacts' pictures. It will sync more if I go into facebook and do Sync All but I don't want all the random contacts I have in facebook in my phone. I just want the contacts that I have in my phone to sync with their pictures in facebook
 
DGalt said:
It is set to auto sync. But it has only synced a very small portion of my contacts' pictures. It will sync more if I go into facebook and do Sync All but I don't want all the random contacts I have in facebook in my phone. I just want the contacts that I have in my phone to sync with their pictures in facebook
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First, the names must be exactly the same (unless someone knows how to manually link them)

Second I have noticed that only some of mine linked photos, and I think it has something to do with that persons facebook account settings. There were some where it linked the contact but didn't show a photo. But if I click on the contact, then go back to my contact list, there picture will show up.
 
I noticed the same thing. It seemed like if the contacts in Gmail already had images it uses those, if they do not it uses Facebook.

I would prefer to just use all images from Facebook since people rarely update their Google images. :\
 
What's weird is if I go to the person's facebook page through the contacts page it will update his/her photos. But it won't do it by itself. Really don't want to have to do that for allllll my contacts :(
 
DGalt said:
What's weird is if I go to the person's facebook page through the contacts page it will update his/her photos. But it won't do it by itself. Really don't want to have to do that for allllll my contacts :(
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Yea, that's what I was trying to articulate above.

Most of mine, did so automatically, but some didn't. Also, there are at least 2 contacts that don't link to Facebook, despite having the exact same names. If I go to their name in my contacts, I don't even see a "go to their Facebook profile" option.

I think these things are bugs that could/should be resolved.
 
You can set it so your contact list only shows contacts that has people's numbers instead of every single facebook contact
 
Deofol said:
Log out of Facebook app, and back in.
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Thanks, that got me closer, but still doesn't seem like it's bringing in all my current contacts pictures. I guess I could do it again,and select synch all, instead of synch only existing, but that seems a little scary :-/
 
You can always change the sync back and it will remove them. It never actually imported the facebook contacts to my gmail.
 
The only sure fire way to ensure your contact uses the facebook image, that I have found is;

* Open Gmail, goto contact in question, Change Picture, and select, None
* Wait about 3-5 minutes and the Droid contact will start using the Facebook image.
 
rawness said:
First, the names must be exactly the same (unless someone knows how to manually link them)

Second I have noticed that only some of mine linked photos, and I think it has something to do with that persons facebook account settings. There were some where it linked the contact but didn't show a photo. But if I click on the contact, then go back to my contact list, there picture will show up.
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Yep the name is important. More specifically, facebook often has first and last names, if you edit the normal contact you have to put both names in the first name box rather than use the last name box for the last name.
 
You should just be able to click on contact, view information, then hit the menu button and edit contact, hit the menu button again and theres an option called join that will then ask you to merge a contact in your phone book to a contact in your facebook. Thats what I had to do
 
I have friends with Facebook pics that are sweeping landscape vistas (here I am at Mr. Rushmore) that are useless to tell who they are. I want to edit there contact photo back to a face pic but now when I try Contacts force closes on me.

I tried fix permissions as I am on cyanogenmod 5.0.8 but still force closing. Could it be because of the facebook sync to the pic.
 
Just got this, probably already solved by now,but... if you go to contacts,then menu, in the lower left there is "get friends".tap this and hit your facebook account,you can "select all". it will update with pics. But if name is different, it will create another entry. Hope this helps. thanks for all the help i have received on this site.
Dirk
 
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