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Hi guys, have started a thread at google mobile support forum so we can get some attention on the low res contact picture problem
join in !
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=49e2b1adea1aa11c&hl=en
I wouldn't say my contacts that use a Google+ or have a profile with Google have hideous pictures. Although I would agree that Facebook syncing looks terrible but it's not really Googles problem.
Edit: Oh and you miss-spelt bigger
haha ups.. cant change it now..
Actually it is a Google issue. The gmail contact list, where the pictures are synced to, downgrade the resolution of the pictures
The pictures I changed in my phone, most of them, have remained at the higher resolution. However, once I wiped the phone to flash a new ROM, Google sync brought them all back at the lower resolution. Definite Google problem.
Now I get what your saying. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if Google releases that as a feature in the next few months anyway. Just sit tight
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Thanks for the feedback, everyone. The icons used in Google Contacts used to be a relatively low resolution, more of a thumbnail really. Those are the pictures that the phone pulls from first. There are a couple of ways you can bring higher resolution pictures in for your contacts.
1) Use your own high resolution photo. You can do this by opening a contact in the People app, tapping the menu, selecting Edit, then tapping on the photo icon. You'll be offered a choice to either take a photo right then, or pick a photo you've already got on your phone from the Gallery app.
2) Sync your contacts with Google+. If you and your contacts use Google+, you can launch the Google+ app on Android and set it to sync contacts from the app's settings. If your contact has a high resolution photo for their portrait in Google+ it'll get sync'd to your phone. Note that the initial contact photo sync from Google+ takes a little while to finish.
(Advanced note on #2: I was just playing with this a couple of days ago and noticed that the initial sync with Google+ prioritizes syncing a contact that you happen to be looking at. For example, if you're syncing 200 contacts but go look at your best friend immediately, it'll pull down your friend's photo right then and there before working on the rest of your contacts.)
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If you ask me its not good enough we all want this fixed so we can have high res fb pictures...
So I guess we're stuck with these 2 options... I hope they put some kind of size difference in place. Like thumbnail size for Google Talk and high-res for phone sync.
I added my feedback there (NexusDude).
We can also open a new thread in the Official Google Contacts support forum:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/label?lid=3a63236689cf8dbd&hl=en
Anyone can write a good problem description in clear and good english language?
I am not that good in english ...
just added my comment as well. thanks for initiating the post.
I am also opening a question in StackOverflow.com for an application that we can use to replace contact photos easily using locally stored high-resolution image files.
Please, if you are Android developer, this kind of app will be very useful!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...otos-using-local-image-files-programmatically
Think about it, your app will solve this on-going years of issue that will probably never be solved by Google.
Also put a request in the Android Software Development forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391253
This may be a bit off topic, but does Kies sync Outlook 2010 (not exchange, but a local copy) to the phone?
I am coming from an HTC Desire and i hate the google contact sync.. i need my Outlock Sync back..
How this is still an issue with all the changes they made to contacts is just retarded.
gogol said:
I am also opening a question in StackOverflow.com for an application that we can use to replace contact photos easily using locally stored high-resolution image files.
Please, if you are Android developer, this kind of app will be very useful!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...otos-using-local-image-files-programmatically
Think about it, your app will solve this on-going years of issue that will probably never be solved by Google.
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I'm sure it will be updated eventually. Personally, I find it easier to just manually go update my contacts; I'm utterly anal about perfect organization of data, though. I posted a reply to your SO post as follows:
It's certainly possible, and wouldn't need root access. The problem is going to be that the user would need to properly name all the images first, consistently, accurately, and in a unique manner. For example, if you had three contacts named John Rodeo, then the naming convention of JohnRodeo.png or Rodeo_John.png would not work, as you could not have three images with the same name. Even if there was no duplication of data, you would need to make sure all names followed a consistent naming scheme (lastname_firstname.png for example). Of course, you could also add an algorithm to search filenames for likely variations and not have to worry about exact consistency.
It's certainly a feasible idea, but it would be much easier if Facebook would kiss and make up with Google already, and just play nice with the Contacts API. :/
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Thanks for your feedback,
Looking into the history of this issue, I don't think it will ever get updated. Come on, it has not been fixed since 2008 ... 3 years.
And if you read the answer from Google employee in that Google Mobile support forum? They won't listen. They want to push people to use Google+. Forcing the solution by syncing with Google+.
That is sad ... same with syncing Facebook, not all contacts are on Facebook / Google+.
Obviously, Google should know this issue, otherwise they don't test their software properly. They should be aware how ugly is the low resolution contact photos, especially when user receives a phone call.
I cannot think any reason, that design master, Matias Duarte would allow this to happen!
About your feedback on my question in StackOverflow:
Naming the file is not really a problem. User needs only to do it once. And for multiple contact with same names, well, you can add phone number into it as additional option. Oh by the way, this is not about Facebook contact sync, especially because not all contacts are on Facebook. This is mainly to workaround the low resolution contact photos after synced with GMail Contacts
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Too bad, even though I am a developer (PC software), I don't have experience with Android software development. I don't know, probably this would push me to learn it.
Solution that I could think of, that I am capable of doing it:
- Root the device
- Download the contacts database (I read this is just SQLite3 db)
- Create PC application to manipulate the blob photo data inside the contacts db
- Push back the contacts db to the device
Yeah, it would be much better if we can have this Android app.
And I am begging to any dev around this XDA ... please, make this app for us!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391253
copkay said:
I'm sure it will be updated eventually. Personally, I find it easier to just manually go update my contacts; I'm utterly anal about perfect organization of data, though. I posted a reply to your SO post as follows:
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I don't see how this is a Google problem when its simply grabbing the tiny photo off facebook.
Obviously the contact image supports high resolutions because I've added plenty of contact pictures myself from the camera. It saves them properly.
The problem is the SOURCE. If facebook has a bunch of 32x32 images for contacts, Google can't magically make them HD. Sure you can go in to a specific contacts photo album, download the picture, and add it manually... but there is no way to do this automatically.
Sync your contacts with a source which contains higher resolution images and your problem will be solved.
Facebook won't do it because Facebook uses the images all over the place. Images need to be small. Can you imagine trying to load a Facebook page with 500 HD pictures? It's facebook sync, not magic.
Blame it on the 4.63 HD resolution screen you have. On a tiny low res screen, the images don't look as stretched... but on a HD screen there will be lots of nasties.
So again, for HD pictures you'll need to find a source with HD images to sync with or add them manually. Have at it.
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I don't see how this is a Google problem when its simply grabbing the tiny photo off facebook.
Obviously the contact image supports high resolutions because I've added plenty of contact pictures myself from the camera. It saves them properly.
The problem is the SOURCE. If facebook has a bunch of 32x32 images for contacts, Google can't magically make them HD. Sure you can go in to a specific contacts photo album, download the picture, and add it manually... but there is no way to do this automatically.
Sync your contacts with a source which contains higher resolution images and your problem will be solved.
Facebook won't do it because Facebook uses the images all over the place. Images need to be small. Can you imagine trying to load a Facebook page with 500 HD pictures? It's facebook sync, not magic.
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It's syncing the PROFILE pictures. Facebook profile pictures are not 32x32! Mine is 728x688, for example. Facebook obviously has smaller versions to use for thumbnails on its own site. The problem is clearly not at Facebook's end.
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I don't see how this is a Google problem when its simply grabbing the tiny photo off facebook.
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Well it IS a google problem imho. Maybe Im just alone with this since I dont use fb, but I added pictures to my google contacts manually. (And I used the computer for it - not the phone )
I added a High Res photo to each contact, but the google contacts changed em to a crappy resolution. On my old phone (milestone) I had no problem with it ... but now? It just looks hideous :/
And since I still dislike the use of facebook I would have to search a good picture for each damn contact again :/
player911 said:
I don't see how this is a Google problem when its simply grabbing the tiny photo off facebook.
Obviously the contact image supports high resolutions because I've added plenty of contact pictures myself from the camera. It saves them properly.
The problem is the SOURCE. If facebook has a bunch of 32x32 images for contacts, Google can't magically make them HD. Sure you can go in to a specific contacts photo album, download the picture, and add it manually... but there is no way to do this automatically.
Sync your contacts with a source which contains higher resolution images and your problem will be solved.
Facebook won't do it because Facebook uses the images all over the place. Images need to be small. Can you imagine trying to load a Facebook page with 500 HD pictures? It's facebook sync, not magic.
Blame it on the 4.63 HD resolution screen you have. On a tiny low res screen, the images don't look as stretched... but on a HD screen there will be lots of nasties.
So again, for HD pictures you'll need to find a source with HD images to sync with or add them manually. Have at it.
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I have been seeing this for 3 years now, it is not the source!!! you could manually stick a 24526246HD res picture the...............it's what happens to the original picture after it syncs with Google servers.
See my comment:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27930642&postcount=10
It's about an app I made that syncs the high resolution photos with picasaweb. Hope it helps.
So we all know about how Google's contact photo syncing results in a distorted image .....
question is, anyone hear of any updates on Google's front?
Even more curiously.... what are you guys doing to get around this? Or have you just learned to live with it? Ignore it?
Looking forward to your replies.
Just learned to live with it. It does suck, and needs to be improved, by el Goog.
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This will never get solved as long as we are quite, as google has been giving us the silent treatment since the G1 shipped. We have to bombard tech blogs about this till it's major news so google would move their asses and fix it.
I'm all for it... but how do we start?
The problem is on googles end with the way gmail and google contacts downgrades the image size. There is an open help topicon googles site where they state that their contacts team is looking into it. Contacts with G+ accounts come in high rez. Other than that there is nothing you can do outside of manually changing the pics. And then not making any changes to the contacs whos images you changed. Otherwise it will be resynced and the image will get downgraded again.
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The problem is on googles end with the way gmail and google contacts downgrades the image size. There is an open help topicon googles site where they state that their contacts team is looking into it. Contacts with G+ accounts come in high rez. Other than that there is nothing you can do outside of manually changing the pics. And then not making any changes to the contacs whos images you changed. Otherwise it will be resynced and the image will get downgraded again.
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the OS part was fixed in Android 4.x since they have a larger contact image size than before. However if you sync with Google, on their side they still have the (Google mail contacts) old small size.
We shouldn't give a damn about behind the scenes stuff however and complain till they fix this crap.
I don't care if Facebook or Google+ contacts get proper pictures because i don't use any of those 2 services. I want the plain GMail contacts' images to be larger than 96x96 pixels dammit !!!
This **** limitation is around since Cupcake! (Android 1.5)!!
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Comment 229 by project member [email protected], Oct 25, 2011
Per the previous comments, contact photos have been dramatically improved in Android 4.0 - see http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html. The max size is now 256x256, which looks much much nicer on incoming calls, contact details, and quick contacts. Large photos can be supplied by manually associating them with contacts, or by syncing them down from social networks. So, I'm going to close this issue out. Related requests should be tracked in new issues.
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This however applies only to every other possible contact DB (Facebook, G+,etc) except GMail (((
In Gmail you can only use 96x96 size.
LOL even iPhone users get shafted if they sync with GMail.....take that retina display....96x96 PIXELS is the best you'll get
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=49e2b1adea1aa11c&hl=en
12/15/11:
The contacts team is "aware of the issue and considers higher resolution pictures". Just hope the come to their senses soon.
zerozoneice said:
the OS part was fixed in Android 4.x since they have a larger contact image size than before. However if you sync with Google, on their side they still have the (Google mail contacts) old small size.
We shouldn't give a damn about behind the scenes stuff however and complain till they fix this crap.
I don't care if Facebook or Google+ contacts get proper pictures because i don't use any of those 2 services. I want the plain GMail contacts' images to be larger than 96x96 pixels dammit !!!
This **** limitation is around since Cupcake! (Android 1.5)!!
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Comment 229 by project member [email protected], Oct 25, 2011
Per the previous comments, contact photos have been dramatically improved in Android 4.0 - see http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html. The max size is now 256x256, which looks much much nicer on incoming calls, contact details, and quick contacts. Large photos can be supplied by manually associating them with contacts, or by syncing them down from social networks. So, I'm going to close this issue out. Related requests should be tracked in new issues.
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This however applies only to every other possible contact DB (Facebook, G+,etc) except GMail (((
In Gmail you can only use 96x96 size.
LOL even iPhone users get shafted if they sync with GMail.....take that retina display....96x96 PIXELS is the best you'll get
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If you have ics, your Google + contacts will have hi-res photos, this is the only way to get hi Res on Android
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here is the answer to what you want its .99 but works wonderfully
https://market.android.com/details?...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5tb3RzLmhheHN5bmMiXQ..
no it doesn't as its a Facebook sync...
Anyone know a good way to backup and restore my manual contacts with pics since I've turned off google contacts sync?
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Is there a way to just turn contact pictures off? When I go into Phone then select Contacts, the images on my favorite contacts are enormous and obnoxious. But the images next to all my other contacts are small and look fine.
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If you have ics, your Google + contacts will have hi-res photos, this is the only way to get hi Res on Android
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f4ck google+, don't need it.
this moronic race to increase the G+ user base by any means sounds quite Microsoft-ish to me...
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sn0warmy said:
Is there a way to just turn contact pictures off? When I go into Phone then select Contacts, the images on my favorite contacts are enormous and obnoxious. But the images next to all my other contacts are small and look fine.
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No.
enjoy your multihundred dollar phone
The solution is this - and it works excellent.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621031
Hi,
This question had already been posted in 'Android Q&A' section few days back, but didn't get any reply. Hope someone can help me with this problem here.
The new ICS 'People' app allows us to use higher resolution images for contacts. And it looks great on big screens. So I spent a lot of time, updating the contacts with high resolution photos. Also I made sure that I 'Sync' ed the contacts after it is done. But now, after doing a factory reset, when I tried to sync back the contacts, it is loading only the low resolution photos of the new updated pictures and not the high resolution of those pics. I checked in GMAIL->Contacts and found they have the same low resolution ones.
Isn't there a way to sync high resolution pictures in Google Contacts?
I'd also be interested in this. Its the Google account that saves the pictures in a tiny resolution. It looks horrible when synced to ICS.
there are three ways to get high resolution pictures.
First, and the only real correct way, is to use Google+. downside is that unless your contacts are on G+ they won't get a high res picture.
Secondly, use haxsync to sync facebook with your phone.
third, manually set high res pictures for every single contact. But yes everytime you wipe your phone you'll have to redo this. However, on normal useage it seems to keep them. i know my phone has synced a few times yet i still have the high resolution pictures on my phone for 3 contacts that are not on G+ and i've rebooted or shut down the phone at least a dozen times, even flashed rom updates and they kept the pictures.
This issue has been discussed here many times.
Short, every time you sync a google contact with a picture from google to your phone it will have the ugly 96*96 resolution. There is no way around it until the contacts team changes this restriction. They are aware of the issue but no word if or when a change is coming: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=49e2b1adea1aa11c&hl=en
So wouldn't syncing your Facebook pics also be temporary since it probably saves the pics locally?
Here's to hoping Google ups the resolution of Google contacts for those who have lots if contacts that aren't on Google+ and wipe their phones often...
Lithoss said:
So wouldn't syncing your Facebook pics also be temporary since it probably saves the pics locally?
Here's to hoping Google ups the resolution of Google contacts for those who have lots if contacts that aren't on Google+ and wipe their phones often...
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no, if you use Google+ or Facebook Sync the pictures are high resolution. thats because it saves that picture to your phone in addition to the google contact picture, but uses the high res G+ or FB picture.
gokpog said:
This issue has been discussed here many times.
Short, every time you sync a google contact with a picture from google to your phone it will have the ugly 96*96 resolution. There is no way around it until the contacts team changes this restriction. They are aware of the issue but no word if or when a change is coming: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=49e2b1adea1aa11c&hl=en
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That's too bad! What the f does G+ has anything to do with contacts photo sync. If I want to have a high res photos of my granpa and granny, should I ask them to be on G+? (One can even imagine them being on FB, but G+????)
Also now, too many devices are going to get the 4.0 update and this issue's gonna look terrible!
Even if you manually add pictures to each contact (which I did), the pictures still aren't very high resolution. ICS still resizes the images, leaving them much less sharp than the pictures I originally chose.
If we report these issues to GSMArena or other such websites, will they publish it? So that Google might consider it seriously... Like filling in a petition
I actually though about just this too.
It's apalling that Google doesn't listen to thousands of frustrated users, but hopefully they will listen to big and influential websites like GSMarena.
So we would need people with good contact to the authors of these pages.
Anybody around here knowing one or more authors?
Its already being fixed.
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Its already being fixed.
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I would like to see a link or something to that.
It's not that I don't believe you but I've seen this problem reported for a loooong time and it's yet to be fixed. I can't say for sure since I'm not a dev for Google but this "fix" should take maybe a week max.
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Its already being fixed.
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for the past one year? They should've fixed it before releasing galaxy nexus. as of now haxsync is the only lifesaver. Not only for High Resolution picture, but also for Facebook sync
Is it fixed?
Hah. Google forum thread:
http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail/android/MIt6-tdZZPk
Android bugtracker:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3870
Google+ comment stream:
https://plus.google.com/109941711245243963357/posts/YBMTuysqm3B
Months of people shouting the same complaint and google employees chiming in with varying degrees of "working on it" and no progress.
Seems like for whatever reason, someone somewhere thinks it's better to say nothing than to tell people that it'll be a while. That or someone at google is just really bad at their job.
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for the past one year? They should've fixed it before releasing galaxy nexus. as of now haxsync is the only lifesaver. Not only for High Resolution picture, but also for Facebook sync
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Facebook sync is Facebook's fault. The API is there, they are just lazy.
I'm very disappointed, this bug is very annoying.
The bigger a company is, the slower they become. Instead of having one guy do the work and fix it, you need to pass through several layers of approval and people "management" which get in the way. Not only is the request lost several times in between but even if someone at the company wants to fix it, they're told to do something else or fear the risk of being fired.
This is why progress is often achieved by small groups or individuals.
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If we report these issues to GSMArena or other such websites, will they publish it? So that Google might consider it seriously... Like filling in a petition
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This really sounds like it could work. It's unfortunate but there's generally little incentive to change something unless a fuss is made. Look at what happened with Siri and the "best phone ever" question (Lumiagate). This stuff happens in politics all the time. Nothing gets changed until the press has a field day with it.
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This is why progress is often achieved by small groups or individuals.
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That's a good way of putting it. I wish this was fixed because I love seeing high-res pictures in my caller id. Unfortunately, none of my friends use Google+ and I don't use Facebook. Currently I just update the pictures of people who I've starred and, every now and then, I'll update the pictures of people I happen to have on my phone at the moment. I hope it gets fixed by the time JB is dropped.
Maybe it's cause of bandwitch or older phones that will use 96 x 96. That's why they are thinking how to get around this... Let's hope that they will soon fix this issue.
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.
Hi.
Coming from a different phone.... contacts on ICS are low res... it's ugly on People App and when making a call to one of my pictured-contacts.
Anyway to fix this?
Thank you
I've been searching google and XDA for the answer too. Only thing I can find is for Facebook users. App called Haxsync. But I don't use fb or g+ all too much.
Is there a rom or app that allows the native use of hi-res images for contacts?
Or is it time to drink the kool-aid and put on some nikes?
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It is my understanding, after messing around with contacts for a while, that haxsync and google+ are the only programs that are currently working which make use of the 256x256 upgrade. Everything else, including google contact sync, still uses the old 96x96 size.
Haxsync is a very well written program and is still being actively developed, but it only works with Facebook.
Google+ apparently works pretty flawlessly but... you're probably in the minority if a high percentage of your phone contacts use it as well.
There is always the option of manually loading photos in your phone yourself, if you're up for the task. But I don't think that the google contacts system itself actually supports anything higher than 96x96, so I imagine that if you ever wipe your phone and restore it from the sync, it will give you all lower res pictures than what you set manually. Unless they store the original one and just downsize what gets displayed, but I can't speak to how that works.
If neither facebook (via haxsync) nor google+ are part of your solution, you're basically left waiting for google to get their act together and raise the limits on picture size through google contacts, or whichever sync program you use to update to use 256x256.
I don't think any roms currently have anything baked in to raise the 256x256 limit, but I imagine that'll probably happen before google actually changes anything on their end.
JoeSyr said:
It is my understanding, after messing around with contacts for a while, that haxsync and google+ are the only programs that are currently working which make use of the 256x256 upgrade. Everything else, including google contact sync, still uses the old 96x96 size.
Haxsync is a very well written program and is still being actively developed, but it only works with Facebook.
Google+ apparently works pretty flawlessly but... you're probably in the minority if a high percentage of your phone contacts use it as well.
There is always the option of manually loading photos in your phone yourself, if you're up for the task. But I don't think that the google contacts system itself actually supports anything higher than 96x96, so I imagine that if you ever wipe your phone and restore it from the sync, it will give you all lower res pictures than what you set manually. Unless they store the original one and just downsize what gets displayed, but I can't speak to how that works.
If neither facebook (via haxsync) nor google+ are part of your solution, you're basically left waiting for google to get their act together and raise the limits on picture size through google contacts, or whichever sync program you use to update to use 256x256.
I don't think any roms currently have anything baked in to raise the 256x256 limit, but I imagine that'll probably happen before google actually changes anything on their end.
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