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Hello guy`s i decide to open new topic because i have a problem and im sure im not the one who ask for the same.. so when im trying to set any picture on my contact all the pictures look very very ugly and bad quality i try few diferent things always the results are the same!
When i shoot a picture with the HTC Touch HD cam there have a options for Contact Photo O.K i did it and when i did it this way the pic look cool on the contact`s when this person calling me.. but i want to set another pictures that are from my Desktop PC what i can do?
I saw that the Original COntact Pictures shooted by the Phone Camera are exactly 240 x 320 Pixels so i resize the pictures i want and i make them the same format like the standart one for contacts the result is again very bad quality and ugly image.. the pictures i was trying to set are really with a amazing quality the question is why when i set them for Contact picture they are so ugly and bad quality?
I also try to set bigger picture than 240 x 320 pixels but Always the result is the same no matter how pixels picture i set no matter anything also what its very strange i conect the phone with my desktop pc and i copy one simple image that i shoot via my phone cam for contacts to see what im missing so after i extract this picture to my desktop PC i dalate it from the folder and i just clear the image without to do any re-size without to do anything just put back the same picture and again this heppand the picture was so so ugly with bad quality without to have any reason? I want someone who already have the same problem to give me some advice
How im able to set pictures of my contact from my desktop pc and they to look cool as they are really looking.. because it`s stupid if i only need to shoot every person plus this the Camera quality is not so AWSOME
Please help me with that all this seems very strange for me..
Sorry for my english but is not my mother language like you can see cheers
to have a good quality of your contact picture you must assign a name to the picture instead of assigning a picture to a name.
I explain ...
you go on File Explorer
Choose your picture
then assign it to a name
then you have a perfect quality picture when you give/ receive a call
if you do it choosing a name and assign a picture to this the quality of the picture is SH...
Thank you for the fast help but can you tell me how to do this i mean do i need some program? because i go to the picture that is stored in my mem card and when i hold on her or menu i didn`t see anything like assing to name? do i need some File Expoloer program? Thanks in advance
THANK YOU very much i saw what you mean and i did it already the pic`s look now AMAZING this is really a good TWEAK thank you again for this help!
I have the same problem but even after changing them one by one via > pics > add to contact, they change back to being poor quality!
I'm thinkng that Google Sync may have something to do with it... I have tried so many times to change this I'm almost resigned to putting up with the crap quality images now!
i ma using the s2v programm to view the pictures and set the contact pics. through s2v you can asign picture to ur contact. by the way ,i also use phonex 1.2 for wm6, in which the incoming call is fullscreen picture. it works perfectly. so what i suggest is you install a s2v
i created a jpg-picture for every contact on my pc (this way i have the perfect control over every single picture).
the image size has to be 268x268 pixels.
then i copied the pictures to the hd and assigned them via the peoples tab.
works perfectly in my opinion!
unless im missing something here.. the solution to your problem seems ridiculously easy..
I understand the picture quality of a contact on TF3D is poor when you set it as a contact?
to fix this, simply add that contact in the "People" tab on TF3D. once selected, click on Menu > Change Picture.
The picture doesn't have to be a special size or anything, TF3D automatically resizes it at optimum quality. No extra softwares etc. required either.
Hope this is what you guys were after.
PS - changing ur toTF3D background is a different story altogether...
maaz_talha said:
unless im missing something here.. the solution to your problem seems ridiculously easy..
I understand the picture quality of a contact on TF3D is poor when you set it as a contact?
to fix this, simply add that contact in the "People" tab on TF3D. once selected, click on Menu > Change Picture.
The picture doesn't have to be a special size or anything, TF3D automatically resizes it at optimum quality. No extra softwares etc. required either.
Hope this is what you guys were after.
PS - changing ur toTF3D background is a different story altogether...
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Indeed that did work for me previously, however for some reason no matter how I change them now (wither via contacts or via photos) they default to the crap quality image. I'm convinced that everytime my phone syncs with google it just replaces the high quality with low quality. *shakes fist* lol
skribzy said:
Indeed that did work for me previously, however for some reason no matter how I change them now (wither via contacts or via photos) they default to the crap quality image. I'm convinced that everytime my phone syncs with google it just replaces the high quality with low quality. *shakes fist* lol
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Why do you sync with Google? Use Outlook for syncing contacts, and the high quality photos will stay.
By, the way, there is a much simpler solution for your problem with photo quality.
Prepare photos on your PC (you can make them any size you want, but preffered size is around 260x260 pixels, I use anything between 250 and 500 pixels, and they look good). Also, try to crop photos to square format, since TF3D will do that automatically if they're not in 1:1 format.
Then make a folder and copy the photos to your device, go to Camera tab, open that folder via the Album and click on a photo. When the photo opens, make a short tap on the screen and a bottom menu will open. Click on the last right icon and select "Save to contact", then simply find the contact for that photo and click OK.
After that, just scroll to the next photo and repeat. When you sync with Outlook the full size photos will stay. Be warned, if you assign a photo to contact through Outlook, it will look ****ty on the phone.
Will give that a bash! thanks for the advice.
tsalta said:
Thank you for the fast help but can you tell me how to do this i mean do i need some program? because i go to the picture that is stored in my mem card and when i hold on her or menu i didn`t see anything like assing to name? do i need some File Expoloer program? Thanks in advance
THANK YOU very much i saw what you mean and i did it already the pic`s look now AMAZING this is really a good TWEAK thank you again for this help!
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go on file explorer
then you choose your picture
click on it
the picture open on the screen
click once on the picture
then some icon appear down on the page
choose he icon on the right
then you will see add to contact
click on it and choose the contact you want to assign
DONE !!!
I got this device a week ago and loving it but has anyone else encountered this problem? I just noticed it and its rather annoying. The pic i was trying to use was taken with the camera and pic was not blurry when viewed in albums. I've also taking pic in lowest resolution but still came out blurry on caller id. Help anyone?
yes, I have this problem too, would love to see a solution ... ?
did you sync with activesync? I have a feeling activesync reencodes the jpeg.
So this is what happens - and this happens every time I put a new ROM or change phones
1. I always synch with Activesync, so the pictures are kept in my Outlook.
2. When I sync the pictures are blurry. If I put a new picture in Outlook, it still comes blurry on my phone.
3. If I put a new picture on my phone and then sync, then - all is fine - pictures are sharp and crisp and they stay like that until I put a new ROM and have to sync from scratch
There is something fishy in the way outlook stores these pictures may be.
does anyone have a fix for this???
That happened to me with the stock rom but when I switched to one with Manila 2.5, they're more clearer because it doesn't use the flipping notebook layout of the older style.
I would rather not flash a new rom to this phone... Is there a cab file out there that can fix this?
I had this problem on my Diamond
What you need to do is go to the people screen in touchflo and add the contact pictures from there, and it saves them as high res and will then sync them as normal
If you add your contact pictures from the outlook contacts program or from Outlook on your PC, then they are saved at a lower res
So I save the pictures to the memory card and then in the People tab, add the picture from there?
Blurry Fav Pics
Well as long as you add the pic to the contact from the People area of the touchFlo, you will be able to pic a section of the pic, (crop it), which then keeps it high res... I had the same problem too... I dont know if you have t-mobile, but it is kind of the same concept as the myfaves icons...
Yes, I think I read somewhere that if you save your contact pictures to msd card, it'll be higher res.
Here it is:
# Hi Res Contact Photos
Assign contact photos on your SD card directly to specific contacts for hi-res thumbnails. If you assign contact photos in Outlook and then sync, the contact photos on your phone will be low-res.
While we're talling about high-res pictures, here's another tip:
# Improve Photo Thumbnail Resolution in Photo Tab
Modify or tweak a photo (such as adjusting brightness) using a image editor directly on your HD (eg: Resco Photo Viewer) and save and overwrite the original. This makes the photo thumbnails on your Photo Touchflo 3D tab hi-res instead of low-res.
I have a t-mobile branded version of the tp2 and thanks for your responses. One more thing to add, when scrolling thru contacts in touch flo is it normal for pics to be blurry and take a few seconds to sharpen out?
nuron said:
So I save the pictures to the memory card and then in the People tab, add the picture from there?
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It does not matter where the images are actually saved initially, it's just important to add them from TouchFlo and not from outlook/contacts
I don't sync with ActiveSync, but use Funambol instead - created a free account and used clients for Outlook and PPC.
Now I can sync from every location to internet and back - works great! (Also you can sync with many PCs while Activesync cannot even handle two PCs)
I am a newbie to this forum, how can I add the contact pics via touchflo. The pics are all blurry in my contact. They look sharp in album view
PaulusUK said:
It does not matter where the images are actually saved initially, it's just important to add them from TouchFlo and not from outlook/contacts
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Yeah, I've been doing that and the pictures are a little bit blurry also and I thought that's what people are talking about. It must be because the People tab zooms on the picture a little.
seatown1two said:
I have a t-mobile branded version of the tp2 and thanks for your responses. One more thing to add, when scrolling thru contacts in touch flo is it normal for pics to be blurry and take a few seconds to sharpen out?
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I don't have that many contacts pictures... BUT when I scroll through pictures in Album, I have a similar effect. The next picture appear slightly blurry at first and then sharpens out in about 1 sec.
Think it's a Windows thing... experienced the same thing in Vista sometimes as well if I scroll BACK and the file size is big (scrolling forward give a sharp picture immediately).
mynlal said:
I am a newbie to this forum, how can I add the contact pics via touchflo. The pics are all blurry in my contact. They look sharp in album view
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Use the slider from the home screen to go to the People tab. This is really the "favourites", and will be blank unless you have already input some of your contacts.
Either add the contact, or go to the one you want to change, then press menu at the bottom, and a list comes up and "change picture is the bottom one.
Select your picture, move the highlighted box or zoom in/out to get the crop you want, then then save.
NOTE: if you go into the contacts, or into "all people" and change the picture, then it will be blurry. This must be done from the People tab from the home screen
touch HD solution for Pro 2
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Blackstone_tboy2000
this link from the blackstone wiki will show you some tips that are actually usefull for both phones since they have such a similar platform.
I've had both the HD and now the Pro 2.
(lost my HD yesterday)
Look at Hint 8.
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i used to have an iphone before and when i took and photo and wanted to send it to someone it would automatically adjust the file size of the photo and send it within seconds.
Is there a way to do this with the desire? my photo sizes are normally just over 1mb which is a little to high to send via email, on the iphone the file size was the same but it would resize it for mailing purposes.
thanks.
anyone know why when switching the pictures back that the images is not sharp? i use a 14mp camera so i don think thats the reason, size perhaps? the images also look a little blurred on the Pictures tiles too.
as well as the contact tile. what am i doing wrong?
davidebanks said:
anyone know why when switching the pictures back that the images is not sharp? i use a 14mp camera so i don think thats the reason, size perhaps? the images also look a little blurred on the Pictures tiles too.
as well as the contact tile. what am i doing wrong?
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I'd love to help, but you be a little more clearer on exactly what is going on?
oh sorry , here goes ive put some pictures from my pc to my wp7, when i go to pictures and try to change the background i select one of my own pics that i have transferred from my pic. the background changes but it looks a little blurry and not as sharp as it should be, the same then applies to the pictures tile, its no longer as sharp as it was.
I know exactly what you mean. I accidentally formatted my phone using Mac connect and deleted my original sample photos from WP7. To change the background photo of the live tile and to make it not blurry, you need to use an image with big dimensions, somewhere along the lines of 1920x1200 or better. The picture tile image can be in widescreen or fullscreen but fullscreen mode is the correct resoluytion.
for contacts tile google contacts produce low resolutions automatically. If you want a higher resolution just create a new contact under windows live and the contact photo you use will not appear pixelated.
I hope that helps. Also if you wouldnt mind, could you attach the photo of the white dandelions/field from the original sample photos that came preinstalled on your phone? I would love to reset my pictures tile tothat photo but can't find it anywhere and I don't feel like factory resetting my phone to get it back.
thanks
Can you plz post screen shot or some pic of the blurry tiles?
ok.. so basically.. in order to get a crisp and sharp picture to appear on the live tile... then it has to be a big sized picture?? why wont 480x800 work?? that's the dimension of the phone??
and also.. how do you set or choose which photo appears in the tile?? is there a way to just have it constantly changing?? i think that would be pretty cool
thanks for the info, ill try it out.
to change the picture of the photo tile, after you open it, slide to the pictures hub, press hold anywhere on the background and it will pop up with two menu items : change background and change it for me.
from there you can choose a photo
I do not know why the normal phone resolution doesn't look as clear. This is just from my experience.
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as you can see, the photo you attached for me has a higher resolution than the phone's 480x800.
When you copy a picture to the phone, it is resized to 720x540 by the phone. This happens if you use Zune, email it to yourself, or use Skydrive to store it. This will be why it doesn't look as good as it should in the background.
I had a discussion with WinPhoneSupport on twitter, and they told me that was the maximum resolution for pictures on the phone.
It's one of the first things I've found on WP7 that irritates me. Fortunately, it doesn't irritate me too much and I still love the phone . However, if pics are important to you, I can understand the frustrations.
Has anyone found a way around this? This is driving me crazy
It's actually idiotic policy to do that.
eyan15 said:
Has anyone found a way around this? This is driving me crazy
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I wrote about this here: http://wpcentral.com/tip-get-high-res-photos-contacts-your-wp7-device
Basically, if you use Live, sync a high res photo to that linked account with your contact.
It's basically a Google thing--they downsize the photo. Microsoft Live does not. You can use both services, linked, for each contact. I did this for my Pinned contacts and they are all high rez and stay that way, thankfully.
Trust me, on Android, contact photos look just a crappy as they do when you sync Google to WP7.
malatesta said:
I wrote about this here: http://wpcentral.com/tip-get-high-res-photos-contacts-your-wp7-device
Basically, if you use Live, sync a high res photo to that linked account with your contact.
It's basically a Google thing--they downsize the photo. Microsoft Live does not. You can use both services, linked, for each contact. I did this for my Pinned contacts and they are all high rez and stay that way, thankfully.
Trust me, on Android, contact photos look just a crappy as they do when you sync Google to WP7.
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This I'm aware of, I have moved all my contacts from Google to live. Since Live now offers exchange support, all is well
But here we are talking about the Picture tile (not the contacts)
If you edit the contact you can change the picture there. If you have linked your contact from different accounts (eg live, facebook) you can choose which picture to take for that contact. Usually there is one that is sharp. After that your Tile should have the crisp pic on it. I had blurry pics too when I synced the first time...
So with portrait mode on the Pixel 2 it saves 2 images for every pic taken in portrait mode. Is there a way to stop that and only have it save the bokeh picture. I don't need the other picture taking up space.
while viewing the picture in the photos app. you'll see 2 mini thumbnails at the bottom center of the picture. one is your orig, one has the blurred background.
swipe the thumbnails to the right to view the original picture, and then press the 3 vertical dots at the top right > delete. you'll be prompted to delete the current photo or both photos. this option only deletes the picture(s) from your device and leaves it on the cloud.
if you want to delete it from the cloud and from the device then select the trash can icon on the bottom right, and it will ask you if you want to delete the current photo or both.
as for stopping it completely, i dont think that is an option, not that i have seen anyway
The third button from the right let's to save pick which photo to save or show as the main photo in the gallery.
I think OP was looking for a way to not have to manually delete every non portrait version.
As someone who takes a **** ton (100+ average) of portrait photos of dogs at my work each day, I see why OP is asking.
There's no such thing as photos taking up space on pixels... that's sort of the point
Portrait photos actually take up less space than regular ones. They seem to average about 2 MB for blurred and 2 MB for unblurred. So that's 4 MB total. Regular photos are ranging 4-7 MBs for me.
i am facing this weird issue where only the normal pic is getting saved not the one with the bokeh effect. i tried many versions of g cam but no result.. any solution so that i can save the potrait pic?
If you have Tasker or are willing to purchase it, you can do a shell command to automate this for you. This is exactly what I have done.
Every time I open my file manager app, a shell command will find the regular image and delete it.