Contact Photo/Outlook Sync

Anmeldedatum: 11.07.2008 Beiträge: 8

Hey,

Thank you for the update in MPE 1.7.3 adding support for contact pictures, it's much appreciated. After 3 years of using the program I decided to donate Smile

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I was wondering though if it's possible to get MPE to sync the contact pictures to Outlook when it syncs contacts?

Thanks,

Simsie

Verfasst am: Mo Jul 06, 2009 17:57

If the phone supports syncing the contactpictures (=if you see contactpictures in MPE) then they get also synced to outlook. But its not possible to compare the pictures so it works with some restrictions:
- if only the picture has changed then the contact will not be synced from/to Outlook
- if MPE writes a contact to Outlook then the picture will be always transfered.
- in the other direction MPE can read also the picture from outlook, but it will be set in MPE/Phone only if there is no picture selected for the contact (cause the pic in Outlook is very small and it doesn't look good in the phone)

Gast

Hi!
And how about google synchronization with contacts' pictures?

Verfasst am: Di Aug 25, 2009 23:27

Its not possible cause Google does not provide an API to the Google-Owned picturestorage.

Gast

But how Microsoft ActiveSync on windows mobile based devices does this during syncronization with server m.google.com (same Microsoft Exchange server)? The wey must be similar.

Verfasst am: Mi Aug 26, 2009 18:40

No - Google has a complete different API to Microsoft.
If you don't believe it -> check out the API yourself, its all documented and can be read from everyone.

Gast

I do not argue. And Your word is enough for me. Just I have a WM device and it syncs contacts with photos. So I assumed that it was similar.

Many thanks, in any case.

Anmeldedatum: 01.07.2007 Beiträge: 36

Which API are you using?
My guess would be the one called "Protocol"
http://code.google.com/intl/sv/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/developers_guide_protocol.html
And from what I can see it does support pictures.

And if I'm wrong... Lets hope Google will implement it for you to use.

I've said it before... Thanks for the awesome app
/Henke

Verfasst am: Do Aug 27, 2009 20:46

Hey - you are right. I checked the API a few weeks ago. At this time it was possible to READ phontos from Google but not to upload new photos to google. I will see if i can implement it...

Anmeldedatum: 01.07.2007 Beiträge: 36

That would be so cool!

Let's just hope Google does their part and makes Gmail sync contact-picture with picasa Wink

Verfasst am: Mo Aug 31, 2009 00:26

OK, contactpics will be synced in v1.7.4 with google. I could not see the pictures in GMail, but i think this is a common issue in Google. The API and the up/download works.

Anmeldedatum: 01.07.2007 Beiträge: 36

Cool

Gast

I knew it! Very nice! Thanks for Your work! Good Luck!

Anmeldedatum: 22.03.2010 Beiträge: 36

Hi
I have contact pictures for most of contacts in Outlook 2003.

When I synchronize my K750 with Outlook, I can not get any of pictures with the contacts to my phone. What is the most convenient way to join pictures to the belonging contact in my situation?

Thanks.

Verfasst am: Do Nov 25, 2010 00:52

The K750 does not support access to contact pictures

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