[Q] Syncing Pictures to Contacts

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Hello. Quick question about syncing facebook profile pictures to contacts: has anyone had success with this? I tried using SyncMyPix, but it didn't work. It says it retrieves the pictures, but I think there may be a problem with my contacts that won't allow the app to sync. I also tried the Facebook app, but I couldn't figure out how it works. Does anyone have any suggestions for either of these problems, or maybe another app that works well? Thanks in advance!

I've been wondering the same thing! Can't get the facebook app to work and have tried several third party programs but none seem to get the job done. I read somewhere that another android user (droid x?) was having problems but found a fix by deleting facebook app, removing all her contacts (especially gmail ones), then redownloaded the facebook app and allowed syncing, then added her contacts. Supposedly this worked for her but I have not tried it. I would love to know how to sync facebook pictures with contacts.

In the market you can find an app.called "SyncMyPix". This will do the magic for you in pulling Facebook pictures down for your contacts. Free app, give it a try and report back some results.

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Originally Posted by JerseyFF

In the market you can find an app.called "SyncMyPix". This will do the magic for you in pulling Facebook pictures down for your contacts. Free app, give it a try and report back some results.

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He said in the OP, that it didn't work..

The Facebook app "androgeny" worked great for me to sync my pics to my Google contacts, had no issues at all, thought it was very straight-forward. Plus, you can manually specify mappings as needed.

Ok, so I searched for androgeny, couldn't find it in the market (also searched it as two words and spelling genie, couldn't find either). Also, unless I'm mistaken my contacts aren't Google contacts, I don't use Gmail nor are my contacts synced to any of my email accounts.

I tried syncing pictures again using SyncMyPix, now I have a few more specific details. The results aren't listed as errors, but as not found. I tried manually linking, and it gives me this message "This contact is read-only and can not be linked". I tried copying a contact to the phone, but it still gives the same message.

The idea of deleting apps and contacts seems kind of cumbersome, any suggestions on an easy method of storing contacts somewhere to reload them in order to try the method mentioned above?

Originally Posted by Kraynes71

Ok, so I searched for androgeny, couldn't find it in the market (also searched it as two words and spelling genie, couldn't find either). Also, unless I'm mistaken my contacts aren't Google contacts, I don't use Gmail nor are my contacts synced to any of my email accounts.

I tried syncing pictures again using SyncMyPix, now I have a few more specific details. The results aren't listed as errors, but as not found. I tried manually linking, and it gives me this message "This contact is read-only and can not be linked". I tried copying a contact to the phone, but it still gives the same message.

The idea of deleting apps and contacts seems kind of cumbersome, any suggestions on an easy method of storing contacts somewhere to reload them in order to try the method mentioned above?

I agree, the process sounds very cumbersome which is why I haven't tried it. I'm thinking that Facebook has recently changed picture-saving permissions for mobile apps because I can't save pics (captivate) and neither can my wife (iphone) so maybe that's where the problem lies.

SyncMyPix would perfect for me. Thanks for the suggestion.

I was able to sync all of my facebook contacts without any extra app using the jh2 build. Not sure if it is something they added in this build or if it is in the stock build, but under the sync settings when I added facebook, at the end of the wizard, it asked what contacts I wanted to sync.

I ended just syncing all contacts and displaying just ones with phone numbers. Now facebook pics and numbers are in my contacts.

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I'm happy to note that I got Syncmypix to work! I was getting the read-only error as well, and in order to circumvent this problem all you have to do is the following:
1. Export all your contacts to SD card
2. Go to gmail and click contacts
3. Under more actions, click import
4. Import the vcf file with all your contacts
5. Then on your phone go to Contacts > Settings > Display Options and uncheck phone and sim. Make sure the google account that you imported all your contacts to is checked.
6. Then sync your gmail contacts (Contacts > Settings > More > Accounts > gmail account > Sync Contacts

And voila! your contacts are no longer read-only. Go back into the syncmypix app and watch as it magically syncs all your friends pictures to contacts