- problem: Contacts in People no longer show pictures. The only way to add picture is to take a photo…
I have the same or similar issue. Some/many avatar pictures are missing (but not all) from the ‘People’ application after the upgrade to 4.2.0.21 on my Xperia XA2. I suspect it is the older avatars where the original picture each avatar was created from is no longer present in the gallery.
Currently trying a restore from backup to see if that helps…
Edit to add: Restore from backup did not fix the problem. I’m going to have to use some developer access. It looks like a recurrence of a known upgrade bug that occurred with Kvarken (4.1.0.24).
At least I have an old backup that I should be able to restore the avatars from. Sigh. Another entry on my to-do list.