Okay I admit I am new to Android, but I really though I could figure out something as simple as this.
First off, some of the auto downloaded pics of my contacts look great, the rest are low res and very grainy, the pic on their facebook page looks fine, how do I refresh to get a better copy of the picture? It look really horrible when I receive a call, and pretty bad on the widget.
Second, I cannot find how to change the default action for a press when I select a contact on the People Widget.
Any help will be appreciated.
1.) The photo thing I haven't figured out yet..Maybe its the image size or how it converts it who knows..Maybe we are just missing a setting..
2.) Easiest way for me is launch the People App and then click on a contact thats in your people widget. Click Menu - More - Set Widget Action
blkswanpres said:
Okay I admit I am new to Android, but I really though I could figure out something as simple as this.
First off, some of the auto downloaded pics of my contacts look great, the rest are low res and very grainy, the pic on their facebook page looks fine, how do I refresh to get a better copy of the picture? It look really horrible when I receive a call, and pretty bad on the widget.
Second, I cannot find how to change the default action for a press when I select a contact on the People Widget.
Any help will be appreciated.
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I have just recieved my Desire HD and this is really buggin me also! I have gone through my contacts and added decent images for each but those contacts that are 'linked' with facebook constantly sync and use the facebook profile image - which is generally REALLY poor quality and sometimes not a great image. I have beeen able to change it back to my own image but every now and again they revert back to facebook profiles. I have turned off facebook contacts sync and still it happens.
I had the htc Desire and all was working fine with very good quality foto image from sync with facebook and corping faces from images from my foto galery.
Now I have the new htc Desire-S with all latest software updates (v2.3.5 and htc sense 3.0) and I'm having the same problem you have...
-Poor quality in the pictures added to contacts, wen reciving a call, in the widget facebok and custom corped pictures, and in a call.
-The phone sync loses from time to time the linked contacts,pictures of the widget and contacts.
-Corping pictures for the widget and for the picture galery also loses too much quality.
In the old htc desire (non S) this was never an issue and the image quality in widget and in a call was amazing.
This problem is very stupid...
Hey all, a while ago I was browsing threads for my old Moto Milestone, and saw a screenshot where the person had large contact icons on his homescreen (about equiv to 1x1 widget per contact). I thought I had read they were using either FolderOptions or BetterCut, but when I try to setup either, the contact photos always come out tiny. Am I messing up the setup of either of these, or could someone who has done this either either program, give me a hand.. Or even could someone point me to a way to do this? I always found the HTC People/LauncherPro Plus one kinda lacking, and REALLY lacks customization.
All I'm really looking for is a Contact photo on my homescreen that when I click it would either popup the little contact slide bar(phone/txt/email/etc) or just take me straight into HTC People contacts. Ability to turn on/off contacts name text would be a bonus!
Any help/app suggestions?
Wow.. 46 views and no one has a suggestion or even a comment?
How about this.. anyone know if it's possible, or what I'd have to hack, to increase the thumbnail size from the original Shortcuts -> Contacts or Shortcuts -> People to increase the size and remove the frame? (either full 1x1 widget size, or even 2x2 would work beautifully)
I believe you can use an app called "desktop visualiser"
Haven't used it for that purpose myself but i don't see why it shouldn't work.
Hope it helps.
swiftfx said:
I believe you can use an app called "desktop visualiser"
Haven't used it for that purpose myself but i don't see why it shouldn't work.
Hope it helps.
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OMFG That was EXACTLY what I was trying to find something to do! You are a life-saver.. I had given up finding something to do it, and just started learning to write an app to do it myself LOL Oh well, maybe I'll keep writing and see what I end up with.. but this is seriously the perfect tool for me.. It's gonna take over like 65% of my homescreen space now lol
I've had my Desire for some time already and although I love it there's something that really bothers me and it's the 4x1 calendar widget. I find it the best for the main home screen but it's just useless. Most of the time it doesn't show the event that should be showing and it shows something later in time (it doesn't confuse the date, it just misses what's in between).
I've managed to get it back to normal several times after restarting the phone and/or resetting the application but it either takes very long or I can't remember the sequence of things to do to make it work again. It's a pain in the ass.
I've seen other open threads about problems with that widget but most of them are quite old and without real solutions. Of the proposed alternatives I found all of them quite ugly, frankly.
Is there a solution to the built-in problem or a widget that looks similar?
Smooth calendar widget
elburna said:
Smooth calendar widget
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I have just jumped ship from Smooth Calendar to Small Agenda Widget. In 4x1 it just beats Smooth by showing 4 lines not 3.
Jorte has every size of widget you can imagine.
Thanks, guys! I think I'll go for Smooth Calendar. With the HTC-style mod that is around there it looks quite similar to the default one and reasonably decent-looking. Let's see if HTC brings something out to improve it.
I add the contact widget to my home screen yet it seems rather pointless. It has a huge black box which is supposed to show Google+ posts from that contact, but it doesn't. Seems like a waste of space.
The box shows posts for me. Its a rather useless widget imo, but maybe someone wants it.
Hi there. Just received my HTC One X today and it's a really nice phone!
One thing that really bothers me is the gigantic fonts!
I have set the font size to "small" in the settings but when I opened up apps like Email or Messaging, the font is still sooo big. I cannot zoom out.
Have you guys experienced this?
I used to own a Galaxy Nexus and the fonts are much smaller when you set it to "small", but on the One X small is actually Large on the Nexus.
Is it a One X issue or is it something to do with the HTC Sense? Is there a solution? Or is there a setting somewhere else that allows me to decrease the font size?
Thanks in advance!!
Push
Please HELP!!!
None of you thinks the fonts are too large?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1595054
The font size in the email app is too big...I wondered if I were the only one who is annoyed by this. Changing the font size in Mail Settings doesn't do anything at all. This and some other bug definitely should be fixed!
Not sure about the email app, as I only use gmail, but you can change font size in the htc sms / messages thread view by using 2 finger pinch and what ever the opposite gesture is called - just like to can in google maps and gallery.
Found out by accident
Yes there are more of us who are affected with this bug... I think it is a shame that phone of this calibre can't render HTML e-mail readable...
I was hoping this OTA update would have sorted this, but it looks like not enough people are complaining about it.
Probably the only thing that annoys me about the phone.
Ebay emails look like this:
_______________
Here's your order
update.
_______________
Daft.
duwamish said:
Not sure about the email app, as I only use gmail, but you can change font size in the htc sms / messages thread view by using 2 finger pinch and what ever the opposite gesture is called - just like to can in google maps and gallery.
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You can use pich-to-zoom in email, but you can't zoom-out to a reasonable size..
Setting font size in Mail Settings to small helps a little if there's a plain text email, but if it's html or smth, it doesnt do much..
I just hope HTC would fix this
Hi there. Just received my HTC One X and it's a really nice phone!
One thing that really bothers me is the gigantic fonts!
I have set the font size to "small" in the settings but when I opened up apps like Email or Messaging, the font is still sooo big. I cannot zoom out
The font size in the email app is too big...Changing the font size in Mail Settings doesn't do anything at all. This and some other bug definitely should be fixed!
I think it is a shame that phone of this calibre can't render HTML e-mail readable...
I have noticed the same issue with the Font size not staying Small when you set it to Small.. it's very annoying and for sure a software problem that they should fix. I posted a message on AndroidCentral as well and I also opened a support case on HTC's website.. Maybe if we all do that it will get attention. Its quite annoying the font is HUGE
I agree, font size is way too big. It is definitely a Sense thing. In pure ICS the font size is changed throughout the user interface. A solution for now, until HTC fixes the problem, could be to use a different launcher e.g. Apex. Unfortunately we'll lose the HTC widgets...
the first thing I do every time I install a ROM is change LCD Density to 280. This helps. I then change fonts to small also.
LCD density modder pro is a couple of quid - well worth it tho - it fixes thye market too.
I have this problem as well. I can pinch-zoom to make it larger but it won't go any smaller and its still massive.
Any ideas? http://elektro.c0.pl/
There have been 3 updates already since I bought the HOX but none of them solves the front problem...
It's been a month & a half and I've started to give in and am less bothered about it now...
Still hope HTC would add a "tiny" option to the font size tho.
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There's a mod in the development section that installs smaller fonts via cwm
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the large(r) font was a plus for me when i chose the OneX over the OneS.
Font size changes randomly
I've also had the font size issue, but for me it seems to be random. I'll open a text and the font will be tiny, and then without leaving the messaging app I'll open another text and the font will be large. I can even go back to the first text and it will still be tiny. I've tried resetting the fonts and the pinch-to-zoom, but when the font is big there's nothing I can do to make it small.
The default size is very large, but I'm fairly happy with it on small, then again, not everything adheres to this "small" policy. I'm interested in changing the DPI of the screen to see what more I can get out of the 720p screen. That would, of course, require root though.
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None of you thinks the fonts are too large?
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Take a screen shot and post it and lets see.
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I definitely have the font size switching [1.88 Stock]. It's particularly egregious in the default SMS messaging app, but as pointed out, pinch-to-zoom works great.
Also, as the lesser of two evils, I've set System Font Size to Small (which is just a bit too much space for me), so that the SMSes I get aren't ginormously sized at time-zero (maybe 10 or so lines per screen).
But what I'm trying to figure out now, is whether HTC's default Mail app has configurable font size for replies. It's currently set to 'Small', but when I look through my work email at my desktop, I can see that HTC mail reformats not only my mail but also the preceding mail header in the chain to Arial size 12pt. (yes, horrifying)
Besides switching to a third-party app, has anyone found a workaround for a stock phone?