Failure to Identify Contacts

[JAV4NkfV]

Phone: Motorola Triumph
Android: 2.2.2
Provider: Virgin Mobile

This is not a serious issue but it has been bugging me for a while. TextSecure will fail to identify some of my contacts either by not displaying a picture, their name, or both.

I can not figure out why it identifies some contacts with name and picture but not others. I thought it might be because some contacts are synced from my e-mail account and some are stored locally on the phone but I tested this and the account type did not seem to matter.

However, contacts that do not show picture or name on the list view landing page will sometimes have the picture in the thread conversation view, but no name.

[generalmanager]

I can't imagine that this is still a problem after nearly a year. This has been reworked several times. Can you give us feedback if it's still an issue or if it can be closed?

[mcginty]

Also android 2.2 is not supported, going to close this and @JAV4NkfV can reopen if necessary :).

[JAV4NkfV]

There was no new version for me to install on Froyo so I can't re-install
or update to see if it has been fixed. As it stands on my phone now, the
original problem of non-identification of contacts persists.

I mainly use a Nexus 7 2013 tablet for communication now, and was
disappointed that I can't get TextSecure through the Play store (is it
available for side-load somehow by chance?). The new description on the
app's Play page sounds as if TS doesn't just do sms over cellular anymore
but now uses data connections to send messages like Whatsapp does. If this
is the case then why is there no tablet version?

Hope you guys get a multi-platform version out soon, otherwise Wickr is
going to eat your lunch, when most people will still prefer an open source
option.

Thanks for checking back in with me. :)

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Also android 2.2 is not supported, going to close this and @JAV4NkfVhttps://github.com/JAV4NkfVcan reopen if necessary :).

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[generalmanager]

You can sideload via http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ but it appears that on your specific tablet TS currently crashes for yet to be determined reasons:
#614

TextSecure does the WhatsApp-style push messages as well as SMS now.
There is no tablet version, because the UI still hast to be adapted for tablets (as mcginty pointed out, they are looking for help on this).

There are also iOS + browser addon versions in development:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-iOS
https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/textsecure-chrome/