Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Cannot see my own image in Google Chat (contact list)

This was happening to me for a long time. I changed my display picture in my Gmail and since then i was unable to view my own image in Gmail Chat window (contact list). However the Gmail shows the picture perfectly in the Settings page.

After searching the solution of this problem on Google, i found one trick and this worked for me. I am sharing this with you guys.

The problem seems to be with Gmail's new interface's image uploading system.

Step 1: Switch your Gmail to "Older Version" (from top right menu in Gamil).
Step 2: Now change your profile picture either using "Accounts Settings: or by Chat window. Save settings and cross check that the picture is visible in chat window.
Step 3: Now switch your Gmail interface to newer version again.

I hope this will help you.

5 comments:

JBucky said...

Yes! Thank you!

Unknown said...

Thank-you!
I was having the same problem!

Unknown said...

Thank you for posting this, I was having the same issue and I fixed it super fast with your instructions!

David said...

Thanks! I was having the same problem and now it's fixed!

Ted said...

Thanks! this worked great. I searched through many of the help boards and this was only solution I've found.