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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.
DoomFragger said:
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 ?
andycted said:
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.
Greets
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...
First off im of course using the Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile network.
The issue I am having, and would like to know if it's not an isolated incident, is that when receiving MMS messages, pictures are shrunken to a fraction of its size regardless who sent it.
The other problem is when uploading pictures taken from the GN to Google+, it shrinks it also. The odd part is that it only does it to pictures that originated from the Galaxy Nexus (screenshots and camera photos) but if its a photo that is from a different device, it posts full size.
If anyone is experiencing these issues, could you raise a voice. Maybe try and offer a fix.
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First off im of course using the Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile network.
The issue I am having, and would like to know if it's not an isolated incident, is that when receiving MMS messages, pictures are shrunken to a fraction of its size regardless who sent it.
The other problem is when uploading pictures taken from the GN to Google+, it shrinks it also. The odd part is that it only does it to pictures that originated from the Galaxy Nexus (screenshots and camera photos) but if its a photo that is from a different device, it posts full size.
If anyone is experiencing these issues, could you raise a voice. Maybe try and offer a fix.
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I'm on T-Mobile as well and I too have noticed that when receiving MMS the pictures are tiny...
If you upload a picture to Google+, it will reduce the size down to 2048 px on it's longest edge. By doing this, it ensures that your pictures don't count towards your 1GB limit (any photos up to 2048 x 2048 don't count towards your storage).
I think it also compresses them down quite a bit - there is quite a size difference between the original on your phone and those on G+ (it can be around 1MB less on G+).
I was intending to use the instant upload as my "set and forget" backup for my photos, but after noticing this I don't think it's a very good idea
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I'm on T-Mobile as well and I too have noticed that when receiving MMS the pictures are tiny...
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Have you seen of anyone trying to figure a way to fix this, if there is a way?
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If you upload a picture to Google+, it will reduce the size down to 2048 px on it's longest edge. By doing this, it ensures that your pictures don't count towards your 1GB limit (any photos up to 2048 x 2048 don't count towards your storage).
I think it also compresses them down quite a bit - there is quite a size difference between the original on your phone and those on G+ (it can be around 1MB less on G+).
I was intending to use the instant upload as my "set and forget" backup for my photos, but after noticing this I don't think it's a very good idea
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The thing is that when you upload a picture that hasn't been taken with the Galaxy Nexus, it's uploaded at normal resolution. The photos are put onto the web at full resolution.
So basically in order for me to post my GN photos at full resolution, I have to let it instant upload and then post it from the website.
even if you take a photo with the galaxy nexus, and MMS yourself. When you receive the photo its a little thumbnail and out of resolution. Im on t-mo
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The thing is that when you upload a picture that hasn't been taken with the Galaxy Nexus, it's uploaded at normal resolution. The photos are put onto the web at full resolution.
So basically in order for me to post my GN photos at full resolution, I have to let it instant upload and then post it from the website.
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Do you mean when you actually share your pictures in a post?
If that's the case, then yeah I noticed that too. Uploading pictures to your albums (privately) will just resize them to 2048, if you actually share the picture (as in upload it as a post) then it shrinks them down even further. Which is odd, I agree.
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even if you take a photo with the galaxy nexus, and MMS yourself. When you receive the photo its a little thumbnail and out of resolution. Im on t-mo
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Yeah, have you heard of anyone working on a fix. It seems to be a T-Mobile thing cause there hasn't been any mention of this on the other GSM networks.
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Do you mean when you actually share your pictures in a post?
If that's the case, then yeah I noticed that too. Uploading pictures to your albums (privately) will just resize them to 2048, if you actually share the picture (as in upload it as a post) then it shrinks them down even further. Which is odd, I agree.
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Yeah, I meant post, not upload. =p
But it's annoying. The G+ is something I can deal with though.
The MMS is what really annoys me though. I know I can use email to get around it, but I hate having to have two separate means of texting and receiving pictures. I like it all under one thing.
I have tmo and have this issue with mms as well. My images are small and blurry when received.
Is anyone outside of T-Mobile having these issues?
I seem to remember this happening with the Nexus S as well. It's on T-Mobile's end and they have to do something "flip a switch" if you will, to allow it to work properly.
mms is fine on at+t, but the google plus thing reeeeally bothers me and hasn't been updated.
eric b
Thank you guys for the help.
I guess I'll give T-Mobile a call and see what they can do about it.
I have the MMS issue also. Posted in the US TMo users thread and people ignored it so i thought i was the only one. I went nuts messing with APN settings etc but nothing worked.
It is a issue with T-Mobile. The same thing happens on other phones like the HTC Sensation Z710e vs. HTC Sensation 4G.
T-Mobile does not recognize the MMS UA String. I have to set my Sensation Z710e to a Sensation 4G MMA UA String in order to receive full size pictures.
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It is a issue with T-Mobile. The same thing happens on other phones like the HTC Sensation Z710e vs. HTC Sensation 4G.
T-Mobile does not recognize the MMS UA String. I have to set my Sensation Z710e to a Sensation 4G MMA UA String in order to receive full size pictures.
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how does one do this?
Edit a file inside a ROM under \system\customize\MNS\default.xml
This is for Sensation ROM, not sure if its the same path for Nexus ROM.
Don't use MMS but the Google+ tiny posting issue makes it completely useless.
It has to be addressed.
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Is there a way to get higher-res pictures for caller id screens? Currently, the picture that comes up when someone calls you (and in their contact info), even if you have taken it at a higher resolution, looks like its probably lower than vga quality. I've poked around in the options and cant seem to find a setting so I am guessing its the standard.
Im not saying I need a super-hi res photo just to see who is calling me, but whats the point of even including this feature if what comes up looks more like a lego than a person.
few options:
1) manually apply a high res pic to each your contacts
2) if they are on Google+, the app will sync their pics, and will be high res, IF they uploaded one
3) Get HaxSync, it syncs High resolution pictures from Facebook, costs money, but works well
I have no problem with resolution on pictures through Haxsync or pictures that I have applied myself.. maybe try removing contacts sync with Google.
Negative, even the pictures I manually add turn into Low Res Pics later on. Hopefully this gets fixed soon...
+1 on this, it really sucks.
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Negative, even the pictures I manually add turn into Low Res Pics later on. Hopefully this gets fixed soon...
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And it's something so easy for Google to solve. Just allow Google Contacts to have images larger than 96x96. Such a low resolution doesn't even have any logic to be used, these days, for contact pictures.
That's weird.. pics I add manually don't resize..
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what I did was using the FB app was browse frequently used contacts photos, find one I liked, hit the 3 dots for Menu > Set As then went through and added as a contact photo. Worked well and I get clean Hi-Res images when peeps are calling
No higher resolution contact pics from google until the "contacts" team finally realises it's not the year 2000 anymore:
Paul
Google Employee
12/16/11
Higher resolution pictures in *google.com/contacts* is something that the Contacts Team is considering, and I double-checked that they're aware of this feedback from the public -- they are. Thanks everyone!
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http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=49e2b1adea1aa11c&hl=en
Like it has been said already, the only way to easily get high res pics is to sync your contact pics with a social network site.
This is definitely something Google must fix. Every time a flash a new ROM and sync my contacts they are low-res again and I have to change them to high-res manually. That really sucs. It´s like GreenTuxer says, all they have to do is to update Google Contacts.
Star this issue and maybe Google will notice our frustation: Issue 3870: Poor quality of contact images
FriendCaster synchronizes the pictures but they still come up very low res. Sads
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Like some have said, the pics are fine when you apply a pic for your contacts manually in the People app. However, when you change ROMs, they become pixelated and would require to re-apply the pics again in the People's app.
All pics that sync from Gmail/Google+/Gtalk etc. are all low quality.
This is at least from my experience.
I went ahead and added them manually (thanks for the advice), but as someone previously said, for anyone that loads up roms (loaded up revolution HD yesterday) this is gonna be a pain.
Enhanced said:
Like some have said, the pics are fine when you apply a pic for your contacts manually in the People app. However, when you change ROMs, they become pixelated and would require to re-apply the pics again in the People's app.
All pics that sync from Gmail/Google+/Gtalk etc. are all low quality.
This is at least from my experience.
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The problem is, even if you apply a high resolution image, it is STILL downsampled to something like 256x256. Which is higher than 96x96, and looks good in the People app, but for the calling screen it still is not sufficient.
That size, unfortunately, seems pretty hard-coded into the application, and I honestly don't have the time to try downloading the source code and rebuilding a custom version. All my contact pictures are 720x720 minimum, but they still get downsized.
I liked what the 4S had, but now I find my SGS3 just e-mails the huge original 8mp file when trying to e-mail a photo. I've tested a couple apps as per suggestions in some threads I've found but most of them seem pretty mediocre and require a lot of hoops to go through and/or the compression isn't very efficient for web. Sometimes cropping an image resulted in a larger file! I typically use K-9 as my e-mail client. Any helps is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
PS: Unrooted phone here..for now.
Text it to the email address BOOM!
Hi, I have just realised my P2 is doing something pretty funky to any pictures I send via MMS, it reduces them so much they are completely crap at the other end! An original 3MB photo at 4160*2340 is reduced to 84KB at 520*293. An original 795KB screen grab at 1080*1920 is reduced to 42KB at 270*480.
I cannot see anywhere that gives me the option to send full size, either as a default somewhere or at the time of sending.
Is this something that anybody has found a workaround for, please? Thanks.