People tab's Photo in Dutty's v3.3 has the lower resolution.
any tool or solution can fix it to have higher resolution photo?
thanks.
willwmj said:
People tab's Photo in Dutty's v3.3 has the lower resolution.
any tool or solution can fix it to have higher resolution photo?
thanks.
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are you sure, in mine there is no problem at all
Isn't this a known problem and not just with that rom, solved by adding the photograph from the album?
This does not really need a new thread. Address your issues in Ditty's thread if you want answers
if u ask me...that is cos u sync your contacts with your pc...and when u retrive them they are with lower quality...try to add some fresh contact with fresh pic...u gona spot that is the same quality
x-mann said:
if u ask me...that is cos u sync your contacts with your pc...and when u retrive them they are with lower quality...try to add some fresh contact with fresh pic...u gona spot that is the same quality
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Agreed. You'll get better quality of the picture when you add it from the album.
x-mann said:
if u ask me...that is cos u sync your contacts with your pc...and when u retrive them they are with lower quality...try to add some fresh contact with fresh pic...u gona spot that is the same quality
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I never do sync with my PC (I dont like it at all )
instead of it I use this one https://myphone.microsoft.com/
you will get 200 MB to store all your information even text MSG
MrKaon said:
I never do sync with my PC (I dont like it at all )
instead of it I use this one https://myphone.microsoft.com/
you will get 200 MB to store all your information even text MSG
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Unfortunately this service is still in beta stage, and there are not enough capacities available. I couldn't log in. Instead i'm on a waiting list.
Still, thanks for pointing it out .
x-mann said:
if u ask me...that is cos u sync your contacts with your pc...and when u retrive them they are with lower quality...try to add some fresh contact with fresh pic...u gona spot that is the same quality
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are you open album, display the photo and then click "Save to Contact"?
for the big photo, it do need to crop the pic. So any solution to save the full photo to contact?
thanks.
Ati75 said:
Unfortunately this service is still in beta stage, and there are not enough capacities available. I couldn't log in. Instead i'm on a waiting list.
Still, thanks for pointing it out .
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it is ok you will get activation link in next 2 weeks, and after that you are free to go do sync in any where in any time.
This is not an issue with Duttys rom's, but all rom's. It even has a mention in the wiki if you had read it. It also shouldn't have been posted in the Themes, Applications and Software forum or the Blackstone ROM development forum. Instead please try and post queries in relevent forums. In this case simply the Blackstone forum
Look under Tips, Tricks, FAQ, i.e.
Blackstone Hints & Tips - Things you may not have known. (By tboy2000)
No. 8
Hi Res Contact Photos
Assign contact photos on your SD card directly to specific contacts for hi-res thumbnails. If you assign contact photos in Outlook and then sync, the contact photos on your phone will be low-res.
willwmj said:
are you open album, display the photo and then click "Save to Contact"?
for the big photo, it do need to crop the pic. So any solution to save the full photo to contact?
thanks.
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hint from wiki developers :
Hi Res Contact Photos
Assign contact photos on your SD card directly to specific contacts for hi-res thumbnails. If you assign contact photos in Outlook and then sync, the contact photos on your phone will be low-res.
im doing that so my quality is pretty satisfying...idk for u, i told u, when i sync after flashing roms...they look uglyer and i need to redo pics
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each contact in manilla's contact manager you have to manual link each account "associate with facebook" and it downloads there picture etc
we need a program that can just link all these for you with out going in each one is there anything around ??
Funny... did a quite similar request 23 mins before ^^
how does manilla associate contacts with facebook? where is it stored?
think it depend on which phone/rom you have as i have diamond 2 and dont have that prob.
i use energy 2.5 rom and it does that on my touch pro *fuze* which am happy about because about half my contacts are on my face book, lol
How can I get back to my original contact photo after integrating it with Facebook? I don't want Facebook's avatars.
It's stored in the contact notes. I'm not sure what version of manila you're using but in 2.5, go into the contact, then edit details, click on the picture and you can choose where it grabs it from.
I'm curious about this as well. a friend of my recently changed their phone number and they updated it on facebook, I found it that way... Curious if there was a way to bring more then just what it's gathering now. Sense 2.5 seems to bring in the photo, birthday, status, and album info. If it was just looking at fields in facebook it would just need to know to look at additional fields...
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each contact in manilla's contact manager you have to manual link each account "associate with facebook" and it downloads there picture etc
we need a program that can just link all these for you with out going in each one is there anything around ??
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I found that after linking 1 contact I went through the buttons on the bottom. The contact button with the clock had the choice to link all with Facebook.
i go to 2nd contact tab. then click all people. then go to 4th tab. wait for a while. at the top part there.. it shud be showing 15 contact matched. and u can link all them at there.
but then, due to different last name / first name assign on ur phone n their facebook account, probably hardly got more than 20 facebook contact able to linked. i got myself 29 contacts only linked with my winmo by default match.
the rest i did it manually link n sync.
it remember ur link for latest manila 2.5 1921 version though. it saved the link and then u no nid to link another time even u flash / hardreset ur phone.
but for my xperia, rom isnt stable yet. sometimes it download contact display photo n sometimes it dun. but touch pro TAEL rom works great. it auto pull all the display photo for me.
once again, on 4th tab of 'HTC contact' application. u can see all facebook update.
in my HTC HD2 i have to update each contact photo and is very long to do....is there a way to update all contacts using a process like "bulk import" ?
thanks
Anbotta
anbotta said:
in my HTC HD2 i have to update each contact photo and is very long to do....is there a way to update all contacts using a process like "bulk import" ?
thanks
Anbotta
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Try booksync
facebook integration with winmo 6.5.3
is there a way to associate contacts with their facebook profiles in winmo 6.5.3. I know how to do it through the htc contacts...but ive looked at all the options in winmo contacts and i cant seem to find facebook integration.
thanks in advance
Has anyone got High resolution contact photos working?
I'm using SyncMyPix (with the "best quality" option set) but I still end up with tiny 96x96 images all blown up to pixelly horridness.
I saw this post which suggest it... well, just works.
Any ideas?
all of my contacts pictures are pixellated.
annoying.
This is what I am curious about is the high res contact pics are meant to be at 256x256, correct me if I am wrong. But did Google set up Gmail contacts sync to account for this? Meaning, if I add a contact picture on my phone that is high res, will it sync to my gmail account, be converted to low res and then sent back to my phone?
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This is what I am curious about is the high res contact pics are meant to be at 256x256, correct me if I am wrong. But did Google set up Gmail contacts sync to account for this? Meaning, if I add a contact picture on my phone that is high res, will it sync to my gmail account, be converted to low res and then sent back to my phone?
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I think that's what's happening, yeah- so you add a high res contact, then when it syncs it reduces it again.
To test, I just turned off contact syncing in accounts & sync, deleted picture cache in SyncMyPics and re-synced.
Now I have higher resolution images. Not brialliant though...
Gonna turn on sync and see if that breaks...
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Hmm, now they seem okay...
Not super high res but that may be the FB pics... some are pixelly though?
Errrr
I dunno
How do you get Facebook pics synching? Ive never worked that out since I ditched Sense on my old Desire
I swear to god, my phone picks the lowest res pic of all connected social media photos. Hah! Trollphone.
It sticks with the Google Contact photo over the others I think, so delete that and see if it switches to higher res ones from G+ etc.
I set high res pictures to the contacts via the People app on the phone and they have synced back to my Google Contacts and they remain high res.
How do yuo guys get FB to sync. I've got Twitter, G+ and LinkedIN to connect with contacts but not FB.
FB itself isn't working due to the missing menu bug, although someone patched that - I've not tried it yet.
I'm using "SyncMyPix" (free app in the market) to do it.
I also have this problem, I use syncmypix its a great apply but the only way to get high res is to turn off the crop 96px square option. This gives higher resolution pics in the people apply but means they are not square in the contact thumbnails which looks pretty shocking. I want hi-res in my people application and square thumbnails everywhere else too!
Has anyone figured out a way to get high resolution photos to display on an incoming call?
I deleted my contact photos because I couldn't stand the low resolution.
If your contact uses Google +1 you can get their profile picture from that, much clearer. However if you are relying on photos from Google contacts I would imagine you need to retake the photo again as someone has mentioned earlier, Google now allow 256x256px (still pants ) images instead of 96.
What if they don't have a Goolge + account? Can I make contact entry for them even if they don't?
ferris2375 said:
What if they don't have a Goolge + account? Can I make contact entry for them even if they don't?
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You can still make a Google contact instead but the image will only be 256x256px in size.
What determines the resolution of the contact photo? Say I take a high resolution photo and import it into Google, does it default to 256?
Why the hell can't I select a photo locally on my phone and opt not to have my online contact photo synced. grrr...
ferris2375 said:
... Why the hell can't I select a photo locally on my phone and opt not to have my online contact photo synced. grrr...
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Exactly! or even take space off your gmail allocation to store the high-res images... no, that's too logical so instead make them think they've got a hi-res photo when the user has just taken the photo, then sync the contact and give them a pants, degraded photo in exchange.
Are you sure?
I meant, are you really really sure?
Because, if you sync back with Google Contacts, you will get low resolution.
Thats what happen with my Nexus S running the latest 2.3.
Other users with GN can test this?
ShiroEd said:
I set high res pictures to the contacts via the People app on the phone and they have synced back to my Google Contacts and they remain high res.
How do yuo guys get FB to sync. I've got Twitter, G+ and LinkedIN to connect with contacts but not FB.
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Are you sure?
I meant, are you really really sure?
Because, if you sync back with Google Contacts, you will get low resolution.
Thats what happen with my Nexus S running the latest 2.3.
Other users with GN can test this?
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They do not remain hi-res, was one of the first things I did when I got the phone as it was one of the main annoyances with android for me.
You can try jKalvins workaround. If it works, all you have to do is change a setting in Google contacts and the sync to low res pictures should stop.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google Mobile/thread?tid=4fe466bb19e3f875&hl=en&start=44
It's from an apple group so no idea if it will work, but maybe still worth a try.
That wont work anymore, I read the whole thread.
I wish there is and app that we can use to replace contact photos all at once.
First we tell the app which image for each contact.
Then, one button click to replace all.
That would be a nice workaround AFTER synched.
Please someone make this kind of app, I will pay ... Big time!
gokpog said:
You can try jKalvins workaround. If it works, all you have to do is change a setting in Google contacts and the sync to low res pictures should stop.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google Mobile/thread?tid=4fe466bb19e3f875&hl=en&start=44
It's from an apple group so no idea if it will work, but maybe still worth a try.
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That wont work anymore, I read the whole thread.
I wish there is and app that we can use to replace contact photos all at once.
First we tell the app which image for each contact.
Then, one button click to replace all.
That would be a nice workaround AFTER synched.
Please someone make this kind of app, I will pay ... Big time!
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I used to do my syncing via SyncMyPix, but recently did a sync with Friendcaster (the great Facebook app). It has a contact pic sync option and you can choose HD.
After the sync the pictures seemed significantly sharper. It's worth a try.
Hi,
I read somewhere that ICS can have high res contact photo in the People App, but only when synced with Google+.
Is that true?
That means, if you don't sync with Google+, and utilizing only Google Contacts (GMAIL Contacts), you will get low resolution 96x96 from Google Contacts.
So, how do you add the Google+ profile of your contact in the People App?
Do you add it manually? Or the People App will automatically search and pick one for you?
Because, if we can add the G+ profile manually, I think we can have workaround by creating G+ profile for them manually !
This is a right f**k up pain in the ar5e problem that could probably be easily fixed by google.
I used an external app to link all my google contacts to my facebook contacts thus providing pictures, its better to do it that way because if I install a custom rom that requires a wipe I dont have to re-link the contacts.
Unfortunately about 0.5% of my phone contacts and facebook friends have google plus so i've no idea how to get around it.
ICS looks so cool and polished only for someone to ring me and present me with a picture that looks like its come out of a 1980's pong game. grrr
Rant over
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So, how do you add the Google+ profile of your contact in the People App?
Do you add it manually? Or the People App will automatically search and pick one for you?
Because, if we can add the G+ profile manually, I think we can have workaround by creating G+ profile for them manually !
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Make sure you have your IRL friend in your normal Android/Google contacts, then if you add your manually created "friend" on Google+ there will be 2 separate contacts on your phone - one for phone, one for G+.
If you go to the "phone" contact and select "edit" in the menu then on the next page there will be an option to "Join" in that menu.
If you then select the G+ contact, it will be joined to the phone contact as one user with phone number and G+ pic!
Or I think you can just manually add a photo to the contact but I haven't tested whether that is definitely hires or not.
All my contacts are on Google Contacts. I've assigned photos from Picasa but they still look crap...
Why Why Why..
I think you can manually change contact photo with high res one.
But, once you synced with Google Contacts, it will be replaced with the low res from Google Contacts.
I wish there is an option to just disable contact photo sync, photo only.
Or, is there any clever developer who could create an app to simply replace all contact photos with user selected one?
I could imagine the app would work like this:
. The app works like the contact app, when started it will show you contact list
. Then you can assign photo manually to each contact
. App will remember this assigment
. Woth one button hit, the app replaced all contacts pgoto with the assigned one
So, every time after we synced with Google Contact, we simply run the app, hit the replace all contact photos button, and we are done!
Okay, any dev out there? I will pay premium for this kind of app!
Stretlow said:
This is a right f**k up pain in the ar5e problem that could probably be easily fixed by google.
I used an external app to link all my google contacts to my facebook contacts thus providing pictures, its better to do it that way because if I install a custom rom that requires a wipe I dont have to re-link the contacts.
Unfortunately about 0.5% of my phone contacts and facebook friends have google plus so i've no idea how to get around it.
ICS looks so cool and polished only for someone to ring me and present me with a picture that looks like its come out of a 1980's pong game. grrr
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Know what you mean, completely lets the phone down. Which app did you use to do the google --> Facebook linking?
SnowmanAndy said:
Know what you mean, completely lets the phone down. Which app did you use to do the google --> Facebook linking?
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http://heartofangel.com/google-contact-sync/
gogol said:
Hi,
I read somewhere that ICS can have high res contact photo in the People App, but only when synced with Google+.
Is that true?
That means, if you don't sync with Google+, and utilizing only Google Contacts (GMAIL Contacts), you will get low resolution 96x96 from Google Contacts.
So, how do you add the Google+ profile of your contact in the People App?
Do you add it manually? Or the People App will automatically search and pick one for you?
Because, if we can add the G+ profile manually, I think we can have workaround by creating G+ profile for them manually !
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a much easier way is to get a decent sized pic of your contact and save it to your phone and then edit contact > edit pic > select new pic. simples! - they DO NOT have to be from Google+ at all!
Hope that helps!
MrYuzhai said:
a much easier way is to get a decent sized pic of your contact and save it to your phone and then edit contact > edit pic > select new pic. simples! - they DO NOT have to be from Google+ at all!
Hope that helps!
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Not quite true. As soon as you sync your contacts with Google it sends them to the cloud which uses 96x96 photos. For some reason these then get used on the phone.
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Evostance said:
Not quite true. As soon as you sync your contacts with Google it sends them to the cloud which uses 96x96 photos. For some reason these then get used on the phone.
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That's right. The same happened to me. I felt stupid wasting so much time and energy to change things one by one.
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Evostance said:
Not quite true. As soon as you sync your contacts with Google it sends them to the cloud which uses 96x96 photos. For some reason these then get used on the phone.
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In my experience the phone will keep the high res contact picture, but if you delete your contacts for whatever reason (e.g. factory reset) then restoring from Google Contacts will bring back the low res versions.
The Google+ versions seem to work with high res photos, but since only about 4 or 5 of my "real life" friends actually use Google+ this is a bit pointless for me.
This is a problem with Google Contacts only saving low res pics, and it has been a request from the community to upgrade these for absolutely ages. So far it has gone unnoticed, which I presume is because of the focus on using Google+.
There seems to be a lot of duplicated features now G+ has come out, such as Picasa/G+ Photos; GTalk/Messenger; Google Contacts/G+ Contacts; and these really need to be consolidated which will hopefully iron out issues such as these.
guys how do I edit a contact on the phone?
Ive gone into the people app, gone into the contact and even long pressed but I cant see to edit the contact?
I want to assign a high res photo to the contact from a photo in my gallery. Is this possible?
winwiz said:
guys how do I edit a contact on the phone?
Ive gone into the people app, gone into the contact and even long pressed but I cant see to edit the contact?
I want to assign a high res photo to the contact from a photo in my gallery. Is this possible?
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Open the contact and hit the settings button
winwiz said:
guys how do I edit a contact on the phone?
Ive gone into the people app, gone into the contact and even long pressed but I cant see to edit the contact?
I want to assign a high res photo to the contact from a photo in my gallery. Is this possible?
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I really don't understand why they didn't turn long press on in the People App. Having to reach all the way at the top of the screen to get to "Menu" icon and then "Edit" takes a lot more effort especially when you have to edit a lot of contacts.
Anyhow. Do you guys know whether all the "linking" I made to each and every single contact to its Twitter or Google+ account will be sync'ed or backed up on Google's server? Thinking about installing custom ROM.
Does anyone know how to link contacts from within the phone (like when you have multiple contacts like with Whatsapp adding its own version of the contact)?
Jebus99 said:
Does anyone know how to link contacts from within the phone (like when you have multiple contacts like with Whatsapp adding its own version of the contact)?
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Took me a day to figure this out myself. Haha. Go to "Edit" under the menu button for that contact, then hit once you're in the edit mode, hit menu button once again, then hit "Join"
Hi there, did a search but couldn't find anything.
Is there a reason why the image which appears on the top of each persons people contact is so low resolution? I have replaced some of the images of people on there with high resolution pictures but it just low res's them again!
Very annoying on a phone with such a nice screen.
Been wondering the same thing. There is no reason to make them low res, so it must be a bug of some sorts.
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Not sure what the exact solution to this is and I find it annoying too. I do however use haxsync and merge my phone contacts with their facebook profiles and that keeps them in a decent quality (well, as good as thier facebook profile picture at least). Not a ideal solution but it kinda works..
(Haxsynx also does other stuff, such as showing facebook status updates and history on contacts info but that part doesnt appear to work with the Sense people app, I was standard ICS contacts.. :/ )
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(Haxsynx also does other stuff, such as showing facebook status updates and history on contacts info but that part doesnt appear to work with the Sense people app, I was standard ICS contacts.. :/ )
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The standard people app does it as well, if the phone contact is linked to the facebook one. I know for sure because I have spent an hour unlinking them one by one, as I hate FB messing with my phone contacts.
If you're on about pictures you sync yourself then they go to the Google server where they become nice los res pictures as Google has screwed it up. Syncing to Facebook is a bit better but not perfect...Google+ seems to be the best resolution for contact pictures IMO
Remove the picture and re-attach it. I dont know why it happens but after a few tries, it will attach your picture with the proper resolution
This was an issue for me as well, but Haxsync on Google Play fixes it beautifully. It can force/sync high quality photos from Facebook.
iamholam said:
Hi there, did a search but couldn't find anything.
Is there a reason why the image which appears on the top of each persons people contact is so low resolution? I have replaced some of the images of people on there with high resolution pictures but it just low res's them again!
Very annoying on a phone with such a nice screen.
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You can try to create a new contact with the photo on "phone" (only photo in it), remove the photo from the "google" contact (if you already have one in it) and leave only the particulars like name and phone numbers, then link the "phone" contact to the "google" contact.
This means google will only sync the particulars from your "google" contact and leave the "phone" contact intact, so you will always have an uncompressed photo.
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Remove the picture and re-attach it. I dont know why it happens but after a few tries, it will attach your picture with the proper resolution
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If you do this you have to turn off contacts sync or it will just go low res again.
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joshnichols189 said:
If you do this you have to turn off contacts sync or it will just go low res again.
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I manually re-attached hi res pictures and disabled Google contacts sync from Accounts & sync > Google > Sync contacts but they still look terrible when I open the contact details or I receive a call. Any ideas why the hi res pictures are not displayed? I also tried to take a picture directly whit the camera and use it as contact picture but still low res. I had the same issue with my Incredible S but manually re-attach hi res pictures worked in that case.
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Not sure what the exact solution to this is and I find it annoying too. I do however use haxsync and merge my phone contacts with their facebook profiles and that keeps them in a decent quality (well, as good as thier facebook profile picture at least). Not a ideal solution but it kinda works..
(Haxsynx also does other stuff, such as showing facebook status updates and history on contacts info but that part doesnt appear to work with the Sense people app, I was standard ICS contacts.. :/ )
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Do u also have to enable standard facebook account for haxsync to work?
Because it gets automatically enabled when u first log in to haxsync.
Thank you
Hi everybody,
I just bought an HTC One X two days ago, which is a wonderfull device, but I have an issue ...
I'm syncing my contacts/mail/calendar with an Exchange server (I don't think it is related, but I prefer to tell), which downloads the contact pictures correctly. But they are of low resolution and poor quality. I go to edit the contact, I browse the gallery to 700x700 picture, choose it, and save the contact, but picture quality remains unchanged ... As if it was downsizing it and lot of jpeg artefacts on compression ...
Do you have the same issue and do you have some solutions ?
Thanks !
Hello, i have the same issue here.
Photo from contact are pixelated and have really bad quality.
It looks like the thumbnail has been upscaled ...
And i have no solution.
There is an app called friendcaster that will sort it
This app is called "Friendcaster for Facebook", but my problem has nothing to do with Facebook, in fact I don't want to use facebook at all ...
I just want to put highres pictures on my Exchange contacts, not more ...
Try haxsync from market and see if it solves ur problem....
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This is still a facebook app ...
I´ve created a folder in DCIM, called it contact pics and transfered all my contact pics to there. After this i´ve reworked the contact informations, that they take the pics out of this folder. Now i have always clean and sharp pics. They weren´t synced btw. changed by Google. Titanium backup restores this path after installing a new rom.
Neo XL said:
I´ve created a folder in DCIM, called it contact pics and transfered all my contact pics to there. After this i´ve reworked the contact informations, that they take the pics out of this folder. Now i have always clean and sharp pics. They weren´t synced btw. changed by Google. Titanium backup restores this path after installing a new rom.
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How did you do that ? I don't find this in the contacts parameters, where do you tell it the folder where it should search for the contacts pics ?
(I'm actually thinking this could be related to the 256x256 contacts picture size hardcoded in android ...)
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How did you do that ? I don't find this in the contacts parameters, where do you tell it the folder where it should search for the contacts pics ?
(I'm actually thinking this could be related to the 256x256 contacts picture size hardcoded in android ...)
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It is. Whenever your contacts sync with Google they are resized and synced back to your device.
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joshnichols189 said:
It is. Whenever your contacts sync with Google they are resized and synced back to your device.
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yea but he's syncing with Exchange not Google
zerozoneice said:
yea but he's syncing with Exchange not Google
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Exactly, I'm syncing with Exchange, and I suspect Exchange uses even a poorer resolution ...
I remember on my HD2, the picture quality from Exchange was poor, but I just had to set a higher resolution picture on the contact on the phone and it remained ok. Seems Android doesn't manage this correctly ...
I'm actually searching a way to root my One X without loosing data (The HTC Dev way tells me every personnal data on the phone will be lost), I read somewhere there could be a way to change this 256 pixels limitation when rooted, am I right ?
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How did you do that ? I don't find this in the contacts parameters, where do you tell it the folder where it should search for the contacts pics ?
(I'm actually thinking this could be related to the 256x256 contacts picture size hardcoded in android ...)
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I´ve choosed rework in contacts, then click on the little upper photo and choose albums and the file in the created folder on my sd card. After this i had always clean & sharp contact pics.
So what you're saying here is that you copy all the pictures to the phone memory, then go into each contact manually and assign a picture? I really can't be bothered doing this for 130+ contacts, and not be able to sync it with e.g. Outlook to keep a backup.
It there would be an app to do this automatically, given the photo file name is the same as the contact name - that would be useful indeed.
Looking for a solution also. Maybe contacts.apk need to be modified to change picture resolution for contacts.
the solution is in Google's hands which doesn't seem to give a **** for YEARS now.
latest thread on the saga is here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
they eventually gave up after some indians working for Google teased everyone with a solution, they shut up for the next 5 months...typical.
it's ****ing pathetic, everyone should flood Rubin's and all executives accounts with this issue.
long story short: ICS supports 256x256 contacts image size (up from 96x96) but Google Mail doesn't.
that's why our contact pictures once sync-ed with Gmail look like ****. Even the iPhone is affected by this....if you sync it with Google Mail.
they don't consider it a top priority, otherwise it would've been fixed like this:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSStkKxXTw
funny how Punit Soni's G+ account changed some time ago to "worked for Google"
darthmelk said:
So what you're saying here is that you copy all the pictures to the phone memory, then go into each contact manually and assign a picture? I really can't be bothered doing this for 130+ contacts, and not be able to sync it with e.g. Outlook to keep a backup.
It there would be an app to do this automatically, given the photo file name is the same as the contact name - that would be useful indeed.
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I´ve done this one time and sync always with google without loosing the sharpened pics. After flashing a new rom i restore the contacts data (not the app) with Titanium; no problems since then.
zerozoneice said:
the solution is in Google's hands which doesn't seem to give a **** for YEARS now.
latest thread on the saga is here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
they eventually gave up after some indians working for Google teased everyone with a solution, they shut up for the next 5 months...typical.
it's ****ing pathetic, everyone should flood Rubin's and all executives accounts with this issue.
long story short: ICS supports 256x256 contacts image size (up from 96x96) but Google Mail doesn't.
that's why our contact pictures once sync-ed with Gmail look like ****. Even the iPhone is affected by this....if you sync it with Google Mail.
they don't consider it a top priority, otherwise it would've been fixed like this:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSStkKxXTw
funny how Punit Soni's G+ account changed some time ago to "worked for Google"
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I never sync mine with google contacts...still the pics are at worst display
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I have the same problem on my HTC One XL which I just bought in Hong Kong. Images of all my contacts in the contacts list look fuzzy and blurry. I am not using Google or Facebook Sync either. I also noticed that all other pictures taken with this phone look good initially on screen but once one zooms in the shi* hits the fan!
sierramike said:
Exactly, I'm syncing with Exchange, and I suspect Exchange uses even a poorer resolution ...
I remember on my HD2, the picture quality from Exchange was poor, but I just had to set a higher resolution picture on the contact on the phone and it remained ok. Seems Android doesn't manage this correctly ...
I'm actually searching a way to root my One X without loosing data (The HTC Dev way tells me every personnal data on the phone will be lost), I read somewhere there could be a way to change this 256 pixels limitation when rooted, am I right ?
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Anyone know if this is possible after rooting?
desiregeek said:
Anyone know if this is possible after rooting?
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Tried Haxsync....tried Friendcaster Pro.... Nothing solves the low res pic problem....
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