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I've uploaded a few pics for profiles. they look great on the screen but when I choose them for profiles the quality goes massively downhill (really pixilated / blocky).
anyone else finding this?
thanks
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I have also found this and tough it isn't a solution, i can say that if you use the facebook pic (by linking the contact to their facebook) then the pic is good quality.
ummmm, good shout but I'm not really a Facebook user.
seems ridiculous that we can't make use of the fantastic screen!
I'm sure there must be s solution!
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I've got this problem too, most annoying. I've discovered this post on another forum, not so much a solution just an explanation of why it happens.
Disclaimer: This refers to the Hero, which suffers from the same problem. Hopefully this solution works on the Droid too.
I was just playing around with this for a while, and I think I know what's going on. More importantly, I have a fix, albeit an annoying one. bruceo touched on it with his reference to the cloud and disabling sync. Google Contacts images are natively 96x96. Enlarged contact photos on the Hero (when a call is inbound/outbound) look to be roughly 210x210.
I put a 320x480 image on my card (Hero's native res) and made that a 210x210 contact image using the default crop square on the phone. It looked fine at first, but 5 minutes later it looked horrible.
I suspect Google Contacts is syncing with the phone, but at the same time it's downscaling the photo to fit within the 96x96 Google Contacts constraint. The next time your phone and Google Contacts communicate, the filesizes don't match, so voila... latest timestamp wins and your phone pulls the new image from Google Contacts. Now your contacts list (on the phone) is referencing a 96x96 image for a 210x210 display... and the end result is ugly.
If you disable syncing between your phone and Google Contacts (Settings>Data Synchronization>Google>Contacts - uncheck), the image will NOT be overwritten. Of course the downside is you will need to make any future changes in both locations. But hey, at least your pictures won't look horrible.
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I have the same problem with my HTC Touch HD. Any picture that is selected for a contact is reduced in quality. Must be a HTC thing not android.
I don't sync my contacts with google but the profile pictures are sill pixalated.
Synching with Outlook 2007 also degrades the image as it can't handle the higher quality images so degrades them, then would synch that lower quality image back to the phone
is there any workaround? When adding the pictures to the phone via phone, they are very sharp, but as soon as you sync with outlook or google, the pictures become very pixelated...
in addition, my facebook pics look a little bit sharper - however, my contacts do not update with the latest contact pictures...
This is the workaround i've used, not ideal but it does work
Here's the workaround for HTC Desire (and probably for other devices with Sense UI):
You should create additional contact and save it in phone memory. Contact info can be empty and it's not important what name you'll choose.
Then you should add a photo for this contact.
Next step is to create a link in People between this new contact and that one stored in Gmail account. By pressing Menu key during link creation you have access to options to choose name and photo for this "linked contact". You should choose photo from "Phone".
The result is you have high quality photo in your caller ID!
Also, you have duplicate contacts: one from Google account (but it's still synchronized!! , second from your phone internal memory. But it's not a problem - you won't see those duplicates as long as they're linked.
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This works great, thanks!
Its ridiculous that we even need to do this! Is there an app / automatic workaround that can sort the contact image quality?!
Outlook/Activsync
Does anyone know of a work around or fix for syncing HC photos with outlook... I'm using the HD2 which principle should be the same....
I'm currently using the workaround, of storing a HD 270x270 photo on SD card... This method is tooo time constraining.. Rather do in outlook.
I would hate to have to redo over 250+ contacts when I update the rom.
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Does anyone know of a work around or fix for syncing HC photos with outlook... I'm using the HD2 which principle should be the same....
I'm currently using the workaround, of storing a HD 270x270 photo on SD card... This method is tooo time constraining.. Rather do in outlook.
I would hate to have to redo over 250+ contacts when I update the rom.
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now i'm stuck with those crappy icons as well. last times, when i used MyBackup Pro to retore my contacts it restored them to the phone's memory (where it got them from), but these times it just forces itself on my google account and here we go: blurry contact pics.
is there still no solution to this? this size is really really bad
Remember to export the phone contacts otherwise you will need to add them manually in case of factory reset.
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hyaenidae said:
now i'm stuck with those crappy icons as well. last times, when i used MyBackup Pro to retore my contacts it restored them to the phone's memory (where it got them from), but these times it just forces itself on my google account and here we go: blurry contact pics.
is there still no solution to this? this size is really really bad
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There is kind of.....
The problem as stated many times before is Gmail down-scaling the pic to rubbish, seems people are having the same problem with Outlook 2007. I only just started to have this problem when I moved all my contacts from Outlook 2010 to Gmail. Outlook 2010 handles a larger picture for contacts and I never experienced this problem until moving to Gmail for my contacts so I didn't have to use a cable to Sync >> Crap idea, I would rather have to sync once a week via cable then get the crappy contact pics!!
If Gmail handled a larger contact pic we all would be sorted!
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Does anyone know of a work around or fix for syncing HC photos with outlook... I'm using the HD2 which principle should be the same....
I'm currently using the workaround, of storing a HD 270x270 photo on SD card... This method is tooo time constraining.. Rather do in outlook.
I would hate to have to redo over 250+ contacts when I update the rom.
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Unfortunately, this is a limitation with Outlook and there is no workaround at the PC end.
HI guys. This is soooo irritating and just don't know what to do. I assigned photos to my contacts from my photo albums but every time I turn my phone on the photos become blurry n horrible!! I then hav to add them all over again but only for them to blur up again afterwards :-(
I read about blurry contact icons but that was when synced with Google or Facebook contacts, I only add from my own gallery so why is this happening and is there a way round?
Also has anyone had the same problem?
This is such a basic feature & dies work properly.
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This has been discussed extensively on other threads.
Check out the complaints and annoyances with workarounds.
Basically Google sync is to blame because it stores the pictures in a low format resolution.
You need to create a phone contact and add the picture to that one, then link to the "google" contact.
Do you know where is the "photo" of the "Phone contact" stored?
In the SD-CARD?
Do you know where is the "photo" of the "Phone contact" stored?
In the SD-CARD?
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Yes its stored on my sd
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it's the gmail-contact-sync fault.
either cap gmail from syncing your contacts or live with crappy pictures.
it sux, but I killed the sync
Don't think it's google's fault
Hello, sorry if this has been discussed, but is it not actually more of a carrier issue?
I have synced my phone on my wireless at home and had good looking icons, however, once I've spent a day on 3G only, I notice the quality has dropped.
I had put this down to the fact, in my case, T-mobile proxy all images and reduce the quality for bandwidth purposes.
The best demonstration for this is using twidroid. Twidroid has the option of using SSL, meaning that t-mobile's proxies can't tell that it's an image and modify it. The difference between using SSL and not using it is drastic.
Digital blasphemy has page on this relating to AOL; same problem, different ISP.
The page is /aol.shtml
But I transferred the contacts from my old phone, so I'm a bit confused when people say its got to do with Google. Can someone elaborate plz?
All my contacts are Vcards that wer imported from SD card and saved on phone.
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Hi, I've just bumped into this thread while searching for the same problem, it wasn't very clear in others I've found.
It's well known that syncing your contacts with your gmail account results in semi-blurry / pixelated photos, which look very ugly especially while dialing in HTC dialer. This can be solved in a couple of ways, one is to disable contact sync.
Now I'm on plain Froyo (Defrost 2.1) and I've noticed that if you crop a photo to make the contact picture, if the photo has a high resolution and you crop a big enough rectangle, the photo becomes very pixelated when shown in the dialer. Oddly enough, contact photos which I've chosen and cropped with HTC Photos album, while on HTC rom, and which have been restored through titanium backup, are showing ok, so I'm guessing it's an issue with Stock Gallery not properly resizing images ? Anybody else experiencing the same ?
To reproduce - this happens (to me) in NON htc roms, with google contact sync disabled:
- create a contact
- add contact picture through Stock Gallery (the 3D view one)
- select a big picture (5Mpixel) and crop a good part of it, more than half, or most of it.
- call that contact and you should see the picture very pixelated / badly resized
I will assume that if it's a google OS, they will use the same policy regarding contact pictures. Because, in the end, it will save time in their servers when a sync is made.
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I will assume that if it's a google OS, they will use the same policy regarding contact pictures. Because, in the end, it will save time in their servers when a sync is made.
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Uhm I don't know, while this explanation could make sense, I have the impression that in fact the image is stored in a high resolution, but then, when resizing it smaller to make it fit into the tiny square when calling a person, the algorithm used doesn't make it's work well. If I crop a small part of the picture, the scaling occurs much better.
You actually mean it happens the same on your device ?
I have maybe understood what happens, since the photo is still pixelated even when opening it in another dialer or contact viewer.
Select contact photo -> Open Gallery -> Crop to desired size ->
Here is the problem, the Stock 3D gallery resizes the cropped section to the actual size that have to be stored in contact pictures (anybody knows the size ?), but does a horrible job in scaling down, especially if the original picture is very big.
Anybody can verify this ?
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I have maybe understood what happens, since the photo is still pixelated even when opening it in another dialer or contact viewer.
Select contact photo -> Open Gallery -> Crop to desired size ->
Here is the problem, the Stock 3D gallery resizes the cropped section to the actual size that have to be stored in contact pictures (anybody knows the size ?), but does a horrible job in scaling down, especially if the original picture is very big.
Anybody can verify this ?
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Nope i made all my contact photos within the gallery and they are just fine (sharp etc.). For me the problem was GSync which i disabled now. I know not everybody uses it here and still has the problems but for me everything is OK since disabling contact-sync.
Maybe everybody should have a look at the GoogleSync-Settings as well as the Exchange ones. In my case both accounts where enabled to sync the contacts with Google.
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Nope i made all my contact photos within the gallery and they are just fine (sharp etc.). For me the problem was GSync which i disabled now. I know not everybody uses it here and still has the problems but for me everything is OK since disabling contact-sync.
Maybe everybody should have a look at the GoogleSync-Settings as well as the Exchange ones. In my case both accounts where enabled to sync the contacts with Google.
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Lucky you, I have every sync disabled but can confirm that it's just the gallery that crops and resizes with bad quality scaling.
I have tried using astro to select the picture and while it doesn't allow you to select the cropping area, it doesn't scale badly.
Did you actually try to use a very big picture and crop a good part of it?
Also, are you on froyo or eclair?
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Lucky you, I have every sync disabled but can confirm that it's just the gallery that crops and resizes with bad quality scaling.
I have tried using astro to select the picture and while it doesn't allow you to select the cropping area, it doesn't scale badly.
Did you actually try to use a very big picture and crop a good part of it?
Also, are you on froyo or eclair?
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I use the standard eclaire ROM (1.21.405). The photos i used were taken with the 5 MP Camera of my former HTC HD2 so i guess they are big enough? Havent tried it with Astro so far. Hmm it seems hard to figure out, what could be wrong/different between our Desire-Contact-Manager-Photo-Thingy...
That is weird, since it's not mentioned anywhere else or probably mixed up with the sync-contact issue. At this point I would think that it could be an issue with the froyo gallery or with this particular rom. I might try a nandroid backup and then install stock eclair to try it out.
Just to be sure, let me ask you one question: if you select the entire photo (or rather the square part that fits the rectangular picture) for one contact, then on calling it, does the photo look blurry or rather pixelated ? on mine it's very visible in curves, which become jagged. I'm just asking because probably most people crop to a smallish part of the picture, like the face, while I'm trying to include the whole photo
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[EDIT] erm, you mean stock rom with HTC Sense ? Because my problem is with stock android froyo, without HTC Sense Gallery, but using stock android 3D gallery (the one by cooliris)
I've just tried to install a eclair cyanogen (ERE27) and even without restoring anything I have been able to repicate the same exact issue.
At this point I think most people don't notice this because you mainly crop pictures in order to take the face and not the whole picture itself.
Just to make this clear once more, this has nothing to do with blurry contact sync issue and it happens in HTC Sense-free roms (i.e. DeFrost, cyanogen)
If anybody can come up with a better alternative than using astro or resizing images in separate applications, please post it here.
andycted said:
I've just tried to install a eclair cyanogen (ERE27) and even without restoring anything I have been able to repicate the same exact issue.
At this point I think most people don't notice this because you mainly crop pictures in order to take the face and not the whole picture itself.
Just to make this clear once more, this has nothing to do with blurry contact sync issue and it happens in HTC Sense-free roms (i.e. DeFrost, cyanogen)
If anybody can come up with a better alternative than using astro or resizing images in separate applications, please post it here.
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Just to give you an idea i have attached an original pic and a screenshot with the caller-screen. It might seem (when you zoom in the caller-screen) that it looks a bit blurry but on the small screen of the desire it looks absolutely sharp. As said, i made this with the standard album and chose a quite big area of the original photo.
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Thank you, I see that you in fact have a HTC Rom, and I guess that's the difference, I use stock froyo, non sense Rom, so I don't have the nice HTC picture gallery which does a fine job.
for standard album I meany the 3d gallery, developed by cooliris which is stock in non HTC roms.
Thank you anyway for your effort
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Thank you, I see that you in fact have a HTC Rom, and I guess that's the difference, I use stock froyo, non sense Rom, so I don't have the nice HTC picture gallery which does a fine job.
for standard album I meany the 3d gallery, developed by cooliris which is stock in non HTC roms.
Thank you anyway for your effort
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Yep and thank you for stating it clearly Didnt get it before, that HTC Sense is the cause. Didnt know, that Sense is integrated so deeply into the system that there are differences when setting up contact pictures just because of different album-applications.
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The gallery and possibly the dialer are the only reason why I would return to a HTC Rom, along with very few other things.
Still I can't understand how they can overlook such things...
I've always had this problem on every ROM i've ever used. the thing was i never really cared enough to ask anyone what the issue was lol. so maybe someone can help me out here.
i typically use sense roms and i have photos assigned to a lot of my contacts. these arent facebook or twitter pics sync'ed with the contact, just default photos i saved for them. i also use SMS Popup. some pics dont show up in the messaging app. some pics dont show up on the popup notification. anyone know the reason for this?
PS. the photos DO show up when i go to my list of contacts though.
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I've always had this problem on every ROM i've ever used. the thing was i never really cared enough to ask anyone what the issue was lol. so maybe someone can help me out here.
i typically use sense roms and i have photos assigned to a lot of my contacts. these arent facebook or twitter pics sync'ed with the contact, just default photos i saved for them. i also use SMS Popup. some pics dont show up in the messaging app. some pics dont show up on the popup notification. anyone know the reason for this?
PS. the photos DO show up when i go to my list of contacts though.
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Gonna take a real quick shot in the dark, so take it with a grain of salt. Any photos that show up in all places correctly, check their dimensions, file type, and size. My guess, and I heavily emphasize guess here, is that each place you're looking for these (the app, built in contact list, etc) has its certain requirements for pic size, dimensions and file type. If you examine the ones that are working in all places correctly, it might give some headway into figuring out what is wrong with the other ones. If none are working in all places, try taking one of the contact pics, go into windows paint, crop it to the size you would want to see, do a "save as..." and choose .jpg. Windows paint will strip out any additional layers and such that are weighing on the image and pretty much break it down to its most simple form and reduce the size. Then load up that modified pic and see if it works everywhere, if it does, rinse and repeat. If it doesn't work, well, it was worth a shot.
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.
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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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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
Just got the M8 and love it as I knew I would. I had the M7
But the galleries for HTC are so different than any other makers. Samsung mainly
Samsung's gallery is straightforward. HTC? Not so much. I never used 100Media, didn't know what it was and my camera/videos/wallpaper folders worked fine
Now I have the Gallery on HTC. I know how to use the basics of it, hide files etc, and I see the Zoe's up top. My question for this gallery is: is there a way to isolate simply the pictures you have taken with a camera, not the videos with it, and not any other pics like my wallpapers. It seems like I get all of them or my vids and camera pics
What is more confusing is the fact that I don't need to use that. I started using Quikpic for the purpose of fixing the date, enabling sorting from date etc. I was told and experienced Android is very inconsistent with that. I love Quik Pik
But with the HTC it is a little confusing
I was told that HTC created the 100Media? ...by the app creator. Yet I could swear that I saw it on previous phones. Nexus, Samsung, etc.
In any case, the Zoe's are supposed to go there. I can answer my own question. They don't appear there because just as another phone that doesn't do Zoe's can't play a Zoe, nor can an app, correct
Help me understand if I changed things to be the way they should be, for this app, and for this phone
I just moved all my camera pics to 100Media I believe it works perfect. New camera pics show there. BUT there are about 5 or 6 files that I delete, could restart the phone and they come back.
Any ideas would be appreciated
Ty
Eric