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[Q] High resolution contact photos?

Has anyone got High resolution contact photos working?
I'm using SyncMyPix (with the "best quality" option set) but I still end up with tiny 96x96 images all blown up to pixelly horridness.
I saw this post which suggest it... well, just works.
Any ideas?

all of my contacts pictures are pixellated.
annoying.

This is what I am curious about is the high res contact pics are meant to be at 256x256, correct me if I am wrong. But did Google set up Gmail contacts sync to account for this? Meaning, if I add a contact picture on my phone that is high res, will it sync to my gmail account, be converted to low res and then sent back to my phone?

Lootes said:
This is what I am curious about is the high res contact pics are meant to be at 256x256, correct me if I am wrong. But did Google set up Gmail contacts sync to account for this? Meaning, if I add a contact picture on my phone that is high res, will it sync to my gmail account, be converted to low res and then sent back to my phone?
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I think that's what's happening, yeah- so you add a high res contact, then when it syncs it reduces it again.
To test, I just turned off contact syncing in accounts & sync, deleted picture cache in SyncMyPics and re-synced.
Now I have higher resolution images. Not brialliant though...
Gonna turn on sync and see if that breaks...
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Hmm, now they seem okay...
Not super high res but that may be the FB pics... some are pixelly though?
Errrr
I dunno

How do you get Facebook pics synching? Ive never worked that out since I ditched Sense on my old Desire

I swear to god, my phone picks the lowest res pic of all connected social media photos. Hah! Trollphone.
It sticks with the Google Contact photo over the others I think, so delete that and see if it switches to higher res ones from G+ etc.

I set high res pictures to the contacts via the People app on the phone and they have synced back to my Google Contacts and they remain high res.
How do yuo guys get FB to sync. I've got Twitter, G+ and LinkedIN to connect with contacts but not FB.

FB itself isn't working due to the missing menu bug, although someone patched that - I've not tried it yet.
I'm using "SyncMyPix" (free app in the market) to do it.

I also have this problem, I use syncmypix its a great apply but the only way to get high res is to turn off the crop 96px square option. This gives higher resolution pics in the people apply but means they are not square in the contact thumbnails which looks pretty shocking. I want hi-res in my people application and square thumbnails everywhere else too!

Has anyone figured out a way to get high resolution photos to display on an incoming call?
I deleted my contact photos because I couldn't stand the low resolution.

If your contact uses Google +1 you can get their profile picture from that, much clearer. However if you are relying on photos from Google contacts I would imagine you need to retake the photo again as someone has mentioned earlier, Google now allow 256x256px (still pants ) images instead of 96.

What if they don't have a Goolge + account? Can I make contact entry for them even if they don't?

ferris2375 said:
What if they don't have a Goolge + account? Can I make contact entry for them even if they don't?
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You can still make a Google contact instead but the image will only be 256x256px in size.

What determines the resolution of the contact photo? Say I take a high resolution photo and import it into Google, does it default to 256?
Why the hell can't I select a photo locally on my phone and opt not to have my online contact photo synced. grrr...

ferris2375 said:
... Why the hell can't I select a photo locally on my phone and opt not to have my online contact photo synced. grrr...
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Exactly! or even take space off your gmail allocation to store the high-res images... no, that's too logical so instead make them think they've got a hi-res photo when the user has just taken the photo, then sync the contact and give them a pants, degraded photo in exchange.

Are you sure?
I meant, are you really really sure?
Because, if you sync back with Google Contacts, you will get low resolution.
Thats what happen with my Nexus S running the latest 2.3.
Other users with GN can test this?
ShiroEd said:
I set high res pictures to the contacts via the People app on the phone and they have synced back to my Google Contacts and they remain high res.
How do yuo guys get FB to sync. I've got Twitter, G+ and LinkedIN to connect with contacts but not FB.
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gogol said:
Are you sure?
I meant, are you really really sure?
Because, if you sync back with Google Contacts, you will get low resolution.
Thats what happen with my Nexus S running the latest 2.3.
Other users with GN can test this?
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They do not remain hi-res, was one of the first things I did when I got the phone as it was one of the main annoyances with android for me.

You can try jKalvins workaround. If it works, all you have to do is change a setting in Google contacts and the sync to low res pictures should stop.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google Mobile/thread?tid=4fe466bb19e3f875&hl=en&start=44
It's from an apple group so no idea if it will work, but maybe still worth a try.

That wont work anymore, I read the whole thread.
I wish there is and app that we can use to replace contact photos all at once.
First we tell the app which image for each contact.
Then, one button click to replace all.
That would be a nice workaround AFTER synched.
Please someone make this kind of app, I will pay ... Big time!
gokpog said:
You can try jKalvins workaround. If it works, all you have to do is change a setting in Google contacts and the sync to low res pictures should stop.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google Mobile/thread?tid=4fe466bb19e3f875&hl=en&start=44
It's from an apple group so no idea if it will work, but maybe still worth a try.
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gogol said:
That wont work anymore, I read the whole thread.
I wish there is and app that we can use to replace contact photos all at once.
First we tell the app which image for each contact.
Then, one button click to replace all.
That would be a nice workaround AFTER synched.
Please someone make this kind of app, I will pay ... Big time!
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I used to do my syncing via SyncMyPix, but recently did a sync with Friendcaster (the great Facebook app). It has a contact pic sync option and you can choose HD.
After the sync the pictures seemed significantly sharper. It's worth a try.

Complain about gmail contact picture resolution to google

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.

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.
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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.

player911 said:
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.

Facebook contact pictures - solved

Syncmypix, Friendcaster, forget it. I've found a way to get higher resolution pictures of my Facebook friends as their contact pictures in the People app, and it was easier than I thought.
The official Facebook app. The recent update allows you to set a picture in any album as a contact picture - just tap a photo, press the menu key, press 'Set as', then Contact photo. I've been able to get much better quality pictures than I was able to using Syncmypix (which crashed every time I linked a photo to a contact).
Anyway, enjoy!

Thanks... work perfect.
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Gotta do this once for each contact? :/
Just did this and the quality isn't any better than using SyncMyPix.

Nice
but for me with 100+ contacts to match its to much work

jvvpc said:
Nice
but for me with 100+ contacts to match its to much work
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And then what happens when someone changes their pic on facebook? That won't reconcile with the phone.

no thank you.. i will be there atleast 2 or 3 hours

Yeah, I only did it for about 30 of my contacts - the ones I contact regularly.
I was able to get much better images than I did from Syncmypix, and I was able to choose which picture of them I wanted. I don't think it'll be affected if they change their profile picture because you can choose any image.
Might not be for everyone, but if you have a spare 15 minutes and care enough about higher-res contact pictures, I recommend it.
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I think his point was that he would want it it change when they changed their Facebook pic.
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I read the original post and thought it was to good to be true. Then I did one and that was enough B.S. for me. Wow I'm lazy!

nice one, thanks!
eric b

Don't they still get shrunk down once they sync up to google though?

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Don't they still get shrunk down once they sync up to google though?
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Id like to know the answer to this too.

I've actually turned off Contacts sync - under the Accounts & sync > [email protected], I saw several things were being synced and I was worried that was one of the reasons I was getting poor battery performance. I keep Calendar and Gmail synced and unticked everything else. My contacts aren't affected.
I don't feel that compelled to keep syncing contacts, especially if it'll mean reducing image size for contact pictures. Again, I realise this isn't a panacea for everyone, just wanted to let people know. For me, it's better than nothing.

What's a good way to get contacts into your phone w/o using contact sync?
I have about 2-3k contacts with email, multiple phone #s all stored in gmail. Honestly doubt I'd spend the time to manually put them all in. Contact sync was one of the biggest reasons for me to choose Android back when I first jumped ship from iPhone. It's a perfect sync with what I have on gmail.
So do you have any solutions to my problem?
Black Mirror said:
I've actually turned off Contacts sync - under the Accounts & sync > [email protected], I saw several things were being synced and I was worried that was one of the reasons I was getting poor battery performance. I keep Calendar and Gmail synced and unticked everything else. My contacts aren't affected.
I don't feel that compelled to keep syncing contacts, especially if it'll mean reducing image size for contact pictures. Again, I realise this isn't a panacea for everyone, just wanted to let people know. For me, it's better than nothing.
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[Q] Why Google Contacts doesn't support Hi Resolution pictures?

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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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.

emmarbee said:
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.

[Q] HD Contact Pics syncing in JB

Can I please get a definite statement, if HD Contact Pics are syncing back to Google Contacts in JB?
I searched far and wide, but there are conflicting reports. It should be in there, as mentioned on those Google I/O slides, that now 720x720 are possible. But does it work also in a way that those are stored also in Google Contacts? Coz before I always had the problem, when flashing a new ROM and restoring my contacts from Google Contacts afterwards, that the pics come back pixelated.
I'm not interested in an on-phone solution, like those that are available in the market. Just wanna know, if this year-long problem is finally fixed in Android. Thanks!
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Nope, not from Gmail contact pictures.
If the person has a G+ account then it'll be higher res, but gmail contact picture sync still sucks.

will google ever fix this crap? people have been complaining since 2008

nxt said:
Nope, not from Gmail contact pictures.
If the person has a G+ account then it'll be higher res, but gmail contact picture sync still sucks.
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This is what I'm seeing too.
But I'm seeing that once I add a picture while on JB, the photo is high res.

The new high res congtact pictures are useful only with contacts who habe google+ , the rest of the contatcs looks like crap, im gonna ask some friends to change their gmail picture now to see if from the moment of the announcement the new pictures are stored in good quality

It seems to be working for me if you add the pictures to the contacts ON YOUR PHONE (i.e. in Contacts in Jelly Bean) instead of through Gmail on the web. If I attached pictures through Gmail on the web, the pictures were resized.
JellyBean is still not officially released yet, so we shouldn't be surprised that not everything is "perfect" yet.
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