Possible workaround for the low-res pictures in contacts? - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

By now you've probably noticed that when clicking through to a contact, their picture is stretched across the width of the screen (720 pixels). Since the max resolution supported by contact pictures in ICS is 256x256, this can have a less than desired effect. Even when manually adding high-res pictures (set as->contact), they will still only be saved to the cloud as 256x256.
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However if you've avoided social media syncing, you probably didn't know that you can integrate this functionality to the contact page. While integrated, you can go from the normal contact page and flip to the right to get that persons social media updates (Google+, facebook, twitter, etc).
Why are these things related? Because when you integrate social media to contacts, the contact screen 'splits' somewhat and gives you a little tab up top so you know you can flip to the right.
Problem: not every wants social media sync'd, and not all your friends may necessarily use social media. What I want to do is force this 'flip' for every one of my contacts, and just have it be blank if there isn't social media sync'd or they don't have social media.
Could this be done?

Thought this was a good idea lol

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[APP][TRIAL] VT Contact Picture

I've been looking for something like this for long time, this app lets you search pictures for contacts by name from facebook without registering, works great but this is trial which can add only 5 pictures...
maybe some dev's from xda can make something like this.
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Description from official site:
VT Contact Picture finds and allows adding a Picture to Contact from Facebook.
It extends Contact menu by adding new menu item "Add Picture from Facebook".
Picture is searched in Facebook Name fields.
You can adjust search criteria to match the name that could be found for this person.
While downloading pictures, you can browse them, view full-screen preview, and choose to add to your contact.
VT Contact Picture uses your mobile internet connection, so normal internet carrier charges apply.
It is fun to set photos for all your existing contacts without having to take photos – just find them on-line.
This is an easy and fast way to get a persons picture attached to your Contact.
http://www.veide-technologies.com/more.php?cat=products&node=vt_contact_picture
Seriously the app is $4... If you like it just buy it. Developers need to earn a living too man...
You remind of this YouTube video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY

Which Sync options can i turn off for less roaming data?

Hello everybody. I hope someone can help me. I ll fly to spain in two days for a week. i live in germany and my provider (o2) has an roaming option for 3,50 eur 10mb 3g data per day, then the provider turn the speed down to gprs or edge. so i downt want to surf with the browser or watch videos in youtube with this option because in the hotel ive got free wifi. but when im not on the hotel i would like to receive puch mails, whatsapp messages, tweet notifications and also facebook push notification. i know the phone syncs oft a day, but i downt want that the phone syncs when im not at the hotel, but i would receive push mail, notfications etc without to consume unnecessary data. anybody can help me which services can i decativate when im not at the hotel, but still receive notifications without using so much traffic? below are my accounts and standart sync options. thank u
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Have a look at Synker in Play Store. You can set a custom sync widget so you can control what syncs
you can desync :
stocks
weather
picasa
or use a third party software from the play store like Synker.
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[APP] imgME

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imgMe automatically gets images from subreddits like r/wallpapers, r/earthporn, r/spaceporn or any of the hundreds of thousands of subreddits totally customisable.
This app fetches the top, best resolution images from reddit every 30 minutes so your phone always has fresh new backgrounds. And it does all this whilst taking into account your battery.
It does this with cleaver little features such as :-
Only download on Wi-Fi
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How many pictures to download
How often to change pictures
How many pictures to keep on your phone
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Interesting app. I will have to try this out. Thanks for posting. I think maybe you forgot your Google Play link
imgME Google Play:
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[R] A better multitasking concept

Hello devs & m8 users! I've got a question to you.
After moving from 4.4 to lollipop I was frustrated to its multitasking scrolling slides. After a month I'm almost got used to it, but have a concept of how it could be slightly better.
Since sense5 HTC got a very neat multitasking feature with the windows of running apps composed in a grid:
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It was great to use your phone on the go, not going to many moves
Today using lollipop slides it is sometimes very hard to find the exact app you need - most of the card slides are used by chrome windows, or a mess of ungrouped apps. So I thought it would be great to compose them in single "slide cards folder" - you just simply swipe from left to right, browsing through them, the way HTC realised the whole multitask in sense4:
It is also possible to combine other apps in "slide folders" with their lables related to google play - for example a photo "folder" where apps like "pixlr, instagram, snapseed..." are held, email progs - another "folder" to slide", games, sports... etc.
I believe that this raw concept can bring an order to the mess of opened proramms & give people more user-friendly experince.
What do you think about this thing, guys? And is this even possible to code?

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