Are there any apps/mod around that stretches the contact picture to fit the screen during an incoming/outgoing call? It is available in the X10, but not anymore in the Arc.
I've seen many apps that stretches the contact pictures, but they require reapplying of my contact pictures, and uses their caller instead of the stock. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Search "Smart Caller Id" in the market. Itz free and compatible with Arc.
Thanks, but it's not really what I am looking for. After accepting outgoing/incoming calls, it goes back to the small contact picture. Also, I prefer the stock sliders.
Basically, what I am looking for is something that ONLY stretches the contact picture like in the X10, instead of the small square we are having now.
just wait until ICS releases for the xperia lineup, it'll have full resolution contact photos including the ones from Facebook integration.
Simply create a copy of your contact and associate then with the phone itself instead of any other account, then store the image you want for them in that contact.
Hope this helps as it works for me in .58 ROM
Full Screen Caller ID from the market. Its like $4 but it works like a charm
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Skipjacks said:
Full Screen Caller ID from the market. Its like $4 but it works like a charm
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Not exactly what Im looking for, but guess will have to make do with it until ICS comes out.
Rodolfo_Rasse said:
Simply create a copy of your contact and associate then with the phone itself instead of any other account, then store the image you want for them in that contact.
Hope this helps as it works for me in .58 ROM
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Can you please explaine, in details?
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Can you please explaine, in details?
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Go to facebook, go to the profiles, save the pictures one by one, transfer all of them to the SD, unmount, go to contacts app, asociate each photo with each contact, one by one. That what he said.
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Go to facebook, go to the profiles, save the pictures one by one, transfer all of them to the SD, unmount, go to contacts app, asociate each photo with each contact, one by one. That what he said.
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From my point of vie to have the full picture in dialler has to have something mod on the dialler itself. If i try to allocate a picture, no matter from where, sd card, facebook, the dialler shows only what it has in the programming language, i mean only half of the display. Dispite of this all other diallers like full screen caller id or else has his own programmed dialler to support in it. Not to include in stock dialler.
For short: somebody could modify the stock dialler or framework or else in order to have stock dialler showing full picture on dial someone or receive a call??
Hope i am not wrong.
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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
Rant over
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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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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?
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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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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)?
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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"
Just got myself a GN and I was a bit disappointed with the dialer.
With my old phone I could just spelling the name of a contact and the dialer would list contacts.
GN just puts in the numbers no direct search ??
Is it some option or something I am missing or do I need another dialer??
Love the feel of it just wish I did not have to go to contacts to find a number...
The stock dialer does not support T9 Smart dial. Either use another dialer, or use the google search bar to search for the contact you want to call.
Or spend a minute amount effort and tap the search icon in the bottom left of the dialer then start typing the name. It's not really much time wasted...
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I also wish the T9 dialer was built into stock Android as it is with HTC Sense, Touchwiz and MIUI.
If you would like Google to change this, star the following threads in the Android issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...t9&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...t9&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...t9&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
While it may not be much more effort, it is quite clear that this feature is available in other stock dialers, then why not in google's own?
I also store my contacts on the sim card and if anyone has noticed, then you cannot import all contacts into phone at once. You have to manually go through all contacts which again is a sore point.
I think that is a valid point to expect in the dialer, not whether searching seperately is an option or not!
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While it may not be much more effort, it is quite clear that this feature is available in other stock dialers, then why not in google's own?
I also store my contacts on the sim card and if anyone has noticed, then you cannot import all contacts into phone at once. You have to manually go through all contacts which again is a sore point.
I think that is a valid point to expect in the dialer, not whether searching seperately is an option or not!
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Why not synchronise your contacts with google, so if you:
1. lose your phone.
2. Phone gets broken
3. Somebody steals it
it only takes 2 minutes before you have all your contacts again.
There are a lot of Contacts apps around on the market, and i bet even 1 of them supports transferring your sim contacts to the phone.
Earlier i used GO Contacts, but they don't support ICS yet. So for now im using DW Contacts (looks ok, only used it for an hour though).
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Why not synchronise your contacts with google, so if you:
1. lose your phone.
2. Phone gets broken
3. Somebody steals it
it only takes 2 minutes before you have all your contacts again.
There are a lot of Contacts apps around on the market, and i bet even 1 of them supports transferring your sim contacts to the phone.
Earlier i used GO Contacts, but they don't support ICS yet. So for now im using DW Contacts (looks ok, only used it for an hour though).
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Yes and accepted, but that behaviour has been standard all along. Rather than make me select one contact at a time from my hundred contacts, that one simple click would have been better. Anyways I prefer not to upload contacts into the cloud because
1. I may not have the consent of some of the ppl that I hold details for, e.g. bosses and they may not prefer it and
2. I personally do not know who or how this data is used/accessed in which case I would rather not. And personally judging by Google's appetite for gathering our personal data, I would rather opt out. Its just me....
Sorry OP to have hijacked your thread..
Correction - User error Apologies, I have just read the manual and it does allow for an 'import all' option to copy all contacts from SIM to phone.
To bad wish they would put that in its a very nice feature I seen no reason to be left out.
Anyone know a good dialer to use instead ?? Would love one with the same look if possible ???
Perhaps it is some sort of lawsuit infringement that prohibits them to build it into the dialer. I don't think Apple has this either, right? Maybe Microsoft has the patent on it.
3rd party dialers have this feature. In fact, I just install the MIUI dialer because it is just awesome. It is in the market and not listed under "MIUI Dialer" but "e9" or something. It works great.
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exDialer
https://market.android.com/details?...1bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5tb2Rvb2h1dC5kaWFsZXIiXQ..
Has a white and black theme.
Do you have the problem with it not clearing unanswered calls ???
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Do you have the problem with it not clearing unanswered calls ???
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I know from gingerbread that 3rd party apps can't clear unanswered calls. Some if the apps solves that by using the stock dialer list when selecting the notification.
Anyway its limitations in the OS and not the apps.
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Hey guys,
got my One X for a couple of days now, and im pretty blown away by it. But there is one thing that drives me nuts. In the stock SMS app, i cant see contact pictures. As you can see on the image its just blank. But every contact has its facebook photo in the contact list. How can i get this to work right?
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Hey guys,
got my One X for a couple of days now, and im pretty blown away by it. But there is one thing that drives me nuts. In the stock SMS app, i cant see contact pictures. As you can see on the image its just blank. But every contact has its facebook photo in the contact list. How can i get this to work right?
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A question that what you made fuzzy were numbers or names?
And there is an old bug in Android, in the stock sms app. Where it doesn't recognize contacts. I has it.
So I use a thirdparty app. Handcent.
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A question that what you made fuzzy were numbers or names?
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Both.
PAGOT said:
And there is an old bug in Android, in the stock sms app. Where it doesn't recognize contacts. I has it.
So I use a thirdparty app. Handcent.
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I actually like the stock sense sms app :/ So there is no workaround?
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I actually like the stock sense sms app :/ So there is no workaround?
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Well I am not sure you have the bug I do. As said I see only numbers so this might be not even related.
Maybe there is some easy fix for this, try to search or wait till someone more experienced answers.
But you like the stock app. Imagine how much you will love not just like but LOVE the thirdparty app. Handcent or Go SMS.
Just try it if it displays the pics if nothing else . If there are no pics you can rule out the SMS apps and move on to fix your contacts.
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Well I am not sure you have the bug I do. As said I see only numbers so this might be not even related.
Maybe there is some easy fix for this, try to search or wait till someone more experienced answers.
But you like the stock app. Imagine how much you will love not just like but LOVE the thirdparty app. Handcent or Go SMS.
Just try it if it displays the pics if nothing else . If there are no pics you can rule out the SMS apps and move on to fix your contacts.
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I see contact pictures/icons in the SMS application, always have. I think it depends on where your contacts are coming from, mine are from Hotmail Exchange. If I add a picture to a contact on the phone, it appears online as well.
Regards
Phil
I also see contacts pictures properly from Facebook.
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PhilipL said:
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I see contact pictures/icons in the SMS application, always have. I think it depends on where your contacts are coming from, mine are from Hotmail Exchange. If I add a picture to a contact on the phone, it appears online as well.
Regards
Phil
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ste1164 said:
I also see contacts pictures properly from Facebook.
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also doesn't help the OP
Ok, so its not an facebook issue, because i dont see the pictures from contacts who are not connected to facebook neither. And they wont show up in Handcent, too. Pretty weird.
One thing I'm have an issue with is multiple contacts for one person on the GS3. I've tried combining the contacts and it works to a point. Here's what I like to do:
1. Combine my contacts and have them use the Facebook photo for the contact. How do I change it so it doesn't default to a pic I had setup as the Google contact?
2. Why do contacts keep getting so distorted after a wipe and reinstall?
3. How do I get the contact pics top take up the entire pic area when in call instead a small pic?
4. Is there a faster way to combine contacts?
Thanks for the help
Bumping this thread
shaun0207 said:
One thing I'm have an issue with is multiple contacts for one person on the GS3. I've tried combining the contacts and it works to a point. Here's what I like to do:
1. Combine my contacts and have them use the Facebook photo for the contact. How do I change it so it doesn't default to a pic I had setup as the Google contact?
2. Why do contacts keep getting so distorted after a wipe and reinstall?
3. How do I get the contact pics top take up the entire pic area when in call instead a small pic?
4. Is there a faster way to combine contacts?
Thanks for the help
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First I think there's a rule about bumping your own threads within a certain timeframe... so might want to watch that
As to the questions:
1) When your in a contact, press MENU, then "Mark as Default", this will let you choose the default picture, call number,etc... if you're facebook account is linked to this contact that will be one of the pictures at the top. (Now if the pic's aren't being pulled from facebook, that's a whole other issue, and you'll need a 3rd party app to do that it seems)
2) Distorted?? What do you mean exactly? Pictures lowering resolution? or something else.
3)When I'm in a call the picture takes up the top half of the screen.. which is the pic area... are you saying some of your pics do NOT take up that entire half space? Or that you want the pic to take up the entire SCREEN? If it's the former, my guess is it has to do with your picture resolution... try using bigger pictures? (Mine are approx 452x604 resolution , originally used on my Evo 4G).
4) Faster.. nope Clicky Clicky Clicky. I did mine during an episode of America's got Talent. Also be warned, the stock ROM has a limit of combining 5 contacts as a maximum. Custom ROMs can override this, and if you're rooted, there is a file you can edit yourself to increase the amount you can join (No flashing needed, just one text file edit, the feature.xml file in system/etc)
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First I think there's a rule about bumping your own threads within a certain timeframe... so might want to watch that
As to the questions:
1) When your in a contact, press MENU, then "Mark as Default", this will let you choose the default picture, call number,etc... if you're facebook account is linked to this contact that will be one of the pictures at the top. (Now if the pic's aren't being pulled from facebook, that's a whole other issue, and you'll need a 3rd party app to do that it seems)
2) Distorted?? What do you mean exactly? Pictures lowering resolution? or something else.
3)When I'm in a call the picture takes up the top half of the screen.. which is the pic area... are you saying some of your pics do NOT take up that entire half space? Or that you want the pic to take up the entire SCREEN? If it's the former, my guess is it has to do with your picture resolution... try using bigger pictures? (Mine are approx 452x604 resolution , originally used on my Evo 4G).
4) Faster.. nope Clicky Clicky Clicky. I did mine during an episode of America's got Talent. Also be warned, the stock ROM has a limit of combining 5 contacts as a maximum. Custom ROMs can override this, and if you're rooted, there is a file you can edit yourself to increase the amount you can join (No flashing needed, just one text file edit, the feature.xml file in system/etc)
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Thanks for the help..
1. Set as default worked great!
2. Pics have a really low resolution. Not sire if it has something to do with pics being possible restored from a back up or something??
3. I usually have to go in an reassign the pics in order for them to be larger. Again I think this has to do with them coming from a backup pic associated with the contact.
4. Yeah, I know. I'm gonna edit the XML file now.
Higher Resolution Pics
The resolution of the Facebook Contact pics suck. Anyway to bring the pics in a higher resolution?
Try this and you can link Facebook with contacts on your phone. It works good I use this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
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Try this and you can link Facebook with contacts on your phone. It works good I use this. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync
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The contacts sync great with the phone. Its just the pics are horrible. I'll check this out
Anybody know how to make the contact pictures imported from facebook any better? Also, how do you get your own facebook picture to show up? When someone calls me the pictures look terrible compared to my old Inspire.
Use the contact-sync app.
I installed it.
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Use the contact-sync app.
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I installed it from the market. I selected the largest possible pictures 720. Still no change.
Google plus will pull in your profile picture. I don't know of a way to pull in your own Facebook picture.
That was actually considered undesirable in the Galaxy S II forum, the mod to remove yourself from the contacts was popular.
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first add your hi res pics into your phone album, then edit the contact picture by picking it from "Images".
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first add your hi res pics into your phone album, then edit the contact picture by picking it from "Images".
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Was going to say this. When your done, go into TBU and backup contact storage and do a nandroid. You will always have them.That is where it is stored. I delete the contact sync apk from a ROM before booting after a flash. It stops Google from screwing with the pics.
When I restore contacts, I extract from nandroid in tbu? Choose contact storage and only restore data. Do not restore app. Reboot and contacts are perfect.
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